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Thousands
Wait
Outside
Kremlin
By
Tb
Canadian
Press
Ruthless
Ruler
For
25
Years
H
the
Alalr4
frew
Joseph
Stalin,
the
"man
of
steel"
who
"rose",
from
a
student
of
the
priesthood
to
a
revolutionary
agitator,
has
ruled
Soviet
Russia
with
a
strong
and
V.
MOSCOW
Speculation
is
rife
throughout
the
capitals
of
the
world
today
that
Joseph
Stalin
is
dead.
But
the
only
official
word
in
Moscow
said
the
73-year-old
dictator
is
gravely
ill
following
a
stroke
suffered
Sunday.
Leaders
of
Communist
sate!
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Li
it.
Hydro
Plant
Fire
'f
V
i
rm
ks
l
hum
Tlir.
HI
f.K
1000.000
Ciuls
rail
plant
near
OUmiu
(trc
rag
out
lites
in
Europe
wera
reported
called
to
Moscow
adding
to
speculation
that
the
Russian
Prime
Minister
may
already
be
dead.
First
word
of
the
Illness
of
the
Red
chieftain
came
soon
after
dawn
in
a
Moscow
broadcast.
He
was
described
as
in
a
coma,
with
his
body
partly
paralyzed
and
hi
condition
grave.
Some
western
diplomats
said
the
handling
of
the
illness
announcement
supported
their
;
..
3
?.-.
rS.7
fx
rr
ruthless
hand
for
23
years.
Today
he
U
either
very
ill,
or
dead.
At
any
rate
lus
career
appears
to
be
ended.
And
whoever
will
succeed
the
arch
revolutionist
cannot
avoid
being
overshadowed
by
a
history
carved
by
an
Iron
fist
under
which
lives
fell
like
that
of
wheat
l
.v.u.ms
01
hip
coin
reic
aii
and
ro)I
collapsed.
The
plant,
hou.siiiK
mlllionii
of
orih
at
luiblnn
and
dynamo,
locate
30
miles
ct
of
Ottawa
on
the
Ottawa
River.
!
)n,.,uy
by
the-
OiiUrto
Hydro
and
th:
Otuwa
Valley
Power
Company.
It
aupplies
r
Tm.ji.to
ar.d
other
gouthern
OnUrlo
ciitre.
The
blaxe
broke
out
following
an
explo-jn
oil
circuit-breaker
or
transformer.
A
spark
U
believed
to
have
Ignited
oil
In
the
j.
uttering
burning
oil
over
the
equipment
-Damage
estimate
ranges
up
to
J5.000.000.
1
hximum
Hydro
Power
Surplus
theory
that
the
dictator
is
dead.
Western
correspondents
in
Moscow
were
under
strict
censorship.
Even
the
official
an-,
nouncement
of
Stalin's
Illness
was
held
up
until
it
could
be.
1
before
the
scythe
during
the
now-famed
Red
Purges.
Stalin's
original
name
was
Joseph
Vissarlonovlch
Djugashvili.
City
Limited
to
10,000
hp
II
i
passed
formally
through
i
1.
II
I
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ll
IMMBM
"
r
"I
111
II
II
I
l
i
f
I
He
was
born
December
21,
1879.
in
the
villuffp
rf
Cinri
nrnvinp
".urpiu.'.
elei-trii
al
i
Mimptlon
tiiat
Uure
U
an
abun-j
The
dictator
was
stricken
in
f
rh
r.iu.U
be
develoned
i
danre
of
cheap
hydro
power
from
undeveloped
in
w.urie
nt
hydro,
ohtuinnbit.
NEAR
DEATH'S
DOOR
now
or
dead
already
Premier
Stalin
of
Soviet
Russia
(right)
Is
pictured
here
with
the
lata
F.
D.
Roosevelt,
former
VB.
president,
at
the
1945
"Big
Three"
Yalta
conference.
Other
member
"of
the
conference
was
Winston
Churchill,
wartime
and
present
prime
minister
of
Great
Britain.
his
Kremlin
apartment
with
a
paralysing
hemorrhage
of
the
W!
so-mile
railiiue
of
brain.
The
physicians'
bulletin
f
ipetl
18.000
horw-
garded
on
a
year
round
basis
at
0(
Tlflis.
Georgia,
the
son
of
a
exceeding
60
per
cent
t,f
the
,
hoe
maker
father
and
serf
msxlmum.
wlitn
fully
devel-
mother.
W
'
He
was
successively
theological
The
siiiulicit
hydro
site
Is
at
i
student,
revolutionary
agitator.
Woodworth
Lake,
w
here
even
!
journalbt.
military
leader
and
with
diversion
of
small
lakes
political
administrator.
It
was
and
streams,
new
dam,
new!
after
he
became
a
revolutionary
pipeline
and
generaUng-
sta-
j
that
he
took
the
name
of
Stalin,
lion,
a
maximum
of
only
3.000
which
means
"man
of
steel."
It
which
called
his
condition
grave,
now
is
more
than
18
hours
old.
The
first
bulletin
was
signed
by
eight
attending
physicians.
PAT
WALSH,
37.
ot
Quebec
has
resigned
from
a
number
of
Communist-front
organizations
and
told
ot
Kremlin-directed
sabotage
orders
In
Canada
in
the
everit
of
war.
Walsh,
former
secretary-treasurer
of
the
independent
Canadian
Woodworkers
Union,
is
the
third
labor
official
to
resign
from
Communist-led
unions
in
recent
years.
The
others
are
J.
A.
(Pat)
Sullivan
and
T.
G.
(Gerry)
McManus,
both
connected
with
the
Canadian
Seamen's
Union.
and
it
said
treatment
had
brought
no
material
change
in
the
condition
of
the
Communist
jimji-r
of
the
only
t
p.jer
eonipanjf
In
BC
said
In
an
Inter-
'
urpius.
iaid
T.
B
Black,
rnaiaiter
of
Northern
r
to
Ltd
.
would
take
coiiiuierable
Industrial
"
nd
addi-d
that
"we
i!h
surpiu
now
taboul
to
wUily
mi.ne
small
h
p.
could
be
obtained
tor
brief
was
the
custom
of
revolutionaries
to
take
nom
de
plumes
for
their
writing
and
other
activities
as
a
leader.
'W
resoUrr
In
the
vicinity
of
Prince
Rupert.
"Thl
Is
entirely
In
error."
he
said
"Actually,1
there
are
lx
potential
sources
within
a
radlu.i
of
50
milet
of
this
city.
They
are
widely
eattered
and
none
ran
be
considered
as
of
large
capacity
"
The
lunie.st
potential
aupply,
raid
Mr.
Biark.
wax
at
Falls
River,
about
45
miles
from
Prince
Rupert,
where
the
NBC-PC
plant
Is
located.
Thin
alte
has
a
maximum
capacity
of
30.-noo
h
p.
but
the
continuous
reliable
output
"could
not
be
re-
periods.
The
other
four
water
power
Socreds,
Unionist
To
Meet
in
Victoria
,
VICTORIA
(CP)
Labor
Minister
Lyk.
Wicks
said
Tuesday
night
a
round-table
conference
of
B.C.
trade
unionists
will
be
called
by
the
government
soon
to
discuss
the
province's
labor
code.
.
.
-
The
paralytic
stroke
Stalin
sites
had
maximum
potentlall-
protection
from
the
police.
suffered
evidenUy
is
similar
to
lies
varying
from
20.000
to
10.-
that
which
killed
Franklin
D.
Roosevelt,
his
wartime
ally.
Announcement
ot
Stalin's
ill
COBRLt
R
FIRST
Stalin's
father
apprenticed
him
In
boyhood
to
another
cobbler,
but
his
mother
succeeded
In
having
the
arrangement
cancelled
so
her
son
could
be
educated
for
the
ness
was
made
over
the
Moscow
radio
as
many
Muscovites
were
lliiiti.il
of
hydro
lii"
uie.i
is
liy
no
means
ul..t.s
Iwally
an
as-
i
A
similar
conference
of
man
going
to
work.
Seattle
Ship
Halted
by
Dispute
Crowds
gathered
in
front
of
Russian
Orthodox
priesthood.
newspaper
placards
on
billboards.
In
due
season
he
was
enrolled
Soon
news
of
Stalin
s
illness
WERT
TO
RECEIVE
blanketed
the
Soviet
capital
with
Yale
Member
Worried
About
Nechako
Dam
SEATTLE
(CP)
The
Alaska
a
pall
of
grief.
On
streets
people
In
a
theological
seminary,
but
his
student
days
wre
few.
At
15
he
had
joined
an
underground
political
group
and
had
imbibed
Its
Marxian
doctrines.
He
expounded
these
to
fellow
students.
IIBSIDY
FOR
SCHOOLS
000
h
p.
at
about
50
per
cent
continuous
output.
"But
as
the
source
of
hydro
supply
becomes
Increasingly
distant
from
the
point
of
usage
the
cost
of
transmission
lines
ind
high
voltage
equipment
become
major
factors
In
development
expenditure."
Possibility
of
obtaining
power
from
A
lean's
Kitlmat
project
depended
on
three
major
factors,
said
Mr.
Black:
Whether
a
'surplus
of
power
will
be
ultimately
available
to
any
companies
other
than
those
located
In
proximity
to
Kitlmat.
Whether
such
supply
will
be
on
an
If,
as,
and
when
bas-sls.
Whether
the
price
of
pur
Steamship
Company
announced
Tuesday
no
further
attempts
will
be
made
to
load
freight
huddled
into
little
groups.
As
they
moved
on,
only
one
sentence
was
heard
over
and
over
again
"Stalin
is
ill.
Stalin
is
ill.
Stalin
is
'ill."
VICTORIA
(CP)
Irvine
Cor-
ity
nf
Prince
Rupert
will
not
toM
this
year
oil
lis
i
'i.su
due
to
the
new
policy
of
Iliiani'lnn
by
Uie
Boclal
wn.ri.i
r,t.
.stated
txj,.v
hv
filv
flerk
Tl
W
Illlff
followilllf
vessels
for
Alaska
until
the
labor
dispute
with
deck
officers
and
radio
operators
is
settled.
Stalin
had
been
active
in
re
agement
representatives
will
also
be
called.
Mr.
Wicks
made
the
announcement
during
his
speech
in
the
budget
debate
in
the
Legislature.
He
added:
"Out
of
these
conferences,
I
hope
we
will
achieve
some
semblance
of
unanimity
in
the
desires
within
the
ranks
of
organized
labor
and
within
the
ranks
of
management.
If
this
can
be
achieved,
then
for
the
first
tinie
we
can
be
In
a
position
to
resolve
some
of
the
conflicting
points
of
view
at
present
otweuring
labor's
requirements."
Mr.
Wicks
said
the
government
could
not
amend
the
Industrial
Conciliation
and
Arbitration
Act
at
this
session
be
cent
weeks,
and
was
reported
bett
iSC
Yale
said
in
the
British
Columbia
Legislature
on
Tuesday
that
if
a
single
bomb
hit
the
Kenney
Dam,
a
1.000-
The
move
came
after
mem
'"
'"'
a
Npeclal
meeting
of
the
Union
of
B
C.
Munl-
'
III
VaUCIIIlVer
III.
vl.lrf
II,
n
rnmnnl
U'ill
Drnnt.
a
bers
of
the
Masters,
Mates
and
Pilots
Union
(AFL)
refused
to
sign
on
the
steamship
Nadina.
looking
"strong
and
vigorous"
for
a
man
of
his
age.
The
name
of
George
M.
Malen-kov
led
all
the
rest
in
specula
foot
wall
of
water
might
charge
all
municipalities
who,
without
It.
would
Dear
a
("irlKII!
Of
Schiml
C(iel
hl
vsnr
than
In
109
down
the
Fraser
River
and
pile
was
betrayed
to
seminary
authorities
and
expelled.
fine
of
Stalin's
first
moves
when
he
assumed
power
after
lntn's
death
.was
to
start
rebuilding
the
economic
structure
of
the
country.
The
first
of
the
five-year
plans
for
Industrialisation
was
launched.
He
built
up
a
mighty
military
machine,
too.
For
more
than
25
years
Joseph
Stalin
ruled
Soviet
Russia
with
a
strong
and
ruthless
hand.
He
won
f
Eriin'
Will
be
about
S-l!)
nftO(Vi
amnunt
Mr
liinD
kairi
tion
on
a
possible
successor,
but
Russian
specialists
said
anything
rmre
fuipert
would
lo.se
under
Uie
present
school
cost
The
Nadina,
previously
posted
to
sail
for
Alaska
next
Tuesday,
became
the
first
Seattle
vessel
to
be
tied
up
in
the-
wage
controversy.
could
happen
in
the
event
of
the
Prime
Minister's
death.
chased
power
would
be
such
to
warrant
construction
of
a
costly
transmission
line
through
difficult
territory
In
order
to
supply
"what
are
at
present
purely
up
debris
of
a
dozen
towns
In
the
Fraser
Canyon.
Speaking
in
the
budget
debate,
Mr.
Corbett
asked
whether
any
thought
had
been
given
to
what
would
happen
if
the
dam
on
the
Nechako
River,
part
of
the
Aluminum
Company
of
Canada
project,
were
bombed.
Malenkov.
close
associate
ot
Stalin,
appeared
to
have
streng
thened
his
position
as
chief
claimant
to
Stalin's
mantle.
He
power
after
a
bitter
struggle
with
i
cause
it
had
been
in
office
such
a
short
time.
He
said
that
both
fi
Dimensional
Pictures
4Be
Shown
Here
in
Summer
took
a
particularly
prominent
role
in
last
fall's
Russian
Party
The
Nechako
was
a
tributary
of
the
labor
act
and
the
Workmen's
Compensation
Act
need
amendment
and
the
govern
Congress.
prospective
industries
w
n
1
c
n
might
or
might
not
be
Induced
to
locate
In
or
adjacent
to
Prince
Rupert."
Mr.
Black
said
that
In
his
opinion
the
Falls
River
site
could
be
developed
to
its
ulU-
the
Fraser
before
it
was
dam
med.
Leon
Trotzky,
his
arch
enemy,:
who
fled
Into
exile.
Many
prominent
Bolshevik
figures
were
executed
in
the
1930s
as
the
aftermath
of
bizarre
blood
purge
trials.
Numerous
others
were
imprisoned.
Charges
in
A
dark,
stocky
man
who
hates
the
west,
Malenkov
is
50
years
expected
s
'ck
fur
a
He
said
the
city
of
Prince
to
be
I
also
are
converting
projection
major
equipment
and
the
change-over
ment
is
studying
all
requirements
needed
for
amendment
of
-WEATHER-
Forecast
North
Coast
Region:
Cloudy
today
and
Thursday.
Intermittent
rain
along
the
mainland
coast.
Scattered
showers
elsewhere.
Not
much
change
in
temperature.
Winds
southwesterly
20
in
exposed
areas,
otherwise
light.
Lows
tonight
and
highs
tomorrow
at
Port
Hardy,
42
and
47;
at
Prince
Rupert,
40
and
45.
old
ie
protection
etium-
In
the
Strand
Theatre
Is
expect
the
acts.
Others
menUoned
as
possible
matc
capacity
of
25.000
h
p.
at
a
cost
1
today's
prices)
of
about
ed
to
be
completed
In
the
next
stiii;e
at
the
Capitol
Permit
the
showliiB
nf
He
said
$10,000
has
been
pro
George
might
be
swept
away
by
a
flood
and
carried
250
miles
downstream
into
the
Fraser
gorge.
130
miles
east
of
Vancouver.
The
lower
Fraser
Valley,
its
successors
include
Leventy
Pay
few
weeks.
pi'Mnmd
Dictum,,
lovich,
Russia's
super-policeman
as
head
of
the
dread
secret
At
the
present
time,
the
fore
vlded
In
the
estimates
to
set
up
a
new
counselling
service
for
the
Workmen's
Compensation
Board.
It
will
assist
anyone
de
ground
In
most
pictures
Is
blur
police,
and
Vyacheslov
M.
Molo-
towns,
roads,
bridges
and
com
"
Harry
Black
red.
With
third
dimensional
munications
might
be
brushed
1
tov,
former
foreign
minister
and
T
w
m
not
Interfere
siring
help
or
advice
regarding
$5,000,000.
Such
development
would
give
a
surplus
over
present
needs
of
some
18.000
h
p.
or
enough
to
operate
nearly
two
such
Industries
as
the
Columbia
Cellulose
Co.
Ltd.
pulp
mill
at
Watson
Island.
into
the
sea.
one-time
prime
minister.
films,
the
entire
picture
Is
In
focus.
'
films
but
will
any
matter
involving
compen
-lauon
or
a
new
16
RKO
recently
announced
It
has
cluded
conspiracy
to
overthrow
the
government,
treason,
murder
and
plots
to
kill
Stalin
and
others
high
In
the
Soviet
admin-lstraUon.
The
relentless
prosecutor
was
Andrei
Y.
Vlshinsky,
later
to
become
foreign
minister
in
Stalin's
regime.
Vlshinsky
demanded
death
for
the
"accursed
vipers
.
.
.
foul
dogs
.
.
.
disgusting
villains."
By
that
Ume
Stalin
was
firmly
in
the
saddle.
Stalin
led
the
180.000.000
Rus
set
aside
$24,000,000
for
third
di
..abou
bout
twice
f
"
si-cn
J
llc
Pfiit
'
Dl"te
re-wlrlni
mensional
pictures
this
year.
f
screen
Canadian
Army
Borrows
Horses
From
Mounties
For
Coronation
ig
job
In
Airport
Built
by
Residents
In
Tiny
Central
B.C.
Town
2ln"m
Ptures
Dtli
and
more
natur-
entire
setting.
"
Koiiig
t
havc
the
type
of
third
at-
mi3
r!;:.."r'
k
sians
into
a
friendship
compact
with
Nazi
Germany
that
freed
Adolf
Hitler
for
his
war
of
conquest.
And
he
led
them
into
a
mander
overseas
and
special
aide-de-camp
to
the
Queen,
and
others
by
four
officers
forming
part
of
the
special
Commonwealth
CoronaUon
escort.
The
five
will
be
among
the
46
the
RCMP
is
shipping
to
London
for
the
CoronaUon.
Thirty-five
will
be
ridden
by
a
con-Ungent
of
Mounties
during
the
4
xirieai
rnn.
satlon.
In
a
vigorous
defence
ot
his
reorganization
of
the
Labor
Relations
Board
into
a
part-time
body,
he
said
the
former
full-time
board
"labored
for
five
years
and
brought
forth
a
mouse."
Mr.
Wicks
said
the
government
last
month
appointed
act-uarian
specialists
to
make
a
survey
of
the
financial
structure
of
the
Workmen's
Compensation
Board.
He
also
announced
the
government
does
not
intend
to
remove
rent
controls
"at
this
time."
The
minister
said
that
when
Social
Credit
took
office
last
August,
the
Labor
Department
lacked
direction
and
there
was
public
dissatisfaction
with
it,
especially
in
its
handling
of
In
long,
bloody
and
valiant
struggle
against
Hitler
after
Uie
i'lie
inh
1.
.
.
.
latter
had
turned
on
him.
rumens,,;.
'
States
on
"musical
ride"
jaunts.
But
still
the
RCMP
is
taking
no
chances
on
possible
injuries
or
discomfort
during
the
long
trip.
To
guard
against
possible
cold
or
Injuries,
they
will
be
sent
to
Montreal
aboard
"freight
palace
cars,"
specially-designed
railway
cars
equipped
with
modern
stalls
'and
heaUng
faculties.
At
Montreal
they
wUl
board
the
freighter
Beaverburn
for
an
eight-day
ocean
trip,
arriving
in
London
May
8.
There,
together
with
ermtm-gents
from
other
Commonwealth
countries,
they
will
train
for
their
CoronaUon
role.
OTTAWA
(CP)
The
Canadian
Army
has
become
so
mechanized
that
it
must
apply
to
the
RCMP
to
get
live
horses.
An
army
official
disclosed
that
the
RCMP
has
agreed
to
turn
over
five
of
Its
black
beauties
to
Canadian
officers
who
will
ride
them
in
the
Coronation
procession
in
London
June
2.
"We
just
haven't
any
suitable
horses
of
our
own,"
the
official
mid.
"In
fact,
I
don't
know
it
we
have
any
left
at
all."
One
of
them
will
be
mounted
by
General
H.
D.
G.
Crerar,
Canada's
wartime
army
com
In
(,.
""'."""
Wl"
procession
and
special
"musical
one
of
co-operation
and
contribution
$15,000
donated
by
district
residents
and
Industry;
heavy
equipment
loaned
by
logging
companies:
fuel
donated
by
oil
companies
and
labor
volunteered
by
almost
everyone.
The
strip
was
laid
out
on
land
donated
by
a
resident,
Adolph
Jark,
and
the
construction
campaign
was
laid
by
D.
A.
Aker.
McBride
has
a
population
of
approximately
500.
-
hi
T"lre
con-
McBRIDE,
B.C.
Residents
of
this
central
British
Columbia
town
and
district
have
built
their
own
airport
to
keep
In
step
with
B.C.
growth.
Full
use
of
the
airport
Is
expected
soon.
Only
single-engine
craft
have
used
It
so
far,
but
It
Is.
said
to
be
capable
of
accommodating
two-engine
planes
and
future
expansion
Is
anticipated.
The
present
runway
Is
1.800
feet
long
and
200
feet
wide.
The
story
ot
the
airport
Is
It
was
Soviet
Russia's
role
as
a
war
ally
of
the
United
States
and
Great
Britain
that
lifted
its
prime
minister
to
heights
of
power.
Allied
leaders
heaped
praises
on
him.
He
was
one
of
Tide'
performances
wnich
may
'T
fil
K.
.
4
uaa
tepn
ordrred
'
iavfi-1
Black
'
,u,'
orau"n
be
given
during
Coronation
ceremonies.
The
rest
of
the
horses
will
be
used
as
spares.
The
highly-trained
steeds
are
veteran
travellers.
They've
been
to
many
points
In
the
United
the
world's
"Big
Three,"
holding
conferences
with
P
r
es
i
d
e
n
t
Roosevelt
and
Prime
Minister
ure
w!,ru-
,lne
new
re
in
TJ"
Probably
be
t
W.u
?
months
dustrial
relations.
Churchill.
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