BD) tpl al fab sig Tyas UL es Mle Ab SON Aid Gx i Wh j 1; AGED SHENAE TEN Win seen for sports on Sunday . Vancouver will vote “ves” on Sunday sports activities Decem- ber 14, a poll of 500 citizens taken by a research firm this Week indicates. The poll showed that 73 per- ent of men asked: favored &Mateur and professional sports °n Sunday afternoons, while 9 percent of the women polled ®Xpressed | approval. " City council finance com- Mittee voted 4 to 1 Tuesday this Week to submit a plebiscite to flectors at the December 14 “ie elections. The following Wording, proposed by a special Sub-committee, was approved: “Are you in favor of the “ity of Vancouver seeking legis- lation to permit the playing of athletic sports, with an admis- son or participation charge 0 Sundays between the hours ed 1:30 pm. and 6 p.m. ?” Ald. D. E. McTaggart oppos- &d holding of a plebiscite. Idermen Birt Showler, Anna Sprott, Earle Adams and Bill voted in favor. Ald. George Miller scuttled into the ‘om and took his seat after he vote had been taken. : City clerk Ron Thompson a that during the week 51 fi ters and five petitions were ee ved favoring the petition, 3 _'wo letters and one petition Sainst A-bombs claim “nother victim TOKYO Hehe atom bombs dropped on ye oshima and Nagasaki 10 “*8s ago have claimed their °urteenth post-war victim. ae 12-year-old girl who, as th infant, was only a mile from a8 Centre of the A-bomb blast of Hiroshima, died this week Ute lymphatic leukemia attrib- d to radiation. aeven Dr. Robert Holmes, fessor of the U.S. Atom Bomb Bly Commission which is oy reluctant to ack- Jn, 8o8e the conclusions of pel ease doctors, was © com- death to admit that the girl’s effe could have been “a late ik of radiation.” The girl, fp..° Sasaki, was in a wooden ame b 5 i °Xxplode ae when the bomb LPP leader in city Tim Buck, LPP national leader (above), and two LPP leaders from other provinces, Ben Swankey of Alberta and W. C. Ross of Manitoba, will address the LPP provincial con- vention which opens in Van- couver this Friday. Buck will also speak at a public meeting in Pender Auditorium November 4, (See story on page 7.) MORE JOBS FOR COAST B.C. yards bid for Soviet ships . Burrard Dry Dock of Vancouver and two Victoria firms—Yarrows and Victoria Machinery Depot — are three of six Canadian shipyards preparing prices and delivery dates for construction of small ships and drydocks for the Soviet Union. The USSR wants twin screw lake tugs, floating docks with a capacity of between 1500 and 3000 tons, sea salvage vessels and light ships (the largest 600-ton vessels to carry 44-man crews). Marshall Johnson, president of . East-West Export-Import Company Ltd., of Vancouver, announced this week that his firm is acting as intermediary between the Sudoimport Com- pany of Moscow and the Can- adian shipbuilders, “Both Britain and Germany are building ships for the Soviet Union,” said Johnson. “Germany has delivered eight trawlers of a fleet of 24 ordered, while another 29 are under con- struction in Lowestoff, England. “Number of ships that the Soviet Union is willing to buy from Canada has not yet been specified, and will probably de- pend on cost estimates and de- livery dates.” Doukhobor mothers plead with Bennett for return of children Doukhobor children like, these have. been seized and shipped to New Denver. Peoples of the Fraser Midden _ PAGES 9-10 NELSON, B.C. “Give us back our children!” pleaded scores of Doukhobor women, breaking away from the crowd which had gathered here last Saturday to watch Premier W. A. C. Bennett and several members of his cabinet officiate at ceremonies mark- ing the start of construction of a new bridge. The women, members of the Sons of Freedom sect, fell on their knees before the grim- faced premier, crying and ap- péaling to him to return their children who had been seized by the RCMP and taken forc- ibly to a welfare institution at nearby New Denver. Official kidnapping of the children was ordered by the government as part of a cam- paign to break the resistance of the Doukhobors to sending their children to government public schools. The Sons of Freedom conduct their own schools but reject government schools be- cause they believe history teach- ers glorify war: Bennett and his cabinet min- isters (only Attorney-General Robert Bonner and . Works Minister W. N. Chant were ab- sent) refused to answer the women’s pleas andgstalked away trying to ignore the demonstra- tors. Later in the day the Douk- hobor mothers discovered Pre- mier Bennett in a downtown barber shop and again tried to present their case to him as he came out, but were thrust aside by police. Children from Sons of Free- dom families have been- seized and taken to New Denver in surprise raids staged during the past two years. This year more than 40 children have been picked up in a new campaign by the provincial government.