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Twice-A-Week Visitor Xhe Semi-Weekly Morning Light carries local, state and world news into thousands of rural in Navarro and surrounding counties twice each week- Every worthwhile item of news from every point thoroughly covered. fl Home of the Daily Sun and SemHMeekty Homing Light LEASED WIRES OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AP TELEMATS Your County Paper The Semi-Weekly Morning Light been an outstanding piogresstve newspaper working for the advancement of the rural communities ol Navarro and adjacent counties over a long term of Fears Its success bas been a part of the growth of rural life. VOL. 78 CORSICANA, TEXAS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26. 1963 PAGES NO.

79 World Joins Grieving Americans In Paying Final Tribute To President John F. Kennedy Widow Bears Up Bravely On Walk To Cathedral Accused Killer Slain and 1963 DALLAS, Nov. 25 UP Attorney Henry Wade confirmed today that a Dallas city map with X-marks and a line drawn on it which corresponds to the path of the bullet that killed President John F. Kennedy was found in Lee Harvey Oswald's room. Wade said fingerprints of Oswald, the slain Marxist accused of the assassination, also were found on the foreign-made rifle which felled the President.

Oswald was slain yesterday by Jack Ruby, 52, a night club owner and self-appointed executioner who undertook swift, savage reprisal for the Kennedy murder. Wade said the map has at various downtown intersections. At the intersection of Houston and Elm streets a line traces the trajectory similar to that of the gunfire which took the President's life. The map may have constituted what police termed against Oswald in assassination, but which they had refused to reveal. The News said officers theorized Oswald marked spots on the map from which a sniper could get a good shot at the Kennedy motorcade.

Another newspaper, The Dallas Times Herald, reported today the FBI had received an anonymous telephone tip that an attempt would be made on life during his from city to county jail. The FBI would not confirm the report. Meanwhile, from Mexico City came another time that Oswald visited the Soviet Corsicana Joins Mourning Nation See OSWALD. Page 8 Police Guard Funeral Home hi Fort Worlh FORT WORTH. Nov.

25 UP The body of Lee Harvey Oswald was moved to Fort Worth Sunday night and two policemen assumed guard at once. The officers were posted outside the room where the body of Oswald, accused of slaying President Kennedy, lay in Funeral Home. expect any said Lt. D. Pruitt, heading the police guard, "but, here to protect the Oswald, 24, was shot dead Sunday in Dallas.

Jack Ruby, 52, owner of a Dallas striptease club, was charged with the slaying. Only a handful of reporters and officers were present when the ambulance arrived with Oswald's body. Funeral director Paul Groody said he received word at 7 p. m. from the Secret Service to come and pick up the body.

The body arrived at 10:55 p. m. mother, Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, lives here. Mrs.

Connally Says Governor Able To Walk DALLAS, Nov. 25 Gov. John Connally, seriously wounded at the time President Kennedy was assassinated, has regained enough strength to walk around his hospital room. Mrs. Connally, obviously still upset by the death of the President and the wounding of her husband Friday, said the governor is now apparently out of danger.

asked me to tell everyone he is going to be all she read Sunday from a prepared statement to newsmen at Parkland Hospital. John had a very, very close ja.ll,” she sai1 with tear0 i 'a eyes. thank God he was spared. The governor joins me in asking that all Texans observe a day of mourning Monday in memory of the President. Connally has asked me to convey to the people of Texas, the nation and the world our deep sorrow of the sickening See CONNALLY, Page 3 Dallas Officer Assassinations Second Martyr DALLAS, Nov.

25 UP) As the eyes of the world centered on final rites for John F. Kennedy today, Dallas also mourned for another martyr of assassination. He was patrolman J. D. Tippit, 39.

martyrdom led officers to Lee Harvey Oswald, a 24-year-old professed Communist Oswald might have escaped the country had not Tippit alertly identified the suspect, said Police Chief Jesse Curry. The patrolman, beloved by fellow officers, died trying to capture Oswald, the man police say they are convinced assassinated the President. The funeral for Tippit was set for three hours after last rites. Selected as his burial place was a special section of Laurel See TIPPITT Page 8 All cities across the nation were in mourning Monday following the death Friday of President John F. Kennedy.

In respect for the memory of the late President and in national observance of his funeral, most businesses and churches throughout Corsicana observed a period of mourning. District Judge Sewell stated Monday that he had been up most of the time since the death of the President, with both his TV and radio on getting the details of the tragedies. While discussing the cases, the district judge voiced sorrow that Oswald was slain Sunday. will never know the While deploring the slaying of the President and the shooting of the governor, Judge Sewell voiced the hope that out of the high price of death of the chief executive, possibly that it will cause the of hate- and the spreading their insidious poison. A memorial service, involv- ing several churches and other organizations, was held at See CORSICANA, Page 9 Capitol Site Texas Service AUSTIN, Nov.

Several hundred mourners gathered in front of the Texas Capital this morning to pay tribute to the late President Kennedy an hour before the funeral services in Washington. Judge W. A. Morrison of the Court of Criminal Appeals said hang our heads in shame because it happened in the Lone Star State. He said there was no place or welcome in Texas for those of either the extreme right or the extreme left.

must become better citizens by following the example set by our devoted President. We may then be able to atone for what happened Friday in he said. The services were presented by the Austin Veterans Memorial Committee, composed of all organizations. Prayers were said by Rabbi Sheldon Lilker of the Hillel Foundation of the University of Texas; by Father Joseph See AUSTIN, Page 9 Johnson Family Walks In Sorrow Bv MARTHA COLE WASHINGTON, Nov. The family of Lyndon B.

Johnson, together for the first time in public since he became President, walked in sorrow today in former President Kennedy's funeral procession. The were immedi ntely behind Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, the grieving widow. Mrs. Johnson, dressed in black; Linda, 19, and Lucy, 16 walked beside the President to the church where the body of President.

Kennedy was taken. Mrs, Johnson had not planned to make the walk, but apparently plans were changed during tho night. The older daughter, Lynda Bird, 19, a sophomore at the University of Texas in Austin, returned home last night. The younger, Lucy, 16, is a high junior at National Cathedral School for Girls here. with a somber face, Mrs.

Johnson, 50, has been at her husband's side since the See JOHNSON, Page 9 TO HONOR HIS MEMORY EDITORIAL) When a leader of great power and presence and capacity for good dies in office, the cause to which he gave leadership suffers grievous loss. President John F. Kennedy was such a man. The cause he served, and so eloquently led, was the threefold cause of human dignity and equality and freedom. Though President Kennedy is dead, struck down most foully by an hand, the cause he championed as acknowledged leader of I he free world lives on.

We who survive him can best honor his memory by doing all in our power to advance that cause, which is the very cause for which this nation was founded. Guidance for the difficult time ahead may be taken from the immortal words spoken by Abraham Lincoln on that solemn occasion at Gettysburg almost exactly a century ago. For President Kennedy died in defense of freedom as truly a-s did those who fell on that historic field of battle. In these days of profound national sorrow it is appropriate to reflect on exhortation to his fellow Americans from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in To resolve thus and to act thus that is the task to which we must now turn our minds. This is so even though grief and a deep sense of loss will far outlast the initial period of outraged shock at the murderous act in Dallas.

We cannot permit ourselves the luxury of heedless sorrow. The forces I hat work against the realization of highest dreams remain strong and malignant. Those forces must now be countered with new dedication, so that President martyrdom in the fullness of life shall indeed not have been in vain. The heaviest burden falls upon Lyndon B. Johnson, who became President the moment John F.

Kennedy succumbed to the bullets. But all citizens must in some measure share that burden. In his first, public utterance as chief executive, President Johnson said this to the American people: will do my best. That Is all I can do. I ask your help ami It is a commitment, and a challenge, worthy of the best that is in all of us.

Curry Plans To Release Full Of Oswald0swaldDalaSlaying Gift To Communists By GEORGE BOULTWOOD An AP News Analysis BERLIN, Nov. 25 (ffl The killing of Lee Harvey Oswald was a handsome and highly appreciated gift to the Communist propaganda machine. Within minutes after news of the second Dallas assassination, the machine went into action, depicting Oswald as a martyr shot in an attempt to hide responsible for Preside ohn F. assassination. murders of President John Kennedy are trying to cover up their said the Soviet news agency Tass.

the only person who was accused of killing President Kennedy, the man who until the end denied implication, has been silenced forever." Neues Deutschland, the East German Communist party newspaper, told its readers the slaying of Oswald strengthened suspicion that Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy by right- wing extremists. Neues Deutschland also suggested that the Dallas police officer allegedly killed by Oswald actually was shot down because he knew too much about men behind the assassination of the President. ADN. the official East German news agency, said believed assassination was ordered by extreme right-wingers who with all means to put the blame for the murder of Kennedy on the Communists and brand Oswald a impede all further investigations which would reveal the true men behind the assassination of Kennedy, they decided to eliminate Oswald in the fascist manner," ADN said. The East European press called Oswald "the Van Der DALLAS, Nov.

2 UP Chief Jesse Curry said today his department would make public the entire file on Lee Harvey Oswald, accused as the assassin of President Kennedy, unless federal authorities forbid them to do so. Curry said he felt can and should become public In a printed statement, he said: the investigation in the case of Lee Harvey Oswald is completed, in so far as the Dallas Police Department is concerned, we intend to make the entire file public unless federal authorities specifically request that some part be withheld and turned over to them. we are specifically instructed otherwise from Washington, we believe it can and should become public information. At this time, we cannot designate when the release will be Last night Dist. Atty.

Henry Wade of Dallas released what he said was a complete summary of the evidence against Oswald, who was shot to death Sunday as he was about to be transferred from city hall to the Dallas County Jail. Only Red China Stays Aloof Soldiers Hold Korea Service With the 1st U.S. Calvary Division, Western Front, Korea At bleak windswept outposts and in chapels behind tho lines, American soldiers facing Communists across the truce line in Korea bowed their heads in mourning today for President Kennedy. Scores of Roman Catholic masses were held at. 4 p.m., (local time), several hours before the beginning of funeral services in Washington.

hearts will be with him and his family when he is said SFC Albert Jones, 41, of Charleston, S.C. Lt. Gregory Clement, of Galveston, said, proved himself to be a courageous man. He stood up for what he believed in. He protected the minority rights, and he gave 110 per cent for the By The Associated Press Governments and men and women around the world joined today in mourning services for President Kennedy.

Their grief was mixed with shock and astonishment at the assassination of Lee H. Oswald. They started in the Far East, where Nov. 25 first dawned, and followed around the globe as it turned to the sun. Only in Communist China was theie no official observance of the funeral.

The Chinese Reds repotted death Friday, but have made no comment on it, Sunday, however they assailed President Johnson, saying he supported reactionary policies under Kennedy. Thousands of American soldiers attended memorial services in South Korea. Most of the 50,000 GIs were taken off dutv to observe the day of mourning and attended the services. But troops on the front lines kept Propose High-Level Assassination Probe Thousands Pay Last Respects In Rotunda WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 Thousands upon thousands of persons braved long hours in freezing weather to file past the casket of John F.

Kennedy in the Capitol rotunda. Other thousands waited without success. Charles J. Sullivan, chief of Capitol police, estimated 240,000 had moved past the bier of the slain President when the doors were closed to the public at 8:30 a. m.

At least 2,000 others, still waiting in a line stretching blocks away, were left stranded after standing for six to seven hours. Police steered them to vantage points around the Capitol plaza from W'hich they could see the funeral procession leave for the White House. The steady shuffle of feet had continued without a break from 3 p. m. Sunday through the afternoon and night as the crowds waited patiently for a chance to pay their last respects.

Former Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon were among See ROTUNDA, Page 9 WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 A high-level congressional investigation of President Ken assassination was suggested today now that the facts cannot be put on record by a trial of the man accused of firing the fatal shots. Rep. Hale Boggs of Louisiana, Assistant Democratic Leader of the House, said in an interview, "There should be a congressional investigation.

It should be a blue-ribbon inquiry, far above any suggestion of partisanship." Boggs said the killing Sunday of Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, who to their bunkers and hilltop charged with the rifle sitions. Japanese Emperor Hirohito sent Crown Prince Akihito and Crown Princess Michiko to memorial services at St Ignatius Church. Jotaro Kawa- kamo chairman of the opposition Socialist party, joined government officials and leaders of American community at the service. The government ordered the Japanese flag flown at half staff over all government buildings today and Tuesday. At U.

S. bases throughout Japan the big guns roared final salutes over the head? of 50,000 assassination of Kennedy in Dallas Friday, makes it especially important for Congress to establish the full facts and provide answers to any questions which still may remain in minds. A public trial of Oswald, he said, would have been a forum for detailing the evidence which Dallas authorities have called conclusive and would have shown whether further investigation was needed. Oswald maintained he was innocent. Even while Oswald was alive speculation on Capitol Hill about the possibility of an official inquiry possibly on the pattern of the study of the Pearl Harbor military disaster by a specially constituted committee.

Meanwhile, Rep. William H. Ayres, R-Ohio, said he intends to introduce a bill making any assault upon the President, Vice President, or any federal official of Cabinet rank, a federal crime. Such legislation, Ayers said, would enable the FBI to take jurisdiction immediate in the investigation of such an offense. The shooting of President Kennedy, as he rode in an open automobile on a public street, was, legally speaking, murder, and so an offense against state rather than federal law.

However, the FBI and the Secret Service participated in the investigation. The federal investigation is continuing, even though Dallas officials indicated that, so far as the question of guilt or innocence Is concerned, they considered the case closed by Oswald's own See MOURNING, Page to be tiled there had been some violent death by People Walk Farly To Grave In Arlington By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 The way to John Fitzgerald grave, below the brow of an Arlington hill, leads past the memorial to another president who also fell to an gun. From the massive columned rectangle of the Lincoln Memo-1 rial, the path courses across I the broad arches of the Memorial Bridge spanning the quiet Potomac.

Then through a grilled gate-1 way and a little distance up a winding drive to an open space where, until now, there has been no grave. It is a lawn, sloping upward to the top of the hill where the home of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stands in an aura of another age. By noon today, the hillside at the grave site was covered with people.

They started gathering shortly after dawn. Most walked, because Memorial Bridge crossing the Potomac River from Washington was closed to all automobile traffic except the funeral cortege. The entire slope directly above the grave became a brilliart floral carpet as flowers arrived by the truckload from the Capitol and the White House Mrs. Kennedy had asked that no floral tribute be sent but they were received anyway, many dered before her wishes were made known. Close above the grave was the wreath which President Johnson had placed at the Kennedy eask- Most Big Four Swap Leaders By The Associated Press The leadership of three of the Big Four Western nations has changed hands this fall.

The chronology: Oct. 15 Konrad Adenauer stepped down as chancellor of West Germany; succeeded by Ludwig Erhard, economics minister, Oct. 18 Harold Macmillan resigned as prime minister of Great Britain; succeeded by Foreign Secretary Lord Home, now known as Sir Alec Douglas- Home. Nov. 22 John F.

Kennedy killed by an assassin; succeeded as President of the United States by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. The fourth leader, President Charles de Gaulle of France, was in Washington Monday for the funeral of President Kennedy. WASHINGTON, Nov. pangs of sorrow and with solemn rites, American and world statesmen bade Godspeed today to John Fitzgerald Kennedy on his last earthly journey.

Following the martyred President closely every Inch of his travel to the grave in Arlington National Cemetery, was his young widow, Jacqueline, bravely bearing up. Her beautiful face partly obscured in a long veil, she went part of the tragic way on foot the White House to St. (athedral for the Requiem Mass. So also did one of the greatest arrays of foreign statesmen ever assembled they came from 58 nations and included 26 heads of state or government. At the Mass, Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston, old friend of the Kennedy family, offered up the Holy Eucharist, and prayed: God, may this sacrifice cleanse from sin the soul of your servant John, who has gone from this world, and so may he receive forgiveness and everlasting rest from Near the flag-enveloped cof- See'KENNEDY, 9 Father Forced To View Rites On Television HYANNIS PORT, Nov.

2 niece of the lata father said today reports that former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy is dead completely Miss Ann Gargan, the niece who lives with tha Kennedy family in Hyannis Port, said he took a ride this morning and watched the procession of his funeral in Washington on television. Miss Gargan said the elder Kennedy "is grieving, mostly alone in his room, but bearing up as well as can be The former Ambassador reportedly watched television today until the funeral cortege left St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington and then took his usual therapeutic dip in the heated swimming pool at his home. BALLYKELLY, Ireland, Nov.

25 F. kin in Ireland joined in a requiem mass today in the 150-year-old church where his great grandfather, Patrick, was baptized. Among those attending were the widow Mary Ryan who received President Kennedy last summer at the ancestral Duiv ganstown farmhouse and her brother, James Kennedy. Patrick Kennedy emigrated to Boston a century ago. 53 Nations Send High Dignitaries WASHINGTON, Nov.

25 A solemn procession of the world's of them nearly twice the age of the slain young President of the United States streamed into Washington to pay homage to John F. Kennedy. They arrived, sometimes in twos and threes, somber and unsmiling, expressing the grief of their countrymen and wishing Lyndon B. Johnson, the new President, well. At modernistic Dulles International airport in the Virginia countryside south of the capital, hundreds of Americans stood six deep behind barriers Sunday to watch jets deposit their important cargo.

Long after the blue of a chill Sunday afternoon had given way to night, the arrivals continue. Several dignitaries flew into Washington's other airport, National, and a few motored in by limousine. Fifty-three countries were represented in all. There a dozen members of ruling families, 26 presidents and heads of state, 30 foreign ministers and five defense ministers. This morning, they marched behind the caisson carrying Kennedy's body from the White House to St.

Roman Catholic Cathedral for the funeral. After the burial in Arlington cemetery, Mrs. Kennedy received the foreign emissaries at the White House. In late afternoon, Johnson was to greet them at the State Department. And Tuesday, the President plans to confer with some of them.

One of the first to arrive at Dulles was President Charles De Gaulle, who brated his 73rd birthday anniversary last Friday, the day an bullets snuffed oulf See DIGNITARIES,.