Weather Forecast: Mostly Cloudy, Slightly Milder VOL. 64, No. 44 NationMournsPresident's Burial Johnson Gets First Victory WASHINGTON (£>)—A tie-breaking proxy vote in the Senate Banking Com mittee gave President Johnson’s new administration its first congressional victory yesterday. By an 8-7 margin the committee recommended against passage of a pro posal by Sen. Karl E. Mundt, R-S.D., which threatens to block sale of surplus U.S. grain to Iron Curtain countries. Mundt has maintained he is not against the sales but wants to ban use of government loans or financing guaran teeing that American sellers will be paid for the grain they ship to Russia and its satellites. The measure now goes back to the Senate for its consideration, possibly today or tomorrow. The committee vote first was an nounced as a 7-7 tie, but Sen. Harrison A. Williams, D-N.J., sent his proxy to provide the margin against it. Johnson also reached agreement with French President Charles de Gaulle last night for a fullscale exchange of views here early in 1964. This diplomatic stroke climaxed a long and strenous day which saw the new President meeting with foreign and domestic leaders after participating in the last rites for President Kennedy. De Gaulle has stood in opposition to many of the international policies which Kennedy sponsored and which Johnson is pledged to pursue so a meeting be tween the two presidents could have heavy bearing on the whole pattern of the Western alliance. Johnson did not disclose any details of the meeting, if, indeed, any have been 'Evidence Conclusive' Burial of Accused Assassin Surrounded With Secrecy DALLAS (^P)—Lee Har vey Oswald was taken to a cemetery almost in secret yesterday while the eyes of a saddened nation were turned half a continent away to the last solemn rites of the chief executive he was accused of killing'. Meanwhile investigators were preparing to place on public view the arsenal of evidence they say proves beyond all doubt Oswald was the assassin who took the life of John Fitz gerald Kennedy. District Attorney Henry Wade confirmed that a map, with the site of the assassina tion clearly plotted, was found in Oswald’s Dallas apartment. Oswald was shot down Sun day at approximately the same time the fallen Presi dent’s body was being lifted to its funeral caisson for the mournful trip to the capitol Rotunda. Ruby Transferred Oswald’s self-appointed exe cutioner, night club owner Jack Ruby, was transferred yesterday from the city to the county jail. It was during a similar trans fer Sunday that Ruby gunned down Oswald in p frightening moment viewed by thousands on television. Oswald’s trans-j fer was announced and a crowd j of about 200 gathered; Ruby’s I Saturday's Rain Symbolizes Reaction to Kennedy's Death By DENNIS KNECHT , Saturday morning dawned dark, dreary and miserable at the University, just as it did in Washington, D.C. But none of the University’s 18,000-plus inhabitants really seemed to care as they walked dong, heads still lowered, pro ved by their traditional black mbrellas. For all agreed this was the vay the day should be—the way it seems every Good Friday; should be—and it would have felt dark and dreary no matter what the weather. i Old Main’s flag, which had | flown at half-staff throughout’ die night, was weighted down by the rain, and hung almost 1 lifeless. • | Almost all social events had been canceled or postponed, in cluding the biggest game of the year. Monday c’~ ’’ A '■ canceled in accordance with President Johnson.. . tion of a national day of mourn ing. Such was the tribute of nature, the world and the University. | !mlg 111 (Mlegtatt PRESIDENT LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, when he addressed Penn State students dur ing College of Business Administration's Career Day April 10, 1962. agreed upon. The White House announced yester day that President Johnson would ap pear before a joint session of Congress tomorrow. "transfer was without prior no tice. Associated Press photograph er Mike Smith said an un marked white car pulled up yesterday behind the city jail, almost at the identical spot where Oswald was mortally wounded. Ruby, handcuffed and flanked by two detectives on each side, was whisked into the car and placed prone on the seat. Fort Worth Burial Oswald, the 24-year-old pro fessed Communist, was taken for burial to Rose Hill Ceme tery in Fort Worth, about 30 miles from here. The map which police say they found in Oswald’s apart ment had x-marks at various downtown intersections, and a line drawn at the intersection of Houston and Elm streets tracing the trajectory of the bullet that killed the Presi dent. In a mimeographed state ment, Police Chief Jesse Curry said his department will make public its entire dossier of evi dence against Oswald unless federal authorities object. One further piece of evidence in addition to the map was re ported yesterday, however. Dis trict Attorney Wade said Os wald’s fingerprints were on the $l2 mail-order rifle which fired the fatal bullet. Previously Wade had report- When first news of the tragedy; came early Friday afternoon,' disbelief seemed to be the most 1 prevalent initial emotion. Few tears were actually shed at first shock of the tragedy, but as the seriousness and ac tuality of the situation seemed to grow, emotions were more evi dent. Greater emotions came to Ught early Sunday afternoon, as hundreds of students gathered around every available television set to watch the caisson carry-' ing the President’s ca=ket from the White House to the Capitol, j As the camera played on the! face of Mrs. Kennedy, and then| on the faces of the two children, a sigh rose from the viewing audience in West Halls. | Procession to the Capitol The long monotonous proces sion to the Capitol gave the audience a chance to relax, but motions grew once again as! he casket was carried to the! totunda of the Capitol. i The feelings of many students 1 vere summed im by on? gH’s .eply when asked what she felt iwhile watching the scenes. Soft-' ed Oswald’s palm print was on the rifle, and also on a box found near the sixth-floor win dow where the killer sat. j FBI Investigates For its part, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is con tinuing its active investigation of the assassination and the shooting of Oswald in hopes of revealing the full story of the wild, almost incredible night mare that began last Friday. And in Washington, Rep. Hale Boggs, D-La., said in in terview there should be a con gressional investigation of the heinous crime. In Austin, Tex.,' officials were preparing to meet today with State Atty. Gen. Wag oner Carr to arrange for a court of inquiry to investigate circumstances surrounding the assassination. Carr made the announcement in Washington. One aspect of the investiga tion shifted to Mexico. A La redo, Tex., customs official, William Kline, said records in that border city show that Oswald attempted to get a visa from both the Soviet and Cu ban consuls and angrily gave up both attempts when he dis covered it would take too long to process the requests. Texas Gov. John Connally, wounded in the same volley of gunfire which killed the Presi dent, was reported much im proved yesterday at Parkland Hospital. ly, but proudly, she said, "I cried.” Then suddenly breaking up the scene, was the announcement that Lee Harvey Oswald, the ac cused assassin who many had seen shot earlier, had died in Parkland Hospital. “Oh, no, now we’ll never find out if he was the one,” one viewer exclaimed. And another who was already convinced Os wald was the assassin, said, “We’ll never find out why.” “This gives the Communists an out,” was still another re action. Ceremonies End The main ceremonies of the I day were over. Most of the ap-J proximately 200 students filed! quietly out of Waring lounge. | Yesterday's activities were! much the same as Sunday’s, and the reaction to the church ser vice, the procession and the final service at the burial site in; Arlington National Cemetery; brought out many emotions. j Coeds cried outwardly at the ' : nal sc°ne when the flag cov ering the casket was folded and presented to Mrs. Kennedy. FOR A BETTER PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PARK, PA., TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 1963 Feeling of Grief Unites Mourners In Nation's Capital ' There was a universal feeling of deep personal loss in Washington Sunday. One could sense it by just walk ing the people. t the city, traffic was un- Iks were beginning to fill up. ing the streets, or by watch: When dawn broke ove: usually light but the sidewal The walk in front of the' White House was blocked off, but across Pennsylvania Ave nue sad-faced people walked back and forth, staring at one another, at the black-garlanded north door of the executive mansion, or into space. Some sat along the sidewalk, read ing the morning paper. Everyone was there for the same reason, to pay homage to President Kennedy. Many carried cameras, hoping to catch a glimpse of one or more of the many dignitaries gath ered in the city to pay tribute to the former President, and Country Stops For Funeral By The Associated Press A saddened nation paused in respectful silence yesterday as martyred President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest among other heroes in Arling ton National Cemetery. Men and women everywhere were united in paying tribute to their fallen leader. Streets the width and breadth of the land were deserted while the services were held. Everyone who could followed the tragic proceedings on television. In Dallas, Tex., the atmos phere was one of reverence; Thousands visited the site where the President was shot. P nvlied around in small groups gazing at the myriad i—c.' arrangements marking the spot. The flower arrangements carried various messages. One read “God Forgive Us All.’' Tributes took various forms. Radio- Corp. of American tele graph facilities halted trans missions from noon to 12:05 (Continued on page three) Walker Thanks Students , Staff For ‘Patience l President Eric A. Walker yesterday expressed appre ciation for the "patience and forebearance" of students, faculty and staff during the period following the death of President Kennedy. He noted that it was dif ficult to make immediate decisions affecting the en tire University community because of the many factors involved, ranging from co ordinating 'with national pronouncements to the' de tails of maintaining essen tial services,” Walker commented also on the sense of - reverence that characterized the entire University community fol lowing the "awesome trag edy suffered by the nation." By WILLIAM LEE to greet the new President. Down Pennsylvania Avenue, the proposed route for the pro cession scheduled in the after noon, people selected their vantage points. They would be willing to wait for hours to watch the procession and to see the horse-drawn caisson bearing Kennedy’s remains. College students made up the largest single group, ex cept for the military. Stores throughout the city were closed. In their windows had been placed simple tributes to the President flower draped portraits. On corners, newspaper ven dors sold hastily prepared por traits of Kennedy. Some of fered copies of Friday’s and' Saturday’s papers. None of fered The New York Times, which had been sold out since early morning. The few open restaurants • were filled and turned people away. No Space Along Streets By noon, there was no space along the streets. Crowds were especially heavy in the area of the White House and the Capi tol building, where the Presi dent’s body was to be taken to lie in state. Marine Corps guards in full dress uniforms took their places in front of the crowd along the street. Muffled Drums At about 1:15 p.m., the muffled drums could be heard (Continued on pacje three)- EULOGY FOR A FALLEN CHIEF: Seriate' Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (left), D-Moni., delivered one of the last eulogies for President Kennedy yesterday in the Capitol Rotunda while Mrs. Kennedy (right) stands by the flag-draped casket of the late commander-in-chief of the armed forces. The President was buried in Arlington Cemetery to the sound of a 21-gun salute and the roar of. 50 Air Force fighters, representing each of the stales. E ternal By Mrs. WASHINGTON (fP) The peace of eternity came in ah Arlington grave yes terday to John F. Kennedy, whose quest for enduring peace in a dangerous world was cut short by an assassin’s,bullet. And over his resting place will burn an eternal flame. In death as in life, world statesmen—men of power and renown from half the nations of the world—honored the fallen President. They had come here in un precedented numbers and in mourning. The new President, Lyndon B. John son, and former presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Harry S. Truman mourned the passing of the man who had served in the same high office they had held But it was Jacqueline Kennedy, sus tained by some unknown strength through three racking days of grief, who touched a torch to the eternal light on the grave of her husband. At the last, this lady in black, with the long veil disguising some of her sorrow and weariness, stumbled just a bit as she left the site of the bUrial of the 35th president on a gentle slope of Arlington National Cemetery. Catholic Rites The services at the graveside were those of the Roman Catholic Church, for the first Roman Catholic to reach the White House. Richard Cardinal Cushing, arch bishop of Boston, an old friend of the Kennedy family, said the final ritual istic players and sprinkled the casket with Holy .Water before it was lowered into the grave. • It was Cushing who had celebrated a Requiem Low Mass for the departed President at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in the heart of Washington. The cardinal invoked the blessings and mercy of God upon Kennedy and his family. And for the family he offered communion and personal words of com fort. Mrs. Kennedy and others of the family, along with President and Mrs. Johnson, and the assemblage of nota bles from over the world had marched in the funeral procession the eight blocks from the White House to the cathedral. There were presidents, royalty, chiefs of state, foreign ministers and de fense ministers in the gathering. It was a day for the humble as well as the mighty It was a day for hundreds of thous ands of Americans to pour out in person along the way a final measure of homage to the young President whose life was cut short at 46 by a rifle bullet in Dallas, Tex., last Friday. Vast Throngs In vast throngs, upwards of a quar ter million of them, they had streamed past Kennedy’s bier in the Rotunda of the capitol for 18 hours. Some had wait ed as long as 10 hours, in a line reaching out nearly 10 miles, for a mere minute beside the casket. In vast throngs, they crowded up to the streets along which the funeral cor tege moved on a long route that began at the Capitol Plaza, paused at the White House for marchers on foot, continued on to the cathedral and finally ended among the ordered ranks of the graves of men who, like Kennedy, served the na tion in wartime. Largely, they were silent crowds, with people showing their sorrow here and there with an occasional tear or sob. The shadows cast by a mellowing winter sun were lengthening when the funeral procession came at its measured John F. A Great Man Torch Lit Kennedy pace through the huge iron gateway up the foot of the Arlington Heights sweep ing up from the Potomac River. Slowly the six matched gray horses drawing the caisson made their way to a spot near the open grave. The site was below the crest of a hill, perhaps 200 feet from the Curtis-Lee mansion with its columned portico. No one ever had been buried in that particular area. But then, only one other president, William Howard Taft, is buried in this national cemetery over looking the capital. Military casket bearers, four on either side, carried the coffin to the open grave. It still wore the flag which had'shrouded it for three days. Mrs. Kennedy and her brother-in law, Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy, took their places a few feet away, heads bowed. The late President’s mother, Rose, was there, and others of the family. With the ancient rites of the church, Cardinal Cushing prayed for the fallen Kennedy: “The Lord be with you and with thy spirit.” A 21-gun presidential salute shat tered the solemnity and stillness and seemed to last interminably. The uni formed mourners, from presidents and emperors down to American privates, snapped to salute. Widow Erect But Mrs. Kennedy, with eyes closed at times, stood starkly erect. A volley of musketry fire shattered the stillness again. And then from a lone bugler, the swelling, lingering notes of “Taps” flooded over the hillside and out across the row on row of graves of 126,000 other men who have served their coun try. The melody of the. “Navy Hymn” swelled softly from a band, down the slope, with its magnificent foreground of the arches of Memorial Bridge; the huge, square, white memorial to Abra ham Lincoln; the giant needle of the Washington Monument and the mass of the Capitol building far beyond. The body bearers lifted the flag from the casket, folded it carefully and gently into a neat triangle. In the tradi tion of the service, this was for Mrs. Kennedy. She took it and pressed it to her bosom. Mrs. Kennedy touched a lighted torch to the top of the grave to light the eternal flame. Atty. Gen. Kennedy and his brother, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, repeated this act of family honor to the dead chief executive. Slowly, with Robert Kennedy hold ing her hand, as he had done many times through the day, Mrs. Kennedy walked away from the grave, still clutching the flag. At the cathedral, Cardinal Cushing led the procession into the church for the requiem. The mass dwells less on the desola tion of death than on comfort and peace and hope for resurrection. The archbishop prayed, too, that, “Thy servant, John F. Kennedy, may his soul be taken up by holy angels and taken to paradise.” (Continued on page three —See Page 2 FIVE CENTS
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