TElEPI-IONE 8506 Buyer meets seller with Guardian Want Ads. Dial 111 PAGES The Provincial Bank of Canada will be open for business in its new location on Kent Street this morn- ing. The Provincial Bank first started business in Charlottetown in the year 1919. The first local manager was Mr. and later Sen- ator J-J. Hughes. He was succeed- ed by Mr. Philip Noonan who in turn was followed by Mr. JJ. 8506 ml: for classi- fied ed taker, for quick results. Morris who retired in 1956. The present Manager is Mr. G.M. Mul- holiand. Previous to his coming to Charlottetown he spent eight years as managerof the Summer- side Branch. The new location on Kent Street will be more central and will provide larger banking facilities. The work of remodelling the building on Kent Street was carried out by the County Con- i who Maturation "Covers Prince Edward Island Like The Dew” OWN. CANADA MONDAY, APRIL 29, JORDAN AND SAUDI-ARABIA TALKS UNDERWAY King Hussein Turns Down Diplomatic Tie With USSR struotion Company and features the most modern of banking fa- cilities. Special features are the alarm system and a vault ventil- ator. The official opening of the Bank will take place tomorrow. Mr. Ali. Styles, assistant general manager and Mr. WJ. Bickiey of the Head Office staff will be pre- sent for the occasion. Guardian Photo Police Gel Reinlorcemenis In Strike-Bound Town MURDOCHVILLE. Que. tCP- More than 100 provincial police- man and company-hired detectives patrolled near-empty streets Sun- day as tension heightened in this urikebound copper mining town. Strikers who ventured on the street said they were usually met by armed provincial police and asked where they were going. One 13-year-old worker. Yvaon Poir- ier. said he was told to get off the street by a constable holding a revolver. No street gatherings are allowed. ,.0fficinls of Gaspe Copper Mines Limited. whose mine and mill have been at a standstill since the United Steel Workers of America called the strike March it, do ciined to comment on the situa- tion. ALL QUIET Roger Bedard. union spokesman. said late Sunday "all is quiet" but he described the atmosphere in the small town. 60 miles west of Gsspe. as "tense." "The company wants to reopen the mine. Apparently things are headed for a showdown- This may happen tonight. tomorrow. we don't know." More provincial police reinforce- ments left Quebec City Sunday for Murdochvllle. A provincial police spokesman said a group of traffic police was travelling here but de- clined to say how many men in the group. Thirty - five men hired for the company by a Montreal detective agency arrived here Friday. a day after a dynamite blast ripped a hole in s 4.500.000-gallon oil tank at Mont-Louis, the company's ship- ping point on the St. Lawrence river about 35 miles north of here. 8150.0N DAMAGE Damage to the company-owned reservoir was estimated at 8150.- ooo. There were no Injuries. There are 300 strikers left in Murdochville although 750 men are receiving strike pay from the union. Nearly 500 workers live out- side the mining town. Originally 1,000 men quit their jobs when the strike was called following the dis- missal of the steel-workers' local president March 8. More than 200 left to seek Jobs elsewhere. Thursday police ordered strikers to remove two shelters and a trailer set up for-pickets at the mine entrance. almost a mile from the town. Strikers said they were given 15 minutes to remove the shelters. Once the shelters were removed police told the ,' ' to disband. PATROL ALL ROADS Police patrols were set up on all roads leading in and out of here. Every ehlcle was checked. Early Friday the Mont-Louis res- ervoir exploded- Although the ex- plosion was termed an act of "sab- otage" no one was specifically blamed by police. The Quebec st- NEW MEMSERS OF CABINET ION. PAUL IIEILYII torney-gcncral's department said an investigation is being carried out. The I..t.riko started after: long. wrangling in this new community carved out of the Gaspe interior wilerness only a few years ago. The union. claiming a majority of membership among workers, prepared to apply to the Quebec labor relations board for certifica- tion last June. The company ob- tained sn injunction restraining the board from acting on the un- ion application and the matter still is before the courts. SECOND iN.iUN(.'l'lON When the strike was called the company obtained a second injunc- tion to enable company office workers to circulate freely on the mine property. The union claims the iniunction allowed strikers to set up sivelters at the mine entrance but the Que- bec attorney - generais' depart- ment says the shelters were spe- cifically banned by the court in- Junction. The first provincial police con- tingent travelled to Murdochvilie with the specific Job of ordering the removal of the shelters. Prime Minister Music Festiyal Opening Here This Evening The i951 Festival of Music in this Province will be officially opened this evening in Prince of Wales College Auditorium by the lion. A-W. Matheson. Premier of P.l.1. l A feature of the evenings' pro- grant will be the presentation of four life membership certificates in the Association by His Honour. Lieutenant - Governor T. W. L. Prowse. Brief remarks will be made by the Pt ident, Gordon L. Bennett; the ter of Education, Hon. Keir Clark: the ndjudicators for the evening. Dr. Leslie Bell and Dean Edwin A. Collins, of the School of Music. Acadia Univer- nlty. A wide variety of musical enter- tainment will be provided by a. number of classes. including brass bands, piano (open solo, junior girls' choir. senior girls' chorus (three part) and women's chorus. open. Competitions being in piano this morning in both Notre Dame Academy and Queen Charlotte High while. in the afternoon school chorus and vocal work will share the spotlight- ln Summerslde similar sessions are being conduct ” today where the ” ” i-- will be i ” by Mr. Reginald Geen and Mr. George A. Smale. Mayflower Says ''All is Well" PENZANCE. England (AP - Msyfiower II. bound for the United States, radioed Sunday It is halfway between Lisbon and the Azores. She was sailing in a moderate northerly wind and skipper Allan Villiera reported "all is well." HISTORIAN NAMED partment of history at the Univer- sity of Toronto. has been named advisory editor for Canada for the r' Saturday. He has been a contributing author to the en- Gaelic Singing Most Rev. Malcolm A. Mac- Eachern. Bishop of Charlottetown expressed his "sincere congratu- lations" to all those who took part in the Gaelic t ' competitions which formed part of the music festival programs held Saturday afternoon and evening at Prince of Wales College auditorium. His Excellency. who is a native of Cape Breton and a fluent speak- er nnd ardent student of the Gaelic language. adjudicated each of the Gaelic singing classes heard Saturday. Scoring the high mark Mr. Neil A. Matheson. g Soumport, placed first in Class 282 the senior Gaelic solo com- petition. Only two points separated first and second place which was awarded to Miss Juquw ao- . ter 3. Shaw. t. Catherine's. scon- lng 3 marks. "placed third. The lone entry in the Gaelic Chonrs Senior. Class 288. the "Cal- edonia Singers" of Charlottetown. were iawnrded the high score of 88 for their "splendid perform- nnce". Festival officials in charge of the various programs held throughout the day were: morning pron-am - Mrs. H.R. Miller. pre- siding officer. and Mrs. Waldo Bain. platform secretary: after- noon program - Mrs. A..i. Mur- chison. .. esiding officer. and Mrs. W.R. Aitken. platform sec- retary; evening program- Mr. Gordon Bennett. yl officer. and Mrs. Leigh Kennedy. platform secretary. Mrs. Harold Carver and Mrs. Bruce MacLaren accompanied the Gaelic soloists. and Mrs. Gordon MacMillan. the Caledonia Singers. Pipers Bruce MaoLarcn. Wilfred Burke. Harold Sutherland. and Donald Burke. accompanied the various Hidiiand Dancing com- petitors. of 90, M.P.. of Termlng the complete Gaelic Oil On I2-Day Tour Of Western Provinces OTTAWA (CP) - Prime Minis- ter St. Laurent has set off on s 5.7wmlle, l2-day tour of the Western provinces. seeking his third mandate as head of a party that has been in power for a rec- ord 11 years. The 75-year-old Liberal lender. accompanied by his youngest daughter and a battery of sides. will make his first major pitch for votes in a platform address at Winnipq tonight. it likely win he as "l-stand-or and provide provinces with a new fiscal deal if elected. Mr. St- Laurent icft Ottawa Saturday night aboard a special CNR car. With hlrn were his daughter. Mrs. Hugh O'Donnell of Montreal and several secretaries and press agents. Another two cars carried reporters and photog- raphers. IIOOND 0LDEs'f' At 75. he is the second oldest prime minister in Csnsdisn his- tuj to seek a return to power. The oldest was Sir John A. Mac- donaid. Conservative leader. who fought successfully for a return is ill at the age of 76. Commons standing at dissolution of Parliament: Liberals res; Pro- eess-3;vseescies7;totaln6. Mr. St. Laurent will travel in the West mostly by train. though putting in a couple of hauls by toria May 4-5; Vancouver May 5: May 7; Regina May He will fly back to Ottawa ft-osnRejnefortheweek-eodand spendhshirdweekofhissim (htarIo.mov- F ' treat. a hotel guest. was slightly ' der slipped from an uppa none - Moncton. escaped through a win- Heads Program Ai Music Festival Saturday program ”an excellent perform- ance.” Bishop MacEachern noted that the quality of sturdlness" characteristic of the Scot" was apparent in their willingness to at- tempt this type of singing. Observ- ing hat some difficulty was ex- (Continued on Page ii. Col. 4) TORONTO (CP)-Professor Do-p nald G. Creighton. head of the de-l Encyclopedia Americana. it was ' cyclopedia for more than 15 years. ' 1957 DONALDA MILL Prince of Wales College has a- warded the Victor Lyall Goodwill Scholarship for 1956-57 to Miss Donaldn Mill and Miss Gwendolyn O'Brien. Miss Mill is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Mill. 252 Fitzroy St.. Charlottetown. She last year- GWEN O'BRIEN GOODWILL SCHOLARSHIPS Mr. and Mrs. Luuis O'Brien, Ken- singion Road. She stood third in her First Year work. Both have been taking Second Year Prince of Wales and have outstanding records for scholastic and extra- curricular activity. The scholarship is given each stood second in First year P.W.C. year by the estate of the late Mrs. V.L. Goodwill in memory of Dr. Miss O'Brien is the daughter of Goodwill. WEATHER ' Clear with a few cloudy Infervsslss little change in temperature. Low-high of Cl-Iorloffofown 40 and 50. p AMMAN, Jordan (Reuters)- lKing Hussein of Jordan Sunday flew to Riyadh, capital of Saudi l Arabia, and held immediate talks Iwith King Snud, I staunch antl- : Commu ist who has congratulated - Hussein in his fight to keep Jor- . dan from being taken over by leftists. Hussein was accompanied by Foreign Minister Samir Rafai and the chief of the royal cabinet, Bah- jat Talhouni. His flight to Riyadh followed his decision to stamp out a move started by left - wing politicans aimed at setting up diplomatic re- lations between Jordan and Bus- sis. . The 21-year-old monarch refused his royal assent to a decision made April 3 by the left-wing gov- ernment of ex-premier Sulieman Nabuisi to establish full relations with the Soviet Union. REINSTATE 15 At the same time the new in- dependent government of Sayed Ibrahim announced that 15 civil l9fVInts fired under the Nabulsi regime will be reinstated- Three other civil servants national Mr. John Diefenbaker. National -Leader of the Progressive Con- servative Party accompanied by Mrs. Dlcfenbakcx arrived in Charl- ” n last night. The P.C. Lead- CONSERVATIVE LEADER VISITS PROVINCE or will make a visit to Montague when Mr. Dicfenbaker will con- nnd Summerside before addressing t inue his election campaigr in a public meeting at the Rollwayi Nova Scotia. Club tonight. They will leave the! island early tomorrow morning Guardian Photo broadcasting director Hafez Abdel Hndi and his two assistants-will be dismissed because of their "attitude" during the 18 - day crisis. Security forces Sunday sealed all political party premises in Amman. removed party name plates from office doors and tore down party placards. The troops acted under emergency regula- goans nlgatltuted Thursday along .11; and sour- Wu. The ct round-theclock curfew .emsined in effect but was lifted for five hours Sunday morn- ins These moves are the latest in I string of stern means In! against Communists and left-wing nation- allsts in, the Arab kingdom. IINSION CAME 1'0 HEAD Tension between left-wing el- ements and the palace came to a head following the Nabulsl government's decision to create closer ties with Russia. A week after that decision. Hussein asked for Nabulsl's resignation and ush- ered in political and military tur- moil which saw two governments fail. four cabinet - forming at- tempts fail and two army com- msnders resign and flee to Syria within two weeks. JERUSALEM (AP)-Israel has assured the United States die will not intervene in Jordan as long as the status quo is maintained there. a foreign ministry spokes- man said Sunday. At the same time, Israel re- PRICE 5c Israel Promises U.S. To Keep Out Of Jordan Crisis dom of action should Jordan's Arab neighbors dismember that king- dom. Israels position was conveyed by foreign minister Golda Meir at a meeting Thursday with U.S. Am- bassador Edward B. Lawson. Law- son, a week earlier, delivered to Mrs. Meir an American warning against any precipitate action by Israel in the troubled Jordan situ- ation. BAGHDAD, Iraq. (AP)--A Jor- danian diplomat made a midnight ride across the desert to bring a personal message Sunday from Hussein to his cousin, 21-year-old king Faisal II of Iraq. Abdullah Zurakht, Jordanian charge d'affaires in Baghdad. was received in the royal palace al- most immediately after his as- rivai. The king kept him in audi- ence for three hours. MOSCOW (AP) Pravda icharged Sunday that the Jordan crisis is part of an American "conspiracy" and said the U.8. tith Fleet's move to the eastern Mediterranean has br o u g h t "threats of war over the Mideast again." The Communist party paper's long-delayed first editorial reac- tion to the Jordan situation con- tains standard Soviet charges and recriminations against the United States but no threats or ultimat- ums. The closest it comes to a warn- lng Is the statement that "peace loving peoples are vitally inter- ested in the maintenance of peace in the Mideast and the rest of the world and oppose this planned ag- gression ss vigorously as they op- posed the attack on Egypt-" Prince Phillip Ducks Guards CARDIFF, Wales (AP)-Prince Philip ducked quietly out of an official city reception Saturday and mingled with thousands of Welsh folk. His bodyguards didn't notice him go. The result: a near-melee as dozens of surprised women fought to get close enough to touch Queen Elizabeth's husband. Po- licemen were called in to hold them back. Philip spent some time strolling among the throng. pausing now and again for a chat with people he mct- After returning to the re- ception he told Cardiff officials: "I just wanted to meet the people." Philip visited the Welsh capital to receive the freedom of the city. He slipped away on his unsched- uled stroll during a tca-drinking rael reserved the right of free- reception attended by 200 guests. I Fire Destroys Hotel, House I At Dolhousie DALIIOUSIFS, NB. (CPI--Fires here Saturday destroyed the is- room Bay View Hotel and one: dwelling and damaged another; - idencc. Fire department of- ficiais estimated the total damage at 845.500. Five persons injured. none be- lieved seriously, and taken to hos- pital were: Ulysses Barriault. 2!. son of Wilfred Barriauit, the hotel own- er. burned on the head and should- ers when he ran upstairs to warn occupants; Wilfred Michnrd. Trols Pistoies. Que.. a guest who suf- fered back injuries in Jumping from an upper window; deputy fire chief Charles Ouitard and firemen Felix Landry and Ade- Iard Valdros. overcome by smoke in a fire at a house owned by Paul Bernard. In addition to the five taken to hospital. Jerry McKinney of Mon- bs-nised and gashed when a lad- window. The ladder. left up one double windows were removed the prev- loos day, also provided a mean of escape for Leroy C. Fullerton of Saint John. Another guest. J. Murphy of ow to a porch roof and lumped from there. J, L. Gagnon of RI- mouski, Que. leaped to safety from an and lens. Freight Train Is Derailed PLASTER ROCK. N.B. (CPI- Twcnty - fnur cars of a CNR freight train were dcrailod early Sunday night at a remote pitlnt between her and Grand Falls.. about 30 miles away. 1 Sketchy information rt-aching here indicated a broken wheel on one of the cars caused the wreck. At midnight a tank car which had .. ben loaded with fuel oil was re- ported still ablaze. There were no rrports of in- juries. 'l'hc freight was said en route to Moncton. i i I Catholic Chaplain. Dies Unexpectedly MONTREAL (CPI-Rev. Roland Mscitinnen, 55. chaplain of the Montreal Catholic Sailors Club for the last I1 years. died sud- denly Saturday after saying mass at Loyola College. Father Marlilnnon, a native of . Cape Breton island, N S.. came to . Loyola after serving six years as ' rector of the Jesuit Novitiate at Guelph. Ont. 'l'0KYOS'l'U'DlN'ISCLA8lI TOKYO Illederst Japan- ese -studenta demonstrating agsi nuclear tests clashed with about 1.5m police Saturday out- m the British Embassy in To- WIN TOP Top placing; in Class 13 lei. Students aim deigngu-mod Solo National Dance. in years and h from at the American jpd gm-.' over, were awarded to the three bi esrisassies. iynung ladies shown above: I971 ll PLACINGS right. Ruth Ross. Charlottetown. Hrst with I marks: Margaret carol Ilselaod. Charlottetown. I nadnaepree RoynlIy,whtledfersleod scorn OK ...li ti. I ..4.. ..... WI; "".”;j'T"(.T” rm . --