The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

(THE Morning KANSAS CITY STAR) £Ijc 1 nit 0 a it Titu Ojmni KANSAS CITY FRIDAY JUNE 7 PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS VOL 100 NO 235 KENNEDY BODY FLOWN TO NEW YORK Grim Task for Family While Nation Mourns Members of Senator's Family Accompany Him in a Presidential Plane to East-Final Rites of the Catholic Church Will Be Held Tomorrow Morning HUNT WOMAN IN CASE Los Angeles Police Issue an All-Points Bulletin for Sirhan Companion Who Allegedly Boasted About the Assassination EXTOL KENNEDY IN OUTPOURING Queen Elizabeth II Sends Personal Message to Wife of Victim Long Wait by Crowd By John Cauley (Chief of The Star's Washington Bureau) NEW Early yesterday afternoon in the oppressive heat several thousand persons began to gather in front of St cathedral on Fifth avenue where the body of Sen Robert Kennedy will lie in state all day today Last night at 9 the temperature was 86 degrees bat the crowd still came hoping to get a view of the coffin It arrived about 9:48 and was blessed by Archbishop Terrence Cook of the New York Catholic archdiocese The police kept everyone behind barricades One man behind the barricades said I was never much of a fan of Bobby Kennedy bat I feel so terrible about this tragedy that I just wanted to come down here to be a part of this A woman with her three children said they had been standing in front of the cathedral sinde 4 in the afternoon (Continued on Page 2) CLASH ON REVEALING EVIDENCE State and Local Officials Are Concerned That Disclosures by Mayor Yorty About Notebook Might Prejudice the Case LORD HARLECH ANGRY Former Envoy Terms Violence in a 'Scandal' SONS HELP LIFT Robert Kennedy jr 14 (left) and Joseph Kennedy 15 helped lift the casket of their slain father last night at New La Gnardia airport Rafer Johnson (third from left at top) decathlon champion and Sen Edward Kennedy (third from left at bottom) brother of the assassinated senator also-help lift the casket Tears in Los Angeles By John Doohan (A Member of The Star's Staff) LOS ANGELES It seems strange to think that Robert Kennedy age 42 who only Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning I saw in a jubilant mood at the Ambassador hotel after his California victory is on the way to Arlington cemetery to join his brother John Kennedy who less than five years ago met the same fate Los Angeles spread out as it is does not seem to have the guilt complex that Dallas had in 1963 Citizens of Los Angeles cried alond and tears were on many faces today Apparently many left their jobs to line the route the procession wonld take from Good Samaritan hospital on Shatto street to the Los Angeles airport Big crowds gathered to witness the closest thing Los Angeles would have to a funeral procession (Continued on Page 16) Two for RFK Seat ALBANY The names of former Sen Kenneth Keating and Rep Ogden Reid fig- nred prominently yesterday in speculation over whom Gov Nelson A Rockefeller will appoint to fill Robert Senate seat press secretary Leslie Slote told the Associated Press that the governor had no to a successor for Kennedy The governor is required by state law to fill the vacant seat by appointment although the law does not specify when he must act name came immediately to the fore on the theory that Rockefeller might wish to reinstate the former senator who was defeated by Kennedy in the 1964 election Reid whose Westchester district adjoins the Rockefeller family estate is a longtime friend of the governor AFTER ARRIVING IN NEW YORK Sen Edward Kennedy put a consoling arm around Mrs Robert Kennedy as the two sat in the seat of a hearse carrying the casket of her husband from the airport to St cathedral (Wirephotos) New York (AP) The heart beat faster in sympathy and its drums beat slower in mourning last night as Bobby Kennedy came home Sen Robert body was flown by Air Force jet from Los Angeles on a final journey across the stunned land he had hoped to lead as President Like his brother President John Kennedy who also was the prey to the savagery of an assassin the senator was taken by his bereft family in a 4-engine presidential plane dispatched by the White House for the somber mission The jet arrived at LaGuardia airport at 7:58 Kansas City time The hearse arrived at St cathedral at 9:48 part of a 50-car motorcade that traveled into Manhattan bumper-to-bumper from the airport By that time police estimated 8500 persons were outside the church curious hushed but not demonstrative Mrs Ethel two eldest sons Joseph 15 and Robert jr 14 and their uncle Sen Edward Kennedy helped take the casket up the front steps With the last of the official mourning party inside the cathedral the huge doors were slowly swung closed Rites Will Be Tomorrow The fallen campaigner will be given the final rites of the Roman Catholic church here tomorrow morning Then a train was to carry the body to Washington for burial at Arlington National cemetery probably on the grassy knoll resting place of John Kennedy It was early afternoon when the silver blue and white jet roared ifloft from Los Angeles nearly 12 hours after Senator Kennedy died of a bullet that penetrated his brain widow and his surviving brother Sen ator Kennedy rode in the front seat erf the blue-gray hearse that carried the body of Robert in a mahogany casket from hospital to airport Meanwhile state police in Albany confirmed that they had received reports saying that eight had left Montreal to avenge the death of Kennedy The report said tjie eight were to travel through New York State last night and then attempt to assassinate President Johnson Gov Nelson A Rockefeller of New York and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey The alleged assassination plans were revealed in an anonymous phone call to the American consulate in Montreal the report received here said The FBI said in Washington it had heard of the report but would have no further comment In Massena near the Canadian border a customs official said inspectors had been told to be on the lookout for a carrying eight French Even as the funeral jet took off a autopsy report said death was caused by gunshot wound of the right mastoid penetrating the Dr Thomas Noguchi chief medical examiner at a 6-hour autopsy said testg will continue but he is confident the finding is correct Near Center of Brain He said fragments of the small caliber bullet that ripped into head near his right ear in the shooting early Wednesday had severely damaged the main part of the right side of the bram and reached about the center of the brain The family of the accused assassin sent a telegram to the Kennedy family saying pray that God will make peace really peace in the hearts of The telegram was signed by Mrs Mary Sirhan mother of Sirhan Bishari Sirhan the alleged slayer and her family hurt us very bad what has happened and we express our feelings with them and especially with the children and with Mrs Kennedy and with the mother and the telegram said want them to know that I am really crying for (Continued on Page 13) (From The Star's Pres Services) Anguish was sharpened by anger in an outpouring of tributes yesterday to the assassinated Sen Robert Kennedy Queen Elizabeth II sent a personal message of sympathy to Mrs Robert Kennedy and last night a requiem mass was sung at Westminster cathedral fra- the repose of Senator soul Terms Violence Scandal Among the many British tributes to Kennedy was one from Lord Harlech a former ambassador in Washington and a friend of the Kennedy family in the United States has become a world Lord Harlech said assassination 4s horrible and tragic to some idea of him he was the most kind generous and compassionate of men His courage was supreme and he really cared about people in every land and in every walk of life all these rare qualities America and the world needed him desperately Unbridled hate has now killed Wilson Sends Message Prime Minister Harold Wijson in a message to President Johnson said: people and the government of Britain share with the people and government of the United States their feelings of horror and sorrow Our heartfelt sympathy will go out to Senator widow and children and to his parents at this sad President De Gaulle led France in mourning Hie president cabled President Johnson: drama which has just appalled the United States and plunged the Kennedy family once again into mourning profoundly saddens all Frenchmen I want to inform you of this and assure you that I share your emotion and that of the American Many individual Frenchmen expressed not only sadness and shock over the assassination but also questioned whether American political life was not in danger of being totally poisoned by violence Bonn Flag Half Mast Minutes after West German radio stations interrupted their regular programs to announce the death of Kennedy the flag at city hall was lowered to half mast The ceremony was not an official act It was a spontaneous expression of grief and respect that typified the reaction to the news throughout West Germany Hundreds of Germans some of them carrying flowers appeared at American consulates to express their condolences and to sign commemorative books In the streets and shops most people paused to talk in mated voices about the death in Los Angeles press focused on vi-olence in the United States Dally rental and or leasing Broad way Mtr Adv LOOK TO HOSPITAL CUT Directors at General to Meet in Emergency Session Tomorrow to Fold 105 Beds and Discharge 100 Employees MAYORTn MOVE! The Weather-Sunny McNamara Returns for Funeral Frankfurt Germany Robert McNamara former Defense secretary broke off his first trip abroad as president of the World bank' and flew home yesterday to attend the funeral of Robert Kennedy News of death was relayed to McNamara while he was at a meeting with German bankers a few hours after his arrival here on the first leg off a trip that was to take him to Indonesia 10- llus Davis Asks for Day Wait on Tax Decision Partly sonny today and tomorrow with a slight chance of thundershowers in the afternoons or evenings is the weather forecast for Kansas City and vicinity Fair and decreasing cloudiness tonight Southerly winds 15 to 30 miles an hour today Probabilities of precipitation 20 per cent today and tonight High today near 90 Low tonight in the lower 70s High tomorrow near 90 TH temperatures yesterday: 12 noon 84i 86 1 87 9 pm 83 2 83 10 82 3 8311 80 4 8512 midnight 79 5 851 1 a 78 6 88 2 a 77 7 86 'Unofficial POSTAL FUNDS BILL IS PASSED Senate Appropriations Measure Edges Through Without Cuts Highlights on Inside Pages President Johnson calls on Congress for stronger gun-control even as the House completes action on a broad crime-control bill which will bar interstate mail order sales of handguns Page 11 A group of citizens proposes a new route for the South Midtown freeway ot a city council meeting 3 The Senate foreign relations committee approves without fanfare the new international grains agreement that will raise the price of wheat in the world trade 6 Rockets strike close to the residence of Gen William Westmoreland in Saigon as Viet Cong gunners again shell the Vietnamese capital 15 After the horror of Robert Kennedy's death fades a quiet bandwagon bearing the name of Hubert Humphrey will start rolling for Chicago 17 John Cherles Holy resigns as head of the Voice of America 18 The joint economic committee of Congress hears criticism from three professors who say the Kerner commission report virtually ignored labor discrimination in its report on riots 19 A presidential commission to examine the nature of violence in the United States follows the assassination of Sen Robert Kennedy The leading editorial 34 The Royals pick 25 players including two from the Kansas City area in the first phase of the major league baseball draft in New York 20 Baseball results: AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 5 Boston 3 Minnesota 2 New York 0 Washington 4 Oakland 3 Cleveland 2 Chicago 1 (11 Innings) California 8 Baltimore 6 Sports 20-22 News 10 Financial News 23 24 NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 5 Chicago 3 San Francisco 7 Philadel phia 2 St Louis 4 Houston 0 Pittsburgh at Los Angeles night Only games scheduled Deaths 25 Comies Features 33 Editorials 34 By William Graves (A Member ot The Star's Staff) Directors of the General hospital have told city council members it will be necessary July 1 to close down 105 hospital beds and: discharge 100 employees because of city budget cuts In the city budget for the fis-j cal year that began May 1 the General hospital fund was cut about a million dollars from the previous year for a total city appropriation of 59 million dollars Nathan Stark president of the corporation that administers the hospital said the directors would meet in an emergency meeting tomorrow to carryout! the planned cutbacks The hospital now has 353 beds-for indigent ill persons and will be cut back to 248 beds under: the planned reduction About 80 Per Cent Cast Mayor Dus Davis asked the board to wait 10 days before Ballots in a Close making the bed and employee Election cuts so the city council can de- termine whether it will raise By William Miller utility or other taxes to provide (A Member of The star staff) operating funds for the hospital The Kansas City Federa-police and fire departments tion of Teachers was Se- is inconceivable Mayor lected yesterday as the Davis said this prosperous bargaining agent for about year that this city should be 3 200 teachers in contract faced with getting rid of 40 to50 negotiations with the Board policemen and cutting 100 beds of sEd ti for the poor in the hospital TT i 1 A local of the American Fed- 1 eration of Teachers AFL-CIO the defeated the Kan-perous as Kansas City is but we f-itv Education association are slighting police protection CIly txlucauon asSoClauon we are slighting our fire protec-tion by not paying firemen enough and now we are propos- TEACHERS VOTE FT AGENT an election in which about 80 cent of the teachers here voted The tabulation 1317 for By Joe Lastelic (Of The Star's Washington Bureau) Washington Funds for new postoffice projects throughout the country with the probability Kansas City will be included remained intact yesterday in an appropriations bill passed by the Senate Because the administration had testified the need was for more than 50 million dollars the Senate directed the Postoffice department to select priority projects only These were not named but Sen Stuart Symington (D-Mo) understood Kansas City facilities are considered among the new postal facilities very much needed The House Dill had earmarked $1197000 to begin design work on the Kansas City project Sen John Williams (R-Del) sought to delete 50 million dol-ars in the bill earmarked for site acquisition design planning and construction of a variety of xs toff ice projects throughout he country He complained that the Treasury would have to borrow the money thus adding to the rising interest rates The more the federal government borrows the less mortgage money there is available for home builders he pointed out The Williams amendment ailed 26 for to 50 against Sen 'Yank Carlson (R-Kas) and Symington voted against the cut and Sen James Pearson (R-Kas) for it Sen Edward Long (D-Mo) was absent Sen Gordon Allott a Republi- Final On Protection Set for Inner City Sports Program (AM By John Dauner (A Member of The Star's Staff) ROFESSIONAL i n-struction in football basketball baseball Coaches Council of Greater Kansas City Summer Instructional and Sports Program has asked them to work as volunteers Robert Roane coordinator of co-operative occupational education (C E) at Registration for the sports program will be held from 1 to 9 Monday at the four program locations: Lincoln and Manual high districts st Lincoln high school Contra) high district at Central high school Paseo and Southeast high districts at Southaast high school West unlor high school district at West junior high school Instruction for fifth through eighth grade boys will be given from 1 to 6 weekdays The program for ninth grade boys through young adults in their 20s will be held from 6 to 9 weekdays For information call William Herron at Southeast high school DE 3-4224 or Coaches council headquarters BE 1-9410 or CH 1-7709 was ing to slight care of the indigent and 1 100 for the A track and field swimming wrestling and physical fitness will begin at 1 Monday at four inner city high schools for boys and young men The program will operate five days a week through the summer at Lincoln Central and Southeast high schools and West junior high as part of the overall effort here to provide summer jobs and recreation for disadvantaged youths Sponsored by the Coaches Council of Greater Kansas City 16 hTghfhool sports Lincoln high school helped set np the program He estimated it wonld cost $55000 to carry it out as planned for the summer Roane said the council has approached the Kansas City Association of Trusts and Foundations the Human Resources corporation the Jack-son County court and other private resources for funds but the applications are still pending The council also is asking for donations from the pubHc They should be sent to project (Continued on Fag 2) Washington Hie Senate and House voting on separate bills yesterday approved the principle of Secret Service protection for all presidential candidates The actions were an aftermath to the assassination of Sen Robert Kennedy First the Senate voted 75 to 0 to provide the necessary financing through the November 5 election Then the House passed a temporary bill to finance the protection for the remaining weeks of June President Johnson signed the bill last night Save parking ride with safety YellVb GR Adv are in a fiscal crisis along with St Louis Springfield Independence and other Missouri cities He said the Missouri General Assembly is and has been for a hundred and does not want to help the cities (Continued on Page 2) Sign of Moseley a Company Adv Hope for Improvements Officials of the and the A said the results were evidence of teacher disenchantment and the beginning of improvements in salaries and working conditions Joe Crane president of the A said his organization ('Continued on Page 16) (Continued on Pago 2) coaches will give the instructions assisted by 16 disadvantaged youths from the poverty neighborhoods Both the coacheand their assistants were to be paid $800 and $400 a month respectively But with only a few dollars in its treasure the council for the timeyeing Sunday day Phone noon ne Want Ads in before BA Adv.