RACIAL BAR BY CEMETERY
INDIAN WAR VETERAN REFUSED BURIAL
(Rec. 10 p.m.) _ WASHINGTON, August 29. President Truman •to-day offered a hero's burial in the Arlington National Cemetery for an American Army sergeant, whose remains were barred from a Sioux City (Iowa) cemetery because of his Indian blood., Sergeant John Rice, aged 37, a Winnebago Indian, was killed in action in Korea. President Truman acted after reading a news story that the authorities at the Sioux City Memorial Park Cemetery had halted the burial ot Sergeant Rice yesterday just as the body was about to be lowered into the grave. The President also directed the Army to invite members of the sergeant’s family to Washington at the Government’s expense for the last rites.
A cemetery spokesman said It was an established policy that only members of the Caucasian race could be buried in Sioux City Memorial Park.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26514, 31 August 1951, Page 9
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