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Memorial Day . . .
MEMORIAL DAY was originally called Decoration
Day when it began in 1868—a time to commemo
rate those who died for the Union during the Civil
War. The day is now set aside to honor the dead of
all wars, as well as a day of family commemoration.
Our American day of memories is an enriching
and ennobling national observance, giving everyone a
time to reflect on the past to cherish the memory of
those we have associated with closely and lovingly.
It is the one day in the year when Nome is con
scious for a few hours of the shameful way in which
the cemetary is kept and the one day when we again
reslove that this matter shall be taken care of and a
record kept of where each person is buried in a busi
ness-like manner. No one would object to paying a
fee to the city so that this record can be kept and that
the graveyard may be kept clean of debris and obsolete
and faded artificial flowers. The planting of spruce
on this date every year would forever beautify the
place which is set aside to honor the dead and be a
lasting memorial.
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Latin America
Joins U.S. Citizens
To Bnv Tractors
By Lewis Gulic
WASHINGTON OP — Fund
raising groups in more than half
the countries of Latin America
have joined U. S. citizens in ef
forts to buy tractors to ransom
1,200 rebel prisoners held by
Cuba.
This is part of evidence reach
ing Washington that Cuban Prime
Minister Fidel Castro has suf
fered a serious propaganda set
back as a result of his offer of
tractors for prisoners.
Other evidence comes from com
ments by Latin American news
papers and public speakers which
are in striking contrast to the
stream of anti-U. S. utterances
received here many times in the
past.
The 10 prisoners Castro paroled
a week ago to arrange a deal in
the United States flew back to
Havana Saturday.
They carried a message from a
U. S. committee promising to sup
ply the tractors if Castro frees
the captives.
However, the group headed by
labor leader Walter Reuther, Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Dr.
Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of
former President Eisenhower,
wants to send a techincal com
mittee to Havana to work out de
tails and obtain assurances that
the prisoners actually will be re
leased.
Castro has yet to reply to a
telegram sent early last week con
taining the Reuther group’s ac
ceptance.
In Detroit, headquarters of the
Tractors for Freedom Committee,
contributions to the tractor fund
are beginning to come in, but
have not been totaled.
Reuther, president of the Unit
ed Auto Workers, told a Phila
delphia audience the committee ,
had received two $25,000 con- ;
tributions.
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Judge Sentences
Pair In Absentia
For Torturing a Cat
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Jt—
Two men convicted of torturing
a cat were sentenced in absentia
Friday to six months in jail and
fined $250 each.
The pair, whose attorney re
ported they are in Anchorage
failed to appear for their arraign- j
ment March 27. They are John
Rigers, and Robert J. Maliszeski
of Half Moon Bay where the in
dictment took place in Maliszeski’s
1 service station.
They were convicted May 17 of
stringing up a neighbor’s cat and
allowing a police dog to leap up
and slash at it. They said they
were training the dog to kill cats.
The cat’s owner recently said it
still was under a veterinary’s
care.
In passing sentence, Municipal
Judge Frank Comaich called the
incident “one of the worst acts
of cruelty ever to come to my at
J tention.”
Scientists Find a Ice
Island North of Barrow
ANCHORAGE m — The An
chorage Daily Times Saturday
said that an ice island more than
three miles long and two miles
wide was discovered in the Arctic
Icecap 130 miles north of Barrow
row during a search for an ice
floe suitable for a temporary
scientific camp.
The newspaper said the island
was occupied by men, supplies
and equipment in the hope that
it would be a permanent location
for a camp at which scientists
can drift with the Arctic currents
to the North Pole.
The discovery was made by
Max Brewer, director of the Arc
tic Research Laboratory, and five
of his staff during a flight through
snow squalls in search of a floe.
Fxilcd Russian Prince
To Visit Soviet Union
As a Tourist
LONDON UP) — Prince Alex
ander Romanov, great-nephew of
the last czar of Russia, left by
plane for the Soviet Union Sat
urday and said he fully expects
to use the return half of his
plane ticket.
The 31-year-old prince will be
the first member of the Romanov
family to visit Russia since the
Communist Revolution.
Prince Alexander, now an ex
ecutive of a London shipping |
firm, is paying a two-week visit [
to the Soviet Union with a party
of 29 tourists in a program ar- 1
ranged by the British Institute j
of Contemporary Art.
Reporters at London Airport
asked the prince whether he was
confident the Soviets would al
low an exiled member of the Rus
sian royal family to come back
to the West.
“Oh, yes,” said Prince Alex
ander. “Obviously.”
“I am going to Russia as a
tourist just because I am very
interested to go there. I had no
trouble getting a visa.”
Before boarding the plane he
expressed his personal belief that
Anna Anderson, the aging recluse
who lives in the Black Forest of
Germany, is really Anastasia,
daughter of Nicholas II, the last
czar.
“As far as my family is con
cerned,” he said, “there have
never been any doubts that she
is what she claims to be.”
German courts, however, have
ruled the evidence insufficient to
establish her claim.
Two First Ladies
Will Meet in Vienna
VIENNA, Austria UP> — Nina
Khrushchev, wife of the Soviet
Premier, will accompany her hus
band to Vienna next week, a So
viet official said Saturday. Pres
ident Kennedy will be accompan
ied by his wife, Jacqueline, when
he comes here to talk to Khrush- '
chev.
Soviet Security Chief M. V.
Zakharov said the two first ladies j
will meet at least once, when |
Austrian President Adolf Schaerf
gives a reception at Schoenbrunn 5
Palace Saturday night.
Alaska Setting Tragic
Record for Fire Deaths
JUNEAU — Alaska is setting
a tragic record this year, accord
ing to F. E. Kester, director of
the Health and Welfare Dept.
Vital Statistics Bureau. There al
ready have been 26 deaths due
to fires this year, he said, adding
that “from 1955 through 1960
Alaska averaged about 20 deaths
from fire each year. We have al
ready passed that mark in 1961
and the year is not yet half over.”
The greatest number of deaths
from fire for any recent year in
Alaska was 37 in 1951, he said,
“and unless greater care and
means of prevention are taken the
next seven months can see 1961
surpassing that figure.”
Contributing to the high num
ber so far this year have been the
many multiple deaths. According
to the Bureau of Vital Statistics
records, there have been three
cases where four deaths occurred
in one fire, one case where three
deaths occurred and the recent
Juneau tragedy in which six lives
were lost when a two-story house
burned.
Alaska has always had a high
death rate from fires, Mr. Kester
pointed out. For the last six years,
Alaska’s rate averaged 9.1 per
100,000 population and the pre
vious years of 1949 through 1954
the average rate was about 15.
This is nearly four times the na
tional rate which averages about
4 per 100,000 population.
CLOSE CALL . . .
PITTSBURGH (If — Bonnie
Peak, 10, discovered dynamite in
her father’s car Friday. It was
wired to explode when the car’s
lights were turned on.
Arthur Peak a city refuse work
er, said he had been driving the
car for almost an hour before the
girl found the explosives.
Peak got the girl out of the car
and then took it to police who
disconnected the dynamite.
Peak was unable to explain
where the dynamite came from.
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