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May Bo Slight Decline iiere In Christmas Mailing

'I‘he amount of incoming and outgoing mall passing through the Charlottetown Post Office during the present Christmas season has not been quite so large as the of isst year, Post Office otficiais said last night.

The mulling of Christmas par- eels was done in a more orderly manner this season, they said. There was uo huge piling up o! mail for one or two peak days followed by a sudden drop, but a more rqular and uniform amount of business each day.

Lest Thursday 61,860 letters wont thxoulh the automatic stamylflk machine; the following day 01.028 letters were stomped: and on Saturday .173 went through the machine. xesterday’:

iisures were not available last night. Supplementing the permanent

staff for the Christmas rush are l5 veterans. last season S’! were employed

KILLED IN MILE

Norseman, n. n, Dec. n‘... (OFF-Edmund Beteman, 30, ‘oi suhirbaa Lewisville was killed in the mill section oi the Mcncton Lumber l‘ , _,. today when fill sleeve caught between two large rollers which "crawled" up his srm and crushed his shoulder and throat.

Bateman had been married in nine. ' '

Coming Events

"Alexandra School concert to-

night, B pim.

"Bt. Catches-ins’; Christmas U011- QW; DQQEWN‘ 2411i.

"Movies Hunter River tonight, ‘Queen of the Yukon."

"cunning Grain daily. mu am. It. Peters Road. Perkdeie.

"School concert. mapaud Hall, ‘ruesday, Dec. 23, 3.00 p.in.

"Shooting Match at Cswapaud, Qiristuies Day, starting 2 P. M.

"Cornwall School Concert. Corn- wall Hail. December 23rd, S P. M.

"Dance, Baldwin's Road School, Tuesday. Decnrnber 30th. Lunches.

“To arrive. oilcake meal. $4.00

per cwt. Book. McCiuigan and Boyle. "Bmyvale Christmas Concert.

Lot 65 Hail, Tuesday, December ‘Jlird. Dance after.

“Box Social and Dance. Pleasant Grove Hill, Monday, 9th. bi ll I ldsecl.

"The annual Sunday school Christmas program. in Pleasant valley Church tonight.

"Oollectlsige hogs every Thurs- hy for Canada Packers. Phone N A. Cutciiffe or write me. D. h Mac- Dowell.

“This store will be open Mon- day. ‘niesdey and Wednesday be- fore Christmas until nine pom. and closed ell day Friday.

"Hockey rneetine to form lees- ue. Uliflord Moore's. last yaltv. ‘hsesday. Dec. llrd. Woul like Milton. West Royalty and Breck- iey represented.

"W0 have a ibsiited Otleeke and Rebip I Flour at lieoiel cuss. also

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(By The Canadian Press)

WINNDPIXI. Dec. 22 - Officials tonight reported ll persons shaken up but none seriously injured when four cars of the westbound No. 3 transcontinental passenger train of Canadian Notional Railways were derailed st Anoia, Man, an miles east of Winnipeg. .

‘Hie accident occurred at 11.00 am. 05.1‘. and reports said four cars hurtled from the tracks. Two. both sleepers, rolled on their sides and about 80 feet of track was torn up.

No reason has been disclosed yet for the accident which came only eight miles from Dugaid where last. Sept. 1. 3i persons were killed when another holiday train, the Minaid campfl’! special. smashed headon into an eastbound trans- continental and burned.

A porter. H. I-Iarewood. (home- town unavailable) suffered facial cuts while Miss Gina Nesbitt of Toronto, former R.C.A.F. Women's Division oflicer bound for Edmon- ton, was found injury-free after s hospltial check.

One report said a wheel had become loose and bad thrown the coaches oft.

Officials also said little time will be lost and no eastbound traffic will be delayed. They said train No. 1 pas been blocked by the torn-up rails but that work- men had repaired lt by evening.

Passengers going to Winnipeg had been taken of! No. l they said. by a special train which left from here. Passengers bound else- where had elected to stay with the train. .

Initial reports of the accident; said some persons might have been hurt seriously and three am- bulances were ordered to meet the train which proceeded under its own pcwerto" Winnipeg." All pasr sengers rode in the undamaged’ front part of the train.

Scheduled to arrive here three hours before noon. it had been running late because of the mist- mas crowd of travellers and C.N R. officials said they were thank- fui no persons were badly hurt.

Windjammer Makes 15,000-n|lle Voyage

GRAVEBBND. Kent. ma. Dec. 33.—(R0lltQl’B)—-'1‘il6 SJCO-ton bar- que Pamir docked here ‘today ai- ter an 80-day voyage over the l5.- 000 miles from New Zeaiand with raw wool and taiicw for Britain and gifts oi clothing for displaced persons.

The ship. winner of the 1039 windiasnmcrs grain race irosnPort Victoria, south Australia, to Fal- mouth. England, will be towed up the ‘Thames to the Royal Albert dock at mndon on Wednesday. Her crew were ensured Christmas on land when the Palnir cut l0 days of! he: 90-day schedule for the trip.

The Pamir was a prize of war for New Zeaiand in 194i. She was oewht in harbor there when Fin- land joined Germany in declaring war on Poussin. she later became attached to the New Zealand mer-

lialifax To Bo llome 0f iluge Shipping Firm

HALIFAX» Dee. fl — (CP) - Purchase by Acadia Overseas Freighter: Limited of D8 "Port" class 10,000-i0n freightfis from the Canadian Government will rmake Halifax the home port o! one of the largest - “if not the larg- est" - cargo-carrying fleets in the world. Harry Mothers, 88-year- ‘oiid president of the firm. said i417

ay.

Purchase o! the as Crown-own- ed steamships. to be delivered someti re in 1960, "as confirmed

Reconstruction Minister Howe Iw o said the deal involved $15,000.-

Mr. Mothers, however, said 1dr. Howeu figure was "way low".

At present the firm operates 12 ships. one more la scheduled to be added next swing and nine more are due from Britainnext sum- mer.

The line's vessels fly the Nova

Scotia flag -- the first time the‘

flag has been flown in e sea-going

fleet since the days when wooden‘

ships from the Province celled in all ports of the wOrid.

So far. Mr. Mothers said. no def- inite trade routes have been map- ped out for the new ships.

Whisky 0n Plane

Costly To Woodsman v

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OTTAWA. Dec. 19 ~—- (C?) _A couple o! chastencd woodsmen dug deep into their breeches today and forked over-dam, payment f an ‘eseapade revoivirigfirbilliifi‘ se- tic plane ride and two bottles oi bootleg whisky.

Leo Menard. 47. of Port Arthur. Onto and Joseph Beaudoln. 2d. o! Ieflechcrssik. were taken of! a ‘Toronto-Montreal Trans-coma; Air Line plane here last Wednes- day alter a stewardess and the plane's captain failed to persuade them to part with a bottle of whisky. They caused a ruckus in the T.C.A_ office at Ottawa Air. port and then finished by scuff- ling with police.

Menard was fined $13850 on charges of causing a disturbance in a public place. resisting arrest and wilfully damaging property. Beaudoln was fined p69 on charges of causing a disturbance and re- slsting arrest.

French Are Tolii 0i Tax increases

PARTS, Dec. 22 -- (AP) —I‘ln~ nnce Minister Rene Mayer gave Frenchmen an unwelcome Christ- mas present today when he at- tached a number of stiil m: in- creases to his over-all program for bolstering the bench econ- omy. '

He announced tax increases on radios, night clubs. coioziiai and petroleum products as the Nation- al Assembly neared approval af his economic program, which ai- resd includes s heavy tax on

chant navy.

prnits {no incomes in the upper bracket .

Quinta 13..

00113131». Ont. Dec. Ii —(CP) -Csnads's five famed sisters — the Dionne quintuplets -. today switched from -suite to kit- chen-aprcns to oln "chere meni- an" in humming Noel carols and a spiek-and-vpan clean-us of their home in this snow-Valle . Christ- inee-cerd Northern-Ontario dis- rict.

‘Their ‘ ‘ reddened by out- door pranks and winiary duets. the 18-year-old quintet will forgo sriow-drift garnbois for the first few days oi their Christmas school hoiid to prepare e typical mac aensoisn family's recep- tion for the Jelly Old Gent with "ia barbs bianche."

This Christmas is particularly slotting for Marie. Yvonno. Cecile. Annette and Emilie: five‘ other Junior member! of the family are due home — Rose, who has been attending school st Montreal: ‘Therese and Pauline. students at letvisw. Oat. and Daniel and Olive Jr. studying at lesthiervllie.

e. Brother victor has been attend-

ing school here and IO-months-oid

Preparing

For Christmas Day

Claude has been‘ the only child home during the day.

Aside from exercise “loop-and- dust," the sisters are tackling mix- ing bowls and ladies and wrap- ping gifts in free evening hours.

While busy at the latter. they assume an air o! mischievous ml’!- tery. Mamas: and papa must not know what their daughtars sre aivia them New Year's eve dos. foil ng the Hench-Canadian tradition, the most important gifts are given then. not on Christmas.

And as in the due of Connie's first iiabitent settlers. Ollva Dionne and his sons will soon set out across the snow-swept hllie to cut down a dcotch pine for the redres- tion room. Of coins. the five sparkling-Hid sisters will direct itgroratlon.

Chris quiet - and to sense emn. At mid hi. Christies eve. the entire iarrily will hear Mess in their own chapel. Ancient aerols;

ptilig and head-noddins until the "big" gifts are unwrapped.

Canada May

Cut Fuel llil

Imports 50 p. o.

OTTAWA, Dee. B-(CP)... Bepreaentatives of the Cana- dian iuel oil industry, meeting with Government effiehls to- day. agreed to a cutback oi up to S0 per cent in imports from the United States and if the sten is carried eut it will mean that Canadian fuel oli eon- auinesa will ‘have to “go cosy" this winter.

Reconstruction Minister Howe said tonight following .‘ the meeting with oil industry representatives that be eauid give no immediate details oi the proposals but said be probably would issue s sills- ment tomorrow.

He emphasised. however. that a 50 per cent out In im- ports of fuel oil frosn the Un- ited Stefes would not mean I 50 per cent out in Canadian consumption. But it would mean that Canadian consum- ers would liave to "be careful."

Another source explained that although the recommen- dation, if carried out. would become a part of Canada's dol-

in

4 Waeliingtuinover 11.3. domes-

""tlir'flsel‘s1'lll' suimllesfia House

of Representatives committee

has raised the question of the

effect or Canadian imports on U. 8. domestic supply.

il. S. Police Head lists ilew Position

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HALIFAX, Dec. 2'2 --(CP) - Qhesley K. Gray. tall New Brims- wicker who helped organise that Provinoeb police force 20 years ago, today received the news of his appointment as deputy commission- er‘ of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with little comment but praise for his wedeceesor. B. A- igya! Gegnon who died in Novem- l‘.

In command of the 3.0M}. Ln Nova Scotia since last year as a senior assistant uim issione , his new appointment will take the st-year-oid Douglastown. NB. ne- tive to Ottawa where he will be in line as a possible successor to Commissioner 5.1‘. Wood. due to retire last year. i

The broad-shouldered, greying deputy commissioner is reticent about discussing any of the cases he has handled during his l5 years in the R.C.M.P.

Wounded in the First World War. he came to Halifax where in i918 he worked with the Muss- achusetts-l-laiifax Relief Commis- sion administering relief to the city which suffered in the srest explosion 0i 191T.

Durlnl this period he served as an instructor in the Nova Bcotis Technical College before entering the lumber business in his native

Province. die helped organise the New Brunswick Provincial Police in

102a and four years later entered

New Brunswick force.

He saw service in Fredericton. Saskatoon and Vancouver before coming to Halifax in i940.

nonnvorsais. inland - (or) -- Because he received ll "Mall for money during his first weeks as bard Mayor. Councillor John Mitchell said he was not in office

to "Provide be cash‘ and ed ed he could not d husbands, wl or Ills-pals."

No '1‘ r a e e, Missing Since Dee. 18

_ ilsllooptsr ilssd Yesterday: Tracks Indicate Mes Isve Wssdsrsd Into Little-Travelled Swamp Country.

the R.C.M.P. when it absorbed the _

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(By The Canadian Press)

11 h. N. 8.. Dec. 2a- lrom anowwovered backwoods so treacherous that only expel-lemma woodsrnen dare enter, weary search parties returned tonight Wlthquf. ilndmg any trace of four young l-lverrool men missing since earuy last Thursday.

When tracks of the four miss- ing rabbit hunters were found 168911112 into the swampy Tobeatic country yesterday the less-exp“. lenced of the searchers were left belimd and veteran guides led the others deep into the seldom-trav- elled swale. '

An R..C.A.P. helicopter joined m the search through the heavy birch forest but found no trace of i“ 10w‘ misslns men. Burton Weethavcr, 26. Jimmy woods. Worth. 11. William Oickie. is. and Jimmy Rogers, l9.

Armed with M rifles, the foul Nuns hunters entered the woods at Port Mouton Thursday and have not been reprorted since. They carried provisions for only om fill!‘ but old time hunters in my; country which has produced man; champions at provincial guides’ meets said the four would prob- llbly find a. good supply of game in the tricky Tobestlc.

Six inches of snow ieii during the night and erased the mm tracks which searchers had founri yesterday leading into the deep backwoods. At one point the racks veered almost within sight o! Liverpool but then they turned

- cii again into the back country.

Bven hardened woodsmen iounr. going difficult through the snow

, and R..CM.P., who are leading the

search. allowed only guides and hunters with a thorough know- ledge of the country to loin the 8087011.

Although many of the search- ers camped overnight in the woods and started early this morning in temperatures varying from 14 to 8t degrees, not one sinsle clue to the hunters‘ disappearance was found.

Scattered hunters’ cabins in the district were checked but no trace of the missing four found.

The thickly-Wooded Tobeatlc area is one of the most tteacher. ous in this lake-studded country and many trained guides veer a- way from the swampy lowlands when travelling with inexperienc- ed hunters. , Y

Po;e Pius llas Slight Cold

VATICAN CITY, Dec. 28 -- A light cold and hoarsencss decided Pope Plus today to suspend aud- iences, as well as his afternoon walks in the Vatican gardens. un- til after Christmas.

l-ie continued, however. to see his closest associates about urgent Vatican business.

Vatican sources said the Pope is taking the rest portly to -con- serve his strength for the rigors oi the Christmas season-his ad- dress to the cardinals. which wit‘. be broadcast to the world. the audience for the Holy See diplo- math: corps, and the customary- visitors calling to convey the soe- son's greetings. ,

Corliss industrialist Clvss IrlsoLSsntsnoe

BERG. Dec. 2.2 - (AP) .5 United States military trib- unel today sentenced lfi-iederich Flick, 01-year-old German indust- rialist, to seven years‘, imprison-

ment for exploiting slave labor and looting German-occupied countries.

Flick. head of Germany's largest privately-owned coal. iron and steel empire. already has spent g 1-3 s in confinement. This time will be deducted from bis

sentence.

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May Bolittlo Surplus For Marshall Plan

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OTTAWA. Dec. 23—-(CP) — A mayor puzzle facing the Ottawa, economic planners and the cam- not today is how Canada can ful- fill her new British food contracts ‘and also participate widely and effectively in the Marshall plan for European aid.

The new contracts may take practically all the estimated Can- adian food surplus, as they did this year. Exports to Britain also might cut deeply into the sur- plus of base metals, timber and other items.

Yet under the Marshall plan, Canada is being counted on by the United States to help supply several billion dollars worth of food and commodities.

There seems to be an unreaiity ‘about this situation. for if there are no substantial Canadian sur- pluses over and above those for the British contracts, there can be no real participation by Can- ada in the Marshall plan.

One Solution

Some sources here maintain that if Canada is to play ball in both leagues, the only realistic solution is for the British contracts to be enveloped in the structure of the Marshall plan.

This would mean. in eflect. that

Advises Hog Breeders To Stay In Business

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Prilel Ewsrd Island hos bo-ooq. ers who are cutting down on the number of their brood sows are making a serious mistake, in the °Dinion oi Mr. H. W. Clay, senior live stock held man, Dominion De- partment of Agriculture, Char- lottetown.

Mr. Clay informed The Guar- dian yesterday that he believes meat prices will remain high and Will, in fact. increase rather than decline within the next few months. l-le gave several reasons for his opinion.

The first was that the live stock population in the United States had declined last year and that there were three million less cat- tle in United States this year than last year.

The second reason was that Canada as well as the United States and other meat-producing countries. would continue to be called upon for several years to help feed the meat-hungry mil- lions of Europe.

The third was that the new food prices agreement recently reaches between oflicials of the British and Canadian Governments coup- led with President Truman's mes- sage to Congress on December 18 urging the United States Govern- ment to spend between six and eightblilions of dollars in Canada and Latin America for food for Europe indicates that there are at least. several years oi prosperity ahead for the meat ‘producers oi

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s1 oo,ooo In Bank Loot ls Recovered

(By The Canadian Press)

WiI-NNIPEG. Dcc. 22—More than $100,000 in gold and securities. ap- proximately half the loot taken from a safety deposit vault of a north-end branch of the R-oyal Bank in Winnipeg's largest rob- bery, was guarded tonight by po- lice who recovered it after a three-hour treasure hunt.

They guarded almost as well the seoret c! how s. squad of de- tectives had come to uncover it. bundled in a shopping bag and buried under a pile of dead roots and branches. in the outlying Bird's Hill section. All officers would say was that the cache, $100,000 in bonds and securities and about $1,120 in gold. hadbeen found "as a result of new inform- ation."

They added that the securities. 15 per cent of which were bearer bonds. were in “good shape.’

Meanwhile, James Davison, Z3. arrested in Sydney, N. 8., a week ago, and one of three men charg- ed with the night-time pillaging of the vault last Oct. 23. appeared briefly in police court and was remanded to Wednesday. John Mlchaeiis, 25, oi Winnipeg. also is due to appear at the same time and the third. Michael Stefanik.

Christmas Promises . Ha p..p_y...'.l‘ i m e F o s- The Royal Family

--._-. (By Russell Landstrom)

LONDON. Dec. 22- (AP)-De- spite the austerity that will dim the celebration more than usual. this pzomises to be the royal fam- ily's happiest Christmas since be- fore the war.

For one thing the new member of the circle-Princess Elizabeth's husband, Prince Philip, now settling down to his desk at the Admiralty-will be welcomed with suitable rejoicing to a traditions. holiday season at Sandringham, the King's birthplace in a quiet corner of Norfolk.

A tree has been chosen. a med- ium-sized one, and the brittle de- corations have been taken out oi their tissue paper and cotton wrapping. Household retainers have found holly and even a few sprigs of mistletoe.

Family gifts will be set undcr the tree. It is an established pol- icy, however, not to publicize what they are.