THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE July 29, 1938. Memorial To Levens VSC To Unveil Portrait Saturday In memory of one of its most lovable and colorful showmen, Harold “Duke” Levens, who gave his young life for democracy in Spain, Vancouver Sports Club will unveil his portrait on Satur- day, July 30, during presentation ef the weekly boxing and wrest- Img card. Levens’ portrait will hang be- side that of Charles “Chuck” Parker, former instructor at the club, who was killed in Spain some months age. Levens was a trained: first-aid man and did yeoman service in the Maclkenzie-Papineau Battal- jon until his death. Born in To- ronto, he was an aute mechanic by trade. To the concern of the fans, Bill Massen, in the main event of the weekly card at Vancouver Sports Glub last Saturday, exhibited a tendency to stick with his sudden- ly acquired doubtful wresting tactics. His opponent, Dancing Johnny GLambchuck, however, really went to town on handsome Bill, securing the only fall in a five-round match. To the wise ones this means that either John- ny or Don Pictou will face the great George Bunka on Saturday, July 30. Undoubtedly there will be fur a-flying! Evenly matched, Scotty Jackson, who is liked by all who grunt and groan, made it a draw with Bill Wiles over the three-round route. The three-star award this week was handed to the Wild Joker and Bic Butler. The wrestling was tough, with the usual elusiveness shown by the Joker, but Vic fin- ally caught up with him to pin those shoulders in the third. Ey- eryone got his money's worth in this fracas. - Fritz Schmidt with a body press took Joe Bevan for a ride in a fast eanter. OLD-TIME DANCE EVEBY SATURDAY — Swedish ] Community Hall 13820 &. Hastings St. Helge Anderson’s Orchestra ORANGE HALL BOXING and WRESTLING EXHIBITIONS Vancouver Sports Club SATURDAY, 8:30 PM. Admission 10 Cents. Annual Fishermen’s Welcome DANCE Bayview Hall, Sunbury Saturday, August 13 Music by Radio Rascals of CIOR Se LADIES 35c GENTS 50¢c SS woe Advocate = = —_ SS SSS Se = = SSeS Above. Stan McCabe, Australian vice-captain, is seen batting. mocked 16 in the second inning of the Leeds game which held the ashes for Australia before he was caught by Barnett off a ball by Wright. It was Australia’s 57th triumph since the series started in 1876. England has won 54 times and on the other 32 oceasions the matches have ended in a stalemate. He entries close there will be some mighty good boys, I prefer to wait awhile and see. My hunch is that there will be boys quite capable of extending either of these boxers to the limit. Wow that Arnold Bertram has split with Western Sports Centre and has reorganized the Grand- view AG, it will be interesting to follow the amateur officials’ atti- tude toward the boxers who for- merly belonged to Bertram’s club, and who later represented WSC. Bertram claims these boys, I hear. Amateur rules laid down by the Dominion body and the interna- tional authority clearly define what should be done in such a situation. Apropos the amateur officials of the BC branch regarding the ap- plication of Pro-Recs and Vancou- ver Sports Club for affiliation to = } 20 OR 40 ACRES Good soil, good road, in Finn-Swede settlement. ..- .- Wothing to pay down. will take half the price in labor clearing other land. On Brown Road, South Langley. J. Anderson, 649 Graham Ave. New Westminster, B.C. Only Shoe Repair Store in Vancouver with a l —) Signed Agreement with the Union NEW METHOD SHOE - - 337 Carrall St. Horse Racing @ LANSDOWNE PARK > August 6 to 13 © BRIGHOUSE PARK PARI- MUTUEL BETTING August 20 to 27 © VANCOUVER EXHIBITION August 29 to September 5 S VANCOUVER THOROUGHBRED ASSOCIATION LID. 535 W. Georgia - == Vancouver - Sey. 1250 By YORKIST NTEREST in the forthcoming provincial amateur boxing championships is gathering momentum. Some think that Woodhouse and Dawson are a cinch to meet in the final of the welterweight division, but on the suspicion that by the time ‘up this body. There are suspicions abroad in the town that these ap- plications were not dealt with in regular manner,, but rather that one or two officials actea inde- pendently. Seems to me 4 clean- is necessary and it will take place at the annual general meet— ing. Those who talk to Chuck Nicka- son about his little argument with Ted Moore become convinced more than ever before that the only de- cent thing to do is for Moore to sell his share of the apparently jron-bound contract to scmeone who could give this promising light-heavyweight a real break. Perhaps it is too much to ex pect from one who relations with the local boxing game over a NDum- ber of years has been anything but satisfactory- SPECIAL! While You Wait... Men’s Half Soles and Rubber $1.00 G5eé Empire Shoe Repairs 66 East Hastings Street Glagicaty. 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This, then, is a2 unzversity for the study of that ever-changing, dyna- mic, in-process-of-becoming stuff ealled life. and for the teaching of a technique for its manipulation and control, by man, and for man’s betterment. Its name is The Anti-Japanese University of Yenan. It is an out- growth and extension of the former Red Army College, founded over eight years ago, in the Chinese Soviets, for the education of its own soldiers and political workers. It has maintained its existence, through years of hardship and al- most insurmountable difficulties. Wot even during the “Great Trek,” that epic march of 25,000 li, a march comparable to and surpassing the historic marches of Hannibal, Alex ander, and WNapoleon—did it dis- band. The soldiers of the famous Red Army fought and taught—a book in one hand, a rifle in the other. Then the classes numbered 500—now they run into thousands. Once the stu- dents came only from the Red Army, now they come from every province in China, from every class of society. Once the students were taught to fight their own country- men—the soldiers of the Kuomin- tang. INow the officers of the Kuo- mintange come to the University to learn how and why the Red Army was able to defeat every effort made to conquer it. Former enemies sit side by side, sleep on the kong, play basketball on the same team. And the Red Army tells its secrets of victory. These secrets of tactics, of guerilla warfare, of the organization of the peasants—how long it has taken the Kuomintang to learn that no war can be successful if fought by sol- diers alone, without the support of the people. (A second article by Dr. Bethune will appear next week.) 1002 West Pender St. (Cor. Pender & Burrard) - Sey. 5647 gation was made, local police said they knew nothing of the exist- ence of any such wireless station. There are indications that this is not the only radio post main- tained on WBritish Columbia soil by secret agents and spies of the Japanese fovernment- Maps Obtained By Japanese Agents deavor to procure maps and plans of key defenses and vital industrial centres is only to be expected. And, to those familiar with the tactics of totalitarian warfare, it should oceasion no surprise to learn that Japanese agents in British Colum-— bia are particularly interested in the congested areas of the big eities, in the districts where the workers live. Lhe imagination re- coils at the thought of what car- That fascist agents should ee mage could be caused by a few in- eendiary bombs dropped on the slums of Vancouver. Japanese agents here have pra- eured and sent to Japan a complete set of fire insurance maps of Van=- couver, Victoria and New Westniin- ster. These maps show all buiidings, industrial plants and docks in de- tail and designate the highly-con- gested areas subject to conflagra— tion. Portland Incident Recalled This fact is reminiscent of an in- cident which occurred in a certain Portland hotel two years before the outbreak of the Great War. flood waters seeped into the basement of this hotel where trunks and grips were stored for guests. After the water had been pumped out the hotel manager decided to open the trunks and dry the con- tents. One trunk with a peculiar lock had to be opened by a locksmith, but instead of expensive clothes it was found to contain water-soiled maps and blueprints. recalled that the trunk had been left, “to be called for later,” by 4 Japanese who had occupied one of the best suites in the hotel. Then it was Microscopic examination showed the maps to be those of Portland, far more elaborate the office of the city’s own engin- eer. Later it was discovered that Japanese agents had secured sim- ilar mape of Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego- Government Has Suppressed Information than those in mation undoubtediy was brought out before the Keenleyside Com- mission when it held its meetings in camera in Vancouver earlier this year. The Hon. fan Macken- zie, minister of defense, must by aware of what is going on in this province. But no word has been allowed to reach the public on these vital matters which affect the peace and security of the whole Canadian people. Wiech of this and similar ae) One of the reasons why this information is being suppressed may well be the close link be- tween certain important figures in the BC business worid and Japan- ese interests. In July, 1937, the purchase by Japanese interests of the MIron Duke property on Louise Island in the Queen Charlottes was con- firmed in Vancouver, with the T.ouise Mining Company of Yan- couver formed to represent its real Japanese owners. Iron Duke Occupies Strategic Position This property, occupying a stra- tegic position, is estimated to have ore reserves up to 10,000,000 tons, estimated between 65 and 70 per- cent magnetite, valuable in the manufacture of certain kinds of steel. It is one of the very few iknown deposits of its kind in the province and consists of nine crown-granted claims. Under ‘supervision of Japanese engineers a five-mile railroad from tidewater to the property itself has been constructed. Secretary of the “dummy” com- pany is T. Takada, a Japanese. When I enquired about the pro- perty at the BC Chamber of Mines I was told I would have to write to Victoria because the office had no maps showing the location of the various mineral claims on the Queen Charlotte Tslands. “But,” said the official in charge ingenuously, “that little Japanese who was in here a min- ute ago could have told you all about it. The Japamese have the whole area mapped out and ex- plored.” Nelson Spencer On Company Board More recently, in March of this year, a \company, registered Un BC under the name of the Sidney Inlet Mining Company,. but actu- ally representing Japanese inter- ests, acquired the old Tidewater mine on the west arm of Sidney Tmlet, west Boast of Vancouver hop $600 .. . by August 15 British Columbia’s Contribution to the $3000 National Campaign to Aid Returning Spanish Vets SS DO YOUR BIT... . THEY HAVE DONE THEIRS! Make Your Donation to the Friends of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion ROOM 43, 615 WEST HASTINGS STREET VANCOUVER, B.C. Ee Island, with the anmounced inten- tion of making shipments of cop- per concentrates direct to Japan. Tts directors are: Toru Matsu- bara, Skozo Fukukawa, WNelson Spencer, Hubert S. Dendoff and Wasaki Ito. Welson Spencer is a prominent businessman in BC whose name has been associated with those of Chris Spencer and Blake Wilson in various business transactions. He was a member of the provin- cial Iezislature during the Tolmie Conservative administration, and was a delegate from BC to the re- cent Conservative national con- vention. mM E&. Dendoff, who operates an auto spring service in Vancouver, when interviewed, at first admit ted he was a director of the Sid- mey Inlet Mining Company, but later denied it on the plea that his initials were H. E., whereas those in the published report were given as HS. “I don’t want any publi- city,” he declared. Of course not. The last thing any of those linked in business deals with Japanese interests want is publicity which would expose their unpatriotic actions to the Canadian people. Cargo Of Dynamite Rejected Only thrme weeks ago a Japan- ese vessel with a cargo of dyna- mite arrived at the Sidney Ilet property to unload. Federal gov- ernment officials, however, took exception to the shipment on the ground that it was far im excess of the companys maximum re- quirements for the next two or three years and permitted only sufficient to meet the companys needs for six months loaded. to be un- In the Queen Charlotte Islands adjoining the Iron Duke property jJarge timber tracts totalling nearly one billion feet are held by Queer Charlotte Timber Holdings, Ltd. directors of which are: Chuhe Fukukawa tLokyo and Yancou- ver), J. H Lawson, Wancouver barrister, Yasujiro Hattari, Ked: Arichika and Enji Fukukawa Shozo Fukukawa, director of th Sidney Inlet Mining Company, i also a shareholder in this com pany. Tokvo Company Financed Deal Opposite the important radio station at Alert Bay is Port Mc- Neil, fronting Broughton Strait, and not far from Sointula on Mal- colm Island. Were Japanese in- terests, through the N. S. McNeil Trading Company, Inc., have ac- quired other extensive tineber holdings. Directors of this company arte: Welson Spencer and J.- H. Law- son. Shuhei Kishi, Tokyo, Shozu Fukukawa, Vancouver, and Tomo- yoshi Kamio, Tokyo. The property comprises 600,000,- 000 board feet of timber and, at the time of purchase, it was state that a pulp mill would be erecte on the spot with the object of dk veloping the rayon industry, a fac which is significant in itself. Th deal was financed by the Wiss Rayon Pulp Company of Tokyo. Yet a third Japanese timbé holding in BC is that some tw miles south of Cowichan Lake c Vancouver Island where a Japa ese operator, EB. Kagetsu, th year bought a stand of 200,000,0! feet of fir from railway and p! vate interests. : x DAM aA the alae bet ei Aw VS saavearieertat oe fo ph jeniccde