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-CAI. WIIOIID - An older model Buick car was wrecked near Road's Corner. two miles east of Summer-aide. on Saturday night. The car apparently overturned af- ter striking a bank. The driver is rqaorted to have suffered cuts and bruises And to have been as- sisted from the wreckage. When the R. C. M. P. arrived a short time later the driver had disap- peared. and a number of men lift- ed the wreckage from the high- way to the ditch to clear the side of the road for traffic.-B.

Vandals made a sorry mess of the interior of one car and did extensive damage to the exterior of three others early Sunday morn- ing, according to reports made to the City Police. The cars were parked on Water Street in front of the Queen Hotel, where the owners were guests. The depredat- ions were committed between 2 and 3 em.

The management of the Queen Hotel is offering a reward of 5100 for evidence leading to the con- viction of the vandals. and City Police are active on the case.

GLACE BAY, CP - Charlotte- town Islanders kept pace with the league-leading Halifax Atlanlics, by downing Glace Bay Miners 5-2i in a Maritime Major Hockey Lea- gue game here Saturday night.

The Islanders broke away after a scoreless first period to tally twice in the second and add three in the third. The Miners outshot the visitors in the final frame and had an even chance until two last- minute Charlottetown goals turn- ed it into a rout.

NEW GLASGVDW, (GP) G Rel- eree Charlie Good resigned from the Maritime Major Hockey League at an emergency meeting Sunday which heard reports of growing rough-and-tumble tactics involving players and fans in the stormy fourQeam circuit.

Good's resignation, in which he' said he could not longer stand the physical exhaustion of pressure and frequent travelling, ended a. Mari- time hockey career which culmi- nated in a "small riot" at Glace Bay Saturday night.

Good said fans swarmed onto the ice and clashed with players of the Charlottetown Islanders. Efforts of Forum police. plus playing of the national anthem, restored order.

Summer conditions prevail in Georgetown Harbour, Prince Ed- ward Island's winter port, The Newfoundland auxiliary schooner, "Philip E. Lake" which arrived in Georgetown on Wednesday. Jan. 28th.. sailed from here on Friday. January .'i0th. with. a cargo of heavy timber and produce for Newfoundland,

Georgetown. which once served as the all-year-round gateway of Prince Edward Island still possesses the natural facilities for water connections with Maritime and world ports. Easily accessible to all points in the Province by railroad and the paved ”Jonea' Highway”. the potential usefulness of this mag- nificent. land-locked. ice-free, deep- rvater harbour. if developed. would be of lnestimable value 'to the econ- omy and trade of the whole Prov- ince.

One of Canada's oldest tele- craphcrs passed away yesterdly morning when Mr. Albert E. Mor- rison died at his home heie. Mr. Morrison. who was born January 1. 1862, joined the Anglo American Telegraph Company in 1881 and remained with it until it was merged with the Western Union Company in 1913 when he became manager.

He had been an intimate of all the famous figures of the early days of wireless ielegraphy and was known throughout the world. A: on: time he received the highest commendation from the London, England. headquarters of his com- pany for his feat in splicing the cable stretching across the Strait of Northumberland when it be- came broken in the winter.

Mr. Morrison saw many honors come to him during his lifetime. He was an Associate of the Insti- tute of Electrical Engineers, in member of the Maritime Electric Association. Member of the So- ciety of Arts. Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute and was award- ed a Fellowship in the Imperial Institute in 1803.

Born in Charlottetown, he was a son of the late Mr. J. W. Mor- rison, former Deputy Provincial Secretary, and Honors Thresher Morrison, and was the youngest of a famiiy of ten children. Twice married. his first wife was Miss Isabel MacNelll. Vaughter of the late Rev. and Mrs. D. MacNelll. of Wood Islands. Surviving is his second wife. the- former Mrs. Sarah L. C. Compton Ms.cLennan, of st. Eleanors. There were no children by either marriage.

TUESDAY

Cpl. Joseph Donet Gallant, son of Mr, and Mrs. Cyrus P. Gallant or Urbalnviile, is a member of the crew of s. Lan- caster aircraft missing out of Greenwood. N. 8., since Funday.

Cpl. Gallant is married to the former Emily Gaudet of Eg- mont Bay. now residing in Creenwood. Cpl. Gallant is flight engineer and a veteran of World War Two.

Today's civic election day in Montague. souria and Georgetown. At Montague Mayoen. H. Yeo. who is serving his second term of office. will again serve for two more years. His council will be the same except for Frank Greene, who is serving his first term. other mem- bers of the coimelldriclude Doug Mccwwan. H '1'.i atnieson, I. S. Hessian. Claude holson. M. c.

Reynolds.

At 'sottt-is .1. A. Peters was elected mayor, Inst only three nominatedas 3.. L. amtart. Charles II. Latter. Three ragulred is com-

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for mayor. Mr. Andrew MacNeili and Mr. J. A. B. McConnell have offered for office. There were no councillors nominated on Jan. 20. but it is expected that a slate will be selected shortly.

Mr. and Mrs. George A. Jeffenh anniversary of their marrlage.Mrs. Jeffery on Tuesday last celebrated her nth birthday. Mr. Jeffery will be an in July. Their marriage took place in Worcester. Mass.

They had a famlly' of twelve children. all of w om are living ex- cept a son. Regi aid, who was kill- ed in action at the battle of the Somme. during the First Great war..All their children are living abroad with the exoqation of one daughter. Miss Effie at home. and two sons. Roscoe in Summeraid! and Albert in Miscouche.

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Thirty three members of the Ladies' Auxiliary were selected to receive from the Charlottetown Branch of the Canadian Legiun the Meritorious Service Award. which signifies outstanding service to the Canadian Legion. B.E.S.l..

The following nine ladies were presented with these life member- ship pins by the president, Mr. C. M. Sinclair on Friday evening at the regular meeting of the Ladie.s' Auxiliary: Mrs. Albert Wilson, Mrs. W. H. Tidmarsh. Mrs. 1'). X. Mac- Lcod. Mrs. Arthur Coffin. Mrs. M. W Forsythe, Mrs. George MacDon- ald, Mrs. Leo Bradley. Mrs. Frank Walker and Mrs. Russell Roper.

The remaining 24 ladies will re- ceive thelr awards in the near fut- ure.

The Summerslde Community Concert Association. which func- tioned hcre successfully for several years, was reorganized at a meet- ing held on Saturday evening at the home of Chief Justice and Mrs. Thane A. Campbell and it cani- paign for membership will be held in April.

An election of officers was held and the following appointments were made: Honorary president. Chief Justice T. A. Campbell; pres- ident. Group Captain. A. G. Ken- yon; first vice president. Mrs. Creelman MacArthur; second vice

president. Miss . Wanda Wyatt: third vice president. Mrs. l:m:riu Holman; secretary. Miss Je:sie

Fraser; treasurer, T. E. Hickey, C. A.

-A contract amounting to ap- proximately s'l0,000 has been awarded to the firm of MP. Scliur- man for the construction of a pump house and water storage reservoir at R. C. A. F. station. Summer id: Several months ago this firm was; awarded a contract for the in- stallation of a sewerage disposal system.

The new contract involves the construction of a prestressed con- crete water tank with a capacity of 100.000 snllons. It pump house with installation of equipment and malt. ing the necessary connection to the existing mains.

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The ten game winning streak set by the Mirrph Chamberlain Island- eia of 1950 now stands in serious .190DBrd,v of being broken by the Flmpldinl Islanders of 1053 who last night defeated the Glace Hay Miners 2-1 for their tenth straight game without a defeat, ,

Led by Hub "The Ttreless" Beau- dry. the sizzling Islanders came from behind to win last night's game from the scrappy Miners who gave one of their best displays of the season on Chirlottetown ice.

59001” Deriod izoals by Marcel Clements and Beaudry were enough to keep the Islanders” unbeaten streak intact. From 9, defenstvg point of view the great work of goalie Al Millar iii the third period kept the Miners' scoring down to the bachelor count.

WEDN ESDAY

-In the civic election at Alberton yesterday Hilton Barbour was 9190!” mlyor. Councillors elected were Herbert Matthews, Heher Corbett, Earle Atkinson, Douglas Nicholson, Stephen Burke and John C. Profit. C. R. Leard was defeated in the contest for Mayor and in the election of councillors the defeated candidates were Winston Currie, a member of the two councils, and Erskine Campbell who nominated for the first time.

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Lloyd Dunn and Maurice Wil- liams. both of whom were found guilty in the City Police court be- fore Magistrate K.M, Martin a week "ago charged with robbery. were sentenced to six months each in jail by His Honour yesterday morning. The charge and subse- quent conviction arose from the robbery of 31.01 from Siguarl Wol- lum at 1 a.m, on Sunday Ian. 25. in an alleyway on Great George Street near the corner of Grafton.

Interesting figures were releas- ed last night by Mr. Warren Burns, the weather man at the Experimental Farm. Readings for the month of January indicated a mean temperature of 25.7. one of the highest on record. The average for the 44 years in which records were kept was 18.7. so that Jan- uary of this year was '1 degrees higher than the average.

'I1ie highest daily temperature was 51 and the lowest 5 above sero. In 1017 the temperature dropped to 21 below on January 3

3.7 inches of precipitation was recorded, 2.80 of this was rain and 9 inches snow. The sunshine re- cording totalled 70.2 hours which was below average. wind recording totalled 0306 miles with a daily average of 12.5 miles per hour which is rated as a light breese.

on the average February is our coldest month.

...'Andrew M.acNeill was elected

expected that Mayor Maelieill will now call for nominations .or coun- cillors. none having nominated Jan- uary 20th.

Mayor 13.1-i'. Yeo and four mem- bers of the council were sworn in yesterday at Montague, Taking the oath of office were Councillors

St. Ileanora, today observe the lust. baamteaon, Greene, Mccgwgm ma

Reynolds. Remaining to be sworn are Councillors Hessian and Nich- olaon. ,

Mayor .1.A, Peters of Sotrris com- pleted his council yesterday. The new members are Wilfred C. Wright. retired railway mail clerk: John R. MacLean, merchant: and E Foch MacDonald, Government employee. Messrs. Wright and Mac- Lean are serving for the first time. while Mr. MacDonald served a. por- tion of a term. Other council mem- bers include 13.1.. Stewart, Charles Boylan. and H. Larter.

Mayor-elect MacNeill of George- fOWli is a fisherman and carpenter. He was a member of the retiring

Town Council. THURSDAY Mr. Allison Piiofiit. who repre-

sented the P. E. I. Dalryman's As- sociation at the four-day Dominion Federation of Agriculture meeting in Victoria, from January N-2-fth. said last evening that one of the recommendations made at this meeting by the Dairy Farmers As- sociation of Canada was that the fzoor price of butter be raised to 83

pound that was set two years ago.

This increase was needed. he said, in order to cover the increas- ed cost of production. and he pointed out that the floor price o.ii butter is not designed to give a profit but rathei to take care of the cost of production.

The Red Cross Disaster Fund for Holland received 310.00 yes- terday as its first contribution fiom the Canadian Citizenship Council of Prince Edward Island. The President of this Council. Mrs. Lillian Wheatley, has been approached by several Dutch fam- ilies resident in Charlottetown, who expressed a desire to contribute to a Disaster Fund for Holland. In view of this, Mrs. Wheatley has written to each of the 8'1 Dutch families now living in this Province to state that if they wish to make donations to this fund, they may leave their contributions with mem- bers of the Canadian Citizenship Committee who will be at the Maritime Electric office in Char- lottetown this coming Saturday night, or that they may mail them directly to Red Cross Headquart- ers in Charlottetown.

Premier J. Walter Jones said yesterday that a thorough investi- gation proved conclusively that the deer hides found hanging from a tree limb in a rural area did not come from Island deer which had been killed. He stated that they. along with a ricer sku.I found nearby. were from two deer shot over in Nova Scotla during the open season there.

When informed of the discovery cf the skull where it had been thrown' in a refuse pile lie im- mediatcly contacted the Prov- lnce's game warden, Mr. Spurgeon Jenkins. who investigated the matter that same night. The own- er of the property where the skull was found readily admitted hav- ing the deer and told the warden where the hides might be found. He was easily able to prove that they came from the neighboring Maritime Province.

The historic chairs belonging to the Confederation Chamber in the Provincial Building are expected to be all reassembled before too long a time. There are 24 of them which. have been restored by Mr. Preston Fraser, New Glas- gow, N. 5.. and returned to the Chamber. while another 21. are presently being refinished.

in addition to these there arc two chairs used in the Legislature chairman of coni-

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miitees of the Wholo House and the Clerk which are being restor- ed and rt-finished in match the chair covering on the Speaker's Throne.

The President's Certificate was presented by Mr. R. D. MacGilli- vray. past. president, to Mr. Robert E. Younker who presided in his new capacity at the regular month- ly meeting of the Life Underwrit- ers Association held in the Mari- time Life rooms yesterday after- noon. '

Mr. Thoma McAvinn, C. L. U.. reported. to the large gathering 0" the recent meeting of the Domin- ion Association held in Toronto and said that an invitation had been extended hold its 1055 convention in this city. It was recalled that the Do- minion ' Association. formed 48 you-3 ago, was patterned after the Association in this Province and had as its founder Mr. J. 0. Hynd- man, Charlottetown. . ,

-At a. meeting of laborers held

Monday evening it was unanim- ously decided to form a local labor union that will be affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.

Mr. George Henderson, Sum- merside. was elected president of the branch which will receive its charter at a future ,meeting. At the meeting a list of the members who wished to join was drawn up and is to be submitted to the organizer of the labor unions in the Maritimes. Mr. Kenneth MacMillan of St.

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Eleanors. acted as secretary and addressed the meeting. He spoke of the need for labor unions on Prince Edward Island. He also dealt with existing comparative rates for labor in the Maritimca in general and showed how the principles of the labor organization rules are ap- plied to the unions.

FRIDAY

-At the annual meeting of the Summers tie branch of the Red Cross society held in the Town Hall yesterday afternoon, all the officers were unamiously reelected. The officers are: Mr. J. Frank Arnett. president; Mrs. Frank Green, secretary; Mrs, William Strong. treasu.i'ci'.

Mr. Arnett presided at yester- day-'s meeting and outlined the pro- gress of the branch and the great work done by all the committees during the past year. He comment- ed in particular the way in which the local Red Cross had come to the aid of the Gallant family of St. Chrysostom. He said that the magnificent sum of 31,800.00 had been -raised on their behalf and a large quantity of clothing gather- ed to provide for the victims.

MB. STURDY TRANSI'ERRED- Mr. J. H. sturdy. who for some time has been manager of the Metropolitan store here, has beer. transfei-i-ed to the Halifax branch of his firm and is scheduled to leave for his new location today. 'M.i's. Sturdy and their three sons. Gordon. Ross and Gerald will re- main in Charlottetown until .lune. Mr, John Deap, formerly ofiFreti- ericton. N. B. who until the present has been manager of the Glace Bay store. is due to arrive in the city this evening to take over the Char- lottetown branch in succession to Mr. Sturdy.

SMASHEI) JAIL WINDOWS - A slight disturbance occurred in Queen's County Jail yesterday morning when two female prison- ers, who gave their home address as Halifax started to provide air- conditlonlng by the time-honored methods of breaking windows. The situation was brought under con- trol by Jailor Simpson and his as- sistant, but not before eight panes of glass had been smashed. The prisoners had been taken in charge on Tuesday night for disorderly conduct. and were remanded for 1: week. on appearing before Magis- trate Martin in the Police Court Wednesday morning.

The Ladles' Auxiliary of the St. Paulie Church Scout Group organ- ised a party in the church parish hall yesterday evening.Large num- bers of parents. friends and those interested in scouting enjoyed an evening of Square Dancing cailcd by George Andrew to the music of Don Messer's Trio. The enjoyment of the entertainment was heighten- ed by the serving of refreshments prepared by the mothers of the Scouts and Cubs.

Bill Ives. Troop Leader. who is to represent Prince Edward Island in the Canadian contingent going to Britain for the Coronation was in- troduced to those present.

The success of the party was the result of the efforts of the Ladies' Committee comprising Mrs. F, W Jellts. Mrs. A. Murchison. Mrs. R. Larkln and Mrs. A. H. Duvar.

The saint Dunstan! University building fund will receive a help- ing hand from the Alunmi As- sociation of Boston when the lat- ter holds its annual benefit dance and whist party at the Rose Crolx Hall. Roxbury. next Friday night.

of this city, takes a keenly active part in the annual dance in sup- port of his Alma Mater. Mr. John- ston in a recent letter to the Guardian mentioned several other former Islanders and t dents at saint. Dunstan's who are helping arrange the annual dance and who will be present when it is held next week.

Among those he named are Dr. William Fisher. Maiden: Dr. J. B. Brown. Watertown; Dr. James Mc- Cabe. 'Somerville; Een Mclnnis, Cambridge: Harry Ellsworth. Bos- ton; Gerard Connolly. Melroee, and Frank Mooney. Winchester.

-The regular meeting of Local 2268 United Brotherhood of Car- pmters and Joiners of America was held in the Town Hall, Bum- nierside, last evening.

Several new members were ad- mitted to the union at this meet- ing which was addressed by the president. Mr. Allison Horne. and the secretary, Mr. Kenneth Mec- Mlllan.

Mr. MacMiilan spoke on the various functions of a labor union.

Mr. Home, in his remarks. said the interest in union organisation indicated that it would be neces- sary to expand and enlarge the membership to take care of those in other centers that were desir- ous of having organiaatioii.

In referring to duties and priv- ileges of union membership. Mr. Home said he believed that strikes were unnecessary and as foolish as war. He said that rather than strike it was much more desir- able to meet together with em oy- era and settle any differences by mutual understbnding.-S.

BIRTHS

BECK - At the King's County Memorial Hospital. Montague, Feb- ruary am, 1953. to Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Beck. Montague. a son. CRANDALL-At the P. E. Island Hospital on Sunday. February 1st. 1953, to Mr. and Mrs. Donald 1-'. Crandall. a son (Donald Leslie). Weight 8 lm. 12 oz. FRIZZELL-At the P. E. Island Hospital on Friday, Jan. 30th, to Mr. and Mrs. R. Hensley Frizzell, a son. 8 lbs, 1 oz.

SEARS-At the Prince County Hospital on Thursday, January 20, 1953. to Mr. and Mrs. Don Sean, Summerside, a daughter. . BURDEN - At the Prince Edwar Island Hospital, January 80th, 1053. to Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Burden, St. Peter's Bay. a son, 0 lbs. 10 oz. MaccAI.I.UM-At the Prince Ed- ward Island Hospital. Jan. 30111, 1953. to Mr. and Mrs. Austin Maccallum. Cross Roads, a daugh- fer.