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Henley. Sept. 13, 1954

.nA)fGl Iriahtown hall, Mon- Monday. Brown's orchestra.

.A'l'l'lIlP'l'l'iD BREAK - An me.-npt was made Saturday night ,0 break into the Alberton liquor mm. The wire mesh covering a window at the side of the build- W; V" pu-tly torn off and the glasl broken. but entry into the

-at was prevented by steel Ehlils. n'i'fhe R.C.M.P. are investi- gaunt-

mpnl-NUPTIAL SIOWEI - Mm Bonnie Woodalde was honor- ed at a largely attended pre-nuptial shuwer at the home of her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wood- sirie. Msrgate on September 8. when she was the recipient of many lovely gifts. Throughout the spacious home a profusion of bright summer flowers gladdened the eye, and streamers of yellow and white marked the bridal chair. To the strains of marital music play- ed by Mrs. George Mayhew the bride-elect was escorted into the room by her sister. Barbara. The gav well-filled baskets were car- ,,,.',1 in by Misses Wanda Stewart and Audrey Mayhew. and the parcels were opened by Misses Elizabeth Brookins and Freda May- heir. The names and good wishes were read by Mrs. Phillip Hender- mn and Miss Beryl Woodside, and lilgzses Mary Kaye Mayhew and Hl'i('n Semple arranged the gifts. Liiiirh was served and the re- m.i:nder of the evening spent in rim:-ing to music furnished by .'stt.-xi-s Ivan Daye and Joe Wis- mme vBtir.

Personals

The Mtiny friends of Mrs. Mac Bgiilln, Long River, will be sorry it lcnrn that she is zi patient in am P. E. I. Hospital, Charlott- tu-n and wish her a rapid im- 1- irvment in health, --Btiia.

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Maritime Storm

and tossed herring nets and hun- dzrds of lobster pots into the sea.

Amos Brennan's fiah plant at Kelly's Cove was lifted from the coiicrete foundation and hurled 15 feet. Damage Walrgiwt-lmiltoed at sl5,000. Eight thousmg pounds of lli'E' lobsters were crushed in their cr-Les. . i

Canadian Press reporter Greey ).f.w:'tin said a half-mile of road at the cove was buried under tons of stone that moved from the beach before the wind and waves. He said in many places it would take necks for the fishermen to dig their traps and nets from under a sea of stones.

SEEK N0 HELP

A 38-foot fishing boat was smashed to pieces, said Martin. The Bnemar Lodge near Yar- mcuth received 325.000 damage by failing trees. Martin's reports were relayed at first by Clyde Robbins' amateur radio at Yarmouth through Riverton, N. J., to Britt Fzider in Halifax.

Rae Corelli, a CP reporter as- signed to the Annapolis valley. re- ported that condition of orchard: there was "really chaotic.” In some places the loss went as high as 85 per cent. The growers do not plan to appeal for federal aid, he said, because they considered their loss "an act of God."

A hurricane also spoiled their crop last year

"They said they plan to salvage what they can, and hope for the best." said Corelli. who also re- ported seeing many barns torn from their foundations. one alum- inum bai-n was out 200 yards.

At Pictou, N. 8.. the 155-foot steeple of the Anglican church was ripped off its bnse rind crushed to the street. The town's principal landmark. it had stood iirm since 1879. The bell fell through the church roof.

A large sectlonaof a new freight shed in Pictou was pried loose and flipped over two piers onto the deck of a Danish schooner

NEW BRUNSWICK HIT

In New Brunswick a fishing boat was torn from its moorings on Grand Manan island and was u.ll missing Sunday. There was nobody aboard. High tides backed sewers in St. Stephen and flood- ed cellars and streets. A movie house burned to the ground at McAdam.

Highway waahouts were reported between Woodstock and Frederic- ton. A bridge on Route 2 below Grand Falls was washed away. At Saint John. the waters of Court- 9"H:v' bay slashed into homes in mi" City's eastend.

At Dartmouth. across the harbor from Halifax. the roof of the u inlon molasses factory was biovm off. Navy experts had I lbw nervous moments when a mine washed ashore at the mouth of Halifax harbor. It turned out

'0 bu a dud. loaded with sand for lirartice.

See McCarthy Expecting An Adverse Verdict

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senator Jostiili McCarthy is telling friends has given up plans for cross- C'"1"l-iy political speaking in the current campaign for control of Conzreas, and this is taken by Iome of them as indicating he ex- Dfti-! an adverse verdict from the six-member Senate committee now "lwilisating his conduct. . hile assuming the public at- lilillde of a man who expects the worst from the committee. Mc- cllfthy remains outwardly con- fident the full Senate will not vote to censure him, he in said to expect most of his P0--ticai ” campaigning efforts this "" will Se confined to radio and televisln anoorances, which he mid Innate while remaining in wuhlneton non of the time to

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--PUBLIC speaking eonteat. Sherbrooke Hall. Tuesday, Sept. 14th. Films after.

-MAIGATE W.- I. I. - The Margate W.M.s. met" at the home of Mrs. Charles Dlnnla on Sept- ember 'l. wheniworahip Service was taken by me president. Mrs. Wilbur Dinnis. assisted by Mrs. Reggie Dinnis. Mrs. Heath May- hew and Mrs. Keith Warren. The president read an interesting lat- ter from Miss Eunice Peters, the group's missionary for prayer. tel- ling of her work. A committe of three was appointed to try to get a missionary to speak at a thank- offering service. Worship Service next meeting will be taken by Mrs. Reggie Dinnis and Study Book by Mrs. Heath Mayhew, Mrs. George Mayhew to visit Mislion Band at the October meeting. Mrs. John Johnston then took charge of the Study Book, The Church in India, assisted by the president and Mrs. Glydon. The meeting closed with silent prayer "for our missionary" and benediction. Lunch was served by Mrs. Dinnis. -Bur.

First Hydro Protect Opened In Labrador

MENXHEK. Labrador (CP) Labrador's first hydro-electric de- velopment churned into official pro- duction Saturday and Prime Min- ister St. Laurent. who stood high over the rising mists of the Meni- hek dnrn, described the plant as "only a forerunner . . . of a great outstanding development,"

Premier Smallwood of Newfound- l:-inrl scaled a narrow catwalk to pull a switch which sent millions of gallons of waiter surging over a dry riverbed as two 33,000 - volt generators shot electricity to Can- ada's biggest iron ore development at Knob Lake. 28 miles away.

Only government representatives and guests and the nine families of this southern Labrador settle- ment stood over the 1,200-foot long dam to watch the first official water come spewing under the dam's 34-foot head.

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.-'18 Storm ileatiis

to Maine and the Maritune prov- inces.

Meanwhile, ricane Florence, sixth tropical s mi of the year, began breaking up Sunday as it moved inland on the Mexican coast. The New Orleans weather bureau said high mountains on the coast near Tuxpsn. Mexico, caused the storm to break up.

HIGHWAYS BLOCKED Those reported to have died in

vehicles plunged into swollen streams from broken banks or smashed bridges. or were trapped in flooded lowlands.

The 80-mile-an-hour wind gusts ripped power and communication lines, many of them only tempor- arily patched from Carol's damage.

Many highways remained block- ed Sunday.

Much of Portland, Maine's larg- est city, and many other commu- nities were without electric power. Eight inches. of rain fell in southwestern Maine, the heaviest downpour recorded in 58 years. Trains were halted by washouta. Much oi central and southwestern Maine crops were ruined.

Governor Burton M. Cross and civil defence officials pleaded with motorists to stay off highways to facilitate the clearing tasks.

The storm split in two near Cape Cod. Mass. One arm lashed Bangor. Maine's third largest city. and eastern Maine, including the famed Bar Harbor summer resort. Then it shrieked toward Canada.

RESCUERS DROWN

A family of 10 n-iarooned on their auto top in a low road flooded by the raging Sandy stream at Unity, Maine, was removed in a seven- hour rescue in which one of the children and one rescuer perished.

Ruth Brockway. 8, drowned when her father lost his grip on her as a human chain was broken in a Sandy stream. Alton McCormick. 47, assistant Unity fire chief and father of seven, drowned while helping to rucue the Brockway family.

At Augusta, the Kenneboc river rose flooding some business estab- lishments along its banks in Maine's capital city.

Southern New England. New York and New Jersey watched open-mouthed as the big storm slid past with far less apparent damage than had been feared.

The coast guard buoy tender I-fornbcam took up the chartered position of the Nantucket light- ship. blown 10 miles off its station

Island.

The regular lightshlpla steering mechanism was damaged and five heavy portholea in the bridge were smashed when the hurricane lash- ed across Nantucket ahoala. The Nantucket's 16-man crew was re- ported in no danger. The craft wll being towed to Boston.

TILIPFIONI DISBUPTED

Eastern Maasacht s. including greater Boston. no..ii shore and Cape Cod areas, were blttered by gale-w-hipped torrential rains. More than 40 Massachusetts cities and towns again were without electri- c l power. ,

a New England Telephone Co. said Edna was I carbon copy 0' Hurricane Carol with 240.000 9010- phonea out of order in five New England states.

The big blow forced curtailment of train and bus service along the no . mile Connecticut shore and washed out railroad service further north between Boston and Port land, Maine.

The Maine Central Railroad laid

"were for and battle out the cen- it would run only one min until

"Pt tune in the Senate. l

Tuegdny morning. That one will

some 43 miles south of Nantucket '

Reports of heavy property dam- age in West Prince County from the week-end hurricane continued to come in last night. It is ex- pected the full extent of the dam- age will not be learned for several days.

Hundreds of trees were blown down. At least four barns were dutroyed and other barns and buildings lifted off their founda- ,tiona by the terrific gale.

Lobster boats at Aiberton South received a heavy pounding. One fishing boat, owned by Mr. Lloyd McNel1l, was sunk and at least three others had planks stove in- Several other boats were reported damaged and leaking.

A dory belonging to Mr. Ken Hutt was blown 300 yards along the shore and co pletely wrecked.

Two landin stages at the harbor were blown ashore and destroyed.

Barns belonging to Messrs. Dan Dalton, Byron McKenna, Emerson Currie and Arise O'Brien. all of Elmsdale, were blown down. A pig was killed when the Currie barn was flattened, but other ani- mals in the building were not in- lured.

A section of Frank Peters barn at St. Roch was destroyed and a shed belonging to George Des- Roches. also of St. Roch, was pick- ed up and deposited 500 yards away on a neighbor's property.

A 30 by 30 foot fish storage shed at Tignish Shore was wrecked.

Electric power in the West

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Indian River accident and met again yesterday morning. The body was identified and the inquest was adjourned un- til Tuesday, September 21. at 7 p.m., standard time. in the Town Hall at Summerside.

The accident occurred during the violent wind and rain storm that swept the Province. The driver of the Hanimill our was accompanied 'bv Leslie Smith, Charles Smith and Desmond Duff), all of Kin- koi'a.

Members of the coroner's jury are: Lloyd Miller. foreman. Wal- lace Moasr. Aubrey Brooklns Keith Wa , William Champion, Oliver Pro tt and Ben Champion.

The deceased is survived by his mother, Mrs. Joseph Macbellan.

Heavy Property "Damage Reported From Districts in Wesiem -Prince Co.

Prince area was off for approxi- mately six hours.

Irish moss gatherers, however. were reported reaping a rich har- vest after the: storm. Thousands of dollars worth of moss was driv-

,en ashore from the Gap. near Al-

berton, to North Cape.

Hundreds of persons were busy yesterday, piling the moss along the shore and hauling it home.

It was reported exceptionally clean and of good quality.

FornTei7Minisier Here Gives Views On Kurt Meyer

EDMONTON (CP)-Rev. H. E. D. Ashford, an ex-RCAF chaplain, predicts former German SS. Maj.- Gen. Kurt Meyer will be back in uniform for West Germany.

Dr. Ashford said in an inter- view Sunday in advance of a church sermon on the same sub- ject that be based his prediction on a 1950 interview he had with Meyer when he was called to speak at Dorchester penitentiary in New Brunswick while rector of Trinity United church in Charlot- tetown.

He said, ”Prcssure of overn- ment will put Meyer back in uni- form for the west,” but added that ”Meyer's real dream of life is to be a leader in peace and not war."

(Spy Roundup Reported In Iran

TEHRAN (Reuters) - "Sct'ui'ity ,manoeuvrc.s" calling out the entire !Il'8lllall Aimy were ordered Sun- day following the roundup of hun- dreds of police and army officers as alleged members oi a Commu- nist spy ring.

Intelligence agents meanwhile were said to be seeking 60 more officers in additioneto 435 reported to have been arrested since the government started its massive

Indian River; and by two brothers

in Indian River; Aloysius, in Saint John, NB; Imalda, in Boston: and Mary, in Charlottetown.

The remains were resting at the Davison Funeral Home in Ken- sington last night, pending com- pletion of funeral arrangements.

-S.

Haiii3i"ivin?N.is. Softball Title

HALIFAX. (CP)- Bomber For- bes' 350-foot three-run homer Sat- urday paced f-lziiifax Olands to a

the Nova Scotia senior ' crown 1 Halifax took the best-of-five se-

ries 3-1 and mild advance against , the New Brunswick finalist for tht .

Maritime crown. !

Forbes' smash broke a 3-6 tie in- the seventh inning. But he had to share laurels with speedballer. Freddie Cuvelier who didn't allcnii a hit. the last three innings. :

Cuvelier took over from Frankl Grabowski who scattered three hits but was responsible for nine walks and six wild pitches.

Ray MacDonald started for the Cape Bretoners and allowed 10 hits until Del Richardson took over in the eighth and allowed only one MacDonald seemed to tire after the first three innings.

Monarchs took a 8-1 lead in thn second inning and stretched it to 5-1 by the fourth. But Olzinds had picked up three runs by the fifth and deadlocked the count in the sixth.

softball

Clary Nicolle and Forbes each

leave Portland for Montreal today.

The Maine Central's Gull, Mari- time provinces to Boston, was halted by a washout near Vance- boro, Maine, Saturday night. It backed up to McAdam, N. B,, where the 180 passengers were fed.

The passengers will be taken to Boston via Montreal.

(MT "THOSE REDHEADS FROM SEATTLE"

NOW AT THE CAPITOL, SUM. MERSIDE

-Pnramounts brand new Musical "Those Redheads from Seattle", comes today to the Capital Theatre, Summerside. staring Rhonda Flem- ing Gene Barry and Agnes Moore-

head and introduces to screen audiences such favorite singing stars as Guy Mitchell. Teresa

Brewer and the Bell Sisters. From all advance reports "Those Red- heads from Seattle" is one of the most entertaining films to come along in lnany a day.

Lord in the Yukon at. the turn of the century, the film hits an atl- venture-filleri background. The story concerns the arrival in tui- bulciit Dawson of Miss Moorehend and her four daughters, Rhonda. Fleming, Teresn Br:-wer and the Bell Sisters, during the hectic gold niah days, The purpose of this trip was to join their husband and father, who had started a crusad- ing newspeper there. Upon their arrival they find he has been murdered rind Miss Fleming. the eldest daughter, takes over the Job of running the newspaper.

She soon becomes romantically involved with Gene Barry. boss of a rip-roaring local night club where Miss Brewer and the Bell Sisters are compelled by rircumsta cee to work. When Barry is suspected of having murdered their father Rhonda drops him. However the romance is patched up when Barry ';u'cceeds in tracking down the real

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and two sisters. They are: Peter,j

counter-espionage cleanup.

The figure of -135 arrests came

from a major-general who insisted on rerraining unidentified. He said isecurity officers are "seeking 60 iothcrs" and holcliig some civilians llor interrogation. I The manoeuvres ordered Sunday will start today and last. for two days. the army trainings and intel- iiigance department. said All army ileave was stopped S;iturday.

', BRUSSELS IReutetsv ,Brit.sh Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Saturday reached "lull agree- ment" with the l0l'E'llJ,ll milllSl.6l'5 of Belszium. The Netlieilin:is' nud Luxembourg on ways of hringiiiz in rearmed West Germany into the

Mame included mourn” whose l(H3 win over Sydney Monarchs and W5-Stem df'l9TW'- n9W'0Tk-

had too hits for Halifax -WllllP the hit; bat for Sydney was Fmxser. who hit a homer Turks: l:-in zot the others

iMitcheli's

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-In Prince County the hurri- cane. with a wind velocity of gusts up to 80 miles per nour. crested widespiead havoc. From cl approximately l0 pm. Saturday until 4 o'clock Sunday morning the full force of the storm lashed at the ,Summerside water front. the town itself and the districts east and west. with the eastern districts suffering most damage. in

Many huge treu throughout the town of Sumnierside were blown, - several completely uprooted, one of the largest being at the resi- dence of Chief Justice Thane A. Campbell where a tree with a ex- c pension of about three feet was blown across Summer Street, com- pletely blocking traffic throughout the day. Television antennas were wrecked and overhead signa blown w down. The large outdoor movie screen at the Starlite Drive-in Threatre. 'Summei'side East, was badly damaged by the gale and four large plate glass windows at the MacLean Motors were blown l

On Ottawa Street a large tree in the yard of Joseph Arsenauit was blown down and a car which was parked under it suffered severe damage. swift action on the part of the Summerside police and electric light crews, who were on special duty throughout the night working under hazardous condi- tions, prevented what might have led to the loss by fire of a major part of the town.

A short circuit near the large potato warehouse of Simmons and MacFarlane set fire to something on or near a light pole and sparks were blown in a continuous stream onto the warehouse. Police and linemen responded to a call from nearby residents and the power was turned off in the area to pre- vent further danger.

On Harvard Street. at the resi- dence of Mr. Wallace Bradshaw. the upper and lower rai'and;i was torn completely from the house.

Telephone officials reported lasti night that the storm damage was! very extensive with the Summer- side district being hit the hardest. Lines to the mainland via the ra- dio link at Egmont Bay were all gone but were repaired and com- munication re-established by nine, otclock Sunday morning. ' i

Tvio poles were broken down at; Brook. Sunimerside; West. a large telephone pole in front of R. T. Holman Ltd. was also broken and it was necessary to barricade the street while it was being repaired.

In all about 300 phones in Sum-

as possible as linemen were busy' throughout the day getting the. long distance lines in nperationi

All lines to Charlottetinvin Wefel out until noon yesterday. Foiir miles east of Keiisimzinn;E

the were i

l'Pilll'lV'0d

telephone llncs. These

and the.

IBM-seen ihzs point. and Charlotte-'W

l1,llf'nPlTlllS found and

liown scattered breaks:

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tablished. Kenaington ares. six poles by four o'clock in the afternoon.

paired by Officials stated that it would take two or three days at least before the full damage of the storm could

paired.

of Summe side indicated that the damage in this part of the county was not so severe. Light and phone

many sections and llnesmen work- ed throughout the day to repair the breaks. g

it was reported that a large barn h belonging to Arnold Deslitorhes c had been blown down while

tun large trees were blown arrnssoutsicie Lawn-nceiown. 111195 repair-ad lacross the highway and a trailer"

repaired before I and

and 1)n.- 1 as. at l-lebi-on. , g lC0lTimulllCZll.iOl'l cbuld be agari imnmh Yammmh HEP”. WM” 3.3" unncmmed hunialw, H, mm," ,.,,i,,.m,V,W

On the Mafgate Road. WFFC own but service here was restored

All circuits to Borden were re- two o'clock yesterday.

e estimated and lines fully re-

Inquirle made in districts west

in

onnectiona w e r e disrupted

At Wellington the residents were ithout lights up to last night and

the a

roof was blown from another larneiahruii

News Barn

Part of the damage to the barn of Sydney Murr .l d , N, 5,,” out of ,,me,. lmlthe Saturday night storm. This 80-foot barn w iiicgllcfti :ini'iew'ili be repaired as soonirtosl of about 3;4,000.00.