oe PTE SPORTLIGHT By BERT WHYTE SPORTS FANS who drop around to the 1952 Book Festival on Friday evening at Hastings Auditorium (and I hope some sports fans DO attend) will be able to pick up, for only $1.35, the British Olympic Association’s fine 115-page book, Olympic Games 1952. The book, which reviews both the Summer and Winter Olympics, contains some excellent color photos, and the complete records of the Games. Unlike American publications, it is free from anti-Soviet bias. Dealing with the gymnastics competition, it says: “As soon as the compulsory exercises were finished it was evident that the Russians were producing a standard never before seen in Olympics, and that they were shaking the hitherto highest ranking European nations. .. . “The women’s work showed a tremendous improvement, and there again the Russians showed their superiority by securing first place. In fact, both the Russian teams walked off with a fine collection of medals—the reward of concentrated training over ‘a long period. : F USSR gymnast V. Chukarin won four gold medals at Helsinki. “The records which had been set up by the Russians in their own country prior to the Games had been noted with interest, and a certain amount of speculation was rife as to their ability to sub- But in this, their first Olympic gymnastic appearance, no one who saw them had any doubt that the consistent quality they displayed in every de- partment warranted every medal their received.” stantiate them in international competition. Canadians will be interested in the book’s description of the ice hockey tournament last’ winter. It comments: “The Canadians, as in all Winter Olympics, except’ 1936, were clear winners on merit. Sweden led them 2-0, only to lose 2-3. The United! States’ second place was less well-deserved. The Americans, through their complete lack of sporting discipline and self control—rather than as a result, of their over-robust playing methods—became the most unpopular team in the tournament.” * * *x BRITAIN WON only two gold medals, one at Helsinki.and one at the Winter Games, where Jéanette Altwegg became the world’s figure skating champion. Olympic Games 1952 describes Jeanette’s victory: “Outside Scandinavia, figure-skating is far more. popular than the speed variety, and here Britain won her only winter sports gold medal through Jeanette Altwegg. Modest as she possessed, Jeanette was the embodiment of accuracy in the com- is self- pulsory figures, and her free-skating was of the finest standard. / “Jacqueline du Bief (France) was enthralling in the free- ‘skating, but the backbone of this event is the compulsory figures— usually executed for the benefit of the judges alone. This wonderful French skater, a born ballerirfa. just surpassed little Virginia Baxter (U.S.A.) in the free skating, but she could not make up the leeway against Tenley Albright (U.S.A.) and had to be satisfied with third place. , i “Barbara Wyatt (Great Britain) slipped back from fifth posi- tion after the compulsory figures to an honorable seventh, and Valda Qsborne (Great Britain) from seventh to ninth, while Canada’s No. 1, Suzanne Morrow, was sixth in both sections.” * * * A COMPLETE tabulations of medals won by each of the com- peting countries shows that at Helsinki the, United States _captured 40 gold medals, 19 silver and 17 bronze; the USSR 22 gold, 30 silver and 17 bronze; and Hungary 16 gold, 10 silver and 16 bronze. These coun- tries were followed by Sweden, Germany, Italy and Finland. Canadian veteran of — Korean war delegate — to world peace meet MONTREAL Nineteen-year old Yvan Ducharme of Montreal, Canadian veteran of the war in Korea, will attend the Congress of the Peoples for Peace in Vienna on December 12,~as a.member of the Can- | adian delegation to the world meet. His main appeal will be a call to end the war in Korea, he told a World Youth Day meeting in Toronto’s Church of All Nations on November 14. The meeting was sponsored by the Youth Friendship League. Both the League and the Quebec Youth for Inter- national Friendship group are co-sponsoring Duc! harme’s mission to Vienna. Blumes to ebnied school board seat as independent Dr, Joseph Blumes, who polled more than 22,000 votes as a can’ didate for Vancouver school board last year, has decided to make a At the meeting Ducharme ' call- ed ° on UN General Assembly President L. B. Pearson to bring: about a cease-fire and to negotiate all other questions following this. Wounded in the Imjin River fighting in November 1951, form- er Pte. Ducharme D-802458, was a member of B. Company in the Royal 22nd Regiment of the Spe- cial Brigade. He was discharged in June, partially incapacitated for life as a result of mortar shells. Ducharme now receives an $18 a month disability pension. Finlay Mackenzie, secretary of the Canadian delegation to the re- cent Asian-Pacific Peace Conference in Peking, also spoke. “The impression of my com- rades in Korea and myself is that we do not know why we are fight- ing there,’ Ducharme told the youth meeting. “We increasingly have the impression of making war on people who do not want war. “Tt was at this time while I was in Korea that I began to realize there was something not right. The Korean people do not want us. They told us to leave Korea... . I began to realize that the war was not a solution. I want. to assure you that even our own soldiers had no great love for this unpopular war. I don’t need to tell you that we often had the blues and we were all in a hurry to return home. “Tf all Canadians had seen, as I have seen, the miseries and atro- cities caused by the war, if all young people could see the devas- tation in cities like Seoul where not a brick is left standing and where whole fields of rice, the only source of nourishment, are abso- lutely destroyed, they would cry aloud fortthe end of the war in Korea and for the agreement that there would be no more war. “lf this war is prolonged it will degenerate into a world con- flict and mean conscription for all young Canadians. | know if every- one desired peace and opposed war, this war in Korea would end and there would not have to be other wars. That is why I am go- ing to the Congress of Peoples for Peace.” : A fesolution sent to the Cana- dian government calling for an im- mediate cease-fire, an end to the war and bringing the Canadian boys back home immediately was unanimously endorsed by the meeting. Finlay Mackenzie, China - born son of a Canadian missionary, told this reporter that the entire Cana- dian delegation to the ‘Asia-Pacific Peace Conference ‘recognized the fact that the struggle for peace and economic interchange were in- separable.” Mackenzie, who was vice-chair- man of the economic commision at the conference, explained that ‘in British Columbia, the fish and lumber industries were being seri- ously affected ‘by the lack of mark- ets. Furthermore, he said, indus- tries such as cheese, textile. and practically all industries not re- lated to war industry. were threat- ened with the loss of markets. second try for office in the coming civic elections. issued to the press this week says: His statement “T have decided to run again as a candidate for school board in the civic elections on December 10 because this is the only way I can continue my efforts to help wini a new deal for Vancouver chil’ dren, as I promised a year ago. “Since that time I have made con- tinuous efforts to get the school board to do something about the decreasing consumption of milk among Vancouver school children, arising from the high cost of this essential food. “This problem has received con- siderable public attention and I am convinced that my proposal to subsidize milk in the school has ' wide support. Fishermen asking arbitration board United Fishermen and_ ‘Allied ! Workers Union this week asked for establishment of an _ arbitration Board under Section 25 of the Fish- eries Act, in an effort to settle the herring price deadlock. Last week union fishermen reject- ed a price cut “ultimatum” offer of the Fisheries Association, and this week the union said further meet- ings with the Association would not be held unless companies raised their price offer. But the present school board continues the ‘do- nothing’ Policy which has been in © “effect since its own survey in 1949 showed milk consumption among children on the decline. “My election to the school board will prove that the public wants ac- tion on this vital issue. “T am also concerned about many other matters affecting our schools and school children, including the need for more kindergarten facili- ties, more action on the problem of overcrowded schools, and better training to prepare our children t0 take their places in the community as mature citizens. “Between now and election day I hope to be able to visit various city schools to get more information at first hand on these problems. “T believe thgre is a need for an independent voice on the school board. Members, of the present: board seem to be tpo much of one mind on almost every issue. It'S time we had an independent repre sentative on this important civi¢ body.” Canada’s growing trade crisis Efforts by the federal department of trade and commerce to increase, Canada’s trade with Latin American countries only serve to emphasise the country’s growing trade crisis and to indicate the need for breaking through U.S.-erected barriers against trade with People’s China, the USSR and the People’s Democracies. The diesel locomotives shown here, built in Canada for Brazil, are the first to be shipped from this to any Latin American country. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 28, 1952 — PAGE 2: