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m'mmw a mm I The Ottawa Journal Friday, Jeplember 22, 1967 Th Ottawa Journal Won Fight Against Disease A Woman Who Turn Ql "7 'Su'lf I Knows I I "MONSOON ON KENT STREET A flash downpour that drenched rush-hour pedestrians and stalled downtown traffic dumped 1.9 inches of rain on the capital Thursday A new Ottawa resident, recently come from India, said he was Iff IIIUI By BOB MeDOUGALL of The Journal A knock sounded on the door and there stood a half-starved, downed Allied airman with frifeht in his wk To help, and get caught, meant a firing-squad death, not only for oneself but one's' entire 1 family. Through such underground networks as the "Comet Rail re a A GAZE INTO A HEROIC PAST Former head of the DanishX underground in i Elsinore. Denmark, during the Second World War. Akscl Petersen (left), and Ralph Rafter (right). Toronto, one ef the airmen he helped to escape from occupied Denmark gaze at some mementos of the war.

Before them is a silver cigarette case, presented by grateful airmen from Niagara Falls.NY, and commendatory letters to Mr. Petersen from the Ameri-. can and British governments. (Journal Photo by Dominion Witt) FOR UNDERGROUND MAN Dacictinn (Zarmnnc 'Quite Natural' Th niohi. nf tem.r Have Danish coast at Elsinore.

"By saboteur just one month before the war ended and the police inspector had to flee his native land after several narrow escapes from German captuie. Mr. Petersen, who refused all medals for his risky part in the war effort, explained he fought the Germans because he disliked them and their occupation of Denmark and, thus, to resist natural and "what one had to do." amazed at the storm's force, terming it "exactly like a. monsoon." This photo shows Kent Street traffic gushing northward to Wellington Street at the height of the storm. (jowwi ptow by DonMon wm) They Risked Death to Aid in Escapes Honor Wartime Yet.

thousands of "helpers' in German-occupied territory during the Second, World War. disregarded the" pin conse quences or-their choice and courageously helped these men to escape. J.IN HELPED way." the "Pat O'Leary Escape Line" and, "ShelburaOperation Bonaparte" they managed to help no less than 3. NO airmen of the British Commonwealth return to Allied Lines before the war's end. These people were not forgotten.

Thursday. 14 "helpers" were guests of bonorrat a civic banquet in Ottawa City Hall. Invited ta Canada for 21-day visit tha. centennial project af the Royal Air Forces Escaping Society. Canadian Branch they repra-aeated Mm 4.SM natives sf Belgium, Laxeaabaarg.

France. Norway. Denmark, Greece. Holland and Italy who made tha escapes possible. They" were greeted by Angus MacLean.

Conservative MP for the Prince Edwardlsland riding of Queens and president of the Canadian Branch, a former bomber pilot who escaped on the "Comet underground rait way. Among some of the notable reunions at the banquet was that of Col. Ray Labrosse." spe-ial assistant to Defence Minis ter Leo Cadieux with Countess Genevieve De Poulpiquet and Francois Kerambrun of France. During the war Col. Lacrosse had been sent to France by Allied Intelligence to set up OLD GLOUCESTER LAND Liquor Vote in Last 'Dry' Area of City? become evenings of lavish I this time.

I was fed up withlcester Township in 1950. festivity Or at least so it must have seemed to Akscl Petersen, a retired police inspector and former member of the Danish underground, as he attended the black-tie 'dinner, reception and dance at Government House Wednesday in honor of Princess Margarcthe of Denmark. The Canadian branch of the Royal Air Forces Escaping Society brought over, as a centennial project. Mr. Petersen and 13 other persons who assisted Canadian airmen downed in German occupied territory for a tours and dinners in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal.

RECALL TIMES Mr. Petersen and Ralph Rafter of Toronto. Canadian airman he helped escape from occupied territory recalled their war-time experiences for The Journal. Mr. Rafter described how he bailed over Denmark in August.

1944. after the wing of his Lancaster had been literally lom off" by lighter fire. After hiding in a farmer's vslack for two day, aiked the 110 miles to the everything," he said. But then he was put in touch with Mr. Petersen who.

with the help of the underground, smuggled him over to neutral Sweden in a small partition under a pile of coal on a Swedish freighter. In an occupied country where even, one' is a potential traitor. Mr. Petersen detailed how the underground never made appointments for fear of betrayal, changed home and headquarters frequently, usually slept with a gun under their pillow-endHn-spite of being a police inspector, forged identification papers regularly. SON KILLED Mr.

Petersen's 19-year-old obtain the enumerator's list be ing prepared for the October provincial election. S21.0M SAVING "We could revise the list and save the taxpayers about 000." explained Ctiy Clerk A. T.I Hastey. I If the vote is called, it. could cost the city as much But if a petition bearing 15 per cent of the names of eligible voters in the area is presented, the city has no choice but to request a plebiscite.

The plebiscite would cover pans of Rideau. St. Georges. Alta Vista, and Gloucester wards annexed by the city from Board of Control was told ISO polls would be required. The request for the plebiscite is being put forward by Versa Food Services Ltd.

who will operate a restaurant in the new St Laurent shopping cen tre, and by CAR A Operations Limited, operators or a restaurant at the new railway station. Policemen Can't Work As Ushers Board of Control has' ruled nnliremen should be emnloved was executed as a i nreserve law and order at football not to act as ushers. "It the football club is ton cheap to hire some ushers, it should be taken to task." complained Controller Murray Heit. Acting Mayor Ken Fogarty said the Central Canada F.x-hibitkm Association and the Police Commission will be ask ed to make certain that policemen hired for football stadium duty are not called upon to perform the work of ushers. Helpers two escape networks aimed at getting downed airmen back to England.

"I met the countess in Paris in 1943 on my First mission recalled Col. I -HUSBAND KILLED "She had, fled the Gestapo after they had raided her chateau in Brittany and shot her They had been keep ing Allied airmen." Countess De Poulpiquet join ed Col. Labrosse's underground movement and worked closely with him. She was awarded decorations from France, England and the United States for her part. Francois Kerambrun was considered too old and with too large a family to be mobilized in the war but served Franc in the French underground.

"Francois worked as a truck driver far the Germans during the day then at night, with the same track, helped us ferry airmen ta different points in France," said Coi. Z-abrosse. "His truck concealed a false bottom or trunk that was used to hide the airmen in." Ralph Patton of Rochester. N.Y.. and Ernie Trottier of Toronto remembered old truck and were at the banquet to greet the elderly Frenchman.

"We were hit and forced to of liquor under a lounge licence for consumption on licensed premises. The section where the plebis cite is being requested is the last remaining "dry" area ofi the city. (bail-out over Brittany," said Patton. a former B17 bomber pilot. "We lived with several families before the underground found us.

"I remember Francois. He met us with his truck at a train I station in Guingamp then took us to the beach. We were all huddled in the back." DECORATED Kerambrun's role in Opera tion Bonaparte accounted for the return of 13S Allied airmen to Britain by motor torpedo boats. His decorations include the Croix de Guerre and Medal of Freedom. He now operates a service station.

Marie Carbona of Italy and Don McLarty of 23 Commancbe Drive also met at the banquet In 1942 McLarty was flying his Hurricane Tighter over North Africa when it was by enemy fire. McLarty parachuted out but was captured and taken to a prisoner-of-war camp, in Italy where he escaped 11 months later only to be recaptured. My -second escape came three days after that and we hid in a cave near Mrs. Car-bona's village. FED ESCAPEES "Twice a day for 1 days she brought us food and water.

She also brought us clothes and took our uniforms which she sent back to us after the war," said xlt was only at Thursday's reunion that McLarty learned of the atrocity the village suffered to make his escape possible. Germans threw hand grenades into the houses here they thought we might be hiding then shot It the village men wbea the villagers refused ta tell ear hiding said McLarty, recount-in what Mrs.1 'Carbona had The city may request a 'liquor Voters will be asked three WW him. vote in the "dry" section of, questions: The seven men and seven Gloucester Township annexed you in favor of the sale; women on the Canadian trip by Ottawa 17 years beer and wine only under, completed a round of re-But before any action on a room licence for con- i ceptions through the day. Be- request lor a ebiscite is taken. sumption with meals on licens-' sides functions given by the attempt win oe made to premises: 'Governor-General, various em- Are you in favor of the sale hassies.

military associations of liquor under a dining roomin'1 t1" veterans affairs depart-lounge licence for consumption nent. they will take in the Ot-with meals on licensed Canadian Football ises; League game Sunday and visit Are you in favor of the Ottawa nomes ol men they helped escape. Controller Murray Heit. who welcomed the "helpers" to Ottawa, presented them with centennial medallions from the Jew ish Community of Toronto on behalf of the Jewish Community in Canada 2. MaJ1: HELPERS HONORED Countess Genevieve De Pouliquet and Col.

Ray Labrosse. special assistant In defence minister Leo Cadieux. are seen reminiscing Thursday night at a banquet for 14 "helpers" who assisted BrijUsh? Commonwealth airmen to escape territory during the -Second World War. Col. Labrosse and the countess met tn Paris in 1943 when she joined his escape network ft Writes About By JOHN WYLIE of The Journal Of all! the thousands of centennial projects, probably bone is more rare than that of an Ottawa woman.

Dorothy Dent, who herself battled against the crippling Parkinson's disease and won, has published a book containing the exercises which she developed in her fight to lead a near normal life. The pocket-size book. 'Self Help Parkinson's Disease" is the first of its kind by a Canadian author. It was about two years ta the "I wanted to have it ready for centennial year," Miss Dent said in a recent interview. "I hope it will be a help to the some 125,000 suffers across Canada." Miss Dent, who has been likened to Helen Keller, has given counselling and help to hundreds of sufferers since was Wflicted about 10 years ago.1 But before she was stricken, her life was one that was spent in the service of others.

Miss Dent spent a number lance. of years in the field of nursing. During the Second World War she went overseas serving in the front lines in Sicily and Italv. AWARDED CITATION She was the only nursing sister to be awarded a citation by the Red Chevron Club. Parkinson's disease, which Miss Dent describes as "a most mysterious one," strikes the nervous system.

"One result of the disease is that the sufferer usually becomes dreadfully she said. "The important thing for the victim to remember is that when be or she ii having a bad day, tomorrow may be better" "I guess that goes for the sufferer of any disease," she-added. Miss Dent is currently working on ways of distributing the book across Canada. Any profits after expenses are met will go to the National Parkinson's Disease Foundation, In Ottawa the book is available at Shirley Leishman Book Store on Gilmour Street C-tsl A PEACH OF A PUMPKIN The mammoth pumpkin held by Richmond Fair vegetable judge A. B.

Swerdfager and flowers and vegetable chairman Vince McDonald is almost big enough to' have" beerrCinderella's ill-fated carriaas The pumpkin joins many flowers and vegetables Vluch were judged Thursday at the fair. IJournol Phol bv Dominion Wide PIERRE LADOLCEUi Gloucester Boy, 13, Killed A 13-year-old Gloucester youth died in Riverside Hospital about 8 p.m. Thursday after he was struck by a "car on the Conroy Road near Rosebella Avenue about 7 p.m. Dead is Pierre La douceur. son of Mr.

and Mrs. Gerard Ladouceur of 55 Kingsdale Avenue. Gloucester Police said the youth was walking near the centre of the road with, an umbrella over his head and his back facing traffic during Thursday's heavy downpour. He was struck bv Eugene BeruVe, 37. of Castor Street, Russell and was rushed to hosp'itaj by Twin City ambu A Grade 6 student at St.

Bernard School in Blossom Park, he has four brothers and four sisters. He also worked as a newspaper carrier for The journal. Coroner Dr. J. A.

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