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NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE LEADER

HON. COL. GEORGE A. DREW,

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will meet the Progressive" County Executive members, Provincial and Dominion Members and defeated Candidates, in the

CHARLOTTETOWN HOTEL, Monday, November 8th., at 3

to discuss Organization and other matters of interest to the Party.

P.E.l. PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE ASS'N

Conservative Provincial and

“i” NOTICE

(poly b Ihsess Lacey's lite

nuprll street. tvill be closed until ‘urtlit-r notice.

lslander Transferred la Georgia Base

at tinom) AFB. washinston- _\ 15 -- After spending 38 months ,1’ iitc Station Hospital. McCliord .ti;- Force Base. Lt. Sarah K. Mac- licnaltl (ANC) has been transferr- m t.) Robbins Air Force Base in Uccrgia. U.S.A.

l.t. hfacrionald graduated from Prizice of walcs College and Nor- mal School. Charlottetown.- and contiiittcd her education at. Dal- liousic University. Halifax. Nova firnfla, Upon completion oi her vudtes there. she went to New ngvcn. Conn. U.S.A and took an advanced course at Yale University gmnol of Nursing.

Prior to entering the service. the lieutenant. tvas employed as Sett- lar Ptihlic Health Nurse. Baltimore fwmtk‘. Maryland. USA.

Li. MacDonald has n sisicr. Anne. who is also with the United Stfltfi ‘\‘tirse (‘nrps

‘tttttttts. MARRlAGEfnl , omits ' 5th: Per Insertion _ i

BEES tin-At the ‘kings County Mem- 2»; Hospital, hiontzigtie. on Oct.

rut: ltiill. to All". and Mrs. Leo lvt\_. Newport, a sott. Weight 8 lbs.

h MARRIAG ES

__.______._____-__-—- ItOBBINS — PEEL. — At Kenora. OlllllflO, by the Rev. W. A. Parker. October 25th. 10-18. Elizabeth Mite tl..ill.t) Robbins. R. N.. Niorcll. P. E. l.. to Harry A. Pct-l, Paris. (In? o.

DEATillS BROTHERS - At the Charlotte- tl.i‘.\ll Hospital. Nov. 3, 1948. Mrs. ’l‘.-\. Brothers. ltorally. Funeral rtrtiiigemenis will be antiounccd later. MacPIlEE — At the King's Coun- tv Memorial Hospital. Nov. 3. 194R. Mrs. Malcolm E. MacPhee of "'llf‘f‘fllll9. Futieral service Fri- ticl. Nov. 5. at 2 p. m.. at Si. John's

ffturvlt. Belfast. interment in ("I "cit Csnictcry. -- At Cynibria. Wheatley 0n Nov. 3. Mrs. William

1n her 77th ,vc:tr. The re- nrc resting at. the Andrew's 1i llonic. Hunter River. tiiitlt l:t_v afternoon. thence to the » l"(‘ of her son. Paige Nutin . ttitrrc the funeral will take c Friday aftcrtioon. Nov. i5 at. iitirzai iit I-‘airvlcw Baptist - ti .(‘l'\'.

iilllllET — At the Prince County l'l~~"tl‘a‘. on Nov. Ii. lnttisc Dorothy

Vii-lief. aged Z0 years. wiic of EFT". E. Grtttrlet. Stimmerside. 13' \' will be resting at. tlic Bow-

Fuiieral Home till Friday htiriiln: when it will b" forwarded 1* Eimont Bay for funeral mrtssi P‘ 9-30 a. m. Jitter-inept Egmnitt Bay. -

MATIIESON-At the Ritz Apart- "19011. 55 Upper Prince Street. on Wednesday, Nov. 3, Donna Joan lliatltevsntt, ngctl ftvr- weeks. (laugh- tcr of Mr. and Mrs. Erncst S. hinthcsnn. Funeral from (he Mnc- [Mri Funeral llome this Thursday Ivlifirlllltlfi. service starting at] rlclsicit. ititorment Pcoplefis Ceme-

IN MEMORIAM imwmlzlvlak memory of our dour . t rrt. Lovnnlie hlitt-hflllln.

"h" doomed from this llfo Nov. l. 1m,

5'1"?“ be th,v rent tlenr Mother. I I Iwcat tn breathe thy name, ‘ll "to we loved you dearly

It death tvn do the sumo.

I “Ever remembered by her loving "sham! llllllhtcre. Claude. m... Ind

"ti. ll. NlaeLean

UNDERTAKER

EMBALMER

C‘ ‘oetetown enl North Wlltehlre _ . Phone 1Q

Sunday School Workers Gonferenee Gonelutles Tonight

Continuing interest wee mani- fested lest. night in the Sunday School Workers’ Conference at the Baptist Church by the large num- ber in attendance. The Rev. JD. Davision led the impressive wor- ship period during the course of which he demonstrated the use of visual tsldl and followed with film strips and slides illustrating "Me- thods of Teaching."

The Conference then divided into discussion groups led by Mr. Ralph Young and Miss Adi. Adams of the Maritime Religious Educa- tion Council, The Conference will conclude this evening by emphas- izing the theme. “The Place of the Adult ln the Church School."

This will be followed by the usual discussion groups after which the nominating committee will present the new slate of officers for the local Council of the MR.- E.C.

Refreshments will then be serv- ed and the session will end with a worship period in the course of which a sound film will be used.

Overseas Ghristmas Mailings

Persons who Milli Eflfll’ 1°!’ christmtfs Overseas will help the Post Office to give them the ef- ficient timely service they expect. with Christmas less than two months away the Canada Post Of- fice again urges the public not to delay‘ posting parcels to friends and relatives in the United King- dom and on the Continent of Eu:-

ope.

Deadline dates for the Overseas Christmas Mailings for surface transport have been set as follows:

November 8th The Continent

Letters and Parcels.

November 15th ...T.be United Kingdom Parcels.

Mail which has to travel far- lhcr should be posted proportion- ately earlier.

The public is cautioned to mail as early as possible. Last minute postings. if general. might render it impossible for the Poet Office to find sufficient accommodation on the last vessels leaving in time to ensure Christmas delivery.

Gift parcels to individuals in the United Kingdom must contain only bone fide gifts and must be clearly marked “Gift Parcel." Par- cels containing food cannot be in- stired. Parcels containing food only should bear a yellow label No. 0i to expedite delivery.

The total value of the contents cf parcels sent to the United Kingdom end other countries without an export permit must not exceed $25.00.

The regular 115 and 20 lb. parcel post rates apply on parcels over 10 lb. in weight mailed from Ce- nadn to addresses in the United Kitigdcm. Articles mailed in per- cols are subject to British customs regulations and or purchase tax.

The usual fully-completed Oile- toms Declaration form i918) must be affixed to all parcels addressed abroad. Care should be taken eleo to nee that the non-adheetve Cue- toms Declaration form (153) and Despatch Note (168) are complet- ed and forwarded with the parcel where necessary,

To ensure speedy end safe de- livery mailers are urged to peck nil parcels firmly and securely in corrugated containers. wrapped tightly in several folds of thick wrapping paper and tied leourely with strong twine.

Do not use shoe-boxes ea eon- tainers or fenoy tissue peper ea outer wrapper. nor Christmas rib- bon to tie. Parcels may be sewn in strong cotton fabric for greater security. Mailers ere asked to en- close sulteble items only. which run no risk of breaking end dom- aging the other mull. The mailing oi’ matches, safety matches. lighter fluid or any inflammable substance is ‘strictly prohibited by law. n-mt fr t or env perishable items ere unsuitable for mnliing. 01ers Jere and bottles should not. be includ- cd. as they are likely to break end reuse widespread demege end poe- slble injury.

Substance which might leek end demege the malls. if sent at all. must be enclosed in leek-proof motel contetners with lid securely soldered an end the container surrounded with absorbent. meter- iel in corrugated cerdboerd- end securely wrapped and tied. All mail should be correctly addressed in

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This eoluuiu le reserved hr nerve,

of local inter-eat. but advertising of I newly nature may be mun“ at flve oeutl a word, etrloely pey- able in advance.

uowaan IDDINNI!’ Pitt-ell Footwear et 175 Queen Street.

_OONIIDEIATION LII’! IN- SURANCE.

AT YOUR. SIIVIOE. — Arnfeat Coal Co.. Phone 2498.

CITY POLICE COUIT- At the Stlpendiary Magistrate's Court. yea- terday. a man charged with having ‘the care and control of u motor vehicle while intoxicated was sen- tenced to seven days in jail. A case under the Temperance Act was ad- journed by agreement until today. Two drunk and incetpablee also sp- peared. one being eentenced to 20 daye in jail and the other was fin- ed $5 and coats or 10 days.

WATERFRONT l8 BUSY —1“lve vessels were loading potatoes and other produce in Charlottetown rreterdav. They were the "Ehrl Trader", chartered by the P. E. Island Potato Growers’ A lotion. Ind lowing 0.000 pm of potatoes for Botwood, Nfld; the Daphne- Phyllis. a two-matted schooner of about 100 tons; the Robert S. Dole and the Thomas J. Carroll. The Americen Army transport, "p5 103." arrived yesterday and will load potatoes and other produce for Ifbrt Pepperill. United States beee in Newfoundiexfl.

BETA SIGMA PH! DINNER. _ Last eveningAlpha Beta Sigma. Phi held their annual dinner party at. the Charlottetown Hotel. the Vice-President. Mrs. Margaret Dew. gracefully presiding. The table decorations. emblematic of the Sorority. were black and yellow candles and fragrant yellow roses, with the members presenting a. charming picture in their formal gowns as they chatted with one another. Following the dinner and tout ta the King. the new mem- bera, Mrs. Joy Green, Mrs. Emily Rayner and Miss Joyce Nicholson, were welcomed, Mrs. Raynor making a fitting reply. Following the initiation ceremony, conduct- ed by Mrs. Flora Rogers, the Sorority group wee photographed by Mr. Norman Saunders. Later the Sorority adjourned to the lounge where bridge and a social hour ended another happy gather- ing of the Beta Sigma Phi, the members of which are all young people interested in and working for the betterment of world con- ditlons.

BAlLEY-MCQUAID -The marri- ege of Mary Viola. youngest daughter of Mr. Peter McQueid and the late Mrs. McQuaid of Montreal. and John Colin Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bailey of Basic. took place in St. Rochs Presbytery. October the second. the Rev. Father Judes officiating. The bride, unattended, was given in marriage hy her father, looked lovely in a floor length dress of white satin‘ and-lace. the fitted bodice having a sweet-heart neck- line and long fitted sleeves. Her three quarter length veil of em- broldered net, was held by a Queen Ar.n headdress. She carriede beauti- bul bouquet of red roses and baby's breath. Mr. Marshall Lets and Johnny McQuaid brother of the bride acted as witnesses. After the reception. held at the home of the bride's father. 6975 Bloomfield Ave.. where the bride's table was pretti- ally decorated and centered with a two tier wedding cake adorned with pink and white sweet peas, the newly married couple left by plane for New Your): to spend their honeymoon. For travelling the bride wore a loganberry gabardine suit with grey accessories and a corsege of gardenias. This popular young couple were the recipients of many beautiful and costly gifts from their many friends. including the Office Staff oi‘ T. Eaton 00., of which the bride is a. valued member and the employees of the English Electric Co.. where Mr. Bailey. a recent graduate in Science of Purdue University. Lafayette, Indiana. held u responsi- ble position es electrical engineer. The groom's gift to the bride was a beautiful Bulova watch. Out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Arhui- Holland, Allston. Mm.- and Mr. Ernest J. Cavanagh. Allston. Mess. Mr. and Mrs Bailey will re- side in Montreal.

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Personals

Mill Florence Matheeon. teacher of Upton School. spent the week- end at her home in Brletol.

The many friends of Mrs. Austin Toombs. Tryon will regret to heer she is a patient in the P. E. l. Hos- pital.

Mr. Don N. Mstheson employed in the office of H. H. Marshall. Lim- ited. Charlottetown. spent Satur- day afternoon at his home In Bris- tal.

Meeter Angul C. Metheeon. Bris- tol has returned home from en en- joyable visit et the home of hie uncle, Mr. Angus L. Mtstheson. For- est. Hill.

The condition of Mr. Frank Teed. City welgher. who wee suddenly taken ill yesterday morning and removed to the Prince Edward ls- lund Hospital. is "slightly improv- ed". Hospital authorities said last night.

‘ Mr. Roy Gillie of Murray liver. who enjoyed e visit of several days in Trenton. N. 8., the guest of his brother. Mr. Ruseell Gillie. Mrs. Gillie and family. hoe returned home. '

ink and fully prepaid. Misleading ebb-evictions should be avoided. A return address should appear on each letter end parcel and it eltp containing the complete eddreeeee a! the sender end eddneeee

should be eneloied in every parcel.

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CIIAIITEI. FLIGHTS to any point in Canada or the United States for passengers or cargo. Phone Maritime Central Airways Limited 2001 or 540.

SPECIAL SERVICES continue ln Central Christian Church. Those attending are thrilled by them, will you jain them? Tonight soloist Wil- liam Wenle of Calgary. solo. "The Lord I Lave". Sermon "Death in the Pot."

LARGELY ATTENDED MEET- ING — The meeting held at the Whelari Memorial Hall last night in SUPPOrt of the campaign sponsored by the St. Thomas Aquinas So- Glfl-l’ we: largely attended. Among the» who lY-fimgly endorsed the elma and object of the campaign W911. Lieut-Gov. JA. Bernard, Hort. A.E. Areenault, retired Just- ice °1 the Slllireme Court; Rev.‘ Patrick McMahon. Mr. Wal- then Geudet. and Prof. J11. 31m- chard. The Society has been in- strumental through scholarships in nlrkheflfill the education of deserv- 1118 students of Acadian ancestry End h" B150 done much to pre- "Y" "Tl? Acadian records of hia- tarlcal significance.

Political Polls

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951W. who'sald: "I got e. very good chuckle out of this — nothing malicious, mind‘

you. I think that national political

polls will be non-existent for a long time."

DP- GQOPQe Gallupls American Institute of Public ‘Opinion pre- dlcted Dewey would get 49.6 per cent of the vote and.Truman 44,5 per cent. At 7:30 p.m. AST to- night Trumen had 49.8 per cent and Dewey 46.8 of the vote count- ed.

Gallup’: Answer

Gallup had this to say:

"Why did all the polls underesti- mate Truman's strength? The answer to this question will likely be found in an analysis of voting statistics when they are all avail- able.

"Here are the pertinent quest- ions to which we are seeking the answer:

1. which voters stayed home? Only 47,000,000 voters went to the polls Tuesday. Another 47,000,000 stayed home. Was it the‘ mpttuu- cans, or the independent voters who failed to show up at. the polls?

2. What about the undecided vote? As late as the final week of the campaign some 3.000.000 voters had not yet made up their minds. Since many ofrthestrvoters who were undecided had voted the Democratic ticket in earlier elect- ions. many of them must have decided to cast their vote for Tru- man during the last few days of the campaign. ’

"3. Did the Wallace strength early in the campaign return to Truman? Unquestlonebly the sharp decline ln the Wallace vote was a great help in many pivotal states. Wallace insured the Dewey victory in New York. On the other hand. the absence of the Wallace ticket on the ballot in Illinois undoubt- edly made the difference there be- tween vicwry and defe .

"4. How much help cl the nat- ional ticket get from local and state candidates? Early returns show many local candidates lead- ing the vote in a number of close states. .

"All polls must analyze these problems and work toward their soultion to make certain that the same errors do not occur in future election surveys.“ -

Another Explanation

Another pollster offering an ex- planation was Archabald Crossley, director of the Crossley Poll which forecast $9.9 per cent of the vote for Dewey and 44.9 for Truman.

He said:

"The Crossley poll showed that the Truman and the Dewey vote would be even if all adult citizens voted. In its final interviewing three weeks before the election it indicated considerable apathy to- ward both candidates. but some- what more toward Truman than toward Dewev- .

“I am convinced that the wide- spread publlcity given poll find- lnge served to redouble Democratic efforts to bring out the vote and may have created overccnfidence gmpng Ioapubltieane. The results clearly show whet happens when one party gets out its vote and the other does not.

"The final poll in add-October indicated e definite trend toward Truman end e felling off in the Wallace vote. Experiences in the peat. three notional elections. hOW- ever. led us to believe that. in the final weeks this trend could not. be sufficiently accelerated to over- come the five-point. lead Dewey had at the time.

"Polls can and do register the temper of public opinion. but cen- not lnfallibly predict how opinion will be depressed st the lest minute in terms of relative turnout"

limo Roper. director of the For- tune Megezine poll who predicted 52.2 per cent of the vote for Dewey end 31.2 for Truman. could not be reached for comment.

1n the dying deye of the presi- dentiel campaign, ‘Pruml-n hid derided the results of the surveys, mining them ‘sleeping polls."

Senator Howard McClreth, Dema- cratlc notional chairmen, had urged the poll-takers "to Dmpefll! udjult." their figures. If they did so, he seld. Truman would M

CROWD 1ft thd MSG, H00 DEWEY.

_ Victoria Park Once Part 0f Charlottetown Common

In view of the proposal to utilize e portion of the present Victoria Park u a navel building site. the following historical account of the Perk by Major T. E. MacNutt. which appeared some few years ago in The Guardian. will be read with renewed interest:

It would appear that the editor of "The Islander" must have had e. vision. for his editorial of let September. 1865. is under the heading “Victoria Park" although at. that time what is now Victoria. Park was a part. of Government Farm. The following la an excerpt from the editorial:

"The new barracks about to be erected will fmtnt on the road leading to Brighton Shore. Oppos- ite the Barracks is Government Farm and we trust the day is not

TRIIMAIL TALKS

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for three minutes 0r more. stenc- graphers, clerks. newspaper men. lawyers and friends of the First. World War swarmed into the room toembrace the grinning President or shake his hand.

His brother J. Vivian Truman. was there, and buddies of Battery D which he commanded in France. And Eddie Jacobson. his former partner in the haberdashery busi- ness who said he had “cried and

prayed" for Harry Truman's triumph.

Telegrams came in by the thousands.

The President's first act in his hour of his greatest political

triumph-here in the country of his humble beglnnlngs—wa-.s to re- member the man who shared with him the long. uphill campaign.

He telephoned Senator Barkley. his ninnlng mate. the new vice- presldent-to-be. to thank him for his speechmaklng. There came an- other call from his old friend Sam Rayburn, soon to he back in his old role of Speaker of the House again.

Congratulations came, too, from Dewey. The President sent back this reply: "I thank you sincerely for your congratulations and good wishes. Your fine sportsmanship is deeply appreciated. We Jointly owe congratulations to the Ameri- can people who have once again shown the world the vitality of our free institutions." '

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______-__---——-—-i good wish for a successful admin- istration," he said. "1 urge all Americans to unite behind you in support of every effort to keep our nation strong and free and estab- lish peace in the world."

That was the signal for e. victory celebration by Democrats who had been fairly sure for hours bu: could take nothing for granted in a contest so close that even then there was a. mathematical chance that later returns would reduce the Truman lead and leave the presidential race temporarily in a stalemate.

Dewey, sitting in the same Manhattan hotel room ln which he conceded election four years ago to Franklin D. Roose- velt. the man whose death made Truman President. told

ewupaper men he will never

run again. He was the only one-time loser to whom the Republican Party thacl ever given a second nomination. The defeat must have been bitter for the ambitious Michigan boy who early in life set his heart on being president.

Dewey Still Smiling

But the loser was his usual omll- ing. suave and polished self as he answered a query on a nit-nor that he would resign the govct-norship of New York state. "Pure fiction." he said. when Dewey conceded that Tru- man was the winner. the Democrat was leading iii enough states to give him 304 votes of the 531 in the electoral college. That was 3B more than is needed to win. But. even then California. was see-sawing between the two. If it. went to Dewey, it would rut the Truman electoral vote to 279. ‘Truman's lead in Ohio also was not decisive. Loss of Ohio would have cost the President. another 75 votes and brought a stalemate. with no candidate winning outright. In such a case, the new House of Representatives would have to sel- ect the winner from the three leading candidates. And that would have brought in. as the third mun. Governor Strcm Thurmond of South Carolina whose "Dixlecrat" rebels from the Democratic Party gave him the electoral vote in four southern states with a total of 3B. and perhaps two more i.ri Ilen- nessee. Truman's predecessor as vice president. Henry Wallace. who broke with his party friends and fanned a. new Progressive Party which has had Communist support, failed to win a single state. But. he undoubtedly eeved Dewey from a. more decisive beating. Wallace‘ hed scored close to l.- 000.000 votes when 41.000000 ballots lied been counted. ‘Ilhe bulk of them probably would have gone to ‘nu- men. They probably would have given Truman easy wine in both California and New York. with their combination of 72 QlOCEOTnl votes. Dewey won New York by e. fair margin ttfter switching aides fre- quently through u long night of progressive returns. Why so many could be so wrong in pro-election forecasts will be a matter of debate for years. Most newspapers. including the biggest and many ‘that had previously sup- ported the Democrats. were be-