Col, A.W. Rogers, E.D., officer | non to Cadet Major Roland MacKin-/| Field yesterday. The shield, was CADET SHIELD PRESENTED awarded for rifle shooting in the | the annual inspec- 1959 D.C.R.A. competition. (Story on page 5) Sir Andrew. Macphail's Memory learned yesterday from Premier A.W. Matheson. Foreign Mini lo eeiv Conference GENEVA (CP)—The Big Four foreign ministers Friday night made a private, offstage effort to revive their deadlocked con- ed gg mel Pegi PGE ee BE» % $700 Mition Sought By Finance By ALAN DONNELLY Canadian Press Staff Writer OTTAWA (CP)—In the govern- ment’s first new move into the money market since the April 9 budget, Finance Minister Flem- ing Friday announced he is seek- ing to borrow w $200, 000,000 through a novel one- year.issue of treasury + pills. The new issue, with a longer term than any treasury bills hith- erto, is the first of two steps planned-to pay off $500,000,000 in 2%-per-cent bonds maturing July i. j Mr. Fleming said a further an- pouncement will be made during the week of June 15 on govern- ment plans to raise the rest of the money to meet the maturing bonds, The new departure in federal financing was described by a fi- nance department spokesman as a means of meeting part of the impending $500,000,000 in matur- ing bonds without entering the market at the moment with a "steal pace it was | father. regular bond One of Prince Edward Island's most distinguished sons, Sir An- sters Try ference. East and West German advisers were not invited. Each Pespetuate 2 —_ Ut Home Farm drew was physician, soldier, es- sayist and literary critie_of great prominence. In addition to his ministers agreed to hold a for- mal conference today starting’ at 2:30 p.m. (10:30 a.m. ADT). Canada Aids Greeks In Air OTTAWA (CP) — Canada has supplied 30 per cent of the ma- terial strength of the Greek air’ ish. These figures were given re cently to a United States congres- | sional committee by Gen. Lauris | Norstad, supreme Allied com-| mander in Europe, to demon | strate the effectiveness of | NATO’s mutual aid program.) Greece and Turkey are allies of Canada in NATO. Minister issue. For some time bond prices on the market have been low and thus interest costs are high for new bond is- sues. NO NEW PRESSURE force and 17 per cent of the Turk-| Arrangements for refunding the | July 1 bond maturity will mean | no new cash pressure on the mar- | ket. Any cash proceeds from the treasury bill sale and from the cash offering to be announced in the week of June 15 will be used for the July 1 retirement of the 2%-per-cent bond issue. Competitive bids will be re- ceived up to 5 p.m. EDT next Tuesday for the. new treasury bills. They will be sold either for cash or in exchange for the 2%- per-cent bonds. maturing July 1. Bids will be accepted only from “primary distributors” — banks and other financial instituti Any bonds handed in for ex- change will be valued at 104.25 any suggestions the donor may | have in regard to its develop- | ment. GENEROUS GESTURE He considered it a most gen- erous gesture and said his Gov- ernment would take pleasure in perpetuating the memory of “one |0f Prince Edward Island’s great- est sons’’. A bronze plaque to the memory of Sir Andrew was plac- ed in Prince of Wales College in July 1955. Sir Andrew was born at Orwell in 1864 and died in Montreal in (Continued on page 5 col. 4) Bilingualism ‘Not Essential’ MONTREAL (CP) — Complete bilingualism is not essential for the development of a national spirit in Canada, Prime Minister Diefenbaker said Friday. It is desirable as an educh- tional and cultural ideal for Cana- dians to be able to speak both English and French, he said in a convocation speech at the Uni- versity of Montreal. “But I do not believe it is any more essential to the creation of 'a Canadian nationality that we all speak the same language than that\we all belong to the same church or the same political party or have the same racial origins.”” The prime minister received an honorary degree at the conven- tion. WHERE-TO-FIND-IT Announcements, notices -- :13 Births, deaths, ete., 2 and 13 Charlottetown news ...... 5 Church Notices .......... 3 Classified section ...« 12, 13 Comics, features ..,..... 1 Coming events .......... 13 Editorials cipiveetaowea Finance, markets ........ “BB Island news ..........-- 2,3 Sports . oleceass Sem Woman’s page peteacaees 6,7 Late reports from Guardian news bureaus in Summerside, Montague, Alberton and « Souris, and from special cor- \ respondents now appear on Gold: Mine Takes Life Of 3rd Man KIRKLAND LAKE, ‘Ont. (CP) Officials of the Wright-Hargrea- ves gold mine Friday night gave up hope of finding alive the third miner trapped in Thursday's rockburst. The annouccement_came in a statement by general manager Frank Buckle, issued shortly after miners sighted the body of one man. Whether it was that of Peter Moras, %, or Gilles Huard, 19, was not known. “Since it'is now evident that () Miners == Are Saved MERLACH, France Seaerees) | Forty miners trapped 2,000 feet | below the surface after a coal! mine explosion here Friday were rescued as the death toll fose to 18. There were 35 injured. One man is missing. Many of the injured were badly | burned. Twelve..were flown to 2 Hospital in Lyorand six mote ‘fo! Paris for treatment. Teams of gas detection special- ists were at work in the Ste. Fon-| taine Mine when the blast roared through the galleries 2,000 feet underground Friday morning. The 40 miners who had been listed as missing were trapped under debris dislodged by the ex- plosion. Teams of men in two galleries, one above the other, and in a! third gallery, parallel to the first | two, were struck by the blast. | The specialists had been super- | vising the sealing off of a part} jof the coal face where firedamp | gas and carbon monoxide had | been reported. TWO SIGHTED score keepers, oe and Donald . MF, lant, Choiettctown waich with i-| score. was, 366. Seated in back terest as players, Delson Linaux ground are, Robert Murphy, St. oa he oe Se sy ‘R.J. Hill, Halifax, Morten F. K Kenny, Charlottetown and Mrs. foes Collerin, St. John. Chitown Player Wins National Crib Tourney by |by federal tranaport department B. 25s Saat cea A metere ne Se ee fifth National . Blind _Oribhage Tournament last night. Edgar Doucette scored 577 against 566 for Delson Linaux of Halifax in} the tie-breaking series at the Charlottetown Hotel last night. The tournament, sponsored by the Canadian Council of the Blind, ended this year in a very unique way. Over 100 players across Ca- nada participated in the 20-game | tournament, which ended in a) two way tie. D. Linaux of the! Fraser Club in Halifax, and E. | Doucette of the Friendship Club \of the Blind of Charlottetown fin- ished with a score of 2399, out of | a possible 2420. The tie was brok-| en last.evening at the Charlotte. | town ‘Hotel when Mr. Linaux and | Mr. Doucette playéd a series of | five games. LIKE AMERICANS TO CANADIANS Newfoundlanders Resent Ignorance Of Canadians WINNIPEG (CP) — Newfound- land MP J. W. Pickersgill said Friday the attitude of mainland Canadians to Newfoundlanders is similar to that of Americans to Canadians — “a combination in about equal préportions of good will and ignorance.’ “And just as most Canadians tend to resent this American ig norance so do most Newfound- landers tend to resent the Cana- dian ignorance,” he said in a speech to the Canadian Club here. The statements were included in a text of the speech issued to the press. The ‘Liberal MP for Bonavista- Twillingate, a former Manitoba history professor, traced the his- tory of the rugged island prov- ince up to its entry into Confed- eration as Canada’s 10th province in 1949. INSIDER ON SECRETS At that time Council secretary, an insider with cabinet secrets. He said the “great snag” as far as the Cana- dian government was concerned in considering Newfoundland’s entry to Confedefation was the unhealthy .state of the island’s finances. s “I, can well. remember one evening when (former prime min- ister) St. Laurent told me he was afraid that problem just could not be solved. But finally it was agreed that the federal government would provide certain financial assist- ance for eight years and .then whatever was needed thereafter to continue Newfoundland’s pub- lie services without a_ higher level of provincial taxes than in the Maritime provinces. It was because of the prov- ince’s economie difficulties, Mf. per. cent. the Island News Page. he was Privy F Pickersgill said, that the dispute arose earlier this year between and the striking International Woodworkers of America (CLC). OTTAWA — (Special) — A can be expected early ib M lay, Publie Works Minister Howard Green’s remarks about the tidal effects of a causeway were not intended as a first step to ie f s 4 Report Does Not | Deny Causeway middie of June. .| SEPERATE REPORTS | Sources report that sections of the main engineering—econo-. mic survey carried out for the past year may be released ahead of the main body of the work. pe Rad nye-velw iigae p Island MP’s plan to ask a num ber of questions of Works Mia (Continued on page 5 Col. 9) Engineers Recommend Angus MacLean ; Gets In All Votes OTTAWA — (Special) — Only ; provincial |man batting 1.000 in recorded votes in the House of Commons is P.E.I.’s senior representative, Fisheries Minister Hon. Angus MacLean. He hasn’t missed one of the 30 Toll call votes taken since the session started. A house official keeps 4 record apd found that only three federal MPs were keeping perfect score as of last Thursday. Besides Mr. MacLean they were Richard Bell (PC Carleton) and Reynold Rapp ( PC-Humbolt-Melfort). On Thursday, however, Mr. Bell was speaking at a Conserva- the Newfoundland government tive conveiition for the “Ontario V.C. WINNER’S PORTRAIT PRESENTED lotte. The portrait was present-| wardroom. A Royal Navy officer ed by Lt. Col. F.J. Storey, E.D., at the time Capt. Peters is said A.A. and Q.G., 2 Militia Group on} to be the only Islander ever to The presentation of a portrait of Victoria Cross winner Fred- erick T. Peters was made to the wardroom of the Garrison offi- cers mess laste night. It was a feature of the annual Army-Navy ball held at H.M.C.S; Queen Char- Black, behalf of the garrison to Lieu- ‘immabtder Nor president of the lena - (right) win a Victoria Cross. Mrs. Rol- 9 auiaad Paton of Charlottetown is a sister of the late Captain Petere. athe provincial election and missed the roll call by a few seconds. Mr. Rapp was knocked out the same day because he was ac- companying Prime Minister Die- fenbaker to Outlook, Sask., for ceremonies to open construction on the South Saskatchewan dam. Vacationland Purchase S'side Contract ? Is For $191,700 OTTAWA — (Special) — A $191,700 contract has been award- ed to Louis Donolo of Montreal and Halifax for work at the R.C. A.F. Station at Summerside. The contract is for construe \Sen of belt gelotoun eee installations, electrical tion, ied sal conedy Som at Summerside. The announcement was made by Defence Construction (1951) Limited in a release of contracts re Ore Decision Pending ‘Learned Societies Told GASKAT@ON (CP) — The Un- gava Iron ranag wy cl Company will de- cide this summer ‘whether to go ahead with a vast iron ore de- velopment in Labrador, the Con- ference of Learned Societies was told Friday. Dr. Trevor Lioyd, of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and a member of the committee on Polar research of the National Academy of Sciences, addressed the Canadian Association of Ge- ographers. If the «company decides to go Sailahead, Dr. Lioyd said, it will make use of a little-known plan to bring iron ore out from Us- gava Bay during the summer and stockpile it at an ice - free- port on the west coast #@ Green- land for shipping the year around, FINANCIAL DECISION “The scheme is economically feasible,” Dr. Lioyd said. “The decision te proceed rests on fin- ancing—whether or not this is the best time to tny to raise the $300,- 000,000 it would take for shipping and handling facilities.” If the company decides to start work this summer,’ it will still be more than two years~before ‘ore will be exported, he said. 6 ern Europe, the prime market for the Ungava ore. Landing point would be the new ‘Europort”— an extension of the port of Rot- terdam, 2,340 miles from Rype Island. Rype Island was chosen from a number of possible sites be- cause it has a deep water har bor and has suitable terrain #8 stockpiling. An agreement was \ reached with’ Denmark last September ua- der which a Danish company would be formed to construct and operate a port. BR would edet about $25,000,000. Ferry Accounts Demand Dropped OTTAWA — (Special) — The Commons public accounts com mittee has ahead with a suggestion by @ Toronto’ Conservative MP that. Northumberland Ferries be re quired to produce financial state ments dealing with the ferry Lord Selkirk. John A. Macdonald, MP for Kings and a member of the ¢om- mittee, said it had been -decided that pressure of other issues did not allow the committee suffict ent time to go further into the matter at this “time. The Selkirk at one time seem ed likely to blow up into a mint decided not to ge. =