The Province from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • 6

Six THE VANCOUVER DAILY PROVINCE, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1943 Apricot and Peach Crop Only Third of Normal in British Columbia Cherry and Prune Production Expected to Show Increases (By Canadian Press.) VERNON, June and Peach production in British Columbia this year will be only 25 to 37 per cent. of normal, it is estimated by the provincial department of agriculture. The cherry and prune crops will likely show increases, however. Cherries are expected to start moving to the fresh fruit market from the Okanagan next week, the department said in its fortnightly horticultural news letter. Prospects are good for raspberries and other cane fruits on Vancouver Island and the lower mainland.

Estimates of stone fruit production for the province, with last year's figures in brackets, are: Cherries, 240,320 crates peaches, 358,700 825); apricots, 52,820 114,075 prunes, 525,950 VEGETABLES INCREASING. The report said strawberry picking was in full swing on Vancouver Island, with a generally light crop, but with good demand and encouraging prices. No shipments will be made to prairie points, Tree fruits on the Island generally in are light, but vegetables are good supply, with a marked increase in home gardening noted. Supplies of vegetables are increasing on the lower mainland but more favorable weather is needed to develop later crops. Conditions to date have been unsatisfactory for ripening and handling of the strawberry crop and tree fruits are light.

Stone fruits in the Salmon Arm, Sorrento and main line area are a very light crop except for prunes, and many sweet cherry Butter, Meat Prices To Go Up In U.S. WASHINGTON, June 28. (AP) -Housewives may expect higher butter and meat prices under the congressional decision to forbid further use of subsidies by the Office of Price Administration. The prices of these products presumably will return to their former levels, the ceilings posted before the roll-backs went into effect. Thus a pound of butter now selling for 49 cents would go back to 54 cents.

Meat prices would go up about 10 per cent. Huns Hit In Air RUSS CAPTURE FINNISH POINT (By Associated Press.) LONDON, June 28 -Red Army troops captured a Finnish strong point in hand-to-hand combat in a brief flare up on the Karelian Isthmus last night, the Russian noon communique broadcast by the Moscow radio and recorded by the Soviet Monitor announced tday. Elsewhere on the Russian front it was quiet with inter. mittent exchanges of artillery fire resulting in the destruction of German machine gun nests and blockhouses. Soviet airmen shot down three planes, the war bulletin said.

TRIUMPH IN AIR. The Russian midnight communique last night reported that in the seven days ending June 26 Red Army fliers and antiaircraft batteries had destroyed 211 Nazi planes, as compared to a loss of 74 for the Red Army. The communique explained that these figures were exclusive of "a large number of planes destroyed or damaged in our raids on enemy airdromes." Following up a Red Air Force bombing of the railway junction at Orel and nearby airdromes, Russian troops probed into Orel in a reconnaissance advanced German lines south of force and then their artillery smashed German gun emplacements in the sector, the Soviet midnight communique declared. The communique also said Red Army units captured a populated place on the Kalinin front and repulsed six German counter Brig. Foster Home North Defense Progress Is Satisfactory Brig.

W. W. Foster, former Vancouver police chief, who as special commissioner of defense projects in the Northwest, represents Canada in dealings with U.S. authorities along the Alaska Highway, arrived in Vancouver this morning over Canadian National lines for a brief visit to the Coast. Progress in the North is very satisfactory, Brig.

Foster reported, and relations with the American authorities are most cordial. He said he was very glad to be home again after nearly two years on the prairies and in Eastern Canada. This afternoon he will meet Major General G. R. Pearkes, V.C., and tonight leaves for Victoria for a conference with Premier Hart.

Brig. Foster left his post as the city's chief constable at the outbreak of war to become director of the army's auxiliary services. Since then he has been officer commanding Military District No. 10 at Regina and Military District No. 6 at Halifax.

For a short time before his present appointment he was director of the Officers' Selection Board in Eastern Canada. Sneak Thieves Active in City Room prowlers took $200 in cash and 100 razor blades from the home of Lorne Bruce, 2371 East Pender, Sunday. Mrs. Lancelot Jefferson, of 3192 West Eigth, reports the theft of a cash box containing $100 in large bills, two $50 Victory bonds, and 20 war savings certificates. Five $20 U.S.

bills were taken by a room prowler who entered the suite of James Nichols, Pennsylvania Hotel, about 3 a.m. today. Walter Myhoe of 821 Balmoral Hotel, reports the theft of $30 in cash. John Antioch was robbed of $10 in cash by two men who assaulted him Sunday. A bottle of Scotch was the loot taken by a thief who breke into the home of J.

Chobobuck early Sunday. Thomas Wright of 169 West Pender, lost $71 to thieves. Rubber Man Dies MONTREAL, June -Albert Thornton, former executive director of the Dominion Rubber Company, died at his home here Saturday after a short illness. He was 72. CITY MEN ARE WIRELESS GRADUATES- Among the wireless operators (ground) and wireless mechanics who graduated recently 1 from No.

1 Wireless School, R.C.A.F., Montreal, were those from British Columbia shown above. Back row, left to right, are A. F. W. McGarrigle, 2476 East Hastings, Vancouver; A.

R. Houghton, 52 Ontario Place, Vancouver, and J. D. Bews, Revelstoke. Centre row, left to right, L.

O. Thompson, New Westminster; W. Smith, Victoria; B. Russell, New Westminster. Front row, left to right, Mostar, 1 1840 East Twelfth street, Vancouver; C.

J. Phillips, 2142 East Forty-third avenue, Vancouver; N. L. McLellan, 3539 Fleming street, Vancouver; A. M.

Campbell, 2126 West Forty-fifth avenue, Vancouver. FUNERAL ON WEDNESDAY Henry A. Stone, Founder, 'Good Henry Athelstan Stone, 82, founder of the Vancouver Art Gallery, president of Gault Bros. Vancouver branch for 10 years, and a past president of the Vancouver Board of Trade, died Sunday morning at his home at Caulfields. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2:30 p.m.

from St. Francis in the Wood, Caulfeilds. Interment will be in Capilano View Cemetery. Center Hanna are in charge of funeral arrangements. A man whose life work was in the marts of commerce, the late Mr.

Stone never allowed the material side of life to gain pre- H. A. STONE cedence over the love of beauty which flourished deep in soul. Himself an artist of considerable ability in water colors, it was fitting that on the tenth anniversary of he opening the Art Gallery, an exhibition of his work was placed on display. Palette, art critic of The Vancouver Daily Province, noted that a genuine lyrical feeling runs through much of his work.

Speaking of one picture, "In Mid-Atlantic," Palette said: "The realism is good realism, for it is neither confused in statement nor overburdened with main objects -the painter built his composition simply on one big sweep of wave, with a suggestion of vast watery wastes far beyond the horizon." TOURED EUROPE. It was Mr. Stone who, enlisting the aid and sympathy of others, persistently and effectively brought Vancouver to a consciousness of its need of an art gallery. After giving his time and energy, to say nothing of money, the title group provided both building and pictures. In order that the gallery should be one of the finest of its kind in the Dominion, Mr.

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Help the A A A become pol- Cystex LONDON, June 28. (CP). The German radio broadcast a despatch from, Rome reporting that Pope XII. had talked for more than an hour today trees are now showing the effect of winter injury. In the Kamloops district potatoes and root vegetables are coming along well but tomatoes and corn are hang.

ing, back. Armstrong, Vernon, Oyama, Okanagan Centre and Winfield orchards are giving better indications of crop prospects. Wealthy and Duchess apples have set heavily, and McIntosh and most later varieties have had considerable drop. The pear set, although fair, is not uniform. Cherries and prunes indicate a very heavy crop, providing sizing is normal, but there is considerable tree injury now evident in Bing, Tartarian and Deacon varieties of cherries.

Kelowna reports cherries showing considerable color with early locations expected to be ready for processing plants in a short time. Tree fruits are sizing well in the Summerland, Naramata, Westbank and Peachland section. Cherries are beginning to show color but it will be two weeks before shipping cherries will be ready unless warmer weather comes along. U.S. Plans Review Of Shipyards Wages WASHINGTON, June (AP) -The War Labor Board has agreed to review the wages of 1,000,000 shipyard workers throughout the nation, and scheduled a hearing for July 7.

Such a review was requested by the shipbuilding stabilization committee of the War Production Board headed by Paul R. Porter, and will cover 188 shipyards in the Atlantic coast, Great Lakes, Gulf coast and Pacific coast zones. ON THE THREAD LINE THEY GIVE UP evenings they might spend relaxing, to sew ditty bags, hospital garments, clothing for bomb victims. They're busy women housewives, business girls who come to the workrooms in hundreds to do what they can to help others. "I have a brother overseas, and I like to think I have some share in the job myself," says Emily Allen, secretary (left).

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THE HOUSE OF SEAGRAM with Sir Francis Osborne, British minister to the Holy See. Noted Scientist Dies. Art Gallery's Dies School of Decorative Art, toured Europe for three months, purchasing more than 100 paintings to adorn the walls of Vancouver's art centre. It was distressing to Mr. Stone, when in the following year, he felt himself obliged to withdraw from any official capacity, in protest against the action of the City Council in cutting financial appropriation for the Art Gal- lery nearly 50 per cent.

CHOSEN GOOD CITIZEN. The year that the Art Gallery came into being in 1931, Mr. Stone was honored by the Native Sons of British Columbia. He received their annual "Good Citizen" medal. Born August 5, 1861, in London, Mr.

Stone always claimed he was a true Cockney, being born within the sound of Bow Bells. He was the son of William and Susannah M. (Bluck) Stone. From his youth he had always been in the drygoods business, and for several years toiled in the shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral, being apprenticed a young man to one of those great drygoods warehouses which lined both sides of those narrow thoroughfares known as St.

Paul's Churchyard, with Cannon street on the south side. The young men of those days had to "live in," that is, boarded and slept where they worked, and 1 so young Stone was within fairly easy walking distance of the great art galleries of the West End. In 1882 he came to Canada, and entered the firm of Gault Bros. Co. of Montreal, later becoming manager.

In 1902 he was transferred to Vancouver to take charge of the branch business of Gault's, later becoming president. He retired from active business about six years ago. FUNERAL WEDNESDAY. Writing to a friend from his beautiful home in Caulfeild in 1936 he said: "I feel younger and better than I have been for some years; needing exercise, I built a 40-foot long stone wall last month." Interested as he was in art, Mr. Stone found time to extend his interests, and was an honored president of the Vancouver Board of Trade for several years.

He was a member of the United Church of Canada and was a member of the Terminal City Club for 34 years. He is survived by three daugh. ters, Mrs. Francis M. Matthews, Miss Elsie, Victoria, and Mrs.

Allan S. Gentles. His son, Horace Gordon, died in the last Great War in 1918. Mrs. Stone pre-deceased him a few years ago.

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G. Sands, Maneser NEW YORK, June -Dr. Karl Landsteiner, 75, noted medical research expert whose discovery of human blood groups won him the Nobel Prize in 1930, died Saturday. The Vienna-born scientist was a member emeritus of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research which he served actively from 1922 to 1939..