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l-leavy Snow Poses Problem In City

22-inch Fail Since fihrlstmas lvq.

” Halifax Replrtsltaw Former Tignish Man Killed

In Accident

Jamel Maxwell Murphy, young- est son of the late senator P. C. Murphy, 'I‘ignish, died on Christ- mas Eve at Mount Pleasant, Texas. from injuries received in an auto- mobile accident. His mother, the late Mrs. Murphy, nee Minnie Burke, was the sister of the late Rev. A. E. Burke, one-time parish priest at Alberton, and later editor of the "Catholic Register", Tor- onto. The late Mr. Murphy was about 4B years of age.

The funeral services will be held at 10 o'clock-this morning at Mll- waukee, Wisconsin, where the late Mr. Murphy practiced his profes- aion of law. Married. the names of his wife and children were un- available last night.

He was one of four children by the lat-e Senator's first marriage. The others are Alfred of Van- couver, B.C., who, as_a Captain in World War 1, won'the Military Cross for gallantry in action; Claude; and Howlan. All four served overseas in the First World War. c

'I‘wo half-sisters, Eleanor of Boston, and Nellie, Vancouver, and a half-brother, Reginald, of Ottawa, also survive him. Their mother the Senator's second wife died several years ago. Before her marriage, she was Agnes Wickham,“ a. sister of the late Dr. William Wickham, who was a practicing physician in 'I‘ignish for many years.

The residence of the late Son- ator Murphy in ‘Pignlsiv was pur- chased shortly after the Senator's death by the present Lieutenant- Governor, the Hon. J. A. Bernard.

liliurchlll Suffering From Sevcrcailcld

MARRAKECH. French Morocco. Dec. 21! - (AP)-——Wlnston Church- ill. suffering from a bad cold, was kept. in bed by doctor's orders Sat-

urday, Members of Churchill’! party laid the former British Primo Minister, "i8, apps-rent iy

caught cold on a motor trip to the mountains, where he sat beside his autotnoblle for several hovrs painting the landscape. His con- dition is not_ considered serious, they said.

Coming Events

"Dance Belfast Hall, Tuesday. Doe. 80th.

"Grinding Grain daily. Bell Bros, St. Peter; Road, Parkdale.

“Dance in Frenoh River Hall, Monday, December 29th.

"Unloading car Oilcake at new lor; prices. P. L. Morris, Klnkora.

“U Oilcake Saturday and Monday. McGuigan 6s Boyle.

"Dance and Card Party, Trac- gi; Hail, Monday, December 20th.

“Supper and Dance in Kelly's Croce Hall, Monday. December 29th. “We served from 6 to 9,

"Kinhcra Hall. Monday. Decem- ber 29th. Demo. Special music. Lunch served.

"Meeting. Canadian teglon, It. POfArI. Tuesday. Dec. S0, at. S pm. in Court House.

"Victoria Hall, Manda

Nth. Ulflil. dancing. lunch. (rune everyone. “Loading Hogs at Bouris for

Canada Packers 1M" on Tuesday, December 00th, until noon, Roddie Imam-n. .

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"Collecting: hogs every Thurs- “! for Canada Packers. Phone N. A. Outoliffo or write mo. D, L. Mao- Dewoll. .

"While it lasts. Five Roses and Cream of the West Flour. MM small quantity" , l. 00.00 per hundred- "ilht. We do custom grinding While You wait. Beaten and Mo- ll. lhul-flllll 1m lea-vice. W. I . .. .

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Still reeling from the effect of the Christmas Eve snowstorm, the City of Charlottetown was blank- eted last night with ah ‘additional 12 inches of snow which begar. falling about 8.30 Saturday morn- ing. Twenty-two inches are now down in the City area.

The City, through shortage of SHOW-flflbtlns Bqlllpmcnt, has had the Provincial Government come to its assistance and today the Government wil1 continue its aid by putting one of its larger snow plows into action on the City streets. Yesterday the City had about 20 men shovelling snow.

In the meantime, the Provin- cial Government has had all its heavy snow-fighting equipment i" mtion on the main highways of the Province and officials said met night practically all of them were open. Among those open for traf- fic are the Montague-Charlotte- town highway, the Charlottetown- Wood Islands highway, and the Charlottetown - Summerside road. The main highway from Summer- side to Tignish is also open.

However, officials said last night none of the roads is widened suffi- ciently at present and additional widening will be done at once.

The weather observer at the Experimental Farm reported last night that twelve inches of snow has fallen since 8:30 a.m. Saturday, with four inches of this amount having fallen between 8:30 am and 8 p.m. Sunday. A previous ten inches of snowfall having been recorded up until Saturday, brings the total amount of snowfall in this area to 20 inches since De- cember 34th. .

The bus service has been brough‘. to a standstill though some main points my be serviced today.

The lway continues to run on schedule as no deep cuttings have yet developed.

S8 Inches At Halifax

HALIFAX Dec. B -—-' (C?) — Snowfall of varying intensity last night. and today put finishing touches to the Maritime. Provinces panomara which Christmas week was transformed into a glamorous but perverted fairyiand providing the Dominion Public Weather Of- fice here with another record.

Weather officials said precipita- tion every dny for the last week except Christmas Day had amount- ed to 30.‘! inches in Halifax, which is the most ever recorded by the office during the month of De-

snowfall had been negligible. they

added. Previous high was 33.1

inches in 1017. . Falls of four and five dnchec

throughout New Brunswick were

reported and the week's total was

considerably less than in her sis-

ter Provinces.

BOY ENTENCED \

WOODSTOCK_ N. B., Dec. :8- (CP)—A 12-year-old boy was sen- tenced Saturday to two years in the Boys’ Industrial Home at Saint John'after he pleaded guilty to a charge of indecently assaulting a 13-year-old girl. Police said the boy had followed the glr] and her ninc-year-old cousin so thov walked toward home near the town outskirts. One of the girls ran home but police said the boy dragged the other girl into a

17,000 Wofk At Snow Removal In ttew York

NEJW YORK. Dec. 28 — (AP) - New York and its citizens assum- ed a more cheerful aspect today as a force of more than 11.000 men using 2,000 piece: of equipment pushed ahead in the struggle against the record snow that en- gulfed the city last Friday.

A bright sun smiled down on the city after a brief snow flurry in tho morning and a forecast of temperatures in the,30l promised aid to the hard-pressed snow re- moval brigades.

Markets Commissioner Eugene G. Schulz announced after a rur- vey that food supplies were ample and the Board of Transportation reported subway transportation was back to normal.

The Weather Bureau said t-here were no signs of renewed snow in the area hit by the storm, which swept the northeast states from Maine to the District of Columbia and took a toll of at least 61 lives.

Highest snowfall reported was 30 inches in Long Branch. N.J. New York was hit with 25.8 inches, surpassing by almost five inches the precipitation left by the blis- zard o1 '8.

Heart attacks induced by over- exertion in combat-ting the snow were listed as causing many of the

Three Lose Lives In Mystery Blast

SENNETERBE. Que” Dec. ll —(C") - Three Canadian Na- tional Railways’ emflloieea were killed hero Saturday when a gasoline engine used to operate a coal conveyor exploded. blow- in: a email concrete building to bits.

Killed were Jenn Denis Pol- lquin and lreneo Daigncuult. both of Senneterre, and Jean Louis Dory of St. Raymond do Portneuf. Que. Poliquln and Dalgneaulf. were both married with three children.

Cause of the explosion ia unknown. The building housing the engine had a cement flflor and cement walls. The terrific explosion blew the whole struc- ture to pieces and the bodies of the men were badly mangled.

An inquest and investigation will be held by the coroner to-

storm deaths.

Liner As'can_ia_ Docks At Halifax

liiAl-IFAX. Dec. 28—-(CP)—-F'irst Cunard-Donaldson 1iner to resume peacetime service between Great Britain and Canada, the 14,000- ton Ascenla, slipped into her berth here today from Liverpool with ‘I20 plssengers, nearly all immi- grants.

Under command of Capt. G. N. Jones, wartime convoy command- er the Ascania is the only one 1f eight liners the firm operated be- tween Canada and England befcrs the war to return to service. ‘rwc, the Athenia and the Andania, were sunk and the others are still ‘n British Government service.

Sncwpiow Derailed

HALIFAX, Dec. QS-(OPJ-‘Iraf- fic over Canadian National Rall- ways lines in Nova Sectia was de- layed as much as l2 hours after a snowplow left’ the rails early to- day near Wellington, 25 miles from here onthe Euro-Halifax route.

The wedge shaped plow, being

,ushed by _a locomotive, over- turned and mused the engine to derail, tearing up rails and ties for about 20o yards. No one was injured. C. N. R. officials said the route had resumed operation but arriv- ing and degaerting trains still were running late.

KlIiWGSTON-ON-THAMZ- 1'- reY. England -—- (OP) — Charles Moon. 05, was re-elected as honor- ary auditor of tho National Parm-

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HALIFAX. Dec. 28 -— (OP) — Mrs. Kathleen Saccary. 04-year-old , widowed mother of live chlldtemi will be charged with murder ihl the‘ shotgun slaying of Phiilp| Shlers. S3. with whom she bed been living, R.C.M.P. slid hem t0- night.

Shlero died in hospital early to- day of wounds received yesterday in his homo at nearby Infield. He

1y after being hit in the back by ithe M-zuage shotgun bloat. After the city medical examiner

the body. Mounted Police announ- ced they quid arrest Mrs. Sac- oory on the murder charge.

A constable and police-matron were lent. to infield to bring tho woloaii,» when legitimate husband has boon dead several years. into Halifax. They were accompanied by Child Welfare officials who call this arrange’ cero for

had been rushed to hospital ahori- klllinI.

er'e Union branch here.

Halifax Woman To Face Murder Charge

the children.

An RCMP. ofliclal laid that no motive had been assigned to the killing so far. 11a cold tho two had "been bickering and arguing all morning." The shooting occurred about 1 p.m. yesterday, _

it was thought thereupon no one except Mrs. Beccary, the Victim and some of the children in the Bifield home at the time of tho An 1104M). ambula had been summoned to bring tho fatally-injured man to Halifax.

The nature of Bliiera’ employ-I, had conducted a pont-mortem o rnent could not be learned but it

was thought that Mn. Saoeary kept house for him. 1.0M), acid they did not know ylt hbw

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Mother And Children Fire Victims Inter-red

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dreds of men, women and child- ren stood with bowed heads yes- terday afternoon in the United Church cemetery in the Prince County village of Elmsdale as the charred remains of Mrs. Kenneth Matthews, her four-year-old daugh- ter, Carol, and her two-year-old son, Haldane, were consigned to their last resting place.

Mother and children were in- terred in a common grave.

Long before the funeral service hour of 2.30, scores of sleighs and cars began converging on the little village, for the news of the tragic fate of the Elmsdale mo- ther and her two children-burned to death on Christmas evening in s. fire which destroyed their home and sent another child in a critical condition to the Western Hospital at Alberton-hud swept the coun- tryside. ~ The service at the Elmsdalc Un- ited Church was conducted by the pastor, Rev. Ira MacDonald, whn was assisted by Rev. Mr. Cone of the Church of the Nazarene, and Rev. Mr. Fraser of the Alberton United Church.

The hymns sung were "Jesus. Keep Me Near the Cross" and "Jesus, Lover of My Soul". Rev. lVLr. Cone and Mr. Alvin Ashley rendered feelingly “,When the Roll is Called Up Yonder."

Sorrowing relatives and friends had brought wreaths and other floral tributes in profusion so that. as one onlooker said, when the grave was filled and the people began to depart from the ceme- tery "it seemed as if the mother and children were sleeping be- neath a wilderness of flowers." Besides the grief-stricken hus- band. the mourners were the dead mother's two brothers, Ralph and Lloyd, and one sister. Mrs. Mildred Sfovenson of Oshawa, Ont.

The flower-bearers were Henry Wells, Walden Rix, Howard Adams, Fred Forsythe,, Keith Johnson, Wesley Hardy, Frank Dunn, and Gerald O'Brien.

The pail-bearers were Messrs. Robert Campbell, Wesley Johnson, Maxwei] Cameron, Merrill Dunn, Fraser Rlx, and Orrin Wallace.

OROMER. Norfolk. England - (OP) —- Sldestrund Hell. former home of Vscount Ternplewood. has been ought by Norfolk education committee to provide assommodatlon for louaub-norrnal puplls._

ELMIRA, Ont. Dec. 28 —-(CP) - Pour persons were murdered and a fifth, the slayer, committed suicide Saturday night during what. appears to have been a family quarrel following a drink- ing party.

The dead are:

Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Letson.

Percy and Wilson Letson, broth- ers of Hugh.

Walter (Pat) Iotson, cousin of Hugh Letson.

Police said it was Walter Let- son who turned a shotgun on his three relatives and Mrs. Letson, and then committed suicide.

The five bodies were found to- night in the Letson home at West Montrose. a Hamlet six miles eaSt of here and l2 miles north of Kitchener, by an aged and deaf resident of the same house. 90-year.old Matthew Pollock.

Provincial Police from Kitchen- er went to the scene and ques- tioned friends and neighbors of the family. Police officers said there had been a party at the Let- son home, and that the evidence was that Letson had killed the other four and then committed suicide.

Police however, could give no motive for the quadruple slaying and the suicide.

Pollock apparently slept all through the party and the slay- ings.

Late today he was unable to rouse his nephew, Walter Letson. and he went to a neighbor's home and, told Mrs. Olive Helbein that "I can't wake him; I shook him and took hold of him, but he's cold.”

Neighbors then went to the household at West Montrose and discovered five dead.

Hugh Iotson was 45, his wife, Mary, 40, his brother Wilson, 43, and Percy 38. Walter was believ- ed to be about 40.

Police said that the shootings apparently occurred late Saturday night but that Waltor Letson had not commitfod suicide until early Sunday.

The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Let- son and the two brothers were in the living room of the home, Percy on a couch and the others on the floor. Walter Lemon's body was found beside his cur in the garage. "'l‘he living room of the house was soaked in blood and the walls and floors were pocked with shotgun pellets.

Police said that they had located a key witness in the slayings. a young women who was seen leav. ing the lotson home early Sunday morning. She was in a state of hysteria but police officers would not say whether she had given them the story of the tragedy.

Fear 500 Drowned At tlankcw, lihina

SHANGHAP Dec. 28—(R.eutersl _Pivc hundred persons were fear- ed drowned in l-Iankow when fire aboard the Chinese river steamer Vanshaing Saturday caused panic among the 700 passengers, most of whom plunged into the icy Yang- tsc River, the Chinese paper Shun Pao reported today.

More than '10 bodies had sl- ready been recovered, the ne\vs- paper said. The fire was exting- uished only after it had spread to three other river steamers and more than a dozen junks in the vicinity.

BLADE SABOTAGE FOR FIRE

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Dec. 28—(CP)-A fire which raged 45 hours and wasted 500.000 cubic feet of natural gas in Parrylanis. South Trinidad, before being aub- dued last night was duo to "sabo- tage", it was annou ‘ officially

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Al-EXANDRIA. Dec. 2a _ (AP) — Victor Emmanuel III, the 11v@_ foot three-inch. king who played yes-man to Mussolini for 20 years and SAW Italy crumble 1n the ruins of War, dlccl in exile today of pneumonia.

The Tdyear-old former monarch had lived in EZYDL since 1946, when he abdicated the throne he had held since 1800. His death came at 2120 pm. 01:20 a.m., AST) at an Alexandria hczpital where hc had been treated several days.

_His wife, the former Queen Elena, was at the bedside. Their son Humbert who succeeded his father as king for one month, un- til the Italian people voted down the monarchy, was summoned from Lisbon lo help plan the fun- eral.

No funeral arrangements had been made, members of the form- er king's entourage said. In Cairo, Foreign Minister Ahmed Knshaba Pasha said the Egyptian court would mourn Victor Emmanuel seven days and an "official fun- eral” would be held. Premier Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha said l. “military funeral” was be- 111g arranged.

The former King, who had adopted the name of the Count of Poilenzo, was stricken with double pneumonia Wednesday while pre- paring to celebrate Christmas with members of his family. He was taken to the Italian hospital and attended there by Dr. Mag- giorino Peta. pathologist and heart

specialist. There was no indication the body would be returned to Italy

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Pope Pius Recovers From ’Flu Attack

VATICAN CITY, Dec. 28-¢AP) —P0p8 Pius has recovered from his light attack of influenza. He took a short walk in the Vatican gardens saturday. The Pontiff will not resume his HIICHEIICES, however, until next week when he will re- ceive diplomats io the Holy See for traditional New ‘Year's greet- ings.

Former King 0f Italy ‘Dies In Exile

Family Quarrel ls Blamed For Five Deaths In Ontario

l0. S. Fire Losses ‘At All-time iligh 1

NEW YORK, Dec. 28 __ rAPi --- iFirc losers. in the United States i reached an ail-Lime high of $700,- 000,000 this year.

It is the highest annual loss ever recorded by a country in peacetime and tops Great Britain's property loss from the two year German blitz by $300,000,000,

Flames ale up millions of bush. els of grain which might have gone to Europe's needy in scat- tered conflagrations.

The domestic housing supply was set back when fire destroy- ed a $1,000,000 factory in Austin, Tex., that was turning out 400 prefabricated dwellings a month.

The National Board of Fire Underwriters estimates that in 1947 there were 33 blazes that in- volved $1,000,000 damage or more.

The Board of Underwriters said the number of fires in 1947 prob. ably exceeds the 540,000 estimate for the previous year.

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Drew 0f Russian Ship Reticent

SAINT JOHN, N.B.. Dec. 20 - (CP) ~— Reticence is the watch- wcrd aboard the motor vessel Vil- nus, first Russian boat to enter Saint John harbor in 15 years.

A brief interview with the-chief officer ended when the Captain, T, Gavriiov, ordered him not. to give any interviews. “Ask the Russian Embassy in Otwwa," oval the re. ply to all further questions.

The crew of 50 includes several women. When a reporter attempt- ed convcrsallon with one she was ordered hack to the galley. from which came a strong odor of cab- bageuoup. An officer then told the reporter he had hsken the wrong way to reach thc gangvvay, and escorted 11in‘. to the spot.

The spoilcssly clean Vilnus, framed after the Caucasian town of Vilna. was built in Finland six years ago and bought in New York recently by the Russian Govern- ment. The 2,000 ton, ms-foot ves-l sci is taking on a cargo of flour‘ for the British Food itfinistry.

Only fzhc senior officers of the vessel's complement are allowed ashore. _

Ontario Mother And Daughter Die In Fire

HAZELDEAN, Ont, Dec 2B (CP)~After assisting two young daughters to safety through a sec- and-storey window, Mrs Beulah Bennett. 30. was twinned to death early today as she sought to res- cue a third as fire destroyed a frame fanm building 2 1-2 miles north of here Bodies and dnugwhter, eight-year-old June, were recovered in the smoldering embers.