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Evening star., 1963-05-12
BY the Associated Press

The Justice Department
brought court action yesterday
for the immediate release Of
five Negroes arrested in Holmes
County, Miss, on a charge OF
fire bombing a Negro home.
Local officials there accused
the five Of committing arson
In an effort to stir up SYM
pathy for a voting registration
campaign.
In a suit filed in the United
States District Court In Jack
son. Miss. Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy called the
charge false and baseless" and
said 1t was an attempt to in
timidate Negroes seeking TO
register in the county.
The court was asked TO Or
der a halt in prosecution Of
the men.
The suit was filed under the
1857 and 1860 civil rights acts
which empower the Attorney
General 10 act in cases Of voter
intimidation.
Named as defendants In the
Justice Department suit were
Chief Deputy Sheriff Andrew
p. Smith, County Attorney Pat
Barrett and District Attorney
Parham H. Williams, all OF Lex
ington, Miss.
One OF the five Negroes ar
rested was Robert Moses Of
New York City. a field repre-
sentative OF the Student Nom
violent Co-ordinating Commit
tee, which is helping Negroes In
the South register. The others
are Zack E. Ball. Lavon Hamp-
ton, and Hollis Watkins. Holmes
County registration workers.
and Hartman Turnbow, a
farmer.
Turnbow reported TO the
sheriff's office May 8 that three
fire bombs we're thrown into
his home at 3 am. He said he
and his wife and child ran out
side and saw two white men,
one Of whom began shooting
at them. Turnbow said he re-
Evening star., 1963-05-12
More Witnesses
Heard in SINKING

PORTSMOUTH, n. H.. May
III (AP).-The naval court In
vestigating the April 10 sinking
of the nuclear attack subma-
rine Thresher today heard two
more witnesses behind closed
doors.
They were Rear Admiral
Charles j. Palmer. comman-
dant Of the Portsmouth Naval
Shipyard, and Capt. John b
Guerry, the yards production
officer.
Thresher sank with l29 men
aboard in q test dive some 22O
miles off Cape Cod in water
8, 400 feet deep.
Admiral Palmer had ap-
peared before the court IN open
session April 20.
A court spokesman said 1t
has nearly finished calling wit
nesses. There was no indica-
ton how many more would
testify. Another closed session
was scheduled for Monday.
Evening star., 1963-05-12
Robt. Kennedy
Five Held as Arsonists

turned the fire with his .22-
caliber rifle.
Turnbow notified Moses of
the bombing and when he ar
rived and took pictures Of the
damaged home he and Turn
bow were arrested. Ball, Wat
kins and Hampton were ar
rested later in the day when
they visited Moses. All we're
charged with arson.
Evening star., 1963-05-12

does exist, but it will never be
played back. 1t lies aboard
Thresher in S.400 feet of wa
ter, $50 miles from the near
est point Of land.
Tomorrow: Thresher's mis-
sion as newest type Of attack
submarine.
Evening star., 1963-05-12

kindled in the normal way BY
spark or flame would not be
necessary under conditions oi
Thresher's sinking.)
4 Now full of water, Threshel
was no longer merely sinking
She was plunging like a rock,
a helpless victim of gravity's
merciless pull on her millions
of pounds Of dead weight. More
than a mile below where the
accident happened-the exact
distance is a secret-the fall
ended in a crash as Thresher
hit bottom and broke open. To
the 129 men aboard the crash
made no difference; they were
already dead.
II the initial break came in a
small tube. the sequence of
events was different but no less
inexorably tragic. Something
happened when the small tube
broke. Perhaps it incapacitated
a key man; more likely it
sprayed a vital power circuit
with salt water, shorting out
controls without necessarily ad-
mitting a great deal of water
to the ships interior.
Thus denied control of his
ship and the ability to COM
municate with the surface, the
captain must have tried des-
perate alternative measures,
These efforts were unavailing
and Thresher began a final de-
scent into forbidden waters.
Walls Crushed
First she passed her secret test
depth, below which she was ad-
ministratively prohibited from
operating. Then she approached
and passed her collapse depth
half again as deep. The forces
of nature took over. Outside
sea waters pressure built ur
at o rate of 7 ounces per square
inch per foot Of depth until
the sturdy pressure hull coulc
no longer stand it. The ship
broke open, possibly with only
a smallish crack. An obliterat.
ing tidal wave rushed in
knocking down water tight
bulkheads as II they were
pasteboard partitions, filling
the ship and starting her on
downward collision course tc
the bottom.
OF the two possibilities. both
horrible to contemplate, tn
former-a sudden break in a
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Assassination to Be Probed
By Presidential Commission

this week that the investiga-
ton should be handled at the
highest level and be conducted
by "a blue ribbon panel"
Mr.. Boggs said he favored an
inquiry by a presidential COM
mission over hearings con-
Quoted by any one committee
of Congress.
He compared what he has
in midland what presumably
now has White House backing
to the type of committee that
conducted the investigation of
the Pearl Harbor disaster.
Obviously" he added, that's
the way it's going to be done.
Earlier today, Chairman
Eastland of the Senate Judi
ciary Committee said his COM
mittee would decide next
Wednesday whether to conduct
its own investigation.
Reached at his home in Mis-
sippi, Senator Eastland was
less definite on the investiga-
ton than Senate Republican
Leader Dirksen. who is the
ranking Republican on the
committee.
Senator DirkSen had told the
Senate Wednesday that an in
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SPECIAL REPORT
THE OSWALD STORY
The Man and the Deed Report
On His Actions and Life
By JERRY O'LEARY, Jr.
Star staff Writer

DALLAS, Tex, Nov. ga week
ago today, early in the morning, Lee
Harvey Oswald got quietly out of
the bed he shared with his 22-year-
old Russian wife. Mrs. Oswald slept
on. Nor did he waken his infant
daughters, June, % months, in her
crib, or Rachel, weeks, in her bas-
sinet in the same room.
1t was about am. when Oswald
made himself a cup of coffee in the
kitchen of the green rambler at isis
West Fifth street in the town of
Irving, Tex. He moved so quietly
that he did not disturb the owner
Of the house, Ruth Paine, or her
two small children.
Dressed in a brownish shirt and
nondescript trousers, the 24-year -old
Oswald left the house and went into
the garage where most of his family's
effects were stored. He got a long,
narrow parcel, wrapped in paper the
night before. Then he set out on
foot in the drizzling rain toward the
home few blocks away of B. Wesley
Frazier, 10, who owned a battered
old Chevrolet and worked where
Oswald worked.
As Oswald strobe along to meet
Frazier as they had arranged, any
one who noticed would have thought
him an uncomfortable man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
CEMETERY THRONGED
Flame to Feature Kennedy Tomb

came to the cemetery yester-
day were unable to go past the
grave. Among the $50 per-
sons waiting for the cemetery
to open at 8 am. today were
some who had gone to the
cemetery yesterday but had not
been able to file by the grave.
However, the gate did not
open at 8 am, as scheduled,
but remained closed until
$3.50 am. The cemetery will be
open from 8 am. to 5 pm. to-
morrow and Sunday.
John Metzler, director of the
cemetery, said he had men
working at the site to prepare
it, cleaning it up and removing
wilted flowers, at 6 am. but
the work was not finished in
time for the gate to open.
The Chief of Staff of the
Pakistani Air Force, Asgar
Kahn, and the former presi-
dent of Colombia, Alberto
Lleras Carnage, brought
wreathes to the grave in Sepa-
rate ceremonies this morning
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29

The minister of Ecuador, Ponce
Miranda, was scheduled to
present a wreath this after
noon.
John and Sylvia Graves,
Junior high school teachers
from Cleveland, said they tried
to visit the grave yesterday. but
the crowd was so great they
decided to be among the first
visitors today.
What else is there to do
the world has stopped" they
commented quietly as they
stood in today'S pelting rain.
Gary Lott, 10. of Bingham
ton, N. Y, said the press of the
throng prevented him from
walking past the grave yester-
day. He also had been among
those in line waiting to pass
the Presidents bier in the
rotunda of the Capitol when
the doors were closed Monday
he said.
81 feel it's my obligation as
a citizen to go visit the grave
See CEMETERY, Page AS
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vestigation by the Judiciary
Committee has been approved
by Senate leaders of both par
ties. He later told newSmen
that he expects public hearings
before the Christmas recess.
FayOrs One Probe
Senator Eastland said that
he favors a congressional in
vestigation but he doesn't think
there should be more than one
He indicated that he wants to
make sure that there is general
agreement that the Judiciary
Committee investigation will
not be duplicated by hearings
on the House side.
Despite reports that the
Justice Department has agreed
to cooperate with the Senate
Judiciary Committee, Senator
Eastland said he had not
checked with Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy, FBI Direc-
tor j. Edgar Hoover nor any
other Justice officials.
The entire membership of
the Judiciary Committee has
sponsored legislation to make
assassination of the President
and other top Federal officials
a Federal crime. The investiga-
ton was regarded by commit
tee members as a possible part
of the hearings on that bill.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
By the Associated Press

The cost of living edged up
TO a new high in october. the
Bureau of Labor Statistics re-
ported today.
But a spokesman said the rise
of one-tenth of / per cent was
strictly seasonal and gave no
indication of an inflationary
trend.
The consumer price index
reached 1912, meaning living
cost items that could be bought
for $40 in the 1957-1959 base
period cost $10.72 in October.
Food prices declined 0.5 per
cent but we're offset by rises of
/ per cent in transportation
costs, OIL per cent in housing
costs and 0.6 per cent in cloth
ing prices.
The spokesman said the liv-
ing costs rise apparently con-
tinued this month, but that
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Seasonal Increase Puts
Living Costs at Record

food prices held even. He said
the average family's turkey din
ner yesterday cost $40. That's
80 cents cheaper than in 1862.
While October's increase was
seasonal, the spokesman said,
the increase in November is ex-
pected to be somewhat more
than seasonal.
About $4,000 workers will re-
ceive wage increases based on
the october increase. They in
clude workers in the farm
equipment industry. aeroSpace
and auto tool and die indus
tries.
Increases of a cent an hour
will go to 1000 workers in the
farm equipment industry and
to 10000 in the aeroSpace in
dustry under union contracts
requiring quarterly adjustments
based on changes in the con-
sumner price index.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG
Star staff Writer

Representative Boggs of
Louisiana disclosed today that
"a presidential commission will
make the formal investigation
Of the facts surrounding the
assassination Of President
John F. Kennedy.
Mr.. Boggs, who is assistant
House Democratic leader, said
ne had learned ION the high
est authority" that a special
commission, which will include
members Of Congress. would
be named by President John
son.
He said the members of the
commission would be APP
pointed by Mr.. johnson at the
earliest possible moment, prob
ably by the end of the week.
Parallels Pearl HarbOr
Mr.. Boggs declined to say
directly that he had been in
formed Of the projected in
vestigation by the White
House, but said he had 1t on
the highest authority.
He had suggested earlier
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
A Tociturn Man

He had brown, wiry hair, beginning
to thin on his high, square brow near
the part he wore on the left. His skin
was somewhat rough, as though once
ravaged by acne. His eyebrows were
dark and well defined over hooded,
slightly slanting eyes. His nose was
aquiline over dominant upper lip.
But his most distinguishing feature
was his mouth, pursed and tight and
slightly twisted to the right.
The two young men got into
Frazier's car and started driving the
IL miles east to downtown Dallas.
Irving much resembles Springfield,
Va, and bears about the same rela-
tionship to Dallas as that community
does to Washington.
Mr.. Frazier knew Oswald as a
taciturn man who would talk about
his babies but little else. He recalls
that he confined the conversation
on the 45-minute drive to remarking
uPOAA bAAC Pd1NCA OoWd40 w DO Od4A yAAABs
Oswald told Mr.. Frazier the pack
age contained window shades. If
Mr.. Frazier thought that a remark
able thing for Oswald to take to
work, he did not say so.
The world now knows that the
FBI and Dallas police are convinced
that the package contained SIS nm.
Mannlicher Carcano Italian army
carbine equipped with four power
telescope sight, bought from
Chicago mail order house for $12.58.
Mr.. Frazier found a parking place
in Dallas promptly at am.
The two young men walked into
the seven-Story, orange-brick build
ing at Elm and Houston streets,
where both were employed as ware
houSemen for the Texas School Book
DeDoSitOrV
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Back in Irving

While the people Of Dallas began
getting themselves into position to
welcome the President along the
parade route decided upon four days
before, the rest of the household
woke up at the house in Irving.
Mrs. Paine, 81, an energetic, we'll
spoken and attractive alumna of
Antioch College and the University
Of Pennsylvania, switched on the
television to watch President Ken
nedy's appearances with his wife
at a breakfast in Fort Worth and
the tumultous welcome he received
when his big plane, Air Force One,
landed at Dallas Love Field.
Marina Oswald, a blond, hazel
eyed, pretty pharmacist the ex-
Marine had met and married in the
Soviet Union, awoke and came into
the living room to watch the Ken
nedys on television.
Marina thanked me for turning
the set on and watching the Ken
nedys seemed to put her in fine
mood" said Mrs. Paine. Obviously
she was and is Marina OSwald's main
anchor in this strange land.
Marina speaks little or no English
and I speak Russian, but not as well
as Lee did," Mrs. Paine said. 81 was
hoping to improve my Russian well
enough to teach later on"
Mrs. Paine didn't say so but
Marina Oswald and the children
we're living in the house on West
Fifth street virtually as charity
cases. Lee Oswald never paid any
rent nor contributed to his family's
Continued ON Page AS, Col. /.
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c. Y. Stephens
Of Highs Dairy
Killed in Crash

A man identified as C. Y.
Stephens, 81, of Laurel, Md,
the founder and co-owner of
Highs Dairy Products Corp,
was killed today in a two-car
collision on the new Severn
River Bridge Just outside of
Annapolis, Md.
Mr.. Stephens launched the
Highs chain of dairy stores
in 1888 with $1,000 borrowed
money with the late L. w.
High.
Anne Arundel County police
said Richard S. Bailey, Re-
hoboth Beach, Del, who was
riding in the other car, suf-
fered a broken arm and face
decorations.
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the Fine Arts Commission. met
with Mrs. Kennedy Wednesday
to talk about the memorial
and then went with her to
the graveSite.
He probably win meet with
Mrs. Kennedy again Monday
or later next week.
IT imagine that in discussing
this, several possible solutions
will be thought about, sketched
out, looked at carefully, and
that Mrs. Kennedy will take a
very close interest in every
aspect" Mr.. Warnecke said.
Thanksgiving became a day
of homage as some 100000 per-
sons made the pilgrimage to
the hillside grave of the late
President.
In spite of this mornings
drenching downpour, $3.50
persons, some of them bare
headed, filed past the late
Presidents grave between $3.50
am. and noon. BY 1880 pm.
today's visitors totaled 1881
Some of the persons WHIT
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John Carl Warnecke. archi-
tect of the multi-million dol
lar Lafayette Square renova-
ton, has been asked to design
a memorial for the burial site
of the late President Kennedy
His office here said today
that the design will be worked
around the eternal flame
lighted by Mrs. Kennedy at the
grave Monday.
The monument will not be
massive but comparatively
modest so that it will not over
shadow the CuStis-Lee Man
sion in any way, the office
said. The grave is just down
the knoll from the mansion in
Arlington Cemetery.
Mr.. Warnecke came here
from San Francisco to oversee
the renovation of historic La
fayette Square across from the
White House. The late PreSi-
dent Kennedy was very inter-
ested in the project and de-
voted considerable time to it
Mr.. Warnecke, a member OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Bill Asks Stuff
For Mrs. Kennedy
BY the Associated rress

A bill to provide an office,
staff and free mailing privileges
for Mrs. John F. Kennedy will
be the first business of the
House Monday, leaders said
today.
The bill, to be taken UP
under streamlined procedures
expected to result in quick
passage, will give the Presi-
dents widow the mail frank
ing privilege for life. The
office will be set up for six
months. with $4,000 author
lied for payment of employees.
Under existing law. widows
of Presidents are entitled to a
pension of $4,000 a year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
All Arrived

Their supervisor, r. S. Truly, noted
their arrival with satisfaction. Mr..
Truly, a middle-aged native of Hub
bard, Tex, said he has 10 boys work.
ing for him and he generally checks
about 8 o'clock to see if all have
arrived. This day, they had.
Oswald was one of his newest boys,
interviewed on October Is and hired
the next day for $125 an hour to fill
book orders from the bullying bins
in the Storerooms above the first
floor.
81 remember talking to him." Mr..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29

Truly said. His landlady Mrs.
Paine) called me because her neigh
Dor has a brother working here. She
told me she had a nice young man
living at her house who needed a
job because his wife had one child
and expected another any day.
He filled out the application. 1t
just gave his name and address and
said he had served three years in
the Marines and had an honorable
discharge"
Mr.. Truly said he doesn't check
references on the boys in his ware
house because it takes too long and
there is high turnover. He said
Oswald impressed him as a steady
but average worker.
He didn't appear like the Others"
said Mr.. Truly. He didn't talk much
except about the stock, but I used to
ask him about the baby he was
expecting when he came to work
here"
Mr.. Truly said he is not conscious
of seeing Oswald come into the
building that morning, therefore he
cannot throw any light on the par
eel. Looking back, he said he was
not aware that he saw Oswald going
about his duties that morning.
The employees Of the school book
depository, like nearly all the rest
Of the Dallas areas one-million-plus
residents. were excited at the pros
pect of seeing the President and
Mrs. Kennedy that day.
Mr.. Truly, his warehousemen and
the girls in the office on the second
floor knew from the newspapers,
television and radio that President
Kennedy's motorcade was going to
come down Main street, turn right
for short block on Houston to Elm
before turning toward the r. L.
Thornton freeway right in front OF
the warehouse.
They talked about it all morning
and they were glad the parade was
coming BY during the lunch hour
so they wouldn't have to worry about
missing any Of it," Mr.. Truly said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Caravans Roam
U. S. Offering Lutins
Cubu Arms Checkup
By the Associated Press

The United States offered to-
day to join with Latin Amer
lean governments in stepping
up surveillance ito thwart
further attempts by the Castro
regime to export arms"
The United States offer was
announced by State Depart
ment Press Officer Richard I,
Phillips in a statement con-
corning Venezuela's charging OF
Cuba with aggression by SNUG
Cling in arms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Prince Leaves Palace

TOKYO, Nov. 90 (AP).-
Prince Yoshi, youngest son of
japanese Emperor Hirohito,
has moved out of the royal pa
lace and into his own residence
in Tokyo. The 28-year-old
bachelor told newsmen, Il now
feel like a Tokyo citizen"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29
Red Loss Seen
In Venezuela
Terrorists UnubIe
To Bur Elections
BY ROBERT BERRELLEZ
Associated Press staff Writer

CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov.
29.-Despite spectacular last
minute exploits, including kid
mapping of a United state s
Army officer and hijacking OF
an airliner, proc o m m unis
terrorists in Venezuela appear
to have lost their fight to force
the army to call off Sundays
presidential elections.
The extremist Armed Forces
of National Liberation FALN)
appear to have lost both their
physical punch and their ap-
peal to urban masses.
Despite d ally bombing and
shooting, the citizenry is no.
ticeably less preoccupied with
the FALN.
Some $4,000 people attended
a political rally this week in
the same Caracas square where
a few days before guerrilla
shippers staged a spectacular
battle and "a persons were
killed.
Caravans Roam
Noisy political caravans roam
the capital streets each night
without incident. Presid e n
Romulo Betancourt is barred
by the constitution from sue
ceeding himself. but Raul Leo
nj, the candidate of Mr.. Betan-
courts Democratic Actor
See VENEZUELA, Page Az
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-29

Text OF Speech. Poss AS
tary Of the National Associa-
ton for the Advancement of
Colored People, Mr.. wilkins
said he has very great faith
in the new Presidents attitude
toward civil rights"
The new President spent a
busy day on practical affairs Of
government after urging all
Americans in a television adj
dress last night to help him
work for "a new American
greatness" by barishing hate
and intolerance.
In his first official meeting
with the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Mr.. johnson reiterated the in
sistence upon economy in Gov
eminent that he stressed in
his special message to Congress
Wednesday.
Assistant White House Press
Secretary Andrew T. Hatcher,
reporting this, said the Presi-
dent and the commanders Of
the military services also dis
cussed the operating procedure
Of the Joint Chiefs. He said
no change in this procedure
Is contemplated.
In Touch With Hill
Working to re-enforce his
appeal to Congress Wednesday
for speedy and decisive action
on civil rights, tax cuts and
other programs sponsored by
the slain President Kennedy,
Mr.. johnson also kept in close
touch with Democratic con-
gressional leaders.
1 Mr.. Hatcher said the new
President talked by telephone
this morning with House
Speaker Mccormack and Sem
ate Majority Leader Mansfield.
He added that Mr.. johnson is
keeping in daily touch with
them.
| Mr.. johnson also discussed
legislative problems with Law
renee F. O'Brien and Myer
Feldman, two members of the
late President Kennedy's White
House staff who are staying
on the job at the request Of
the new President.
In his Thanksgiving talk to
the Nation last night, Mr..
johnson said the American
system passed "a great test"
in the aftermath of the as
SaSSination of President Ken
nedy a week ago today.
Our system is strong and
secure" he declared. "A deed
that was meant to tear us
apart has bound us together"
To honor the slain Presidents
memory, Mr.. Johnson an
nounced that Cape Canaveral
in Florida shall be known
hereafter as Cape Kennedy, and
its missile launching center as
See JOHNSON, Page AS