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Salt Lake and Utah — Mostly cloudy periods of rain or snow spreading over state See weather map Page business advertising circulation departments EM C-1- 6 VoL 188 No 41 ID) Salt lake City Utah — Sunday Morning — November 24 1963 resideui Face Price Twenty Cents ohm qJ J- - ty ie§ 0 ere Gonr i M World Sends Rites Monday: Final Tribute to Kennedy Condolences Body to Lie In Stale By Douglas B Cornell Associated Press Writer “WASHINGTON Nov 23—In death and the darkness before daybreak John Fitzgerald Kennedy returned to the White House for the last time Saturday Friends and associates and men high in government came to honor him f At Capitol By Raymond J Crowley Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Nov And for the first time Lyndon Baines Johnson pat in s full day as the new President of a nation mourning the old pulling together the threads of government 23-- Like a magnet of tragedy the closed casket of John F Kennedy is attracting the great and humble of America and leaders from across the seas President Johnson arranged to address a combined session Senate and House next Wednesday Then it Is that the broad outlines of the course the new chief executive will steer may become apparent The address to Congress will follow a day of meetings with leaders of other nations— presidents kings prime ministers— who are flying to Washington in unparalleled numbers for the Kennedy funeral Monday followed by burial in Arlington National Cemetery d of the PAYING homage Saturday as the slain President lay in the historic East Room of the White d House was a Dwight D Eisenhower and sorrowing leaders of the US government including the new President Lyndon B Johnson taut-face- MR JOIINSON’S FIRST OFFICIAL act was to proclaim next Monday a day of national mourning and rededication He invited “the people of the world who share our grief to join us” He said of Mr Kennedy: ON MONDAY noon at St Matthews Cathedral a Pontifical Requiem Mass will be celebrated by His Eminence Richard Cardinal Cushing archbishop of Boston Among other Saturday callers “All who love freedom will mourn his A mood of courage paced the day: Courage on the part of thf new President an unspoken but implied call to the nation to be courageous in the tense days ahead Plunging solemnly and swiftly into the task of rallying the nation and the government Mr Johnson conferred with former Presidents Dwight D Eisenhower and Harry S Truman with the entire Kennedy Cabinet and with Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert S McNamara separately were former President Harry Truman three possibilities for the Republican presidential nomination Govs Nelson Rockefeller of New York George Romney of Michigan and William W Scranton of Pennsyl vania and one of Mr Ken nedy’s bitterest critics Gov George C Wallace of Alabama ' ‘ " With Mrs Johnson by his side the tall Texan slipped away to special services he had requested at “The Church of the Presidents”— St John's Episcopal Church on the square across from the White House Together the two spent a few minutes with sorrowing but steadfast Jacqueline Kennedy Changes were under way at the White House While Mr Johnson toiled in his old vice presidential office across the street the rocking chair in which Mr Kennedy had teetered while greeting world statesmen was removed from the oval presidential office along with other possessions and memen- SUNDAY and on Monday morning common folk many of whom cried in the streets on hearing the news of the 35th President's assassination will have their turn to pray silently at the bier in the great rotunda of the Capitol Then on Monday at x the funeral services the bowed heads will be those of such men 'as: toes —Associated Press Wlrephoto An old President of the United States Dwight D Eisenhower gives a close bit o( advice to a new Utah to Join Day of Mourning Government Offices to 0osc new Prime Minister of Britain and Prince Philip representing Queen Elizabeth II BAUDOUIN of one Lyndon Johnson at meeting in the Executive Office Building near the White House Saturday Bel- Utah will join the nation Mon- of Requiem in their own day in mourning the death of parishes President Kennedy BOTn ST MARK’S College IN -- UTAH federal and state Preparatory School and Rowoffices will all be closed except land Hall School for Girls will for those involved in essential also close according to Mrs services Elizabeth T Corr principal of Anastas Mikoyan first depMeantime a Utah National both uty chairman of the Council Guard plane was scheduled to THE ANNUAL Rowland HaU of Ministers of the USSR leave Salt Lake City Sunday benefit dinner w'hich was senior And from the old sod of Mr with Gov George D Clyde for to have been held Sunday from he will DC where Kennedy’s ancestors President Washington 7 pm has been postponed to See Page 8 Column 1 attend the funeral of President until Dec 8 gium Chancellor Ludwig Erhard of West Germany and Mayor Willie Brandt of West Berlin Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira of Japan Kennedy ACCOMPANYING the governor will be Idaho Gov Robert E Smybe Montana Gov Tim Babcock and Wyoming Gov Clifford Hansen Also flying to Washington for services will be President Hugh B Brown of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Reading Guide Life Pauses Oil Then Latter-da- In the wanning surge of world sympathy— and the cold realization that the nation must move forward — America faced her suddenly changed future Saturday Saints y was Mr Johnson’s first full day as chief executive after the assassination of President Kennedy i t death KING Wreaths Mark Nikita Mulls Dallas Scene We’re So Sorry9 LB J Parley 2 be-lov- ' In happier moments this vast beautiful room Is the scene of concerts dances and gay festivities Saturday night classes as usual Westminster College will remain open Monday its administration announced Special in memorial services will be full day picking up the reins of government IN FOREIGN capitals 'villages in American cities and hometowns people paused to finder on what the events will mean to the free world And in Dallas police said— SUPERINTENDENTS of the Davis Salt Lake Jordan and Granite School Districts announced that their schools would v be closed All Catholic schools in Utah will be closed Monday Father James T Kenny superintendent of the system said Students are urged to attend Special Masses - the entire complete picture of a nation in change are here for you in today’s Salt Lake Tribune J r V t N - - - ‘ ‘ ‘ " flick- ' Here In tills focal point of one end of the government White House brought into sharp relief all the sorrow and poign ancy and tragedy of a nation whose young vital President suddenly Was gone 0 grimly— they have an airtight close Monday case against the suspected Stevens Henager College will assassin THESE STORIES Nikita Deeds Emphasize Deep Regret C New York Time Service Nov 23 — Premier MOSCOW Nikita S Khrushchev in a series of unusual actions emphasized Friday the Soviet Union’s deep concern over the death of President Kennedy KHRUSHCHEV called Saturday morning fit the home of the United States Ambassador Foy D Kohler to pay his tribute and to sign the condolence book h Andrei A Gromyko the minister who accompanied the premier had tears in his eyes for-eig- Anastas I Mikoyan a first premier and deputy Khrushchev’s closest one of associates will go' to Washington for the funeral PREMIER AND Mrs Khrushchev sent personal message of condolence to Mis Kennedy an President Leonid L Brezhnev A HUNDRED YARDS away and the premier sent official in the west wing of the execu- messages to President Johnson tive mansion Mr Johnson came The texts were made public by to work to consult and be con- Tass the Soviet press agency sulted on the massive problems In death Mr Kennedy was that pressed down upon him praised and mourned in Mosfrom the instant Mr Kennedy cow as no Westcru statesman died before him had been nounced will be closed But there Will be candlelight ered on a casket ' Priests An honor guard stood prayed at unflinching attention Relatives friends and associates of the dead President government officialdom diplomats a former President filed by in mournful tribute Chairman 11 A-- RussMourn 4 The Complete Report: Pages Partisanship had no place among the grieving - C W Brady Jr anEssential services — garbage collection and law enJOHN FITZGERALD Kenforcement — will continue as to home dawn at came nedy lie in state at the White usual All state liquor stores will be House New President Lyndon 'B closed Johnson worked through a THE UNIVERSITY of Utah 1 THE NEW PRESIDENT PAID his formal respects to the old by joining the throngs filing by a catafalque and candlelit casket m the East Room So did Gen Eisenhower and Mr Truman Chief Justice Earl Warren and associate justices of the Supreme Court governors members of Congress administration figures intimates of the fallen President members of his family Republicans from Congress were present along with Demcn crats So were a trio of politiBy Annotated Pres cally prominent Republican govLONDON Nov 23 (UPI) -Sernors: Nelson A Rockefeller of DALLAS Nov 23 Two All postal offices will be closed S New York who wants the GOP Premier Nikita small wreaths lay in tragic oviet Monday Allen Johnston general Khrushchev may seek an early nomination for president and display here Saturday superintendent of ma'3 for the HIE HREATHS we on a personal meeting with President George W Romney of Michigan Salt Lake City Post Office grassy slope a few feet from Johnson high Communist diplo- and William W Scranton of the spot where an assassin’s mats said here Pennsylvania who have been Saturday mentioned for it A HOWEVER IN order to main- the assassination scene THE SOVIET leader was retain essential service mail will card on one said: IN KEEPING with the tone “IN MEMORY OF our ported most anxious to make be received collected and disof a dismal day In history rain the sure that channel President John F Kendiplomatic patched according to usual holiMoscow between and fell almost unceasingly on the citithe From Washingbereaved schedules nedy day ton remains open and that the people who stood for hours on zens of Dallas ” Incoming mail will he disThe other said “We are all “dialogue” with the West con- the outside looking on at the tributed to post office boxes at so tinues under the Johnson somber comings and goings sorry” See Page 10 Column 1 Struck down by an assassin’s rifle fire in Dallas Tex Friday Mr Kennedy lay serenely in repose in a closed bronze casket In the famed East Room of the White House ALL CITY and county offices will be closed Monday In Salt Lake City Mayor J Bracken Lee and County Commission ‘ Page ‘ v President Charles de Gaulle of France his differences with dissolved by Mr Kennedy Sir Alex Douglas Home death” The other end epi tombed all the hopes of a still hazy future and the reality that government must go- on — Asuoclatrd The body in repose jof In the late President John Fitzgerald Kennedy lies the historic East Room of the White nouse while - - i - rarrnrii n s Pres Wlrephoto a nation still stunned mourns Honor guard fa composed of enlisted men o( the Army N'kvy Marines and Air Force -- 4 For the first time the Moscow television station broadcast a live newscast from Washington by Telstar the United States communications patellite h THE PROGRAM showed the scene as Marines carried Mr Kennedy’s coffin in to the White House and as family and friends gathered 'There could be nodoubt about From the breadth of a still the depth of the feeling that stunned world messages of con the death had evoked amonjt See Page 8 Column 1 plain Soviet citizens r v 4 |
