Cuban Exile Leaders
Claim Fidel Castro Is
Prisoner of Communists
MIAMI, Fla. Uft — Exile lead
ers maintaining contact with
Cuban underground sources be
lieve they have the answer to a
question currently on many lips—
where is Fidel Castro?
“Castro is in Cuba, but closely
guarded by Communists,” said a
Cuban Revolutionary Council
source.
“If he tries to get away, they’ll
kill him.”
Another group, which declined
to use its name, said its “intelli- 1
gence agents” in Cuba reported
the Prime Minister is at a country 1
estate near the Havana Airport. 1
“A Communist party guard has j
been added to his own guard, and
follows h i m everywhere,” a '
spokesman for the group said. 1
He said families in the imme- *
diate vicinity of the estate, called 1
“Mulgoba” — the name for a
species of Mango — have been ^
ordered to move.
Castro has been out of the pub- 1
lie eye for two weeks. t
As a result, Miami’s large Cuban I
colony, never shorton “ bolas,” the 1
Cuban term for rumors, has been
having a field day.
The most persistent report has r
been that Castro took refuge in ‘
some embassy in Havana. i
Alaska S.S. President
David Skinner Elected
Director of Boeing Co.
SEATTLE iffi — David Skinner
president of the Alaska Steam
ship Co., has been elected a di
rector of the Boeing Co.
William Allen, president of the
aircraft and missile building
firm, announced the election after
a board of directors meeting Fri
day. Skinner, who is also presi
dent of the Skinner Corp., is
prominent in shipping circles.
Allen also announced Boeing’s
sales last year totaled $1,800,910,
)00, up from $1,554,573,000 in
i960. Net earnings were $35,661,
)00, equal to $4.47 a year, com
pared with $24,462,000' and $3.07
n 1960.
Skinner has been vice president
>f the National Defense Transpor
ation Assn, and on the Pacific
Committee of the American Bu
eau of Shipping.
'irsl Phone Call
SKEGNESS, England Uft — Mrs.
ovinia Barley has talked on the
elephone for the first time in
ter life. The occasion: Her 100th
•irthday.
The British have a wonderful
iew safety slogan for pedestrians:
She looked, he didn’t; she is—he
sn’t.”
ALASKA CAB
DIAL 2871
“See Us for Sightseeing*
Visitors to White House
Increase Since TV
Tour With Mrs. JFK
WASHINGTON (A — The line
of tourists parading through th
White House have grown longe
since Mrs. John F. Kennedy tool
the nation through it on a tou
by television.
Twice as many sightseers an
showing up, according to a Whit<
House count.
The week before the telecast
showing by CBS and NBS Feb. 1'
and by ABC Feb. 18—the dail]
attendance averaged 1,333. Since
the showing it has gone up t(
2,629. And this is the off-seasor
for tourists.
President Kennedy said during
the telecast he would like to have
twice as many persons see the
executive mansion as the record
1.3 million that passed througl
its doors last year.
Mrs. Kennedy, the White House
reported, has received more thar
7,000 letters about the telecast.
All but a few were reported
favorable.
However, the Washington Star
reports that the staff is having
trouble keeping the White House
a showcase. The big problem:
Women’s spike heels and cigarette
stubs.
The sharp heels are scratching
the floor of the East Room and
causing tears in the Green Room’s
rug. The rug in the Green Room
was replaced a month ago by a
stronger one with a pad, said the
Star, “yet after every party, i1
is said, there’s a new tear in it’
that has to be patched up.
The cigarette stubs, said the
Star, were dropped on the flooi
of the East Room during Tues
day’s musicale.
ROCHESTER, Minn. Ufc—Lady
bird, the wife of Vice Presides
Lyndon Johnson, is at the May
Clinic here for what was describe
as a routine physical checkup.
Arctic Ice Island
T-3 Is Reoccupied
s WASHINGTON UR — The float
e ing Arctic Ice Island, T-3, which
r Air Force and civilian scientists
c started using 10 years ago and
r then abandoned, has been re
occupied.
' The Navy said Friday the Ice
J Island, which was abandoned four
months ago when it drifted into
' shore ice near Pt. Barrow, later
; became “missing,” but was located
recently about 180 miles north
! west of Barrow.
! Three light planes have landed
a three-man crew from the Uni
. versity of Alaska on the island.
’ They have re-opened the camp on
the ice. The island has shrunk
i since its use began 10 years ago,
now being about four miles long,
j with a width varying from one
• to two miles.
| “Ghosts r . . .
ABERNETHY, Scotland UR —
“The Ministry of Works should
never have dug up those bones,”
said councillor Harry Bett Sat
urday.
Government archaeologists ;
found centuries - old skeletons
some months ago in the founda
tions of the Clock Tower in this
little Highland community.
Townsfolk say since then the old
clock has been fully wound regu
larly by some power unknown
to the residents.
Mayor Robert Morrison has
ordered an inquiry.
The only key to the clock and
■ the only key to the tower door
belong to town official Eric
Stevenson. He told the Town
Council: “I don’t know who is
- winding the thing.”
t . -—
o j You’re getting over the hill
d j when you no longer learn history
< —but remember it.
i Marilyn Monroe
Hasn’t Given Up Trying
MEXICO CITY, m — Marilyn
Monroe, a three-time loser in the
field of matrimony, says she
hasn’t given up trying.
“I’m keeping my eyes open,”
the movie star told a packed news
conference Thursday.
The actress, here on vacation,
said she was happy that her latest
ex-spouse, Arthur Miller, Pulitzer
prize-winning playwright, had re
married.
“I learned a lot from him and
I’m glad,” she said. “I wish him
the best,”
Asked about recurring rumors
that she might rewed Joe Di
maggio, all-time baseball great,
whom she saw this week in
Florida, Miss Monroe shook her
head.
“We tried that once,” she said.
She commented that even though
ler three previous marriages had
failed, “I haven’t given up.”
“Which of your marriages were
he happiest?” one reporter askea.
“The last two,” she said.
Miss Monroe was married at 16
o a merchant seaman, Jim
Dougherty. The union lasted two
/■ears.
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