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&: H THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE FIVE MONDAY, MAY 12, 1947 ; Canning Sugar Coupons Ottawa, May 12--(CP)--Ten extra ration coupons will again be made valid to consumers this year for purposes, the Prices Board announced. Officials said the 10 pounds of sugar will be divided by declaring valid five coupons at different dates during the canning season. On May 15 coupons Y1 to Y5 inclusive will become valid, and July 17, Y6 to Y10. Thus consumers will have a total of seven sugar coupons in May. : While the sugar is made available primarily for canning purposes, the coupons may also be used for the purchase of rationed jams, jellies, and preserves. Find Slain Hoodlum In Car Trunk San Francisco, May 12--(AP)-- Police considered the theory of a gangland "rub-out" today in the strangulation slaying of Nicholas (Nick) de John, 40, former Chicago hoodlum whose semi-nude body was found stuffed in the trunk of his own new autome ile. De John, who for the last year had been living luxuriously at Santa Rosa, 50 miles north of here, was identified by Chicago suthorities as a one-time minor gangland figure who had been run out of Chicago by gambling interests. Chief homicide inspector Frank Ahearn said "I don't know yet whether it was gangland revenge, robbery or the result of a private feud." Only T7 cents was found in the kets of his expensive tailored ousers. Police said his big diam- ond ring and a wristwatch had been removed, and were probing reports that de John had been carrying $1,200 in cash. G.M. In U.S. Disciplines 450 Workers Detroit, May 12--(AP)--General - Motors Corporation said here that a total of 450 employees in local plants have been or are being given disciplinary layoffs for leaving their jobs April 24 to attend a Detroit labor rally. A company spokesman added, however, that the corporation has agreed with the U.AW.-CI.O. to rescind its action in discharging 15 unionists who were active in re- cruiting attendance at the rally. These 15 received long-term lay- offs ranging as high as 10 weeks instead of discharge, this source said. Twenty six others received lay- offs up to two weeks. 'The majority of the 450 received two-day layoffs that have already been served. Most of them were em- ployees of Detroit's Chevrolet forge plant. Stole Beer, Asked Indians To Party, Awaits Sentence London, Ont, May 12--(OP)-- Norman Sylvester Drake, 37, of Ot- taway Ave, said in court here that he stole eight cases of beer from the Hamilton Road brewery ware- house Wednesday night, gave two cases to a taxi driver, and drove to St. Thomas where he held a beer Regina, May 12 -- (OP)--Irene , Tl, prominent Western Can- {ESE 1S 8 E5Fs ll ! IE i if i Toronto, May 12--(CP)--The Li- quor Licence Board of Ontario has announced dates of special hearings in June in four Ontario cities to consider applications for new li- Sunees for sale of liquor, beer and e. The hearings will be held June 20 at London, June 23 at Windsor, June 26 at Hamilton and June 26 at SORE, WE OY EW Bee eee Courting the worst storms of the airways, 14 men aboard the Rockeliffe Ice Wagon (upper left), flown and maintained by the RCAF, follow the air lanes of the continent in scientific search of the answer to "icing." The mission, directed by the National Research Council of Canada in cooperation with the British Ministry of Supply, is headed by James A. Lynch of the NRC, shown with Alfred Terry (right), senior British Bucks Storms to Develop Anti-Icing Equipment be 28 observer from the Royal Aircraft Establishment in Britajn, as they make a tour of inspection. Black areas on propeller blades are electrically- heated carbonized rubber de-icing pads developed by NRC's aeronautical laboratories. Kenneth Pettit (lower left), Department of Transport meteorologist, operates from a remote control panel in the nose of the ship a "cloud-droplet" camera which photographs snowflakes and minute water particles. available information léaking through the sealed frontier between Northern Bohemia and the Soviet- occupied zone of German Saxony indicates strongly that the Russians are intensively mining a northern spur of the famous Joachimstal uranium ore deposit. Residents of the Karlsbad Spa district near Joachimstal say the extent of mining activity reported would suggest that the newly-found deposits just north of the border might be even larger than the orig- inal mines. It was there Professor Pierre and Madame Marie Curie got their first uranium ore for radium. Before the war the deposit was the largest known. Dovetails Obviously, such reports cannot be substantiated on the Czech side of the frontier. But they dovetail closely with news reports which have come previously from Ger- many. Prague, May 12--(AP)--The best | Stories of the Russian mining ac- tivity--and these are widely known in the border towns through the Erz mountain section--come from persons who have visited or had business on permit north of the frontier, and from others who have talked with Russians in Karlsbad where the Red Army used the Spa hotels for a time as a rest resort for soldiers. Reds Only These accounts say the mining is being done exclusively by Russian miners brought in specially, and by hundreds. They say the actual sites of the deposits or the digging are tightly closed off even against nermal permit, and guarded. The reported extent of activity has stirred speculation that per- haps the presupposed presence in the Urals or Siberia of Russian uranium deposits may be incorrect; that perhaps this extension of the Joachimstal deposit may be the only uranium source available to Report Russians Mining Uranium At Top Speed In Joachimstal Area Soviet scientists and their German technical aides. Czech Side On the Czech side of the fron- tier the original Joachimstal mines are being worked again. During the war the Germans mined them and] after the liberation they were taken over by the Czech govern- ment. Before the war their 1937 annual output of crude uranium ore total- led 158,000 tons. In written answer to questions oy The Associated Press the Czech government said its present pro- duction of ore at Joachimstal was small, below pre-war output, be- cause much equipment had been destroyed by the Germans and re- pairs were not yet completed. The government said the whol2 output was being used, as before the war, in the production of uran- ium and uranium colors--thera- peutical radium for use at spas and sanitoriums, . By C. R. BLACKBURN Canadian Press Staff Writer Washington (CP).--A "college" without teachers or students and, in the opinion of many, without any excuse for existence, is under congressional fire as a "definite menace to democracy." It is the so-called "Electoral Col- lege" set up by the constitution writers in 1787 to ensure that the president and vice-president would be intelligently selected. It has functioned as a rubber Electoral College Menaces Democracy U.S. Critics Warn At present 531 "electors" are elected in each presidential con- test--one for every senator and representative in Congress. Thus New York elect 47 "electors" and,the number ranges down to the minimum of three in the smallest or least populated 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 winning the ma- Jority of Yotes in the state. That, Joo Js an unwritten agreement, but 7 tad +1 stamp approving the people's chol since 1800 but it remains with all its constitutional rights and pre- rogatives. ¥ Within those rights it could name a president and vice-president of its own c! sice without ary regard for the results of voting in presi- dential elections. . Obviously it would never do that but its continuous existence and operations make it possible for a candidate to run second in the popular vote to become president. That has happened more than once. Repeated efforts to abolish it have "| been made during the last 150 years. Now two young Congressmen, Sena- tor Henry Cabot Lodge (Rep.-Mass.) and Representative: Ed Gossett Dem.-Texas) have presented joint resolutions to amend it out of the constitution. Gossett called the Electoral Col- lege "this archaic, dangerous and undemocratic institution." Today it works like this: In ad- vance of the presidential elections each state political organization nominates a slate of candidates for "electors"--one for each member the state is entitled to send to Congress. Results Are 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 not appear but the Names of the presidential candi- dates' names are printed on the ballots. But the result is the same. The mark on the ballot indicates the party preference. By unwritten law, or custom, since 1800, the "electors" almost without exception, approve the choice of the people. P pr . Thus it would be possible for a candidate to lose all but the '12 most popular states and still win enough electdral votes to put him in office. In 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes ran second to Samuel Tilden in the popular vote but he became presi- dent on the electoral vote. The same thing was true in 1888 when, Harrison defeated Cleveland in the electoral vote. Willkie An Example In 1940 Wendell Willkie was only about 240,000 votes short of the total given Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York but the whole 47 electoral | chroni Yotes in that state went to Roose- velt. . The Electoral College used to meet in each state and formally approve the majority vote and ad- vise the president of the senate, 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 in- | glad auguration and staged a gala din- ner and formaf meeting at which they announced Roosevelt and John Nance Garner as their choice for president and vice-president. They have been doing that ever since. Electoral college candidates are usually men of substance and means and often serve over and over. They are organized with a permanent president, Michael J. Doyle, a Philadelphia business man. But the "permanence" would be upset if im 1948 the presidential elections goes Republican for the first time since 1932. There is one instance of an elector rebelling. The 1820 election would have given James Monroe re- election with a unanimous electoral college vote. A lame elector whose name is buried 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 Quincy Adams. In Canada, where there is a Déminion election law and ad- ministrator, voters may easily un- derstand all the details of electoral proceedings. 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The "children only" sections, placed close to emergency exits, would be used during matinee per- formances to eliminate possibility of adults molesting children and to simplify supervision. Compulsory Voluntary use of "adult enter- tainment" designations in advertis- ing of certain films during the last year had been so successful that the board now suggested the system be made compulsory after June 1. Parents appeared to be using the markings as_a guide in deciding which films their children were to see. "A complete revision of regula- tions passed under the Theatres and Cinematographs Act will be attempted in the year now com- mencing," the report said. "The board feels that the 'drive- in' theatre is destined to play an important part in family entertain- ment," said the report. "This type of theatre covers an area of 15 or 20 acres and patrons view the per- formance from their cars parked on ramps in the open air. A large pic- ture is clearly visible from any portion of the grounds and in the more modern 'drive-in' sound is wired to the individual car. This eliminates any noise insofar as the presentation i$ concerned." Itinerant operators in the 16 mm. film field now are more numerous than at any other time in the board's history, the report con- tinued. The films being released and the type of equipment now produced gave rural dwellers enter- tainment comparable to that seen in large centres. Looking Ahead In Ottawa By The Canadian Press Ottawa, May 12--(CP)--The ques- tion of whether an independent' court should be established to exer- cise some of the powers now held by the CBC probably will be re- vived at meetings of the Commons radio committee, likely to start sit- tings this week. Ralph Maybank, Liberal member of Parliament for Winnipeg South Centre and committee chairman, said the establishment of such a court was among the unfinished items of business still before the committee when it made its report to the Commons shortly before the end of last session. Some members of the committee, he said, felt that complete control over radio in Canada should not be left in th® hands of the CBC. Squint at Accounts The committee will start out with an examination of the accounts of the CBC for the last fiscal year. Mr. Maybank said he understood | that the Canadian Association of Broadcasters wanted to appear be- fore the committee as they had last year and put forward the views of private radio station operators. The CBC and private station rep- resentatives held a special meeting here last week, but the nature of the discussions was not disclosed. Some Commons committees are having trouble finding quorums these days because so many are sitting on the same days and at the same time. There seems to be no immediate relief in sight. For instance, tomorrow, there | are no less than seven committees | holding sittings practically at the same time. There are the com- mittees on external affairs, stand- ing orders, redistribution, Indian af- fairs, railways and shipping, public accounts and Dominion Elections Act. Tuesday There is a good possibility that the radio. committee will also call its first meeting for Tuesday. However, the redistribution come mittee and the committee estab- lished to decide what should be done with army canteen funds are expected to end their sittings with- in a week or two. Once the canteen fund and redis- tribution committees complete their work, other committees likely will be established. For instance, there is the committee on human rights and privileges which still has to- be established. 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