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Tuesday, May 27, 1952 THE EVENING CITIZEN, OTTAWA, CANADA Page 6 gBgpjBMtsstjaaatjasaB 'i jsTiir Bovs Reseue Three Women Stranded On Footbridge Swept Down Ridean PC's Win 4 Of 6 By-Elections, Gaining 3 Seats From Liberals convenience of club members coming from Ottawa to the club, Mackey, 15. of 242a Park Av-J enue, Eastview, and Wayne Brown, 353 Russell Road, East-view took their own part In proceedings. They had seen the dangerous situation from the Eastview side. Commandeering another! Spring Ski Meet Held At Waterton WATERTON. Alta.

Jack Bruce, of Calgary. Sunday won the Akimina Ski Association Trophy when he took top honors In the first annual Water-ton Lakes spring ski tournament. F. N. McCallum.

Progressive Conservative, 9.803; and Arthur Williams. CCF. 9,344. Waterloo North, a Liberal seat since 1917, was retained for the Liberals by Norman C. Schneider.

1 63-year-old meat-j packing executive, but he had tough opposition from 34-year-; old Elizabeth Janzen, Progres-. sive Conservative. With all 162 polls reported, Mr. Schneider had 12,440 votes: Miss Janzen 10,860 and Leonard Schroeder, CCF, 4,656. ed it.

With all 93 polls reported, he had 9,511 votes compared j.with 7,151 for his Liberal op-jponent Hugh Talt, 34-year-old publisher of the Woodstock weekly Sentinel-Press. The seat was made vacant by the death of H. H. Hatfield, who held the seat for the Progressive i Conservatives from 1940. In the 1949 electlorv-Mr.

Hatfield poll-j ed 10,429 votes against 8,539 I for D. R. Bishop, his Liberal opponent. In Roberval Paul Snenr.p 45- By The Canadian Press The Progressive Conservatives yesterday won four of six federal by-elections, retaining one seat and gaining three tradltlonally-Liberal constituencies. The Liberals retained two seats with reduced majorities over the opposition.

The victories brought to eight the number of seats the Progressive Conservatives have gained from the Liberals in by-elections since the 1949 general election when the Liberal gov on the east side. Without it, they have to go around by either Cummings Bridge or Hurdman's Bridge both long side trips. The bridge is also used exten- sively by school children and the general public as a short cut across the river between the 1 two bridges. It is not the first time that high Rideau water levels have floated the bridge away. It usually snags within a half-mile of its site as In this case, and is! towed back to position later.

sBwSSassssssssssssssVassssW mrbss1 r3asgE'Bsyyr' as rowboat leaky old they raced out Into the river using brooms for oars. They also edged In close to where Miss Mcintosh was hanging on. With the bridge steadied for the moment, by the police rope, they helped her aboard and then to shore. Miss Odette Dupont, 20, of 488 Wilbrod Street, and Miss Pauline Ranger, 23, of 390 Tem- servative leader, said he is "very happy that our candidates have received so decisive an expression of confidence from such a broad cress-section of our country." Stanley Knowles, CCF whip, speaking for his party in the absence of M. J.

Coldwell, CCF leader, regretted that no CCF candidates had won. "We shall continue," he said, "to take advantage of by-election campaigns to urge the people of Canada to support the progressive social measures for which our movement stands." A Canadian Press compilation, with the vote 93 percent complete, showed the Progressive Conservatives polled 44 3 percent of the votes cast in the by-elections, compared with 29.3 percent in the same six constituencies in the 1949 gen Birthday In Germany Trooper David Hanna, Royal Canadian Dragoons, will observe his 19th birthday In Germany. He is a son of Mrs. Nell McCuatg, 405 Lisgar Street. Nova Scotia in 1951 picked 130,593 dozen cans of apple juice, more than the total pack In all other provinces.

pleton Street, were the two on ernment was elected with a record-breaking majority. A total of 28 by-elections have beta held since 1949. The Pro- gressive Conservatives won 13 and the Liberals 13. Three of the Liberals ran as Independ-! ents or Independent Liberals and later were officially ad-: mltted to the party. The other two seats were won by inde- pendent Liberals.

Yesterday's by-elections were The Liberal margin of victory was much lower than in 1949 when Louis Breithaupt, who resigned to become lieutenant-governor of Ontario, polled 17,735 votes 3,345 more than the combined total of his Progressive Conservative and CCF to improve smoothness of a chicken's skin. Estrogens are chemical compounds mixed with poultry feed Cool courage of two teen-age boys helped head off triple tragedy on the Rldeau River last night. Three young women were" stranded near midstream as the big footbridge opposite Strath-cona Park floated loose and was swept downstream toward deeper and angrier waters. Two of them, closer to the city side, were tossed from the tilting structure into chest-high water and were able to struggle to shore with assistance. The third, caught In the middle of the loose, swaying hundred yards of bridge, held on desperately until rescued by city police and two fast-thinking teen-age boys.

Woman Trapped Miss Veronica Mcintosh of the Laurentian Terrace. 360 Sussex Street, an employe of the Department of Transport, was almost midstream when the rain-swollen river heaved the trestle bridge off its rock moorings at each end and the center. She rode the heaving bridge for some 2,000 feet behind the Russian Embassy near the foot of Wilbrod Street before she could be rescued. Sgt. Thomas Walsh and Constable Wilmer Dowd of the city police rowed from the Ottawa side of the river with one end of a heavy rope, held on shore by Constables Adelard Potvin and Donald Renaud and firemen.

After battling against the unsteady footing, they managed to secure the bridge with the rope momentarily as they edged toward the trapped woman on the bridge. Meanwhile, two boys Brian year-old Mlstassini accountant, won for the Progressive Conservatives. The seat, established In 1949, was t.ade vacant when J. A. Dion Liberal, was appointed a judge in the Quebec Superior Court.

With 84 of 92 polls reported, Mr. Spence had 6,268 votes; Cyrllle Potvin, 41, Roberval lawyer and officiaf Liberal candidate, 5547; and Adjutor Bou-langer of St. Felicien, an Independent-Liberal who campaigned as a supporter of Prime Minister St. Laurent, 3,397. Split Liberal Vote The returns made it apparent that the presence of two Liberal candidates one official and one independent split the Liberal vote.

eral election. The Liberal candidates got 41.7 percent compared with 52.2 in 1949. The vote was lighter than in 1949. Biggest t'pset The biggest upset came In "tfl at 9 AH AH the western half of the bridge when It broke loose. "We saw the east half start to rise in the water and I yelled 'Let's go back'," Miss Ranger told The Citizen.

As they turned, the bridge lurched on its side, throwing them into the water. It pushed against them as they half-waded, half -swam shoreward. As they pushed their way past the bridge end, now veering out to clear the shore, they were helped in by an unidentified civilian, who also drove them home. The footbridge, owned by the Rideau Lawn Tennis Club, had been in place only several weeks this season after its usual winter storing on the club's premises on the east side of the river. Club officials said last night onLAIIA opponents.

The Progressive Conservative candidate had 7,233 votes and J. S. Wagner, CCF, 7,137. in Brome-Missisquol another traditionally Liberal seat Joseph L. Deslieres, 55-year-old mayoi of 1 1 ii had no trouble retaining the seat for the Liberals.

With 84 of 99 polls reported, Mr. Deslieres had 7,163 votes; Henri Demers, Progressive Conservative and Philip Brogan, CCF, 585. The seat was made vacant by the death of Liberal Henri Gosselin. In the 1949 election, Mr. Gosselin polled 8,831 votes; V.

Leonard, Progressive Conservative, G. A. Chevalier, L'Union des Electeurs, 396; and M. St. Amour, CCF, 279.

In New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec, two in each province. Story In Brief The outcome in brief: Progressive Conservatives Gained Gloucester in New Brunswick a Liberal seat fur the last 52 years; Ontario constituency and Roberval in Quebec. They retained Victoria-Carleton in New Brunswick. Liberals Retained Waterloo North in Ontario and Brome-Mlsslsquol in Quebec. The one vacancy left is in the Quebec constituency of Outremont-St.

Jean. No date has been set for a by-electlon. PM Disappointed Commenting on the results, Prime Minister St. Laurent said he "will not pretend he is not disappointed. "But," he added, "I believe local circumstances were important factors and that the results do not represent any lack of confidence in the major policies of the government." George Drew, Progressive Con Gloucester.

The last time a Conservative won the New Brunswick seat was in 1896. The Liberals had held it continuously since 1900. A. M. Robichaud, 48-year-old Bathurst lawyer, led for the Progressive Conservatives from the outset.

With 64 of 71 polls reported, he had 10,049 votes to 8,770 for H. J. Robichaud, 40-year-old Liberal from Bathurst. The seat was made vacant when Clovis T. Richard, Liberal, was appointed to the New Brunswick bench.

In the 1949 election, Mr. Richard obtained votes and his Progressive Conservative opponent J. L. A. Robichaud 6,394.

In Victorla-Carleton, Gave W. Montgomery, 54-year-old Woodstock barrister, gained an early lead for the Progressive Conservatives and steadily Increas- that the city of Ottawa has paid half of Its upkeep for the last two years the cost of putting it up in the spring, dis mantling it in fall. The bridge was built for the NOW COLONIAL OFFERS DAILY 4-ENGINE SERVICE In the 1949 election, Mr. Dion won the seat for the Liberals with 8,103 votes; J. A.

Fortin. independent, had and L. J. Dallaire, L'Union des Elec-teurs, 2,135. In Ontario constituency held almost continuously by the Liberals since 1924 Mayor Michael Starr of Oshawa won for the Progressive Conservatives over Liberal and CCF candidates, i With 191 of 199 polls reported, Mr.

Starr had 11,757 votes; John L. Lay, 39-year-old nephew of former Prime Minister Mackenzie King and the Liberal candidate, and Herbert Roy Scott, 54-year-old Oshawa district farmer and CCF candidate, 8,047. The vacancy was created when Walter Thomson resigned to lead the Liberals in the Ontario provincial election. In the 1949 election, Mr. Thomson polled 13,412 votes; H0H-S1QP to SmCUSl 55 Mm.

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VaH Colonial's coaveoiaas Hck.t oc.44 ilgln St. "2 COLONIAL AIRLINES CANADA U.S.A. BERMUDA by Alan Neville, of Pembroke, while SSgt. Humphry was not represented by counsel today. Humphry was remanded for eight days.

The five men who were arrested at Pembroke yesterday were: Alfred Weisenberg, 54, Pembroke carpenter, charged with receiving stolen property. Frederick W. Schultz, 54, laborer employed by the RCOC at Petawawa, charged with receiving stolen property. Silas Earl Edwards, 47, civilian carpenter employed with the RCE at Petawawa, charged with theft. Mervyn Browne, 41, farmer residing near Pembroke, charged with theft.

Thomas H. Perkins, 54, Pembroke machinist, charged with receiving stolen property. According to RCMP officials here the latest arrests Involve the theft and sale of large quantities of battleship linoleum taken from Petawawa over a period of time. The authorities told The Citizen yesterday that additional arrests In connection with the army thefts will likely be made in the near future. Yesterday's arrests brought to 13 the total number of men arrested since the investigation opened at Petawawa and Pembroke several weeks ago.

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I hp Civilians Also arraigned this morning in connection with the same case, and released on ball until June 27 without election or plea, were five civilians who were also arrested yesterday. They were: Alfred Weisen-berg, Thomas Henry Perkins, and Frederick W. Schultz, all charged with receiving stolen goods, and Mcrvyn Browne and Silas Earl Edwards, both charged with theft. Bail for the five civilians has been set at $1,000 property bail for Perkins, Edwards and Weis-enberg, and $500 cash for Schultz and Browne. Released On Bail The five, who have been released on ball, were represented fPH I gives shines I gffi A'FIOVIft kestJggifSMfSSSjtMS, X.

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Special. 4-PC. SECTIONAL SUITE "Seems evenhody 'round here has a Safety Deposit Box at the BofM." Of course, you can feel sorry for him if you want to. But there's a limit. Don't help him out by leaving your valuables around the house when you take your vacation this year.

If you have anv jewelry, valuable papers, bonds, put them away safely in a of Safety Deposit Box. It costs so little less than two ctuu a day. And you'll learn the full meaning of a carefree holiday. Why not drop in at your neighborhood of branch and rent a Safety Deposit Box now while you have it in mind? For AH Fabric 9 Wine, wool frieze. Reg.

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When the typewriter Is not needed, it can be put out of the way in a jiffy. It's the perfect desk wherever space conservation is a MUST! Src louav Get ready for a rousing ding and a burst of cheers, as "Deadshot Dad'' scores another ringer! The neighborhood champions are gathered on the vacant lot to "do battle" in this friendly tournament, while their loyal tans toss in encouraging words from the sidelines. Horseshoe-pitching is great fun for all ages-gives you lots of arm-swinging, body-bending exercise, too. It's another pleasant pastime that helps you 10 Good Health the Canadian Way. BRADINGS BRADING BREWERIES LIMITED OTTAWA AND WINDSO BED CHAIR Comfortable chair convertible, into bed.

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