British "Pipe mar Offer to place platinum on ket proof of Soviets’ peaceful intentions One of the most striking examples of the Soviet Union’s peaceful attitude toward and other nations of the world is the Soviet offer to States Titish market at $90 an ounce. No nation preparing to take to the Te see By HARRY RAYMOND NEW YORK the United place 3,000 ounces of platinum on the field of modern warfare would place on the world market this critically. strategic heavy steel-grey metal, which is so useful in the chemical and mechanical arts, €specially in industries that pro- Uce modern implements of war. Sylvia Porter, financial writer 8nd economics observer for the fw York Post, noted this was the first time the Soviet Union ad offered any platinum to the Western world since 1947. In 1947 ne U.S. began slapping an em- "rg0 on shipments of goods to & Soviets. But when the USSR this month Placed platinum on the market, Rate declared that the Soviets a “telegraphed in the most prac- eal of ways to all our allies in «Ope that she really means Peace?» 1 The Soviet Union is the world’s _“tgest producer of platinum, a etal with a market value today Nearly three times that of gold. latinum is a strategic metal Such industries as atomic. en- 4 ap” radio and electrical, chemi- » aViation, and machine con- Ction. Since the U.S. State one attment placed an embargo ings’. With the Soviet Union, Ustries have been ransacking Sa lobe without success for a W ‘source of platinum. he Soviet Union's offer of the ardto-get heavy platinum to i pverg nations willing to trade shi Made the U.S. embargo of tiar nents of so-called war-poten- vidi 800ds to the Soviet Union hinous. Even fertilizers, ma- fe oil and agricultural seeds © been barred from shipment tee € Soviet Union as strategic T materials. He fact, less than 24 hours rend; the USSR announced its ot, ess to trade platinum for on Materials with the West- Nations, the bottom dropped kor of the platinum black mar- een which many U.S. trad- D pended. feat Price of platinum dropped ~~ 987 to $90 an ounce. A year Pee Vancouver Second Hand Store © Stove Parts and Repairs ® Used Plumbing Supplies oF Sols Kitchenware 88 MAIN } a ST. _ PAcific 8457 LTT 4 SUL TM ne a PACIFIC ROOFING Company Limited 7733 509 West Broadway Bole oR Kostyk titnmaeeveveummuan ago it was $130 an ounce on the black market. In offering the precious metal on the British market, the Soviet Union is asking for no more than a fair deal in international trade. Radio speaker ‘Leo Brady, Labor-Progressive candidate for New Westminster, will be heard over radio station CKNW on Wednesday, July 29, 7:45 p.m, The USSR has vast stores of raw metals and manufactured goods and farm products ' she wishes to trade with the U.S., Brit- ain, Canada and other nations in the West. The USSR is seeking heavy machinery, chemicals, steel and other goods the Western countries could easily export in an atmosphere of peaceful world trade. European nations are beginning to see no reason why this normal trade should not be resumed. The U.S. position that East-West trade should be kept at.a standstill — with U.S. government spokesmen and the majority of American newspapers shouting war-inciting slogans at the socialist and new democratic nations of the East— is being condemned more and more in Europe as an unworkable plan. Not only Britain, France and the Netherlands are making plans to crack the American embargo, Japan is insisting on opening trade channels with the Chinese People’s Republic. ‘The USSR platinum offer is just one step in the peaceful trade of- fer. Trade.deals are being made, while spokesman for the US. gov- ernment decline to become part of the developing normal global trade relations. Seibert punctures Campney boast on jobs in Victoria VICTORIA, B.C. The boast made last winter by Ralph Campney, associate defense minister and Liberal candidate for Vancouver Centre, that defense orders would mean jobs f or every Victoria shipyard worker, was re- week by Tom Seibert, LPP candidate for Victoria. : raat eg dao pray batare, we know now what a Liberal ‘promise is worth,” said Seibert. “Employment in the yards is now only half what it was when Campney made his promise.” - At the same election meeting, Seibert also ripped into statements attributed to James McConachy, business agent of the Boilermak- ers’ Union, on his return from the union’s international convention in Kansas City. “It sounds like McConachy was bitten by the ‘red bug’ during his stay in the U.S. and thinks his name is McCarthy,” Seibert com- mented. S “Unemployed shipyard workers in our city are more interested in getting back to work than in unlon- raiding or witch-hunts,” he said. ‘ a _ PLANER ENDS: RESH CUT ; . 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BROWN PLUMBING & HEATING 371 Johnson Road R.R.1 White Rock - Phone 5661 Native Dancer with Eddie Arcaro up. a TE TEAM sports and women’s events will not be cut from the 1956 Olympic Games, despite the campaign for their removal waged by Avery Brundage, Yan- kee head of the International Olympic Committee. A _ recent meeting of the IOC in Mexico City confirmed Melbourne, Aust- ralia, as the site of the 1956 Games, and rejected the idea that team sports and women’s events be excluded. (Brundage began his drive to reduce the number of Olympic events im- mediately after Soviet girls and Soviet gym teams scored impres- sively at Helsinki.) Main site of the 1956 Games will be Melbourne’ Cricket Ground, which is being remodel- led to seat 120,000 fans. And be- eause Australia is “Down Under” | the Summer Games will take place November 22 to December 8. The British Empire Games to be staged in Vancouver next year is only one of many pre- paratory affairs designéd to tune up athletes for the next Olymp- iad. Others include the Asian Games in Manila, Philippine Is- lands, in May, 1954; the Medit- erranean Games in Barcelona, Spain, in May, 1955; the Juegos Deportivos Centralamericanos y del Caribe in Mexico City in March, 1954; and the Segundos Juegos Deportivos Panameri- canos in Mexico City in March, 1955. : as * It was plenty hot in Rossland when I passed thro on a holi- day trip recently, and a good pro- portion of the town’s youngsters were cooling off in the swim- ming pool. I was more than a mite surprised to. read in the Rossland Miner, therefore, that one of the main problems agit- ating the youth is the need for artificial ice in the arena next winter. A committee has been established and a couple of weeks ago some 65 students paraded through Rossland streets carry- ing banners urging parents to get behind the project and install the 1 | ice machine this year. * * * When anybody beats the book- ies, that’s news. Over in Lon- don some sharp characters took the bookies for $700,000 by bet- ting heavily on a French colt SPORTLIGHT By BERT WHYTE named Francasal, which went to the post at 10-to-1 odds. The cable to the track was cut half an hour before the race, thus preventing the bookies from whittling the odds down in Lon- don. This week Scotland Yard, in- vestigating the coup, found Fran- cascal in a barn 50 miles from the city and a “twin” with markings exactly the same. The investigation is continuing, and meanwhile the bookies are refusing to pay off. So I guess you can’t beat the bookies no matter what you do. * * * Winning his 16th victory in 17 starts, Native Dancer breezed to a nine-length win in the Arling- ton Classic last Saturday, and is being hailed as the greatest three-year-old since Citation. It is possible that the Dancer is the best horse racing today. That question may be settled in the fall, when he is scheduled to meet Tom Fool in the “race of the century.” Tom Fool is a four-year-old, considered by many turf experts as the best thoroughbred in the United States. My own opinion is that he will beat Native Danc- er. by at least two lengths in a weight for age race. *. * *” Nobody has even done it be- fore, but Florence Chadwick, who has already crossed the English Channel from France to Eng- land and from England to France, is now planning to swim a round trip. No male swimmer has ever at- tempted this feat in the past, and the odds are heavily against Miss Chadwick suceeeding — but one must admire her courage. en ee ee Now that Ben Hogan has won ° the British Oven. his ‘admirers are claiming that he’s as great a solfer as Bobby Jones or Walter Hagen. This raises the question —who was the greatest of all time? Looking over the record books, you have to side with the fabu- Jous Haig, who won four British Opens, captured two U.S: Ovens, and was five times Professional Golfers’ champion. The one time Haven and Jones met in match play Hagen handed Bobby the worst drubbing he ever received. — : PACIFIC TRIBUNE’ — JULY 24, 1953 — PAGE 11 ,