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I WORLD Mollllils ills DEATH I

Canadian.s Feel Deeply Death Of Beloved King

fly The Canadian Press

In a Canadian city early in the homing a woman called I! friend ibout the death of a man she had seen once in her lile and who lived housnnds of miles away.

She was cnillg.

-Coming Events

"llnlnndinrz Oltimgydnry Coal at lliiton Station. Norris Kilson.

"Unloading car Old Sydney Coal Wednesday and Thllrsdny. Rnlph iiaccaull, Carleton.

"Farmers, ask about the Slllll ';iin Ford Finance Plan. For part- .ruiar.s contact your local food mill

"Cake Sale a.t.Il-Ifoimalfs. Sai- .:-tlay, Ft-brllaijv 9th, at 2 P. M. lilt Hcrbcrt I.adlcs' Aid.

"llnt'l(ry lVliIsltil'c rink tonight.

Wlltsiiirc Juveniles vs. Frederic- .on Jurrniies. "Card party and dance in St.

Tm-resa's llnll. Friday night, Feb. Sth. Games start. at 8 p,m,

"Whist and. Dance. Belfast llall. Frldky. February 8th. Sponsored by Eldon Legion.

"Attend the Dance in St. Georges School on Friday, Febru- lfv 8th.

."1-lockay tonight at Long Creek Pink. St. Catherine's School is. Long Creek School. Skatc after.

"Come in and. talk over our Purina Finance Plan. for your "018 And Poultry. Dillon and Sllilleit.

"For Snapshots that will not

. lads mail your -Films and Nego-

WPI to Gsrnhum Photo studios Charlottetown.

"Valentine Psrtv. Crapsurl Hail. Pl(1)l'3dB8)'.A Fefbruary 1-ith. Iiusplccs mm-L - -1 stormy. come Friday

h"H99kliY North River tonight, Mmday. Feb. mi, Cornwall Gelcors vs. Covehead Red Wings.

IMO time 8:15. Skate nficr.

""h3"0klnlz orders for car of ”V:r"li Ihlnglrs and alrllaga de- M”; -V l" Fiiflllif. Call now and get hmltitrlccs. Via have in stock a ,,n”'('d 'ul'lll.V of register Lallr- .m:" Turlllp Seed. This seed lughlaled from Macdonald Col- rm-" here will be shortage of mud 2: seed. You are well ad- ". lb 0 lot yours now. Consult A" out your leading problem.

"P0"llfy fuels are in new jute

' 3- -7. MacDougall, Vernon.

That was the way the death 0! the King hit Canada yesterday.

Nany women cried. Many men felt lumps in their throats. A sor- row infinitely deeper than the for- mality of a lowered flag ran through the land.

The depths that only death or

immcnsc occasions can lay bare emerged in the councils of the ,great and in the kitchens, the of- zficcs, the streetcars of those who .aro not great. I Beneath it all there lay the strange, strong link which is the crown, a tie which stirs affections and cements ailcglanccs which no foreigner can quite understand.

But it went. beyond that into

Churchill To Speak

NEW YORK. Feb. 6 --4'.-il'i The Mutual Broadcasting System

today announccd it will carry a speech by Prime Minister Churchill tomorrow on the dcatli of the King on a coast-to-coast network.

The broadcast is scheduled to start at 4 p. m. EST. The C.B.C. will spccch over a national

in Canada.

carry the network

lioyal Plane Due in London At 12:30 P.M.

LONDON. Feb. 7 - (Thurs- day - (AP) - The four-engine silver and blue Argonsut flying Queen Elizabeth II back to Britain today has an escort of Lancaster planes carrying land and sea rescue gear. The royal plane is due in London at 4:30 P.M. today (12230 P.M.. A.S.'I'.).

British Overseas Airways Corporation logged the plane's progress across Africa from Kenya Colony where Elizabeth learned she had become Queen on the death of King George VI.

The plane was delayed on the ground at Eniebbe. Uganda, a British African colony, by it thunderstorm.

An hour after midnight Lon- don lime the plane had cover- ed 021 miles and was 315 miles west of Khartoum, the Sudan capital.

Valei Discoverd King George Dead in Bed

By R. B. ItiscLurkin

SANDRINGHAM. England. Fab. 8 -(Reuters)- King George VI was discovered dead in his bed this morning by his valet.

Court officials were called from their beds and news was broken to the Queen. she went immediately to his bedside.

She did not weep, according to local reports. Though her face was racked with misery, she kept con- trol of her emotions.

She kissed the forehead of the dead King.

Then, straightening up, she said, "We must tell Elizabeth. we must tell. . .," she hesitated then ad-

. ded. "We must tell. . .the Queen." Tonight inside the red-brick

house itself, Elizabeth. now Queen Mother, and her daughter Princess Margaret mourned.

Villagers here kept their sadness pent up inside.

Most of the older ones knew King George VI when he was I shy child who used to come here on vacation with his father, King George V.

One old villager said the King had known for months past that he was under sentence of death,

Flags Today

OTTAWA. Feb. 0 - (CP) .. Flags. lowered to half-staff in mourning for the King, will he raised to full staff at noon to- morrow across Canada to mark the proclamation of Queen Eliza- beth as the new monarch.

it will be accession day in Can- adn.

Flags will fly at half-staff till- iil noon and at full start until sundown. They will return to half-staff Friday and remain there until sunsst of the day of the King's funeral.

Queen Of

lily George Kilchrn) OTTAWA. Fch. ti-tCPi--A sud- denctl Canada, piungrti into deep mollrnlmz by the drain of its hr- lovcd Kins: George Vi, today pro-

claimed Princess Elizabeth as Queen Elizabeth II. The capital was shukcn and

shocked this morning by the news that the King this country had come to know better than any previous sovcrciizn had died dur- ing the night.

The Federal Cabinet. wearing black lies of went into cmt-rgenry session at noon (EST) to adopt a proclam- ation formnlly announcing the death of the Kim: and declaring the accession of his youthful daughter as Queen Elizabeth II.

The prorlanmtion----was adopted about 12:10 p.m. EST and became effective between 3:15 and 8:30 p. m. when it was signed by Chief Jusllcr Thibaudl-an Rinlrcl. Ad- ministrator in the absence of s Governor-General.

As the sad news IpI'!-ilfl across the land, flags came down to half- staff in the capital and through the country in tribute to the 56- year-old monarch who led Canada and the Commonwealth through 16 years of war and uncaay peace.

members mourning.

Proclaim Elizabeth

Canada

newspapers reported the King's death and iilc 25-year-old Queen's rlcrcsslon.

On the air, the CBC banned all commercials until midnight. to- morrow night and broadcast only

news bulletins and appropriate music.

Messages of sympathy were cabled to the Royal Family and

tributes to the grealnrss, the dig- nity and the nobility of the King began to flood news service wires from across the country.

The United Church of Canada proclaimed next Sunday a memor- ial day and other churches were expected to follow suit.

The official word of the King's death came to Canada in a cable to Mr. Justice Rinfret. an Ad- ministrstor. from the King's pri- vate secretary in London.

It said:

"Profoundiy regret. to state that His Majesty King George the Sixth passed away peacefully in his sleep early this morning."

The cabinet dealt only with two proclamations in its brief sitting -the one proclaiming Princess Elizabeth as Queen and moths directing government officials holding wmmisslopers from the

By GEORGE KINNEAR

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb. 6 -(AP) - The slight young Princess who has trained since childhood for the responsibilities of the British crown headed home sorrowfuily as 3 Queen tonight to take up the royal duties left her by her father's sudden death.

Pringcss Elizabeth liursl. into tears when her husband. the Duke of Edinburgh, broke the news from London of the death of the King. But she soon regained her compos- tire.

"She was every inch a Queen." is source at the royal lodge at Nycri told reporters.

Cutting short a projected five- month, 30,000-mile royal tour that was to have,t.alocn them. to Ceylon, Australia. New Zealand and other British regions, Elizabeth and the Dltke are going home by plane.

The couple flew tonight from Nairobi to Entcbbe, Uganda. There they transferred to a four-engined Argonallt airliner for the flight home.

The 25-year-old Queen. Britain's first woman ruler since Victoria reigned 51 years ago, only last Thursday left London. There she bade goodbye to the King after earnestly scanning his tired. lined face. She and the Duke were sub-

Queen Elizabeth II

stituting for him on the tour be- cause or the ill health that had plagued him in recent years. Eliz- abeth and her husband left their two children, Charles and Anne, at home.

Prince Charles, 3, becomes heir apparent to the throne.

Dedicated Life

Since she was 10. Elizabeth has been specially schooled to take the throne some day if necessary. On her 21st birthday, as heiress pre- sumptive, she dedicated her life to the Empire and its 500,000,000 persons.

speaking bv radio from Cape- town, South Africa, she said then:

"I declare before you all that my whole life, wigether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong."

Only a few hours before news of the King's death was radioed from London. Elizabeth and her hus- band had, returned to the royal lodge from a thrilling night in big- game country.

Her greatest thrill came when an elephant. one in a herd of 46, roved to within 12 yards of the Princess. screened from her only by low bush.

Mayor J. David Stewart was re- elected by acclamation yesterday when his was the only nomination filed on Nomination Day, one week prior to the Bi-Ennial civic elec- tion for mayor and councillors.

The only other nominee to re- ceive an acclamatlon was Coun- cilior J. Arthur Gormley who has represented Word I in the City Council for the past. two years. Contests will be waged in Wards 2, 3 4 and 5 with the only surprise coming in Ward 2 where Mr. M. Alban Farmer. former Councillor who was expected to he a candid- ate for the Mnyoralty. will oppose prcscnt Councillor Lester P. O'Don- r.cl1 in a two-way battle for the Council seat.

In Ward 3 Councillor Wendell H. Bcaton will be opposed by Mr. Frank .1. Storey. well known bus- incssman of this city. Each of the first three wards ill the city is represented by 9. single Councillor. Ward 4, represented by two Councillors. will have ,four men in the field next Wednesday. They are present Councillors G. R. Keefe and C.M. Cox. slid two new en-

Civic Contests Pent Four Wards On February 13

.ing In

i 'W..l. Brown. manager of the Forum, and Mr. Elmer MacDon- ald. well known grocer of this city.

The biggest of the city's wards. Ward 5. which elects three repre- sentatives to the Council, will see five men seeking election. They are Dr. L.E. Prowse and Coun. Edwin C. Johnstone. members of the past Council and Mr. T. Roy Cudmore. proprietor of a men's wear store here. Mr. P.R. McCor- mac, operator of a laundry. and Mr. Charles E. Worth. barber.

Because of the lack of a contest for the Mayoralty observers of past civic elections believe that only a small votr will be polled.

Although the main intcrr-st in the city centres on the cicction of the Mayor and members of the Council. there will also be a con- test. for the offices of Water Com- missioners who are clcctcd separ- ately and independent of the City Coimcil.

Named to contest the three posts as Commissioners are present members Mr. w.n. Giiiis and H. Roy Bevan. and Mr. Ernest Claw- son and Mr. Stewart Ives. There are three Commissioners to be

trants into the Council field, Mr.

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lively political developments

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Emperor

(An Editorial)

The King is dead: long live the Queen. His Majesty's reign was anything but an untroubled one. iy to the throne by the constitutional crisis resulting in his brother's abdication, George VI accepted the heavy task of reigning over the many lands and peoples in almost as many stages of political development, which constituted the . British Commonwealth and Empire.

Called sudden-

The new Queen, his daughter, is not Empress of India but the Crown has a hold on the affections of the Indian and Pakistan people, as on those of ever Commonwealth. We are in a very real sense a band of brothers and it is profoundly due to the complete dedication of his late Majesty to his duty that this supremely import- ant fact has not been lost sight of in the"E5icIte'n1'ent of

nation of the

THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1952

COMMONWEALTH MOURNS DEATH OF BELOVED SOVEREIGN PRINCESS EN ROUTE FROM KENYA AS QUEEN ELI

Death Occurred

At Sand

father. King George VI. The King died in

year of Great Britain, Ireland

to their grief. Traditional

atljollrned, courts closed and early halt.

the funeral cannot be fixed u

Vincent Massey, Governor-Gem eral of Canada, cancelled plans to sail for Canada this week. Massey. s. personal friend of the Royal Family, had an audience with the King 13 days ago and is expected to be "commanded"-in the words of Buckingham Palsce-to attend the funeral.

Massey attended today's Access- ion Council meeting as a member of the United Kingdom Privy Council.

Accession Council Meets

The Accession Council met at. 5 p. in. tnoon EST). It had drafted the proclamation by the time the meeting ended 20 minutes later but it. was not to become official until its publication some hours after the meeting.

Canada's proclamation of Eliza- beth as Queen became official be- tween 2:l5 and 3:30 p. m. EST with the signature of Chief Just- ice Thibaudcnlt Rinfrct. admin- istrator in the abscncc of a Gov- ernor-General.

The cabinet adopted the pro- clamation at about 12:10 p. m.. first Comnionwealtll body to do this

British reserve wept openly. Frivolous day-to-day activity ceased and offi- cial functions were interrupted. Parliament met briefly and

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(By Alan Harvey. Canadian Press Staff Writer)

LONDON. Feb. 6-(CF)--Princess Eliz- abeth. q serious girl with o tremulous smile. be- come Britain's seventh ruling Queen today as or sorrowing people mourned the death of her

his sleep early today.

Hours later his elder daughter. sobbing with grief. cut short a vi it to Africa and started the long iourney to assume responsibilities for which

she has been groomed since childhood.

As she headed home from Kenya, on Accession Coun- cil hcld a. special meeting at St. James Palace to proclaim the Princess Queen Elizabeth II-sovereign

in her 26th and the Dominions overseas.

DEATH CAME AS SHOCK

The King, in the 16th year of a. popular reign. died peacefully at ills country estate in Sandringham, near the cottage where he was born 56 ycars ago. His passing fol- lowed a long illness. including a major operation last Sep- tember for a cancerous lung, but news of his death caught Britain and the Commonwealth unprepared.

When the word came this morning it seemed for a moment as tllought the heartbeat of a nation stopped, too. People could not believe their beloved King was Then, as the realization sank in, high and low gave vent

dead. Some women

melted.

the stock exchange called an

FUNERAL DATE NOT DECIDED

The King's body will probably lie in states all next week in Westminster-the great hall of the Houses of Parliament. The funeral is not expected until the following week. Burial probably will be at Windsor. Final date of

ntil Elizabeth returns.

toured the Dominion with the Queen before the outbreak of war. They had also seen their new Queen when as Princess Elizabeth she toured the Dominion with the Duke of Edinburgh last fall.

Thus Elizabeth became Britain's first woman ruler since ViciD'rla's reign which ended 51 years ago.

She sobbed when she heard the unexpected news in Kenya. but set out at once for home and the responsibilities of the throne.

The King's death plunged Bri- tain and the Commonwealth into mourning. Flags all over the world dipped to half stsfi. Even the Russians made this gesture of respect in Berlin.

The King's reign spanned 15 years of turbulent history. He saw Britain lose much of the Empire upon which. it once was said, the sun never set. He saw it come to austerity, privation and near bankruptcy. He saw his countrymen stand against and help to conquer the bloody thrusts of Hitler and iiirohiio. For his

battled Britain with his Rl'aClCii.lS Queen and their two dauchtcrs. The King's valet. John MacDon-

had acclaimed the hcfnrc when he

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Potato shipments to date navel realized one and one-half mil-I lion dollars. compared with ap- proximately one-half million dol- lars last year. for the same per- iod. stated Mr. C. E. Shaw, dis- trict fruit. and vegetable inspec- tor, in his report. on the activities of his department at the Provin- cial Agricultural Conference hers yesterday.

in contrast with this large in- crease in value. Mr. Show noted that pnllto shipments by water anrl tall from Aug. 4 to Dec. 31. l95l, totalled 900,750 buhseis corti- psred with the similar period in 1050 of 1,278,375 bushels.

The heavy potato surplus at the commencement of i961 was in part relieved by the Dominion Government starch programme. Mr. Shaw noted. lnsaectora l'lI(l

Potato Shipments Realize

11-2 Million Dollars To Date

Canada No. I grade. Three starch lactorles operated and manufactur- ed 313.000 bushels into Itlrcll. the price paid being 44 cents per bushel. While this was below cost of production, it had A stab- ilizing effect. The. surplus and low prices resulted in I general loss to all growers.

Provincial Inspection

"Our staff of inspectors also administer the Provincial inspec- lion of fruit Ind vegetables in Charlottetown towns in this Province." Mr. Shaw said. "We have had good co- operation from the grocers in this work snd court cases were not

ecessary. We note an improve- ment ln grade and Quality in stock offered.

"We have I ommended in the

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(ind Save The Queen

LONDON, Feb. 0 - (GP) - For the first time since 1901, th

British salute to the Sovereign wil

be: ”God Save The Queen."

In official proclamations snd in the national anthem the new Queen Elizabeth II will be hailed as was her great-great grandmoth- er. Victoria. who died 51 years aim. The Queens birthday, April 21, may become a public holiday

Churchill Gov'i lieiains Seal

SOUTHPORT. England, Feb. I -lCP)- The Conservatives today retained the parliamentary seat of Southport in the -first by-election since Winston Churchill ousted the Labor Government. in the Oct- ober general election.

Roger Fleetwood-Heskcth was elected to replace Conservative R. 5. Hudson. who was made a peer. Voting was: Fleetwood-Heskem 24,589; Alan Tlllotson, Labor. 11. 310: Hubert Bentliff, Liberal, 3,776.

The Conservative majority drop- ped from 17,853 to 13,270. in the Oct. as voting Hudson polled 30. 588 votes to l2.535 for Labor and 7,576 for the Liberal candidate. Standing in the 625-scat House of Commons:

Conservatives and allies 319, Labor 204. Liberals 6, Irish Nation- alists 2, Independent (Irish Laboil, 1. Speaker 1. Vacant 2.

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HALIFAX, Feb. 0 - (GP) - or. ficial forecasts issucd tonight big the Dominion Public Weather Ofq flee here and valid until midnight Thursday. isynopsisz

Fresh cold air streamed into the Mai-ltimes tonight, and skies wers clear in all regions except Caps Breton. Early morning readings be- tween 20 and 25 are forecast for Nova. scotia. and Prince Edward Island. while New Brunswick will be about 10 degrees colder.

Thursday will be sunny with. normal February temperatures, but another disturbance is expected to bring cloud to Western Nova Sco- tia in the evening.

Regional forecasts:

Prince Edward Island - Clear and colder. Light winds. Low and high Thursday at Charlottetown 20 and 25.

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High lidc today at Charlotte- town at 9.09 A. M. and 7.21 P. M.

High tide on the North shore al: l4.34 A. M. and 3.15 P. M. , Summerside tide eighteen min- 'uics later than Charlottetown.

sun rises today at 7.27 A. M. and sets at 5.28 P. M.

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