ll-Soil. Ploy Tricks On ' Hum Operators And Police

EDMONTON (C!) - The sun- spots are on the rampage again. bringing Joy to amateur radio on- thusfnsta and contusion to some police wireless departments.

sunspot: eater a period at is- tense activity every 11 years and the present cycle reaches its peak next year. The? cause eruptions of electr'icall.V - charted lanes which penetrate the ionosphere surrounding the earth. and play smnsc tricks with wireless tress- missions.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police here report they are hear- ing messages from as far away as Quebec, although their radio equipment has a normal range of less tllll till tltllel.

Quebec turn is receiving Ed- monton ic . as well as some originating in France. And in Vancouver. police say they are monit 1.. peliee broadcasts from many parts of the United States.

PUZZLES Fol OPERATORS

"it's all very confusing." said a Vancouver police official. "Some of the ear nurnberi in the United States are the same as ours."

Commercial firms are also hav- ing troubles. At Hinton. Alta., an oil company's car "84" got cast! to report to a certain location. The

driver had never heard of the place. Invlenetigatioa s(l:i't:lwl:d an oil WIIDIIW Corpus ti, 'i'ex., had been calling.

Meantime. amateur operators are having a wonderful time. One operator in Edmonton says he has worked with lll countries. as- other, 187 countries, since last March. Distance is no problem. They've had contact with their counterparts in Cambodia, the Antarctic and a group oi Russian explorers on a heating iceberg at the North Pole.

Scientists at the University of Alberta say the Cycle has oc- curred every 11 years in the loo years since reeorda have been kept. At its peak next June, as part of the worldawide work being done in the International Geopllyg. icnl Year scientist: will make spe- cial studies of the sun-spot cycle.

Whatever the scientific " ” long-distance wireless operators In allowing the unusual condi- tions. Long - distance transmis- sions are bounced down from lay- ers of electrilied gas in the upper atmosphere. lo a pl n g from one llyer to another and reaching an earth - bound set perhaps thou- sands ol miles away. With the in- creased Iunspots charging the up- Per atmosph : a radio transmis-

sion can ai1'lve almost anywhere.

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Destroyer Escort To Be Laun'cl'ied Nov. IS

' MONTREAL CF) - The new anti-submarine destroy escort Ste. Croix, will be launched at Snrel, Que. Nov. 15, it was as- nounced from Royal Canadian Navy headquarters here Sunday

Liner Aseeiiio Head: For Breeslier's Yard

MONTREAL (CPI-The Cunard liner Ascanla is due to leave here Wednesday on her last voyage to Southampton - and a lircsker's yard.

Decision to end the liner'a ll- year career was announced re- cently by the Cunard Steamship C0. She made her maiden V0388: to Montreal May 23. 1925-

total of 92.

The homes will be used l7! 903' struction workers durinl till 10- mainder of the buildllls PmSl'3m-

They ltlll then be sold to V " and Indians planning to live in Ak- lavik.

Amung Guiana a dead hunter's favorite dog is slain and buried alons Vllh him.

Was First dint... CraftWOver North Pole

n. roses, Nfld. iicp) -

A pl 41 decoilbg Irlt-him T”-tinguished

sei-vie edal here Wednesday as he retgedy from the United States Air Fme. Col.;n'Bernt Balchen. first man an aircraft over the south, ole, says his career is far from over. He's looking for some thing with some-lite, some sparkle in aerial transportation. Col. Bal- cheri says he has received several offers but had so far made up decision. g

"One thing I'm certain I'm not going to do in sit with my hands in my lap." says Col. Balchea who still retains a Norse accent. lie was born in Tveit, Norway. 51 years ago.

Col. Ialdren began his Aseth dying career as pilot and en- gineer for explorer Roald Amund- sen in 198. He flew over the pole with Admiral Byrd's first Antarctic expedition in 1928.

Col. Balchen is known is Can-

eviatien was new

Churchill. Man, as a port. Re any New York in 1931 to dlreet the search for survivors of the Vikins. a sealing ship carry- ing a movie crew that blew up on the sealing .grounds oif north- east Newfoundland with heavy loss of life. Col. lalchen's flight to Newloundland was delayed by poor weather. and a snowstorm had obliterated signs of survivors on the sealing ice. Some surviv- ors ieaehed Pogo Island safely.

He was in the Anterctlc from 1033 to 1985 then went home to Norway where he remained until 13 when lie went to fly for the

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was with a mission to the United States to buy weapons for Nor- way when the Germans invaded his country. He Joined the Royal Air Fares. was statioed in the Far East. transleri-ed to the United States Air Force in 1941 and worked with the office of strategic services flying supplies into Norway and flying out men and venue who escaped the

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New Aklcivik Will Not Thaw Out Its Own Foundations

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Canadian Press staff Writer o'i'rAwA (C:.)..-- no ingenious method

legal. swan-vs to arms C kw Amie eaeisauelte If have - sewerigatsr

unsani- tary the present site of Aklavik,

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Mackenzie River 70 miles south of title Aretie Ocean.

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proportions of silt and ice crystal. fllfllttlbll last summer of a wharf. our

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protec- at ' it let uh. :rlltTnldn'wlE.mtTI. created

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