RESISTANCE TO ARMAS GROWS Guatemalans have not been b ire people of Guatemala have had one year in which to’ find out ‘what it means to be “liber- ated” in the style of Castillo Ar- mas, the dictator, who invaded Guatemala on the instigation of the U.S. State Department, and seized power on June 27, 1954. They have seen many people’s organizations dissolved: the 109,-~ @00 strong CGT (Confederation of Workers of Guatemala), Na- tional Confederation of Peasants, - democratic political parties, Teachers Union, Railway Work- ers Union, Guatemala Women’s Alliance, House of Culture, Gua- temala Ballet and Guatemala Choir. The Agrarian Reform Law in- troduced by the Arbenz govern- ment was abolished, with the peasants who received land under it ‘being steadily dispossessed. The United Fruit Company, U.S. monopoly that has made ‘hundreds of millions of dollars out of the sweat and blood. of the workers of Latin America has been given back its huge holdings. The hydro-electric plant at _ Marinala was handed over to Guatemalan Electric Enterprises, a subsidiary of the U.S. Trust, Electric Band and Share. The U.S-owned railway mon- opoly FRCA has had its multi- million dollar debt wiped out. The country’s oil reserves are be- ing given over to Standard Oil. - The national airline, Aviatec- ca, is now part of Pan American Airways. The new -highway to the Atlantic designed to com- pete with the railway monopoly is to be completed only through adding to the nation’s debt through a new foreign loan. These backward economic steps have been accomplished by political repression. There are at Yeast three concentration camps full of Arbenz supporters. “Committee Against Commun- ism” has replaced the courts, to fearry through the work of re- pression. Today there are 30,000 unem- ployed workers in tiny Guate- mala. Wages have been cut and hours of work increased. The Labor Code is a thing of the past. Public employees have ‘been fired and 2,300 teachers re- lieved of their posts. Agricul- tural workers are not allowed to join. any unions. The Castillo Armas regime re- silenced Longevity researches earn Hungarian prize A Hungarian doctor of medi- cal science and~ his wife are working to prolong hu- man life. The first big step in their researches — discov- ery of a new enzyme — won them a $3,000 Kossuth Prize. Dr. Jozsef Balo, director of No. 1 Institute of Pathology, and his wife Hona, for a num- ber of years have been peek: ing an answer to ‘arterio- sclerosis — hardening of the arteries. Arteries are lined with a resilient fibre which might be likened to rubber. In old age the fibre bécomes hard and does not renew itself. ~ The two Balos discovered that an essential material for the regular renewal of the fibres is secreted from the pancreatic gland. They have named it elastase. They are now working out ways of mak- ing elastase. as a medicine against arterio-sclerosis. The’ minds Guatemalans of. the 13- year long despotic rule of Gen- eral Jorge Ubico, friend of Unit- ed Fruit and the big landowners, prior to 1944. oe mw But resistance to the Armas regime is growing. és The PGT (The Guatemala Workers party — party of Guate- malan Communists) is publish- ing a paper, Verdad. The demo- cratic students issue a militant periodical The Student. Slowly the democratic organi- zations of the people are being rebuilt. US. vice - president Nixon’s “goodwill tour’ was met with. anti - imperialist demonstrations. International Women’s Day and the holiday of Dolores, tradition- al students day, were also the oc- casion for demonstrations. The people have not been sil- enced. In their resistance the unity of all political parties is a living force. Expressions of world solidarity have prevented execu- tions and have added to the strength ofthe courageous lead- ers in the struggle against the op- pression of Castillo Armas. si - All progressive organizations have been outlawed by the dic- tatorial Armas regime, some of whose Supporters are shown here, but the resistance of the Guatemalan people has not been crushed. oa Arctic town moved 33 miles The town of Aklavik (above), which is slowly sinking into its perma-frést foundations Mackenzie River delta, is being moved to a new site 33 miles away where there: is a gravel for buildings and roads and sewers can be installed. _The move is to be completed by 195 site will be retained only as a trading post. RADIO-TV CBUT program manners, mores CBC’s popular series of Sum mertime broadcasts originating from the stage of Malkin Memor- ial Bowl returns to the air for its eighth consecutive season this Sunday night, July 3 at 9 p.m. ° Featured each week will be the Harry Pryce orchestra and Van- couver’s own Don Garrard, who is home from Toronto for the summer. This week's guests will be soprano Milla Andrews and “pops” songstress Suzanne. * * * CBC-TV’s Living program will present another “special en- quiry” on July 4 at 4.30 p.m., this time focusing attention on the manners and mores of big-city teen-agers. eX. * xe With the coming of summer there is a whole new crop of shows for children, both on radio and on television. Grand McEwan, who makes his. home in Calgary, is the author of a series of radio scripts titled Prairie Picture, a children’s pro- gram to be heard on Thursday ‘afternoons at 4.30. First of the series is entitled George Simp- son and his Fur Empire. In the new television line-up for children there will be films from other lands, puppets, ani- mals and birds, remote telecasts, - folk song programs, scientific ex- periments and cowboys. / Children’s. programs will be seen on the CBC-TV network each day at 5 p.m., the one on Mondays being a series of travel films called World Passport. * * , * The Welsh novelist Gwyn Thomas has written for the BBC a humorous appreciation of a schoolmaster’s difficulties. Titled Forenoon, it will be heard on Tuesday, July 5, 9-10 p.m. on CBC Prans-Canada. _ ‘Himself. a schoolmaster, Thom- as aimed ‘to make communicable the humor that kept me and my fellows in a roar of delight through years that would have put an elephant out for the count.” « ec key ik land numbers, and novelty and popular tunes, CBC Dominion’s Hotel Downbeat show is recom- mended for light listening o Sundays at 6.30 p.m. f _As the title implies, the set- fing is a hotel — it could be any hotel. There’s the hotel man- ager, in this case Barney Potts, who emcees the program; the |: bellhop, who also happens to be ‘a singer, played by Don Francks; and the “grousing” guest — Ruby Chamberlain — who gives every- body a bad time. ( Music is supplied by the Lance Harrison orchestra; the scripts “track ‘down and~ For a few laughs, some Dixie- r) g8 are by Vancouver humorist Eric Nicol. * * * From 8.35 to 10 p.m. each Sat- urday evening from July 9. to August 6, inclusive, music direct from the Stratford, Festival will be heard on CBC Trans-Canada. x * * Merle Oberon will make one of her rare television appearances on Four Star Playhouse when she stars in The Frightened Wo- man, the terrifying tale of the fear a woman encounters when ‘she suddenly finds the clock turn- ed back 25 years. The program will be seen on CBUT Sunday, July 3 at 9 p.m. In the role of Carol Lawrence, Miss Oberon enters a bookstore to find that the year is 1930. At MOTHER UNITED WITH DAUGHTER focussed on of teenagels . ° ; in the foundation 8. The old f ~ ee first, she refuses to peliev™ ss thinking that the clerk 15 / eccentric. ast Upon leaving the shop, she it as suddenly returns to 1959, gael 5 when the book she has Pur to tht disappears and she returns | ali? shop does Carol begin t0 TY tip what is happening. Her § ot efforts to solve the mystely. ide an exciting and drama. Mee x * sae The July 5 edition of the at 8 Rogers Show on Channel | erest ‘p.m. will be of special a0) for television fans, wher a Rogers and Dale Evans sta? Ff hour-long program of rodent citement and top wester® tonia tainment from San AMS Texas. “Aunfolded last week in a three-, roomed flat in Oban, Scotland, ‘overlooking the placid waters of the Sound of Mull. It was told by blonde, attrac- tive 35-year-old Mrs. Wanda Mc- Dougall, a former Polish opera singer who thas just been reunit- ed with her 15-year-old daughter Evelyn from Warsaw. Twelve years ago, during the Nazi occupation of Poland, Wan- da Weiss and her young husband Were sent to the death camp at Auschwitz. They managed to leave their daughter behind with Wanda’s mother. _ A few days after their arrival, Wanda was made to dig a grave for her husband —. murdered in the gas chamber. “Til remember she “said. ‘ i When the Red Army neared Auschwitz in 1944, orders were if I live to 90,” - given to transfer the camp to Leipzig. Many never got there. They were. machine-gunned iby —_— Clip ond Mail. Tribune Publishing Company Limited, Suite 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Please enter my subscription to the PA TRIBUNE. Wanda escaped. 3 where she met her preset vet band, Neil McDougall, iesi0t Rea ie : She came to Oban in }§ could not forget *her Evelyn... gote™ tional Red ‘Cross het ool was traced to the sm@ with an aunt and her 8 father. iS looking youngster an mother is musically tale’ i ‘from the education aul enable ther to carry On : “My husband is on ake and we shall have to ™ the opportunities,” said el “We want her to catty © tion she moved to with the Control. Comm! ried’ and settled down. — With the help of the town of Zabrze, where She Evélyn is an attractive, } 3) In Poland she had i os “with music studies. ty - wo fices to see that Evely® oy her education.” i ¥ ne PACIEE y ; + PRE an ae PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 1.1988 =a - 7A \ % '