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« LON Daily Average Circulation for April, 1953. Combining The Oshawa Times and Whitby Gazette and Chronicle G MAY SHE REIGN 2278 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE VOL. 12--No. 128 OSHAWA-WHITBY, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1953 SIXTEEN PAGES N\ H.M.QUEEN ELIZABETHII Everest Is Conquered; Queen Wakened forNews reported to be the third attempt ® LONDON (AP) --A Coronation- eve announcement by Buckingham Palace disclosed that a British ex- pedition has planted the Union Jack on 29,002-foot Mount Everest in man's first successful attempt to scale the world's highest moun- News that two climbers in a y headed by Col. John 'Hunt ad successfully battled their way to the summit of the icy peak in the Himalayas May 29 was re- layed to the Queen Monday night, a palace spokesman said. He des- cribed the dramatic news as a Cor- onation "gift." : A message from Hunt relayed to Buckingham Palace said: "All is well." The final assault on the Central peak on the Nepal-Tibet border, by Hunt's 13-man expedition within | the last four weeks was made by | a New Zealand beekeeper, Edward P. Hillary, 34, and a veteran guide of Nepal's Sherpa tribe, 39-year-old Tensing Bhutia. London newspapers hailed the achievement as the beginning of a new Elizabethan era of British dar- ing. They compared the deed with the triumphs. of Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake and Antarctic ex- plorer Robert Scott. That a New Zealander and a tribesman from Britain's longtime ally Nepal won the final victory was looked upon here as another symbal, like the Coronation, of Commonwealth unity. It is reported they carried Nepal's flag to the top, along with the Union Jack. Climbers Congratulated The Queen led a nation bursting with pridg in cheering the conquer-) ors of Everest. On this, her day of majesty, she took time to send a cable of con- gratulations to the expedition. 'Please convey to Col. Hunt and all members of the British expedi- tion my warmest congratulations on their great achievement in reaching the summit of Mount Everest. (signed) Elizabeth R" read the telegram to the British minister in Katmandu, Nepal. Rain Falls On 1,000,000 In History's Great Hour LONDON (CP) -- Leaden skies Some hailed it as an unmistakable dripped cold rain this morning on sign of a new era of British great more than 1,000,000 people huddled |ness, another "Elizabethan age.' and jammed together along 6% | At Buckingham Palace the Queen golden miles of the royal Corona land her husband, the Duke of Edin- n route of Queen Elizabeth, burgh, after breakfast visited their The Queen began her Coronation two excited children in the royal Day with a cup of tea and a nursery. prayer. She awoke early, about| Plans had been made for Prince 6:30. a.m. BST (1:30 a.m. EDT). Charles, 4, to drive to the abbey Her maid delivered her usual | by a secret route to see the crown- tray of tea. . ling of hig mother. Little Princess Three hours before the scheduled | Anne, 2, had to be content with arrival of the 27-year-old sovereign watching the sights from the palace at historic Westminster Abbey, the windows. crowd still poured into the heart of | At Trafalgar Square, the only the city at the rate of 4,000 a min- spot in London which the Queen's ute | procession passes three times, the Damp and cold but in an un-|great mass of / spectators was quenchable holiday mood, they (packed solidly under the towering talked joyously of the news that|Nelson Monument. Hundreds of the British expedition has con- cardboard periscopes sprouted quered for the first time Mt. Ever- everywhere in the rear ranks. est, the world's highest mountain.| Thousands more packed the Mall 10 deep, from Buckingham Palace to Admiralty Arch. All along the route first aid units had casualties to deal with--mostly women and children fainting. One first aid man said: "We have stopped counting now." The crowds were so thick that many persons had no hope of see- ing the procession. Some, after a long journey into the city, gave up and went home, either to join millions in seeing the Coronation on television or hearing it on the radio. A roar went up from the crowd at 8:10 a.m. when police opened the gates of the Admiralty Arch leading from the Mall into Trafal- gar Square, The sun came out just long enough to light up Bucking- ham Palace, three-quarters of a Crown Is Placed OnQueen'sHead By ALAN HARVEY WESTMINSTER ABBEY (AP) -- As thrilled millions watched or listened, Elizabeth II was crowned today in a ceremonial climax to perhaps the biggest Coronation build-up in history. 2 : The fleeting moment the world had awaited came at 12:33 p.m. BST 7:33 a.m. EDT in breathless silence as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, lifted his arms high and gently placed the jewel-studded crown of St. Edward on the Queen's head. A tense, historic pause--then pent-up emotions cas- caded in a flurry of fcoronets, a fanfare of trumpets, tri- umphant cries of "God Save The Queen." ; Outside, beneath grey skies, the cry was taken up by millions who had watched the Queen's progress to the an- cient abbey and waited to see her emerge again as the crowned Queen. GUNS BOOM The guns of London boomed out an announcement that the Queen had been crowned. The seven-pound crown remained on the Queen's head only for the moment of the crowning. Then it was replaced with the lighter crown of state, which she was to wear in her triumphal. procession through London this afternoon. Eight minutes after the crowning, Elizabeth was enthroned. Prince Charles, wearing a white satin suit, sat with his grandmother, Queen Mother Elizabeth, and his aunt, Prin- cess Margaret. He talked to them, in a low voice, and seem- ed at his liveliest. 'The climatic moment--the crowning--came after the ceremony had been under way more than an hour. In the earlier stages Elizabeth had been recognized as the "un- doubted Queen," taken her oath on the Bible, and then been anointed in the ceremony that dedicates a ruler to the Church. . The placing of the crown upon the Queen's head was, to ordinary people, the most symbolic act in the solemn three- hour service of dedication and consecration, the compact in which a nation and a Commonwealth accept their monarch; and the monarch accepts the people's law. . HAPPIEST EVER It was one of the happiest toronations in Britain's his- tory, and ne which for the first time literally fulfilled 'the words of the Coronation rubric: crowned "in the sight of the people." Millions, in Britain and North America and other countries, saw the service on television. The crowning ceremony came as Elizabeth II, showing no sign of strain, received the emblems or regalia of royalty --colorful symbols dating from the age of chivalry. At this stage she wore a pall of cloth of gold, a shimmering robe of such richness she seemed a slender figure of flame. Surrounded by her bishops and her peers and gentle- men of heraldry, Elizabeth as the centre of attention, her robe the most brilliant in all this glittering assembly. The Archbishop of Canterbury first said the prayer of benediction, starting with the words, "O God the crown of the faithful." Then he received from the Very Rev. Alan Don, dean of Westminster, St. Edward's crown, believed to contain gold from the original crown saintly Edward the Confessor wore nearly 1,000 years ago. 7,000 VOICES Arms outstretched, lifted high above the Queen's head, the archbishop then slowly lowered the heavy crown and placed it in position. Then came a heart-thudding pause, and the voices of 7,000 guests broke loose in the cheer, "God save the Queen." Bells rang out and trumpets sounded. The Queen was crowned as she sat in King Edward's chair, dating from 1308. This faces the high altar and is slightly to one side of the theatre, the central space in the abbey containing the throne on which the crowned Queen later received homage from lords spiritual, royal dukes and lords temporal. To the side of the Queen were six maids of honor. All wore white sleeveless dresses thickly studded .with gold paillettes. . EACH WITH PART All round the theatre, bounded by the four tall brown pillars of Westminster Abbey, were ranged the richly-garbed figures of those with a part to play in ceremony--the Duke of Edinburgh and Gloucester and Kent in crimson chairs near the throne, officials in medieval costume clustered in the four corners, and hundreds of peers and peeresses watching from the transepts, their own finery rivalling that of the actors in this passion play of monarchy. QUEEN MOTHER WEEPS Queen Mother Elizabeth, who was with her late hus- band, George VI, at his Coronation in 1937, wept silently. The Queen looked near tears as she left the abbey this afternoon after the tiring ordeal of the crowning. Her face was white and drawn as she retired to the' abbey annex before making the long triumphant ride through the rain-drenched capital to Buckingham Palace. There was not a glimmer of a smile across her face. The weight of the imperial state crown she was wearing seemed to bear heavily on her slight figure. The Queen had seemed strained at the outset of the Coronation ceremony. She seemed to tremble slightly as she glided through the great gold and white doors of the abbey for the crowning. She had a fleeting smilé¢ ior the massed ladies of her household as they swept into a deep curtsy, but she gulped mile away, with a greyish glow. 'nervously at the abbey doors. a, 9 4 70 Jail " rg 0 : ~~} H.R.H. DUKE OF EDINBURGH The Queen seemed increasingly gay and carefree during the ride through Oxford Street with its boarded up shop windows and cheering tens of thousands in temp- orary wooden stands. Those with a good view of the interior of her carriage noticed she was tightly clasping the Duke's tright hand with her left hand. The head of the procession reached Buckingham Palace at 4:12 p. m. The procession was watched by members of foreign royalty and celebrities in their abbey costumes, and by peers and peeresses in Queen Carefree In Drive Back Home robes, from the windows of the palace. About that time the rain stopped again, The marching troops slogged through shallow puddles with admirable precision. The par- ade maintained its steady pace, taking 50 minutes to pass a given point. The crowds at Buckingham Pal- ace, who had waited the longest and were now the wettest viewers in London, gave vent to a hoarse foap when the parade finally came back. They seemed to feel there was some special honor in being there to welcome the Queen back after |& day in which the eyes of the | world had been on her. | The traffic was so thick outside | Westminster Abbey that some of the arrivals had to queue up to get inside. Some peers had difficulty hand- ling their regalia. One stumbled getting out of his car. Another drop- {ped his coronet and a soldier |scrambled to retrieve it for him, On the dot the Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London marched into the abbey annex for their tra- QUEEN _ (Continued on Page 2) In harmony with the solemn pa- geantry which took place in West- minster Abbey this morning Osh- awa began its Coronation celebra- tion with a religious service in St. George's Anglican Church. Arrang- ed by the Oshawa Ministerial As- sociation, it consisted of an hour- long order of service and was largely attended by civic, indus- trial and business leaders of the city as well as hundreds of the rank and file who were there not for the sake of prestige or duty but simply because they wanted to honor their queen. CHURCH FILLED EARLY The nave of the church was fill- ed by 10.30 a.m. when the service began and during the processional hymn a choir recruited from sev- eral of the churches in Oshawa and under the direction of Leon Nash, filed into the chancel. Be- hind in procession came the mem- bers of the Ministerial Associa- tion. The Te Deum Laudamus was particularly well done by the com- bined group 'and the anthem rang through the vaulted arches of St. George's with volume and fervor. The eyes of the British Empire and, in fact, of the whole world were focused on Westminster Ab- bey this morning, said Rev. L. D. Begg, who preached the sermon. They were watching a young wo- man accept the heaviest responsi- bility known to man. solemnity, the grandeur, the pomp The breath - taking beauty, the | | | and the majesty of the Coronation Ceremony could not be adequately described. It was said that the coronation of an English monarch far outweighed in grandeur and solemnity any other worldly cere- mony. SPIRITUAL ASPECT : However, Mr. Begg continued, the ceremony had its spiritual as- pect -- it was largely spiritual in man respects and the day should be regarded not as a holiday so much as a holy day. Participating in the service were Rev. S. C. H. Atkinson, who aft- Oshawa Church Filled As Celebrations Start er the processional hymn, intoned the proclamation and narration, a prayer of confession, a responsive prayer and The Lord's Prayer, Rev. Mervyn A. Bury, who read the lessons from the old and new testaments, Rev. S. B. Coles who recited prayers for Divine bless- ing upon the church throughout the world and rector of St. George's, Rev. Canon D. M. Rose who pronounced the benediction. After prayers from the nations and the Commonwealth the congre- gation sang "God Save the Queen" with power and feeling. Canada's Capital Honors Queen OTTAWA (CP) -- Queen, Eliza- beth's Canadian capital toasts her this Coronation Day with music and color and military splendor and with crowds that may reach 100,000. Thousands of Americans are ex- pected to join Canadians in the public celebrations that will key- note - national rejoicing at the crowning of the young Monarch who is the first to bear the specific title Queen of Canada. In one wave after another, cere- monies which really started Mon- day night will roll on from morn- ing deep into the night. They will have everything from the march- ing of 7,000 troops and cadets and (the split-second flypast of 140 RCAF planes to city council's cruise down the Rideau canal. Police and military officials esti- mate that 100,000 persons Ww. crowd into the Parliament Hill Confederation Square area down- town before midnight strikes. The stage, mainly Parliament Hill but really all the central down- town . area, has been getting set for days. Everything was ready this morning, down. to the last ambulance and first aid post. The air force has tightened up the flypast that combines jet figh- ters and. lumbering transport craft and other planes and has arranged two special effects.