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i ROGER GENEREUX. 14. Killed by Train. tfhhichrhpv-- IMII UJIIV.IIUI I "Decision Monday Invitation By Canada A wottr-Return -Of Dicfcnbakcr Py RICHARD JACKSON tt Tb The Canadian Government' decision is" to' whether Soviet rremier Khrushchev is to be Invited to Ottawa, likely won't! made known until Monday. Acting Prime Minister Grt.i made the disclosure this inoin in as Cabinet fathered at the East Elock to worlc through an agenda that included discus-lion of appointments to the National Energy Board and tnt Khrushchev visit among ohtr items.

No Decision. Mr. Green noted that Cabinet would make no. ccision -jja-jubuhef-the -Soviet Premier TIs to include Ot Uwa -ano-perhaps some othvr Canadian cities is his comirg North American tour. That wpyld be an an nouncement to be made- by Prime Minister Dicfenbaker on his return to the Capital over the week-end.

Mr. Green was flying West this afternoon for a 10-day visit with his mother in the Kootenays, and late today from Calvary would be phoning the Prime1 Minister with a report of Cabinet' deliberations. The phone call was being placed from Calgary because the Prime Minister fishing! somewhere In; the Saskatchewan lakeland north Prince Albert, would not be available until this evening. -The Prime Minister was fly fng back to the Capital Sunday, and would make the announce-ment-'cf the decision on -the Khrushchev invitation, said Mr. Green, "likely not before Mr.

Green was extremely careful to drop not the slight- the "Trime Minister's and' th Soviet Premier's pointed reference yesterday to a lack of 'any Invitation to visit Canada, Mr. Green grinned; "Ha hat quite a sense of humor, hasn't he?" VllasnTTeeii Asked. Mr. Khrushchev had said he couldnt xoine to -Canada on his visit to' Washington and other United States cities, because he hadn't been-aked, in the week, Mr. rtroon ftr tllVinir.

hi rHrr ilh Ihe Prime Minister, had announced that Cabinet would discuss the Invitation ourstion iThursday or Friday with si xle- ision over the week endT" I The Government, reusing to -(h hurried in the -least by Mr. Khrushchev's apparent sood- ('iumored impatience, was hold ng to previously -c Hull. (See 4- Found in Carletori Place Missing V7CT0RL Saanlch adio station CFAX which hopes 0 to on tha air Aug. 1J. missed 1 deadline- A Lie.

1 hm-mice In 'rcadcas ting iow er mis- Miagr Koy Pa rrett said at time: Tra the -trwrr was The. JOOoot, 1.950-poind an- Roger Genereux, 14. 1364 Chatclain avepae was killed and Roger Page; -18; of 301 Bay street, was seriously" injured in a level crossing collision between their motorcycle and a CPR dayliner at Hinchev and Scott streets at5.45 p.m. Wednesday. 7 The driver.

Roger Page, is in Ottawa Civic Hospital with severe 'he-ad and pelvis injuries, tin condition is described as The small motorcycle col-i lided with CPR dayliner 262 bound for Ottawa from No Warning Devices. The level crossing where the accident occurred not marked with, electric warning devices, Genereux. Page. arxT his 17-year-old brother Richard had been visiting a mk Joahisse, 71 Lyndale avenue. when Robert Page decided to take the motorcycle home and return by foot.

Five minutes after their de parture, news came back of the accident lie flew through the air and landed right under the aid eyewitness Terrcace ruaioney, 387 Gladstone ave nue, who bad been doing re pair work on a nearby house. The motorcycle, a light, blue model, was 'travelling south on Hmchey when the collision occurred. The dayliner was reported as sounding it whistle as it approached th level crossing. Genereux't body was found Detwten the tracks about 50 feet beyond the crossing. His black loafer-type shoes lay nearby.

Further hack towards the rroMinV th7 iw.VtZT ZJt crossing, the twuted motor-! cycle lay bes.de the trades, rage, wno was thrown clear of the train had owned the bike about two months. Gave Last Riles. One of he first on the scene V7M TirTniI6mim'anpni'iTwno adriinistcred Jast rites to both Genereux and Page, lie disappeared without giving his name, PoUce believed he was. a passenger on the day-liner which had stopped just beyond Young Genereux was still alive when the priest reached him, but died just as an Exclusive Ambulance reached Jhe scene. While rites were being adroinistered, brakeman Harold Anderson, 42G7 Tremblay Road, Jumped from the irainj and ran back up the tracks to' stop the dayliner from Chalk River which was due in a few, minutes.

Coroner W. T. Kendall. I2S6I Wellington street, pronounced Genereux dead about 20 min utes Genereux had lived in Mecha-nicsville until three years aeo I I when his family, moved to Marivale Road district i The train was In charge of engineer StatJcy.Patterson,710 Churchill 'irenuc: The 'tum gated by Sergt. Charles Rayner, Set.

Alvin Mereditl and Const. Donald Angus. Roger Genereux is survived, by bis parents, Mr. and Mrs George Genereux; h- grand-f mothers, Mrs. Alphonsine As-' peck and Mrs.

Clara Genereux.4 both' of four sisters. Mrl Ernest Hebcrt (Lucille). O'Brien (JeannineX Mrs. Kenneth Sullivan (Gertrude), all 'of Ottawa, and Mrs. Ronnie Bcnhe(V (Anita) of Vic-toriaf'lwo brothers, Arthur and Edjrar, both of Ottawai' The body is at the Landre-j ville funeral home-STS Somer- set street -west.

will be held Saturday at 7,45 1 am. to St. Bona venture Church' for requiem high mass at 8' o'clock. i Interment be. In Notre Also Picture on Page 5.) tr Tower Missing tenna was found at Carleton rct, Ont.j July 20.

in a railroad car which had been shunted onto a spur track and then for gotten That wasn't all. 'After the tower reached Vancewver Jury 2, ttl vanned still missing searth is and notnrileg a T- ate News "port, Stocks PRICE 5 CENTO. CE 6-7511" JL1. ON PAGE 8 74TH YEAR--201 OTTAUCA -TH RS A AUGUST 6, Killed HT Tl iTTi i i I I Jf I II .1 I I I I Ij I rtrxl 51 Bov ic lei I 1 'IFiiehd'Hu'ph Vl A3 rain i if i Art -rtt-j 1 1 i 111 I Hi 1 7 Mj if, 1 All rr ti I ill 7, I i FORETASTE OF PUTURE A whole panel of glass windows was knocked out of Uplands' new terminal with the sonic boom from the first Lockheed Starfightcr in Ottawa. The plane came over the yesterday and put out irt Moscctw Plays Visit to U.S! 4 MOSCOW.

Aui. 6. iJP) Nikita KllrushcheVs forth coming" visit. to -4he United States overshadowed all other news. in Moscow's newspaper today For the third day in a row the trip got prominent newspaper publicity and praise.

The Government newspaper Izvestia ran a banner, headline atop its masthead quoting Khrushchev: "We are going to America with-an open mind and pure This ita'rcrTnetft was wade yesterday the Premier at his. Kremlin press qmic-enre The paper published a fjll no-acvqira or us row pagos jo we sun- to the forth- coming trip. Pf avda. party organ. the gave Communist about two of its four, pages to news of (See also pages and 17.) A i I a.

VV4ft5 Ftilili- ing. Charge It 'was only one mile "but was worth a point. "That's the explanation an Ottawa motorist gave Magistrate 'Chartrand of Hawkes-bury in Ottawa Traffic Court on Wednesday. The motorist was charged with speeding at 41 miles an hour on Riverside Drive. He pleaded not guilty but admitted he was going 40.

He suggested the tubes of the speed trap could have been out two inches. "You admit you're speed-Ing going 4 0' miles an hour -why all this argument?" asked Magistrate Chartrand. mea.ns pmnt'V the-rrrotorist ahswered. In 30-mile 74ne, 40 mph orless costs "two" pri nts whie 4 1 mph or more means' three points. That ill, laughed the-magistrate.

"You admit 4Q sa Ftt-crmvfct-ytnr-at 40." the motorist answered, obviously pleased with his victoryV OPERATE? GUINNESS: IhNtviv Aug. Actor sir Alee r.uinne. u.ji! OiSpced i opflration to correct van- 'cose vems, windows on all 'aides the. lln k. iBULLETIWS A O'clock saiUoa-SutU.

The Bank of Canada Interest rate soared to a record 5.98 percent, today from 5.72 last week the biggest hmp a steady flveweck rise the Central Dank reported today. SUDDURV, OnL, Aug. 6. -CP) Two young men who fled B'-rwash Industrial Farm la't- Saturday were sent back to the reformatory today with three months added to their sentences. William Braden 21, of Ottawa, and Dennis farfield Barring ton, 22, of London, Ont escaped from the Tgar-den gan, CHICAGO.

fi--cIW Tt ents of rain swamped parts of the Midwest States today. More than 1 1 Inches poured down on UneviHe fn South-Central Iowa. Fort Madison, near Iowa's southeast corner, was plunged Into a flood emergency by a 9.42-Inch rainfall st. jousts Nti Aug. ii, (UPi The Newfoundland Democratic Psrty, a newly formed party backed bv or.

gantzra labor, pledged Itself ....11111 i I mpermai II today to. the restoration of democracy and the repeal of anti-labor laws. VIENTIANE, Laos, AugJ (Reuters) The Royal Laotian Army has suffered some 300 casualties fighting a -three-pronged Communist Invasion from North Viet Nam, Army Commander Brig. Gen. Ouan Rattlkone said today.

-(See- Also Page 5.1 NOTrTorRAGEDY. SOGNE, Norway, Aug. (UPI A note of tragedy wis' injected today into preparations Anne Marie Rasmus- 'fairy-tale wedding lo Steven Rockefeller by an an-! nouncement that her uncle Theodor committed suicide jthis week because he was "afraid ofj i INSIDE JOURNAL Eileen Turcottc' The Civil Service Tags NATO4-Tunch Nebulou Quantity u- Sports Pages 0, 10, 13. IS, Cold VVar torLa5t 25 Years? Pape Vanier Recalls War Experience Pace or and-AtxHiV Won-ierr r- i i msivjcw News "Editorials (6); Markets. i tTft ttt' tt-t 1 v.tttvwi'Vi 'i-mwyi A two-way Investigation started today into yesterday's smashing of between $5,000 and of expensive solar glass in the new Uplands air terminal.

The glass was broken with the arnvaY'of. the RCAF's new Starfighter which went. through the sound barrier over Uplands. Workers in Jhe terminal escaped injury from glass. On Display Today.

As tlx- plane described a powerful -jet engine with a cockpit attached went on display for Cabinet ministers. Air Force offtctals and reporters! this morning, both the RCAF and the Department of Trans Import --w-hu'h buiWmg terminal anriounc6d investiga tipru have been launched into the damage. Transport Minister llees" office said the breakage will not delay the scheduled. early-Fall opening of the terminal. USAF Captain George Schul-i stad.

who put the Starfighter Ibrougft its paces this morning' below the speed of sound said "My maximum speed to-! day was 600 miles per hour People serrt" a little disturbed at those broken windows. I didn't want to disturb them any At the terminal, glass In both -control towers was knocked completely out. In the-new- arrow-shaped terf minal vrhole sections of floor to-celling glass is completely shattered. Of the earlier" RCAF estimate of $3,000 1 a Department of Transport official said That won't pay (he cost of picking up tne glass." Frames Loosened. Trans port.

Minister I lees' office said there was.no structural damage. At the terminal, contractors and architects aren't so sure. Thej poinL- to -Homencd window frames: flash ing ripped loose on tbe roof and tile dislodged in the ceiling. In Washington, Micials ot the Community Branch of the USAF boom Must have been a dilly lationslsette. id the; REARGUARD ACTION! Snap Snaps Sentry's Seat Railbirds Have Ripping Time Aug.

(CP-The stiff sentry outside Buckingham Palace' turned smartly yesterday and ripped the seat oat of his pants. Like all good Coldstream Guardsmen. Charles Foot had been drilled into snappui? up his knees when he turned. This ttme the snap snapped his seat. bearskin despite (he aJdilionaT ventilation.

Guardsman turned his rear toward the sentry box where, he hoped, hundreds of tourists would fail to notice the exposure. Ms Backside's Showing. But, alas, an inquisitive child nipped around and spotted the damage. "'Ere. he yelled.

'is backside's That dtd it. The blushing (iuardsman was Top Juniors Win Matches By The Canadian Press.x The top two junior women squeeked into the third round of singles play during morning matches of the closed Canadian Junior Tennis Championships todayT Top-ranked Judy Borland, of Winnipeg, took more than two and. a. half hours to dispose of unseeded Dellene Raymond, of 5-7. 7-5.

6-3 while second-Seeded Iuise Jobin, of Quebec Crty. squeezed rtat Toronto's Brenda Nunns 6-4, 3-6, 8-6 "in a two-hour match. Third-seeded junior woman i Pat Ryan whipped Lise Cos- I of Shawjnigan 6-3, 6-3 in t.et second! Past experience has led tnm sec0nd-rank'ed junior men's I to restrict flight speed in builVJpaycr necded only some 30 1 up areas and near t0 blank S. Bunge. of! Window installation is intense-1 rwnwall.

6-0. 6-0 in a second-i ly engineered. Along itr. the glass, cxten-' sive plaster cracking has been ja characteristic of sonic boom battering in "Remember the F-l 04 'can' cruise at 1,400 miles per hour and at SOOOeet it is drag-: ging a pressure path 1 0 miles -wde su5d -tnore ihan 100 miles long In five rriin-j iTopenv msiaueo giasa siana io pounas pressure square iooi. me pressure oi, of the boom is normally about five pounds.

The Starfightcr was doing ,760 miles, an hour when it swept the airport jester-'dayr-aw official i At this morrung's 4emonstra tion. Transport Minister Mees Uokinplv stad Don 'side now. Johansson May Refuse To Fight in NY STOCKHOLM." Swede Aug. 6. t- (UPI) Ingemar Johansson, world heavyweight boxing champioo.

hopped a jet airliner to Paris today amid reports he refuses to fight Floyd Patterson September 22. Johansson is apparently angered about the tussle over arranging the September bout at New York. Worrier: A person who a ways borrows 1 and 4s generous about shar-jng it with others. 3 7 34 17 17 r.izrr Pa jtt1 Stcr 1 Pane 34 (3): Dorothy Ktlzallen I i i Sincerely, Edan Wright Bridge. Horo- Crasword Theatres (33).

New round match. Don Curtis, of Jroirod matcn. Mining 4 Days, Boy Alive WAWA. Ont, Aug. MichaH Vanreek, 7, 6 CP) missing n4ince Sunday in.

dense bush this community 120 north S4ulr Sta Mwj. w-is found this morning alive and in good condition. llcpe had begun to fade after 'searchers followed a trail of small footprinu left by his tiny cowboy boots along ti bank of creek The fool prints I the child crossed over or waded along the waterway. Henry iVahreek. the boy's father, war drowned early last May on a fhing trip in the same general area.

The boy's mother, who lives 'in th'S community had taken she boy tn fo Name Lake on Sunday. First fears ucfc tnat he drowned. A round-the-clock hunt rarrietJ out ny ronu paries anu -J mine workers. Day srun work-! ers from 'h Algoma fre pfop-f erties searched by night and the nigh shift workers took by day New Section Of 401 Open GANANOQUE. Aug.

6 Cf) A 0-mile section of Highway 401 between Gananoque and jOyceviIIe sideroad. midway to Kingston, was opened today, marking the halfway point in construction of the supcr- highway. About 240 niiles of Highway -401 are now. Motorists in Eastern Ontar.o can travel the highway from just, west of Kingston to its junction, with Highway 2 at Crystal- 5' miles west of Brockville. i i I I i Uphmm soon surrounded by a pack of laughing, girling tourists, all pointing at that srt35 red tunic.

Every few minutes Foot had to snap to attention, turn sharply, and make another patrol along the palace fence. Fverytime he turned the hole in his pants grew bipper. Rut in the best tradition of Brrtth earrwwi out his duty without batting an No one knows where that monumental rip might have ended if it hadn't caught the eye of the guard commander. He promptly marched Foot to the guard room, where a dispatch rider was sent off for a new pair of blues. After brs normal four-hour break the refur bished Foot reappeared to COL GEORGE PATRICK Wins Rifle Match.

Khrushchev Arrives Sept 15 WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. fTi State Department officials today definitely named Sept. IS as the date for Nlklla Khrushchev's arrival in the United States. They were still unable, however, to spell out details of his itinerary during his two-week visit.

They said negotiations, on. where Khrushchev wilt go and when are still proceeding through the Soviet Embassy here. Washington was slated as the first stopping point for the visiting Soviet leader. He is scheduled for a three-day official stay In Washington, then Is expected to set out a rrnss-rnuntry tnnr la'pg around 10 days. NE.W YORK.

Aue. 6 -m citv admirustiation hopes. to have 100 Meter Maids oni the job bv I to check on vehicles over-parked at mers TWO DIE IN; FIRE; VANCOUVER. Aug. 6 CP ru it art trnr.vi.ri rimH ia rnNr tiva mil i.

-i Mn.i.Tiiis. iwiiutt, "-v iX LT. ing an eany-mornmg fire her ws.lodav. All were believed --j Chinese. SOLD through Journal Want Ads POOL table.

Boston, $150 equipped. Phone "Many calh, easily sold. Journal want ads cost so little and brine such splendid; were not expected to clear the results: Call CT8-T5I1 now. Jbe until -Sept ember 12. WARMER Uplands Weather Off ice forecast: unny oday.

Friday sunny with afternoon cloudi- ncss. A few isolated seve-ning thundershower. A 1 1 tt lei i warmer and more humid Fri-1 Ottawa 55, 75; Montreal 63, 79; 1 57, 73; Fredencton 0. Vx IW.Wi'61. 67; Sydney 53? night arid high.

Triaay 55 and ,5. Temperatures. Ijta last night and Snag 35. 50 high pound the pavement for another four hours. Not to Be Confused.

4ust for the record: The excessively unconfined Guardsman Foot is not'to be confused with his colleague, Vie for who remains well and truly confined. Footer the redcoat wtvfls doing 10 days' CB following a complaint by a J'oung woman who watched him patrol th palace beat last Sunday. Sh said he kicked her in 'the process. The Guards were involved kw another incident at Windsor Castle yesterday when an eight-year-old boy was smacked by a rifle butt when his head cam too close to a turning sentry This lime everyone concerned a reed that it, was an accident. (See AUyv Page 5.) Ottawa Top Shooters connaught ranges.

6. CD Riflemen from Ottawa were today! bfg winners at the Ontario Rifle Association matches, fix CoL-George Patrick erf Ottawa, executive vice-president of the Dominion of Canada' Rifle Association, won the -City ot -Toronto match In a three-man shootoff. W02 C. W. (Chuck) Clark of RCAF Station Trenton, whose borne, town is Ottawa, jtook the Tait-Brassey match in another three-man shootoff.

Aubrey Osborne, lS-year-old Ottawa Glebe Collegiate stu-! dent who came to Canada from England two years ago, shot a perfect 50-pomt score to win the City of Hamilton, a match for tyros shots who hive never placed among the top 75 scorers in the Mercer Aggregate bated on total points In main matches at the three-day meeting. Aubrey is the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. R.

Osborne of 2237 Prospect avenue, Mr. Osborne, now a teacher at Glebe, formerly taught at Beckenham-Penge Grammar School in Lopdon. Ottawa resident. Major A71L Smcdmor of Army Headquarters, was second In the City of Toronto shootoff, forced when three veteran riflemen posted 90-point scores of a possible IOO when the match was fired yesterday. At RCAF lactone MONTREAL, A-rr.

6 O)- Twenty-two RCAF families were evacuated yesterday wvcri tiIt brok out suburban Lachine Air Force Htri tk. i. u.l.j sii-tr inuiijit.1, liltwIUUlIlac mu IL1L 0 children, were. transferred to i another nart rJ ih unit tftmr f- the fire gutted married rs. Firefighters from the station I were reinforced by two civilian units from Damage was estimated at $300,000.

RCAF Lachine. former headquarters of Air Transport Command, was officially closed last week although all personnel couvcr 54, 71. Victoria 5i. 67; Jasper 43. Edmonton 5 lyuj? Calgary 41.

67; Saskatoon 47. i tv. Kceina Winnipeg 59, gs; White River 52. Sudbury 60. 73: Toronto 68.

,62, Chitiutd 73. 8. Boston 62. Riflemen New York 60. 66; Washington' 66, 91; Jark.Onville 72.

92. Oklahoma 75, 97; Los Angeles Van- 66, San Frncisco55, 73. 1 met i I i.

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