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The record of French
betrayal in Indochina

Pages 9-10

Death of an orchestra:
Toscanini and the NBC

Page 4

onignere John Klim, Vernon grower,
Ns he has been compelled to throw on the city dump because

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re is no market for them.

holds in his hands some of the

U.S. dumps in B.C. --

8.C. spuds

By HAL GRIFFIN
* VERNON, B.C.
Byj ish ria potatoes dumped on
i Columbia markets and
dy es thrown on the city-
What ie rot. That’s the story of
gan S happening in this Okan-
City,
an Gaon Potatoes, but onions
Non oj Tots are piled high on Ver-
Can Boa dump because -growers
no markets for them.

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fop Usewives are paying 30 cents

Cents Pounds of potatoes, 15
in cit or two pounds of onions
Y stores. But their money

Continued- on back page
See DUMPING

on dump

THANKS

At Pacific Tribune press time
our financial drive had gone away
over the top, with the figure at

$18,736

Final. tabulations will be print-
ed next week. Meanwhile, we
wish to thank every supporter
who helped bring the campaign
to a successful conclusion.

A reminder: our Victory Smor-
gasbord-Dance takes place this
Saturday, May 22, 6.30 p.m. at
Hastings Auditorium.

VETS ANGRY
AT PENSION

By BERT WHYTE

BRUSHOFE
Y OTTAWA

-“Tumultous Welcome Given Returning First War Vets,’’ said a three-column
head over a Vancouver Sun “‘flashback’’ story déscribing how 40,000 local citizens
turned out to give a heart-warthing reception to the first large-scale contingent of.
troops arriving home January 25, 1919, aboard the Empress of Asia.

In the same issue of the Sun a three-inch news story carried this inconspicuous

Radiation hits island,
petition sent to UN

one-column head: “War Veterans’
Boost Rejected.” The first para-
‘sraph told the tale: “Prime Min-
ister St. Laurent Tuesday turn-
ed down the Canadian Legion’s
renewed request for higher war
veterans’ allowances for 40,000
‘burned-out? veterans and their
dependents.” -

Many of the heroes of Vimy

- Ridge, Passchendale, Amiens and

the Somme—the men who were
promised a land “fit for heroes to
live in’—have now reached the
end of the road. “Burned out”
as a result of years spent in the
mud, muck and filth of Flanders,
they scrape along as best they
can on $50 a month if they are
single, $90 if married,

Money still talks, but as the

saying goes, it’s harder to hear it
these days. The $50 of 1954 buys

Continued on page 6
See VETERANS

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

Inhabitants- of the Marshall Is-
lands in the Pacific have com-
Plained to the United Nations
about the effects of the United
States H-bomb tests held there.

The petition said inhabitants of
two of the atolls in the Marshalls,
Rongelab and Uterik, were suf-
fering in various degrees from
“lowering of blood count,” burns,
nausea and falling hair.

In an effort to minimize the
complaint Cabot Lodge, U.S. rep-
resentative to the UN said the
US. government was sorry some
of the inhabitants suffered from
ill effects, but that it was all
caused by the unexpected fall-
ing of radioactive materials
through a shift in the wind.

The authorities in the area

were doing everything possible
to help the victims, he said.

In their petition, the islanders
asked for help to obtain a cessa-
tion of all H-bomb experiments
or if the experiments should be
deemed necessary, to see that
islanders within the danger zones
are removed to safety areas.

“The Marshallese people are
not only fearful of the danger to
their persons from these deadly
weapons in case of another mis-
calculation, but they are also very
concerned for the increasing
number of people who are being
removed from their land,’ the
petition declared.

The population of the Marshall
Islands is just over 10,000. The
islands were taken over from
Japan to be administered by the
U.S. after the Second World War.