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"fry yy Page 24 THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Thursday, May 27, 1954 Start Paving Sussex Drive Preliminary, work began today on uie widening ana paving ot Sussex Drive, The contract ior the street-inv provement was recently awarded to the H. 1. McFarlane Construction Company on a tender of S338.223. Sussex Drive is to be widened and repaved between George Street and Rideau Gate. Plans call for the building of a boule vard on the thoroughfare.

Street car tracks are to be removed from Sussex and tenders are now being called for the plac ing of Hydro cables underground. i 1 I I I i 1 I I Report Loss From Frost store, along with some of his colleagues. Shows with Fred are, left to right, "Dr. Arrow," Butch Scala, 10, son of Jerry Scala, Athletics outfield er who dug up one his size, and "Bud" Fisher who made the gifts possible. Photo by Newton Not Losing Their Shirts Just in case Ottawa Athletics' utility man Fred Gerkin, left, may be thinking of betting his shirt on the chances of the Ottawa team in the International League he was given a free one today at the E.

R. Fisher VkA SO Death Shocks Canadians when 500,000 volts of electricity How's that for hair-do? pass through the human body. Photo by Newton Shocking Hairdo National Research Council staff members outdid themselves in entertaining visitors at an "at home" yesterday. Here NRC technician Eldon Mulligan demonstrates what happens Staggered, Hair On End At NRG Show An unseasonal drop to 33 degrees above zero last night, accompanied by a mild frost spell, did some damage to Ottawa area market gardens and flower beds, a Department of Agriculture survey shows. The one degree above freezing recorded during the night was just one degree above the record Llow of 32 for May 27 set in 1915.

Hardier field crops such as hay, wheat and oats were not affect ed by the frost spell but some delicate plants like asparagus and tomato were nipped by the chilly air. Loss, however, Is not expected to be extensive. Court Order Dissolves Legal Firm One of the city's best-known legal partnerships was dissolved by a court order yesterday afternoon. Mr. Justice Spence of the Supreme Court of Ontario gave judgment in an action brought by H.

J. McNulty and V. S. Mc-Clenaghan against Edwin H. Charleson.

The jndgment dissolves the partnership of McNulty, Charleson and McClenghan effective yesterday. The action was brought early this year when Mr. McNulty and courts after Mr. Charleson set up a practise of law apart from the partnership which was formed in 1946. Mr.

Justice Spence found that the action in setting up the sepa rate practice was breach of the (partnership) Damages The judgment awarded Mc Nulty and McClenaghan $3,000 as payment of claims for specified losses incurred when Mr. Charleson left the partnership. In the oa iginal statement of claim Mr. McNulty sought (1) $10,000 damages for breach of contract: (2) $500 to restore his (Mr. Charleson's) share of the liquid capital of the partnership; (3) $500 damages for inducing breaches of contracts by employes of the partnership; and (4) an injunction restraining the defendant from continuing the practice of law for his private advantage prior to the termination of the contract.

A counterclaim brought by Mr. Costs of the action were assessed out costs. Mr. McNulty stated that he and Mr. McClenaghan.

in association with B. B. Jordan, would continue in practice together. Ruling Upheld On 'Preserves' Hon. J.

'T. Thorson, president of the Exchequer Court, today up held a recent decision of the Tariff Board that imported cans of mixed fruit or fruit cocktail could not properly be described as peaches nor as preserves. Justice Thorson refused the application of (he Canadian Horticultural Council and the Canadian Food Processors Associations to appeal the Tariff Board decision' before the Exchequer Court. J. Freedman and Son of Ot tawa and the Canadian Importers and Traders Association opposed ihe application for leave being granted by the court.

More Ottawa Troops Back From Korea Ottawa and district troops pari of the last majoi CaBatika- return home under the current ro tation plan arrived in Union Sta tion in the wee hours of this morn ing. Despite the arrival time (6.10 a.m.), a crowd of relatives and friends were on hand to welcome 35 homecomcrs after a year in Korea. Most of the veterans were mem bers of the 4th Regiment of the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery. They are replaced in Korea by the 3rd RCHA. The gunners have spent a year in Korea as part of the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade.

Most of the troops will have 60 days leave before reporting back to their units. Imagination By Bob Blackburn Citizen Staff Writer If anyone here wants his imagination staggered, the NRC is ready to do the job today or tomorrow. That same National Research Council was doing it yesterday to hundreds of visitors during the Hull District Catholics Pay Statue Tribute Hull and area Catholics had an opportunity on Wednesday night to pay tribute to the Mar donna of Cap-dc-la-Madeleine when the life-size statue depicting Our Lady arrived in Hull. The procession of the Madonna started from Front Street and ended at the church of Notre Dame de Grace, where the parish priest, Rev. Aurclien Bastien, OMI, welcomed the Oblate missionaries who accompany the float carrying the statue.

The pilgrimage, which has covered a large section of to date, is in preparation for this year's Marian Congress, scheduled to be held in August at Cap de la Madeleine and neighboring Trois Rivieres, Que. On the float, addressing the faithful and exhorting them to prayer was Rev. Yvon Poirier, OMI, from Cap-de-la-Madeleine. The tour director is Rev. Robert Barsalou, OMI, who is director of the Closed Retreat House at Ville LaSalle.

Que. Describes Pilgrimage Rev. J. M. Laplante spoke in the church and described the purpose and itinerary of the pilgrimage, which will go on until shortly before the opening of the Marian Congress.

The statue will go to many Quebec centers and also to New Brunswick before the pilgrimage Is complete. The tour began on May 1. The church in Hull was filled with worshippers as a special service of prayers and rosary recitations was held after the arrival of the statue, which was brought into the church. Other Appearances Other appearances of the statue are scheduled in Ottawa and district as follows: Thursday Uoday) in the yard of Notre Dame College in Hull this evening; Friday, at 3.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m., St.

Patrick Church; Saturday, 4 p.m., Notre Dame Cathedral. Sunday evening, Ottawa University; Monday evening, St. Jo-, seph'i Church in Hull; Tuesday, Mother House and General Hospital; Wednesday, Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, Eastview; Friday evening, Hawkesbury. voltages. Watchers were cautioned to block their ears as one machine let loose a tremendous belt of artificial -lightning accompanied by a deafening thunderclap.

In the same man sat in a heavily insulated chair with his hand on a globe that sent Volts of low-amperage electricity through his body. This was the giant Van de Graaf generator, and while he felt no dis comfort, it made his hair stand up like a irignienea porcupines 1 Quf's wltn Its nue potential. Blinding Jet Flame Another startling exhibit was a test ict engine which shot a blinding, flame out with a roar that made even shouted conversation impossible. Even this roar is the subject of NRC research, seeking to tone it down io make it possible for technicians to converse while working with it. Everyone has seen pictures of the complex shock waves built up by a supersonic plane, but at NRC you can see the waves directly in a fantastic wind tunnel that subjects models to bursts of speed of 1,000 mph.

Another wind tunnel blows vertically and holds free-flying plane Trade Fair Pembroke ferent displays will be seen inside the building while farm machinery will again be on display in the parking lot east of the Memorial Center. Each evening of the fair, including tonight, the Pembroke Branch Canadian Legion Band will parade from the Legion club to the main entrance of the center and they will play there' until the doors open at 8 clock. Top Entertainers Also on hand will be Mart Kenny and his Western Gentlemen, with vocalist Norma Locke, who will play a concert every night of the fair and on Saturday afternoon. A stage show with headline entertainment will be presented. Among the" performers will be Marie Demers, contortionist who has recently returned from TV work in New York; Walt and family, the hand balancing from Finland; a ilahce team, Dennis and Maxine; the comedy act by Norma I'avis.

Master of for the show will be ventriloquist Cy Leonard. Trade fair manager Morris Snider said today that all indica' tior.s point to a highly successful three-day event and he ex pects that last year's attendance figures will be shattered at every performance. first afternoon of its three-day open bouse at the Montreal Road laboratories. All the buildings on the 400-acre Montreal Road site were opened to the public view yesterday, but the three-day period would hardly be sufficient to take in all there was to be seen. Just A Teaser Whisking through the many buildings in less than four hours was enough enly to tentalue the imagination and to grasp the barest conception or the multi tude of investigative operations that are being undertaken in the establishment In hundreds of rooms in more than a dozen buildings, visitors were shown what was being done with radios, radar, television, electromedicine, radio frequency heating, testing air aircraft and ship hull designs, every phase of advanced machine shop work, fuel testing, supersonic flight, sub-zero temperature research, and dozens of other fields of knowledge impossible to list.

In one giant room like the Union Station concourse, for instance, were a few pieces of equipment generating and de monstrating tremendous electrical Big Valley Opening In PEMBROKE (Staff) With the sounds of hammers and saws resounding through the building, a busy crew of Pembroke merchants today is putting finishing touches to various displays at the 2nd Ottawa Valley Trade Fair scheduled to officially open at 8 o'clock tonight. Mayor J. J. Carmody of Pembroke will officially declare the three-day fair open and thousands of visitors are expected to view the more than 40,000 square feet of displays in Pembroke's community building. Destroyer Model Displays are numerous and of every size and' variety.

The most striking, perhaps, is a 40-foot scale model of the tribal class destroyer HMCS Iroquois which has been brought to the fair by the Royal Canadian Navy. Also on display, and for the first time, is equipment and plans of the Pembroke Civil Defence Corps and this is expected to attract widespread attention. This year's fair, the second at the Memorial Center, will use about twice as much space as the 1953 event, with the promenade and downstairs dressing rooms being used in addition to the auditorium floor. 90 Displays Altogether, more than 90 dif-t liament, by those he represented in Ottawa, and by all sports-loving The catcher of the MPs team, George Hees, who is president of the Progressive Conservative Association of Canada, also paid tribute to the dead second baseman. "Lionel Conacher's tragic and sudden death comes as a great shock to Canadians," said the To- ronto-Broadview MP.

He always played the game hard and clean and carried his great sense of sportsmanship into every activity of his full and useful life. Long after the solid body of the greatest athlete of them all had been rushed away by am bulance, the crowd stood in small knots in the shadow of the Peace Tower cast by the setting sun They replayed the incident of the single being pushed into the triple, the play that cost the "Big Train" his life after years of some of the most strenuous sporting competition in the world When word came that he was dead, members of both teams changing silently in the big quiet Railway Committee room of the Commons stared with disbelief. If it had not been for Con acher's insistence, the game might never have been played. Mr. Mc Ivor, who organizes the contest each year, had been thinking of letting this year's go by default.

For Page Boys It was "Big Train" Conacher, always the competitor, who urged the Fort William clergyman to keep the institution alive. It had been played for six years and had come to be something of a tra dition of Parliament. he collec tion taken at the game annually goes to the page boys of the House as a token of appreciation for their hard work. Mr. Conacher didn't like to think of the game being dropped and saict so.

Another great sports figure was not far from him when he died. He was Wilfqed "Bucko" Macdonald. a hockey immortal who was playing first base for the MPs. All through the game and right up to the tragicinci- dent, the fun-loving "Bucko" had been joshing Conacher about his play. The two had pulled off several of the better plays of the game that usually is studded with comic overtones.

Thl "Rity Train" it-as a tar In almost pverv field of mainr snnH before he came to Parliament as an MP. He was a star to the end, the brightest spot on the field last night, the hardest worker and the heaviest hitter. Although he retired from active participation in major sport in 1937, he was available for participation in any game right up to his death. He ended his formal sports career after one of his best seasons in hockey with the old Montreal Maroons. Greatest Of All Time Previously he played with Pitts burgh, New York Americans and 4 4.

7T Chicago Black Hawks of the Na- tional Hockey League. A terrific kicker, he was voted by Canadian sports writers in 1927. as the greatest football player in this country of all time. In 1950, he was named the outstanding football player of the half century. Even before he turned professional, the big huslrj youngster attained fame at baseball, lacrosse, boxing and wrestling.

One he boxed Jack Dcmpsey in an exhibition before a group of war veterans and the few who looked on declared Conacher put on a remarkable showing." He starred with Toronto Argonauts in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union as a pile-driving backfielder, a marathon kicker and a terrific tackier. In Public Life He announced his retirement from active sports in September, 1937, when he threw his hat into the ring for the provincial riding of Toronto Bracondale in the election of that year. He was elected and was named by Premier Mitchell Hepburn as Ontario athletic commissioner. In June, 1949, he stood for Parliament for the riding of Trinity and was He was reelected in 1953 at the general election. Conacher was a brother of Charlie another great hockey name, and onetime star of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Other members of the Conacher family have been prominent in sports in Toronto over the years as well. From the days of being a sand-lot football player in Toronto to the floor of the House of Commons, Conacher spanned the greatest career of any athleto Canada ever knew. His name was a legend in the athletic field. His reputation in the Commons was for honest work and effort. He died as he lived, a driving.

game, fighting athlete to the very end. Ontario's Chief Coroner Dr. Smirle Lawson said from Toronto at noon today that when he was informed last evening of Lionel Conacher's death, he tele phoned to Ottawa at once and instructed Dr. W. T.

Shureff, Ottawa's senior coroner, that no autopsy was to be performed on the body. He did not know at the moment whether those in-siiuctions had been carried out Dr Shirreff told The Citizen: I cannot say whether a post mortem was performed, but I will be able to let you know tonight." The coroner who was called to' view the body, Dr. Roger Rouleau, of Eastview, would volun teer no information he referred press inquir ies to Chief Coroner Lawson. Gen. Hear Departs Asim Ucar, chief of staff, Turkish Air Force, returned to Washington yesterday after a seven-day visit to Canada.

I 46. Conacher's From Pe One Even before the game, the MP had mentioned a pain in his chest to other members of his team, but he said it was from too-hurried a In the second inning, he was struck by a ball thrown by a fielder as he ran for third. "The ball hit him on the back of the head," said Maurice Jeffries, the Press Gallery third baseman. "I asked him if he had been hurt and he said no, it was just a glancing blow," Early in the sixth inning, just before he hit the single that was booted in the Press Gallery outfield, George Hees, MP. for Toronto Broadview, catcher for the MPs team, observed to him as he was waiting to come to bat: "It seems to be a funny thing to me we're not getting the home runs we used to get." The score was then 11-8 for the MPs.

"Well, we have to. realize that each year we're getting a little older," said Conacher, who celebrated his 52nd birthday only sl Monaav "Quite A Clout" Then he stepped up to the plate and hit a high ball which went into the crowd lining right field. It was a single any place else, but in the confusion and cheering, he ran. on to second and then stretched for third pushing into it everything he had. "That was quite a clout," said Jeffries when the MP reached third.

"Conacher looked quite grey and seemed to mumble a reply but I thought he was just out of breath." 1 "Then, a few seconds laterv' he slumped down and then pitched forward on to his face." After he fell forward, he bled from abrasions around the nose and mouth. Dr. McMillan quickly diagnosed attack as a coronary thrombosis. He never regained consciousness fully though he kept trying to say something for several minutes. It was apparent he was near death.

The Ottawa Fire Department emergency car was on the scene within a matter of minutes. Firemen Taylor Quinn and Bill Smith immediately administered oxygen until the Exclusive ambulance arrived. He was close to death as he was moved gently Into the ambulance by the crew. He Was dead a few minutes later and the greatest athletic career in the annals of Canadian sport had closed. It closed as the athlete himself probably would have wished it on a field of sporting competition.

Deepest Sorrow Prime Minister St. Laurent, who had thrown the first ball in the game to Senate Leader Ross Macdonald, said later the death of the athlete-MP had greatly shocked him. The news of the death, he said, "will be met with the deepest sorrow," by his colleagues in Par- 1s ft 4f 4 A models in mid-sir in spins. By altering the surrounding magnetic field, technicians can move the control surfaces of the model and pull it out of the spin. Test Gasolines, Oils Much of the work done is of direct interest to the man on the street.

In one building complicated devices are testing the virtues of various types of gasolines and engine oils, while in the division of building research such jobs as the structural oting of house frames, insulation. plumbing corrosion, excavating, and other htime 'building pro- blems are being probed. In the chemistry field every' thing from stocking shrinkage to tire wear is subject to scrutiny. The list is endless, and for those who want to look Into it further for themselves, the open house remains open tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. and Friday from 2 to 9 p.m.

at the Uplands Airport lab, as well as those on the Mon treal Road establishment. A. Charron, Rivcrboat Skipper, Dies Capt. Alexandre Charron, an old riverboat skipper of a bygone era when Ottawa was an impor tant i r-producing center, died yesterday at the age of 82, He lived in Gatineau Point. Captain Charron plied the Ot tawa River 35 years for the Ot tawa Improvement Company, from the 1890's to the late 20's, towing rafts of logs from Gatineau Point down to Hawkesbury After he quit the river he worked some 14 years in the Rockcliffe nurseries of the Fed' eral District Commission, retir ing 11 years ago at the age of 71 He was married twice.

His first wife was the former Leon-tine Moreau. In' 1904 he re married to Rosana Belanger, who survives him. He leaves also four sons, Lionel, of Hull, Alexandre of St. Jean, Aldoma of Kapuska-sing and Jerome Hubert of Gatineau Point; five daughters, Mrs. Louis (Leoza) Tessier and Mrs.

Rheal (Laurence) Dubeau of Hull, Mrs. Wilfrid (Leonie) L.afontaine of Detroit. Mrs. Charles Auguste (Berthe) ant ha of Gatineau Point and Mrs. Edmond (Beatrice) Barrettc of Tupper Lake, N.Y.; three brothers, Joseph A.

of Gatineau Point, Emile of Toronto and Wilfrid of California; a sister, Malvina of California; 30 grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren. Police Cat Is Strangled "Minnie." the mouser at No. 1 Police Station, is dead. The cat, a station fixture for several years, was murdered this morning in No. 1 cell-block by an inmate who strangled her.

In search of either mice or excitement, "Minnie," entered the cellblock and began to meow. The noise apparently irritated one of the occupants of the cell, who grabbed her by "the throat. Seconds later, Minnie was dead. No charges have been laid yet against her killer, in addition to the drunk charge which all occupants of No. 1 cellblock faced this morning.

If? I. tiv .1 i I IS t1 Jl' St 1 as. -V- Solve your problems tlirouah PRIZEWORDS son Charles Jr. holds the purchase which interests Sgt. Glennie most a fine fishing rod set, with flies.

Probably a fair portion of his 60 day leave will be taken up with the fishing gear, Photo by Newton JUST THINK! $500 for just a little thinking and a few strokes of the pen! That's what tomorrow's Citizen will offer you. No special knowledge is required only common-sense. And it won't take much time. It's fun for the whole family too! Make sure you get your copy of the Citizen tomorrow to enter this absorbing competition, The Serfemt Is Home Staff Sgt. Charles Glcn-nie of 142 Hawthorne Avenue relaxes on the livingrocm after his return today from his second tour of duty in Korea.

Mrs. Glennie holds a Japanese music box which was among the gifts brought by her husband. But Our Lady Of The Cape Parishioners of Notre Dame Parish in Hull last night greeted the arrival of the statue of Our Lady of the Cape, from the shrine of Cap de la Madeleine, which has been touring Catholic dioceses in conjunction with Marian Year observances. Mounted on a float, the statue is shown as the procession neared Notre Dame Church. Photo by Newtoa 1 gjMsjfcBkdSHftJrtfcS-SSAPfc'iV--SS.