14 PAGES Glover, Kenslngbon; Bessie "Never forget that healing is not merely a physical process but a psychological and spiritual one as well and. consequently. the character of the nurse adds great- ly to her competence" said Dr. Frank MacKlnnon, principal of Prince of Wales College in ad- dressing the Graduating Class of the Prince Edward Island Hospital School of Nurses last -night. Coming Events "Your Saturday night Jamb -Forum. "Variant concert. I. !eresa's. May Mb. 0.30. "Regular Dance. Mt. Man Bali. every Thursday. "Dance It. Andrew's Hall. Mt. Stewart. every Wednesday! "See Kelly's Cross Thanksgiving Ball, Friday. May 17th. "Dance. Mount ltewart Mo- nmrial Hall. Friday. Canteen. Bums orchestra. "Conservative Headquarters are rated on Queen Street. next to ennell it Chandler. Dial 9717. "Dance. West Royalty lull Rollie Mclienziele teen Service. no cu Players. Wellington. "Come to 'lie pantry sale in Belfast flail. May 3'1. 5 to 8 p.m. Sponsored by Eldon Junior Red "North lluetico Players will resent three one-act plays at ix-toenail Isis Friday ats:s0 pm. "See Oornwdll Players present "The Irish Millionaire" in Run- ler River Masonic Hall. Tuesday. May ll. oonsored by Hazel- etove Women's Institute. "St. Peter's Bay Variety Con- ct-rt in Lorne Valley Ball. Thurs- .GiiOl) MORNINGI . Maxims oi . a More Man Habit B second nature; P.E.I. Hospital Graduation Twenty two nurses of the Prince Edward Island Hospital School graduating exercises held last night at Prince of Wales College. row, Vera Newson, Brackley: Isdbel MacLeod, Vernon Bridge; Alma; Barbara England, West Royalty; Betty Inman, St. Eleanors; Gail LeLacheu Horne. Charlottetown; Second row. Nanne Coles, North Milton; Marion Wooldridge head Road: Mollie MacLean, New Glasgow. N.S.; Elizab eth Aitken. Fortune Brdge; Station. N.B.; Joan MacKinnon. Charlottetown; Jane Lake, Montague; Coffin. Savage Harbour. Third row. Violet Aiken. Brad slbene; Shirley Maccox-mack, Rodd. Harrington. The ceremony last night was held in the presence of an over- flow audience and was one of the most impressive seen for a num- ber of years. Dr. J. W. Macl(enzie who acted as chairman said that the task that the graduating class had performed during their train- ing was no small effort. when it was taken into conskierstiun that the 22 nurses comprised one quart- er of the hospitals nursing person- nehbhglliie congratulated than and w em every success, tlsalr. llifrfretgldcavours. ; ' Rev. A. Frank MscLoaI gave the scripture reading and offered rsycr. He also yl unced the nediction at the end of the ro- gram. His Honour Lieutenant ov- ernor T. W. L. Prowse presented the graduating certificates and the hospital superintendent. Mrs. Lois MacDonald presented the gradu- ates with their pins. Dr. E. S. Gid- dlngs made the awards which were as follows: General proficiency. donated by the medical staff: 1. Miss Isabel MacLeod: 2. Miss Florence Dunbar; I. Miss Nsnne Coles. Highest in theory in nursing course. donated by the senior Lad- ies' Aid of the hospital. Miss Frances Coffin. Obstetrical nursing donated by the Senior Ladies' Aid of the hos- pital. Miss Muriel Peardon. Bedside nursing donated by the Junior Ladies' Aid of the hospital: Miss Betty lumen. Pedistricsl nursing donated by Mr. N. D. Maclzean: Miss Muriel Pcardon. by the Canadian Nurses Associat- ion to the student showing the greatest amount of professional evclopment during the nursing course: Miss Frances Coffin. Scholarship donated by The Lucy Maud Montgomery Chapter of The Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire to the student having the highest standing for General Pro- ficiency in second year nursing: (Continued on page 8 col. 0 ) dly- Mly 36th at l.30 . . Spon- rod he Iarnd Valley Dance ; fter. ."'30dfflile Players resent Mamas Angel Child" in tanley ridge Hall. Th d , my , neclalties. emi'i.'l fl. .. ...”” elr 8-act play "Annrof Grsea .:::.'e.:...'-..r;:.r.-.:! M M- "CIDC Traverse lall Frhlay "Mina. M 270: : . - no mm my” stno Dram ”T"I"IIy Y P. U. will prompt "Eh! lresdalbans- ca ten my member of us: a. to how "God Save the Queen" should be described but hoped it would offend no one to call it the R w kt tM u be ' m-To mo3”"ooam" will: way mil th I! I It In calling 5: mt ii?.i:.'.'1?”io'l. .. it on the Queen's.blrthday 0 once. lie -' ' .....f.:.r'l..'::.' s. OTTAWA (CP)-Prime Minister St. Laurent said in the Commons Tuesday he is not prepared to bring in legislation to designate a national anthem for Canada. He said he has given no thought "royal anthem. . St. Laurent was questioned House opening Tuesday as :5 lave ..e Canadian nurse award donated 000 3,5 I Irma Holm Ceremony Last Night of Nursing received their diplomas at the annual Pictured left to right are the graduates: Front Muriel Peardon, Montague; Florence Dunbar, 1', Murray Harbour; Audrey and Ellen Wooldridge, Cove- Lorine Coleman, Hampton es, East Royalty: Frances St. Eleonora: Elayne Barter's Film Lab. Over 400 Delegates Roa d S afely Meeting Opens OTTAWA (CF)-A eloudburst-of statistics and recommendations T ayusIll:omred”on the first na- atone! ere why safety sonference one of the recommendations wu that the conference he made a continuing body. More than 400 delegates re re- senting nesrly every grou in an- ada concerned with traflc safety convened for the three-day meet- ing. They overflowed the main eon- vention hall. split into five com- mittees. they overflowed the com- mittee rooms. They faced statistics like these: There were 241,102 motor vehicle accidents in Canada in 1953, last year for which accurate figures are available. resulting in 2.906 deaths and 56,724 injuries. Car insurance companies paid outgS90.lD0.l26 in claims in 1953. PREDICTS MOBE DEATHS Brooke Claxlon. conference chair- man. former defence se i i t and now -ice president of Metropolitan Life lnsurancelcompany predicted there will be 300.000 highway acct- dents this year in which about ti.- 000 person; will be killed and 75,- ure . He said there now are 3.500.000 cars in Canada. By 1960. there likely would be more than 5,000,000. "The challenge of the problem we are facing is. therefore. not likely to decrease. it is likely to increase." he said in the opening address. Other figures given the con- ference show that the highway death rate per 100,000,000 vehicle (Continued on page 8 col. 1) P.M. Discusses National Anthem In The Commons. fact that "God lave the Queen" is Canada's national anthem. ..”''..i" ”.:"l'"' :.”t'..:”".l" ”' now ge as n n a opted as such by an act of Parliament or proclemption. it had been adopted by subjects of the crown erelly'to express their devotion the sovereign. Msny Canadians had edozteelfii it. on expressed their am" no C.” d 'n u:."i:. La 1 ' . .. 00!" as log devotion to throes b pm of thdcaoselash ':.I.;eTII;Isl anthgtli of rccr--vi ' s.'.'8'f' --um lFo"T'Z's"l"FTr'-3"?"”"” Abate in MS. HALIFAX. (CP) -Government pilots said Tuesday night the situation "looks quite favorable” over the fire-scarred spruce and fir woodlands of south-central Nova Scotia where Rangers sift- ed reports of arson. Lands and forests department planes winged across several hundred square miles of Halifax, Guysboroush. I-lanis. Lunenbur. and Queens counties while thous- ands of volunteers trudged to their homes for the first hot meals and baths since the fires erupted late Saturday. But hun- dreds more remained at threat- ening points. Several reports circulated in Queens and Lunenburg counties that an arsonist may have been behind one or two of the fires that at one point menaced the snullt shore towns of Liverpool and Brldgewater. The investigation was being conducted by forests department officials and the RCMP. Most of the improvement in the overall picture was attribut- ed to the light rain that fell Monday night. At the height of the battle late Sunday and early Monday 3,000 men were pitted against fires at Liverpool and Bridgewster alone but there were no reports of ser- ious injury. ' its HOUSECLEANING DAY IN P. Who. I. FRENCH FEAR ANOTHER INDO- CHINA TYPE WAR IN MOROCCO the Iliul III IV IVIIVIOIV LAUZON. Que. (CF) - Mrs. Louis St. Laurent. making one of her rare public appearances, will launch a new luxury ferry here today. The wife of die Prime Minister will smash a bottle of champagne over the bow of the Biuenose. which will link Yarmouth. N.S.. and Bar Harbor, Me.. with regu- larly-scheduled runs. More than 000 persons have been invited to the launching ceremony at Davis shipyards at this town across the St. Lawrence river from Quebec City. Transport Minister Marler is scheduled to deliver the launch- lng address and Works Minister Winters, Premier Hicks of Nova Scotta and Gov. Muskie of Maine have been invited to speak at a reception. FINE REDUCE ROLL The Bluenose, which up ac- commodate 150 cars and coo pas- From Campai one of the most intensive gen- eral electton campaigns in years wound up Tuesday night and Prince Edward Islanders prepar- ed to go to the polls today to elect a new legislature. Both Liberal and Progressive Conservative leaders. who are waging a straight two-party fight for the so seats. -issued election- eve messages. , . Liberal-Premier - thesen. lee!!- tng his party for g first time in a provincial election. said "we have promised nothing that can- not or will not be fulfilled." "Any responsibilities which you entrust to us will be accepted with humility and all the ability at our command.” HEALTHY INTEREST R. R. Bell. leading the Progres- sive Conservatives for his second election, said "whatever may be the result . . . in the life of use next government be it Conserva- tive or Liberal." Liberals have been in power in Prince Edward island since 1935 and won 24 seals against six for the Progressive Conservatives in the i947 and 1951 elections. Vot- ing for the estimated tii.000 eli- gible voters is from 9 em. to 5 p.m. AST. sank ssslsnucs Liberals went to the people on their record and a platform that was topped with a promise to seek increased financial assist- ance from the federal government. The party's election manifesto also promised to establish a la- bor department and continue as- afstsnce to -various industries. The npposit' platform was headed by a promise of "good government" without political pa- tronage and with ministers on the Job full-time. It also advoc- sled a scheme of low-interest. long-term loans to help establish new farms. Once Hanged Dead Man OTTAWA (CPI -- One of Cae- ada's two official executioner: says some doctors and cnroners officiating at hangings often are so drunk they cannot properly per- form their duties. He also told the Commons-sew ate committee on capital and cor- poral punishment and lotteries that he once hanged a man already dead from a heart attack. The Quebec bnngman made the statements to the committee at a secret media May it in the RCMP herrac on the outskirts of Ottawa. His evidence was made public Tuesdly by the committee. The ban on. who has officiated at more an Ill executions in- nom de plume "Camille I-aacbaud” in his appearance be- fore the committee. OFFICIAL EXECUTIONII He said he has been in his pre- cluding aloe double hansilss. used The lie and the executioner employed by the Ontario government are hired out to execute condemned prisons in other rovlnces. The five-foot. pound secu- tioner told the committee that hanging is the quickest way to u- r".: W Mr." "err; on W090?! orrn . condemned we lost conscious- ness tm tely after the trap was sprung whether the neck was broken or the Individual euanm officials at executions. he - fled is French. should refrain hem using inloxgtinttliquor. It had harmed " stteadin phy- aicien ernm.eeuld hsnNy 11 his to the un eoadedIOI..:Id Is body was too lea lg: wwaeseesery. and such nutake was hauled to en hlt'3gl?I'u'l"benu Ross Thatcher and - Moose I IOU d "'”'e5"a".&'?:'.!.Ii'”.1......i....-'" '1" or Jew-Lake Centre) asked to lug- w.:IevtsesofQIIlbeclalIe. llll to enlarge el hisetetaseat Nova Scofia-Maine Ferry Will Be Launched Today st-ngers. is expected to encourage tourist travel between Maine and Nova Scotia when it is put into service later this summer. it will be operated by Canadian National Railways for the Transport De- partment. The fireproof ferry has ll single cabins, a cafeteria that can accommodate 112 persons, a lunch counter, a lounge and a children's playroom. Accommoda- tions for the crew include recrea- tion rooms. The Bluenose is eqmpped with stabilizers that can be extended like fins to out the roll of the waves ea bsr 110-mile see tip that will take six hours. The vessel. 345 feet long. has a service speed of 1055 knots. Its equipment includes I gyro com- pass. wireless transmitting and receiving sets for long and short wave ,echo sounder and ” Qtlon finders. PEI Voters Take Over gners Today There are three counties in the province. each with five districts. Each district elects an assembly- man and councillor under the province's unique election sys- tem. There are varying qualifica- tions for voting for each but in the House they have equal power and there is no distinc- tion. Bank I-loldupis ' r ; In Toronto I TORONTO (CF) A bandit handed a note to. teller Peggy Patterson at the downtown branch of the Royal Bank of Canada Tuesday and walked out with 3500 in small hills. The holdup was Toronto's sec- ond in five days. Police said a "rough-looking" man handed the teller a cheque on the back of which was writ- ten: "This B a holdup. Hand ever the money." The teller said afterward: she complied because the man kept one hand in his pocket as I he held a gun. Double Shooting In Saskatchewan ROSETOWN. Sssw.. (CP) - James Richard Johnston. 17. was fatally wounded and Mrs. Mary- bell Dacre suffered head wounds in a double shooting Tuesday in this town 75 miles southwest of Saskatoon. Neighbors heard shots and RCMP found the two in serious condition from .22 - calibre rifle wounds. in hospital, Johnston. a Rose- town laborer. died and Mrs. Deere is in critical condition. Police said no explanation for the shooting has been given. Hangman Describes His Duties that officials often are intoxicated. ”lt has occurred often," the bangman said. "it ha pan: from time to time, especiaiy with the doctor and the coroner. When they have too much to drink they don't know whether the heart is beating e. not." Asked whether death is caused by any other way than by the neck breskns or strangulation. he said: "I did hang one who was already dead . . . the doctor did not know it. only myself . . . be was on the trap. I had to raise his head three times and the guards had to come and hold him and I knew he was dead." He said condemned persons al- ways are cooperative and lo force is necessary to make them take their last walk. This was due chiefly to efforts of the minister of the church to which the eondernlied prisoner belonged. ANOTHER WORLD "Although the eoedemned h D T IS YOURS SINCER than-eelhloll-L Mayor Whltlon May Resign OTTAWA (CPI -- Mayor Char- lutte Wblttoa announced today she will resign when the resignation of A. 1!. Ritchie. otty finance di- rector. becomee effective July 1. Ottawa board of control today accepted Mr. Ritchie's resigna- tion. It is understood he will take a post in private industry. Immediately after the board's decision, Miss Wbitton, who has been mayor about We years. laid she will resign when Mr. Ritchie leaves city hall. She said she does not want In assume responsibility of running the city's finances without Mr. Ritchie's advice. I T ..,.A II ..,, , '..ta””o....ii'.”li:..t"..3.':Tlifi-him ssnyor leaves office. Mr. Helen is deputy-mayor. , . The city has a big public works program planned to run on a tight financial budget until 1060. Some members of the board have been urging in recent weeks that the program embrace nsore public works. These hall experts. might put too big a strain on municipal finances. By RON EVANS Canadian Press lteff Writer LONDON (CPI -Eight Irish convicts are fighlllll VIIBIY '07 seats in the British House of Commons. . They are among the i2 candi- dates contesting Northern ire- land's 11 constituencies for Slnn Feln. the militant nationalist party which seeks Irish reunif- lcation under a republican gov- ernment. Five are sewing 10 to 12-year prison sentences for their part in a raid last October on a British Army depot. Even if elected. they can't call themselves MP3-the law dis- qualiftes convicted felons serving sentences of 12 months or more from sitting in Purliamentebut they can exert considerable influ- ,ence in that remote corner of lThursda,v's general election. full possession of his faculties he appears to have passed to another world unknown to us living be- cause he is fully aware that he must part from this world." The executioner described the various stages of an execution. However. he declined to give the committee any information dealing with the chsnisrn of the scat- fold. attachment of the rim of "It le of drug uired. wurgd slnsil hangings O; conducted at a central place each province. lie was DDMIM '0 hangings being conducted in small centres. especial If the scaffold had to be built a a prison yard where it could attract attention. lest arrangement was to locate the gallows next to the condemned potsolfl sell. The worst arrange- ment wss in Ontario and New Brunswick where the scaffold had to he built in the district is which the trial took place. In HM" centres the prisoner often had to climb steps to the gallows. suggestions. esy city rhy hearted y the rsgesdve Party. i I Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew PARIS. bombing and arson 0 PRICE In (AP) -- Nationalist terrorist shootings, spread through French Moroooo Isl the last 24 hours. leaving six persons dead and 16 wound- ed. French political and military leaders. fearful an- other Indochina-type crisis might be developing in that protectorate and other parts of their North African do- main. met here hurriedly to deal with the emergency. There was some talk Marshal Alphonse Juin. France": top sol- dier and a veteran of the North African service. might be assign- ed to take temporary command throughout the area. Juin and Interior Minister Maur- ice Bourges-Maunnury are to via- it Algeria later this week. Here are the latest reports of violence: Morocco-ll Mnrocc-ans shot down Monday in the streets of Casablanca, where nationalist agitation against the French ap- peared to be reaching new ' ' ” . Six died. About the same time. a home-made bomb exploded in a sCSIdClIIIIl district in Casablanca. injuring a 12-year-old girl. Later in the night. two grenades were hurl- ed into an open air movie theatre. wounding six Moroccan: and two Europeans. Redoubled police precautions ap- peared for the moment to be France's only answer. Algeria-reports from the Con- stantine area said guerrillas are becoming bolder and more numer- ous. Their strength has been esti- mated at 1.500. and French forces to combat them have been rein- forced to 100,000. In at least one area. local ad- ministrators were talking of col- lective responsibility-the punish- ment of whole villages for rebel at- c . Find Body of Island, Men it-some "tea-.;...a;:..i:';..l' found Sunday on the Magdalen H- lands hr the Gulf of at. Lawrence has been identified as hat of Charles Mclfeliop of Murray lar- bor North. Prince Edward Is- land. Provincial police said Mcxeliop was killed when he fell off a rock and that there was so sign of foul A eoroner's fury returned a ver- dict of accidental dustb- Irish Convicts Seeking Seats In House Of Commons In the last election. Northern Ireland returned nine Ulster Un- ionists--Conservativss hi all but name-two Irish "etionsliats and one Irish Labor member. CHALLENGE ALL SEAT! The Unionist hold in Ulster has long been virtually unchallenged. Even in 1045. when Britain swung sharply to the left. Unionists took eight seats to Labor's one. The at other three were split between two Nationalists and an indepen- dent. This year. for the first time. 5inn Fain is challenging in all seats and the Unionists view their intervention with mixed emotions. On the credit side. Sinn Foin candidates will probably claim most of the Nationalist vote which would otherwise go to Labor. fur- ther cutting down the Labor poll. The socialists won a total of 02.- 234 of Northern Ireland's 403.000 votes in lflsl, compared with the Unionist share of 275.000. Four Labor candidates and one Nationalist are running in this campaign. UNEMPLOYMENT HIGH Dina Fein's opposition will pro- bably help the Unionists most It the four Belfast seats-East. West. North and South. In straight fights with Labor in 1951, they piled up majorities of l0,07i in Belfast East. i2.3i0 in Belfast North and 25.2.11 in Belfast South. The Unionists may see me I- effects of Sin rein opposition if dtsgnmtlod Irish electors seize the opportunity to register their site- approval of Tory administrattoa. Unemployment is running of more than lsevetsh per cent red with on an two per cell lpn. Britain. Ami Norttldl Ireland has shared little of he success 55 of Scotland and Wales in attract- inl isbt industries to hoist: thptr nglonai economies. 'I'he their efforts to woo new factor- ies but the Conservatives devote only of words in their manifesto to Northern Ireland-lend thzli form. a promise not to after "her p , as an . ' MI"! Of the United Kingdom and of Is lrnpfre." Bandits Rob Halifax Store HALIFAX. (CPL. Two bandit: brandishing a sawed-off shotgun and a revolver cleaned out till till of a south-end Halifax grocery Tuesday night and fled while thl owner's small daughter talked ts police on an upstairs phone. The hoodlums ran into Mnrril Kohlsr's small store shortly after dark. One thrust the shotgun st Kohler's wife and barked with a nod to his companion: "Give him the money or your wife gets it." Kohler said the gripping a revolver. leaned far over the counter and scooped about 3125 in bills from In cash register he had just opened in make change for s nine-year-old customer. The grocer said the child ran through a doorway leading to the Kohler's upstairs living" quarters and the gunmen made no move to stop her. She told the Proprietors own daughter what was going on downstairs and the latter phoned police. The bandits bed sped off in e nondescrlpt black sedan by the time a police radio ear arrived. second man. nus Fntwvins Anne no-f ,.bc.cI'.5e-ens V not .3119 Socialists have pledged 1.. TORONTO ICP)-Minimum and maximum tempereturpe: ' Dawson .............. Vancouver .. Q Fredericton . Saint John .. Moncinn Halifax ersassasssscsrrsxosg nsusxsirasnscsssaab HALlFAX (CP -The Domini weather office says there will be little change in the picture today. Forecasts: Northern Nova Ieoda. Prince Idward island: variable cloud- iness: widely scattered shower: warm: light winds. law-high New Glasgow 5'! and 15. IXIHOUO town I! and 70. ' lantern N.B. oouotiss. north"! half lower St. John river valley. up It. John river valley: VIF abe cloudiness: showers and widely scattered thunderstorms be- ginning this afternoon: warm: light winds. Low-high at Monctos 5: and 75. Fredericton is ass 70. ldmundstos II and 07. Iouthe .. half lower St. John river valley: Cloudy: for alone the coest; showers and thunderstorms beginning Oils afternoon; little chgngg h temperature: lllil winds. low-high at Saint John Ind”. Dsyefdaietrzovsreeelilll uion zuiohlhtwhde oec sirgmnwgma set! II 7.60 9. ll. EL! l. . E. I. -- VOTE CONSERVATIVE!