ti Rl alllm ‘They’re dead’ guard whispers to Morton Sobell in Alcatraz: Rosenbergs’ tor _ It was 5 p.m. im San Francisco on that night of June their deaths in Sing Sing prison 3,000 miles away. In another prison on a grim rock in San Franc is Papers. But one of them was told — by a guard — tha To this prisoner, the death of the man and wife who went to the electric chair firm in the de- Claration of their innocence was a déeply personal matter. His life and theirs had become profoundly entwined, But to Morton Sobell far more an a sense of tragic personal loss was involved in the word pass- by a guard that warm Friday evening, ; For to Sobell, 36-year-old electri- Cal engineer, was passed that night he torch of vindication — carried with such courage by the Rosen- bergs to the very door of the Sing Sing death chamber. Serving out the first year of a year sentence within, the walls of the most awful U.S. federal Prison of them all — Alcatraz — is © man who becomes the focal Point of a campaign to reverse a Verdict written in ‘blood and Shame, As long as there was a chance to save the lives of the Rosen- a S. H. BROWN PLUMBING & HEATING 371 Johnson Road RR] White Rock - Phone 5661 a > Vancouver _ Second Hand Store ® Stove Parts and Repairs ® Used Plumbing Supplies Tools Kitchenware 388 MAIN ST. PAcific 8457 “Sobell is just beginning.” By STEVE MURDOCK ch passed on 19 when Julius and Ethel Rosenberg went to co bay, the inmates are not allowed radios or news- t the Rosenbergs were dead. bergs, Sobell, a friend and a co- defendant, stood understandably in the shadow. Now he emerges as the symbol of vindication. With the Rosenbergs, he was convicted — in an atmosphere of hysteria — of “conspiracy to com- mit espionage.” Like the Rosenbergs, he has from the beginning unfalteringly declared his innocence. Unlike the Rosenbergs, he still lives. ‘ Recently his attorney, Howard N. Meyer of New York, came here to confer with him. “In a sense,” said Meyer, “the case of Morton The regulations of U.S. federal prisons do not permit prisoners to be interviewed by the press. Thus, the picture of Sobell must be pieced together with the aid of his relatives and friends. They paint a picture of a man of quiet courage, a scientist, a scholar, a loving husband and a tender father. Some of the picture emerges also from the formal legal lan- guage of the already-lengthy re- cords in the case. ‘t still maintain my innocence of the grave crime’ for which I have been convicted,” he wrote to Federal Judge Irving Kaufman of New York early this year. There is much, of course, that is not in the formal record — the many, many times, for ex- ample, that Sobell has been of- fered a “deal” if he would 4 CLASSIFIED . 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Phone HA. 3277. 4 PENDER AUDITORIUM (Marine Workers) 339 West Pender LARGE & SMALL HALLS FOR RENTALS Phone PA..9481 “talk.’ More times, they say, was this offer made to him than it was made to the Rosenbergs. One reason he is in Alcatraz — suposedly reserved for the most violent and desperate of criminals — is his refusal to tell the kind | of a story the U.S. government wants him to tell. His. alternative was Alcatraz. The Rosenbergs’ was death. In the face of all this, Sobell stands firm. . . Benjamin Dreyfus, San Fran- cisco attorney associated, with Meyer in Sobell’s defense, visited Sobell after the Rosenbergs’ execu- tion and reported him in a cour- ageous frame of mind although obviously affected deeply by the impact of the deaths. Meyer, who also visited him re- cently, described him as being “in good shape.” “His morale seems high, and he’s convinced of eventual vindi- cation when the facts become wide- ly enough known. x = eee The terrible thing is that what happened to Sobell could happen to anyone in the United States today. It’s the story of a typical U.S. family caught up and torn asunder in the whirlwind of a very carefully nurtured “spy” hysteria. : It’s a story of kidnapping and of terror. It’s a story of steadfast courage — and of little known facts. A man, vacationing with his family in Mexico, is seized brutal- ly and driven night and day to the U.S. border where Mexican police turns him over to the FBI. He finds himself caught up in a screaming vortex of hysteria. Not even the U.S. Department of Justice pretends that he is an “stom spy” but the press has branded him and the impression has been widely stamped on peo- ple’s minds. Finally he is tried— and convicted on the unsupoprted testimony of one man. AEE ee COMING!! JULY 20!! (Next Week) Western Canadian Premiere!! FOR ONE WEEK ONLY _ TARAS SHEVCHENKO Filmed in Magicolor With English Subtitles _ x LIFE STORY OF THE UKRAINIAN POET x A BLAZING NEW EPIC OF OLD RUSSIA * PLUS—SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS . (Continuous Showing from Noon) Prices: To 1 p.m., 35c; To 5 p.m., 50c; After 5, 60c. Children, 15¢ all day (including tax) Avon Theatre 142 E. Hastings St. Mary D‘Souza. Marjorie Jackson, one of Australia’s great Olympic champions, will be competing in the British Empire Games here next summer. Here Marjorie (left) is shown working out with Indian sprinter ioe eh Se N= year is Vancouver’s big year. In playing host to the . British Empire Games in 1954, we have the opportunity of a lifetime te put this city and prov- ince on the sports map. Just as all eyes centred on the Olympics at Helsinki in 1952, so millions of sports fans will be watching to see athletes from a score of countries shape up here. In a very real sense, BEG is a prelude to the 1956 Olympics. Preparations for the Games were 'so slow getting under way that many critics were beginning to doubt if,we’d manage to re- tain the great sports spectacle. For a while there was talk of shifting the BEG site to Toronto or Hamilton. Now the speculation has end- ed. The first sod was turned re: cently in the construction of Vancouver’s new athletic stadium at Exhibition Park, and official promise that the stadium will be completed early next spring. * * * “The representatives of 24 Commonwealth countries are coming here next year,’ BEG secretary “Sandy” Duncan, here from London, England, to check on preparations, told some 1,000 citizens who turned out to watch Percy Williams perform his sod- turning chore. Well, and how will Canada’s athletes fare in competition with ace sportsmen from other lands . .. the English, the Scots, the Welsh, the Ceylonese, the Niger- ians, Rhodesians, Fijians, South Africans, Aussies. . . .? If we look at Helsinki results, it would appear that the British, -SPORTLIGHT By BERT WHYTE the Aussies and the South Afri- cans will finish up in front. Un- official Olympic scoring put Aust- ralia in 11th place, Great Brit- ain in 12th, South Africa in 14th and Canada in 25th. * * * The government’s failure to provide sufficient playing fields, swimming pools and recreational centres is the key reason why our Canadian athletes fail to measure up to _ international standards. And the war budget, with its crippling taxes, is caus- ing a further curtailment of sports activities. If you want proof of this, take a look at socialist countries, where sportsmen and women are given every encouragement and assistance, and where the accent of the nation’s economy is on peace. At -Helsinki the whole world was amazed by the brilliant show- ing of the Soviet and Hungarian athletes. The amazement would phave been less had more people taken the trouble to examine the budgets of these two countries. In the Soviet Union in 1950, for example (I haven’t more recent figures, but the sum for sports | is constantly going up) budget allocation for physical training and sports was 20 million roubles. There’s nothing wrong with Canadian athletes that couldn’t be cured by simply ending “Un- cle Louis” St. Laurent’s policy of “battlefields before playing fields” and spending more money on sports. (By the way, you can do something about this on Au- gust 10.) COME ONE! SWEDIS North of Second Narrows COME ALL! TO THE - Workers Benevolent Association PROVINCIAL PIC RAIN OR SHINE SUNDAY, NIC JULY 26 H PARK Bridge, North Vancouver. Special Bus To The Picnic Grounds From Hastings at Cassiar Street, from 12.30 p.m. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 17, 1953 — PAGE 11