Maxims of a Mere Man

Common sense is not so common.

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Drama Festival which was con- cluded ln Sherbrooke, P.Q. last week. Mrs. Scantlebury, who was the director of the Charlottetown Little Theatre Guild entry" "Angel Street," is seen holding the Mar- tha Allan Challenge Trophy for the best visual presentation in the Fes- tival. She was highly praised by

and her sister Mrs. E.S. Glddings Rosay. Mrs. smile happily with the trophies Saturday Night plaque for the best they received at the Dominion supporting female role in the final

SISTERS WIN HONORS IN DRAMA

WE. Scantlebury fleftllthe adjudicator Mme. Francoise

Giddings won the

festival. The Charlottetown Little Theatre Players arrived in the City yesterday evening happy and well pleased with the adjudication they received. "Angel Street" was the only English play East of Tor- onto. It ranked among the first three plays in the, finals. Mme Rosay had high praise for Mr.

W"i4'f”sMi

FESTIVAL

Barry Budgcn who played the role of detective and Miss Mary Moran who played Mrs. Mannlngham. a wife being driven to distraction. Eight productolns across Canada were chosen by adjudicator Pam- ela Stirling from a total of 64 "entries. "Angel Street" was one of the eight. Other players app- earing In the cast were Tom Hunter. Jack Macxinnon, Jennie Boomhower.

GOVERNMENT SERVES NOTICE

OTTAWA (CPD - The Govern- ment Monday served notice it will invoke closure today for the sec- ond time in a week to choke off Commons debate and ensure pas- sage of it's controversial gas pipe- line legislation by June 7.

The closure motion. which is cer- lain to be carried by the Liberal majority. will force a vote at 1 s.m. Wednesday on the bill to lend Pipe Lines Ltd. for its Alberta Montreal project. g

If the June '7 deadline is not met. Trans-Canada will be re- leased from it's commitment to complete the Prairie leg of the S375.000.000 project by Dec. 31.

Finance Minister Harris said if the plan goes through there is a possibility of completing the line to Toronto by next summer.

But if no start is made this year. he said, one may not be possible before 1958 and completion by 1950 would be uncertain. That result would be "almost fatal" to the progress of industrial Ontario whose present energy resources were dwindling.

GIVEN SECOND READING

"That was our ehoice..we could risk that or we could take the action we are taking here." Mr. Harris said as he spokes in the third day of debate on the govern- ment motion to give the bill sec- ond reading-approval in principle.-

The loan to Trans-Canada pro- vided by the bill would cover W per cent of the cost of building

Coming Events

Regular Dance. Bonshaw Inn. Tuesday night. Burns' Orchestra.

Dance, Lorne Valley Hall. Wed- nesday. May 23rd. Webster's Or- chestra.

Dance Mt. Stewart Memorial Hall. Tuesday night. Rollie Mac- Kenzie's Orchestra.

Weekly Dance. Fort. Augustus Hall every Wednesday night. But-Ires Orchestra.

See St. Peter's Bay players in St. Charles Hall, Tuesday. May .13. Curtain 3.3).

Dance. New Glasgow Hall, to- night. sponsored by Junior" Farm- Ilfs Fire Department.

See the Eldon W.l.. present two Fllys and specialties. Flat River Hall, '.'.'ednesd ... May 23.

Ppr best results book your clnlier seeds with us. McGuigan ls Boyle. Hunter River.

Dince West Royalty Hall. Wed- nesday. Rollie Mcl(enaie's Orches- trs. Canteen service. 0.80 to 12.30

Dance, West Royalty Hall. Wed- nesday. Rollie MacKenzic's Or- tl'l2tt!;t)ra. Canteen service, 9.80 to

" Souris players An lrishman's am." in Tr I-

Curtaln time lzfifl. Guernsey Breeders will be

Tuesday. May I.

t 0 .m.. Dtblrtment . D lug.

Jean's Snack Bar, Fredericton Oesne

confectionery etc. Plea a speciality.

ll? r... p....... Morell Hall, Tuesday. May may In Isa-sass up ism.

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up to 380.000.1100 to Trans-Canada 000

I I In H" 0 1'” dam not situation has arisen because traf-

Sea Buntsrq River-wlieatle! U'0"l'l9- curonrumrs: ssrosnoit

u.o.'utmmuo- must

the 575-mile Prairie section of the 2,2000-mileline. If the loan. at five- per-cent interest. is not repaid by next April 2 the government can take over the entire project.

The bill also provides for fed- eral-Ontario financing of a crown company to build the s118,000.000 northern Ontario section and lease it to Trans-Canada. Ontario would contribute one-third up to 335.000.-

Progressive Conservative and CCF parties bitterly oppose the measure. charging it is a sellout to United States interests backing Trans-Canada. .

Conservatives urge that a Cons- mons committee study the pipeline picture and possible alternatives. CCF members call for public own- ership of the line.

At the opening of the Monday's sitting Mr. Harris. for the govern-

Another Closure Today . In Gas Pipeline" Debate

merit. gave formal notice of the closure motion to be moved at the start of today's continued debate. Once the motion is passed. the time limit on speeches will be cut from 40 to 20 minutes and the normal 10 p.m. adjournment will be extended three hours.

OPPOSITION OBJECTS

F members called out "shares" and Stanley Knowles (CCF - 'u'v'lnnipeg North Centre) said: "What a way to honor the Queen."

A few minutes before. all mem- bers hsd sung God Save the Queen to mark the official observance of the Queen's birthday.

The closure motion was used at the start of last week to limit to two days the debate on a resolu- tion preliminary to the bill. It will

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Weather Good Day Holiday Ac

By THE CANADIAN PRESS

Traffic flowed, spring blossoms opened, servicemen paraded and Parliament talked on Victoria Day. first long holiday weekend of the I956 summe -travel season.

By automobile. train. bus and air. dwellers in the larger centres made it an occasion for travel.

By nightfall Monday the acci- ldentsl death throughout Canada had . ” 4 46. against last year's 74. The toll during the four-day Easter weekend in April was 60.

The weather was uniformly good although in Toronto and Montreal lit was on the chilly side with the ?occasional threat of rain.

VPARLIAMENT SITS

In the capital Parliament noted flint Victoria Day also Iis the .Qu(-enls official birthday and a j royal salute of 21 guns echoed over

the Ottawa river at noon. . The city's celebrated profusionl .nf tulip blooms. the gift of the

For Victoria ross Country

Netherlands to Canada commem- orating the countryis part in Hol- land'a liberation in 1945, was in full bloom and attracted thou- sands.

In Montreal soldiers marched to Victoria Square to place wreaths on the South African war memor- ial. but the city's veterans of that campaign were taken in cars this year for the ceremony. The years are marching on.

At Halifax the Queen's colon were paraded by the Navy and the RCAF. A crowd of 8.000 watched the ceremonies. for which a de- tachment of the Black Watch Regi- ment from Aldershot also was on hand.

Parades were the order of the day throughout the Marltlmes; ex- cept in Newfoundland, which clings to custom by observing Victoria Day May 24.

In St. John's, however. Loyalist WCCl( wounded up Sunday night with church parades.

Guatdian

' cuAni.o'r'ri:'mwN. CANADA. TUESDAY MAY 22 1956

Sees Remarks On lnvesimenls . Not Too Serious

OTTAWA (CP) - External Af- fairs Minister Pearson Monday ad- vised CCF leader Coldwell not to attach "too serious importance" to remarks of the visiting Earl of Home on the subject of United States investments in Canada. The Earl. Britain's secretary of state for Commonwealth affairs. said in Halifax last week that Can- ada . should not fear American doniinatlon through U.S. invest- ments in this country.

Mr. Coldwell asked Mr. Pearson whether. in view of current polit- lcal controvery in Canada on this subject, he did not consider this sort of statement "an intrusion Into Canadian domestic discussions." Mr. Pearson replied that Mr. Coldwell attached too serious im- portance to the statement. It had been made as a reply to a ques- tion at a press conference and not in a speech.

The controversy became an in- ternstional incident in mid-April when retiring U.S. ” ' 0' R. Douglas Stuart chided some Cana- dians for being alarmed about the increasing flow of American cap- ital into Canada.

In London. Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express Sunday asked that Lord Home be recalled from Can- ada because of his remarks. The Tight-Win: i ” r t newspaper said the British cabinet minister did a disservice to British business interests and interfered in Can- ada's domestic politics.

"Sir Anthony Eden should recall Lord Home forthwith and scratch him off his list of ministers," the newspaper said.

Lord Home was believed to be at Knob Lake on the Quebec-Lair rador boundary. an iron ore min- ing site. He was scheduled to visit Sept-Isles, Que.. on the Gulf of St. Lawrence north shore Mond .

QUEEN'S. HORSE RETTRING

LONDON (Reuters) -- Winston. the aristocratic police horse who carries the Queen at the cere- monies of trooping the color. ll make his farewell appearance t year, June 2. A golden chestnut, Winston has been the Queen's mount for seven years and has taken part in the spectacular cere

day parade. for the last four years.

mony. the Queen's official birth-lof 1058, Prime Minister St. Laurent

PLU NGED I FROM 9,000 FEET

LIVERPOOL, Eng. (R,euters).. French ”birdman" Lco Valentlnl plunged 9,000 feet to his death Monday trying to fly with wooden wings. Earlier he had thrilled a crowd of 100.000 at a charity air show with a delayed action par- achute jump from 10,000 feetm without his wings.

Using D315" wings attached to a steel corset, the 37-year-old former French paratrooper dmppcd likel a stone into a wheat field along- side Speke airport.

Valentin called himself ”il1e only living birdman." He met death

through a two-fold accident.

the crowd. and so shattered one of his wings.

Iliad a span f ' f L Th First. he crashed into the sidelwcre attached in angtfel ritirsct aiiil of his plane as he jumped above he controlled them with ailerons

as though he were a miniature

ican birdman Clem Sohn, who dived 1.300 feet to his death at Vincennes. France, in April, 1937.

Covers Prince Edward Island Like the Dew

Six years ago. Valentin madel

Second, his two parachutes failedpl.000 feet he would open his par- 3 him, The short, dark French.

to open. One trailed behind him gleaming in the sun like a huge white sausage as he fell.

A doctor found the birdman's!

broken body lying amid the wreck-

age of his wings, with the uno-.IFrench army, Valentin had made

pened parachute lying like

shroud across him. LIKE MINIATURE GLiT)ER Valentin had flown often and

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achute and drop gently down. llis record flight was three

miles. .Ilun(la,V he had hoped to

double the distance. Champion parachutist

in the

more than 600 jumps. ”I'm no daredevil."

so-rl ”l always take care that

ll(lllllfl,9, can go wrong." ll Valentin was killed in the same;

.man told his story last year in a book entitled Bird Man.

CROWD EXCITED

Monday, the crowd of men.l

women and children let out a roar of excitement as Valentin. a tiny from which Valentin jumped said he once . black speck, tumbled from a plane' he appeared to be ”sucked" from overhead in a clear blue sky and the plane by the slipstream.

riod his wooden wings. In many previous displays in

PRICE 5c

Birdman Killed Trying To Fly Wiil1cWooden W

ings

downward are before descending the remainder of the way by par-

achute. The crowds shouts froze in their

lglidcr. After descending to around his first public attempt to fly like throats as this time the tiny.

winged figure plummeted straight for earth. A frightened silence gripped the spectators. They were spared the sight of death by the screen from a group of buildings at lhe edge of Liverpool airport.

A reporter aboard the plane

The air show was for the benefit of the Soldiers, Sailors and Air-

SUCCESSIIIHY Willi his WIRES. which fashion as his boyhood hero. Ameri France, he had made a gentle' men's Families Association.

LLOYD usrs THREE

Britain Must Retain Her "Positions Of Strength"

NEWARK, Notts, England (CF)

I

EENDS TERM

OTTAWA (CP)-Rt. Hon. Vin- cent Massey's term as governor- general of Canada has been ex- tended by one year to the spring

I announced today.

Bis Firel -spears

WINNIPEG (CPl-A fierce wind- swept fire Monday night burned through a large car shop in the sprawllng Fort Rouge yards of the Canadian National Railways.

No one was reported injured but one fireman was taken to hospital suffering from smoke poisoning. The two-alarm fire was brought under control about IV; hours after firemen arrived.

A CNR spokesman said damage would be close to 3500.000.

He said the structure was valued at about 3300.000. There were at cars in the shop-20 old boxcars being repaired and 10 cabooses be- ing rebuilt.

Persons sprayed the houses a block away. initial reports had indicated the roundbouse was on fire. ,Residents in the area said they believed the fire broke out during a brief lightning storm. A few said they noticed flames after a giant clap of thunder was heard. There were several plosions. believed caused by acetylene tanks and boilers.

No one was reported injured. A railway official said about 300 men were employed in the shop but they were on holiday.

The repair shop contained 10 ca- booses and 20 boxcars. Other mo- bile equipment on nearby tracks was moved by engine.

The building was about two storeys high with brick sides and n gable roof. The walls collapsed about an hour after the fire broke

roofs of

I TRANSIT HEAD S

PEAKS

Would Have Motorists Pay

QUEBEC rCPl - The Canadian Transit Association was told Mon- day that motorists should bear a more realistic share of the cost of expressways. highways and street- widening.

Addressing the assoclatlosra an- naul meeting, President Stuart E. Preston of Kitch r.Ot.n.udi nee preston of Kitchener. Ont, said.

T every transit sytem in Canada has

fore ' pal authorities begh: to realize the true value of transit."

Mr. Preston said if cities are to remain desirable places in which i to live "a way to move people swiftly and economically must be found soon." He urged recognition of transit as the indlspenslble partner" of the city.

"Every citizen benefits from public transit whether he uses it

traffic congestion. Otherwise the rising tide of automobiles would inundate central business districts. There would be a better chance now to forestall trends "which in my country have catered largely to the private automobile.”

Only now. after a decade cf cru- sading in the U.S.. urban trans- portation "is beginning to emerge from the isolation ward of muni-

embarked on expensive modernism or not." he said. It was not un- plpal planning" ma them Is g lion to make service -'pt'cdier.,reasonable to expect that transit growing axvarenggg gym win, "my.

more comfortable and more con- should relieve physical assistance 4",; people, not vehhgju,

vcnlcnt. Text of his remarks was issued

wt their playfto the press in advance.

Transit modernization has consti-

ndlc Hall, Wednesday, May '3. tued the most effective single con-lthan 150 Canadian civic and transit

trlbutlon to traffic improvement in. city, said Mr. Preston. butl

AI'P99lll"1i'fl-llllf 0' "'9 Pi 5' 1- Eingiorlsls have benefited moral he: than transit passengers. '

The association president. who

Orliflclllillre l”'"d' also is general manager of the Kitchener Public Utilities Ct:mInb- the

clan. said investments in modern- atinn have failed to pay off This

hc col,:tCluOTI makes irnprov ser- vice v

transit companies are in

''It is unfortunate

"this ltlfegl

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If . Thoma P urged Canadians to

such as parking prohibitions andl

exclusive lanes. as well as finan-

cial asslstance from public funds. Monday's meeting, with Il10fQ'

leaders in attendance. heard also

a declaration from an American

authority that traffic jam: "are

so rpot of central city dlsimegra-I on.'

Roswell F. Thoma. president of American Transit Association and also of the Buffalo. N.Y., transit sytem. blamed traffic jams for "undermining and enfeebllng the entire community." They cause

ghdisruption of the whole muni- INCIIAII imroars ' gal

that counts."

"Most of our municipalities are not treating the automobile driver and the transit passenger on an equal basis." said Mr. Thoma. "We make one kind of citizen out of the motorist and a less consid- ered kind out of the iransll. rider.

"Against transit passengers. who ask no street-widening. no express- way constniction and no costly downtown psrldn facilities. muni- cipalities genera ly levy special taxes. c

"For the motorist, who exerts" uallylmihssible and many "diffusion of major tax sources increasing pressure for all lheggi

so-called improvements and whose increasing demand for more and more street space has slowed traf- fic to a crawl, the city and the- prosdueo spas .dlMua uses."

-1 III-I150 0022! patrol ship C. G. 8. "C730!" lauiuisrsls

n CNR asp

out.

Heavy clouds of smoke drifted over the city. Thousands of per- sons flocked to the area.

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INCREASE FORCES. KUALA LUMPUR IAP) - Chief 1-:250.000.000 loan to be raised in

Britain will be used to build up" Malaya's armed forces. He said

Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd said Monday night Britain must re- tain certain "positions of strength at any cost. He singled out Cyprus. Aden and Singapore as places where Britain could not afford to give ground.

Lloyd. in his first public engage- ment since a recent illness. told a political meeting:

"We are an island dependent on our overseas trade and our over- seas interests . . . to maintain our economy.

"We have Iar-flung lines of com- munication. and it is essential that we should retain certain positions of strength at whatever cost

''It would be a breach of faith with the rising generation ior us to cast away those overseas pos- sessions which are vital to our strategic interests." '

CYPRUS VITAL I

-Cyprus;-in-rnrticular. "is vifaito us to enable us to carry out re- sponsibilities to NATO and also to enable us to maintain our position in the Middle East and to hono! our great obligations there."

On relations with the Communist world. Lloyd said he believes the likelihood of an attack on the West by Russia is diminishing despite the fact Russia still retains ”about 20 divisions" in Eastern Germany.

"The Russian steamroller of to- day is not likely to be a military one.” he added.

rethinking of NATO's political o anization to meet the new situa- tion.

EXPORT COMMUNISM

Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman said Monday one g fourth of t'x:he foreign secretary hallcd for

the federation economic planning council has drawn up a five-year. development plan on which the! bulk of the loan will be spent.

The Russian emphasis now. he said. is on developing a great force of technicians. technologists, teach-

ers. business and other experts "all I intended to export communism at the same time that they exportl their goods and services."

The secretary welcomed Rus- siais announcement that she will cut her armed forces by 1.200.000 men but he said he wished it were taking place under international agreements and subject to inspec- tion so ”one would really know if the advertised reductions are in fact carried out.”

He said that Britain herself was cutting her forces by 170.000 meal to 700,000 in 1958 and added thatl

Russia will retain 2.500.000 to 3,- 000,000 men under arms even after her latest reduction.

The Russian shift In emphasis away from military competition does not remove all dangers. Lloyd continued.

"This is a conflict, call it com- petitive coexistence or who? am will. which is infinitely to be pre- ferred to nuclear war." he said. "But it is a conflict which might have most dangerous consequences for our free institutions and those of other free countries of the world.

Cypriot Rebels

Toss Bombs

From Shelter Of Rioting Girls

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP)-Cypriot rebels hiding among rioting school- girls tossed bombs at British troops trvinspto restore-erdertin nicest. Monday. killing one Briton and wounding three others.

Bomb splinters injured seven Greek Cypriot civilians seeking shelter in nearby shops and two P .. .