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OTTAWA--Prince Bernhard, of the Netherlands talks to Govern- or-General Vincent Massey. an ar- rival at Uplands airport. The
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Departs em. Ottawa
PINCE AND GOVE-RNO-R-G-EEAL CHAT
prince will be the guest of Mr. Massey at Government House un- til his departure Monday. On his nine-day visit to Canada he will
Londoners Walk As Buses Idle’
LONDON (CP)— Londoners walked to work in the rain Mon-
to work on time. I One man wobbled through the
day or pushed their wsy,_ into streets on a 19th-century bicycle
already - crowded -1I!1!£IQ1‘$;' , d ,t1;ains as 50,000 barman . «-‘ion strike for higher wages.
The strike appeared to be 100- per-cen-t effective. Not a single
bus was operating in the 2,000-; square-mile area served by Lon-,
—lbig front wheel, tiny rear one.
Others put on skimpy track
shorts and shirts and dog-trotted
to ‘their offices.
BEAR BRUNT . Underground an cl suburban
‘train services bore the brunt of
don Transport —- something that ’ the rush-hour traffic. fia-il offi-
did-n’t happen even during the cials
blitz.
said some passengers started queuing at underground
But despite the aibsenceof the stations about 5:30 a.m. to be cer- familiar red double-deckers, most tain of reaching their places of Londoners appeared to be getting work.
NATO Foreign Ministers Plan Own ”Summit” Propaganda
. COPENHAGEN (C-P) —- NATO foreign ministers Monday night organized their own diplomatic of- fensive, for a summit conference.
The ministers of the 15 North Atlantic treaty power-s—con£ident now in their own ability to keep in step——heard British Foreign Secretary Lloyd expound the view that the Russians are losing their enthusiasm for a top-level meet- ing.
Lloyd suggested the world pub- lic is beginning to see through Soviet diplomatic ruses.
In a confident mood. the NATO ministers made it clear they in- tend to keep the Russians on the defensive by workin hard for summit talks — the kind that would have real. meaning.
Underlining this, West Ger- many’s Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano said his government would insist that any summit con- ference discus-s German reunifica- tion-—the most elusive topic of all in world diplomacy.
Informants said U.S. State Sec- retary Dulles told his Atlantic alliance colleagues that on the road to the summit they must avoid giving any political advan- tage to the Russians which would more than offset anything the
OTTAWA (CP) — Higher beef. Vegetable and fruit prices impel- led the consumer price index to its biggest monthly rise in almost two years during March.
The yardstick of living costs, based on 1949 prices equalling 100. jumped nine-tenths of a point to a record 125.2 at the beginning if April from 124.3 a month ear-
er.
The food items were the biggest contributors to this fourth con- Secutive monthly rise along with health care items, although there also were fractional increases in costs of shelter, clothing and household operations.
WAGE INDEX RISES
The index of a\'crage wages and salaries at Feb. l—latest fig- ‘lfe available-rose to 161.1 from 134.4 at Jan. 1, based on 1949 lev- °I_5 equalling 100. This compared ‘W: 155.3 at May 1, 1957.
Westerners were likely to gain from the talks themselves.
The United States, Britain and France refused in notes delivered Saturday to grant parity at the preparatory talks now going on in Moscow. Instead theyagreed re- luctantly to hold sepa:r-ate talks with Russian officials. The Rus- sians had suggested the inclusion of the Polish and Czech ambas- sadors.
Zoo Operator Is Arrested
NANAIMO, B. C. (CP)——R'CMP said zoo operator Pa.ul Hertel was arrested Monday night and charged with criminal negligence in the death Saturday of eight- year-old Maureen Vanstone who was attacked by a lion which had escaped from Hertel’s Zoo.
The arrest came 20 minutes be- fore an inquest into the little girl’s death was to opeh here.
The 350-pound‘ lioness leaped onto Maureen on a lonely road, close to her home and to the Hertel Zoo on the outskirts of Na- naimo. The beast escaped the
r Mntardian
“Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew”
WEATHER
Mainly clear; little change in tempera- ture; light winds. Low-high at Charlotte-
town 27 and 45.
also visit Toronto, Gimli, Man., and ‘Vancouver. " (CP. WirePhoto)
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MR. CHEVERIE
Leaving Today ' For Convention
Mr. George W. Cheverie, vice- president of the P. E. Island Credit Union League, is leaving Charlottetown this morning- for Madison, Wis, where he will at- tend the biennial convention of the Credit Union National Asso- ciation and CUNA Mutual In- surance Society, May 10th and 11th. . »
Mr. Cheverie, who is employed in the local office of the Unem- ployment Insurance Commission, and is treasurer of the Federal Employee’s Credit. Union, will attend these meetings as a Na- tional director, representing all Credit Union people in Prince Edward Island. ‘
gates from all 0 v e r North America and the purpose of for- are expected at the meetings, called for the purpose of for- mulating policies for the guid- ance of top management in the credit union movement.
Also in attendance at the con- vention will be Mr. Leo B. Doiron, managing director of the P. E. 1. Credit Union League; Mr. Doiron left for Madison last week in order to attend a meet- ing of the National Association of Managing Directors, being held prior to the main conven-
previous evening.
The index represents a quant- itative average Of t0t%_11 Wages paid and covers most firms em- ploying more than 15 persons.
Under the impact of. poor crop conditions in the United States and heavy BXPOFIS °f 9333413“ livestock, Canadian retail prices for fresh fruits, vegetables and beef climbed steeply pus1u_ns the food subindex up 2.1 P01I1l35 to 123.4 from 1213.
Increasing costs of health care were reflected in the subindex for othencommodities and services which rose to 1301 from 129.6. This figure also includes such items as bus fares, electricity rates and amusements.
RENTS UNCHANGED
Among the other three subin- dexes .— shelter, clothing a.nd household operation ~ home own- ership costs advanced to P9511 the shelter c-onrpm“-‘N “P ha“ “
tion.
point to 137.6 from 137.1. Rents were unchanged, the bureau said.
Price rises in spring -clothing lines again were reflected in the clothing subindex which rose to 109.8_ from 109.5. The previous month this was the chief factor in the rise from 108.8 at the start of February.
An advance in prices for fur- niture and appliances, partic- ularly vacuum cleaners, and floor coverings more than offset a price ‘decline in gas ranges to push up the household operation subindex to 121.3 from 121.1...
Not for almost two yearh has the consumer price index taken so great a jump. All last year there were steady monthly rises
November and December when
But in the May-June period of 1956 the last previous big in-
‘ egram, New York J~ournal-Amer-
More,than two thousand dele-‘
with the exceptions only of last,
there were fractional declines.'
CHARLOTTETOWN CANADA, TUESDAY, ‘MAY 6, 1953
Princess Anne
Has Operation
LONDON (Reuters) The Queen and Prince Philip drove to a Imndon hospital Monday night to see Princess. Anne, whose ton-, sils and adenoids were removed earlier in the day.
The seven - year - old princess was reported in “very satisfac- tory" condition, with a normal temperature. She will remain in hospital about a week on a diet of jelly and ice cream.
Some US. Papers Use But Others Ignore Report!
WASHINGTON (CP)——Several big city newspapers in the east- ern,United States Monday gave reasonably good play to the re- port by two congressmen who said they found in Canada a ris- ing tide of resentment against the United S-tates. '
Six of 15 newspapers available for checking cafiied news stories based on the report Congress- men Brooks Hays (Dem. Ark.) and Frank Coffin (Dem. Me.) made during the weekend to the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee as a result of two study visits to Canada.
Eight gave the report no men- tion. One-—the Washington Eve- ning Star—published no story but did carry an editorial based on the report.
The stories used ran about 400 words apiece, which can be de- scribed as good coverage consid- ering the general preoccupation of American newspapers with domestic political affairs and their space limitations.
15 PAPERS CHECKED
Among the 15 papers checked, stories appeared in the New York Times, New York Herald Trib- une, New York Daily "News, Washington Post and Time Her- ald, Richmond Times - Dispatch and Baltimore Sun.
The Wall Street Journal, which usuallzrkeeps an eye on congres- sional reports, ignored this one. So did the Washington News, Philadelphia I n q u irer, Chicago Tribune, New York World - Tel-
ican, New York Post and New York Mirror.
The story hit the front page in only one of the papers checked-— the New York Herald Tribune.
V BUFFALO RESERVE
Elk Island National Park in Al- berta has one of the finest«re-
ma-ining buffalo herd-s in North America.
NOT MORE THAN
FIVE CENTS
Expect Firemen's Union To
Be Told Strike Will
Police Nab Suspect And Two Millions In Bank Loot
BROCKVILLE, Ont. (CP)—The second largest bank robbery in Canadian history took place at Brockville Saturday night when thieves forced the vault of the Brockville Trust and Savings Company and took more than $2,- 240,000.
Most of the loot flvas believed recovered in Montreal Monday when police said the arrest of a suspect led to__a luggage locker and a money-filled kit bag and suitcase.
The robbery was discovered Sunday on a routine check of the bank.
Tracing a bank book found in debris from cracking the main vault, Brockville police Sgt. Les Sterritt reported the arrest of Rene Martin, 31, of Montreal. He said a key found in Martin’-s car led to the kit bag and suitcase in a locker at CNR’s central station at Montreal.
Gordon McDonnell, a securities officer with the Brockville Trust and Savings Company, left this afternoon by car with Sergeant Jack Wylie of Brockville police for Montreal. Mr. McDonnell will check the contents.
Police said at least three per- sons, one a woman, cracked the vault. They made off with $2,225,- 000 in bearer bonds, $15,000 in cheques and an as "yet undeter- mined amount in non-negotiable registered, securities. The com- pany is a branch of the Mont- real Trust Company. Officials said the loss is insured.
1ST ROBBERY IN TOWN
It was the first -bank or trust company robbery in this town of 15,456 on the St. Lawrence River, about 125 miles west of Montreal. The known amount ranks the robbery second among Canad-a"s three million-dollar thefts, all within the last year and a half.
The operation was similar to a theft in Montreal last Jan. 29,
If all goes well, the new Wood Island - Caribou ferry “Lord Selkir ” should be able to com- mence its ‘regular trans-Strait crossings Thursday.
Local officials of the Dominion Department of Public Works said last night that the D.P.W. dredge Number 12 was due to arrive at Wood Islands today, and is scheduled to begin dredging?
evening.
This deposit, several feet in depth, drifted in during the win- ter, and presented sufficient haz- ard to keep the new ferry off the route this season.
Selkirk May Go On Run Thursday
Provided that the dredge’s “standing gear” which must be unshipped during a towing op- eration can be re-erected in time, and the government tug “Canso” arrives from New Brunswick with the large pontoons necessary to. support the dredge’s big suction’ pipe, the operation will commence his evening and continue all light.
when $1,789,400 in negitable bonds was taken from La Societe Nationale de Fiducie, a trust company. _
A little more than a year ear- lier between $4,000,000 and $8,- 000,000 wa.s taken from 132 safety _deposit boxes in a Montreal bank.
Brockville police chief W. F. Young gave the following de- scription of the robbery:
The thieves entered the build- ing by cutting a hole in the ceil- ing from an office above the trust, company. They brought a heavy steel ladder from the boiler room up to the second floor, then out a hole through a two-foot brick wall in the side of the ’vault. Acetylene equipment was used to slice through the
WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul M. Butler, Democratic national chair-man’, sa.id Monday night there are indications’ President Eisenhower now feels the bur- dens of office are too great for him to serve out his second term.
Butler predicted Eisenhower might resign in advance of the Republican presidential hominat- lng convention in 1960.
In-formed of the Democratic leader's statement and asked for comment, Mrs. Anne Wheaten,
Says Eisenhower ° May Step Down
,steel wall of the vault. The job Itook at least five hours. LEAVE EQUIPMENT
The thieves left behind all their equipment, worth several hun- dred dollars. Sifting it through, police found a Montreal bank book and in it a sales slip from a used car lot in Montreal.
Before leaving, the thieves cleaned up in the office above the bank of real estate agent Allan Fairbairn. They left behind a $100 man’s watch with a cracked crystal, a man’s raincoat and a woman’s scarf.
THE LATE MR. AULD Dies In His
Sgt. Sterritt went to Montreal and with Montreal police arrested] one suspect after a car chase. They said only that they recov-. ered “a tremendous amount.”
secretary. said:
“The White House has no com- ment. Mr. Butler speaks for him- self and no one else.”
The Democratic chairman ex- pressed his views in a radio in- terview program. '
Butler then was asked whether he was talking albout a voluntary stepdown by Eisenhower.
“Yes,” he replied, “under such circumstances as to indicate, of course, that he feels physically unable to continue to discharge the responsibilities and duties of
the president’s associate press
The Gov. Gen.
While certain last minute de- tails have still to be worked out regarding the visit of His Excell- ency, Governor General Vincent Massey to Prince Edward Island on May 14,15,16, it has been learn- ed that Mr. Massey,will arrive at Charlottetown by a Destroyer; of the Royhl Canadian Navy and will be met at the Railway Wharf by’ a guard of honor drawn from 10- cal militia groups. The following day ‘the Vice Re- gal party will proceed to.Sum- merside which will experience its first official visit from the Can- adian Governor General. It is understood . that His Excellency will make brief stops in a num- ber of communities enroute to Summerside.
On his return to Charlottetown
Two night’s’ work should be suf- I eral officials stated, adding that.‘ out during daylight hours so as;
not to interfere with the opera-I tion of the SS Charles Dunning, I
the same afternoon, Hon. Mr.
sand in the harbor entrance this ficient to clear the channel, fed- I Massey will address the Prince
Edward Island Canadian Club at
‘dredging would not be carried 1 a dinner meeting to be held at
the Charlottetown Hotel. During his stay on the Island His Excellency will be the guest
_now in service on this busy route. I of Lieutenant Governor and Mrs.
Miss Baa-bar Place, _Mrs. Ken-, neth Jenkins and MISS An'z:e~
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SUMMER FASHION SHOW MODELS
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the office of the presidency.”
I03 rd Year
George Auld, Winsloe, who celebrated his 102nd birthday; last March 16, died at his home, in Winsloe early this morning! The Island centenarian had been’ in failing health for some time.‘
Born in Covehead, the late Mr. Auld in his youthful days assisted his father in the opera- tion of a lumber mill. Following his father’s death, Mr. Auld, while still young, assumed full responsibility for this work.
His wife, the former Charlotte Hughes, whom he married in 1885, passed away almost five years ago. -
He is survived by two sons: Archie, Winsloe, with whom he lived; and Ira, a resident of ‘Harrington; and one daughter, Blanche, Mrs. A. B. Roberts, Winsloe Station.
A third son, Heber, died In Western Canada four years ago.
He is also survived by one brother, Dr. J. W. Auld, who, now retired, makes his home in Btitisll" Columbia.
On the occasion of his 102nd birthday last month, the late Mr. Auld received a message
Canadian Destroyer To Bring
To The Island
Hyndman at Government House.
S’SIDE DECKED OUT
Mayor W.A. Currie announced last evening that plans have been completed for the official wel- come to His Excellency Gover- nor'General Vincent Massey who will arrive in Summerside on May 15th. M
Mayor Currie said that His Ex- cellency will arrive in Summer- side by motot car at 11:30 and will go immediately with his party to Memorial Square where he will be greeted by government and civic leaders. The‘ address
Worship the Mayor and an il- luminated copy presented to the Governor General.
Units of the Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, Sea Cadets and Air Ca-
dets will be drawn up at the Cen- 7
otaph and ‘ Mayor Currie said that in all probability they will. be inspected by His Excellency.
Following the ceremonies at the Cenotaph the Governor General and his party will be guests of the commanding officer of R.C.A.F. Station Summerside and after- wards they will return to Char- lottetown by car where they will be overnight guests of the Lieu- tenant Governor of the Provincp.
Author James Cabell Dies
RICHMOND, Va. (AP)~James Branch Cabell, famed author of Jurgen and other controversial novels, died at his home here Monday night. He was 79.
Cabell had been in grave con- dition since suffering a cerebral hemorrhage last Friday.
His literary fame g.rew chiefly out of Jurgen and sequels which were romantic accounts of life in auimaginary medieval country, Poictesme. He was one of the most controversial novelists of his generation.
Cabell’s last work was Quie.t,; Please, a collection of auto- biographical essays published in 1952.
Fashions Shown
MONTREAL (CP) -— All-Cana- d1anfashions—for all ages and’ occasions—went on display Mon- day night in a gala staging at the Canadian Textile\ -onference.
It was said to be the first com- prehensive all-Canada collection ever assembled in one show.
The displays are designs of members of the Association of Canadian C-outuriers as well as of top manufacturers of women's and children’s wear in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. All the displays are of Canadia_n-made
Fail
Walkout Likely To
Be rapped
MONTREAL (CP) — The fire- men’s union will be told today by high officers of other big unions that it would not win its threaI- ened strike against the CPR.
A stiff admon-ition to the fire- men, it was inderstood, will be delivered at a meeting of top rail union officers called for this morning.
The upshot is likely to be that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (CLC) will withdraw its strike call against the railway for 6 a.m. May 11.
But there will be some man- oeuvring before this c o in e s about, including perhaps an inter- view by a union delegation with Prime Minister Diefenbaker on Wednesday or Thursday at of- tawa.
EXPECTED REACTION
It is expected, too, that a union delegation will N. R. C-rump of the Canadian
-him the firemen can go ahead
cards in the big pokergame.
reluctant to back up the fire- men’s strike, which would be the
same issue involving about 2,500
number laid off on May 11 would be about 75.
gradually, over a period of 10 years according to seniority. ‘
Will Move And Second Speech From The -Throne
of congratulations and good wishes from Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II.
Dennis Crosby Weds Showgirl ‘
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP)—Den- nis Crosby Sunday night married a beautiful showginl dated several times a year ago by his father, Bing Crosby. ‘
Dennis, 23, and dancer Pat Sheehan, 26 - year - old divorcee, were married in a Protestant cer- emony between her performances at a hotel night club.
Bing dated Miss Sheehan for three or four days a year ago when he was at Las Vegas for a golf tournament and she was dancing at th; hote.
Dennis is the first of Bing’s four sons to marry. -1 were reared as Roman Catho ics.
PRINCESS ARRIVES
NEW YORK (AP) — Blondei Princess Astrid of Norway and al retinue of three arrived by plane, Monday for a 10-day visit. Thei 27-year-old daughter of King Olav will meet President Eisenhoweri in Washington today. -
I tion.
OTTAWA (OP)—Robert B. La freniere and Eric Nielsen, two 34- year-old Progressive Conservative members of the Commons. will make the first formal speeches of the new Parliament Monday.
Mr. La-frenzere, member for Quebec-Montmorency, and Eric Nielsen, member for ’Y'u-kon, will move and second the traditional address in reply to the speech from the throne.
A lawyer, Mr. Lafreniere was first elected to the Commons March 31.
Mr. Nielsen was first elected to the Commons in a byelection Dec. 16, 1957, and was re-elected March 31.
FOREIGN MINISTERS CONFER
COPENHAGEN. D e n in. a r k (Reuters) ——Sidne+y Smith, Cana- dian external affairs minister, had lunch Monday with Norway’: foreign minister, Halvard Lange, at the Canadian Embassy. No of- ficial information was available on their conversation, but diplo- matic observers assumed they discussed Russia's veto in the Se- curity Council of the United Na- tions last week of American pro- posals for Arctic aerial inspec-
GoesIOn Trial
ll Slayings; Claims Insanity
LINCOLN, Nob. (AP)-Charles R. Starkweather went on trial Monday on a charge of first- degree murder in one of 11 slay-‘ ings in which he has admitted being involved. ‘
Death in the electric chair or life imprisonment are the alter-i natives on conviction.
Star-kweather’s court-appointed lawyers Monday changed the youth’s plea from “innocent” to “innocent by reason of" insan-I ity.”
The lawyers had hinted this! would be the defence.
Highlight of the initial court‘ day, however, was the out - of-‘ court disclosure by defence law- yers of contents of a note which? Starkweather, 19, scrawled on al jail cell wall three months ago,I
' just after his capture.
Of Dynamite, I
HALIFAX lCP)—-John Fisher, executive director of the Cana- dian Tourist Association, told re- porters Monday the tourist trade fgrfeeds a stick of dynamite under 1 .
Earlier he told a local service club it was time the Maritimcs
food, accommodation, liquor and
their share of the tourist trade. He said
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Tourist ‘Trade Needs Stick
entertainment to ensure getting‘,
the entire country 3 seek must spend more on tourist trade novel."
For One Of
In the note, the bandy legged five-foot-five Starkweather took the blame for nine killings but at- tributed two others to his 14-year- old girl friend and travelling companion on a late-January kill- ing spree, Caril Ann Fugate.
Caril also has been charged with murder but prosecution has been stalled by a legal battle over whether she should be tried in district court, which can assess the death penalty, or in juvenile court, which can only detain to the age of 21.
Defence lawyers said Stark- weather’s note was written on the wall of a cell in the Scotts Bluff County Jail in Gering, Neb., where Starkweather had been held “overnight while being re- turned to Lincoln following cap- ture near ‘Douglas, Wyo.
s Suggestion
facilities. It was useless to spend millions on inviting visitors to Canada without first providing facilities to house and entertain them.
Many organizations — particu- larly in the Atlantic area are {seeking new industry whllc Ignor-
went to work on the problems of Eng the tourist tradc— “the biz-
ZCSI. of’ all.” “Tourists aren‘t I<)(>k.‘n'.‘ for .replicas of their hcmclands. They something different and I
see president V‘ Pacific here and will be told by i »
with a strike if they wish. The v CPR figures it is holding the high ,-.
Other unions are known to be “
second in 15 months over the _-‘
men on the CPR. The immediate f.
Others would go off the payroll ’ I