THE NOME NUGGET
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Entered as second class matter October 14. 1943. at the
postoffice at Nome, Alaska, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
__TIME AND LIVES TICK AWAY _
ARMISTICE DAY TOMORROW
Tomorrow we observe Armistice Day as a day
of remembering the men who have given their lives
for us in Korea.
We are not at war, but our armed forces are daily
adding names to the long list of those who have given
their lives to preserve our rights and freedom.
They gave their lives to built a monument of
world peace for generations to come. The world looks
with hope to the new administration from which may
come the long-sought peace and the proof that we
did not “break faith with those who died” and that they
did not die in vain.
AMERICAN EDUCATION WEEK
Ernest Gruening, governor of the Territory of Al
aska, has proclaimed the week of November 9-15 as
American Education Week, and urges that all citizens
visit their schools during this week to learn more about
school programs and school problems and to assist in
developing and improving our common schools.
He stated that:
“The safety and welfare of our nation lie in the ap
preciation of our great heritage, in the consciousness
of its priceless value, and in the determination to pre
serve it, to cherish it, and to hand it on to future genera
tions not only unimpaired but wherever possible
strengthened and enobled by an ever closer approxi
mation of our daily conduct to its ideals, and by its
wise adaptation to changing times and conditions.
“Only through education of all the people can
these high objectives be attained, and therefore, educa
tion and liberty have become one and enseparable.”
HELICOPTER MAIL SERVICE BEGINS
The delivery of mail by helicopter in New York
was started recently when a helicopter lifted itself off
the runway at La Guardia airport and headed for New
Jersey. The route takes the helicopter from the airport
to Newark, New Jersey, to the New York International
Airport and back to La Guardia. x
The “skybus,” as the helicopter is called, carries
about 8,000 letters and cuts the time required for de
livery between the points considerably.
New York is not the first city to employ helicopter
service. Helicopters were put into use some years ago
in London and have been used elsewhere. They have
been landed, in some places, atop postoffice buildings
with flat roofs, though the New York helicopter run
utilizes airports only as stopping points.
Philip Murray,
Head of CIO, Dies
SAN FRANCISCO, (/P)—Philip
Murray, who rose from an immi
grant Scots mine boy to become
head of the CIO and one of the
world’s most powerful and res
pected labor leaders, died yester
day of a heart attack.
At 66, g veteran of half a cen
tury’s work in labor’s cause, he
was stricken in his sleep at San
Francisco’s fashionable Mark
Hopkins Hotel. His wife, Eliza
beth, awoke to find him sprawled
on the floor beside his bed.
Although Murray had not been
in good health, his death came as
a shock to friends, associates —
and even his antagonists in some
of the bitterest council table bat
tles between management and
labor.
Telegrams of condolence poured
in from all sections of the coun
try . . . from President Truman
and high ranking government of
ficials . . from William Green
of the AFL and -'the John L.
Lewis of the United Mine Work
ers . . . from Ben Fairless of U.S.
Steel and Ben Morrell of Jones
and Luughlin.
A thin white-thatched man who
never lost a faint Scots burr from
his voice, Murray likewise never
lost the ardor of trade unionism
from his heart.
A mine worker at the age of
10, he spent the night before his
death at a meeting of his United
Steel Workers, whose presidency
he held concurrently with the
presidency of the parent CIO.
There, he spoke with energy of
' labor’s gains, promised “whole
i some support of any administra
1 tion that has in mind constructive
measures for the common people,”
and defied “special groups” to
take away labor’s gains.
An early backer of Adlai Stev
enson for the presidency, Murray
declined comment last week when
Stevenson and the supporting
CIO’s Political Action Committee
went down to defeat at the polls.
Sailors Walkout Ties Up
Alaska Vessels In Seattle
SEATTLE, (JP) — The Alaska
sailing of the passenger liner
i Denali was cancelled Friday and
| another vessel remained tied up
| at its Seattle pier because of the
j Sailors Union of the Pacific con
tract dispute.
Some 50 passengers boarded the
Denali early in the afternoon for
the scheduled 3 p.m. sailing. They
ate dinner aboard ship, waiting
for a decision whether it would
sail, and after it was cancelled
the Alaska Steamship Co. ar
ranged alternate transportation
north, most of them on Canadian
Pacific liners. The Denali also has
miscellaneous cargo aboard.
Another ot the- company’s ships
the freighter Coastal Rambler,
sailed north Friday night. Union
port agent Maxie Weisbnrth said
she was freed because her sailors
signed on before last Tuesday’s
deadline. Sailors cannot refuse to
man ships where they have signed
articles, he said.
The sailors are protesting Wage
Stablization Board delay in ap
proving wage raises and other
benefits of a contract they ob
tained from Pacific Coast opera
tors after last summer’s long
strike.
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At Least 23 Killed
In African Rioting
DURBAN, South Africa, </P) —
Bloody warfare between Negroes
and police which spread death
and destruction in two cities over
the week-end subsided somewhat
today, but sporadic outbursts in
dicated the rioting could break
out in full force again at any
moment.
At least 23 persons by unofficial
estimate, and perhaps more, died
in the rioting in East London, 300
miles southwest of Durban, and
in the diamond mining center of
Kimberley. Many were wounded.
Police at East London declined to
say the number of natives killed
and wounded, but their firing
from about 4 p.m. yesterday un
til midnight indicated the number
of casualties was high.
Reports from East London indi
cate that six municipal and gov
ernment buildings such as schools
and missions were put to the torch
by native rioters.
At Kimberley Saturday, fire j
New Trial Petitioned For
Rosenbergs, Convicted
Atomic Bomb Spies
WASHINGTON, (JP) — A new
trial has been petitioned for
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, hus
band and wife facing death as
atomic bomb spies, and an attor
ney has asked permission to file
a brief in the case.
The petition was left at the
Supreme Court clerk’s office Fri
day. It claimed to have about
50,000 signatures and bore the
name, “National Committee to Se
cure Justice in the Rosenberg
Case,” with a New York City
address.
Attorney Royal W. France of
New York asked to be allowed to
file a “friend of the court” brief.
The Supreme Court refused on
Oct. 13 to review their cases. A
request to reconsider this refusal
is pending before the tribunal.
from police rifles and automatic
weapons killed 13 Negroes and
wounded 73.
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