TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1960
Kennedy in New England
PledgesMilitaryStrength
BOSTON (fP) Sen. John F. 'Kennedy—showing no
letup in his back-breaking campaign for the presidency
made a climactic election eve pledge last night to strengthen
America’s military power “to a point where no aggressor will
dare attack.”
"I pledge myself and my party to begin work immediately
on a program to achieve peace
through strength,” he said in a
speech prepared for a giant home
town rally in Boston.
Kennedy spoke only half an
jhour on TV answering questions
i put to him by his three sisters.
In answer to one question on
the religious issue. Kennedy
said Americans "should not be
concerned" about it.
He said that if he, a Catholic,
came under improper influence of
any person or group after elec
tion “I should properly be sub
ject to impeachment.”.'
Noting that several members of
the U.S. Supreme Court were of
his faith. Kennedy said his first
duty would be to defend the Con
stitution.
‘‘lf any person, the Pone, any
one, should attempt to bring im
proper influence, then I should
tell that person that it was highly
improper.” he added.
"If may be," Kennedy con
tinued, "that the people will
want to elect a Republican pres
ident. If they do. I hope it is on
the basis of the man and not on
this mailer."
LBJ Posters
Torn in Texas;
Two Detained
HOUSTON, Tex. UP) Police
detained two men briefly yester
day after two posters attacking
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson were
torn up as Johnson arrived at a
downtown hotel for a rally.
The flurry was over by the time
Johnson arrived and moved
through a crowded lobby entrance
to an elevator without incident.
The two men, one middle-aged
and the other appearing to be in
his early 20s, were detained by a
motorcycle patrolman until word
came from superiors to “let therm
go” .
One of the signs torn up read
“LBJ. ail the way out.”
Several, other Nixon signs read
“Go back to Jack,” referring to
Sen. John F. Kennedy, the Demo
cratic presidential candidate.
Another read “Double your
pleasure, double your fun, scratch
Lyndon twice.” Johnson’s name
appears on the Texas ballot both
for vice president and senator.
Johnson, who predicted a na
tional victory for the Democratic
slate in a speech Sunday at Har
lingen, campaigned in Houston,
San Antonio and San Marcos,
ending up in Austin for an open
house and statewide television ad
dress last night.
If there were no religious issue
injected in this campaign Jack
Kennedy would carry every state
in the nation,” Johnson told a
crowd estimated by newsmen at
6000.
Big-City Victories Needed
For Dems to Sweep State
PHILADELPHIA (/P) The
ability of Democrats to de
liver record majorities for
Sen. John F. Kennedy in the
state’s two biggest cities ap
pear to be the key to the Penn
sylvania outcome of the presi
dential election in today’s bal
loting.
Democrats count on snowing
under Republican Richard M.
Nixon and rural-suburban Penn
sylvania, generally in the GOP
column, with an avalanche of
vo'tcs from Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh particularly Philadel-
Ehia. Party leaders look for a
ulge of over 350,000 from these
two cities.
The Republicans, on the other
hand, are figuring on these hid
den assets: the magic of Presi
dent Eisenhower’s personal ap
pearances for the Nixon ticket in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and
Jury Disagrees
In Finch Retrial
LOS ANGELES (TP) Finch
murder trial No. 2 ended yester
day in bitter disagreement just as
did Finch trial No. 1 and there
will be a Finch trial No. 3.
The foreman of the panel of
11 women and one man disclosed
the vote was unanimous jn favor
of convicting Dr. R. Bernard
Finch of murdering his socialite
wife—but there could be no con
viction because jurors could not
get together on whether it was
first- or second-degree murder.
“We must not convert our faith
into a means of influencing the
ballot box,” the Senate majority
leader said in the predominately
Latin-American and Catholic
area. Some Texas Protestant min
isters have opposed John F. Ken
nedy, a Roman Catholic.
Earlier in the day he spoke in
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Ver
mont and New Hampshire.
He repeated his verbal assault
on Nixon for what he said was
Nixon’s belief that peace could be
achieved through
“special missions and propaganda
gimmicks.”
“Word and gestures talks and
visits will not bring peace in
the future,” Kennedy said, “just
as they have failed to bring peace
during the past eight years/’
the strength of the "silent’’ vote
that has even the professional
pollsters puzzled.
Pennsylvania is considered a.
toss-up, though both sides con- 1
fidently claim it. All seem to:
agree, however, that the Demo-;
erats must win big in the steel
city of Pittsburgh and once-pow-|
erful GOP stronghold of Phila-i
delphia if they are to win the
(state at all.
In the past 100 years Democrat
ic presidential candidates have
won Pennsylvania’s electoral
votes only four times 1912 for
Woodrow Wilson and 1936-40-44
for Franklin D. Roosevelt.
j Today’s verdict rest with 5,-
687,837 registered voters big
gest ever in Pennsylvania’s his
tory.
| The plum for which Kennedy
(and Nixon forces have battled so
!strenuously and at times bit
iterly is Pennsylvania’s 32
j electoral votes, a batch which
|ranks with*California as the third
(largest among the 50 states.
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Teachers
Strike In
New York
NEW YORK (/P)—'The first
teachers strike in the city’s
history disrupted the nation’s
largest public school system
yesterday.
Caught in the dispute over
wages and union benefits were a
million pupils, some of whom ran
wild for lack of classroom super
vision.
Leaders of the striking United
iFederation of Teachers predicted
The walkout would snowball
;among the system’s 40,000 public
i school teachers. The union, claim
ing Only a minority of the total,
estimated 15,000 already were on
strike.
The UFT, one of 39 teachers’
organizations in the city, launched
its strike in a demand for duty
free lunch periods, additional sick
leave and higher salaries for
teachers, who now earn from $4,-
800 to 58,300 a year.
However. School Supt. John J.
Theobold forecast a quick col
lapse of the strike. He minimized
its impact, admitting only that
about 4600 teachers were out.
These he ordered immediately
suspended. Mayor Robert F. Wag
ner backed him up.
The strike’s real test was ex
pected to come tomorrow'. Today
and Friday are legal holidays—
Election Day and Veterans Day—
with all public and parochial
schools in the city closed.
; Approximately 400.000 pupils in
830 private and parochial schools
were not involved in the strike.
The walkout was confined to
the city’s 837 public schools.
Slightly more than 250 were
picketed.
| Most of them managed to eke
|out a fairly normal day of classes.
But several were forced to close
! their doors at noon.
i In an attempt to fill gaps in
;the teaching ranks, the board of
■education pressed supervisory
: personnel into classroom assign
aments.
U.N. Delays Talk;
Awaits Kasavubu
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. TP)
—The UN General Assembly yes
terday decided to delay debate
on the Congo for 24 hours in or
der to permit President Joseph
Kasavubu to take part.
Kasavubu arrived in New York
too late to attend the afternoon
meeting of the assembly.
The Congo president told re
porters at Idlewild Airport that
the Congo crisis was one for the
Congolese people to settle without
any outside pressures
He declared he-would raise his
voice in the assembly against
those trying to violate “the sacred
principles of a free people, and to
impose on us a neocolonialism
which is humiliating and unbear
able.”
He declared he would demand
.withdrawal from UN forces in
the Congo of soldiers from Ghana
| and Guinea —two of the nations
jsupporting the resolution to seat
a pro-Lumumba delegation.
Russians Display Rockets
| MOSCOW UP) The Soviet
| Union yesterday showed off a
'dozen "silver needle” rockets and
!said they were the type that
brought down Francis Gary Pow
ers’ American U 2 piane.
Nixon Closes Race
With TV Session
DETROIT (JP) Vice President Richard M. Nixon
pounded down the home stretch of the 1960 presidential race
yesterday, whipping out answers to the nation’s questions
in a four-hour television talkfest.
The 47-year-old candidate’s telethon appearance over a
125-station network was unprecc-J ~
jdented in the history of _
dential campaigning. QQP Sl/flOOff
It was nearly the end of a pell-j *
mell, 7200-mile last-minute I I K| f*
which began in California and (Jr I I l\f rOfrfi
headed to its end there sometime! * * w
after midnight. If ■ |
Nixon scheduled a next-to- AwffGGi wV LOCfiCJG
final effort to round up voles i _ , .. . H
for today by appearing on tele- j LEWISTON. Maine (VP) - Hen
vision from Chicago last night, iry Cabot Lodge, invading this
The nationwide hookup was to Democratic stronghold on the
include an appearance on r the : heels of Sen. John F. Kennedy,
screen by President Eisenhower said voslerday (half because the
ning mate, Henry Cabot Lodge, in, senlloWer administration work-
Bos ton. . °d to create a United. Nations
The questions prepounded to the;L° rce “young men from right here
bone-tired candidate during the:in Maine don't have to go to the
,telethon ranged all over the land-;c on g o in 1960.”
reiterated his stand against The candidate for
federal aid to help pay teachers vue president said he worked for
salaries, said he didn’t believe the creation of the UN Congo
the minimum wage should be force, at President Eisenhower's
raised above $1.15 and declared; „„ . „ , ,
that “a matter of major import- as ambassa
ance is to break the stalemate on, 01 to the woild organization,
the testing of atomic devices.” | Lodge spoke from the band-
On the subject of atomic fests, |stand in City Park where Denio-
Nixon said the Communists jeratic presidential candidate Ken
were filibustering on the issue !nedy had talked only 12 hours
at Geneva and "they may be ipreviously.
cheating." i Police Capt. Joseph Farand esti-
He said he would try to break, mated the Lodge crowd at about
the deadlock and try to gain some *3ooo—some 5000 to 8000 fewer
agreement to use the atom for than jammed the park in near
peaceful purposes—“to dig ca-; freezing weather to listen to Ken
nals, move mountains.” |nedy Sunday night.
To a question about the state, L od g e renewed his attacks on
!0f the economy, Nixon replied iRqnnr > /s foreign policy state
;“There isn t going to be a reces- , K b 1 1
ision.” He added that the best way: „
:to insure real jobs for the un-! candidate can lotiact his
employed was an expanding econ-!' vor J s .’ )ul a president cannot re
omv r. & | tract his mistakes, Lodge said.
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