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Major Ian Callum MacLeod- Sydney, who adjudicated the Highland dancing and bagpipe playing at the P. E. 1. Music Festival. chats informally with Miss Dorothy Walker, Halifax, adjudicator of folk dancing and square dancing.

—Barter Film Lab.

BAGPIPES AND DANCING FEATURED AT MUSIC FESTIVAL ON SATURDAY

Major Ian Callum MacLeod, ad- iudiciitor of the Highland dancing and bag pipe music at the 9th P. E. 1. Festival of Music bad words of high praise for the performances he listened to and watched during Friday and Saturday at P. W. C. hlII. I-le wu-miy congratulated the mchers on their ciforst in bring- lng the contestants to such -a

Coming Events

"Dance. Moi-ell Hall’

‘tonight. Modern. oidtimc. Bums’ Orchestra. P at t y. Dunstaffnags

"Card school tonight.

"1ug~iila.r Dance. Bonshaw Inn} Tuesday night.

"Special meeting Vernon Leg- ion members, Legion Hall, Mt. Albion tonight. Special speakers.

“Crushing grain Mondays and Thursdays. J. Dan MacLeod, Glas- gnw Road.

"See St. Teresa's players pre- sent. 3 act comedy in Morell Hall, Wednesday, May lith. Dance after.

"seeds! store open daily. also Monday and Thursday evenings until 9 p. m. Arthur Veoey.

"Glen valley W. I. present their variety concert in Hariaville I-l "meedsy, May 4th 3 p. in. sale of candy.

“Concert and Dance in Cove-

head community Hall. Monday night. May 3rd. Proceeds in aid of hall.

"Kinkors hall, see Wellington Players present their three-act comedy in Kinkora hall, Wednes- .-i.1.v. May 5th.

"Dance, Fort Augustus Hall, Wednesday. Burke's Orchest -. Bus leaving I. M. T. for dance at D it .

"Hugh Spinney and the H-Ranch Boys Entertainment and Dance. Crapaud Hall. Wednesday, May 6th. 0.130 p. in. Auspices Women's Insti-

ute.

"Seeing is beieving. Come in the Oovchesd Variety concert, at Sinn- Ey Bridge, Friday. May 1th, 5.30 n. bin. sponsored by Sterling Insti- iu .

"See Souris Payers present their three act comedy. "Beacon Hill BIIIY" in Cardigan Hall, Wednes- fily night. May 5th. Curtain 8.30. Specialties. Dance after.

"In Emerald hail. Monday, May 3 the Indian River Dramatic Club presents their 3-act drama. "Tempest and Sunshine". Good specialties.

“The gencral meeting of the Cavendish Cemetery will be held in Cavendish Church, Monday eve- "ifll. May 3rd. 8:30 pm. All plot lmlders please attend.

“Basil Holm will haul cream fiver his usual route. Starting Sat- Urdnv. May nth. once a week until fjurther notice. crapaud Creamery

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"Our places of business will re- main open, on 'me.idny, Thursday Ind Saturday nights of each week. “nil close Wednesday afternoons "-‘mmnnciiig May 4th. Weddell “P08. Parker Cenneld and Crspsud Barber shop, crspaud.

“Dan J. Campbell. his sons and daughters. noted violinists and pianists of lnvcmeas 00.. CIPE Breton. ivui play in St. Peter's Leg- IP“ HI". Thursday evening. MI?

high degree of efficiency.

The sdiudicator was impressed with the neat and colorful cos. tumes worn by the children. In referring to the dancing. he said "the style. poise and techinque is oi a very high quality."

one Gaelic song was the only entry in this class of competition. The entrant was eight year old Thomas Burbs oi.’ Spring Park.

Major Msaneq disappointment that there was only 1. single entry. described the i ' diction as almost flawless. ' speaking of the bagplpe plgylflf, [or Mactaod observed .that e and tune were good and in at cases there was excellent exe- " and time. He cautioned the parents of prospective pipers not to become impatient with a child's progress. and reminded them that

good piper is seven years and a piper can improve his playing for many years after that.

Mr. W .R. Shaw. the platform chairman, called attention to the fact that it was mainly through the efforts of the Caledonia Club that Highland dancing and pip- ing were introduced on the pro-

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May Day Peace Cl

By ALVIN STEINKOPF

LONDON (AP) — Military dis- plays and parades marked obser- vation of May Day in many Com- munist countries Saturday but orat- ors insisted that peace was the highest aim.

There were rival demonstrations by Communists and their foes in other lands. But no serious out- bursts ot violence occurred on the day officially proclaimed as a workers‘ holiday by an interna- tional socialist congress in 1889. In Moscow, the Russians un- veiled for the first time a huge four - engine sweptback wing bomber apparently capable of car- rying the biggest of bombs. It was part of a military display in Red Square.

Marshal Nikolai Bulganin. de- fence minister and orator of the day, avoided hostile mention of any western country. Bulgsnln empha- sized the government‘: aim to raise Soviet living standards.

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SEAT FOR CHINA;

COLOMBO. Ceylon. (Reuters)- 'rhe prime ministers of India, Pak- istan. Indonesia. Burma. and Cey. ion call for the admission of Com- munist Obins to the United Na- lions and ~iminedis.te negotiations for s. cease-fire in Indo-Ohins among the “parties directly con- cerned" in the war.

Their appeal was issued in a statement given out Sunday after they had extended their flveday "mmvuiil Droblema" conference here for two days in an effort to reach agreement on proposals to settle the Indo-China war and communism in Asia.

One of the main points of con- IFOVCFBY during the two-day ex. tension we reported to be In. men Prime Minister Nchru's plea for the United States and other his powers to stay out of the Ir.do-China war between French Union forces and Communlgmed Vietlnlnh rwels,

Sunday's declaration called for direct negotiations by France, the three associated states of Indo. china-Viet Nam, Laos and Cam. bodia—tho Vietmlnh rebels and Dari-lea invitcd by ureement. It iilso_csiled on 1"ran.ce to declare at the current Geneva. In; E“; conference that she is irrevocably committed to mdependmw :0,

Warm Weather Comes To Prairies

EDMONTON ice» —. It was sprmsflmhe in the Rockies. and across e western raii-leg 51,111,. day—ai last. ‘I ‘

1"_AIb91'I-I. the sun. shone from

less’ skies and Easter bonnets were given a two-week- Ili3,l,ii‘i|1_I. Temperatures reach the V in most places.‘ Saskatc e- wan had it cloudier with tempera- tures in the 35-40 above range.

The» weatherman forecast that more-seasonal weather is on its way back to the western prairies after a 11-day cold spell that saw temperatures 30 to 35 degrees be- low normal and resulted in April matching the 1948 record for the coldest April in history.

The maximum at Edmonton Sun- day was still 15 degrees below normal for this time of year. touching a high of 45. Southern Alberta experienced weather 20 de- grees below normal but in the north it was warm.

aims Made Against

Milliary Background; No Violence

In divided Berlin thousands at- tended ‘emonst atluiis. in East Berlin Communist o r a t o r s de- manded the scrapping of the Eur- opean Defence Community. In West Berlin there were appeals for Ger- man unity and freedom. The sect- ors bombarded each other with propaganda leaflets delivered by rockets and little balloons. There was no serious rioting.

Approximately 400.000 Japanese

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Drowning ‘Fatality Near Halifax Sunday

HALIFAX. (CP)—~ Arthur \Vil- liam Deal. 22, of suburban Prince's Lodge, drowned Sunday at nearby Kearney lake. It is be- lieved he slipped and struck his head on some rocks while fish-

ing. RCMP said there will he a .ma'gisteriai inquiry in the near

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ASIAN PRIME MINISTERS ASK U. N.

END OF CONFLICT

Indo-Chins.‘ CONFEII AT KANDY

' The statement was issued after ..he prime rn'inisters—Nchr.u, Mo- hamed Ali oi Pakistan. All Sastro- i'ilIlidJ0,I0 of Indonesia, U Nu of Burma and Sir John Kotclawala of (Continued on Page 2 col. 1;

Urge N. S. Farmers Sludy Problem Of Marketing

TRURO (CP) -—- Nova Scotia farmers Saturday were urged to give more serious study to the problem of marketing. especially to the marketing of livestock, at a meeting of the Nova Scotia Fed- eration of Agriculture here.

R. J. Macsween. director of marketing services for the provin- cial department of agriculture, said some progress had been made in the co-operative marketing of dairy products. but farmers have lost and will continue to lose money until livestock is marketed co-operaiively.

If drovers hope to survive the struggle which is going on in the trading world they will have to "put some measure of order and control into the marketing of their cattle than they have in the past," he said.

Miss Marjorie Nicholson, rotary of the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick farm forums. told -the delegates to keep in mlnd.i.he idea of forming farm forum groups in their districts this fall.

The-federatinnpaiif special trib- ute to the late premier Angus L. Macdonald of Nova Scotin, by ob- serving a minute's silence.

Dies Suddenly Fighting Fire

HALIFAX iCP>——Scorcs of fire- fighters were airlifted during the weekend into remote areas of Nova Scotia where fires have blackened 1.400 acres of woodland and brought the threat of a forest travcl ban.

William E. Boston. 62. collapsed and died of exertion while helping to atom a bush fire near Halifax.

Winds fanned outbreaks near Sheet harbor, Porter’: lake and Hubbard‘: point in Yarmouih county ‘into dangerous proportions.

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Others already were creeping through forests in Cumberland. l-Innis, Colchcstcr and Halifax

counties and in Cape Breton.

Provincial forester R. H. Bur- gess said. "We haven't had a weekend like this in years."

Woods the length of Nova Scntia were dry as tinder because there have been no heavy spring rains.

Mr. Burgess blamed most of tha- ouibreaks on the careless handling of grass fires.

Two Burned_I-I-e.FEiing Horses From Born

ST. STEPHEN. N. B. (CP)—— Two men suffered burns in herd- ing I3 horses to safety when fire swept n section of stalls at the St. Stephen race track Saturday night. A pacer owned by liazen Ashley, St. Stephen, was lost.

Billy Carr. Saint John, and Cran- villa McCurdy, St. Stephen. were released from hospital after re- ceiving ti-r-aiment. Damage was

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estimated at $1.500.

MONDAY, MAY 8, 1954

of Dien Bien Phu and seized

fortress.

tries’ command post.

Reports from the battlefront said

the insurgents had advanced more than l60 yards in their attack and that fierce fighting is blazing all around the perimeter. The French high command said the garrison was still standing firm when the desperate fighting cased up Sunday morning. A spokesman said the French losses were “heavy," the Vletminh losses “extremely heavy."

EVE OF TALKS

The rebel offensive was laiinched Saturday night, on the eve of Indo- China peace talks in Geneva. It coincided with a thunderstorm which grounded French planes in the area, but the rain stopped Sun- day morning and French fighters immediately went into action against the attackers.

Under cover of a blistering artil- lery and mortar barrage. the screaming rebels charged against the barbed wire defences. sweep- ing down on the ll.0O0 defenders from east. north and west. They seized two strongpoinis in the east and another in the west after 5% hours of lighting, despite terrible punishment.

They also captured two other strnngpoints. but de Castrics ral- lied lils men and drove out the rebels with savage cnuntcr-at- tacks.

THREATEN LIFE-LINE

_The rebels were reported to have hurled their full force aim‘- ultaneously against six of the score of strongpolnts making up the whole of the northern Indo- China fortress‘ defence system. The Communists also made a new attempt Saturday night to cut

fiscues Baby From Burning Home

ANTIGONISH, N. S. (C?) Crawling on nnnds and knees into her bv.irii‘.ng home_ Mrs. John A. Doiic. .l:'., of Brierly Brook, near here, successfully rescued her 18-month-old son, Vaughan. as fire gutted her home Saturday.

Both mother and child were rushed to hospital where Mrs. Doyle was treated for burns and released. The boy is still in hos- pltal but his condition is not believed serious.

Inquest In Sydney Murder Adjourned

SYDNEY (CP)——The lnquestlnio ihe death of Mrs. Florence Brid- get Tavern, 27. scheduled for Mon- day, has been postponed until May 12 at the request of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police-.

The RCMP are investigating the death of Mrs. Tavern, whose body was found floating in a brook on the city's outskirts April 18.

Tavern Owner Put On Spot By Bunk

NORWICH. England. (Reuters)- A Norwich tavern owner has hur- riedly taken down a behind-the- bar sign readings: "When banks serve drinks. I will cash cheques."

A newly-opened branch bank Dut him on the spot by giving a cock- tail party on its premises for town officials.

By JOHN M. IIIGIITOWER

WASHINGTON (AP) — Admin- istration officials virtually -ruled out Sunday any direct U. S. inter- vention in the lndo-China war un- less Britain agrees to join a coali- tion to protect southeast Asia against C ilst conquest. State Secretary Dulles is due back from the Geneva conference Tuesday night for talks with Pres- ident Eisenhower and congressio- nal lcadcrs which undoubtedly will add up to a new look at U. S. policy inward lndo-China in the light nf events unforeseen two weeks or so ago.

Probably the most significant of these was a decision by the British government against Joining an American - sponsored soutiieast Asia defence agreement at least until after Indo-China negoiidtions

fin. can o'('cck. Admission we and --it Sponsored by Legion members

with the Communists at Geneva.

front on the lndo-China issue. Eisenhower and Dulles

front the first objective of their

APPARENT CIIANGE

By John lalerick

BAIOON. (AP) President Binn- hower'a staianent that the most that can be expected is a practical way of_gatting along with the Communists in fndo-china is in- terpreted here as an abrupt change

Authorities tiara privately concede

in United states policy. The IIIIIIIIWI I’, ‘ last

I U. 5. To Keep Oul: OF Indo- China

thgt 1);; project now is ghelved, ported determined HOLVIO TOE the for the time being at least. This United States become involved in represent; 3 dean for Dulles’ another Asian conflict in which it hope of quickly forming a united would carry the main burden. as

in Korea. From their point of view.

hum, therefore. Brl tish co-operation made the for-rnstlim of a united would be essential.

The New York Herald Tribune

Indochina program: they are re- reported Sunday._ in ii copyright

OFFICIALS AT SAIGON ‘SURPRISED AT

IN U. S. POLICY

Thursday has occasioned consid- erable surprise in official and un- official circles.

Coming on the heels of i-eporis of possible U. S. naval-air inter- vention in the battle of Dlen Bien Phu. vlct Namese and French leaders here say they are left in a

story by Joseph and Stewart Alsop. that the administration came close last week to asking Congress to approve American intervention in lndo-China. The resolution was drafted, the story said, and shown in French ambassador Henri Bon- net. But then the British turned dowh the"‘iiniied action“ proposal at an emergency cabinet meeting last Sunday.

Official American the question of a compromise settlement. especied to be pro- posed by the Reds at Geneva. is publicly unclear. Administration authorities have until last week taken the line that any conceivable compromise would mean the loss of most or all of lndo-China in the Communists sooner or later; yet on Thursday President Eisen- hower sald that what is needed is some formula for 1 practical way of getting along with the Commu-

ihinking on

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nists in southeast Asia.

(By Corley Smith) HANOI. Indo-China, (Reuters)—Foriy thousand Viet- minh rebels flung themselves on the battle-weary defenders.‘

their third all-out attack against the surrounded French They also drove a dangerous breach

strongpoint after eight hours of and churned to within 600 yards of Gen. Christian de Cas-

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Assault On French Fortress

three strongpolnts Sunday in.

into a fourth

"human sea" assaulis,|

the main French life-linc between the port nf Haiphong and Hanoi In coincide with the assault. Most of the supplies Dal'£lCIlLlI.Cd to the gar- rison are brought to Hanoi by rail and road from the coast.

Rebels cut the road at many points and laid mines. The French however, thwarted an attempt to blow up a bridge over the Song Van Uc river, about 40 miles east of Hanoi, by a truck driver carry- ing a cargo of explosives.

Winners In

of age. Shown with their pipe are left to right,

its. 1:. . Folk dancing and square dancing had a prominent

part in the first two days of the 9th I‘. E. 1. Music Festival. Pictured above are four squarn dancing groups from the

Sirang, Roger Worth.

llson MacEachei‘n. Sixth row,

Wendell MacLean, Dianne

Brian Wilkins.

Nancy Myers, Charlottetown. Dianne MacMillan, Cornwall, Heather town, Rhonda Myers, Charlottetown.

Dancing Has Prominent Place

Y.M.C.A. They are first row, left to right. Donald, Alan Bowncss- Ginny Vessey, Stephen Harper. Sec- ond row, Palsy MacDonald, Stanley MacPhcrson. Third row, Buniain, Norma Duvar, Dewar llnrpcr. Fourth row. Anne Phillips, Scott Rogers, Pauline Johnston, David Seller. Fifth row. Brenda MacKay. David Mills. Marlene

IRUSSIA. FRANCE AGREE 0N WHO WILL

ATTEND INDO-CHINA PEACE TALKS

By ALAN HARVEY GENEVA ICPI/The Soviet Un-

3 Kiiied"iFNTa."

During Week-enc

SAINT .lOHN_ N. B. (CF) -— Thi-cc Iiersons died in separate iicck-end nccidenls in New Bl'Lll'lSiliiCI(. The victims were Vernon Hublcy, 42. hit by a car five miles from Woodstock; George RICI’l'ul’dS0ll, Jr., 36, struck by a board in a plan- ning niiil at South Nelson, and Claude Mallet, 1'1, of Shippe- gan. passenger in a truck which overturned at a level

crossing nea I‘ Ch rnquet.

Group B

The Glen Garry dancers were the winners. in group "B" of the Highland dancing for children under nine years

r Mr. Bruce MacLaren. they Miriam Orford, Charlotte-

—Barier's Film Lab.

Marylin Mac-

Roberta

Janet Corry. Derek

Gregory. Al-

Gail Mustard. Robin Clay,

Ginny Mustard. Roy Mills. Seveniii row, Wendy Annstrong,

MacNclll, Preston Wotton.

Eighth row. Patsy Shaw, Peter Macl\'uii, Donna Cudmore,

-—Burier's Film Lab. V

‘the three lndo-China states and the Vietminh rebel regime will attend

inn and France agreed Sunday that Indn-China P9303 I-alkfi. CXPECWCI I“ the Big Four, Communist China."

begin here this week.

Agreement was reached at n. Imeeting attended by Jean Chauvel. a member of the French delegation. and Andrei Gromyko, Soviet dep- uty foreign minister. Chauvel was representing the Wesiernfilg Three’ They decided that the Western powers. Britain. France and the United States. would invite Vie! Nam, Cambodia and Laos, the three associated states of Indo- China, and that the Communist side would invite the Vietminh to send a delegation.

French sources said there would be further contacts between the Russians the West to decide the opening dates of talks aimed at bringing peace to Indo-China where the Communist - backed Vietmlnh have been fighting French Union forces for seven years. ‘

Another private meeting Sunday (Continued on Page 15 col. 1)

News in Brief

ATHENS (AP)—The Greek gov- ernment snnounced Sunday the situation is "well in hand" after earthquakes which shattered a large area of central Greece Fri- day.

OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla. (OP)- Tornsdoes battered 25 Oklahoma communities Saturday, killing thrc: persons, injuring 63 and luv.“ property damage in the thou" of dollars.

VATICAN CITY. ‘AI’ lands of school childrrn :,;: Pope a thunderous ovation day at his first general nu since he became ill more . three months ago. His face i pale but his manner was (‘oni- paratlvely energetic and hIs‘voi':e strong; his whole appearanc'a'ln- dlcatad notable recovery.

Bmeens ARE:

NO? NECESSARILY ' CUT UPS ,’ Q

TORONTO anur

iCP)—Mlnimum maximum temperatures:

Dawson .. Vancouver Victoria Edmonton Calgary Regina Winnipeg . Toronto Ottawa . Montreal ..

Sydney .. Yarmouth St. John's .'.

HALIFAX rCP)—The weather office here says a weak distur- bance centred near Montreal is causing cloudy skies and widely scattered showers in the western regions. while moist air off the Atlantic is causing cloudy skies in the eastern regions. The weather systems are moving very slowly, and not much change is expected during Monday.

Regional forecasts:

Prince Edward Island: Cloudy with little change in temperature: light winds: low-high at Charlotte- town 30 and 45.

St. John river valleys. Bay nl Chaleur: Cloudy with widely scat- tered showers; not much change in temperature: light winds. Low- high at Fredericton 40 and on, Saint John. Edmundsion and Campbellton 35 and 55.

Eastern N.B. counties: Cloudy. I few showers by evening; not much change in temperature: light ‘ands. Low-high at Moncion 35 and