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Tesla Rites Tomorrow; Mayor on Air in Tribute
January 11th, 1943
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LaGuardia Reads Adamic's Eulogy to Inventor
Mayor F. H. LaGuardia took | part yesterday afternoon in a program over Station WNYC in tribute to Nikola Tesla, inventor, who died Thursday night at the Hotel New Yorker at the age of eighty-six. Funeral services will be held for Mr. Tesla by the Yugoslav government-in-exile at 4 p. m. tomorrow in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
The half-hour program memory of Mr. Tesla was featured by the appearance of the Mayor, who read a tribute to Mr. Tesla written by Louis Adamic, Amerlcan writer of Yugoslav descent. Musical selections were played by Zlatko Balokovio, violinist,
