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II IS a KJ i First Snow fasten MS i Torrential Bains, High Tides lisrupt Transportation 6000 Homes in (Copyright, 1947. by the Globe Newspaper Co.) Rea. U. S. Pat.

Off. Vno Sk11 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 12, 1947 32 PAGES THREE CENTS ViESE Quincy Without Power Provincetonn Fears Great iamage i i i 7C Torrential rains, gale-force winds and high tides raised havoc with travel, communications and power service throughout New England today, ripping down wires and causing floods on several main highway and railroad rights of way. Arborway Flooded Six thousand homes in Quin- cy were without power at last reports this afternoon. Wires WEATHER Windy.

Murh Colder Tonight and Thursday 'Full reports on pane 8.) I were broken in Squantum, II if t'-f i i i Snow Starts Falling in Hub at 2 P. M. Today Boston's first snof of the season started to fall over the western outskirts of the city shortly afer 2 p. ra. today.

"Wind, rain, high tides, eclipses, freezing weather tonight," moaned the oRice moaner. Just then a few heavy snow flakes started mixing with the rain. "And now snain!" screamed the ex-moaner. IS TONIGHT'S GLOBE' Billy Rose ....18 Radio ...28 Books 19 Serial Story ...24 Houghs' Neck and Atlantic, as the 50-mile winds hurled tree limbs across the lines. The Quincy Police Stattion was blacked out, and the police radio was Snowplows were called out to clear debris, as power company crews struggled frantically to repair the damage before nightfall.

Provincetown feared the worst damage to shore property in 50 Comics 28 Society 13 Cross-Word Culbertmn .21 ITheatrea .......20 Deaths Forum ...24 Editorial 27 Financial il Power Lines Down as Storm Lashes Falmouth FALMOUTH, Nov. 12 Sixty- Rockingham Runs Five Races, and Then Quits ROCKINGHAM PARK, Salem, 1 years, as a high tide and 60-mile winds whipped the tip of the Cape. The water rose to the top of Town Wharf, undermining foundations homes and flooding cellars. Fishermen had received warning, and most of their boats were snugly berthed. Boston had received 2.74 five-mile winds carried away N.

Nov. 12 A blinding snow fr i power lines in at least three sections of Falmouth this afternoon, -Ji J. J- storm, accompanied by strong winds and complicatea earlier by a racing strip made deep in mud by nightlong pelting raih, forced cancellation of racing following running of the fifth event at Rockingham Park as a ludious northeast storm re--gathered its force after a sunny this afternoon. 4 y' i4r -Mi i noontime lull. Lights were out in Pocasset, Catu-met and East Falmouth.

Roads and sidewalks along the shore were smashed by tremendous surf, and several bathhouses were twisted on their foundations. It was feared that the afternoon shift of wind Horses and their riders bucked untoward conditions gamely throughout the afternoon. Form went for naught, for the most part, and long-priced winners were the rule. The daily double was worth $569.40, for instance, when a better than 50-to-l li- riaclirili'c Khavvam's inches of rain up to 2:30 p. m.

'the heaviest in 16 months. Last previous rainfall in excess of this amount was 3.26 inches, Aug. 1 and 2, Among main traffic' arteries affected were the Jamaicaway, "Worcester turnpike, Old Colony av, and Granite av, Newton reported that "condiions were almost out of control' as 200 street workers were sent out to clear sewers. Rain Continued on Page 2 rxid, slid home in the first to return i i (Photo by Charles Globe Staff) ARBORWAY BECOMES Automobiles stalled in 30-inch flood near Arnold Arboretum at noon today. $117.60 for a $2 venture.

Rockingham Continued, on Page J5 into the north would carry the bathhouses into Vineyard Sound. Much shoreline property had been weakened by last weekend storm, and was believed in greater peril today, Palmoutlt Continued on Page 2 Held in $110,000 Says Hughes Offered Yugoslavs Free Yanks Seized in Trieste Area TRIRSTE. Nov. 12 (UP) St Duel DeGaulle Asks 3-Power Freed Holdup anna to Charity to Lift Film Ban Farrell of the United States Army, Anti-Communist Pact who was seized by Yugoslav troops yesterday while fishing southeast of Gorizia, was returned to Italian officials in Gorizia late today. Returned to his unit.

Farrell said he was treated well by the Yugoslavs. He said he was questioned Anthony Pino, 39, of Dorchester, partially identified in a police lineup as the driver of the getaway car in the $110,000 Sturtevant payroll holdup, was held in $50,000 double surety on a continuance to Nov. 22 after pleading not guilty to an armed robbery charge in West Rox-bury District Court today. Judge Daniel J. Casey freed Patrick J.

"Patsy" Farina, 35, ex-convict, of Roxbury, of a charge he participated in the holdup at the Hyde Park plant. Vincent Costa, 33, of Dorchester, was held as a material witness in $10,000 double surety. Farina Continued on Page 12 WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 fAP) Bennett E. Meyers testified today that Howard Hughes authorized him to offer $150,000 to a "charitable organization" in New would permit showing of the briefly and then was held under guard at San Pietro, a small town in "What is Use of Marshall plan if people become utterly discouraged" 4 People Are Cold and Yugoslavia.

wide municipal elections, deGaulle said Soviet Russia was greater threat to France's existence than any power in history. Including Adolf, Hitler's Germany. Asked if he believed World War III was in the making, deGaulle replied: "It would be crazy hot to look facts in the face and not keep DeGaulle Continued on Page 12 PARIS, Nov. 12 UP) Gen Charles deGaulle called today for an alliance of the United States, Great Britain and France to stem world Communism and promote the reconstruction of Europe. Addressing his first press conference since the landslide victory of his rally of the French people in the Oct 18 nation Hughes film, "The Outlaw." Meyers said, the was to be in addition to a $100,000 fee Brother and Sister Saved in Dorchester Fire Hungry in Europe Saltonstall Lowell Murder Defendant Charges Beating by Police "Immediate aid is needed from the United States to get them over from Hughes to him for his services in getting the ban lifted.

Hughes Continued on Page IS Ex-Premier of Hungary the hump this Winter, It was clear to all," he said, referring to the other members of the Senate Committee A brother and sister, at home from school because of the storm, were rescued this afternoon when fire on Appropriations which must pass Body Found in Ralph P. Dupont, 20, one of two Lowell youths charged with the on funds for the Marshall plan," that By JOIIX G. HARRIS Senator Leverett Saltonstall aid today that Europe must be prevented from starving this Winter if the long-range, four-year Marshall plan is to be of any avail. He was talking at his first interview he has given on his survey visit of a month to seven European countries. I in U.

S. to Fight Reds coal and wheat are desperately needed in France, Italy, Germany derground eight days ago, you un Court Building last March 15 made necessary an operation at the Norfolk Penal Colony. Placed on the witness stand by his awyer, William Scharton, who made no opening statement to the jury, Dupont declared to be "lies" the statements he made regarding the shooting of Grimollizze as he sat "lovers lane'' murder last March 1 of Mario Grimollizze, testified in Middlesex Superior Court today that statements regarding the crime previously credited to him were Northboro Woods Ex-Inmate, 29 and Austria. Saltonstall Continued on Page 4 By CLINTON B. CONGER ooyrUhi.

1947. by I'nltcd Pr NEW YORK, Nov. 12 (UP) Pfeiffer and his family arrived made during an alleged beating by i i safely on American soil today at the derstand." he began. "I cannot talk politics until I know. I do not know what has happened to my party, to my country.

I can only tell you why I left." rffeiffer Continued on Page 10 NORTHBORO, Nov. 12 The body State Police and are untrue. found yesterday morning in the Dupont told Judge Abraham E. Pinanski that the alleged beating at woods oft" Brigham road near the Wcstboro line was identified today Dupont Continued on Page 12 end of a secret flignt irom Europe where the anti-Communist leader said he had escaped "from the shadow of the (Communist) noose in Hungary. It was a cloak-and-dagger flight State Police offices in the Middlesex A- 1 BfefeaaHMS i.ii4 as that of Henry waisn, za, or Green Cambridge, former in Mary De France Bob Dc France mate at the Westford State Hospital.

Walsh had escaped from the hospital, July 19. caused $1500 damage to the three-family house in which they lived on the third floor at 13 Leyland Dorchester. Other occupants left Garfield of Films to "Throw Punch" for Community Fund John Garfield, whose movie and Truman Can't Recall Making Statement Quoted hy Vishinsky WASHINGTON. Nov. 12 (AP Body Continued on Page 12 il NEW ENGLAND I CALIFORNIA EXTRA without trouble.

Fire Continued on Page 16 DRY- SLJ'X from the Communists who have finally muzzled their last opposition in Hungary. PfeifTer was a tight-lipped mystery man until the crew of the American Airlines flagship which brought him from Frankfurt told him that in another hour he would be safely down on a United States airfield at StephenviUe, Newfoundland. Then his worried face relaxed, he took a look at his sleeping wife and daughter, peered at my business card again and motioned me to follow him to the rear of the plane. COCKTAIL SHERRY 3 The White House said today Presi radio characterizations are crisp and rugged, will throw a punch for the 1948 Greater Boston Community FASTEN WIN! A SPIRITS CO OITON, MASS. AJJ Fund when he an- JT I Dears at th Diitrh 128 YEARS dent Truman does not recall that he ever said in 1941 the United States should assist Russia "if Germany is winning" and help Germany "if Russia is winning." Truman Continued on Page' 16 treat renort lunch- Pascene hat also imported and distributed foe food products since 1874.

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