THE NOME NUGGET
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LABOR DAY 1953
By Martin P. Durkin, Secretary of Labor
Labor Day is an expression of American freedom
and American progress.
It was created 71 years ago by a group of trade
unionists seeking to give labor its true dignity. Their
efforts succeeded. Labor Day has become a holiday
of all the people, and an accepted symbol of the spirit
of free working men and women.
American free labor has grown along with the
American nation and its people, and it has used its
strength to help the cause of freedom around the world.
On this first Monday in September, 1953’s Labor
Day, it is fitting and proper that American working
people, those in white collars as well as those
in overalls, extend again their thoughts and their greet
ings and well-wishes, to their brother workers in
foreign lands.
Our message to the workers in free lands is one
of fellowship. We are joined to oppose the ugly specters
of dictatorship and Communism. Through our govern
ment, our churches, our labor unions, and other or
ganizations, we have offered our help in the cold war
that is being waged over the world for the minds and
souls of men and women.
For the oppressed workers behind the Iron Cur
tain, American workers send a message of hope and
sympathy. Six thousand years of history have proved
that no suppression, no oppression, can kill the desire
of men and women for freedom and dignity, the yearn
ing to build a better world for their children. We in
America pray, and we know and we believe, that the
workers in foreign lands will fight on as we have for
freedom and progress, and that eventually we will win.
The workers of East Germany and of Czechoslo
vakia have struck out against the despots seeking to
enslave them, in the world’s most recent examples of
man’s long struggle for freedom. The June graves of
their martyrs are already hallowed shrines in the
hearts of freedom-loving people everywhere. On this
Labor Day in America, we pray for labor’s strength
and progress.
The American workingman has scored many ec
onomic gains in the past year, so that the per capita
purchasing power has risen to new all-time highs, five
OUR CURTAIN OF STEEL
per cent greater than a year ago, despite an increase
of 2% million in our population.
Labor income has expanded $18 billion, or 10 per
cent, as a result of increased employment and increased
wage rates. The number of persons at work has soared
to record levels and the unemployment rate has drop
ped to levels attained heretofore only in the midst of
all-out war.
The economic position of the workirigman is better,
both in terms of his increasing productivity and in terms
of the need for services. Average hourly earnings have
risen steadily and have gained on prices, which have
remained fairly steady in the aggregate for more
than a year.
It is worthy of note that progress in expanding and
extending the American standard of living is achieved
only when real income, not just dollar income, rises.
Substantial gains have occurred in the past year, and
their effect may easily be seen in the business indi
cators. Industrial production has reached unprece
dented highs, and the gross national product has ex
panded by $25 billion, mainly because consumers have
been buying more heavily than ever of durable goods,
non-durable goods, and numerous services. Yet, with
personal expenditures so heavy, the total of personal
savings has continued to rise at a rapid pace.
We are firm in the knowledge and belief that if
men and women are free they will work unceasingly
to improve their lives and their homes, and to create
a better future for their children. We will make these
prayers for ourselves and our children, and for the
workers and the children of the free world and the
slave world, in the firm conviction that the good in
man is bound to triumph over evil.
Search Planes Complete
Scanning Primary Area
Where Hall Disappeared
KETCHIKAN, iff) — A Coast
Guard officer said Thursday night
the entire “primary area”—thou
sands of square miles of it—has
been covered several times in the
vain search for Ellis Hall, New
Mexico oil man, and his four pri
vate plane passengers.
Cmdr. Ira McMullan estimated
scanning of a vast area in south
east Alaska and northern British
Columbia has been with 80 per
cent visual effectiveness.
The search fleet at Annette Is
land, . Hall’s takeoff point, has
been cut from 22 military planes
to 11, with the withdrawal of
Canadian Air Force craft and the
need of repairs on others.
Theories on what might have
happened to the Hall plane take
three main directions: a crash in
Alaska waters without leaving a
trace; a crash in a concealed spot
in the Canadian wilderness, or a
crash on a flight in an unknown
direction.
Six U.S. Jets Run Out
Of Fuel In Fog And
Crash In Western Japan
TOKYO, UP)—Six American jet
fighters crashed in western Japan
Friday after running out of fuel
in “vile weather,” the Air Force
said.
Five pilots were reported safe,
but the sixth was still missing
late Friday night.
The Air Force said five Sabres
were lost in one flight and an
F-84 Thunderbolt was lost in an
other. The Sabre is the hottest
U.S. fighter plane on regular duty;
the Thunder jet is slightly older.
said tbree^nlots
crash-landed with only minor in
juries, and two others parachuted
and were listed as “probably
safe.”
The Air Force blamed a violent
weather front that built up sud
denly and slapped a lid on the
jet’s Japan bases.
Unable to find a hole in the
dense clouds, the jets finally ran
out of fuel.
Alabama Electrocutes First
White Woman, Poisoner
Of Her Own Infant Niece
MONTGOMERY, Ala., UP) —
With a mumbled prayer for for
giveness, Mrs. Earle Dennison was
put to death early Friday for the
bizarre poison slaying of an infant
niece whose life she had insured
for $5,500.
The frail, trembling former sur
gical nurse made no protest as
she was seated in Kilby Prison’s
yellow electric chair, but winced
and uttered a faint cry when the
str&ps were pulled too tight.
She was the first white woman
electrocuted'm'Alabarfva:“
Mrs. Dennison, who fed arsenic
to 2-year-old Shirley Diann Wil
don for the insurance she had
taken out on her, met death calm
ly despite her nervousness.
To the prison authorities and
witnesses who watched her die,
the 55-year-o'ld widow had only
this to say:
“Please foregive me for every
thing I did. I forgive everybody.”
Wanton Slaughter of
Walrus Just for Ivory,
Biologist Reports
FAIRBANKS, UP\— A Canadian
biologist has come back from five
months on St. Lawrence Island
studying walrus herds.
Bud Fay of the University of
British Columbia at Vancouver
said in an interview here that the
increased demand for ivory pro
ducts has led to wasteful killing
of walruses.
Fay declared Eskimos have little
conception' of conservation.-'So—
frequently they kill the Walrus
just for the ivory. The head is
\ rfemn. J flhiwr fh'e carcass is left
t to the sea..
He said Alaska’s bpoming tour
ist industry and an increase in
demand for ivory figurines carved
by the natives led to the wanton
walrus slaughter.
Fay was employed by the U.S.
Office of Naval Research and the
Arctic Institute of North America
to help gather scientific data on
walruses.
t
Alaska Gets $30,764
For School Lunch
WASHINGTON, UP)—The Agri
culture Department Thursday ap
portioned $67 million to states,
territories and possessions for op
eration of the school lunch pro
gram during the 1953-54 school
year.
The law requires that each
dollar of federal funds 'must be
matched by $1.50 from sources
within the state if per capita in
come of the state equals or ex
ceeds the national average. The
matching requirement declines by
the percentage which the state’s
per capita income is below the
national average.
This year’s allotments include
for Alaska $30,764.
Jesse Stubbs, 72, Raises
Personal Monument to
Will Rogers Near Barrow
FAIRBANKS, UP)—Sturdy Jesse
Stubbs, at age 72, has raised his
personal monument at the spot
Will Rogers died at the edge of
the Arctic Ocean.
Stubbs is the boyhood friend of
Rogers who hiked 300 miles from
Anchorage to Fairbanks on his
“sentimental journey.”
A Wien Alaska Airlines crew
was amazed this week to find the
oldtimer had erected a bigger con
crete monument than the original
monument at the scene where the
famed humorist and Pilot Wiley
Post died in a 1935 plane crash 12
miles from Point Barrow.
Stubbs had hauled his mater
ials to the site over mushy snow
and tundra and erected the tall
marker in the face of winds that
already carry a pre-winter bite
along the Arctic Ocean.
Stubbs monument commemor
ates the nation’s dead of World
War II. He said he erected it at
the site of the Post-Rogers crash
in memory of his old boyhood
friend.
MAN AND SWEETHEART
DROWN IN TAKING OFF
FROM LAKE IN PLANE
KETCHIKAN, UP)— The bodies
of Donald Bilderback, 26-year-old
Cordova seiner, and his fiancee,
Lillian Isaakson, 20, of Craig,
were found Wednesday afternoon
in Karta Lake, 40 miles northwest
of here, near an overturned float
plane.
The plane, chartered by Bilder
back, apparently hit a snag in
taking off from the lake surface.
The bodies were found a few
feet apart in the lake bottom.
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