“Statements in a Vancouver
Sun article blaming Negroes
for many of the city’s strong-
_armings brought a sharp pro-

test this week from a mem-

ber of the Negro Citizens

League.

A. E. Forde, a former sea-
man (until Ottawa scuttled

Canada’s merchant marine)
-and now an unemployed iron-

worker, visited the Pacific
- Tribune office Monday to

protest the Sun article “slur”
against the Negro people of
Vancouver.

The Sun story said that un-
desirable aliens are to blame
for many of the city’s strong-
armings, and continued:

“Last year numbers of U.S.
citizens, particularly Negroes,
were rounded up and deported.
But again and again the word
‘Negro’ is appearing on re-
ports of strongarmings

Curiously enough, Moscow
citizens will have a chance to
shop in an American super-

market this Summer. An agree-
ment signed in Washington
|’ between U.S. and USSR rep-
__resentatives provides for a
x U.S. technological-cultural fair
iz to open in Moscow on the
Ss Fourth of July. One of the

exhibits — a modern’ super-
_ market. Another—a U.S. ae
; store.

lar fair in New York. Both

= Bes at $e
In his State of the Union mes-
sage President Eisenhower said
‘atone point: “IModern weapons

are buying certain bombers
that are worth their weight in
gold exactly.”

Newsweek comments: “The
President was being conserva-
tive. Gold costs about $500 a
16-ounce pound; a B-58 costs
$567 a pound,*and an Ad3J,
$650 a pound.” —

Bee SS
Another newspaper merger,
_ this time in Chicago, where,
Marshall Field Jr., publisher
of the tabloid morning Sun-
_ Yimes, has just bought the
_ Daily News, its afternoon rival.

In the U.S. and Canada,
newspaper competition is be-
coming a thing of the past.

newspapers have suspended
publication in the U.S. — and
in 75 ‘cities where competing
papers still exist, some 50 are
preparing for mergers.
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Nobody, but nobody, eats as

 trition experts and food econo-
mists have come up with some
figures. Food for an average
16-year-old boy costs $11.50
% -a week — compar ed with $4.50
for a three-year-old child and

The USSR will stage a simi-

fairs will be run for six weeks. -

___are exceedingly expensive. We

_ Over the past decade 217 daily

much as a growing boy. Nu-.

$8.50 for a 75-year-old man.

MISCELLANY

At an informal supper party at Cyrus Eaton’s home in
Cleveland, Soviet tourist Anastas I. Mikoyan was asked what
present he would like to take home to his wife in Moscow.
Without hesitation,, he answered in English, “A supermarket.”

ANASTAS MIKOYAN

Teenage girls eat about a third
less than teenage boys.
ie th thy

Thé U.S. and the USSR
will exchange some of their
modern films this spring.

Russians will see Oklahoma,
Marty, The Old Man and the
Sea, Roman Holiday, Lili and
The Great Caruso.

The Americans will see The
Cranes Are Flying, Swan Lake,
Othello, And Quiet Flows tht

Don, Circus Stars and. Don
Quixote.
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Dog owners beware — the

longer you live with your pet,
the more you'll grow to re-
semble the animal.

So writes Dr. Guy Dayness

of Hove, Sussex, in the Brit-
ish journal Medical Press.
“My mother’s nature, general-
ly friendly, but occasionally
fierce, is a good example. She

“used to breed Airedales.”

Lord Northesk, famous dog
fancier, barked his reply: “I

have four dachshunds and a-

Labrador retriever. According
to Daynes, I should have a
split personality, but in fact,
T feel quite happy with both.”

RACIAL DISCRIMINATION
Sun article on strongarming
branded ‘slur against Negroes

_ be

“Many Canadian cities near
the border have recently re-
ported an influx of ‘petty’ Am-
erican criminals, and _ police
say that in Vancouver the ma-
jority of these are Negroes.”

‘J yegard this article as a

slur against the Negro people,”

said Forde. “It can only re-
sult in encouraging prejudice
and ‘racial discrimination.

“The percentage of crime
among Negroes is no greater
than amongst any other sec-
tion of the population.

“If U.S. petty criminals and
hoodlums come to Vancouver
it is the duty of the immigra-
tion department to have them
deported — and to ‘see that
they stay out.”

Will return
Polish art
treasures

OTTAWA Part of’ the
priceless Polish art treasures,
brought to Canada during the
Second World War for safe-

keeping and which the Polish.

government has been trying
to obtain ever sinee, will now
‘returned to the Cracow
state museum. where they be-
long.

The move was made possible :
‘following an agreement be-

tween the external affairs de-
partment, the custodian of the
treasures and represntatives
of the Polish government.

_ It climaxes a _ 13-year-old
effort by the Polish authori-
ties and world-wide opinion
to get the treasures returned

to -their rightful owners, «the

Polish people.

The remaining part of the
treasures, consisting of 132
rich tapestries and other valu-
able articles, is still in the
custody of the Quebec pro-
vincial museum. Premier Mau-
rice Duplessis, in another vio-
lent outburst of prejudice, has
reiterated his previous stand
that his government will not
give them up “‘so long as there
is a Communist government
in Poland.”

Tim Buck greeted
on 68th birthday

TORONTO — Numerous
greetings and well wishes have
been received by Tim Buck,
leader of the Labor-Progres-
sive Party, on the occasion of
his 68th birthday, January 6.
The messages came from all
over Canada as well as other
countries.

The Soviet Union’s touring hockey team wound up its visit
to the United States with a record of five games won and
three tied. Action shot shows Russian goalie Eugene Erkin
beating Michigan defenseman Bob White in moment of
tense action at the goalmouth.

ANADA’S all-star basket-
ball. team should receive
a rousing welcome when they
return home from Chile, where

' the world’s basketball tourna-

ment is being held. This des-
pite the fact they didn’t score
enough points to make it into
the championship round.

After losing to Brazil 69-52
in their opener, the game Ca-
nucks came back to defeat
Mexico 54-51 and wallop the
USSR 63-54.

Canada, Russia and Brazil
tied behind the United States,
but .the Soviet team won sec-.
ond position because they had
scored 229 points in their three
games, to Brazil’s 210 and
Canada’s 169.

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No matter what season of
the year, it seems we just
can’t get away for football.

Latest headline news is that
Lions have been given per-
mission by Ottawa Rough
Riders to talk with all-Ameri-
can quarterback Randy Dun-
can of Iowa.

Lions need a classy man in
the slot. But so many “deals”
have blown up in the past that
we'll refrain-from commenting
on this one until we see some-
body’s signature on something.

xt $e xt

Everybody has been com-
paring the Moore-Durelle fight
to the famous Dempsey-Firpo

January 23, 1959 —

_ clash back in 1923. And rightly

so.

Overlooked in the hubbub
was the sterling performance
of Doc Kearns, who owns
about 11 percent of Archie.
The dapper Doc, now in his
seventies, has been living high
for ‘lo, more than half a cen-.
tury, on the blood, sweat and
tears of a collection of cham-
pions, club fighters and bums
who have toiled on his behalf.

Usually Kearns sits quietly
at ringside, watching Moore
massacre some stumblebum or
other. But when Durelle floor-
ed his tiger three times in
the first stanza, the Doc be-
came rejuvenated. Tongue
Wagging at a great clip, he
bounded up the steps. to
Archie’s corner as the round
ended, poured a stream of ad-
vice into his fighter’s nearest
ear.

Moore, after shaking his
noggin a couple of times, re-
gained his composure and
winked at referee Jack Shar-
key, who had come over to see
if the ancient warrior was fit
to come out for the second
round. : :

Kearns, worried about his
means of livelihood, climbed
the stairs to Moore’s corner
ten more times, and only re--
laxed when Sharkey had
counted the fatal “ten” over
Durelle. —

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