TE et CABS ae DISPATCHED Socialists, Prince Ru Boost ow Absentee Ballots Were Cast 60 Der Cent Cast Votes (3 persons voted absentee in Prince Rupert Rupert McRae 130; iORE POWER FOR B.C, homes, businesses and industries on will be available when expansion is com- Power Commission's John Hart development on from 112,000 horsepower to 168,000 will division r -373 cast absentee batiots Murray 41: PROVINCIA LIBRARY The Daily News NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’S NEWSPAPER Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” VOL. XLI, No. 156 benefit pulp mills at Harmac, near Nanaimo; Alberni, and the new Elks Falls Co. Ltd. newly opened newsprint mill at Duncan Bay. which started its first important last month production of paper . , where 6088 persons were Here ts how: they Christie 24 and 18 Third Count. Gives Win Slightly more than 60 per cent of those eligible 26 divisions, 221 absentee ballots were cast, | tg vote in Prince Rupert Electoral District cast bal- McRae 63 Murray 35; Christie 30 and 19 were lots in the June 12 election. sce Complete totals, after a re- | ; \ 7 : e e check yesterday morning and | h A k Fi A M / } | n | addition of absentee votes, Pf ew alte 5 5 or r al lmaivedl there were 6084 ballots 10 Ocean Falls, Kitimat, Kemano llied Jets Destroy 12 ed Planes Sabre edd jets 12 Communist} artillerymen big gun on the nt for double- of July blow MIGs shot down, troyed and six iir battle the \ilied jet victory ir, the Fifth Air 115 of the swift hters aguinst UN and 97 inder protective es, if any, were RECORD as just short of ord set December were shot down, destroyed and one oke out in. three ground front as nen wheeled every } line he 155-mile the murderous Sabre | | | | approved by Returning Officer Prince Rupert 6,088 citizens had the privil- ege of exercising their fran- chise, and the total number A. Bruce Brown Number of OTTAWA © E. T. Apple- ee S$ ew rejects was unknown whaite (Liberal-Skeena) asked In division in Commons last night that air- mail service be extended to Brit- Increase ish Columbia communities of for the entire riding was Ocean Falls, Kemano and Kiti | 9,077. mat Demands 45c Here is how the counting un- He also urged airmail service jder the alternative vote system between Prince George and Wage Boost | progresed Prince Rupert. Mr. Applewhaite Total first-count votes after ll 27 divisions reported—Hills 2052; MeRae 1801; Murray 1026; spoke during a discussion of post MONTREAL Seventeen | office department estimates non-operating railway UNIONS | OH ristie 633 announced today they are de-| addition of absentee votes . manding a wage increase of 45|sent Hills into a 289-vote lead, Conspiracy cents an hour in negotiations}but without an absolute maj with railroads for new collective|Ority. Here are figures: Hills . - ee epantiyve |2290; McRae 2001; Murray 1106: | In Strike, agreements te become effective! Cy aitie 637 September 1 In the transfer of Christie's Sa S$ Truman Other demands, an official! second-choice ballots, Mr. Mc- y. statemetit said, include a cost'of| Rae received 337;, Mr. Hills 83; nn i living bonus of one cent an hour|Mr. Murray 180 and 117 were WASHINGTON w President for each one-point rise in the! exhausted Truman Thursday accused major | cost of living index, union shop, Soteals- for tte ~-camdidaher United States steel companies ef | and a check-off of union dues were: Hills 2373; “McRae 2338; Nem iracy” t reve A : 25 a conspiracy io ae eke by railways |Murray 1256 settledement of the 8 Ss Al the same time, whion offi-|. By subtracting the “exhaust-| ‘ > situs t He said the situation does no cials announced that a confer- |ied” total from T the number of call for the use of the Taft- ence between unions and rail-' yotes we eI i to his press con- | “YS has been arranged f0r|the result by two, it showed a ‘rruman read to his press : | Monday. ference a prepared statement | saying he understood many of the steel companies were ready | to settle with the union on all} issues but, were being prevented from doing so “because of pres sure being put on” by others He added; “It, appears to me to be a con- jcandidate must have 2984 votes to} to win with an absolute maj- | ority The union demands went railroads yesterday by letter RAILROADS AFFECTED 'THIRD CHOICES Railways affected the Cana As neither candidate had the \dian Pacific Railway and Cana-|required number, second choices dian National Railways and sub-|on Mr. Murray's ballots and Mr. sidiaries, the Toronto, Hamilton) Christie’s third choices then | and Buffale Railway, and the|were distributed. {Ontario Northiand Railway In the PRINCE RUPERT, BC., FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1952 PRICE FIVE CENTS ORMES DRUGS DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 Socreds Run Neck-and-Neck In Race; pert Electors Vote In CCF Candidate - Voters Choose Hills Election Battle Rages By Majority of 147 With Fever Pitch By ERIC SANDERSON Voters in Prince Rupert Electoral District have’ chosen a member of the CCF party once again to rep-' resent them in the British Columbia Victoria. The new MLA. is George! | Hills 47-yegr-old secretary- | manager of Kaien Consumers} | Co-operative Association, jcaptured the seat |MecRae, Liberal | 1949 Result of voting im the June | 12 election was completed late who from Jack member since r - Lt. Governor Not Seeking Legislature at) (Compiled from Canadian Press and Special Dispatches) In a statement at press time, Premier Byron Johnson said he will resign as Liberal party leader and will ask B.C. Lt.-Governor Clarence Wallace to have a government formed by the party with the largest number of seats. The closest election battle in the whole history of British Columbia is reaching a fever pitch as sec- ‘ond and some third choice votes are being counted Ottawa Advice ‘under the alternative voting system. | last night and showed that Mr. OTTAWA (—The man who | Hilis won by 147 votes. Final | | will soon have the complexities | count was: Hills 2901; McRae | of British Columbia's election re- | 2754, isults on his. doorstep, was in| In the last provincial election, | Ottawa Thursday but denied re- | |Mr. McRae, who ran as the|ports that he is here to get| Coalition candidate, defeated | advice. | | William Brett, CCF MLA, by Lieutenant-Governor Clarence 675 votes. Mr. Brett did -not| Wallace is seeing both the Gov-| seek re-election this time. | ernor-General and Prime Minis- | ‘ ‘ Mr. Hills, in a brief statment|ter St. Laurent before going | 2@4 . on a ying to Sgure after his election was announc-| home tomorrow, but he said he | Ut his choices when he went to ;ed, thanked all his supporters| has no plans for discussing the | the polls last June 12 and ended Artistic’ Voter Draws For Laughs One voter in Prince Rupert | rate of $1.40 an hour, with high- cast—6084—and dividing| er Pay for more skilled categor- | waiters, porters and bullcooks jand congratulated Mr. McRae,| B.C. situation with them. Tom Christie, the Progressive | Conservative candidate, and Art) Murray, Social Credit standard-| they conducted their cam He said further: think the requirement for good Indications are that Mr. Wal- lace will be confronted with a delicate political situation be- _.4bearer, for the way in which) cause no single party may have | ‘ : paign.|a@ clearcut majority in the pro-| McRae; a little man with big “7 do not) Vincial legislature. In such a situation, the Lieu- government is super intelligence. | tenant-Governor acts as a me- HONESTY REQUIRED integrity, humanity equitable distribution province’s gifts to those that |share in the work of production! and service, and I sincerely be- lieve that it is this kind of gov- ernment you will CCF government.” Plump voters spelled disas- sons who voted for Tom Christie and Art Murray, cast only one vote—failing to take advantage under the alterna- tive system used for the first time of making other choices. Of the 687 votes cast for Mr.} Christie, 117 were exhausted af- | ter the first count and 282 of) Mr. Murray’s were exhausted. Mr. Hills topped the poll all the way. Before the recheck Mr started, Hills led by 251 votes—2052 ‘Continued on page 4) Alcan Workers’ ‘Wage Demands ‘To Conciliator VANCOUVER © — Wage de- |mands of 300 workers on two |phases of the Aluminum Com- |pany of Canada’s B.C. develop- ment will go to a conciliation officer, a union official said on! | Thursday. International union represen- tative Archie Johnson said the workers have asked for a basic ‘ies. Present rate averages $1 an hour. All cooks, butchers, bakers, at construction sites have been |organized into Camp Construc- get from a} | | ter for Mr. McRae. Many per- | | i | tion Union, local 750 (AFL). 'SAYS | ‘TENNESSEE TEACHER diator and negotiator in seeking | said: “h—— no! “I think the requiremnts: for) an arrangement under which good-government are -honesty,|one party or group can. rule or, and an| alternately, another election can of this | be called. jup spoiling his ballot, but he | gave election officials a laugh. | The voter drew a skull and |crossbones in the space for Jack jears for Tom Christie; printed \the words ‘no good’ for George |Hills and for Art Murray he Otherwise rejected ballots | Were those only on which voters put too many “Xs” or some other | incorrect marking. ‘ GEORGE HILLS, 47-year-old city alderman, and CCF candidate in the June 12 election, was voted in as MLA for Prince Rupert following completion of second and third choice counts late last night. Mr. Hills won by a 147- Liberal candidate seeking re-election. vote majority over Jack McRae, s An apparent stalemate looms between CCF and Social Credit parties, with the old party lines trailing far in the rear. Twenty CCF seats and 17 Se- cial Creditors are either elected or leading, out of 48 seats in th province. . But both, the Social Credit and CCF have vigorously denied that either party will enter inte a coalition with another. Latest definite return is the election of John Squire, COF, in Alberni. At press time, following were the latest standings: Social Credit, 11 elected, six leading; CCF, nine elected, 11 leading; Liberals, 1 elected, five leading; Conservatives, 1 elected three leading; Labor, one elect- ed. Political observers predict a new election within a year to break the stalemate. ~ The two parties are running neck and neck in a bid for the largest group in the 48-member Legislature, but neither ap- pears to have much chance of commanding the majority of seats. The Liberal administration of Premier Byron Johnson wus smashed by returns from the count of new votes under B.C.’s new alternative voting system. It also showed personal de- feat for Mr. Johnson and Pro~ gressive Conservative leader Herbert Anscomb, co-leaders of the Liberal-Conservative Coali- tion formed in 1941 and in power until the union collapsed in January this year. Social Credit and CCF can- didates have either been elected or hold commanding leads in more than three-quarters of the seats but neither can appar- ently muster 25 seats necessary for a bare majority. Lyle Wicks, president of the B.C. Social Credit League said a coalition will be discus: at a party caucus July 15, but he stressed that there was a “very remote” possibility of union with the CCF. What made coalition seem even more remote was the CCF’s flat statement that it has no _ intention of forming a union with any party. Under the circumstances,” “a short term of minority govern- ment seems in the books, fol- lowed by a new election possibly next spring or summer. Although both parties seemed against any ‘coalition their sup- porters helped each other at the polls, Social Credit support on al- ternative choices of , COF'’s (Continued on Page 8) Y | | | spiracy against, the public in of Murray's | transfer The announcement came from | ballots, Mr. McRae received 377, | ithe office of Frank Hall, chair- land Mr. Hills, 485. There were | ‘Rupert Misses Bet With Its Scenery WEATHER — Forecast lay with occasionai | Sarems and not a labor dispute | i | | } jman of negotiating committee 282 exhausted. representing the unions, two of of the Christie votes, Mr. Mc- | which are Canadian and 15 in-|Rae received 79, Mr. Hills; 43 Second Series Game Tied at In the shuffle | | A lanky, grey-haired yet sprightly teacher from Nash- Smithers, which he describes as “God’s Country.” But he has one major com- “We Americans are great people for warting to see other “I love Prince Rupert for two reasons: because of its physical grandeur and because you 4 wn othe Veter ae . lternational, representing 125,000|and 28 were exhausted, the ville, Tennessee who does Six |j,int: There is little or no op- Places and do other a of its friendly people. But you 8 ‘ | non-operating railway workers—|grand total giving Mr. Hills| weeks of travelling every year, portunity for the average tour- He suggested promotion of eX- have overlooked one big thing. 0 in es; Waris. ne Alaskan City lthose who do not actually oper-}2901 votes as against 2754 for{believes there is no prettier ist to get a good look at “such cUrsions by boat + = Your scenery is something to ich Settee ce Special to The Dally News late trains iar MeRae. * | scenery anywhere in the world marvellous grandeur which is scenic shore-front and fjords; really beast about, but , ‘8h tomorrow at r g : 18 and 62; Sandspit “, Prince Rupert 46 and ~TIDES— | | i ' KETCHIKAN — Prince Rupert | and Ketchikan All-Stars battled | | to a 2-2 draw here last night for | KING PENGUINS IN PARK zoo the second tie game in the ott nual international baseball ser- | VANCOUVER led vecount @-—A dozen white-coated, dignified King ies. Game was called on accouh Penguins, first ever to reach Canada, arrived at Stanley Park |than near Prince Rupert. | With the exception, maybe, of | the Yosemite Valley, California. | And to prove he means what |he says, Lacy Lockert is visiting | this part of the country for the your heritage.” “First of all, I am sorry to see there is no daylight train out of Prince Rupert. The prettiest country of all is from here to Smithers and in order to see it sightseeing buses up the high- way, along the Skeena; fishing parties to streams and lakes in the neighborhood of which he had heard so much. “And surely, a tourist should don’t do it. You must be used to it but I never will be.” The towering, six-foot-three southern teacher who retired at 40 to write books on early day of rain : : | fourth time im six years. I'll have to hire a taxi.” have the opportunity of buying drama and football history, says day, July 6, 1952 The Prince Rupert team arriv-| 200 Thareday, a gift from Covernar Milles Clittaed of Parmiane | ‘The 64-year-old educator who Mr. Lockert said he believed a few good picture postcards of this may be his last trip so far : Standard Time) ed here by boat yesterday. A Islands : has taken more pictures of scen- Prince Rupert could become “a your local scenery. The lack of north. During the next few days 12:11 17.0 feet | double-header was started this The fifteen thousand mile journey from south of Georgia lic spots than he can conven great place for tourists Tourism that I deplore greatly,” and also he is taking amare of ee 23:41 21.1 feet |afternoon under clearing skies.; Island within the Antarctic Circle, southeast of the Falklands, |iently carry, points with pride could be a major industry here, suggests an observation car be mountains, Fane - 5:46 3.3 feet| The series is, Ketchikan’s major) was made by whaleboat, steamer and plane. to some of his shots of the if things were made available put on passenger trains into and sprawling S s vital 0 ‘cuni~ 17:35 8.4 feet’ Fourth of July event. | Skeena River between here and to tourists. out of Prince Rupert. plete his “northern album.