Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 279, Decatur, Adams County, 26 November 1963 — Page 2

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j>] l J*ii C*l i 1 For Your Last Minute Thanksgiving Shopping 0P E N WEDNESDAY NIGHT ’til 9 P.M. FRIDAY and SATURDAY ’til 8 P.M.

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Three Major Probes Into Assassination

WASHINGTON (UPD—Three major investigations were developing today into the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of his accused slayer, Lee Harvey Oswald. The inquiries by the FBI, the state of Texas and, possibly, the Senate Judiciary Committee were expected to reveal all the details surrounding the death of the President to choke off at once any of the inevitable rumors of a “plot.” As one senator remarked, “some people debated for a century whether, John Wilkes Booth killed Lincoln, now is the time to get the whole story of the Kennedy assassination.” tionl.” President Johnson assured

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the nation Monday night that -= all the facts disclosed in the FBI investigation would be made public. ■* He ordered all federal agencies to cooperate with the FBI and the Justice Department in a “prompt and thorough investigation of all the circumstances” surrounding the two killings. “The people of the nation may be sure that all of the facts wiil be made public,” the President . said in a statement. The FBI is positive that Os"wald fired the two fatal bullets which killed Kennedy, in Dallas last Friday, but it hopes to build an irrefutable case against the ex-Marine. The Justice Department said

Monday it would lend whatever aid Texas officials needed in the state’s investigation.* Texas Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr announced after President Kennedy’s funeral that a “court of inquiry” would be called to consider the slayings. The court, similar to a factfinding board but with the power to subpoena witnesses, would serve to replace the trial of Oswald that cannot now be held. Members of the Senate’s powerful Judiciary Committee were reported to feel that the Texas investigation would not .be enough. “Too many people are disturbed about the strange circumstances of the whole tragic affair,” said one Republican committee member. The committee members will attempt to ascertain the Kennedy family’s feelings before deciding -on the investigation. They did . indicate, however," that they would offer legislation to make the assassination of the President a federal crime, punishable by death.

Police Stand Guard At Oswald’s Grave

FORTH WORTH (UP!)— Police with vicious trained dogs stood guard today at the grave of Lee Harvey Oswald to protect it from ghouls. The 24-year-old Communist sympathizer and accused assassin of President Kennedy generated such hatred that police are afraid someone may desecrate the hastily dug grave, or try to dig up the pine coffin. . w “There is ala ways the possibility of ghouls,” said Col. E. P. Seltzer, a retired Army regiSolicitors Busy On Reaching CROP Goal As Adams county families prepare for their annual Thanksgiving reunions and dinners, the farmers of Adams county are busy soliciting funds towards the $9,000 CROP goal, Brice Bauserman, county chairman, explained today, n CROP, which stands for Christian Rural Overseas Program, is another way of saying “Christ reaches out to and through people.” It is the annual drive for funds to help needy people with food and self-help aid overseas. All Indiana CROP aid will go for specific projects where Indiana people are helping in the distribution and teaching, and will be able to' report back on exactly what is done. j Nearly 300 individual solicitors are taking part in the drive in the county. Cniop, Root Theodore Bleeke is chairman of the dirve in Union township, and helping him are Ben Gerke, Emerson Wass, Robert Plumley, Ed-i gar Thieme, Herman Steele, Herman Bleekp, Ted Ruble, Otto Thieme, Richard Geimer, and Carl Thieme. In Root township, chairman Henry Getting has a nearly full . slate of helpers in the large township: Harold Tieman, Fred Fuelling, Carl Hoffman, George Fuelling, Martin Braun, Dick Schiefcrstein, Lloyd Scherer, Roger Koeneman, Gerald Hoblet, Elmer Franz, Herman Franz, Mrs. Karl Fuelling, Arnold Gerke, Wilmer Beihold, Lloyd Kirschner, Wilford Scherer, Frank Singleton, Earl Caston, Carrol Scott, Fred Kukell*han, Cecil Harvey, Harold, Thieme, Lawrence Beckmeyer, William Schnepf, Paul Becker, Harold Strahm, Roman Bnte, William Susdorf, .and. John Frank. Preble, Kirkland In Preble township the Rev. H. E. Settlage will be aided by Eugene Bluhm, Richard Scheuman, Louis Fuhrman, Kent Girod, Henry Macke, Marvin donrad, Hugo Bulmahn, Walter Nuergt, Herman Bultemeier, Vern Linker, Delmar Heckman, Arthur Koeneman, Rudolph Meier, Martin Gallmeyer, Arnold Schuernan, Elbert Fuhrman, and Alton Bittner. In Kirkland township, which raised over SI,OOO last year, Emil Steffen is township chairman. He will be aided by Robert Bucher, Horner Brubacher, Arno Girod, Richard Longenberger, John Barger, Walter Egley, Paul Arnold, Harvey Haggard, Rev. Dolar Richey, Floyd Ehrman, Joe Baumgartner, Mrs. Curtis Zimmerman, Robert High, William Bryan, Wayne Byerly, Mrs. Glen Adler. Terry Steffen, Earl Gerber, Dwight Troxel, and Simon Heyerly. Washington, St. Marys Howard L. Habegger is chairman for Nortfy Washington township, and assisting him in the sec- • tion collections will be Paul Kohne, Roger Shoaf, Peter B. Lehman? Victor Braun, Adrian Arnold, Junior Becher, Edward Wilder, Hubert Gase, John Lengerich, Harold Steffen, Tom Rumschlag, Roy Price, aqd» Dr. Gerald Vizard. In South Washington, Verl Lautzenheiser will have help from Ralph Bluhm, Harry Kerschr.er, Richard Andrews, Mrs. Wilbur Lengerich. Jay J. Yost, Floyd Mitchel, and Russel Mitchel. Martin F. Sprunger, St. Mary's township chairman, will be assisted by Charles Backhaus, David Barkley, Marshall Hilpert, Benoit Johnson, Noble Raudenbush, Mrs. Harry McDermitt, Mrs. Lyle Bailey, and Harvey Sells.

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mental commander who owns Rose Hill Cemetery where Oswald was buried. A police guard and a watch dog were stationed beside the grave. A police patrol car drove slowly back and forth inside the cemetery. It was the first time since the cemetery Was started back in the 19th century that guards were necessary during the night. Normally Lock Gates ‘Normally, we lock the gates at sundown and open them at sunup,” Seltzer said. “But police officials talked it over and, thought it would be better to have someone inside the park. “Naturally, there are ghouls and grave-robbers. . .and you never know what to expect." Oswald, shot by self-appoint-ed executioner Jack Ruby, a Dallas striptease nightclub owner, was buried Monday just three hours after President Kennedy was lajd to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. The pine coffin was covered with gray cloth. Reporters served as pallbearers. Only Oswald’s mother, brother and his Russian wife were there to mourn him. They had his two tiny children with them. Just before the coffin was lowered, the lid was lifted so the family could see one last time the face of the man police said was Kennedy’s slayer. One at a time, quickly, the two women bent down and kissed the corpse. Only newsmen, Secret Service agents and policemen witnessed the funeral. The public was not admitted. Said Graveside Prayer j The Rev. Louis Saunders, executive secretary of the Fort Worth Council of Churches,, said a prayer at graveside. He said he conducted what services there were because “we do not want it said a man can be buried in Fort Worth without a minister.” Sheriff Lon Evans said that a Lutheran minister from Dallas was supposed to have conducted simple services, but he did not arrive. The newsmen served as pallbearers because there was no one else to carry the casket. Police said they had specifical- ■' ly been ordered not to touch it. Oswald was buried in the northwest corner of the cemetery, .Red oak drees and hackberry bushes surround the section. The grass had been burned brown by drought. In the distance, the cemetery flag could be seen flying at half-staff for Kennedy. Below Rose Hill lies the blue water of Arlington Lake. Fort Worth lies largely to the west. New Torn Stock Exchange Price* MIDDAY PRICES Central Soya 27%, Ford i 50, General Electric 79, General Motors 77%, Gulf Oil 43%, , Standard Oil Ind. 57%, Standard Oil N.J. 69, U.S. Steel 50%.

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ETERNAL FLAME (Continued from Page One) er mourners. Early in the services 50 jet fighter planes swept over in a salute to the departed com-mander-in-chief. They were followed by “Air Force One,” the jet transport that carried the President to Dallas and brought his body -“ back after he was killed by a sniper Friday. After a silent ceremonial by Irish guards flown from Ireland, came the final ceremonies —the blessing of the grave and the prayers. Behind the a hill, cannon fired a 21-gun salute and riflemen their three volleys. Taps was sounded by Army Sgt. Keith Clark of Grand Ra- ,* pids, Midh. The flag was removed from 1 the casket and handed to the 1 widow. An overwhelming silence enveloped the throng of great and 1 simple people who came to see Kennedy laid to rest after the ' last rites of a funeral mass that broke the composure of his grieving widow. , Caroline Cried Daughter Caroline, who will be 6 years old Wednesday, ,also , broke down in sobs after reacting as bravely as her mother to their tragedy. There was added poignance when John Kennedy Jr., attending the funeral on his own third birthday, stood at the cathedral steps and saluted his father’s coffin just as the soldiers all around were, doing. 1 Washington’s streets were lined with an estimated 800,000 hushed mourners who paid their respects as the slain President was brought from the Capitol to the White House, from there to St. Mathews Cathedral, and then to the cemetery. It was a solemn military procession, with the coffin on a black-draped caisson drawn by six gray horses. From the White House to the cathedral, six blocks, the widow and her husband two brothers walked behind the caisson, followed by i President Johnson and a huge assemblage of foreign leaders. Heads of State There were kings, presidents, ministers and princes from nearly every country of the world, Communist as well as free, from President Charles de Gaulle of France to Deputy Prem er Anastas Mikoyan of the Soviet" Unin. Red China and Cuba were not represented. Standing beside the sorrowing family at the sunny but chilly site, they heard the funeral si- , lence pierced by the bagpipers and the jet airplanes, by the cannon and the prayers.. Men who have made history watched from the sidelines. De — Gaulle clasped and unclasped his hands. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia wiped his eyes. ; The French president and the bearded Ethiopian monarch, E both in uniform, stood side by i side, flanked by dozens of other world leaders. Lyndon B. Johnson, who became President of the United States about an hour and a half after Kennedy died, was almost concealed in the crowd until the , time came for Taps to be sound? I ed. Then he stepped forward, , hatless, and stood facing the I grave with his right hand over his " heart in silent salute.

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