ivinc 'lliis After- rnnr I)nv Slav jly to tinalize ar- .. diti1 frt'r.t.lon o . ... - . . .rt Ka n pl 1 tl Port Edward by Cela- .abivt' " . ,i.r,,iiiP5(' Corpora - . Sle;i-trom, Vancou- i?nt ana other com- i ... a, .no aro nrrivin in .iiti he Prirt::e 3 Adelaide expected to be here -sdav nlTht. and will be v Port Edward as .M9 - 1 - A1 Jl 11 KI lUliU AAA VitV WW as well as carrying negotiations. ' The the Prince Rupert )I uonuiieite. Tn ii if'K i.;e was blamed by a Mav for hc nnlson- . . i -i i i yesterday, while a It HAVINl) DISORDER U ire Flceinp City of Punjab i, maa w Police u 'odav natrolled the Lahore coital cf the 'C:v. weekend riots aca thousands to flee a tape tne reacting lecn the Hindu Mos-t Sikh mobs. It was fiftieth day or cornet and the dtv was ndcr a 24 hour curfew, 'ortea fifteen killed and" Wlded in ,ini skirmish Wl ralrt i!n hive ven dead and 32 - 'ancouver will be nv . . w the emergency. Since em. ... -" communications ' taken over for com-lon8 distance service Vm ... ago mis radiophone nlch formerly carried X Ul5lance traffic out of uuPt. had not been av- munlcatlon received ' th Prince Runert u commerce was from Brown, controller of apartment of Trnt &rid It S!llrl iUr. . -"ia to , give snrh lol Tides 45 21.9 feet 1:30 19,7 feet NO "N FOR GV 7 17 1.5 feet lfl15 5.7 feet WASHINGTON, plans contemplate v ' further United .Statu: v ment buying of grain K, ish-Amerlcan zones of Germany this year. This was announced today by an orriclal of the de partment. THREE KILLED IN TORONTO Spectacular Crash of Fire Wajons in Eastern City TORONTO, 05 Deaths resulting from a spectacular fire in the early morning in a head-on crash between two fire reels mounted to three when Melville Kerfoot gave a tragic twist to Toronto's traffic safety drive launched three davs aeo. Those killed 'almost' instantly in the collision- as the two trucks raced to the three-alarm school fire in the cast end were Joseph Walker, 21, and Charles Leslie. 26. ' Dr.- Smirle Lawson coroner, announced an inquest will be or dered into the deaths. BEAR HIT BY LOCAL JDRW,ER A collision with a bear on the highway near Smithcrs did dam- cge of about $200 to the front of a car driven by Miss Ellen Kinnalrd, social seivlcc worker of Prince Rupert last week, Miss Kinnalrd returned to the city at the weekend to have the crumpled metal work straightened. The bear, which had wandered onto the highway, did not remain to have the extent of its damage estimated. Brlsadier Elizabeth Belts. Sal vation Armv territorial andltoi. Toronto, will arrive in the city nn the Prince Rupert Wednes day on business with -the local crr?. Rrlad'er Bctts. who was rtnt'.or",d In Knya, Africa for some time, probably w!U speak nt the Oitadel Wrdrerday even ing. ShP will be In the city for several days. TO BE AVAILABLE FOR 6 DISTANCE IN AN EMERGENCY L I I'l 1 1 I'NI 'I I I II I.I I 1 1 1 111 L1IU X 1 AH'wv tliif 1 ..fi i i 1 i ..-... n-wl fnln- "av j iu rcaucr wnen lanu luicgicijMmi cum COmmiinip'iUnno tn l'rinm Rlinert CO Ollt of vtt vtviiu vw -w - - - - I t J .muti l r I n h n i -i - If II I lt 1 II I'l "Of the NnrM-mrncr Trtlonhniift f!o. from PHnCC ' 1 ... THE WEATHER Synopsis Rising pressures brought clearing skies to many sections of British Columbia this morning after a weekend of cloudy skies and general rain, w in,iM clear ne is expected over most of the province toaay aim Tuesday. The exception is ui northern coast wncre a weu dlstuitance moving into the Gulf of Alaska will result in continued cloudiness &nd rain or drizzle. Forecast Prince Rupert, Queen cnar-h nnrth coast Mostly lULLCO w ,lv , overcast today, tonicht ana m j... rwaennai rain u iuc&unjr. , j iAinv hrcoming inter Uliiiio mittent rain over night. , - .... Winds -j. light increasing to ... .. u u.. hic nvenlne. Little m.p.u. ui . - t. -u: i tpmnerature. Low to fl-l Tnr TTnrtlV. 10, 1WSMCW "Ki'::Vnn rt 45. Tuesday It, irinn-w ti.ee Tiorrtv 54. Massett 55. Prince Rupert 60. M issing Static prevented a clear re ceptlon of messages but there was distinct "hello, hello" and snme reference to the T.C.A. They were first thought the work of some Saturday night reveller, cutting in pn the line with a lineman's telephone but when another message was heard Sunday, an investigation was started. PLANE CRASH KILLS TWO mrni.TNifiTON. Icwa. iffl A T-inw air Dilot and two school boys were killed and six persons seriously Injured Bunaay wnen a fighter plane went out ot con trol at an air show, and crasnea on a school playground. More than 3.500 persons ai- tcnrtino- the air show saw tne Corsair appear to Jose control and crash in the school yara where fourteen youngsters were playing ball. Vancouver' Bralorne 100? B. R. Con. Afk) .02 B. R. X sk) .12 Cariboo. Gold 2-15 Dcntonla Grull Wihksne - -07 Hedley Mascot 102 . 03 Mlnto - Pend Oreille 2-40 3-55,, Pioneer - Premier Border ; Premier Gold (Ask) .65 Privateer -37 Reeves McDonald (Ask) 1.50 Reno; : Salmon Gold 22 Sheep Creek I-08 , Taylor Bridge .-50 Whitewater (Ask) .02 Ms Vananda (Ask) .32 Congress V2 Paclf it. Eastern -.35 Hedley Amalg'tcd , .03V'2 Spud Valley 13 Central Zeballos Ol.Vi Oils A. P. Con 12 Calmont '. 2 C. & E (Ask) 2.00 Foothills 2.20 Home 3'15 Toronto Athona -I8 Aumaque '32 COLUMBIA'S NEWSPAPER NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH 'TtTtTTTI A'TTTTTTTTTyTTTTTTj T VI 0 IVTk it ... 7.1 nor' D IMionc Olic mm y AND NIGHT 8ERVICE i Stana: Uotel, Third Ave. Published at Canada's Most Strategic Pacific Port "Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest" hAAAAAAA T.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA VOL. XXXVI, No. 117. PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., MONDAY, MAY 19, 1047 PRICE FIVE CENTS bout A M 'A PI ane Search for LostT.CA. Transport Is Revived , 'wvw - y V J J Js IVII ,JA.J VilMW V W twenty-day-old mystery .shrouding the fate of the missing TransCanada air liner might be solved, with at least one of the fifteen persons aboard found JilivfV jis tolno-vnnVi nnovnlnrc pf AcVinvnff nnrl T.vl-fnn reported picking up messages purporting to come irom me piane. ine hiss was, heard late Saturday night It said "this is the lost T.C.A. plane." The second was' heard Sunday and said "the plane is north of Coqultlam." Although it Ls conceivable that th"e "tapping" messages were made by throwing the wire over the telegraph line, search offi cials in Vancouver are skeptical that it will lead to the plane. The mysterious messages with faint voice calling "hello hella" were interspersed with the letters "T.C.A." It was reported to the R.C. A.F. here that the messages were heard Saturday night and Sun day on telegraph lines between Llllooet and Ashcroft, 130 miles northeast' of here. The plane vanished without trace shortly before midnight April jMjlth; twelve passengers ana crew oi mree. BULLETINS APPEAL DISMISSED TORONTO The Ontario Court of Appeals today dis missed the appeal of Mrs. Evelyn Dick against the life sentence imposed last March 2C for manslaughter in the death of her infant son. - INFANT STRANGLED VANCOUVER Ten-months-old son of Claience Metcalf of Vancouver died by strangulation Sunday when he slipped through the bottom end of his crib, and was caught by the head between the mattress and the bottom of the crib rail. The mattress had apparently slipped down at the end of the home-made crib Baseball Scores American SATURDAY ripvplanri l. Washington 2 Chicago 3-3, New York 4-4. St. Louis 4, Boston 2. Detroit 2. Philadelphia 1. National Philadelphia 6, Cincinnati (3. Boston 3, St. Louis 2. Giants 3, Chicago 1. Brooklyn 0, Pittsburgh 4. American SUNDAY Cleveland 5. New York 3. St. Louis 3-2, Philadelphia 4-5 Chicago 4-3, Washington 2-2. Detroit at Boston, double-header postponed. National Brooklyn 4, Chicago 2. Boston 1-3. Cincinnati 2-1. Philadelphla.6-1, St. Louis 3-0. New York 6-11, Pittsburgh 7-6 W. H. W. Murray, of the North crn B.C. Power Co., sailed on the Coqultlam Sunday night on a business trip to Stewart. ;: TODAYS STOCKS : : Courtesy a. i. jonuswrn Beattie : ' nnvmnlirt 0 Bnbio - ISVfe Rnffaln Can -I6'! Con. Smelters - 79.25 .Conwest C3 Donalda, Eldona - -33 ' Elder -7l Giant Y'knhfe 50- God's Lake ..i, s....... 80 Hardrcck ..... ;. 38 Harricana , , - -09 Heva Gold ....i 31 Hosco m.. .1. M Jacknlf e -' 08 Jollet Quebec -33 Lake Rowan 20 Lapaska - 26 Little Long Lac 1-50 Lynx Mdasen Red Lake 2.90 McKenzie-Red Lake 51 MacLeod Cockshutt I-50 Moneta -47 ; Nes;us .V. I-00 Noranda 43-00 Oslsko Lake I-39 Pirkln Crow 2.40 Rasgcourt MYs San Antonio -J Senator Rouyn ., 32 Sherrltt Gordon 2-75 Steep Rock 2.00 Sturgeon River 17 with all its constitutional rights and prerogatives. Within those rights it could name a president and vice-president of its own choice without any regard for the results of voting in presidential elections. Obviously it would never do that but its continuous existence and oDeratlons make it possible 6r "a candidate to run second in the popular vote to become president. That has happenea more than once. ReDeated efforts to abolish it have been made during the last 150 years. Now two young Congressmen, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge (Rep.-Mass.) and Representative Ed Gossett (Dem.- Texas) have presented joint reso lutions to amend it out 01 tne the constitution. Gossett called the Electoral College "this archaic, dangerous and undemocratical Institution. Tnriav it works like this: In advance of the presidential el ectlons each state political. -or ganlzation nominates a slate 01 candidates for "electors" one for each member the state is entitled to send to Congress. RESULTS AUE STILL SAME In the elections, the people really vote for their choice of "electors." In nine states only the Electoral College candidates' names are on the ballots, listed under party labels. In 21 states the elector candidates do hot aDDear but the names of the presidential candidates' name: are printed on the ballots. At nresent 531 "electors" are elected In each presidential con testone for every senator ana representative In Congress. Thus New York elects 47 "el ectors" and the number ranges down to the minimum of three in the smallest or least popu lated states. The evil In the system' as seen by many Is that for many years all the electoral college votes In a state go to the candidate win ning the majority of votes in the state. That, too, is an unwritten agreement but is the accepted practice. Thus it would be possible for a candidate to lose all but the 12 most populous states and still ''jj FIRST MEN FROM JOB-POOR MARITIMES A RIVE AT BRANTFORD, ONT. Forty-four young men from Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island, the vanguard of an estimated 2,000 workers to be moved from the Maritimes to Ontario by the Employment Service of Canada, have arrived In Brantford, Ont., to take Jobs with the Massey-Harris Co. They met people they knew from "back home."- Walking through Massey-Harris plant, Bill O'Connell, right, saw Helen March, a neighbor from Sydney, N.S., who has been operating a drill at the plant since early waT days, he went to Brantford as war worker. With O'Connell and Miss March are Stan McDougall, second from left, and Stan Bye, M.P., left, member of company's personnel staff who escorted the Maritimers around. ELECTORAL COLLEGE MENACES DEMOCRACY, U.S. CRITIC WARNS By C. R. BLACKBURN Canadian Press Staff Writer Set Up By 1787 Constitution, "Archaic," Dangerous Institution" Puzzles Political Reporters -VJ ASHI N Q TON. D.C. A "colletre" without teachers or students and, in the opinion of many, without any excuse lor existence, is unaer congres cirtnni firp n? n "( Ptinit.fi menace to aemocracv. kjiviiu w m . 1 ... i y-a It II L 1 Tt is thP Kn-pa er "Electoral uoiiece set un dv the constitution writers in 1787 to ensure that the president and vice - president woujdji bejntelligently selected. It has functioned as a rubber stamp .appdbvingl the people's choice since 1800 but it remains win enough .electoral votes out him In office. to In 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes ran second to Samuel Tilden in the popular vote but he became president on the electoral vote. The same thing" was true in 1888 when Harrison, defeated Cleveland in the electoral vote. WILLKIE QUOTED AS AN EXAMFLE In 1940 Wendell Willkie was only about 240,000. votes short f th t.nt.nl eiven Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York but the whole 47 electoral voters in that state went to Roosevelt. The Electoral College used to meet in each state and formally prmrove the majority vote and ndvise the president of tne sen ate, through the state, secretaries of state. In 1933 they all came to Wash ington for the first time on the eve of President Roosevelt's first inaucuration and staged a gala dinner and formal meeting at which they announced Roosevelt and John Nance Garner as their choice for pn-sident and vlce- -re?!dent. Thpv hnvp been doing that ever since. Electoral college can didates are usually men of sub stance and means and often serve over and over. They are organized with a permanent president, Michael J. Doyie, a Philadelphia business man. But the "permanence" wouifl be upset if In 1948 the presidential elections goes Republican for hP first time since ivii. There is one instance of an elector rebelllng.i The 1820 election would have given James Monroe re-election with a unani mous election college vote. A lnne elector whose name U burled in the voluminous but confused records, of those days, felt that no other should equal George Washington's record as unanimous choice of the people and gave his vote to the runner-up, John Qulncy Adams. I In Canada, where there Is a Dominion election law and ad ministrator, voters may easily understand all the details of electoral proceedings. In the United States even seasoned veteran political report ers are hazy on details because they have probably the most cornclex election system or any modern, important country. Each state has Its own system and there are almost as many systems as there are states. Noted Dietician Is Dead In London LONDON, 0) Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, aged 85, Nobel Prize winner, and acknow ledged as discoverer pf vitamins, died at the -week end at Cambridge. Acclaimed as one of the world's leading biochemists. Sir Frederick condxicted dietetic ex periments 41 years ago -which showed the importance of vita mins to the average diet. License for Q.L.A. Lines To Operate from Vancouver to Logging; Camps and U'cst Coast OTTAWA, Oi The Air Trans port Board Sunday night an nounced approval of a "new license to the Queer. Charlotte Airlines Limited, and said that as a result of the large number of Isolated points In Northern British Columibia, the coast will now have access to air trans portation-. The company operates a non- scheduled charter commercial air service from Vancouver, serv ing logging, mlnlnn. and fish- Inz enterprises in the interior. The new license arants ner- mlsslon to operate a commercial scheduled service alone a route lncludine Powell River. Minstrel Island, Alert Bay and Sullivan Bay. Another scheduled serv ice will be maintained from Van couver direct to Comox. A non scheduled service proposed by the comroany wvl take in the route from Vancouver to Much alat Arm, Nootka, Ceepeccee, Tahsls, Zeballos and Chamis Bay. ATOMIC WARNING HAMILTON, Peacetime amplications of atomic energy it Ls expected, will ib accelerated by Canada's first oisclosures of discoveries in nuclear chemistry made at a conference which con eluded at MoMaster University here Saturday. During the three day meeting, scientists from the United States were warned privately . and In sneeches that there might be no such applications II control of atomic energy ls not vested in a world governing body. HALIBUT SALES American Lorelei II. 55,000, 18.70 and 15, Canadian Fish and Cold Storage. Canadian (All landed at Co-dp) Selma II.. 35,000 Connie Jean, 20,000 Teeny Mllly, 25,00c Capella I, 26:000 Rodney P., 21,000 Lois N., 30,000 Panda, 23,000 Nornen, 19,000 Kyrielle. 10,000 Control of Middle East LONDON (CP) Informed sources declared today that Great Britain Is setting the stage to hand military responsibility in the Mediterranean and Middle East over to the United States and withdraw Empire defences to East Af- Qualified British military informants said the proposed set-up implied that tha defence of the Mediterranean and Suez Canal In particular would become an American responsibility. MOUNTBATTEN IN LONDON LONDON. D Viscount Mountbatten, viceroy ot India, arrived here today for hls.conr sultation with the Prime Minister, Mr. Attlee and cabinet on the- situation In India, Mount-, batten declined to comment on his present mission. FORMULA ON COAL STRIKE GLACE BAY, W The compro mise formula for settling the Maritime coal strike went be fore a meeting of the United Mine Workers (C.CL.) District 26 Board today omtd general expectation was th$t it would be accepted and recommended to the unions 13,000 membership. If accepted, the U man board formula would be put before the rank and file of the union.: A favorable vote would ep;,the three months' old strike. reds besiege;, MANCHirCITtf NANKING, (CP) A Chinese Communist column moved to a noint only seven miles south ol Changchun today to placs the Manchurian capital virtually under a state of seige; TMs Is tiported by nationalist dis patches. A Red Army unit rushed to the city's suburbs,, after taking Hwaileh, 25 miles west. The fall ol Hwalteh will expose the capital city to ilirect attack. SMITHERS HAS YUKON NIGHT SMTTHERS The Klondyke Night held Friday tc raise funds for the proposed Community Centre in Smlthers was a huge success typleal of all Klondyke Nights which have been held in the oast. An excellent floor show was enjoyed by a hall crowded to capacity. Specialty numlbers were Red River barn dance, Can Can dance, Chinese act; My Darlln? Clementine; sinlke Jones and his "Klondyke Orchestra and vocal selections by Mrs'. J. and Mrs. D. Herman. One of the main attractions of the evenln? were tha two boxing matches staged oy tne youngsters under the direction of W. C. (Lefty) Gardner, ne youngsters showed real talent. Both "bouts wen? no-decision af fairs. Many fine beards were displayed' for the b:ard-judglng rnntpst. the prizes come to Ted Chapman in first place. Herb Leach second, and Les Buchanan third. Prize for the best costume went to Mrs. Rene Turner. with Lorraine Buchanan runner up. Miss Doris Oliarny was rrnwned Klondyke queen ana will reign until next Klondyke night. An essay contest was neia on the subject of a Community Centre and prizes were awarded as follows: High School First, Rosa Langston; Second, Owen Jones; Third Verna Oulton. Pub- osn; School First, Tie between Josephine Buchanan and Vir ginia Ford; Second, Marg Davia- Thlrd, Rosa Illdlber. Brlsradler and Mrs. Joseph Gllllngham, Salvation Army divisional commander, returned on Saturday from a trip to the Hazeiton district where they inspected a number of outposts. i it 51 m 3: IS TUB 11 9 I IP 3