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46 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Monday, June 1, 1958 Scotland Yard Security For Coronation By SEYMOUR TOPPING LONDON (AP)--Scotland Yard On June 2nd, a great lady of our Empire will be crowned Queen Elizabeth I of Englond. We solute Her and wish Her well in the heavy tasks ahead of Her. We in Canada dedicate ourselves to the service of the Queen ond to the maintaining of Justice in oll nations es symbolized by the Crown. PRINCE PHILIP CHAPTER I.0.D.E. Forges has forged a security cordon around Britain to intercept the crocks, cranks and political agita- tors who might disrupt the cele- bration of the Coronation. The Yard's special branch has been heavily reinforced to screen the thousands of foreigners flood- ing into London for the ceremony. Police of every country outside the iron curtain have been asked to alert the yard to the movement of any "undesirables" toward Britain. At seaports and airfields visitors were checked against black lists supplied by British embassies and Interpol, the international police information centre in Paris. There h.s been no unpleasant grilling. The polished and tactful gentlemen of the Yard are more discreet than that. © But all suspects will be trailed and watched. This screening 1s only one of the Yard's precautions to safe- guard the Queen and the thousands of tourists coming' here for the Coronation. Scotland Yard is reluctant to dis- cuss its security plans, but some details are known about the elab- orate security wall which will go up around Westminster Abbey when the Queen is crowned. Overall police supervision of the Coronation will be directed from | an "information room" in New Scotland Yard, a five-minute walk | from the Abbey. Top yard officials | there will be kept abreast of every development by radio. When the Queen rides from Buckingham Palace to Westmin- |ster Abbey, the 'information room" will map her movement. | The shifting crowds along the way | will get hawk-eye attention. Mobile {police will be rushed to meet any | emergency. Regular traffic will be barred | from the processional route at mid- night Coronation eve. A still larger Coronation area will be off-limits {to all cars without special passes |after 2 a.m. Coronation day. | The Yard will check every one of the thousands of persons occupy- ing a seat in the stands along 'the | route or at a window overlookhg |it. Every person granted such a | place must register with the police in advance. | Between 12,000 and 15,000 police, 900 troops and 2,000 other service | personne! including Canadians will { line the processional route to con-| {trol the crowds. Nine-foot-high | |wooden barriers across nmin| | streets will help dam the crowds. | Women. police will mother fhe | thousands of school children who | will pack special stands on Victoria | Embankment. | Stringent security measur es {again will be in force when the {Queen and Duke of Edinburgh | | make their Coronation visits | Northern Ireland and Scotland | shortly after the London ceremony. Coronation visitors also will get | special protection and they Ww! need it. Any large tourist gather- | ing attracts droves of swindlers, {jewel and fur thieves, pickpockets | {and other shady types. | "MERRIE ENGLAND" Luton Hoo's Coronation Pageant | { "Merrie England", to be held from | {June 9-15, will feature more than | 1,000 performers in Elizabethan | costume. The famous Luton Girls | Choir will take part with renowned | singers Anne Ziegler and Webster | Booth. Stands to accommodate | 120,000 have been erected. | Magnificent and 'traditional robes and gowns add their touch The design of this peeress robe was made for the coronation.of Queen Anne, 200 years ago, and though the ermine trim is no longer obligatory, the design is still the to the eoronation pageant. fashion for state occasions. Bombed. Hacked and Painted Chair Has Had By ANNE KRAMER LONDON (AP) -- Twenty-eight monarchs and a naughty school- boy have .sat on the Coronation chair on which the Queen will be crowned in Westminster Abbey June 2. All through the centuries, the! Coronation chair has intrigued would-be carvers, most of them pupils at Westminster School ad- joining the abbey. The best craftsmen in the king- dom have just polished and refur- bished the old oaken relic, but | neither they nor the woodworkers before them succeeded in erasing the schoolboys' initials. The lad who sat in the chair, | Peter Abbott, also slept in it all night. He did it on a dare. Before he left, he took his knife to the chair and dug out the words: "Pp. Abbott slept in this chair 6 July, 1800." J : That gave him a certain niche in EA ADIN 3 Pa om. ---- i al a ~~ EQUIPMENT OF CANADA LIMITED AJAX ONTARIO tr attmmaiotict ra -. Lively Time history and probably whacking as well. One big carved signature--"N. Curzon"--is believed to be that of George Nathaniel Curzon (1859- 1925) foreign secretary and leader of the House of Lords. Westminster schoolboys today don't practice on the Coronation chair. A night and day security guard is posted. A police officer checks everyone in and out of the abbey. As a further precaution, an invisible ray is connected by warn- ing signal to Scotland Yard. Any- one who gets too near the chair unknowingly touches off the alarm. Back in 1887, some eager beav- ers of the ministry of works wanted a sound at it. Shortly after the outbreak of war in 1917, they tried to de- stroy the chair with a bomb, and damaged it badly in spots. All the sovereigns of England since 1307 were crowned on the chair with the exception of Mary, wife of William or Orange. It was designed in 1300 by Master Adams, goldsmith to Edward I. Only twice has the chair left the abbey: when Oliver Cromwell was fhaugurated lord protector in West- minster Hall in 1657 and during the Second World War when it was taken for safety to Gloucester Hall. The chair, made of well-seasoned oak and decorated with gold leaf, is still in pretty good shape far its 650 years. It is handled like a vintage cognac. The crypt where it is housed is kept at an even temperature and insulated against dampness. The chair stands on thick layers of soft, warm felt. TWELVE SONGS Twelve songs for the coronation. will be neard for the first time written by Britain's most distinguished composers and poets tonight at the Royal Festival Hall, Vaughan William, Sir Arthur Bliss, John Ireland, Sir George Dyson, and Richard Arnell. Poets whose work is being set to music include Walter de la Mare, Edith Sitwell, Stephen Spender, Cecil Day Lewis and Henry Reed. RUNS THEATRE - | Actor-producer Bernard Miles is | running an Elizabethan theatre im the City of London Cotton Ex» change during the coronation celes | brations. SPECIAL EVENTS 4 Southend, London's nearest seas | side resort, has arranged several special events for 1953. Biggest will bs the National Air Races on June 0. to make the chair nice and shiny and ordered the woodwork stained ! and varnished. The country was| appalled at the "mutilation." Shortly after the chair was de- varnished. Even"the suffragettes had a go ) SAVE THE QUEEN dada 4, hr an afr £8 | "Peace be within thy walls, and prosperity within thy palaces." | MASSEY - PSALMS, CXXII. 7 ao ot OF STATE Almost the whole world will be joining with Great Britain in this, one of her most joyful hours. We would like to offer our most loyal and affectionate tributes to her most gracious majesty Queen Elizabeth. WOOD'S TRANSPORT (WHITBY) LIMITED