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September 30, 1955

Shameful scene

The dark clouds of fas-
Cism gather over South
Africa where police this

Week staged extensive
Falds seeking evidence of
; peuition.” Some two. mil-

On Africans, in the West-

‘rn Provinces are being

Photographed, finger-

Printed and given a num-

ber for life, as shown be-
low,

PLEBISCITE DIVERSION ?

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MISSISSIPPI VERDICT OUTRAGES WORLD

probe

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‘land woman to speak
" city on China visit

no, Vancouver Island woman
‘the ihc. visited China at
Wome itation of the All-China
Won S Yederation, Mrs. Mona

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Ret} of the country at a public

‘i Bion to be held in Pender
Riday, tum (Lower Hall) this
cee September 30, 8 p.m.,
auspices of the Congress
'Nadian Women.

By JOSEPH STAROBIN

Two white men, the 24-year-
old Roy Bryant, who owns'a
general store, and his half-
brother, J. W. Millam, 35, were
on trial for the murder of a 14-
year-old Negro boy, Emmett
Till.

NEW YORK

A terrible drama, on which the eyes of all the U.S. were focussed, unfolded in the
and sleepy courthouse of Sumner, Mississippi during the past week. Sumner has a

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Pulation of 600. It lies in the delta of rich pl :
Countryside William Faulkner has described in his novels. But something has happened

the early morning of August 28 which

antations, the heart of Tallahatchie County,

even a Faulkner his yet to describe.

“As I write these lines, the
radio reports that the all-white
jury brought in a verdict of

“Not Guilty” after deliberating -

for one hour. Yet; this case
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arful of
isclosures

Is Vancouver's Non-Par-
tisan city council planning
to use plebiscites on fluori
dation and Sunday sports

to distract attention from
disclosures of graft and corrup-
tion in police administration for
which the Non-Partisan civic
regime bears responsibility ?
The plan appeared to be tak-
ing shape this week after coun-
cil, sitting as the social services
committee with Mayor Fred
Hume and Ald. Birt Showler
absent, voted 4-3 to support
fluoridation of the city’s water
supply in principle. The. vote

request sent eto all Greater
Vancouver municipalities by
the water board asking them
to state their position on fluori-
dation.

Aldermen George Cunning-
ham, D. E. McTaggart and
Earle Adams voted for fluori-
dation in principle and Alder-
men T. F. Orr, George Miller
and Jack Cornett voted against.
Ald. Anna Sprott cast the de-
ciding vote.

Ald. Miller argued for the
issue to be put to a plebiscite
and when the vote was taken it
showed the same line-up of

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Time to quit all bases

MOSCOW

Marshal Zhukov, Soviet defence minister, said last week
the Soviet Union had decided the time had come “to liquidate
bases in general.”

He was answering questions at a Finnish embassy re-
ception in Moscow on the Russian decision to quit its treaty
naval base at Porkkala in Finland.

“The sooner others follow our example the better it will
be for peace in general in our opinion,” he said.

Asked which bases he had in mind, he replied: “We
have in mind the bases of other countries ,for example United

‘States bases round the Soviet Union, the Chinese People’s

Republic, and other People’s Democracies.

“Talks about peace, we think, must be strenghtened by
action. That is what we are doing.”

John Stewart reports from Soviet Union

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