S A
MONDAY,
Cloud of Rumor
By United Press International
A cloud of rumor has formed
over the grave of Lee H. Os
wald. As is the case with rumor,
these are being whispered or
elaborated largely by people
farthest from the scene or least
familiar with the evidence.
Many come from Europe.
The Dallas Police Department
says it has conclusive evidence
that Oswald killed John F. Ken
nedy and that he did it without
assistance. It has turned all
this evidence over to the FBI
for an investigation ordered by
President Johnson.
Until the President makes the
facts public, the rumors and
Try and
-By BENNETT CERF-
JOE MCCARTHY met an Englishman who had just re
turned from the far North and was full of talcs of the
troubles he ha dencountered driving a dog-sled team over
the frozen wasteland. "I
kept urging them on with
'Tally-ho,' 'Tally-ho,' he
mourned, "but the con
founded dogs wouldn't
budge. They just panted
a bit and laughed in my
face."
"You should have said
'Mush,' " advised Mc
Carthy. "All right," conceded
the Englishman. "The
dogs just panted and
laiirthivl in mv much "
Tony Martin made one record last year that sold a hundred
thousand copies in Rome alone, "Don't get too conccllfd about
that, however," cautioned his agent "It turned out thai the
Romans thought it was a licorice pizza."
"My poor husband," sighed a stout lady at the poolslcle of a
Florida motd. "For months now he's been convinced he's a lawn
mower."
"He'll get over it," predicted an optimistic acquaintance.
"He'd hotter," snapped the stout lady grimly. 'Tm getting:
sick of lending him to the neighbors."
C 1963. by Banmtt Cart. Dlatrlbuted by King Feature Syndicate
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Bathtub Research
Committee's Task
' WASHINGTON (UP1) Na
ture, as every schoolboy knows,
abhors a vacuum.
And so, I might add, does the
Building Research Advisory
Board of the National Academy
of Sciences.
The board, more familiarly
Known as "HHAH, recently
announced the appointment of
an "ad hoc advisory committee
on performance characteristics
of sanitary plumbing fixtures."
When I first got wind of this,
I was deeply perplexed. I could
not figure out what in the name
of Chic Sale a committee like
(hat would do,
But by dint of arduous inves
tigation, consisting of a phone
call to Robert M. Dillion,
BRAB's executive director, I
was able to clear up the mat
ter. It seems that in all of the
centuries that mankind has ob
served the custom o( body dunk
ing, nobody has ever estab
lished precisely what a bathtub
should do.
Hearings Slated On
Workers' Benefits
PORTLAND (UP1) - A series
of hearings to determine if lum
ber and sawmill workers are en
tilled to unemployment benefits
as a result of the lumber indus
try strike and shutdown last
summer will open here Tuesday.
The initial session will be
devoted to questions of a gen
crr.l nature, according to F. J.
Bradshaw, public relations rep
resentative of the Slate Depart
ment of Employment benefits
division. Later, a series of meet
ings dealing with specific claims
will be held around the state,
probably beginning in January,
Bradshaw said.
Representatives of later and
management will be on hand for
the meeting here,
Sweet Home Youlh
Drowns In River
SWEET HOME (UPD-llow-arri
Wayne Thompson, 21,
drowned In the backwaters of
the South Sanliam River near
here Friday afternoon when he
fell from a raft.
Officials said Thompson was
fishing with a young companion,
Jim Reynolds, 13, when he lost
his footing. The boy said
Thompson could not swim and
was weighted down with heavy
clothing.
The body was recovered short
ly after the accident.
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suspicions probably will persist
despite the lack of any support
ing evidence. They ae coming
in all sizes and shapes but they
fall basically into three cate
gories: That Oswald had a still
uncaptured and unknown ac
complice or accomplices.
Says Oswald "Used"
That Oswald, who pro
claimed himself a Marxist, was
"used" for a murder assign
ment by extremists who were
enraged by Kennedy's liberal
ism. This is the line taken by
the Russian press and radio.
That when Oswald killed the
President, he acted as a politi
,cal zealot as a hater of the
Stop Me
We all know, of course, what
a bathtub Is used for. Sailing
toy boats and making gin,
among other things. But It has
never been ascertained with
any degree of exactitude Just
what we should expect from a
tub.
And the same is true of wash
basins and other bathroom ap
purtenances. It was this void, or informa
tional gap, that prompted
BRAB to set up the ad hoc com
mittee. The committee will en
deavor to determine ad hoely
what characteristics the fix
tures should have.
Then it will attempt to find
out whether the performance of
these characteristics can be
measured.
The need for such a study
arose with the development of
new materials plastics and
that sort of thing. Kor example
one company has introduced a
line of plumbing fixtures made
of reinforced fiberglass.
According to Dillion, no one
can say whether the new types
of fixlurcs will perform satis
factorily because no one has
ever pinned down what plumb
ing fixtures "are supposed to do
in the first place."
As you can see. the commit
tee has quite a job on its hands.
Perhaps it would be helpful if
all of us dropped it a line list
ing Ihe characteristics that we
doem desirable.
I, for one, strongly feel that
plumbing fixtures, particularly
bathtubs, are supposed to bold
water. Few things are more ir
ritating than a dry bath.
Secondly, they should be port
able. People should be able to
I him' iik-ii imiimiiUK iiMiirrs
Willi iiiem wherever they go.
There is nothing I dislike more
than having to break in a new
bathtub.
Thirdly, they should be collap
sible. You should he able to fold
up the fixtures when they are
not in use so that you will hnvo
more room to dance.
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American system of government
which Oswald did in fact fre
quently and violently denounce
in his role of Marxist and de
fender of Fidel Castro.
There is absolutely no basis
to any of these charges, specu
lation and rumors on the basis
of the evidence as it is avail
able today. Until .the FBI un
covers some dramatic new ev
idence, this form of speculation
remains in the realm of fiction
and fantasy.
The available evidence in fact
tells a far different story. It
points very strongly to Oswald
as the President's killer. (The
fact that he never confessed
before he himself was slain is
unquestionably encouraging ru
mor more Hum anything else).
And it points to a plot con
ceived and executed by a single
man who was socially misfit,
emotionally unstable, political
ly naive a man with an ob
sessive hatred of constituted
authority, be it a superior in
the Marine Corps or the Presi
dent of the United States.
Most of the doubts and
rumors about the Oswald case
come from Europe. To Euro
peans, organized attempts to
seize power by assassinating
czars and kings are as old as
history. Therefore, to them, it
is difficult to believe that there
weren't people behind Oswald
using him as a trigger man in
a plot against the entire federal
government.
Here are a few of the suspi
cions and accusations that have
been (lowing in from Europe:
The newspaper Corricre Lorn
hardo of Milan, Italy, said the
Italian Carcano rifle that killed
Kennedy could not have been
fired three limes in such a
short space of time. There were
Ihrce bullets fired and hence
there had to be more than one
man. (Sheriff Bill Decker in
Kennedy Coverage
Cost $32 Million
WASHINGTON (UPI) - It
cost the nation's radio and tele
vision networks an estimated
$32 million to broadcast the
events surrounding the assassi
nation of President Kennedy. !
Broadcasting Magazine said ;
that during the four days of
broadcasting more than 2,100
network employes in this coun
try and abroad were involved at !
one time or another in working j
on the story.
The magazine said that, based
on the hest available estimates,
the costs included the Slft.R mil
lion lost through elimination of
television commercials; $6.8
million lost in radio commer
cials; $.1.3 million in commis
sions to advertising agencies
and salesmen, and $X1 million
for television and radio cover
age of Ihe story.
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Dallas replied that three shots
could have been fired by one
man in 20 seconds.)
Russian newspapers, without
offering factual support,
blamed Kennedy's death on the
"ultra-right hysteria in Texas."
Suspicions Aroused
The Dutch newspaper Alge
mcen Dagblad said that when
Oswald was shot to death sus
picions were raised immediate
ly that "Kennedy's assassina
tion was a gang plot." The Ber
liner Morgenpost in West Ber
lin said that "it is possible that
Jack Ruby silenced Oswald to
cover the men behind the plot."
Die Well of Hamburg spoke
of "a forest of question
marks."
Dallas and Texas came un
der heavy fire from the Euro
pean press "The City of As
sassination," "City of Oil, Cat
tle and Violent Death." "High
Heeled Boots and Broad
Brimmed Hats Never Again
Will Seem Funny."
Against this wave of rumor
and criticism, the Dallas police
earlier turned over to the Fed
eral Bureau of Investigation
evidence they had collected
against Oswald, including:
Oswald's palm print on the
butt of the murder rifle.
Oswald's palm print on a
box in the room from which
the assassin shot Kennedy.
Paraffin tests revealing Os
wald had recently fired a rifle.
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Witnesses placing Oswald
in the building from which Ken
nedy was shot before the shoot
ing and immediately afterward.
Employed In Building
Oswald's employment in the
building.
Witnesses who saw him
shoot policeman J. D. Tippit
less than an hour after -the as
sassination. Photos showing Oswald with
the rifle believed to have killed
Kennedy and the pistol that
kilied Tippit.
Oswald's wife's admission
that he owned such a rifle. It
was missing. Oswald admitted
he owned the pistol.
Oswald was an expert
marksman.
The rifle, ordered by mail
from Klein's Sporting Goods
Store. The name on the order
blank was "A. Hydcll" but the
handwriting was Oswald's.
When tracked down in a
movie after Tippit's death, Os
wald tried to shoot another po
liceman but his gun jammed.
A neighbor drove Oswald to
work the day of the assassina
tion and Oswald was carying
an oblong package he said con
tained window shades. Police
said it was the rifle.
Wrote Threatening Letter
Oswald once wrote a threat
ening letter .o Gov. John Con
nally, wounded with Kennedy,
saying he would "employ any
means" to get even for a
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wrong he believed done to him
as a Marine. Connally was
Kennedy's first secretary of the
Navy.
Almost every person who
knew Oswald said he had a re
sentment against authority. It
started as early as the 11th
grade when his football coach
told him not to take a drink of
water. "Oswald took the wa
ter," said a Dallas policeman
who was a classmate. "Then
he yelled at the coach that this
was a free country." In junior
high school, in New Orleans,
Oswald was a "loner" and con
santly getting into fights, his
classmates recalled.
This threat of defiance and
quick anger ran all through his
career in the Marine Corps as
Donald Goodwin, one of his
sergeants, recalls: "He was
such a hothead I was glad
when he was shipped out for
radar training. He was always
having beefs with the boys in
the barracks, just to get into a
fight and vent his emotions, I
suppose."
Court-Martialcd Twice
After the Marines transferred
him to Japan, Oswald was
court-martialed twice. The first
time was for carrying an un
registered pistol and the second
time for swearing at a super
ior officer. He obtained his dis
charge on the grounds that he
had to support his mother.
He went to Russia, got a job
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in a factory, married a Rus
sian girl and tried to renounce
his American citizenship, but
failed to get permission from
the Soviet Union. Aline Mosby,
then of UPI's Moscow staff, in
terviewed Oswald and from
that talk emerged the same
pattern of defiance: "Capital
ism will disappear as feudal
ism disappeared. It's the fash
ion to hate people in the United
States."
If. on his return to the United
States, Oswald wanted to or
ganize a group opposing the
government he went about it in
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a strange fashion. Mrs. Lena
Garner, who was his landlady
in New Orleans for a time, re
ported: "He wouldn't speak to
anyone. When he passed me or
my husband in the yard he
wouldn't say anything."
It is this consistent pattern of
being a defiant loner, fighting a
single-handed battle against au
thority everywhere it brushed
his daily life, that persuaded
Dallas police to the opinion
I that Oswald conceived the as
sassination of Kennedy solely
in his own mind and performed
the deed alone.
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