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1 z. An dl Eli. Riot Police Investigate Promoters See Also Page 3 OtUwa Police uid today they are making a full investigation of the promoters of Wednesday night's teen-' age rock roll show at the Coliseum that ended in a wild riot causing heavy damage to the building. About 2,500 youths attending the show -became disgruntled when British rock n' roll group the Animals didn't appear on apparently because of a financial dispute with local promoters. A mob finally stormed the.

demolished it, smashed chairs and other furniture, kicked boards out of the box seats, smashed light fixtures, set a small fire In a washroom, out telephones and ripped down flags. Central, Canada Exhibition manager, Jack Clarke estimated damage at about EIGHT CHARGED Fifteen youths were to the central police station but only eight were charged. Charges i 1 property damage, causing" a disturbance and obtaining liquor. -A number or teenagers were injured but none seriously. The- Animals were backstage when the unrest began but they were.

waiting for' receipt of the second half of a reported $3,400 performance' fee. When the balance was not forthcoming, -the quintet left Immediately by car. for New. York. iSaid leadsinger of.

the group, Eric' Burdon before he left: "I am a product I de liver mv product and over. Therefore the agei requires I be paid before I deliver. ANHUAL REPORT ore By DAVID NESBITT of The Journal The Ottawa Transportation Commission will be in deep "financial trouble if it doesn't get help from governments. Pleads thts'year OTC general man- Mr. Brady and OTC George Brady has warn- sioneft Lloydrancis.

d. ir. fares remain the same and tax relief is not forth- j-i Fare -box are coming 1 cannot main-kcient to- give the pufilTc' (ranv anJ fit a mfelt AnA.atin. if They died within minutes of each other in a spray of bullets at 1336 Highgate Road, between a Line Road and Iris Stretin Ottawa's West End. Cindy, her sister Cathy and mother Mrsj Beatrice Kingsbury, all lived at the Tiouse with Mrs.

Kingsbury's parents. Mr. and Mrs. -Edward Cindy would have, been six next week. Her mother and her grand-pother had been planning nhe party to celebrate that CPL.

GEORGE A. DAVIDSON big moment when Cindy wouldn't be "a really little girl" any longer. MOTHER WOUNDED Cindy's mother is in hospital suffering a bullet wound in her right arm. Cindy's three-year-old Cathy, ana ner granaiatner. tawara Auftry.

were unnun. Mr. Aubry. 63. told police Davidson had come to his home to see Mrs.

Kingsbury, who has been separated her husband, Robert since September. Wednesday, he arrived 7 p.m. sat and chatted normally, and acted completely as usual. About 7.45, Mr. Aubry went outside to work on his car, leaving the others in the living room.

DOOR CRASHED OPEN Then, 20 'minutes later, he heard the side door of the house crash open, and his daughter Mrs. Kings- oury stummea out inio we snow, ciuicmng ner blood-splattered arm. A shot roared out. shattering the door glass, but Mr Kings-, bury continued tpriin across Ex-Rider Joe Upton Dies at 42 Joe Upton, an ex-member of the, Ottawa Rough Riders and now at Murentianl High SchdoV died todayrWefw was 42; A graduate of the University of Upton joined! the Rough'Riders in the fall of 1952 as 4 tackle and played under coaches Clem Crow, Chan Caldwell and Frank Clair. He retired in 1957, He is survived by his wife, the former Jean Cornford and three sons, Joseph Eric and Divjd.

Would You Believe Mitchell Gordon? MONTREAL (CP)-Finance "Minister Mitchell Sharp was introduced to -a student meeting "Wedhfcsda'y as Walter qordon' s. The introduction of1r. Sharp under ithe name of the minister without portfolicj'with whom he was, said to "have clashed last. weeTc. jca'used red 'face Xyn the part of" the erring' chairman of- the meeting held i.Sif George Wil- ynivetfyr-r 1 "Well.

inaybe He; -Mrtchell said Sharp; witlj a 1 'j- i to ADllllS the street to the and Mrs. Norman 1343 Highgate. Mr. Aubry. still stunned heard another shot.

He ran into the house. He told police he found Davidson lying on the living room flop bathed in rune millimetre Luger auto on the Mloor beside him. (Judge Robert Good, ol the Juvenile and Family Court, in response to a report a letter was found on Davidson, told The Journal today he was unaware of the exist-" ence of such a letter. The re- port said the two-page letter concerning the Kingsbury family was attached to David-son's clothing and was ad- -dressed to Judge Good.) Cindy, and Mrs. Aubry, layxiprawed in the bedroom.

Cathy lay on her bed, sobbing- hysterically in terror. ROUSED NEIGHBOR Across the street, 'Cindy's mother had1 roused Mrs "She kept eft ing 'somebody help me A the police Mrs. Harrison recalled for The Journal. We did, and.did all we could to stop the bleeding in her arm." Kingsbury's injury, did not prove serious. No.

one on the block could remember hearing the shots, or seeing anything For many, the first indication of what had happened came when they saw trail of Mrs. KingsDury blood in the laneway beside the double bungalow dwelling. -j- AUDrys na occu-Road pjed the Highgat home for some years, neigh- bcytoId The but werent particularly well known. Cindy, Cathy and their mother had'lived there for only a few months since the family split, and many neighbours hajtln't even seen them. Cindy's father, Sergeant Robert Kingsbury of 329 Goulbourn Crescent, told The Journal Corp.

Davidson worked with him in RCEME Corps as a gunsmith. Davidson lived with his wife and children, at 1969 Bank. Davidson, a slightly built, blond, five-foot-seven, 130-pound native of Hamilton, had nothing on his service record to indicate any' prior disturbances or difficulties since he enlisted 1951. His army record was termed "satisfactory." The Qavidsons came- to Oftaw-threeand a half years ago' Before that, Cpl. Davidson had been stationed in Calgary where he married in 1954 Montreal Centralia-and In Ottawa he was employ ed at a workshop at Rock cliffe.

I homeof Mr. Harrison, Bid to Call Fisher As Witness (By TtieCP) A request by Mr. Justicee-Landreville call Centennial Commissipner John Fisher before a parlti mentary inquiry as a character wiyfess was rejected unanimously today. After a 10-minute closed session to consider the jequest, Senatpr Daniel Lang (L of the Senate-Commons committee, announced' the committee had decided that testimony by'-' character witnesses would be irrelevant. The com- mittee had voted unanimously against bearing any such evidence.

Mr. Fisher." who studied with Mr. Justice fcandfeville at Dal-, housie law school in Halifax the 1930s, had been waiting in the c'omhiittee rporhprior to the cosed sessiorT and he was'ex-cusedfrom the hearing by the judge 'after. Senator Lang's ari-ijouncejnent. Mr.

Justice" said in making the request' that Mr. Fishery-has known him -for 32 years. He said Mn FisheiMwnild contradicts comments in the re- port suomittea last, year Ivan Rand, former Judge of, the -p. VIC TANNY'S rioead trust PHONE 1 SPA "Your- outline A. GUARANTEED I CLOUDY, MILD Low, 25; High, 30 CERTIFICATE? I0JA BZnq JJt est Jen Cents a copy; home delivery 50'; cent; Ottawa." Thursday, March 2,, 1967 Phone 236-75 11 iMETEOFlNi; 7 Animals' Wouldn't Appear 2,500 Teens Mot, Coliseum Wreifced Parkway Park Massacre Thf Ottawa Jofiwai 7- 0 Forty Pages- doo id 1 1 uni i i rr inn ariuwiu anu r.

discharge otr statutory IV IaMons.Jkeynd., Damage in Coliseum The Coliseum will definite ly be ready 'for, the cm play show this weekend, and the Roller Derby is scheduled for Monday, Mr. Clarke said. "It will be business as usual for us." he said, indicating the damage could be repaired quickly. i Mr. Clarke said the CCEA Five Admit Charges Five of eight youths arrested during Wednesday night's riot at the Coliseum -pleaded guilty to charges in Ottawa Magistrate's Court today.

Magistrate L. A. Sherwood suspended sentence in each case and placed each on six months probation. p- "One can feel considerable sympathy for a group of young people who have paid a sub-i stantial amount of money in good faith," said the magistrate. NO EXCUSE But he added that it was po excuse for taking part in the riot which caused $5,000 damage to the Coliseum.

He said felt many more I OTTAWA SCIENTIST'S CLAIM year, ne saip in a report me prom presented to' c'hr council at' into' a loss and it' Theory Wrona? El (By The CP) Ottawa scientist James C. W. Scott has advanced a theory he says may shoot holes through Albert Ein-stejn's. long 4 accepted general theory-olrefativity and curved space. He has published hi? theory in the British magazine and there are' alraclv Indira' tons it may sc't the world's sci entific commuriity onf its ear.

-V Laurier djnner meett ing. 1 For extra emphasis, the same- theme several -itime' diiripg the course of annual reports by Nuhr.of IheiXC'a problem nsteih for iTTs this: more ukv.ii,. a aiiiaii mrciaLuiu profit; buUwhen capital costs new buses and equipment (J6urno4 Photo by Akin Potrkk) wouldn't consider banning such shows at alt In tight of what has happened. -i 'Where else is there for young people to assemble?" Mr. Clarke asked.

"We are always- open minded about letting the young people use our facilities." Turn to Page 520 teen-agers were involved and not 'all were caught. For that reason, he said, he was being The audience was charged $2.50 or $3.50 per seat. JThose pleading guilty were: Brian Tackaberry, 20. of 83 Hplmwood Avenue, to causing a disturbance; Michael Dicker, 19. of 189 O'Connor Street, to damaging property; Gerald Alaire 17, of 260 Mutchmore Street, Hull, to property1 dam: age; Pierre Desruisseaux, 20, of St.

Lambert, Quebec; and Mark Leblanc. 17, of 137 Joli-coeur Street, Hull. Turn to Page II FIVE Mr. Scott said in an interview Wednesday that hisTtheory holds that the speed of light is not affected by the gravitational field. "A necessary consequence of the Einstein theory is that the" speed of light is so affected In bath his and the Eirtsien theories, the direction of a light beam is deflected by tbe gravi- tatinnalMielH Mr.

Scpttv member of Can1- serve funds a'reeaten away, liy 1966. for instance, tnej o.Prw8 proiu was ww.wo. Capital expenditures, ever. used up all of tin and added $51,000, in the' red colulmn. The reserve for fare stabilization and capital expenditure dropped from $329 000 to f.r.

The seemingly answer is to increase But the' says this Hs not an adequate solution. It 1 1 1 cites a "generaP that jares should reimainjatf' pres- Turh to Pai $-OTC A Ji-', Aid W0Tni(Sip; See Also Page 3 A merciless outburst of pistol shots Wednesday evening snuffed put three lives in the quiet, snow-blanketed Ottawa suburb of Parkway Park. VktimA of what Ottawa police are calling a tlouble murder suicide were five- Kingsbury arid her grandmother Mrs. Eleanor 51; and the -man police say held the gun, army Corporal George A. David-eon, 33, of 1969 Bank Street.

Cabinet ute Settled "We don't have crises in -oUr governmem I tell everything 1 fineL isaid. Prime Minister Pearsoir In reply to questions about reports of his Cabinet being shaken by another round in the battle between Finance Minister Michel Sharp and former "Finance Minister Walter Gordon. "If I was to say anything -about someVrf the newspaper headlines I see," he said, emerging from a mornlng long Cabinet session, 1 would be doing it in very explosive language, and this 1 won't do. (By The CP) Prime Minis ter Pearson has sorted out a cabinet dispute over, how to make the Mercantile Bank go Canadian. A harder line is reported to have emerged.

How hard is not known at the moment, but informants, say there may be additional guaran tees that First National City Bank of New York will' really give up control of Mercantile. First, National bought Dutch-owned Mercantile despite a 1963 warning from Walter then finance minister, that the government wanted -Canadian banks in Canadian' hands. The cabinet flareup occurred Thursday and Friday last week whenjMr. Gordon, now minister without portfolio, clashed with his successor in Finance, Mitch ell Sharp, over the handling of- First National's withdrawal from Mercantile. Mr.

Gordon's nationalistic line was that Canada was too soft on First National, given five years to sell the bulk of its Mercantile shares to get down, to the- proposed 25-per-cent foreign ownership limit, Turn to Page 5 CABINET ada's Defence Research Board snce its establishment in 1947, said it he Massachusetts Institute of technology wilK undertake experiments designed to prove the Einstein 1 theory conversely, his own. A big radar will reflect a signal from the planet both when the, beam Is far from Hhe sun's gravitational field and later, when the beam must pass close to this Field. Mr. Scott said thatTlf hisJhe-bry is correct, the two measure ments of the speed of light by the radar, pijlsej will be the same. JAMES SCOTT.

Disp I Canada and France. Heward Grafftey (PC Brome Missisquoi) a ed whether Quebec bill. Supreme Court of Canada, on his inquiry into the judges -stock- dealings ine juage saia uie nana re-Mtt--has received wide publi city ancf4e wished to take issue with many of the -com-1 ments in it. cannot let that description, of my character stand to my dying day." began reading the 120-page report from the beginning, frequentlv adding his own comments along! Committee mem com- stained that theV. ad read thef report andthat it not Lnecessary' to go over the whole case again.

The ad journed at 11.30 a.tri, to 3.30i P-m- jr Soviet Agrees To Missile ffalks WASHINGTON (UPI) president "Johnson announced "that Soyiet premier Kosygin had agreed to Soviet discussions with the United on. limiting therms as nucleariissiles. Rejected 'V berT rfl 'iQ- I J. rr CINDY KINGSBURY WITH FOREIGN POWERS PM Claims Sole to (By The CP) Prime Minister Pearson repeated Wednesday his government's stand that it has exclusive jurisdiction over Canada external rela tions. He told the Commons that the constitution does not permit provincial governments to negotiate agreements with foregn count res.

1 i He declined to comment di-. rectly on Quebec legislation to set up a new department of "inter-governmental affairs" that would negotiate with other countries, bypassing Ottawa: "I will study the bill with interest," he added in reply to Opposition Leader Diefenbaker. The Conservative chieftain asked whether the Pearson government did not allow the former Liberal government in Quebec to sign cultural and education treaties with France. Mr. Pearson said this was not Right aecurate.

Any agreements that eyebrws at Ottawa to shoot up. had been signed by Quebec, had wl" nelP- "4 hinder, fede.ai-been done under the umbrella Pvnciai relations. Premier of a master, agreement between Johnsn of Quebec said Negot iate introduced in the legislature Tuesday, does not -underline" the desirability of appointing a parliamentary committee soon to' study the constitution." "Not at all," the prime minister shot back. "It underlines the desirability of observing the-existing constitution." They Read The Bill? QUEBEC (CP) The new department of inter-governmental affairs planned for Quebec, which apparently has caused weanesaay nigm. they, read the bill?" Mr.

-Johnsori asked concerning those worrying as -a result of the first, reading given earlier this week to legislation embodying the. new project. The department would be a successor to the present Quebec department of federal provj'n- jcial affairs, of which the Union Nationale premier is himself The bill, providing for the change-in administrative organization jsays that the minister. witWtfie authorization of the lieutenant-governor. Could conclude any agreement he deems "in accordance with the interests and rights of Quebec!" The agreements 1 d-be "with any other government or organizatKm outsideQuebec" Turn to Page 5-HAVE nsFfJe The Journal Be Heard Rplnur tho Kill Rillv uiiug Centennial Series Classified Ads Comics Crossword'.

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