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FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1957

VANCOUVER, B.C.
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the Post Office Department, Ottawa

DOES CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
SERVE TO DETER CRIME?

THE STORY OF MAY DAY

MAY

DAY EDITION

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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER WARNS:

May Day rally set

H-tests ‘catastrophe for race’ for Exhibition Park

OSLO

Dr. Albert Schweitzer,
Obel Peace Prize winner,
Warned this week that radio-
&ctivity is “ a catastrophe for
the human race.”

He appealed to the public
f all nations to demand the
Stopping of nuclear tests and
“Ompel international agree-
Ment,

_ The’ 82-year-old philosopher,
Yoctor and musician sent his
*Ppeal from his hospital in

French Equatorial Africa and
asked the Norwegian Nobel
committee to broadcast it. The
appeal was read in Norwegian,
French, German, English and
Russian.

Declaring that a catastrophe
is approaching — not only for
,ourselves but our decendants
— Schweitzer asserted, “We

are committing this folly in

thoughtlessness,” adding:

“The end of further experi-
ments with atom bombs would

be like the early sun rays of
hope which suffering humanity
is longing for.”

Assurances from various of-
ficial sources that the increased
radioactivity does not exceed
the amount the human body
can tolerate, were described
by Schweitzer as “just evad-
ing the problem.”

He said the greatest danger

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See SCHWEITZER

Vancouver’s May Day rally,
long a labor tradition, will be
held this year on Sunday,

April 28, in the Outdoor Thea-
tre ati Exhibition Park.

For the first time since the
early forties, however, there
will "be no May Day parade
this year.

Featured speakers at the
rally will be John Boyd of
Toronto and Nigel Morgan,

LPP provincial leader. Alex
Gordon will be chairman.

A program of folk singing
will be provided by the Youth
Folk Singers, a small group
of young people who have
established a reputation in this
field under the direction of
Searle Friedman.

The rally will begin at Ex-
hibition Park at 2:30 p.m. In
the event. of steady rain it
will be held in Pender Au-
ditorium.

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