ti me HH Hi y h, iy) iy f, Vancouer British Columbia, March 112.7955 ‘4 PRICE TEN CENTS WHAT RIGHTS HAS B.C.? BEN ETT SHUTS OFF GAS EXPORTS DEBATE V's went all the way Penticton V’s, who, regained the world’s hockey championship ee feating Moscow Dynamoes 5-0 at Krefeld last Sunday, will be vee & tremendous welcome when they arrive in their home town Br ch’ 16." Action shot above- shows Dynamo captain Vsevolod Obov, Wearing helmet, behind Jack McDonald of the V’s. For Co: . onan on V’s victory, see Bert Whyte’s Sportlight column age |] : - would make sure there VICTORIA, B.C. British Columbians got another glimpse at how deeply the Socred government is involved in the sell-out of Peace River natural gas to U.S. monopolists when Premier W. A. C. Bennett personally intervened in a legislative debate in an attempt to stop opposition probing into provincial powers to stop the export of natural gas. The unfortunate fact is that the incident took place before almost empty galleries, Thailand, not China, main source of drugs and the scant publicity it has re- ceived in the daily press has given most people little opportunity to gauge the enormity of the steal being conducted under their eyes. Bennett’s attempt to hush up discussion came after a series of questions put by Randolph Hard- ing (CCF, Kaslo-Slocan) to Lands and Forests Minister Robert Som- mers on the question of prov- incial control of natural gas ex- port. Harding asked Sommers wheth- er export restrictions would be inserted into provincial leases granting companies rights to use natural gas. ‘Sommers replied that it was being given “very serious con- sideration.” He said that it “lies in the jurisdiction of this government to set conditions over the export of natural gas.” Harding pressed him to assure the House that the government is an ample supply of Peace River gas for B.C. people and industries be- fore any exports were allowed. Sommers answered that “even if the federal government gave permission to export it, we could still keep it within the province.” Still not satisfied with the min- ister’s replies, opposition mem- bers asked* how B.C. could get more of the gas from the West- - coast ‘line if demand increased. (Present plans are for the bulk cf Peace River gas to go to the US. Sommers maintained that “ade- quate protection” was provided for B.C. by the leases. Their terms would cover all present and fut- * ure regulations, and if four times more gas were needed in B.C. then the regulations could simp- ly be changed. Arthur Turner (CCF, Vancou- ver-East) asked if the U.S. would consider it an “unfriendly act” for B.C. to attempt to cut off the flow of natural gas to the U.S. Continued on back page See BENNETT Labor bazaar this weekend This Friday and Saturday bar- gain hunters are expected to jam both lower halls at Hastings Auditorium where Annual La- bor Bazaar promoters have prom- ised “goods galore at sensation- ally low prices.” The bazaar opens at 2 p.m. Friday, and continues all day Saturday, with a dance winding up the affair in the evening. An apple pie and bread bak- ing contest, to be judged Satur- day at 2 p.m., has attracted a large number of contestants. Home cooking will be on sale both days. For the last few weeks the Vancouver Sun has been engag- ed in a tampaign to expose the evils of the drug traffic in this city,. admittedly an increasingly serious problem. To support its sensational headlines it sent Jack Wasserman, a _ staff writer, to New York. It would however, be a poor campaign the Vancouver Sun could not turn to cold war ac- count. Both directly and on the auth- ority of officials he interviewed, Wasserman claimed that the main source of drugs reaching this continent was China. If he made any effort to sub- stantiate his claim, either by direct approach to the Chinese government through: its embassy in London or by reference to available materials on the gov- Continued on back Page See DRUG Solon Low’s false quotes" Report from Ottawa Page 4 The crime of Ken ya by D. N. Pritt, Q.C. - page 9