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HARDLY THE WAY TO WIN A POINT
Republicans Lose
In Court Tests
To Get More Votes
(By The Associated Press)
Republicans have lost court
tests in their attempts to overturn
President-elect Kennedy’s win
ning margins in Illinois and
Texas. At the same time official
returns from all but three states
cut still further Kennedy’s popu
lar vote edge over Vice President
Nixon.
New York’s official canvass
sliced 20,869 votes from the Ken
nedy total compiled unofficially
right after the Nov. 8 election.
That gave Kennedy a nationwide
popular vote margin over Nixon
of 114,859, out of more than 68
million votes cast. The margin
has not been that low since early
in the vote counting on election
night.
Only Illinois, Massachusetts and
Rhode Island have not yet re
ported official vote counts. As
they stand now, the popular vote
totals are Kennedy 34,220,364 and
Nixon 34,105,505. Kennedy still is
credited with 300 electoral votes,
however, 31 more than the 269
minimum needed to win.
In another development, un
pledged electors from Mississippi
and Alabama met in Jackson,
Miss., and said they would vote
for Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D-Va., for
president. They urged other south
ern states to join their cause, hop
ing to throw the election into the
House of Representatives. It is
considered very unlikely that this
will happen.
There was no immediate com
ment from Byrd, who supported
neither presidential candidate in
the campaign.
14 Unpledged Electors
The eight unpledged electors
from Mississippi and the six from
Alabama have not been counted
either way in determining Ken
nedy’s electoral vote total of 300.
In Texas, which has 24 elec
toral votes, U. S. Dist. Court Judge
Ben C. Connally ruled that his
court had no jurisdiction to rule
10 YEARS LATER
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (#> — On
March 26, 1950, Charles M. Saun
ders, then a Sgt. 1st Class in an
Army medical company, suffered
frostbitten hands and feet as he
descended a steep mountain slope
in Colorado to rescue a person
injured in an auto crash.
Now an Air Force captain,
Saunders was presented the Army
Commendation Ribbon yesterday
in ceremonies at Brooks Air Force
Base here.
The Army apparently planned
the decoration in 1950 but mis
placed its papers for 10 years.
on the Republican challenge of
the election result. He also said
there was no proof that anyone’s
rights had been violated when
thousands of Texas ballots were
! voided for technical reasons,
j In Illinois, with 27 electoral
! votes, State Circuit Judge Thomas
T. Kluczynski dismissed two suits
by Republicans against the Demo
carlic-dominaled Cook County and
! Chicago election boards. They de
| manded that official canvass re
sults be altered in favor of Nixon.
The National Electoral College
j will go through its traditional
ceremony of electing the Presi
I dent on Dec. 19, less than a week
j from now. Once that occurs, Ken
j nedy’s election will be official.
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GOP Favors
President-Elect
Appointments
WASHINGTON UPl — Vice
President Nixon fears President
elect Kennedy is robbing Republi
cans of some of their thunder by
veering to the middle of the politi
cal road.
Nixon bases this view on ap
pointments to the cabinet and
other posts his successful presi
dential rival already has an
nounced—and some that still are
in the speculative stage.
It is no secret that Nixon feels
if Kennedy names Douglas Dil
lon, now Undersecretary of State,
as Secretary of the Treasury and
Dillon accepts, the action will
make it more difficult to build
Republican opposition to the new
Democratic administration.
This would put a Republican of
moderate views at the helm of a
department concerned with man
agement of the nation’s fiscal af
fairs. Dillon would be in a posi
tion to put a brake on the kind
of big spending Nixon forecast in
the campaign would be the hall
mark of a Kennedy administra
tion.
Republican political philosophy
has always been geared to claims
of fiscal responsibility. If Ken
nedy makes this a keynote of his
administration—as he has pledged
to do—the Republicans are going
to have to look elsewhere for am
munition to use against him in
1964.
publican camp for the political
There is admiration in the Re
finesse Kennedy has displayed in
other appointments.
His choice of Dean Rusk as
Secretary of State has given the
Republicans little to complain
about. At the same time, Ken
nedy moved out of the direct line
of their fire.
He did this by naming Adlai E.
Stevenson as Ambassador to the
United Nations, Rep. Chester
Bowles as Undersecretary of State
and Gov. G. Mennen Williams of
Michigan as Assistant Secretary
for African Affairs.
In his U. N. post Stevenson is
not likely to be the object of the
kind of attacks he would have
faced as Secretary of State.
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More Charges Made
| Against United States
| UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. UP>—
The Soviet Union charged today
that U. S. U2 reconnaissance
planes arc being used to photo
graph the positions of Algerian
rebel forces and U. S.-made bombs
I are being used to kill them.
The charge was made by Soviet
Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian
Zorin before the General As
1 sembly’s 99-nation political com
j mittee. The committee is consider
j ing Asian-African demands for
a U. N. role in settling the future
of the strife-torn North African
territory.
Zorin accused France of whole
sale slaughter and said President
Charles De Gaulle had the back
ing of “the new-fangled Holy
Alliance of Nato.”
U. S. bombs, helicopters and
other equipment and weapons are
being used by the French forces
in Algeria, Zorin said. He did not
say whether U. S. or French
pilots manned the U2 planes. But
he asserted that NATO bases in
North Africa, manned by U. S.
personnel, are being used by the
French in iheir campaign against
the rebels.
Diplomats backing the Algerian
rebels showed confidence that the
General Assembly would call for
a U. N. referendum on self-de
termination in Algeria. They ex
pected the new wave of violence
to strengthen their position in the
United Natoins.
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Kennedy Selects
Ford President
Defense Secretary
WASHINGTON UPt — President
elect John F. Kennedy Tuesday
selected Robert S. McNamara,
Ford Motor Co. president as his
Secretary of Defense.
Kennedy now has filled five of
the 10 cabinet posts for his new
administration. Additional ap
pointments are expected in the
next few days.
Kennedy’s choice of McNamara
for the defense post was an
nounced to newsmen from the
front steps of Kennedy’s George
town home.
The President-elect and the man
who will serve as head of the
vast Defense Department stood
side by side in freezing tempera
ture.
McNamara is 44, a year older
than Kennedy. He became presi
dent of the Ford Company just a
day after Kennedy was elected to
the White House.
Today was the second time the
two men had met. The first was
last week.
A native of San Francisco and
like Kennedy a holder of a Har
vard degree, McNamara is mak
ing a major financial sacrifice to
take the cabinet post.
In giving up the Ford presi
dency, he is giving up a salary
and other remuneration in the
area of $400,000 a year to take a
$25,000 government salary.
In addition, he told reporters
that he holds 24,050 shares of
Ford stock and an option on 30,
000 more. He is divesting himself
of the stock, he said.
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