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MONDAY, MAY 19, 1947 " THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE THREE Urge Atomic Energy Be Vested In World-Gover Knox Presbyterian Church Service Is | Heard Over Air Arranged ir co-operation Advisory Council, a service at Knox Presbyterian Church, Oshawa, was yesterday afternoon broadcast by the Can- adian Broadcasting Corporation over its national network from coast to coast. The service, which was one of a series, y with the National Religious was heard from 4:30 pm. to 5 pm.® locally and was conducted by Rev. H. F. Davidson," M.A., minister of the church. The musical part of the service was under the direction of David Jenkins, organist and choir- master. : Lae Two Kinds of Blindness Mr. Davidson based his short ad- dress on the healing of blind Bar- timaeus, saying that as Jesus made His way with his disciples to Jeru- salem he had to deal with two kinds of blindness--that of Barti- maeus who was blind and that of His disciples and the ¢rowd which followed him. a On the one hand was the faith of Bartimaeus in the power of Jesus while on the other there was the crowd who would have prevent- ed the cure because of lack of faith, Mr. Davidson pointed out that this same lack of faith is still to be found in the world today. The rough crowd called on Bar- timaeus to hold his peace but be- cause of the courteous and gentle nature of Jesus they were quieted. © With Him at the time were His disciples and their companions who were later to call Him King. They were the church. It is possible, Mr. Davidson said, that the church is snobbish and cruel as was evidenced by the incident of the mothers of Salem. There has been evidence of this down through the history of the Christian church, but more convincing is our own personal rec- ords and those who are called can still be blind to the interests of His kingdom. In the incident on the Jericho road the crowd may have tried to protect The Master in order to save Him from at they considered a petty in ion, More probably, Mr. Davidson said, it was not so much out of consideration for Him as out of consideration for them- selves. : Those who were with Jesus be- lieved in His kingdom and the King and took the attitude that there was no place for such a man as Bartimaeus in the King's company. They, even as we, were so engrossed with their own efforts that they were blind to the real course of religion. Strong Contrasts "The events of history have pro- duced strong contrasts. The high- ways of the world are open so all can walk and so we can perceive the dire need which exists in all lands. Companions of Jesus should carry out His wishes, be bearers of good news and agents of mercy. We cannot heal as Jesus did but we can bring people to Christ who will open their eyes and announce to men that He is the way of light". The service opened with invoca- tion and prayer by the minister, who later read the 10th chapter of St. Mark from verse 46 to the end of the chapter as the Scripture lesson. Hymns sung during the service were the psalm "O Lord Thou Art My God King"; "Spirit Strength of All the Weak" and "Father of Peace and God of Love". The choir also sang the anthem, "What Are These That Are Arrayed in White Robes" by Stainer. The "Church of the Air" service next Sunday afternoon will origin~ ate in Metropolitan United Church, Victoria, B.C. Rev. A. N. White- house, minister of the church, will deliver the address, « Scarboro Voters Reject Addition Scarboro, May 18--One-fifth of the eligible voters turned out Saturday to defeat a proposal to 'erect a $600,000 addition to Scarboro Collegiate, now strained to take care of a growing school population. The vote was 945 to 447. At one polling booth only 60 votes were recorded" out of 360 on the lists. The collegiate was built to take care of 425 pupils. There are 850 now in attendance. The proposed addition would have been bigger than the main build- ing. TOPPER SIDE.LINE Hat-making is a home industry in South America, usually a side- line to Indian farmers, CURIOSITY ALMOST KILLED HIM New York, May" 19--(CP)-- Handras Marcos, 38, was work- ing on scaffolding under an elevated railway when he heard a train coming: Curious, he poked his head between the ties to see whic way it was going. ' Shortly after, he was treated for a scalp laceration. Another inch, police said, and he would have lost his head. Co-op Survey For Ontario In Mid-June Toronto, May 19 (CP).--A stock- taking survey of Ontario's co- operatives will be started in mid- June, it was announced today in a statement jointly issued by G. F. Rerkin, marketing commissioner of the Ontario Agriculture Depart- ment, and Dr. J. F. Booth, associate director of marketing of the federal Agriculture Department, 'The survey, requested by the Ontario Co-operative Union, the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and the United Farmers Co-opera- tive Company, will be financed and staffed by the province and Domi- nion and its findings will be made available to all interested parties. The survey will cover the number and location of marketing and purchasing co-operatives in Ontario, | the kind and volume of business or' service they perform and their fi- nancial structure. Urban as well as rural retail co-operative stores will be included, as well as organi- zations providing such services as telephone, restaurant, recreational and medical services. Credit unions do not come within the survey, on which the Ontario government is represented by C. H. Tisdale, Toronto, and the federal government by J. E. O'Meara and R. Fortier, Ottawa. Heavy Crop of Apples Expected The demand for apples appears to be slackening somewhat in the lakeshore district of Eastern On- tario, according to the Marketing Service of the Dominion Depart- ment of Agriculture. This is at- tributed to the fact that most of the apples now being offered are showing the effects of the long storage period and because they de- teriorate rapidly after being re- moved from storage. Many apple growers have applied the delayed dormant spray. This work was done under difficulties as some orchards were very wet and spraying had to be carried out by using half loads. The show of buds is reported as very heavy in most varieties and prospects for a heavy crop are very encouraging. The potato market in this area remains strong at shipping points even though destination markets showed some weakness during the week. Truckers are driving to the farms for supplies but many fi - ers are busy on the land and this is holding up grading operations. It is reported that approximately 75 per cent. of the pea seed is now in the land, the largest proportion in Prince Edward County, Trans- planting of tomato plants to frames is about finished and with average weather conditions plants will be dy for planting time. WHEAT GIFTS New Delhj--(CP)--Since Canada's gift of 100,000 tons of wheat to In- dia to help alleviate scarcity condi- tions two years ago, her example has been followed by contributions from Afghanistan, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Bluey Airborn, Said Due In Vancouver Wednesday Sydney, Australia, May 19 (CP).-- Squatted in a roomy wooden crate draped with burlap, Bluey the kangaroo, a "delegate" to the By- Line Ball at Toronto June 7, took off last night for Vancouver aboard the Australian National Airways' plane Skymaster Warana. Newspaper photographers were on hand for the departure of the year-old kangaroo, a gift from the Sydney Journalists' Club for the "Toronto Men's Press Club which is holding the annual ball in co- operation with the Canadian Wo- men's Press Club. After the ball is over Bluey will be presented to the Toronto zoo. Before Bluey's crate was hoisted fe into the forward compartment of the big plane Arthur Crouch, presi- dent of the Sydney Club, attached a message of greetings to the To- ronto newspapermen. The kangaroo is also accompaniéd by greeting cards for the Honolulu and San Francisco Press Clubs, to be dropped off en route. Albert Royce, owner of the Aqua Flora Park where 'Bluey was ob- tained, supervised hte arrangements for feeding the kangaroo on the Pacific flight. He stowed whole- meal bread, carrots and corn into pouches attached to the crate. The plane is scheduled to reach Vancouver Wednesday after stops at Fiji, Canton Island, Honolulu Erasing Scars of War In Sevastapol The great Russian naval base of Sevastopol, in the Crimea, which was badly battered in World War I is gradually shaking the debris out of its hair and getting back some of its pre-war appearance, He is a restored section of Lenin St., with the imposing new navy club at the left. and San Francisco. Church In Russia Still Subjected To Will Of 'Godless State' Claim Vatican City, May 19--(Reuters) --While the Communist state in Russia has adopted a more liberal attitude towards the church it has undergone no change of heart, in the opinion apparently of well-in- formed Roman Catholic circles here. Discussing the whole subject in the influential Jesuit organ, Civilta Cattolica, Rev. G. de Vries notes with pleasure that relations between church and state in the Soviet Union have undergone a substan- tial change for. the better since 1939. But, he asks, has the Communist regime really changed its attitude towards religion and is the church really free after more+than 20 years of persecution? "Not even the most candid of people," he write, "can suppose that Russian Communists, under the leadership of Stalin, have suddenly changed into pious people. . . "Religion is defined as a supersti- tion, as a means of making people dumb and enslaving them. Religious | teaching is banned from the schools and those who are found teaching | religion are liable to long terms of hard labor and imprisonment. | "Strict limitation of religious teaching is but a part of the general | tyranny imposed upon the church; | which is allowed only to hold re- | ligious services. Any kind of wel | fare activity is banned by the So- viet authorities on the ground that it might be useful propaganda for | the church. "Taking these points into consid- eration," Father de Vries added, "there seems to be no reason to suppose that any real fundamental change has taken place in the inner attitude of the Godless government towards religion. How then can we explain the fact that today this gov- ernment grants to the ciurch a wider possibility of existence than in the past? "The answer appears to lie in the fact that the state needs the church for its political purposes but that the church must give up any thought of penetrating into the in- ner life of the individual and must be content to celebrate its sac rites while being completely sub servient to the Godless state." U.N.Freedom Of Press ¢ Talks Start Lake Success, N.Y., May 19 (AP). --An American proposal for world« wide elimination of censorship top- ped the calendar for the United Nations sub-commission on free- dom of information and of the press today. The U.N. selected assistant sec- retary-general Henri Laugier to welcome representatives from 12 countries including Canada for the first meeting. Canadian member is George V. Ferguson, editor of The Montreal Star. The principal item of business will be drafting of plans for an international conference on freedom of information, to be held .early next year. Zechariah Chafee, Harvard pro- fessor and American representative, offered the censorship ban in a working paper which also called for measures to provide full freedom of movement and residence in all countries for accredited corres- pondents, equal access to mews sources, and equal opportunity to transmit news. : Board to Hear Store Appeals On Assessment Kingston, May 19:--Special sit- ting of the Ontario Municipal Board will be held in Kingston, June 3 and 4, to hear the appeal of the Corporation of the City of Kingston, against the decision of Judge J. C. Reynolds, in a recent assessment appeal. PF. W. Woolworth Company, Lim- ited, S. S. Kresge Company and Metropolitan Stores Limited, ap- pealed against the assessment made last year by the city asses- ment commisioner, Court of Re- vision turned down the appeal. Appeal, which was entered by the Woolworth Compapny, in con- junction with the other depart- ment stores, was heard by Judge Reynolds, who granted the appeal. The city, in turn, entered an appeal agains the decision of Judge Rey- nolds. * +P Assessment was made on the basis that more than five branches of a retail trade were conducted in all three stores. Under this regula~ tion the city is justified in asses- sing as department stores on the basis of 50 per cent of the assessed value of the property, if the total yalue of the property exceeds $20,- Representations were made to the county judge by solicitors repre- senting the department stores, that the assessment should have been made under Section 8 of the Asess- ment Act, and all three stores should be assessed as retail stores. Under thi claue of the Act, the asessment is on the basis of 30 per cent of the assessed value, and not 50 per cent. TRACTOR FIGHT JUNGLE Singapore-- (CP) -- One hundred and ten caterpillar tractors arrived in Malaya recently for short term production. - Primarily used for clearing jungle and removal of free stumps," the tractors will play a role in preparing the land for food cul- tivation, "BEEF" AGAINST MEAT London--(CP) -- Hornsey House- wives' League sent a delegation to the Food Ministry complaining about the "poor aualitv" of meat. In Hospital Gander, Nfld, May 19--(CP)-- Dr, James Paton, superintendent of the Banting Memarial Hospital here, announced today that Lena Blais, 28, brought here by canoe, sled, boat and plane from the Que- bec-Labrador border hinterland, is suffering third-degree burns but "there is every hope for her re- covery." He said Miss Blais suffered the explosion and fire yesterday of a burns on her body and legs in the gasoline iron she was using in a remote lu T camp. Miss Bl started her long trek to ~hospi in a canoe which French-Canadian lumberjacks had to portage past water falls and steer through dangerous rapids. She was finally transferred to a United States coast guard air am- bulance for the last leg of the flight to this base. The aircraft, based at Argentia, Nfld,, failed in its first attempt to intercept scarlet-clad woodsmen and had flown nearly 1,000 miles when its mercy mission finally was completed. Badly Burned Girl Safe After Epic Mercy Trip at Gander When the girl was burned in a lumber camp tire on the Eskimo River deep in the Labrabor scrub- forest near the Quebec border, log- gesr had bundled her in blankets and oilskins aginst the cold and lying spray, and in scenes reminis- cent of voyageur days started their 50-mile journgy to the east coast. Before shooting two boiling stret- ches of rapids, they packed the canoe with its injured passenger on their backs and slithered along ice banks at a waterfall portage. The girl had been taught to "rough it" by her father, A, Blais, Canadian government telegraph, post office and lighthouse official, whose call for help was relayed through Quebec, New : Brunswick and Nova Scotia wireless stations to Newfoundland from his post at Bradore near the Ekimo River mouth. At Forteau Bay scanty hospital equipment was hot adequate to treat her injuries. Her age and full name could not be learned immediately. Hospital authorities said her condition was "serious," BLOSSOM SUNDAY ATTRACTS MANY Toronto, May 19-- (CP)--Four weeks later than wusnal and shorn of much of its glamor by the cold weather of the past few weeks, Blossom Sunday never- theless attracted thousands of Toronto and Hamilton motorists to the Niagara Peninsula yester- day. Only in the section from Grimsby to Niagara Falls were the blossoms out in the same abundance they usually are at ,thig time of year. Phone Strike Negotiations Again Stop Washington, May 19 (AP).--Tele- phone strike negotiations between Western Electric and a unio of 20,000 installation employees were recessed early today without a settlement. Ernest Weaver, president of the Association of Communication Equipment Workers, said his order for renewed picketing of telephone exchanges at 6 a.m, local time in each city remains in effect. Thus 18 hours of virtually non- stop conciliation efforts failed to lift the threat of new telephone tie-ups expected to result from the refusal of other unions in some American cities to cross the restored picket line. Previously the company had offered pay increases of seven, eight, and nine cents an hour, to be applied in three areas. The union demanded 15 cents across the country. Two other Western Electric unions representing some 27,000 workers reached agreements yesterday and early today. These provide pay whboosts averaging about 11! cents an hour and contain "no strike" clauses. A settlement of the installation workers' dispute would have paved the way to peace in virtually the whole American telephone industry after a six-weeks strike. Aside from the Western Electric disputes, all that is left of the country-wide telephone strikes of 340,000 workers which started April 7 is a strike of a few thousand workers in the Michigan Bell Tele- phone Company.' Anti-Allied Feeling Seen In Germany Frankfurt, May 19 (Reuters).-- Evidence of the growing-anti-Allied sentiment in Germany is provided by the increasing mumber of rude slogans appearing on railway coaches and other sites in the United States zone of Germany. Here are a few of them ranging from threats of vengeance on the occupation powers to verses in praise of Hitler. "I would rather be a Nazi, clean and fat than a hungry, dirty Democrat." "Brother of the S.S. Adolf Hitler division, we are coming back!" "Then men were killed in action for their country: The women killed themselves for cigarets." "We want U.S.A" (USA stands for Unseren Seligen Adolf, our bl d Adolf) "Heil Hitler," "Three Circus Day Is "Circus Day--the Nation's Holi- day--will soon be here." Children of all ages will welcome the announcement that the great Sparks railroad Circus will soon be here--the first big show of the 1947 tour. . An old favorite here for many years, the exhibition date for Osh- awa will be Saturday, May 31, with two performances scheduled--after- noon and night, and the location of the show grounds, Kinsmen Park. Sparks Circus, has for more than half a century delighted circus pa- trons and this year is larger and greater thah ever before in all its | history. Founded way back in the | year of (1890, it began as a small | circus, hauled by horses and wagons, gradually grew in magnitude until Coming Soon it became a large railroad show, and is presented in three rings under a mammoth flame and waterproof "Big Top" and transported on its own special train of double length all-steel railroad cars. This year's program is entirely new and is presented by a galaxy of internati arenic and circus stars, train elephants, horses, dogs, ponies, goats and with a com- plete big menagerie of wild animals. Among this year's new feature acts will be the initial appearance of the celebrated Joe Hodgini troupe of European bareback riding troupe; Cheers for the Fuehrer," "we won't forget, Fuehrer." "Germany will become great and strong again." PARROT MAY TAKE THE STAND Union City, N.J., May 19-- A 12-year-old parrot may be ordered to tell "the whole truth, nothing but the truth." A lawyer said he will ask that Judge Archibald Wacker ques- tion the bird in » dispute over its ownership. Mrs. Mildred Knutson con- tends she took the parrot from the apartment of Edna Atwood for safekeeping while its owner, a relative of Mrs. Knutson, was sick. Miss Atwood wants it back. FINNY POWER The electric shock of a torpe- do fish can disable a man tempor- arily. - & To Buil first disclosures of discoverie at a conference which concl here Saturday. é ning Body Total Destruction May Nullify Effort for Peace Hamilton, May 19 (CP)--Peace-time applications of atomic energy are expected to be accelerated by Canada's s of nuclear chemistry, made uded at McMaster University But atomic chemists from Cana Maintain | Scottish Culture (A Canadian Press staff writer visited the Gaelic College at St. Ann's in Cape Breton, In this story he tells how the college was founded.) By DAVE MacINTOSH Canadian Press Staff Writer ST. ANN'S, N.8.,, May 19--(CP)-- In 1820 Rev. Norman MacLeod, a Presbyterian minister from the Isle of Skye, set sail with a hardy band of Scots for Ohio. Blown from their course, the six little brigs of the expedition sought shelter in St. Ann's harbor. Here the ploneers settled, in the heart of Eilean Chaep Breatann--the Cape Breton High- lands, Idea More than 100 years later the descendants of Norman MacLeod and his clansmen in Cape Breton number some 70,000 about half of whom speak Gaelic. That gave | Rev. Angus William Rugg Mac- | Kenzie an idea. Why not, thought | Mr. MacKenzie, born on the Isle of Skye himself 56 years ago, pre- serve the Celtic culture in North America in a Gaelic foundation? Durable Plan Today, nine years after embark- ing on his project, a dozen log, moss-chinked buildings high on a bluff overlooking St. Ann's harbor testify to the possibility and dura- bility of an idea in the head of a Scot. In the strict sense of the word, the Gaelic College is not a college at all. It combines a craft centre, a school where Gaelic language, literature, singing and folk arts are taught, and a museum which con- tains, among hundreds of items, a hand plow used by the original pioneers and the accoutrements of the Cape Breton giant Angus Mac- Askill (height 7 feet, 9 inches; chest, 84). Lots of Knockers the director and his wife one day hope it will be. "We've had a lot of knockers who think we're fana- tics," Mr. MacKenzie says, "and they laughed at us for trying to build a 'college' in this neck of the woods." 5 At present, the Gaelic centre {operates only during the summer months The climax of the foundation's | season is the annual Gaelic mod, or gathering, July 30 and 31. The chief of clan MacLeod, Mrs. Flora MacLeod, is making the trip from Dunvegan Castle, Scotland, to be present. The second day will be clan MacLeod Day. MacLeod--and there are thousands of them--can hardly wait. Dairy Loot Is Recovered Near Bowmanville Toronto, May 19--(CP)--A box containing part of the loot taken by thieves who rifled the safe of the Campbell Dairy in Peterborough early 'last week, was found by two Toronto hitch~ hikers just west of Bowmanville Saturday. John Green and his wife Rose, of Toronto, were attempting to thumb a ride to the city when they noticed the bux near a rail- way bridge. They brought the box to Toronto and notified Pe- terborough . police. It contained uncashed cheques;totalling $213, a will, and 2,000 shares of min- ing stock. Ashford, Kent, England -- (CP)-- Celebrating her 99th birthday in May, Mrs. Emily Tidvale knits with- out glasses, does her own washing, reads two newspapers daily. ad The word college indicates what | gua da's nuclear energy project at Chalk River, Ont., and a leading scientist from the United States warned pri vately and in speeches during the three-day meeting there might be no such epplications if control of atomic energy is not vested in sy world-governing body. Atomic War An atomic war might lead to dese truction of civilization, warned Dw, Charles Coryell of the Massachue setts Institute of Technology. He told the conference in a dinner speech that a "terrible fire" hung over the world and in a later inter view said that if atomic bombs starte ed falling, widespread areas even thousands of miles from the scens of the explosions might be so cone taminated as to wipe out life, Example He cited as an example the first test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico. Weeks later, and miles away a photographic (Bastman Kodak) noted its films were befogged in transport. Id was discovered that irradiating pare ticles had been blown into the strate osphere, to con® down later and contaminate @ grain _fleld from which was taken the straw for packe ing the film. Sufficient energy was still present to befog the film. Dr. Coryell said that many bombs going off, such oc currences could happen 'everywhere, transoeided Iternationsl ane pols ati and tical differences. Security Measures The conference of nuclear chems' istry here followed similar meetings for engineers and physicists held at Toronto and Montreal, carrying out the Canadian government policy of diffusing atomic knowledge to unie versities, where it could be expands ed. But Chalk river scientists bee cause of security measures were une able to go into details on some ase pects of their work and warned against leading questions on atomig pile operations. Peaceful Application Glimpses of the vast new fields operied up in peaceful applications of radioactive tracers in industry, medicine, biology and agriculture were given by speakers, some of it couched in highly technical lane 2,000 firm ge. Dr. D. FP. Brown, in charge of health precautions at Chalk River, told of the elaborate care laboratory workers had fo exercise in working near harmful irradiating sources, a small, wrapper-enclosed X-ray film on the body which could be checked week- ly. Blackening of the film would show the chemist had been exposed to harmful radiation. He said this hadn't happened yet to any worker besanise of the primary precautions en. A TRIBUTE TO DUNCAN CAMPBELL By D. M. P. Men say rightly enough that heredity counts for much and that heredity and envir nt have the virtual making of # man, In Dun- can Campbell's fase heredity and environment were both of the best. His parents were of. the old Scot- tish Highland type and their home and influence was regulated by the principles that seek to shape life to the best and highest end. Duncan Campbell bore throughout life the impress of the influence and teaching of such & home. : He was a man who honoured th upright and the conscientious and held the trimmer and the time- sewer in contempt. He loved the "old paths" and he loved not in word and tongue but in deed and in truth. He had gifts of an in- formed mind and of initiative ace tivity. He was a keen and intelli- gent reader and a wide observer. His place in church on Sabbath day was always taken up and his pre- sence was a stimulus to people and speaker. He was a man of few words, but the influence of his character was eloquent, He was humble and dependable. The following quotation from one of his favorite authors can now be readily understood that 'upstairs and downstairs ars no' so far awa", a month-long visitor tells you why. By ROSS MUNRO Cahadian Press Staff Writer London, May 19 -- (CP) -- Most carefully guarded of all Soviet Union secrets is atomic development. the famous Acevedo troupe of high wire artists, jugglers and acrobats of leaping greyhounds, and trained pony drill, and other noted stars of circusdom. BAR WOMAN ANESTHETIST Auckland, N.-Z.--(CP)--Auckland Hospital Board declined to appoint a woman doctor as anesthetist on grounds that she would have to work on many operations with her hus- band, a member of the hoard's me- dical staff. A maioritv of the board N A} held that it was undesirable for a nusoand and wife to work on the same operation. Barking, Essex, England -- (CP) --Because children are "coming to | school half-asieep," Essex teachers want school hours advanced to 10 am. during Dout a Summer Time. Most foreign observers in Moscow believe frantic priority is being | from Mexico; John White's troupe |given to this field by the Russians {and that the man in charge of the i work is probably Laurenti Beria, 48, member of the Politburo and ac- tual head of the N.K.V.D, the So- viet secret police. No Clue No one seems to have any clue as to what atomic progress has been made, but most foreigners in the Soviet capital have come to the con- clusion that Russian espionage in | Canada failed to produce anything | worthwhile on Canadian atomic se- | erets. . What 1s Russia's status in respect to the atomic bomb? Moscow Is the one "If they had dug up useful in- formation they would have taken the pill of the spy trials and said nothing about it," one European diplomat told me. Forced Labor Some responsible foreigners in | Moscow believe Beria's probable | connection with atomic work sug- gests forced labor may be employ- ed on atomic projects under N.K. VD. control. Like so many other things in Russia, it is impossible to get any solid information. Beria is a bald, stern-faced, be- spectacled Russian leader, among the six in the running to succeed Premier Stalin. For the last two {years he has been doing special ! trouble-shooting jobs for Stalin in | Germany and in Russia. | He has exceptional organizing and Atomic Development Carefully Guarded Secret Under Trusted Russian Leader place you'll never find out, and here administrative abilities and while he is no scientist, it would not be surprising if he was running the atomic work. He has a long, grim record as & police chief and from 1922 to 1931 carried out the task of liquidating anti-Soviet parties in the Caucuses. In 1937-38, he carried out purges in Georgia, which were about as severe as in Russia proper. In 1941 he became head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with the NK.V.D, under it. Still Boss Although some of his N.K.V.D. power has been delegated he still is the real boss. During the war he commanded some NK.V.D. military units and | was a member of the Supreme War | Council with the rank of marshal