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NEW YORK
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

wreaked vengeance on their children last week.

After a court proceeding on Thursday last week, mark-
ed by haste and shrouded in mystery, the two children were
spirited away from those to whom the martyred couple had

entrusted them in their last will
and . testament.

Justice Jacob Panken informed
the press that he had placed
Michael, 11, and Robbie, 6, under
“the jurisdiction and supervision
of the court” pending a further
hearing this week.

The hearing was closed, but
Judge Panken held a press con-
ference later, and told reporters
of his decision before he inform-
ed the attorneys who appeared in
behalf of the children.

The judge said he acted in
response to a petition by the
Society for the Prevéntion of
Cruelty to Children on informa-
tion supplied by the New York
Department of Welfare.

These agencies alleged the child-
ren’s foster parents had allowed
the two boys to be “taken from
place to place, home to home,” and
that “the children were exploited
for fund-raising activities.”

Before the Rosenbergs were exe-
cuted last June they named their
attorney and close friend, Emanuel
Bloch, as the children’s guardian.

Bloch died suddenly on January

30, but only a few.days before his
death he told how happy the child-
ren were with the foster parents
from whom they have now been
snatched. :

A friend of Bloch’s was quoted
in the National Guardian of Feb-
ruary 8 as saying:

“Tt was the Monday before Man-
ny died. He couldn’t take the grin
off his face. He had been to see
Michael and Robbie on Sunday. He
was so happy that they were doing
So well. He kept saying: ‘It’s won-
derful! It’s wonderful!’ ”

On January 26, in a formal press’

conference Bloch said the children

are “beginning to be absorbed in

their new surroundings and activi-
ties.” :

He’ pleaded: “What these child-
ren need most now is anonymity.
They are using the name Rosen-
berg, but few of their new little
friends know who they are and
| hope the world soon forgets.
They have suffered enough, and.
we can only hope their wounds
are not permanent.”

But Bloch’s. last wish, like the
dying desire of their parents, has
been shattered.

The authorities appeared at the
home of Abel and Anna Meeropol,
the foster parents, as the children
were getting ready for bed on

Wednesday night last week. ‘. The

officials wanted tod snatch the child-
ren right then and there, but a
lawyer was summoned and the ab-
duction was blocked. ;

Appearing in court on February
17 in behalf of the children were
Alexander Bloch, Emanual’s father;
Gloria Agrin, associated with the
younger Bloch in the Rosenbergs’
defense, and Professor Malcolm
Sharp of the University of Chicago
Law School.

This is the second time the chil-
dren have been hounded by the
authorities.

Before their parents’ death, they
were taken to the country home of
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Bach, near
Toms River, New Jersey.

They attended the Toms River

River country were opened up was
bate in the legislature last week.

into Vancouver. <

Quoting extensively from a fed-
eral government survey of the area,
he said the Peace River was the
area “most ripe for development in
all Canada.”

He pointed out that it had the
largest acreage of high quality
agricultural land remaining un-
settled in Canada. With a direct

Michael and Robert Rosenberg

link to Prince George and Van-

Elementary School until last Oc-
tober, when Principal Clyde. Slo-
cum ordered them to leave the
school. He said local schools were
“hopelessly overcrowded” and that
the board of education had decided
to enforce a regulations excluding
anyone but legal residents of the
school district.

Emanuel Bloch accused Slo-
cum of acting with “callous dis-
regard” for the welfare of the
orphans, He said “they singled
out these children because they
were the children of Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg.”

Bloch then took the children to
the Meeropols. Their whereabouts
has been kept sécret until last week.

Meeropol, whose professional
name is Lewis Allan, is a popular
composer and lyricist. A current
hit of his is “Apples, Peaches an
Cherries.” ;

Effie Jones will

Labor Bazaar Frida

One of Vancouver’s best-known
civic figures, Mrs. Effie Jones, will
open the second annual Labor
Bazaar at 8 p.m. this Friday in

Hastings Auditorium, 828 East
Hastings Street.

PACIFIC ROOFING
Company Limited

CE. 2733 -

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N. Bitz - B. Kostyk

open

A variety of home cooking and
handmade articles will be offered,
everything in fact from a beautiful
driftwood lamp to cooked corned
beef at 80 cents a pound.

Other items will include child-
ren’s and babies’ clothing, house-
hold furnishings, costume jewel-
lery, toys and books. Early shop-
pers, of course, will get the best
selection. -

Mrs. Jones will judge the bread
baking contest at 9:30 on Friday
evening. Two $5 awards will be
made,

The bazaar will continue through-
out Saturday. At 2 p.m. the Junior
Choir will present a program of

‘

songs. At 2:30 Edith Adams of

the Vancouver Sun will be on!

hand to judge the apply pie bak-
ing contest. Awards will be $10
as first prize for women’s entries
and $10 for men’s entries. Bonus
to the grand winner will be $10.

Entries in this contest will be
accepted up to 2 p.m. Saturday,
with particulars obtainable from
Mrs. Evans at FA. 1471-L.

Games, a wide choice of food
and bargains galore are expected
to attract a record attendance at
this bazaar. , It will wind up with
a gala dance starting at 9 p.m.
Saturday, for which an overflow
hall has been booked.

Big Asia trade seen in
opening up Peace River

A bright picture of a vast trade with Asian countries if the huge natural resources of the Peace

painted by Attorney-General Robert Bonner in the Throne Speech de-

During the course of a major policy speech for the Socred government, Bonner dealt at length
with the réasons which underlie the decision to go ahead with extension of the PGE to the Peace and

couver it would be closer to ocean

Ports than almost all of the
prairies. ;

The. coal reserves of the Peace
River were great, amounting to
several billion tons and extending
over some thousands of square
miles.

“There is a tremendous poten-
tial coal market in the Orient,”
Bonner observed.

The forests of this part of B.C.,
he observed, represented one of the
world’s greatest reserves of wood
which would grow in importance
with the continuing high demand
for wood products. :

The discovery of natural gas
had brought available power to
the district. Few people realized
the scale of the explorations in
that country. Proven resources
were now set at 3.7 trillion cubic
feet.

“There is more wildcatting go-

ing on in the Peace River country
than there ever was in Texas,” he
said. “It should excite the imagin-
ation of every person in the prov-
ince.”

It remained only to solve the
problem of communication, he ar-
gued, “to give a head and body
to the PGE.” ‘

Replying to critics of the exten-
sion, he maintained that trucks
could not handle the type of com-
modities to be exported—wheat,
coal, lumber and byproducts of
gas and, oil.

The same reasons prompted
the government to go ahead as
spurred the construction of the
CPR. It was not primarily a

. matter of recovering the pro-

vincial investment in the railway,
but of opening up the interior
and aiding the established areas
in the Lower Mainland and en
Vancouver Island. ,

“Let us join hands—‘old’ Ukrain-
ian Canadians and ‘newcomers,’ of
all religious and political views—
and together with the whole Can-
adian people strive to ward off the
threat of depression.

“In all organizations where we
belong together with people of
other national origins trade
unions, farmers’ unions, unions of
unemployed, cooperatives, etc. —
and in all our Ukrainian organiza-
tions and groups, let us demand
steps to combat the crisis. .

“Let us set aside all quarrels
and conflicts which hinder® our

ee

joint struggle for life, for the good
of Canada!”

The 160 delegates from all parts
of Canada told the story of mount-
ing unemployment and the farm
crisis. The convention decided to

Urge Strachan
demand jobs

LAKE COWICHAN, B.C.

A letter urging R. M. Strachan,
MLA (CCF, Cowichan-Newcastle) to
“use your influence in every pos-
sible way to bring pressure to bear
upon the government to demand a
public works and housing program,
and to bring about trade agree-
ments with Commonwealth coun-
tries and opening up of world mar-
kets” was sent by the Lake Cowich-
an LPP club to Strachan recently.
Over the signature of Mrs. Myrtle
Bergren, LPP candidate for Co-
wichan-Newcastle in the last prov-
incial election, the letter emphasiz-

ed the growing jobless crisis in the
area.

“Many economists predict a
slump of alarming proportions in
the United States by the middle of
1954,” said the letter. “Think
what this will mean to Canada, and
‘your constituents, unless we can
force our governments to deal with
other world markets.

“The Labor-Progressive party in
Lake Cowichan urges you to sound
the warning and bring these issues
to the attention of the people.”

Canada will not be able to extend
trade relationships with other
countries “until this country breaks
free of the dictates of the Ameri-

can dollar,” the letter added.

Join hands to ward.
off depression--AUUC

TORONTO

“Let there not be one unemployed among us, not one bankrupted
farmer or businessman, not one person homeless, not one person
hungry!” This was the call to all Ukrainians in Canada issued by the
sixth national convention of the Association of United Ukrainian Can-
adians, which concluded its four days of meeting last Sunday. :

launch a great membership drive
for the AUUC in the process of

‘| developing public activity on be-

half of peace and trade with all
nations, democratic rights, the
drive to avert the economic crisis
and the association’s cultural acti-
vities.

The convention endorsed the De-
claration of the Congress for Nego-
tiated Peace urging parliament and
the government to proclaim that
Canada would not use atomic weap-
ons first, and inviting. all other
states to join in a similar declara-
tion. ‘

The AUUC, which built the
splendid monument and museum
to the great bard of the Ukraine,
Taras . Shevchenko, at Palermo,
decided that in 1956 it would est-
ablish an Ivan Franko Museum
in Winnipeg to mark the 100th
anniversary of the birth of Ivan
Franko, who is second only to
‘Shevchenko in the hearts of the
Ukrainian people.

Peter Prokopchak was re-elected
national secretary of the AUUC,
and John Boychuk, national treas-
urer. Michael Korol is the new
president. Stanley ‘Dobrowolsky
and Helen Weir are the assistant
secretaries for work among the
Canadian-born and women. respec-
tively.

Other members of the national
executive are John Horbatiuk, vice-
president; Philip Lysets, recording
secretary; Peter Krawchuk, vice-
recording secretary; Tom Chopo-
wick, John Stefanitsky, Mary Skryp-
nyk, John Boyd and John Weir.

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