m"Oocslwall ssoosay. Jan. ma. Wfaxinir of e r - More Men "an-s lost that's put rfven dish. A 1! PAGES. ifll Keir Clark Appointed New Provincial Treasurer Following a cabinet meeting yesterday. rrernier A. W., Mathe- son announced that he has relin- quished the portfolloiof Provin- cial Treasurer. which he has held since the retirement of Hon. W. E. Darby. to the Hon. Keir Bark. Minister of Education. Mn. . will continue to hold the v lion portfolio. but his main! .- will be in connection financial affairs of the Earlier yesterday. Mr. y g ,, Macxay. Liberal represent 1' Fourth Prince. was sworn in as a member of the Government by His Honour, Lieutenant Gover- nor Prowse. land later sat in at his first cabinet meeting. Hon. Mr. Clark first entered provincial politics when he was elected a representative for Third Kings in 1947. He was re-elected in 1951. became minister without portfolio in June of that year, and in June. 1953, was appointed Min- ister of Education. He came to the prov ncisl field with a background of xperience ill municipal politics. having serv- cvi as Mayor of the town of Mont- ague in 1940. V Mr. Clark was born at Stewart where. his father. Mr. Russel C. Clark, a veteran mem- ber of the Legislature. conducted business for many years. He at- tended Prince of Wales College and Dalhousle University. receiv- ing from the latter institution. in 1934. the degree of Bachelor of Commerce. He then took over the management of Clark Bros.' new store in Montague. and since Ihat time has acted in this cap- acity. - Mr. MacKay was first elected to ,lhe' Legislature by acclumation on .luly 4. 1949, and was again re- turned in the general election of April 3. 1951. . The members of the Provincial Government are now as follows: Hon. A. W. Matheson. Q.C.. Pre- mier. President of the Executive Council. and Attorney General since the resignation of Hon. Mr. Darby; Hon. B. Earle MacDonald. Minister of Health and Welfare: Hon. C. Cleveland Baker. Min- ister of Agriculture-.: Hon. William Hughes, Provincial Secretary: 1-ion. Eugene Cullen. Minister of Indus- try and Natural Resources: Hon. Dougaid Macltinnon. Minister. of Pubi ; olrksa ”. Mount l Keir Clark. Provincial Treasurer and Minister of Education; Hon. E. P. Foley. Minister without Portfolio: Hon. .7. George Mac- Kay. Minister without portfolio. .....'. ;.n i.... lion. Keir Clar Provincial 'I'reasurer'and Minister of Education K, Mr. 1. George Macxay cu-..'without Portfolio :3 Solidilers lSeel(”llV6ueen's Watch With-Mine Detectors SANDRINGHAM. Eng. (Reuters) -Three British soldiers with mine detectors were busy Thursday at the spot where Queen Elisabeth lost a wristwatch in a hsystack. . The soldiers were brought to the royal estate here from 50 miles away after news spread that the Queen had lost her watch in I barley field. The Queen herself ”i”iorthe " 9' 3 two days but gave up after 30min- utes of pairing around under stacks of straw. The tiny watch is of platinum and was worn mounted on a brace- let. It was given to the Queen by it-esident le Brun of France in 1938 and, together with the brace- let. is valued at about (I00. The Queen. who is staying at the Roysl Family's country home here. was out walking with her mother and two pet dogs Tuesday and stopped to watch farmers threshing barley in a field. As she watched. the Queen lifted the little dogs overgthe fence and let them CAPTURE TEEN-AGEBI I SOMERVILLE. Mass. (AP)-Po- lice in a commandeered taxicab captured two 12 - year - old boys Thursday in a stolen car chase that covered 12 miles through side streets. The otfioers fired two shots. . Coming Events h fu'l'l'ho Miiivale Driviillngmolub. will 0 race o January . I snc . . an. .' , "Come to Qrd party in Stanley Bridle. Friday. January 14. Sffclyde L. 0. I. mmm Sole. mpaons-lease, la sy. "Dance. tips-I? Valley Hall tri- dav. January ,1 Lunches. - "Unloading eer coal today at Milton Station; Noni! Ritson. rum Arlene ul:.lll;" to :1 thrills " 5110' 0. , . .P- III- ..I'i:?..":'n.'i”t'” ......””3..'.?"...”” "Dan at sdurray River were-; house toreay nigiit.--.s to 1:. Proceed! to aid of risk. "brand I at. Andrew: H , asi. ltewI:rr'ssosldes.s itillldosensanoocrrles. go” tteatlon EOIOIL Tao "Itow been ilmmm. clients"; use t W sit. Itceart Bids! Tm Dram stsgiilnsqllal: wan Mao Francis. . rdelsnsloae lecture is toll!-' Slides and of candy. Proceeds lusting of ldoreill Goestan Lolita. ,, nouns , Antisocia- scurry after the rats that often make their homes in stocks of grain. -The three soldiers. members of an engineers mine disposal squad. subjected the area to s more scientific search Thursday. with delicate instruments capable of cle- tecting even a needle in s barley stack. 33 Bail Out or Big Transport FAIRBANKS. Alaska. (AP) - Thirty-three men participating in the -army-air force "Operation Snowbird" were forced to bail out of-a crippled transport plane over Ladd Air force base Thursday night. All were soon accounted for. The plane later landed success- fully. The big C-llil Flying Box Car carrying paratroopers radioed the control tower at the air base that it was experiencing engine trouble. It dumped its passengers as it flew over the field but some of them drifted a considerable dis- tance. OTTAWA ZCP)-The head of the Dairy Farmers of Canada says the government apparently feels Canadais dairy industry is expendable. Gilbert MacMiiian said in a statement Thursday the policy de- clslon to allow imports, of New Zealand cheese is a "grave mis- take end can bri g hardship to many thousands f hard-working farm people lacross Canads." Althoughvrradq Minister Howe had made a statement on the mat. ter in. the Commons. Mr. Mac- snuan said. the government still owes the dairy producers "some explanation as to why this change of policy at this time. an explana- tion that certainly has not yet been given." Canada has had an understand- in with New Zeaiand since early 1 to halt imports of cheese in that Commonwealth country. Wes. recently the government EVA approval to an import , of coo pounds. no nosssnsssox Mr.-stem, told the Commons last Monday that the government no longer will hold New Iceland to the understanding. "rilerelis no prohibition on the importing of cheese.” he said. is a duty on cheese and techsiuily anyone can ship cheese into Canada who can do so over the duty." 3 i V ' e, on New zeslsnd cheese; is one cent as pound or about four per cent.” said Mr. lnist China's new "Dairy Farmers Want Gov't Explanation Of Cheese Deal WN, CANADA, Founded 1872 l miner. saxuaar 14, toss. blame Argument ' Over d5!) For Murder. Suicide POLTIMORE. Que.. (GP) - A drawn-out argument between two bachelors over also has been blam- cd'by police for what they believe was a murder and suicide at a lonely fishing lodge six miles north oi here. The body oi cyrille Bsrbcsu. 54- year-old caretaker at the Denholm Angling Club. was found Thursday morning on frozen Lac. st. Ger- main, near this village about 40 miles north of Hull, Que. In the charred ruins of the lodge nearby was the body of Raoul Paquette oi 1-lull. . Quebec provincial police said the 63-year-old woodcuttcr, Paquette, shot Barbeau Wednesday nlght.set fire to the lodge. possibly out of vengeance. and then shot himself through the mouth. Reconstructing the events lead- ing to the double slaying. police said Paquette and Barbeau. along with Raoul seguln oi Hull and his son. Joseph. were returning. across the lake to the lodge from a wood- cutting trip. OLD ARGUMENT As they walked. Paquette and Barbeau argued over the :50 the woodcuttcr claimed the caretaker had owed him since a year ago last fall, when Paquette looked after the lodge for a week. It was a long argument. in which Bar- beau had long taken the stand that Paquetts should have been satis- fied with room and board. Suddenly the woodcuttcr raised a the .20-gauge shotgun he was car- rying and blasted the caretaker in the head. The Seguins fled. From Poltimore they got in touch with the QPP in Hull. REDS NAME AMBASSADOR .HONG KONG (Reuters) - Llu Hsiao. has been appointed Commu- ambassador to Moscow. Peiping radio announced Thursday. Hsiao, 48. will replace Chang Wen Tien. The radio said Chang was returning to Peiping to concentrate on his job as vice-, minlster for foreign affairs. -Two prisoners who escaped from Prince County Jail about 5 p. m. yesterday were still at liberty at a late hour last night. The escaped prisoners, Leonard Philip Thibesu oi Kensington and Joseph Edward Murphy of Free- town, were awaiting trial on a charge of breaking. entering and theft in connection with 9. break at MacKcnr.ie's store in Kcnsington. The layout of the cell block at the jail is such that the jailer must expose himself to assault from prisoners in order to reach several cells which are almost constantly occupied. ference in cost oi production. New Zeaiand having the lowestlcost of production in the world. the duty creates an unfair situation for the Canadian producer. "When we realize that duties on manufactured goods coming into Canada range from 15 to 37 per cent, it is apparent the four- per-cent dutygon cheese is no pro- Lleut. Col. A. W. Rogers, E.D. Local . Military A change in Command oi the Prince Edward Island Regiment (17 R.E.C.C.E.) was announced yesterday in a. telegram to Brig- adier G. G. K. Peake. D.S.O., E.D.. Commander No. 2 Group Head- quarters, irom Headquarters. East- ern Command, Halifax. The chan- ges are effective January 1. Lieutenant-Colonel A. W. Rogers. E.D.. who has commanded this KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) Prime Minister William Alexander Busts- rnsnte. anti-Gommunisthkingpln of Jamaica politics for a decade, lost his grip today on the island gov- ernment. But he said no successor could match his accomplishments "perhaps within 100 years." Returns from this British West- Lock jailer in Cell Block Two Escape From Jail At S'sicle Indian colony's election Wednesday When jailer Hugh Daley entered the call block to release a prisoner for supper, the pattern of previous jail breaks was repeated. when the two men grabbed. him and forcibly topk the keys. After freeing themselves they looked the main gate oi the cell block and thus locked the jailer in this area of the jail. Fleeing into the jail yard they escaped by un- locking the gate and then disap- peared after throwing away the keys, which were found later in the '1 evening. The jailer. who lives on the third floor of the building, attracted the attention oi his wife by pounding on pipes in the cell block. - She in turn notified the R.C.M.P. and phoned the assistant jailer, the only other -person who assists the jailer in the around-the-clock job oi guarding the custody oi the in- mates at this jail. , On arrival with his set of keys the assistant jailer released jailer Daley. and an immediate search was launched by R.C.M.P. and town police for the eschpees. At the time of their escape Thibeau was wearing a plaid shirt and blue dungarees, while Murphy was dressed in navy trousers and a blue American Navy jacket. Both men are said to be in their 20ls. Lieut. Col. A. II. Pealso, C.D. .4Ofiicers, Receive Promotions unit for the past six years has been transferred to the Headquar- ters staff of No. 2 Militia Group. As commanding officer oi the Prince Edward Island Regiment he is being succeeded by his second- ln-command of the Regiment, Ma- jor A. H. Peske. C.D. Major E. K. Kennedy. who has been officer commanding "A" Squadron will succeed Major Peake Busiamanie. Loses Grip Jamaican Labor Gov't Defeated gave 18 seats in the House of Rep- resentatives to the Opposition People'sgIjation'al Party and 14 to Bustamante's Labor party. " In line for prime minister is Norman Washington Manley, long- iinip leader of the PNP. considered a Spclallst group further left than the Labor party. Manley. an Ox- ford-educated lawyer. is a first cousin' and bitter political foe of Bustamante. Manley pledged he would work for the island's self- governlnent and enlist capital from abroad for its economic develop- ment. WORKER! BENEFITIED Bustamante. 69. issued this state- ment in corsccding defeat: "With no egotism, without any boast whatever. I am positively confident that what my govern- ment has done for the last 10 years no other government will be able to do within 30 years. "And what I have done for the working class of this country in 15 years no other man or other group will be able to equal. per- hapy within 100 years." Jamaice. geared to a one-crop (sugar economy. has suffered an economic slump in recent months, and this may have accounted partly for the'5g9vernment's down- ll. FORMER PNP MEMBER Bustamarsie '5-1' tained his own seat in the lions "and. as president of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union. he still has a strong posit- ion among plantation workers and other laborers. Formerly a me'mber of the PNP. Busismante broke away in l940. charging its leaders had tried to snatch control of hi! union while he was serving a 15-month jail sentence on charges of ssliatins a shipping strike: i He then formad..his own party. His spell-binding.-oraiory swept nis splinter group to power in the 1944 elections and he had controlled the house ever since. Major E. K. Kennedy as second-in-command of the Reg- lment. Lieutenant-Colonel A.W. Rogers. E.D., is the son of Mrs. R. B. Rog- ers. '18 Upper Prince street, char- iottetown and the late Lieutenant R. B. Rogers. Tile late Mr. Rogers served with the 25th Battalion and was killed in action at Hooge on June 10th. 1916. (Continued on Page 2 col. 4) Princess Unhurt In Car Accident ROYSTON. England - (CP) - Princess Margaret escaped unhurt when is car in which she was rid- ing collided with another auto- mobile Thursday night. Princess Margaret was return- ing to London from the royal country estate at. Sandringhsm when the car skidded on the leg road rounding a corner an bumped into a car in front. The cars were almost at a standstill when the collision oc- curred. No one was injured and there was no damage, "It was a case of bumper hit- ting bumper," a police official said. Princess Margaret continued her journey to London with little de- lay. Hommorskiolcl Returns To N. Y. By FANCIS W. CARPENTER UNITED NATIONS. NY. (AP)- UN Secretary-General Dag Ham- marskjold returned Thursday night from Peiping and what he called the "first stage" of his efforts for release of ll American airmen jailed as spies in Red China. He indicated the door is open to further contact and called for re- Poitlcr. CITIZENS FOIL BANK BAND AT vallcouvrll; THREE ME h Thu day one with a bullet in cietlzeens fxolight a delaying action with a trio of masked. vancouvrzn (or) shooting bank bandits. RCMP said A fourth man, swept up leased. The robbery was the first bank holdup in the Vancouver area in a month. During a six-week period last November and December. eight banks were robbed at gun- point of loot estimated at 588.000. MONEY SCATTEBED RCMP and city police. who co- operated in Thursday's gunfight and capture. said the 510.000 was scattered outside the bank and n rugged bushland nearby where it was thrown by the gunmen ssythey fled from police. Police said the holdup happened this way: . Three men. masked and carry- ing a sawed-oi! shotgun and an automatic pistol, parked near the bank just after it opened. They ran inside and ordered the bank staff and four customers to the floor. gathered the money into 8 bag and fled. TROUBLES BEGAN Then their troubles began. Bpot- ied entering the bank. they were confronted by Martin Letang. 40. who ran at them with a hlmmel The trio opened fire. two shots passing near (Letang. one man dropped the money and when'he turned to Pink ll W3 was surrounded by bYll:&nd9"- 33 grabbed the bag and shouldered his way clear. TORONTO (or) -Discover)' of a woman's.scantlly-dlld body in I rooming house early Thursday 18d a murde char 13,! .3”! ifiesfunsa-lie-t c" '5' .53i:alir?.- 1 Police said Mrs Madeleine Mc Donald. 29.Afos-merly of Montreal. died while vomiting after a drink- ing bout The possibility that other causes contributed to the death was investigated. Dr. Smirle Lawson. supervising coroner for Ontario. said the woman had no marks on her throat to indicate violence. He said the alcohol content of her blood was high. The contents of her stomach will be analyled. he said. - A police official said that al- though the direct cause of death was asphyxiation from the vomit. police want to know what caused the woman's sickness. Miss McFarland appeared in court and was remanded to Jan. 21 ior mental examination. Montreal police said Mrs. Mc- Donald was weil-lsnown to them. Shd served a term for theft and was wanted in connection with a straint on all sides. OTTAWA (CP) - Parliament gave speedy approval Thursday to the government's bill to extend winter unemployment insurance benefits, handling it as an emer- gency. The measure-increasing and ex- tending thc duration of sup- plementary insurance payments- goes into effect immediately. Those qualifying for the new scales will start collecting as from last Monday. V By unanimous agreement. the Commons and Senate suspended their nonnsl procedures to give the bill precedenc . The Commons broke into its throne speech de- Some 425.000 of Jamaica's 750.- tection at all." Five-Nation Commission Arrives. Situation ls Quiet In Costa Rica By CAILOO IIOUDIIIO SAN JOSE. Costa Rica (AP)-A United States Air Force plane brought a five-nation commission here Thursday to investigate Costa Rica's war. now in its third day. The big question was whether this Central American republic has been invaded. as its government charges. or faces a purely internal revolution. as neighboring Nicar- agua contends. Already the presence of'Amerl- cani planes and the mlnlsslon from the Organisation of Ameri- can Btates was having a pacifying effect. There were no recur of the air raids which developed Wednesday. or reverts of military lsgegeheats. - On the northwestern front. loyal- ist troops moved out from Liberia Idacllillsn. "Considering the dif- ia an effort to engage In opposit- ion force holding La Cruz. on the inter-American highway 35 miles to the northwest. and some villages in between. SITUATION UNDER CONTROL The staff command said the gov- -. em "maintains control of all ” nal territory except certain points of northern Gusnacasie." the province of which Liberia is the caplisl. Foreign Minister Marlo Esquivel expressed pleasure at the Arrival of the commission, but added that was not what Costa ltieahad asked of the Western Hemisphere organ- ixaiion. He said Costa ftice had asked in- vocation of the tree of Rio de Janeiro. which p as tor joint action if any American state is in- veded. Jreeidenti Jose Pigueres has chsrged um exiles and mm s. 000 registered voters cast ballots had prepared an invasion of Costa Rica from Nicaragua. But that northern neighbor rejected the ac- cusation. saying Costa Rica was undergoing internal revolution. CLOSE BORDER. An underlying factor in the ill feeling between Costa Rica and Nicaragua is the long time .per- sonal enmity of Figueres and Pres- ident Anastaslo Somosa of Nicar- agua. That country announced Thurs- day it had closed its borders with Costa Rica. Nicaragua said this was in line with its "unalterabla attitude of non-intervention in the t t ' revolutionary movgeat which has broken out in Its Rica." - somoaa challenged Figueroa to a duel Wednesday and the latter said-Thurldlr of his political bate to give it second and third readings. The Senate promptly enemy: "He's crasier ihan.e goal in the midsummer sun." itary activity. The civil guard command. head of the national police which is Costa Rica's only military force, announced the capture of Carlos Lara I-line and identified him as a leader who began the uprising off the warfare. from San Jose rebel at about 400. Low. There was little news of mil-i Tuesday at Villa ”uessda that set There was no fresh information itself about the side. Unofficial estimates therr placed their total siren til Th. with is at v, a Qucsade and the rerpelnder scat- tered at other points. Outside. es- tlrrlstes of the total ranged up to 1949 offence. Unemployment Insurance Bill Approved Speedlly whipped it through three road- Inga; usually. separate day: are required for each stage. rm: IXTENIION SOUGHT In the commons. the Progres- sive Conservatives-with the sup- port oi other opposition groups- tried unsuccessfully to extend the over-all time for payment of eup- plementsry benefits. They wanted it to go beyond the existing Jan. --April is period, which is not changed in the government's bill. George Hees (PC - Tbronto Broadviewl accused the govern- ment of being "callous and cold" towards persons unemployed be- fore Jan. 1. but Labor Minister Gregg said there is not much ses- sonal unemployment before that time. "on the whole. we feel that the present period, within the limits of the money available. is about right." Mr. Gregg said. The bill has these effects: 1. aupplementty benefits, paid during cold-weather months of low employment to those normally qualified for benefits but whose benefit period has run out. will be increased to lm per cent from about so per cent of regular pay- ments. 2. Recipient; will be entitled to a minimum of so days of pay- nsents. The minimum now is is days. BEAN. COST - There will be no increase in orn- nioyee- employer-sovernasent con- trlbutions to the 3.000.000 fund. which will but the estimated etc.- ooo.ooo-s-you additional seat. of the extended conservative Pelrelo h of Ilsmilton s-ro:s"lmr Ueetslist. PilnEc' Edwar'cl'lslanid. A Uh! DQWJ "almost all" of the point from the suburban Burnaby branch of the Royal Bank of Canada was recovered. Woman Charged Following Death In ckootnlrrs iH.o.u.s...e Friends said Miss Mcrarlan A! '1'" attempt. to extend" 0 general time limit on the Ma my is-was by son. lllea West. the 5. 0' 4-1 tptovertii ; x a... his leg. after unarmed 310.000 stolen at gum- i in the action. was later l'.!' .-M-:-mm--------1 Then the trio found that bull- dozer operstors John Howie and Ernie Astelie hsd' trapped their car against the curb with their huge vehicle. Two pistol shots forced them to back. up. treelns thegetaway car. Telephone lineman Fred sharp chased the car in his repalrrtlruck. forcing it up to 90 miles an hour. forcing it to leave the road on I curvei sharp dived for the' ditch ll police came up shown!- on. shot hit the suspect in the leg and he fell close to a handful of scattered bills. A second man was taken when he walked out of some lllhel 11130 the sub-machine un le M1300- sylver Armeneau. An iROM1'. tracking dog. which later was it- self the oblect of a police him”- flushed the third suspect from it thicket. A fourth man was released lite? police found him hiding nearby. Asked why he ran. he replied! "I'm just allergic to sirens! .......----- PEBON's BIOTIIEB. DIES g BUENOB AIRES (AP) -- Maria Peron, 68. brother of President Juan D. Peron of Assent-in-. died here Thursday after an operation. He had been administrator of the Buepos Aires zoo. The woman was married twlcq in Toronto and both husbands diedi in traffic hccidents here. ' i 5 i, ellhclcsg. s ofiitloe ro were covered with pictures u scantily-clad women. l NEVER 0:209, IDLE. -REM ARK5 ;t -nu;-,. .WRONC. Pr:oPi.c.i M P.Y.Plcr; -:rl-lelyl i”.uev” ronorvro (CP)-Minimum anal maximum temperatures: I Min Max Dawson . , 13 17 1 Vancouver . 37 44 Victoria 41 47 Edmonton 23 28 Calgary 25 39 Regina l 29 Winnipe- 7b lti Toronto 14 27 Ottawa ii iii Montreal .. 11 in Quebec 3 16 Fredericton 2b l7 St. John... 9 17 Moncton . . . . .. R 22 Halifax . . . . . .. . . . . . . 22 26 Charlottetown .21 28 Sydney . . . . 2d 31' Yarmouth .. . . 23 -- 1 St. Johns.... 30 35 HALIFAX (CP)--The Dominion- publlc weather office he.-e says cold air from Quebec is nowing into the western regiora while milder sir off the Atlantic is now- ing into the eastern part of the dis- trict. Temperatures range trom 10 at Mont Joli to 21 at Sydney. A storm centred 200 miles southeast of Cape Cod is intenslbytng. The area of snow around it is unlikely to reach land. Winds over this dis- trict will increase. with a con- tinuation of cloudy weather and snowflurries. Regional iforecasis: Prince Edward Island: Cicely with scattered snowflerriee: little change in temperature: northerly wills IO. Dew-high at Danette- town M and II. lay of Clsale . New Brunswick: Variable elo dinesa with 111. tie change is temperature: north- erly winds io. new-hid: at Ilene- ton I0 and I0. Freda five gnd I0. saint John is and , Edmund- lton acre Id U. Cliellton five and 15. 'lIehtieeloesyai.o'aarlotteouen Qs.Ie.n.snd ls. I75 N ARRESTEII -- Three suspects were captured .-P...