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C00, 000 Estimated Dead Or Injured; New Shocks Felt

. Thousands Of II-oineless As Fires

Rage In Sub-zg-g Temperatures.

By The Canadian Press

Recurriligmmearthquakes brought new terror ursday to Asiatic Tur- key. where at least 20.000 of a pre- liminary estimate of 60.000 casual- llPS lay dead in the wreckage of earlier shocks. Meanwhile. tremors were felt in such other far-separat- ed areas as a region of southern California and the SOuI-h African ‘lransvaal.

The California disturbance. which it seismologist thought was centered in the coastal range about 116 mles southeast oi’ Berkeley, tiras attended by no known damage of conse- quence. Dispatches from Cape Town slmilnri indicated that nothing worse t n alarm had been brought to the Transvaal.

ln Turkey, however. the pict- ure was one of mounting catas- trophe as succeeding reports re- ceived in Ankors. told of an ever-growing death list.

Aside from the official estimate 0t at least 2.000 fatalities. moons from one single Anatolian district- Fiziuerm- ut the dead and iniur- ed there a

a total of 42.000. This foui' inha-b- official fig- _r" rovince a opulation o. some 160. . It is on he Turk- i.~li -Almenian border.

ROME. Doc. 28 —(OP —Havas)— Aii fiilliflqllfl-kfi shook the rovinces "l Foggla, Liecce and Bari n south- ern Italy today. Shocks were 83r- lluulurly strong in the towns of r- HXIJIB. Canosa and Miiiervino where Property dalnage resulted. No cas-

About 20.000 were believed dead and 40,000 injured. Hundreds oi thousands were driven homeless in- to the fields and mountains. Fierce winds from the Black Sea, amid temperatures of 22 degrees below zero. took a heavv toll among these unprotected people.

Whole villages were buried under the steep cliffs of the Janik Moun- tains which skirt the Black Sea shore cm the border with Armenia.

In the Erzincan region, high in the mountains of Aremania, alone there were 42,000 killed and injur-

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Every building in the district of Erzhican was ruins, and fires ivsre raizin". A message from the Governor General said many were frozen to death.

The water supply was frozen and prevented effective fire fighting.

Reports from other districts in- dicated the death toll elsewhere vras far above previous estimates. but the chaos in communications can: so great it was impossible to obtain many details m‘ the catas- trophc.

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Nude, Mutilated Body Discovered

LOS ANGELES. D90. 28 —-(AP)-—

iialties were mentioned in first re- ports,

ANKAR Turkey. Dec. 2s - iAPl-— Oil Cllllg tonight es“. milled at least 60.000 pccple were killed or injured lii inc series of earthquakes which have spread terror over the An- ntoilsn peninsula. Tlircc addl. iioniil tremors ,blttcr cold and uilnrls of blizzard velocity which spread fires added to the dum- age and panic,

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Toy Balloon Causes Uproar

LONDON. Dce. ‘JD-A police constable tonight telephoned the Aziuitalit of a Royal Air Force lighter command station to say that a balloon was down in a livid and asked lilm to do seme- tlriig about it.

Tlic ucljutlmt and l2 slim-aft;- mcii boarded a truck and sought the balloon. Au hour inter after scrambling through hedges and over muddy fields and ditches they found it.

But it was a iov balloon.

"l did not say it vi-us n barrage imiloeu." ilie eonstriifc explained iii the angry airmen who demand- crl an exploitation at. the stuliou "l lliouclit it might be filled ivitli ejuilcslvcs and ycu ivcrc the lieu- ite in den] “fin it."

Coming Events

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"We buy goose and duck feath- QY-i‘. not mixed. Henry lviuciuriaiic Co. L-‘.l04-12-'l-il

"Stanley Bridge Racing Club An- nual NICEUHK, D. J. Alnciccdls Store December 30, lil.l9. L-18l-l2-29-1l.

(‘Meeting Ladies Auxiliary Cilll- Miian Legion Rooms, Dcecmbei- 20. 7.30. L-lfifi-l2-20-ll.

“Bingo and Dance, Powiial Gal'- fllle Hal Friday, December 20th. L-i10-12-288-2i

“Mr. Farmer: we are buying lire and dressed chickens, fowl daly, licyin highest market prices. swift.- Can ian 00., Ltd. L-l6;0—l2-28-l0i.'

"Poultry — Buying live and dressed poultry all k . Paying lOp market. prices. Isian Cold Storage C0,. LM- fl-Ilti-lfl-lfi-tf.

“Dance and-flex Social at York

lllll toni ht. Closed iii truck ieayes hitch Restaurant 8 lwcck. L-l9il.

"Now that turkeys, geese mid ducks are finished up we nee a lflriw quantity of Chicken and rviwii "ll grades includin Caiiners Top Iiricei. P. E. I, ooperative Egg Iiid Poultry Association

A dog's excited bark-sled today to discovery of the nude and mutilated body of an attractive blond girl in a vacant lot.

The victim was identified as Jer- rv Burns. an entertainer in a Fifth street saloon. A friend, Beverly Ann Greenwood, made the identification and said Miss Burns lived in an cast side semi-slum neighborhood. She said she last. saw the girl at 8.30 o'clock inst. night.

Police theorized Miss Burns had been slain by a s urned suitor.

The girl. about 2. had been stab- bed five times in the back, sur- geons reported.

Charlottetown Leads Cities in Home Loans

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Expect Leaves To Be Cancelled As C. A. S. F. Dig In

(By Gillie Purcell) (Canadian Press Sta," Writer) ALDERSHUI‘, England, Dec. 29

—iOP-Cablei~— By the mldd.e o! next week Canadian soldiers camp- ed at Aldersiiot will be down to furious training. It is likely that leave which has been freely grant- ed to the Canadian Active Service Force over the last fortnight will be discontinued for some time.

Since the arrival of the first contingent Dec. 17, most of the time has been spent in organization and planning of training routine. The fact. that. a goodly fraction of the troops has been away on suc- cessive leaves has made impossible the efficient training by companies.

uipment made available by the Bri sh Arm is pouring into ca , the supply ing coordinated wi that brought from Canada, and it is expected outfitting will be com- pleted by next, Wednesday, when the troops will dig in with a. will.

Major-General A. G. L. Mc- Naughton, oommanding the C A. S. IT. refreshed after his Christ- mas and boxing day holiday in the country. has been clearing up a. congestion o! correspondence and completing liaison with the War Office. Canada. House and the Can- adian Military Headquarters at London.

Three thousand of the Canad- ians started to move from camp today on e. five-day New Year leave. just as nearlv 2.000 others returned from spending the Christ- mas week-end with relatives and friends.

Almost two-thirds of’ those on leave will be bilieted in Liolidon while at least 500 are bound for Scotland. Among the latter most are men of the Toronto Scottish Regiment going home to celebrate licgmanay.

Divisional headquarters are con- sidering a suggestion by . F. AlwB-NWHSQCNWW of the British Ice l-lockey Association, who eug- gested that. a hockey league be or- ganized among the Canad n sol- diers. If this is done, it is kely to be on the basis of practices and games during week-end leaves.

A dozen Canadians whose pic- tures appeared in London news- papers a ter the Christmas broad- cast. from the camp have been in- imdated with letters, some even proposing marriage.

The difficulty is that the maj- ority of the men are married.

CYITAWA. Dec. 28 -(CP)—l1‘in- mice Minister Ralston announced today that to Nov. 30 Home Im- provement. loans in towns and cities with a population of 5,000 or more nuinbu-cd 68.279 with a value of $2.766.9l8, since November. i036.

Total Home Improvement Loans since November. i930 recently were

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announced as 94.451 valued at $38,- 165 G58.

Halifax led ciiics of 40.000 popu- liition and over with 979 loans valued at $352.43’? Glace Bay. N. 5.. iciiocd cities of 20.000 lo 40.- 0710 will 655 lomis of $252551 and Cliairinttcilzvrn with 201 loans at $88,445 led cities of 10.000 to I0.- 000 population. Amherst. I. I., led towns of 5.000 to 10.000 persons with 182 loans at $52,805.

Order Cancelling Cannon Salutes is Issued

OTTAWA, Dec. 28-(OP)——An 0f- der has been sent to all saluting points in Canada cancelling, for the duration cl the war, all cannon salutes, it was made known today.

Scaling down oi’ such ceremonial is standard practice in wartime. it was said.

This means the ill-gun vice-reg- al salute, customarily fired at the opening of the House of Common-s when the Governor-General arrives imd ngain when he leaves, will be omitted when f-hc House opens Jan.

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Similarly salutes usually fired M. tile opening of the various provincial legislatures will be done away with for the duration of the war.

MUCH POSTPONED

BEAUFORT. Australia —(UP) — Two pustpcncmeivs within two months held ill) the wedding of Flora Ellis and W. Lake . First Miss Ellis’ father died, then er mother.

ll. S. Grand Jury Tc Investigate

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28-At- torney General Frank Murphy disclosed today ilial. a specla grand Jury would convene here Jan 2 to investigate espionage and sabotage. He also announced the Justice Deparuneiit had under- taken ii broad inquiry into anti- Semitic activities.

He told a press conference that the latter investigation "may be the beginning of something that may meim a great deal to order- lLness in a democracry."

Questioned as to how the de- partment would try to prosecute anti-Semitic organizations, Munphy said he would use the income tax. passport and foreign ambit laws.

Murphy said that the deport- ment had sent "for certain per- sonalities" in connection with the investigation most of which would be carried on in New York bv District Attorney John Cahill

Previously. the Attorney n- eral had said that his men were keeping watch on 700 or 800 or- ganizations whose objectives were detrimental to the civil rights of some minorities.

Regard Shooting

Case “Closcd"

BPRINGHILL. N. 8.. Def‘. 2R — (C?) —Police chief Ivan Buchanan said today no further action will be token in connection with the declh of J. Howard McDonald, bank tel- ler found d ing of a bullet, wound Sunday wii a. revolver lying in a closed trunk nearby.

A coroner's jury ound McDonald had met death at the hands of "a person or rsons unknown." The chief said oday, however, the case was regarded as closed,

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Finnish

(By Lynn Helnzerllng)

HMfiING-FORS. Dec. 2B-—(I"rl- day)-lAP) — Finnish aviators were reported today to have sil- enced with bombs the long-range Russian cannon which have been shelling Viipuri, (Viborg) while the Finnish army held its ground in desperate battles on the ice of the Karelian Isthmus, carrying the fight to Russian soil in three other sectors.

Silencing of the cannon would relieve pressure on Vii uri, Fin- land's second city, whi has been bombed by day and shelled by night for a week.

Helsirlgfors had an air . raid

alarm for 40 minutes, ending at 12:10 a. m. (8:10 p. m. AST Thursday). but no planes wee-e heard or seen. (Determined Russian activity e.- bove the Arctic circle was reported in Sioekholm djsparchvs which said the Red army had launched another assault on Finland's “waistline" with hundreds of new quick-firing field pieces brought up for support.)

But. yesterday's Finnish armY

communique declared the Finns were steadfastly breaking every Russian assault in the Karelian se tor, and indicated fast-moving ski troops had crossed the frontier in three planes on the eastern front. Finnish military authorities said yesterday they annihilated twomore companies of Russians in savage hand-to-hand battles on the war- scarred ice of Lake Suvsxito, east- ern key of the Kareliari Isthmus Manvierhcim Lillie.

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This time the Finns said, lflie Russians actually succeed- ed in crossing the lake to reach ‘Finnish defences on the rugged north shore, but were driven back in man-to-man fighting in which “our troops wiped out two companies."

“The enemy again left numecrou. dead on the ice," said the army's story.

Sununarzizig the fighting of Dec. 2'7 in the fourth week of the war. the communique said nine Soviet Russian planes had been shot. down. and indicated that Finnish troops are fighting in three places on Rus- sian soil.

On the Eastern front. 1B5 north of Lake Suvanto, the munique said, the were “folied" in fighting that, was still proceeding east of Llcksa.

“The enemy also liks been push- ed back across the frontier north- east of Lieksa," the communique added.

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lt is in the Lieksa area that a flying battalion oi’ white-clad "ski raiders" was reported lio have crossed the frontier in an effort to stab at the only Rus- Illn llne of northern communi- cations. the Munnansk-Lenin- grad Railway.

The railway is approximately 150 miles from the border in that vi- cinity.

“The battle was fierce," said the tore Finnish Army communique which told of renewal of Russian attempts to break the Mannerheim Line. The Red Army was reported to have loft 700 dead on the frozen surface of Lake Suvan- to before this line, last Tuesday.

But about 225 miles farther lnorth, in the Sails. area, a third zgroup of ski troops was reported on is daring raid in an effort to slip through the Russian lines to cut

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Policy To

By Geraud Jouve llavls Stuff Writer

AMSTERDAM. Dec. 20—(CP- fiAvAsi-Fleld Marshal Goering has withdrawn to his shooting chal- et until the quarreis over poliw which are said to be rending the Reich's military and political lead- ership blow over, it was reported fi‘0lll Bil CXCGHFIID SOIIYCB today.

Gocriiigls absence from public Christmas celebrations has been the SUDJBCL of much speculation. While Adolf Hitler and Colonel General ‘Walther Von Brauchitsch, army conimander-in-chief, visited the front, over the holidays, and Rudolf Hess. deputy leader of the Nani party, delivered an address, the

No. 2 Man" in Germany remained silent.

With friends in all contending factions, Goering apparently did not wish to commit himself 0n such questions as German-Soviet rela- tions and the conduct of the wa-lg 'I'liere was no reason, however. to credit rumors he was dubious over the fate of the Nazi regime and wished by implication to dissociate himself from it, or that. he had quarreiled with Hitler.

Contrary to his usual custom, Goering did not pnsent toys and other gifts, personally to children in the poor quarters oi’ Berlin. With the Field Marshal and Frau 00er- ing absent from this year's cere- mony, the distribution was made

in their name by a burgoma-eter of one of the Berlin districts.

'War—25 Years Ago Today

DEC_ 29, lint-French and Bel- gian troops. pressing Germans back along the Belgian coast, oc- cupied Bt. Georges. Allies advanc- ed in upper Alsace between Oernay and ‘Iliiann. Bowie of Sarikamisb

Coering Waits For Storm Over

Nazi Subside

Death Cf. Mr. P. D. Murphy At Cardigan

News of the death of Peter D. Murphy at his home in Cardigw yesterday morning came as a grefl-l Shock to his many friends through-

‘ l . ouéhtgelatglfirfxlislurphy was born Bl at. Ann's Hope River. fifty-two

ears ago: His early Bdllcll-W" W“ gegun at the district school there and continued at St. Duristans Unillzezsheyearly age of seventeen years he entered tne firm of J. - McDonald. Cardigan, as s. clerk. “C”? ‘£.2.?il°”" 939.53.’? “fi glisirllegs and helg 81c position M manager until forced thmflBh 111 health to TESIEDhLWO years ago.

The decease ed a wide circle of friends throughout the Island esp”- lallybanliong those with whom he miiieuscllfi’ characteristics which marked him as a. mw 801° m?" were his love of his God, h hon- esty. his straightforwardness and

willin hand and helft t0 help "1415? in sic ness or sorrow. His death is a distinct loss to the community of Cardigan and leaves a vacancy i-hlt is hard to fill.

The late MI. Murph ls a. brill-ht!‘ of the Rt. Rev. Mons gnor J. A. Murphy, p. p. mowi- of at. Dun- stans and nephew of the ill-w REV- P. D. McGuire-n who predeceased him two years I80-

l-Ie leaves to mourn besides a sor- rowing widow the following chil- dren: Teresa and Rite, students at Prince of Wales ooile e. Frances. Dunstan end Mary at ome.

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morning, December 30th at 10 a. m. semis’ chuiph, Cardigan, iii-we.

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Plan Campaign ‘To Extcrminatc Plague Gophers‘

EDMONTON, Dee. 20-(CP)—| .'. campaign to “terminate ‘lague- carrying gogihers from highly-infested sections of -Al- ‘Win will be undertaken in the‘ Spring. E. H. Strickland, Prn-‘ f-ssor of Entomology in the llnlversity of Alberta, said w- ‘day. I Gophers are carrying the some disease that was known as the bubonic or "black" plague in the 16th century. and which, killed 25 per cent of Europe's population. One Albertan died from the disease last year.

Poison gas will be used to kill tl-e rodents over a large area. The gas will be fed lnlo "IP gopher holes through long tubes. l

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Extraordinary Visit Symbolizes Under- standing Between Church And Italian State.

ROME. Dec. zit-Po Pius rode through a chilling ra n to Quir- dnal Palace today to pay an un- precedented visit of cordiality to Italy's King and Queen, and to voice his yearning for peaceful understanding between the peo- ples of the world. This extraordinary visit, in re- turn for the call mode by Kin-g Victor Emmanuel and Queen Elena on the Holy Father at the Vati- can a. week ago, symbolized com~ plcte reciprocal recognition of the two great sovereignties established on opposite banks of the Tiber. Reports circulated that Premier Mussolini would visit the Pope on Jan. 5. in further exemplification of’ the close understanding be- tween the church and the Italian state. The Pope in a brief speech de- voted largely to peace, eicpressed his joy over the visit paid him by ther msjesties in the Apostolic Vatican palace and then added:- "ln this loyal palace (Quirinal) after 10 years the happy 118F99- mcnt between the chiuch and the state has been sealed again. B11 agreement which joins under the some light of glory both our ven- erated predecessor Pius XI and His Majesty Victor Emanuel III. Popes in the long-distant past have called on royally. but W" day’; visit was exceptiorsl in it was the first time fl, Poiitiif had visited the rulers of territory which formerly was papal domain. in a palace seized from the P009; The cold rain, which glisteneo on the papal robes as HS H011- ness rode in an open automobile to and from Quirluul Palace, fail- ed to dampen the enthusiasm of tens of thousands lining the route o; the long procession. _ The Pope, in this first irisit of a pontiff ton temporal rince in more than ‘i0 years,’ told lslfoyfll hosts he hoped Itielys peewi safe- gu the wisdom of is rul- are," would spur warrins W091“ to obtain an understanding.

resent observers interpreted the visit, 55 g, sign to the world that the Pope appreciated Italy: P03" tical policies, particularly its non- bgulgerency, while at the some time coming Communism. 1

i1 Mussolini makes his call. t will be the second time he visited a Pope. He was received in audience by Po Pins XI in 19f. three years at er signliiil °l '- ° Laftran Accord between the Vati- can and the Italian state-

Aiax Commander is Promoted

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Moscow Shows

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News Accounts

Clamps Down-lggid Censorship On Outgoing News —— Former Soviet Campaign Dismissed For Failure Against Finns.

(By Wilt Hancock, Associated Press Staff Writer)

MOSCOW, Dec. 29—(Fri was reliably reported i0 have

day)—(AP)—Soviet Russia put its military hero (if the

1938 Russizin-Jziplinese Far Eastern clash, General G. M. Stern, in charge of the invasion of Finland.

At the same time Moscow gave official indication of dissatisfaction with foreign news accounts of the way its campaign in Finland was progressing by restoring rigid

censorship 0n out going news

dispatches.

General Stern. one of the Soviefs youngest military leaders and a shining figure in the so-called "vest pocket