WEATHER NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI Partly cloudy to cloudy through Tuesday night. Chance of occasional rain. Cool with .highs in SO's, lows upper 30's or low 40's. Wednesday partly cloudy and mild.
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Oswald Buried
Says Ruby Avenged Cop
As FBI Probe Continues
Denies Oswald's Killing Political; Doubts He Voted NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 25 (UPI) - A form er business associate of Jack Ruby said last night he believed Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald to avenge the slaying of a Dallas Policeman J. D. Tippet rather than President John F . Kennedy. " Patriotic, he wasn't - apolice buff, he was," said Herbert C. D. Kelly, chief and part owner of Ruby's Carousel Club in Dallas about a month ago, he said. " I think Ruby just got himself an impulse," Kelly said, "and operated on Oswald. '.' But if Ruby did kill Os • wald for revenge, I believe it would be more over this Policeman Tippit than over President Kennedy," he added. " Ruby wasn't very interested in politics," Kelly said. "I doubt that he even voted." Asked if his former a ssociate wasnot at all patdotic, he replied : " The only patr iotism he had was for the President's picture on the ·buck." Kelly described Ruby as "both · extremely generous and very violent. He's give you the shirt LITTLE SOLDIER - Like a little soldier, John F . off his back one moment and be fighting you the next but he Kennedy, Jr., whose third birthday was the day of his was a person of extreme loy- father's burial, saluted the casket of the President as it . alty. And he could have been was carried from St. Matthews Cathedral in Washingshowing loyalty to the policeton Monday, en route to Arlington National Ceme. man Tippit. -Journal Telephoto "Ever hear of a fire buff? tery. Well Ruby was a police buff,'' Kelly explained. " He just liked . police.men." Citing news reports that Ruby was known and friendly with the Dallas .police, Kelly continued : "Well, his tremendous friendship with the police was of long WASHINGTON (UPI)-A lit- behind the soldiers a dnhet years' · standing. But it was a tie boy at his grieving mother's horses and the wagon with the sincere friendship - genuine. side saluted .the passing casket. flag-covered box. R-uby . was not' out to get anyAnd in that moment, he sudHe and his sister m eanwhile thing from them. He never ask- denly became the brave soldier dressed and put on their sky ed anything from them. He nev- .his father would· have wanted .blue coats . .It was cold .outside. er asked for an got any breaks him to be · on this day, of all Caroline will be six on Wednesfrom them . He just liked police- day~. . day. There was supposed .to be men." . . . , , For Monday, John F .' Kennedy a big birthday celebrat1on '·tor Kelly said dunng their bus- Jr. turned three. everybody at Hyannis Port on lness association, Ruby's affi- His world was strangely dif- Friday, ,t he day . after Thanks· nity for policemen was "often ferent, in little wa'y s a child no- giving. a ,source of disagreement · be- tices but . does not understand. Born On Thanksgiving · tween us because l 'd argue that Where was his daddv? The John • John was born on a Jack was giving away. too 1!1~ny tall man with the laughing blue Thanksgiving. His daddy had of our best steaks m w1mng eyes who had a big desk . and just been elected President. and dining police officers. saw lots of important people Secret Service a gents came and stooped to spank him good- and led John-John and his sis·U naturedly and took him on. heli- ter out to the North Portico. copter rides and called him Mrs . Kennedy, dressed all in "John-John." black, met them at the door This was supposed to be the and took them to a limousine. day of The Party. The cake Then she walked back up in O with three candles to blow out, line with their uncles, Atty. Temperatures around Tupelo the friends singing boisterous Gen. Robert F . Kennedy and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., remained on the cool side Mon- "Happy Birthdays," the gifts. and the slow, sad march to day. Warning Center Director Letter From Johnson Charles Spain said the high for He did get a letter, as did church began. President and Mrs . Johnson the 24-hour per iod ending at s his sister Caroline, from Lynp .m. was 63 and the low 34, don. Johnson, the man they call and a host of aides and securigiving a mean temperature of President now. No. one outside ty agents .followed Mrs . Ken, 49 degrees. The period ended the White House knew what the nedy on foot. John • John and Caroline were brought around with a 58-degree reading. letters said. Unofficial midnight temper • But · home, the White House, them. ture downtown was 50 degrees. was quiet . Some of the furniA ha)i-mile later, in front of No precipitation was record- ture was gone. St. Matthew's cathedral, the ed. The area now lacks only And the soldiers outside, parade sto.pped. John-John and two hundredths of an inch of whose salutes he delighted in Caroline were brough around the average 4.17-inch rainfall trying to return with one of his to join their mother. for all of November. own, looked different. They The little boy looked ar ound On November 25, 1962 high didn't glance down at him and bewildered and started crying. temperature was 60 and' l o w sneak a wink or a smile Mon• His . mother spoke to him softly was 45. Twelve hundredths of day. Their commands barked, and he stopped . an inch o! rain fell on that their rifles clatter ed · harshly. They walked up the steps of day. His mother , Mrs. Jacqueline the cathedral, and there wait• Five-day weather outlook for Kennedy, left in the morning to ing was Richard Cardinal CushMississippi. through Saturday: go to the Capitol and ride back ing of Boston. John • John Temper atures will average near seemed awed by the tall, cragnormal, warming mid · week gy-faced man towering above · him, wearing a white, twoand turning cooler again latter ~,art of week. Nor mal high tempointed miter and black vestperatures 55 north to 60 south. ments_ Norina! lows 35 to 39. Precipi- · Pledges and contributions to Baptized Both Children tation will total up to one-half the 1963-64 Lee United NeighThe cardinal had married the inch in showers Tuesday and bors, Inc. fund drive totaled Ke11nedys in 1953 and h ad bapa gain during the latter part of $76,552 thr ough Monday, it was tized both children. He i& an announced. (Continued on Page 13) the week.
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Tupelo, Mississippi, Tuesday Morning, November 26, 1963
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JFK'5 Grave Marked Martin Pleads 'E · I L. . h , · Innocent To· 8Y tern a IQ t Robbery Try
FORT WORTH (UPI) - Accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was buried Monday · in a pine coffin in a hastily dug grave in the oldest cemetery here. His Russian-born wife and his mother lifted the lid and kissed the body befor e it'was lowered into the ground. Oswald w a s buried three h ours after President Kennedy was lowered into a hero's grave at Arlington National Cemetery. The Rev. Louis Saunders, executive secretary of · the Fort Worth Council of Churches, said a ·prayer at graveside. He said h e conducted what services ther e were " because we do not want it said a man c an be buried in Fort Worth without a minister. " More than 50 uniformed police stood guard , 50 yards apart, around the entire cemeter y. Only newsmen with proper credentials were allowed inside. Newsmen Carry Casket Seven reporters served as pallbearers because there wa s nobody else to carry the casket. E . P . .Seltzer, who runs Ros e Hill Cemetery, said he objected to Oswald's being buried there but there was nothing he could do. "Certainly we object to Os wald being buried in our ceme• tery'" he said. " It is bad publicity for us and I have already received a call from a man who said he was going to move his family out of here . "We are sorry but the laws <>4 the state say if a man owns a lot in the cemetery, we have got to bury him ." Oswald's mother, Mrs. Marguerite Oswald, 56, a Fort Worth practical nurse, . has owned four plots worth a total of $400, for several years, Seltzer said. Oswald was buried in the northwest corner of the cemetery. In the distance, the ceme· tery flag could be seen flying at half-staff for Kennedy. Killed Sunday Oswald was shot Sunday by Jack Ruby, a self-appointed executioner who runs a Dallas striptease club . The body was taken under cover of darknes s from Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas on orders from t he Secret Service to Miller's Funeral Home here. It reached Rose Hill at 2 p.m. (CST) but the grave diggers had had no time, ( Continued on Page 13)
Gtond Jury Returns Seven True Bills In Second Session
World Sends Princes, Dignitaries To Pay Honor To Martyred President
'Assassination Blueprin-t' Found In Oswald's RQom
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY (UPI) - American buried John Fitzgerald Kennedy on · Arlington's green slopes Monday, consigning his body to the land he loved and his soul to the God he worshipped. After the last rites of a funeral Mass that broke the composure of his grieving widow, the martyred President was borne across t he Potomac River to t he national shrine of honored dead.
Bec.kwith Trial Now S·et For January 27 JACKSON, Miss. , Nov. 25 (UPI ) -Accused assassin By ron De La Beckwith will go on trial here Jan. 27 for the ambush slaying of Negro c i v i 1 rights leader Medgar Evers. The trial date was set Mon· da y by Circuit Court Judge Leon Hendr ick. There was speculation earlier the trial would begin before the end of the year . But attorneys for both sides told the judge they would need additional time to line up witnesses. Beckwith, a Greenwood, Miss., fertilizer salesm an, wa s arr ested June 22, only 10 days after Evers was gunned down here during an anti-segregation driv,e. Evers was killed in the driveway of his home by a sniper's bullet. Judge Hendrick granted a motion providing that the defense be given a copy of the fingerprints found on the telescopic sight of the high-powered rifle believed to have killed E vers. Police testified at a h earing here last summ er that the prints matched those of Beckwith 's right index finger. The judge also granted a de:!ense motion calling for a special venire. Beckwith, wearing a d a r k suit ·and a striped tie was brought to Jackson from t h .e Rankin County jail at nearby Brandon for the hearing. He sat quietly during the brief proceedings, showing no outward signs of emotion. The twice - delayed trial date h earing climaxed a series of legal maneuvering since Beckwith' s arrest. Beckwith, who pleaded innocent at his arraignment in July, was committed to a state mental hospital for an examination to determine whether he was m entally capable of stand·
Hero Policeman Buried Minutes .After Kennedy
· DALLAS (UPI) -Hero po- ·, Tippit was shot by Lee Harliceman J. D. Tippit, slain as vey Oswald less than an hour he · tried to arrest the man ac· after Kenne dy was shot. Oswald cused of a ssassinating President was also buried Monday. OsKennedy, was buried Monday wald himself was shot Sunday minutes aft e r the martyred by a self-appointed execut ioner. 'President was laid to rest in Mrs . Tippit's children, Br enda Arlington National Cemetery. Kay, 10, Curtis Ray, 5, and AlThe funeral was held in the ,len, 14, sat through t he services red brick Beckley Hills Baptist wit h her. Church where Tippit, his wife After the services, the casket Marie and their three children was opened. Tippit's fellow offiworshipped. cer s - more than 1,000 of them Pews and aisles were solid - filed slowly ·p ast for a last with mourners . As many more look at their companion, who st ood. gave his life trying to ar rest Mrs. Tippit, her tear-swollen Oswald. Then they stood two-deep in face showing the strains of the past three days , was helped into an honor guard outside the the second row pew. She sobbed church. audibly when Pastor C. C. Tipps Outside the church, the sounds Jr. said the community mourned of organ music was intermingled " the passing of a public ser· with the sounds of generator vant and of a father, and of a trucks powering television cameras broadcasting the services husband. ' Human words are futile," he live to the n ation. 'MYSTERIOUS WOMAN' said. "The life he h as lived has Mrs. Tippit, suppor ted by two preached his own funeral. He relatives, buckled, then .cau ght was doing his duty whe"n he was herself as she haltingly walked taken by a poor, confused, un- behind the casket on its short godly assassin as our P resident journey to the waiting black was taken:" hear s.e, dusty in the dry weathRev. Tipps quoted Thessaloni- er. Then the funer al cortege ans, as did Richar d Cardinal Cushing of Boston at the Presi- moved slowly off to the Laure( C ontinued on P age• 13) A mysterious female telephone certain way. Neither was the jury desires to publicize th e dent's funeral mas s. caller made efforts over the exact case in which the caller ·fact for whatever benefit it may weekend to influence some mem- was interested revealed.. have in deterring such an event bers of the Lee County grand In comm enting on the calls occurring in the future ." jury in a m atter scheduled to in its final report , the grand Judge Sweat upon learning of be presented to the panel when jury said : the incidents asked each memit convened Monday. "The grand jury would like ber of t he grand jury if he reThe grand jury reported to to report into the court that cognized the · voice on the teleCircuit Judge· N.S. Sweat, J r., on Sunday at least four mem- phone. Each answered in the that at least four members of bers of the grand jury were negative: · Two out-of-town float s ,have in the Tupelo parade, and other the panel had been contacted contacted by telephone and ur"A sitliation such as this Sunday r egarding an uniden - ged not to vote to r eturn a is deplorable, " J udge . Sweat already been entered in Tupe- cities in the Journal · Ar ea have tified case expected to come true bill with respect to a case asserted. " It's absolutelf dis- lo's annual Christmas parade been invited to enter their top before the 17-member panel. that was to be presented to the gusting as far a s the' court is and others are expected, gen- floats in the parade on a basis The tampering w as r evealed grand jury for consideration on concerned and it's truly s'ad eral Chairman Thurston Davis that does not compete for priz. es with Tupelo e n t r i e s, the 1n the grand jury's final re- this date. that we can 't learn the· identity said F riday. "We still would like to have chairman pointed out. por t to the court. The panel "In each instance the caller of the caller. Several out-of-town bands, as was reconvened Monday at re- was a woman who once iden"Should we find out who it i:nore Tupelo floats entered in well as Tupelo bands, are exquest of the ·state to consider tified her self as Mrs. Kelly : was, they ma y a s well bring the parade," he added. matters that had developed sin- in another · inst ance as The parade is set for 7:30 pected to participaite in 'the paMrs. a suitc ase when they come ince the panel was discharged Long, and in still another as to court," Judge Sweat contin- o'clock on Friday night, Dec. rade, and word is now being some 10 days ago. Seven true Mrs. Wilson. ued," because they 'r e going a- 8. Stores in the city will r e- awaited from them, Mr. Davis main open until time for the said. bills wer e r eturned . "While no one of the per- way for a long' time. Another parade feature will Contents of the telephone calls sons contacted knows who the "This is just further evidence parade, Mr. Davis said. were not revealed and court of• person calling was, · it is the of the very disgusting attitude The winning floats in the be · participation by the Air ficials did not divulge whether opinion of the grand jury that on the part of a certain ele· Booneville and Okolona Christ- For ce drill team of Mississippi or not grand jurors wer e pro- this is an extremely undesir- m ent toward the court and law mas par ades, which are sche· State, several of whose m em· mised anything for votini a able situation, and this &rand enforcen:lent," he concluded. duled earlier, will be entered ben are uom this area.
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Attempts Mad·e By Phone.To Sway At L·east F·our Lee· Grand Jurors I
O,ut-0.f-Town Floats Enter Xmas Pa rad,e
ing trial. But a few days later , Circuit Judge 0 . H. Barnett of Car • thage, on a defense request , or·. dered Beckwith removed from the hospit al and placed in the Rankin County jail to a w a i t trial.. The State Supreme Court ruled that Beckwith could not be given a mental examination over his objections, apparently paving the way for an early trial. The 42-year-old segregation ist was to have appeared in court here last week for the setting of the trial date. But the mandate for · his release from the Rankin County jail provided for a routine 15-day period for filing of any suggestion of error in the case . Attorneys filed no such motion and the mandate was mailed Saturday. It was not receive d by Rankin County Sheriff J . R. Edwards until Monday morning.
There, before the stricken family and before foreign presidents and . princes, he found his final rest. An eternal light will burn at the tomb looking out on the Lincoln Memorial: An estimated 800,000 hushed mourners lined the streets to pay their respects as the slain · President was brought from the Capitol to the White House, from there to St. Matthews Cathedral, and at last to the still green cemetery. Many Dignitaries Present Joining the family and a 11 Amer ica in its grief were kings, presidents , ministers and princes from nearly every country of the world, Communist as well as free, from Charles de Gaulle of France to Anastas Mikoyan of Russia: At · the grave ,site, the farewell of "taps" mourning across the Virginia countrysjde and the cr ash of rifle volleys in final salute climaxed a day of sounds. The· sounds, above all, convinced · those who had . refused to believe the young President was dead. . There had been the dirges . . . the muffled drums . .. the sad skirling of bagpipes , .. creaking . caisson wheels on hushed streets . .. the cadenced march (Continued on Page 13)
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The Lee County grand j~ returned seven more true 'bill: following a half-day of deliber ations Monday. Included in t'he indictments was one charging James Eu gene Martin under the arme1 robbery ,statute in connectioI with the July 11 shoot - out a t'he home of Carl Murphy, Jr near Tupelo. Two Memphis .el( convicts were killed and · Mur phy seriously wounded by th1 flying bullets. This was the second 't i m 1 that Martin has beer, indictec in the case. The Jonesboro, Ark man was named in a tr:u1 bill as was J . W. Riley whet the grand jury made its initia report some 10 days ago. Thi grand jury voted a no tr u 1 bill against Riley this time. The original indictments a gainst ho.t h Martin and Rile3 were ruled invalid by. Circui Judge N. S. Sweat, Jr. follow ing a hearin g on a demurrer Thus, the g r and jury 'Yai brought back. to reconsider .tl}i matter and Martin only was in dieted. Martin pleaded innocent t< the c h a r g e when arraignec Monday. He is represented b~ court - appointed attorneys, Ro bert Scribner and H e r b .e r.1 Bauch. Bond was set at $3,0Q( and the case continued unti the next term of ·court. Martin, who fled the a r e J soon after the post • midnigh1 battle, was later apprehended bl FBI agents in Beaumont, Tex· as. He is being charged under 1 section of Mississippi law wbid could carry the death penalcy upon conviction. · Specifically, the true bill alleges that Martin' attempted to tiike, by forct
-:ttms, some $300 from Mur, James David Lesley, who ·· ,, · no~·'3e.eyiu~ 'a t e'rtn at Parc))1·DALLAS (UPI) - Flashy ing the"'first time in his life man,. ,~~· .named in two, .in · Jack Ruby, shorn of his finery that he saw' the 24-year-old Os- dictm~i~ char ging burglar, a~d in baggy prison garb, told ··w.a ld was last Friday night "in and larceny in connection witb his lawyer Monday he. shot Lee the room in the police station.'' break-ins · at Mitchell's · S t, ore Harvey Oswald on impuse to At t hat time, Ruby had sidled .arid· McFarland's Store. · Lesley, a venge the sorrowing Kennedy into a group of newsmen in po-· a · native of Itawamba .County family for what he thought was lice headquarters who were try- who was residing in Monroe County at time of his aire~t, a Communist assassination plot. ing to. question Oswald. Defense attorney Tom Howard, Howard said Ruby· told him: will not be brought back here affirming that the up-from-the "I saw that Oswald was smil- for ,t rial this term of court. slums night club owner would ing and so cocky. He acted so William Henry . Hunt ·was inplead temporary insanity, i;aid proud of .what he had done. I dieted on a: burglary ·and ·Jar. Ruby told him he'. had no pre- could not get out . of my mind ceny count as resuft of a break, vious connection with Oswald that the Communists had sent in at the store of Ed Crider. and never laid eyes on him be~ Oswald to kill our president. I Tupelo attorney · Sam H. Long fore his arrest for the assassi- kept thinking about how Jackie was appointed by the court to nation last Frida y. had suffered and how Caroline represent the Negro defendant. O'Neal Henderson was, indict, ·Howard said Ruby told him and John wouldn't have a dadhe drove several times around dy. . ed on a charge of mapcious the spot where the President "I kept thinking about a let- mischief in connection with an was ambushed and shox:tly af- ter to Caroline ,I had seen in . incident at Strange Motor Comterward slid into a crowd of the paper. It was so sad." pany here. He pleaded innocent Asked About Pistol and bond was made for $600. newsmen, leaped out and shot Oswald "on the spur of the Asked why Ruby was carryFour defendants named m ·in· moment." ing, a pistol, if it was a spur- dictments returned ·earlier were Ruby was willing to take a of-the-moment thing, Howard re- sentenced Monda y by Judge · 'lie detector test, he said, pro- plied that · he often carried Sweat. Roosevelt Davis was sentencvided it is confined only to the large sums of money and had shooting and the events leading a considerable amount of cash ed to a five - year prison term up to it. with him Sunday. of which three years were susHoward said he did not disRuby, who found . the "class" pended on. his plea .of guiJty to cuss · with t he onetim.e. penny be ·sought . as · a club . owner, a burglary ·and lar.c eny charge . ante Chicago gambler and street looked sullen and drawn as two Lealon Haynes was given: sfx ·brawler how he slipped past the detectives rushed him into · a months in' jail and fined $500 of stringent ·police security rings white unmarked · ·police sedan which three .months and $250 Sunday in the basement of the for county jail. His image .of were· suspended on a charge of city hall where city jail is lo- himself as an avenging angel simple assault. cated. appeared dimmed·. Dale Collins was given a seY. Howard quoted Ruby as say- Pickup ·3rd pgh: He ducked . (Continued on Pagei 13)
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Mohasco lndustr.ies ·Tak·es·Ov'.er Futorian ·Furniture-- Business · NEW YORK, N .Y. - Mohasco Industries, Inc., has agreed to acquire the business of Futorian Manufacturing Company, it was announced today by Herbert L. Shuttleworth, 2nd, president of Mohasco, and Morr is Futorian, president of F utorian. The acquisition will be' for cash and is expected to become effective December 31. · Mohasco Industries is th e world's largest manufacturer of carpeting, and had sales of $110 million in 1962, Futorian Manufacturing Company is the country's second largest manufacturer of upholstered. furniture, and sales volume is currently running at an annual rate of approximately $25 · million. In commenting on the agreement, Mr . Shuttleworth said: "The F utorian Company will be operat ed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Mohasco. Mr. Futorian will r emain as pres.ident of the compan y and will be r esponsible for its operations. Ther e will be no changes made in m anufacturing, marketing .and distribution plans, or in personnel. "Mohasco's acquisition of .Futorian is a major step in diversifying into areas closely allied with our present .,carpet manufacturing oper atic J S. Futorian
has a well established posi tion a s a profitable and dyna-· mic manufacturer of upholstered furniture. As a subsidiary of Mohasco, it will add earning wwer to .the , company; improve om; growth potential, and g\ve us the opportunity to coordi • nate design, distribution, display the advertising efforts for the carpet and f urniture lines." "This is a logical and healthy move for both companies. As a part of Mohasco, with its financial and marketing resources, Futorian can acc.o m·plish further growth faster than w o u I d othe,rwise be possible. · I intend to be more active than ever in operations of Futorfan so t'hat we can take full a dvantage o{ the opportunities which becoming · a part of Mohasco opens up to us."
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futor ian Manufacturing Company, with headquarters in Chicago, has a history of continufirst ed growth since it was established by Mr. F utorian nearly twenty years ago. Its first mass production plant was opened in 1948 in New Albany, Miss., and sales volume bas increased steadly since that time. The company's earnings and grow-
th record has surpassed ·the average in the home furnishings field. . The company has four manufacturing plants, three in Mis·sissippi at New Albany, Okolona, and Eupora, and one · in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. In addition, it owns· a ware-e house at Tupelo; originally constructed as a factory, and u ses warehouse facilities at' 15 other locations throughout the· nation. Its products . are marketed under the trade names Strat; ford, Stratolounger, .Avon and Windsor . The lin~s include upholstered sof;ts, chairs, sectionals, r eclining chairs, rockers · and swivel .ehairs in a wide variety of styles. Stratolounger is the largest selling line df reclining chairs in the world. Mohasco Industries, Inc.. , was formed in 1955 with the. ·merger of Mohawk Carpet Mills, Inc.; and Alexander Smith Incorpoi'• ated. The F irth Carpet .Com. pany was m er ged into Mohasco in 1962. Mohasco manufactures and markets carpet tin-. der the Mohawk, Alexander Smith and Fir th labels. It · also m anufactures carpet cushion and rayon yarn. It has eleven manufacturing plants in the United States, Mexico and Pu•· rto Rico. ·