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U. S. and City Mourn Kennedy;
First Day for New President
Johnson Talk
To Congress Set
For Wednesday
New Leader Meets
Cabinet, Truman
And Eisenhower
By GARNETT D. HORNER
Star BUX Writer
President Johnson will ad
dress a joint session of Con
gress at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday,
the White House announced
last night.
The announcement came
toward th eend of Mr. John
son’s first full day as Chief
Executive—a 12-hour day dur
ing which he strove to cement
national unity.
Picking up the reins of gov
ernment from the lifeless hands
of assassinated President John
P. Kennedy, he told all mem
bers of the Kennedy cabinet
he needed their help in the
time ahead—and got their
promise to stay on.
The new President himself
arranged for his first appear
ance as Chief Executive before
the House and Senate. Presum
ably he wants to carry forward
in this forum of the people’s
elected representatives, his ef
forts to promote united effort
by all Americans during the
critical time of a change in
leadership.
Funeral Tomorrow
He chose Wednesday as the
earliest feasible date for his
address to Congress.
Mr. Johnson completed his
day’s work at 9:15 pm. He had
reported for work at 5:55 a m.
One of his last visitors was
Secretary of Labor Wlrtz, who
•pent an hour and 45 minutes
with Mr. Johnson.
Despite his long work day,
Mr. Johnson appeared fairly
relaxed as he left for the drive
to his home.
Representative Homer
Thomberry, Democrat of Tex
as. who has been nominated
for a Federal judgeship, left
with the President.
"-morrow is set aside as a
national day of mourning and
funeral services for Mr. Ken
nedy. And, it was learned Pres
ident Johnson wants to confer
on Tuesday with a number of
foreign leaders, including
French President de Gaulle and
British Prime Minister Sir Alec
See PRESIDENT, Page A-9
OTHER STORIES
OF TRAGIC EVENT
Notion Mourns
United Stater Leaders Fay Respects
in the East Room. Page A-7
Capitol Rotunda Prepared for Ken
nedy Bier. Page 1-1
Kennedy Often Attended the Church
of His Requiem. Poge l-l
Schedule far Mourning Ceremonies
Leading to Funeral. Page B-l
Funeral to Produce Summit Talks os
By-product. Poge A-7
Reaction
Ail the World Mourns, Even Ken
nedy's Enemies. Poge A-15
Kennedy's Death Brings Misgivings
to Europe. Poge A-4
Moscow Radio Sees Slaying os a
Political Crime. Poge A-15
Many Events Conceited During the
Period of Mourning. Poge A-15
Shocked Secret Service Putting It
self Through on Agonizing Self-
Appraisol. Poge A-15
Officer's Own Story of Oswold
Capture. Poge A-5
Women's Section
Portrait of Lady Bird, President
Johnson's Wife. Poge B-ll
Mn. Kennedy’s Sunny Life Is
Streaked With Teors. Page B-10
Middleburg, Where Kennedys Built
Home, Is Saddened. Page B-10
Former District Policewoman Admin
istered Oath. Poge B-10
Liz Carpenter, Aide to Johnsons,
May Play Big Role. Poge B-ll
The Family
Highlights of Kennedy’s Short Ten
ure in White House. Page A-14
Ailing Father Told of Deoth of His
Son. Page A-3
Farewell Kiss Given in Dallas Hos
pital. P l 9* 9*l
Politics
Odds on 1964 Presidential Race
Greatly Altered. Poge A-11
Kennedy's Death Seen Expediting
Some Legislation. Poge A-11
Pentagon Policy Expected to Re
main Unchanged. Page A-8
Space Aims Unchanged. Page A-9
District Democrats Pledge Johnson
Support. P«9* *•'
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IN FINAL TRIBUTE, THEY STAND AT GUARD
: The flag-draped casket bearingthe body of John F. Kennedy
lies in the East Room of the White House yesterday under
the solemn guard of servicemen standing rigidly at attention.
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Aldous Huxley Dead;
I Author and Critic, 69
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Aldous Huxley, Britlsh-bom
■ author of the novel “Brave New
World’’ and moral critic of the
real world died Friday night at
his home in Hollywood, Calif.,
at 69
“Private services have al
ready been conducted," his
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Judith
Huxley, said in announcing the
death yesterday.
The Associated Press quoted
his physician as saying Mr.
Huxley had been ill for about
three years with cancer of the
mouth “which had extended.”
Barred by poor eyesight from
the scientific world of his older
brother. Julian, and their
grandfather, Thoms Henry
Huxley, the young Aldous Hux
ley learned touch typewriting
and quickly turned a figurative
microscope on mankind.
Political Writer
He was both fascinated and
repulsed by much of what he
saw. Like a fevered evangelist j
and moralist, he poured forth
j from his typewriter “Chrome
Yellow," “Mortal Coils,” “Antic
Hay,” “Those Barren Leaves”
and “Point Counter Point,” and
then reached a peak of popu
larity with his prophesy of a
managed world of drugs and;
manufactured pleasures,
“Brave New World.”
Published In the early 19305,:
MEMORIES OF KENNEDY
A Reporter Recalls the Dash, Glamor, Glitter, Charm
■
By MARY McGRORY
Star Statt Writer
He was just home from the
Pacific when I first saw him
in 1946. He was thin as a
match and still yellow from
malaria.
But he was blithe and de
termined. Wherever he went
he was surrounded by young
i men who felt with him that
he Irish had something more
to give to American political
I life than a last hurrah.
. The hard-eyed pros didn't
like him much. “Harvard
' Irish,” they scoffed. The back
-1 I ers of the other four contend
_ ers for a seat in the House said
**** WASHINGTON, D. C., NOVEMBER 24, 1963
ALDOUS HUXLEY
the novel sold nearly a million
copies.
Altogether, he wrote more
than 40 books, including the
'widely acclaimed "Eyeless in
Gaza” and “After Many a Sum
mer Dies the Swan,” a novel
about Hollywood.
Mr. Huxley rejected modem
Christianity and sought a mys
tical union with God in which
selfishness would be lost. He
was an impassioned missionary
for his philosophy and felt its
See HUXLEY, Page B-4
sourly he would buy his way
in with his father’s millions.
But his followers, who from
the first regarded him as one
of themselves—and yet above
them—said, “He’s class,” or.
because the word can be either
a noun or an adjective in Bos
ton, "He’s got class.”
He was 29 then, but with
his hollow cheeks and tousled
hair, he looked years younger.
He thought a hat would help
as an earnest of maturity, but
he never could remember to
bring one. One of his aides
usually had to give him his
own before they rushed into a
meeting.
Handsome, graceful, sure-
The casket will be removed to the Capitol Rotunda today to
lie in state for viewing by the public prior to the funeral mass
tomorrow.—Star Staff Photo By Francis Routt.
Parly Workers
On Hill Payroll
Study Group Chief
Admits Practice
By PAUL HOPE
Star Staff Writer
The House Democratic
Study Group and the House
Republican Policy Committee
have found away to put their
staff members on the Govern
ment payroll although there is
no authorization for the tax
payers to foot the bill.
The three employes of the
Democratic Study Group,
which collects data for about
125 liberal House members, are
listed on the payrolls of various
Democratic congressmen.
The publicity director for the
Republican Policy Committee
i also draws his salary in bits
from several Republican House
members. The headquarters di
-8 rector for the policy committee
e is among the staff members al
n lowed for the Republican mi
. nority, and the third employe
in the office is borrowed from
11 the staff of House Minority
Leader Halleck.
11 The Democratic Study
- Group was organized in 1959
h by a group of House Democrats
e who felt that progressive legis
y lation was being stymied by a
;s Dixiecrat-Republican coalition,
t See PAYROLL, Page .4-2
footed, he moved around the
tenements of Everett and
Charlestown, dazzling the
housewives v. tih his wide smile,
impressing the men with his
grasp of the facts, leaving one
and all wondering why, with
all he had, he should want
public office.
Solemn and statistical on
the platform, he was, on the
ground, casual and gay. “See
you soon,” he said once, end
ing an interview. “I have to
go down to the firehouse and
press a few palms.”
He won the House seat and
soon challenged Henry Cabot
Lodge for his place in the Sen
ate. Always a man for the direct
Police Say They Know
Where Oswald Got Gun
By JERRY O’LEARY, JR.
Star Staft Writer
DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 23.—The
chain of evidence against Lee
Harvey Oswald grew tighter
today with disclosure that in
vestigators have located a mail
order house from which he
bought a rifle believed to have
been used in the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy.
Investigators revealed that
the 6.5-mm. Italia n-made
Mauser rifle definitely has
been linked to the 24-year-old
suspect through the American
company that sold the weapon.
“We can put the gun in his
hands, and we know where it
came from.” an official said.
1 Chief of Police Jesse Curry
later announced that the FBI
had a letter in Oswald’s hand
writing addressed to a Chicago
mail order firm seeking to pur
chase a rifle priced at $12.78.
Photograph Found
He said the letter used an
alias and a Dallas post office
box number.
Dallas police also disclosed
tonight they have found a
photograph at the Irving
■ (Tex.) home of Oswald’s wife,
i It shows the suspect with a
i rifle held at the ready in one
hand and a pistol in a holster
i at his waist.
This reporter saw the picture
I and noted that Oswald was
confrontation, he was delighted
to have a debate with the in
cumbent. He came on, com
posed as a prince of the blood,
chestnut thatch carefully
brushed, facts straight, voice
steady.
“Look at him,” breathed the
proud Irishman next to me in
the excited audience. “He’s a
thoroughbred.”
When he dicided to go for
the presidency, he went about
it with the patience that was
so at variance wih his restless
ness of body and spirit.
The most rational of men,
he was intolerant of a lack of
political Tealism. The grinding
holding in his other hand two
newspapers, one the Worker
and the other the Militant,
; organ of the Trotskyite Social
, ist Workers Party.
1 The rifle in the picture was
< equipped with a telescopic sight
t and appeared to be a bolt
i operated weapon similiar to
the gun believed to have slain
, President Kennedy. Oswald
; was dressed entirely in black
i in the photo and had a grim
l expression on his face,
i The picture was found by
. Dallas police, armed with a
> search warrant, but the date
t of the photograph was not
immediately made known.
f Chief Curry said the picture
c will be used as evidence in 06-
* | waid’s trial.
3 “We had this case in good
- shape this morning, and it is
even stronger tonight,” Chief
! Curry said.
“We are going to work on
i this until we have a perfect
- case,” Homicide Capt. Will
Fritz said.
Letter to Connally
l Another element entered the
. case when it was disclosed that
i Oswald had written a letter to
; Texas Gov. John Connally
r when the latter was Secretary
of the Navy, asking him to
, rescind the suspect’s undesir
s See DALLAS, Page A-5
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Body Lies in State
In Rotunda Today,
Funeral Tomorrow
Heads of Many Nations to Attend
Ceremonies and Arlington Burial
A flag-draped caisson, drawn by six gray horses
and followed by a riderless horse, will carry the body
of John F. Kennedy in mourning procession to the
Capitol today, where the late President will lie In
state in a closed casket.
Thousands of persons are expected to go to the
Capitol Rotunda to pay their respects for the last
time to their dead President. The day should be sunny
and cool.
Yesterday, the Nations leaders, including two
former Presidents and President Johnson, paid their
respects as the closed coffin lay in the East Room
of the White House.
Tomorrow, which has been declared a national
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Grief Voiced ;
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By Khrushchev ;
Interrupts Tour
To Visit Embassy
MOSCOW, Nov. 23 (API.—
Premier Khrushchev, the man
who faced President Kennedy;
in the cold war, mourned his ;
Western opponent today and
said his death was a blow to
those who work for peace. In
an extraordinary visit of con
dolence to the United States
Embassy, Mr. Khrushchev said
he and his nation were deeply
bereaved.
The Soviet leader Interrupted
a tour in the Soviet Union and,
dressed in black, called on
United States Ambassador Foy
D. Kohler to express his sorrow.
For 20 minutes, he recalled to
Mr. Kohler his one and only
meeting with Mr. Kennedy—
A conference on cold war Issues
in Vienna In 1961.
Then with Foreign Minister
Andrei A. Gromyko at his side,
Mr. Khrushchev signed a book
of condolences set up near Mr.
Kennedy’s photograph in the
hall of Mr. Kohler’s residence.
Message to Johnson
The Premier sent messages to
President Lyndon B. Johnson
and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy.
, He told Mr. Johnson:
“I am deeply grieved by the
news of the tragic death of the
■ outstanding statesman, Presi
dent John Fitzgerald Kennedy
of the United States of
America.
! “The death of J. F. Kennedy
. is a hard blow to all people
’ who cherish the cause of peace
: and Soviet-American co-opera
} j tion.
"The heinous assassination
11 of the United States President i
1 at a time when, as a result of
the efforts of the peace-loving
l \ peoples there, appeared signs
* of relaxation of international
5 tension and a prospect has
1 opened for improving relations
between the USSR and the j
; United States, evokes the in
- dignation of Soviet people
against the culprits of this base
i crime.
s “I shall remember my per
f sonal meetings with President
J. F. Kennedy as a person of
i broad outlook who realistically
t assessed the situation and tried
1 to find ways for negotiated
settlements of the International
problems which now divide the
world.
» “The Soviet government and
t the Soviet people share the
d grief of the American people
it over this great loss and express
1 the hope that the search for
d settling indisputable questions,
-a search to which President
5 See MOSCOW, Page A-4
primaries irritated and tired
him.
Once he voiced a melancholy
doubt. He had come back late
from a fruitless early foray
into California where Gov. Pat
Brown was being both obdurate
and coy. He stood on the edge
of an airfield, his imperially
slim figure outlined in the
landing lights and the lights
of the aircraft.
“My days are in the yellow
leaf,” he quoted somberly
“Why does Hubert do it?”
he asked late one night in the
corridor of a hotel in Oregon
in February, 1960. He was re
ferring to Senator Humphrey’s
See KENNEDY. Page A-6
Boon# Fighting
Biggest Bottle
See TV Mogazine
day of mourning by President
Johnson, the city will come
virtually to a standstill as fu
neral services are held.
Burial will be in Arlington
Cemetery at “the wish of the
family.” it was announced by
Press Secretary Pierre Salinger.
There will be appropriate
ceremonies at the graveside.
Mr. Salinger said St. Mat
thew's Cathedral would be
filled by invitation with of
ficials and foreign dignitaries
for the requiem mass at noon
tomorrow.
Among those attending will
be leaders from several nations.
They will Include President
Charles de Gaulle of France;
Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Prime
Minister of Britain, and Prince
Philip, representing Queen
1 Elizabeth II; King Baudouln of
Belgium; Anastas Mlkoyan,
First Deputy Chairman of
the Council of Ministers of the
USBR; Queen Wilhelmlna of
. The Netherlands, and Chan
cellor Ludwig Erhard of West
Germany and Mayor Willy
' Brandt of West Berlin.
Former Presidents Eisen
hower and TTuman also will
i attend. Former President Her
bert Hoover, recuperating in
• New York from a serious 111-
, ness, said his son. Herbert. Jr.,
will represent him at the
funeral.
Most Offices to Close
Virtually all Government of
fices will be closed, except
those necessary for national
security or defense or other
public reasons.
Schools and stores also will
be closed in memory of Mr.
Kennedy. Major food stores
will reopen at 2 pm. and re
main open until normal clos
ing times.
All post offices and other
postal installations will be
closed tomorrow. There will
be no city, village or rural de
liveries.
Postmasters have been au
thorized to make essential mail
services available on an op
tional basis to meet urgent
community needs.
Mr. Kennedy’s body will
pm. today and go up Pennsyl
vania avenue to the Capitol.
The procession is expected to
See FUNERAL, Page A-6
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