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Show INDIANS GREET ROYALCOUPLE ABOARD ROYAL PILOT TRAIN, WHITE RIVER, Ont., May 23 UJ! Indian squaws with papooses bundled in their arms greeted King George and Queen Elizabeth today in a scenic woodland wood-land setting. The meeting took place at White River, a village of 400 which turned out its entire population popu-lation and a blue and white clad town band to greet the royal couple in their historic tour across Canada. It was snowing slightly when the royal train paused at White River, reputedly the coldest spot in Canada where temperatures dropped to 72 below zero last winter and often reach 60 below. The small band, dressed in blue oloaks and white trousers, trumpeted trum-peted the arrival of the royal :rain. The crowd on the small station platform, sprinkled with the Indian In-dian mothers and thoir babies cheered in the shivering cold. From White River the royal train proceeded westward through some of the most scenic stops of their trip across lower Ontario Province, en route to the twin industrial cities of Port Arthur and Fort William. |