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GRIEVING DOUKHOBORS DIE

told me. “They were nine and
Seven years old at the time.

“Their grandfather, aged 68,
climbed on the truck with us
te follow the car taking the
Children away. Suddenly he
Slumped over. We rushed him
to a doctor in town but he
Was dead.”

Mrs. Marie Shlakoff, 30, told
me how her father-in-law,
Fred Shlakoff, died within 10
days of the big raid on Kres-
tova in January, 1955, when a
large number of children were
rounded up and taken to New

enver.

“One of his own children
died in Oakalla in 1932, and
€ was very worried that my
daughter Kathleen would be
Seized,” said Mrs. Shlakoff.

(In 1932, three nursing in-
fants were taken from their
.Mothers in Oakalla. A few
Weeks later the babies died.
The mothers claimed ail the
babies were healthy when
taken from their arms, and
charged officials with neglect.)

“Fred, loved: playing with his
srandchildren, but after the
1955 raid he became morose,
‘nd daily expressed the fear
Wat Kathleen would be

seized,” continued Mrs. Shlak-
off. “He stopped playing with
the children, and we weren’t
able to cheer him up. Within a
couple of weeks of the raids
he died.

“On May 25, 1956, a rainy
day, I remember, the police
cars appeared, and the police
began searching the bushes
for the, children. My Kathleen
was taken away, crying. Ever
since I have been fighting for
her release, and, the release of
the other children.

“Once some of us women cor-
nered Attorney-Genéral Rob-
ert Bonner when he visited
Trail, but he just said coldly,
‘Send your children to school,
I have nothing to say to you,’
and walked away from us.”

Mrs. Shlakoff showed me a
poem of one the children in
New Denver had written. It
was entitled “Prison Blues to
Our Parents,”. and a sample
verse read:

“On the day when these
iron gates open,

And the sun shines on us
once again,

To our parents we'll fly
and forever

There'll, be no more sor-
row and pain.”

On January 18, 1955, little
Kathleen Nazaroff was taken
away to New Denver. On
January 27, just nine. days
later, her grandmother, Mrs.
Florence A. Abrosimoff, died.
“Her heart was broken,” say
her relatives.

Mothers and fathers told me
story after story of how their
children were torn away from
them and taken to the New
Denver “school.” Grandpar-
ents, their voices trembling,
added details. Each story was
similar in many respects —-
but each represented a per-
sonal tragedy.

The suicide of Mrs. Gienger,
the sending of a Freedomite
delegation to Victoria, and the
exposure in this paper of the
collapse of Social Credit
methods for “solving” the
Doukhobor problem have pro-
jected the issue of detention
of Freedomite children onto
the front pages of B.C. news-
papers and forced . Premier
Bennett and Attorney-General
Bonner to depart from their
“campaign of silence.” Further
pressure and further expos-
ures-may soon force a change
in government policy and’ win
freedom for the children.

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- Bent White's

Patterson, with Joe Louis in
mind, is starting a Bum of the
Month tour to pick up some
needed moola. Jackson was the
first victim; the second is an
innocent youth name of Pete
Rademacher, 100 percent Am-

PETE RADEMACHER

erican boy, ex-Olympic cham-

pion, who loses his amateur
standing when he meets Pat-
terson in Seattle this month.

Pete is no piker; in his first
pro start he’s shooting for the
grand prize. His manager ap-
parently’failed to tell him the
facts of life. After he’s scraped
off tha ring’ floor he should be
tenderly carried to a psychiat-
rist’s couch. Move over, Jack-
son!

Patterson is out to prove he
belongs with Corbett, Johnson,
Dempsey, Louis and Marciano.
No logical contenders are in
sight, so he is keeping in shape
by fighting anything over 175
potinds that “moves and
breathes and is willing to put
on gloves.

This is* good strategy on,
Patterson’s part, but painful
to the customers.

g bes os

And speaking of paying cus-
tomers, the biggest suckers in
town are.those football filberts
who shell out hard cash to
watch our Lions whimper in
exhibition title.

These games should have a
flat dollar rate. That’s ail they
are worth, for the brand of
feotball is disma 1, with
coaches (rightly) trying out
all sorts of lineups before the
season starts and the chips are
down.

Vancouver football follow-
ers know less about the
science of the game than fans
in any other Canadian city.
Perhaps that’s why the. Lions’
management feels it can put
the bite on them for $3.75 to

SPORTLIGHT

TT Hurricane turned out to
be only a mild breeze and

Floyd Patterson reduced him

to a whisper Monday nighi.

exhibitions
the. regular

watch mediocre
weeks - before
season starts.

Barnum used to say there’s
a sucker born every minute.
That’s an overall average. In
Vancouver the percentage is
higher.

$e a a

In a more benign vein,
three cheers and a pip-pip for
Vancouver Mounties, still
fighting it out way up there
as August brings summer sun-
shine to our dew-drenched
Pacific paradise.

By all the laws of logic
Mounties should be deep in
the cellar, but they ain’t,
brother, they ain’t. And if they
continue ‘to give that old col-
lege try every time out we'll
be in the playoffs, mother, just
you wait and see.

it ses $e

This is the time of year
when dishpan hands, house-
maid’s knee and marathonitis
swéep thedand.

Over in Victoria the influx
of mermaids and mermen is
on, as beefy splashers from
near and far plunge into the
icy waters of Juan de Fuca
preparing for the annual
Strait marathon. It's enough
to freeze a brass monkey just
to think of it.

De Rae ay

In the days of Gussie Moran
it was sex and Seixas. Today
its Gonzales, Sedgman, Rose-
wall and~*Hoad, plus a lady
named Karol Kageros.

In the men’s division pro
tennis is in the spotlight, with
Gonzales king of the troupers.

Among the distaff side ama-
teurs pretty Karol is trying
to take up where Gorgeous
Gussie left off. The self-styled
“Golden Goddess’ trips onto
the court wearing a grecian
silk jersey — “very decollete
but draped” — and a stole
with embroidered tennis rac-
quets. Then she takes off the
stole ...

Is tennis a sport or a spec-
tacle? Seems like it’s on the
way to join*pro wrestling as
a circus. s

Go ae

And I’m still weeping over
what happened. to me at Lans-
downe last Friday, just 24
hours before my birthday.

qn the eighth I ‘bought a
win ticket on. Great Count
and a place ticket on George
Did. The quinella line was
rather long so I. didn’t bother
to hook them.

Well, history records that
Great Count won and George
Did ran second, paying me $16
and $16.90.

Now, $32.90 for $4 is not
to be sneezed at, but why, oh
why didn’t I latch onto a
quinella ticket — for the pay-
off was $149.60.

August 2, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7