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i Hide 64th Year 73 A An 6. J. Simpson Leaves DeafhNote Fought Ottawa On Tax Issue And Lost Badly PEMBROKE, 7. SUff) George March Simp. son.

the "Upper Valley jeweler who five weeks ago fought the Revenue Department on eight tax charges and lost, joined his wife in a suicide pact In the bedroom of their Catherine street apartment last jiigbt. Found Dead in Bed. The bodies of the couple were found in their bed at 12.30 o'clock this afternoon. Both had been shot to death with a J22 calibre rifle. The run was brand new, and still had the price tag affixed to the trigger guard.

Ktj Wrapped in Note. Key to -the Simpson shop was found wrapped in a note that said: "Shop key. Thanks to those who have befriended us. May those I hurt forgive me. Good bye and Go bless the right- eons.

It was signed by Mr. Simpson, and was found on a table in the living room of his noma. i i DeaiSlZ Boors. Coroner Dr. D.

A. MacKercher, of Cobden, called by police, withheld decision to Inquest until an autopsy had been pef- formed, tie said the couple, had been dead about 12 houn when 'found. Dlscovefy of the bodies was made by Mr Harold Bickerton who lives in the same apartment building. She was called when the Simpsons', housekeeper could not get Into their apartment this morning. Mrs.

Bickerton Immediately caned police. Mrs. James Craig, wife of local lawyer, who also lives In the four -apartment dwelling, told police she "had heard a thump" about midnight last night Police could not account for the "thump" other than to hazard the guess it might have been a muffled gunshot. The Simpsons lived on the ground floor of the two-storey converted home at 202 Catherine street. Their bedroom, was at the front corner of the house, and had two outride walls, which would tend to prevent sound of the shots from reaching other oc cupants of the building.

Dr. D. Cotnam, who had been the Simpsons' physician, said "hot Mr. and Mrs. Simpson had been in a state bordering on nervous break down for some weeks Mrs.

Simpson had been sick. in bed tor some days. Refused? te Collect Tax. The PemoroKe Jeweler shortly before Christmas served notice on his customers' and the Revenue Department lri Ottawa that he no longer would be collecting the Federal Government's 25 percent luxury sales To that effect, he displayed a sign in his store window. The 'Revenue Department rea-, soned and argued with him; and that procedure having failed proceeded to take action through the courts.

i Vernon Naumon. Assistant Deputy Minister of National Revenue (Excise), declined to give an itemization of convictions against Simpson and fines, costs and outstanding taxes 1 paid by He agreed, however, that the S3J30.28. plus $800 in fines and costs, was "within a few "We regard these matters of payments made by taxpayers as confidentiaL "As far as I am aware, be was all paid up now there was nothing outstanding yet to be paid. there is, it is only said Mr.Naumani 1 Net Paid for Collections. Simpson's refusal to collect the tax was based on the fact that jewelers received no recompense from the Government for doing so.

He said it was "unconstitutional" and "slave labor, such as Journal OTTAWA, MONDAY, 0 mm PRICE 5 CENTS Home Edition by carrier 28 cents weekly. Late News and Sport 'CIOCK. tame5; an Mils UuvJ mUME IrMM Festival Opens on 4 Flawless9 Note of School Choir '3 THE BIQ STRETCH Both for his bands on the keyboard and his feet to the pedals but for six-rear-old Barry. Ellard, 18 Elm street, It's recreation. Now at an age when moat children are just starting piano lessons, Barry has first class honors from the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, for Grade IV piano.

His nine-year-old brother Brian, who did the same thing at the same age, now Is in Grade IX, and will play a concerto In ext Saturday afternoon's most advanced piano i. Six-Y ear- GEORGE SIMPSON. supposed to obtain only in totalitarian countries" to compel a Canadian citizen to work for nothing. Simpson lost his case in the courts, but won nation-wide notoriety for his resistance to the Federal tax gatherers. During his long battle with the Revenue Department, Jeweler Simpson was also involved in difficulties with the 'Labor De partment He bad employed a displaced person to repair watches in his Pembroke store, and this worker was pulled off the job by the Labor Department Concluded en Page' 8.

CoL i Yawns When Charge Of Murder Read DrocKviue toun BROCKVTLLE, Ont, March 7. CP) A yawn was Leo Parent's answer today when a charge of murder was read against him in a court room jammed with spec tators. Parent, 17-year-old Cornwall, Ont, youth, is charged with the murder of Michael Dennis 6kel-ton, 72. He merely yawned as the charge was read and be was remanded until March 14. Parent was not by counseL Skelton died February- 28 in hospital five hours after he staggered to the home of Mr.

and Mrs. William Dean and told them of having been beaten about the bead and locked In his shack on the north eastern limits of Brock-ville. I WW i i i tiii li MARCH 7, 1949. rano Barry Eilard can't write yet A story book, to is just so much Sanskrit But set a piece of music in front of him and he romps home. At six when most children are still counting down to "middle Barry has first-class honors In Grade IV piano.

He tried the exam 10 days ago. The were announced Thursday in The Journal, and al ready he has won a silver star from his teacher for' Haydn's "Minuette in fairly tough number-from his new Grade VI book. Parents Impressed. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.

A. E. Ellard, 10 Elm street are too sensible and too wary to use a word like But they're just a little shaken by their musical sons. I Mr. Ellard plays the violin a little.

Mrs Ellard says I she knows practically nothing about music. 1 i "But Barry Is their second son to get honors In Grade IV piano when only six. Brian did the same thing and now, at nine, is In Grade IX and has entered the Music Festival's most advanced piano contest the concerto 'class. Ellard has never forced music on them. Barry used to sit beside his older brother while he was practising, and when the practice period was over would appropriate the piano himself.

Concluded en Page Is, CoL. 7. Workman Injured In Ditch Cave-in Cecil Bennett S3, of 213 Kent street, was slightly injured when a drainage ditch in which he was working collapsed at 10 JO this morning. He was working on the Immaculate High School sewer excavation. Exclusive Ambulance took the victim to Civic Hospital, where it was found he was" suffering from minor abra sions of the A 4 i aster 31 Persons Flee BankSrBlaze; Damage estimated at about SI 0,000 was caused by fire which forced 31 persons to the street from an apartment af Bank street and Second avenue shortly before 7.30 this morning.

North-South traffic on Bank street; was tied up for 42 minutes at the rush hour and OTC buses were pressed into service to help drain Ottawa South of office workers faced with a two- degree below-zero walk to work. Concluded en Page 16, CoL 2. $25,000 Scholarship For Alberta Doctor EDMONTON, March The University of Alberta today announced that Dr. Donald Rob ert Wilson, assistant professor of has been awarded one of 13 Markle scholarships. The award worth $29.000 is part of five-year program to keep young doctors on the teaching and research staffs of medical schools.

Under the program, begun In 1948, 29 doctors are being sup ported with total grants of It is estimated that within five years 50 scientists will be aided, with grants totalling' tive John Ross. "Every Hull housewife Is a potential smuggler, and every, street car, bus and motor car will have to be searched to enforce the oleo ban." Detective Jtoss doesn't know when hls "margarine squad" swings into action. He is not certain of the regulations. "Wait till I hear definitely from Quebec. Then 111 know what to do and he said.

Traffic Tied Up Prohibition's Back Shades of the Roaring 20's. "Prohibition's' back; in reverse. once' Ontario's liquor police searched for smuggled Quebec the Quebec "margarine squad" will be searching for butter substitutes at their end of the Interprovin- elal bridges linking Ottawa and HulL What a this morning sighed Quebec Provincial Detec ON PAGE 6 St. George's Grade Two In Triumph MONDAY MORNING RESULTS, MeLeed Church. Class 0, Roman Catholic Church Choirs, boys' unchanged voices: Chorale Brebeuf, Ottawa.

171. Class 8, Roman Catholic Church Choirs, girls' voices: St. 'Joseph's Girls Choir, Ottawa, 173. Class 88, Classroom Choirs, Grade 2: St. George's School, 176; St Patrick's Boys' School, 19; HopeweU Public School, 108.

Stewsrten Church. Class 70, Solo. Boys' unchanged voices: H. Irwin Horsey. 171: Arnold Midgley, 170; Andre Spenard, 1S9.

On the first morning of Ottawa's fourth Music Festival, one adjudicator explained he awarded 90 marks only "to a performance with which I can find no That was general explanation; Immediately afterwards, he gave that coveted 90 to SL George's School Grade Two choir, "an object lesson" to the other nine choirs Cemnteads Interest. "Did ydu notice how interested they all asked Adjudicator Herbert Wiseman. Diminutive contestants who held the centre of the stage at both Opening sessions in McLeod and Stewarton United Churches, drew the largest opening day audiences the festival has yet seen. At McLeod Church. The door of McLeod Church was scarcely ever still this'morn ing as parents, many of them carrying babies who could not be left alone at borne, streamed steadily Into the halL After the concluding class, when 10 Grade 2 choirs sang, there was scarcely an available seat Both, adjudicators Offered tips for improvement.

Better tuning and more stress were needed by all the young choirs, Mr. Wiseman commented, adding a recommen dation that teachers give them "target practice" singing indivl dual notes given on the piano to Improve their ears. Concluded on Page 16, CoL 4. Early Bird PM Shames Weary Staff Prime Minister SL Laurent, smiling and fit after a strenuous official visit to Montreal, showed up at his office at'nine sharp this morning. Members of the staff, who ac companied him, showed up later than their 67-year-old chief.

The Prime Minister will carry his personal campaign Into four other cities In the next month and a half Windsor, Chatham, Winnipeg and Quebec. He set this tour pattern on the eve of the opening of Parliament He told a Liberal gathering that now was the time to sell party policies, and that a general elec tion could be expected- shortly. He said then he would visit i as many parts of Canada a possible. Since then he has visited Que bec, Toronto and Montreal, Some observers say SL Laurent is trying to follow the Truman pattern of the successful Presidential pre-election cam paign of last On Oleo Saturday the provincial edict banning sale or possession of butter substitutes was passed in the Quebec Legislature. I Biggest factor in preventing smuggling at the moment is the absence, in quantity, of (margarine in Ottawa stores.

The Hull housewife who plans to lay in a supply of the 40-cent spread before police crack down hasn't been able to find much in Ottawa for two weeks. Mr ir 't IN ,11 I. 1 211 diiiom PEMBROKE RAH, CRASH Wreckage of two log cars and one passenger car of a CNR "mixed train which were splintered and scattered fronv the main line three miles west or Pembroke Saturday afternoon when a heavy freight rounded a bend and plowed into the three standing cars. Passengers managed to get out just in time. The conductor, fireman' and engineer of freight jumped to safety before the crash.

(Photo by Montaigne). Report Bulgaria Holds 50 More Church Leaders SOFIA, BUP) A Bulgarian Government spokesman said today that I security police have arrested as many as 50 more Protes tant clergymen in addition to the 15 now awaiting sentence In' Spy Asked about reports circulating in Western Europe that 50 more clergymen had been arrested, the Government spokesman said: "I don't know how many are under arrest or are being ques tioned. It is possible they number 50. As you could see during the present trial proceedings. some witnesses were pastors un der detention.

Others also were named as being involved In the spy ring The new seizure meant that more than one-third and possibly more than one-half 1 of the 138 Protestant pastors in Bulgaria are in police custody. Concieded on Page 16, Col. S. Minister Dies During Marriage LOS ANGELES, March 7 W) "I now pronounce you but Rev. Thomas HarrelL 68, never finished the final words of a marriage ceremony he was per forming.

He collapsed and died in the Church of the Universal Master. Another minister com pleted the ceremony. Worth Remembering When You Need Fast Action Journal Want Ads are well worth remembering when you want fast action on anything from job-finding to contacting friends whose whereabouts are unknown. To be sure of reaching the persons you want, put your message where thousands of people see it daily. Telephone a courteous Want Ad taker at 2-5321.

Journal Want Ads Bring Results Soviet Police Seek Turncoat Reds BERLIN, March 7. JP) Soviet secret police have spread a net for turncoat Communists in the Russian zone of Germany, the Conservative newspaper Montags Echo says today. In surprise arrests 30 former 'Communists have been seized so far, charged with inciting Eastern Germans in resist Soviet- occupation policies, the "paper says. In Quebec Yilfatie- -M BAIE ST, PAUL. March 7.

(CP) Damage estimated at $150,000 was caused by a fire in this Charlevoix County village to day. A crew of 40 volunteer fire fighters struggled for five hours against the flames which gutted the general store and an adjoining house owned by Victor Boivin. THE WEATHER Dominion weather report at 11 JO a.m.: Ottawa region: Clear today. Clear, occasionally cloudy tonight and Much milder Tuesday. Light Increasing-to southwest i 15 Tuesday Low tonight and Ugh Tuesday at Ottawa, 16 and 38.

Summary for Tuesday Occasionally cloudy. milder. Synopsis; Temperatures dropped last night well below normal, with Ottawa reporting temperatures as low as one below zero. This cold spell will be of short duration, with temperatures rising above normal tomorrow. Warm air is being swept north ward ahead Of a disturbance now centred over Manitoba.

This storm is expected to move north of the St Lawrence River Valley Tuesday afternoon. Temperatures. Vancouver 41, 46; Victoria 40, 46; Edmonton 32, 31, 54; Saskatoon 25, 41 Regina 9, 34; Winnipeg 12. 19; White River 28b. 10; Kapuakasing 21b, lb; North Bay 16b, 12; London 16, 32; Toronto 7, 33; Ottawa lb, 25; Montreal 7, 31; Quebec 7.

28; Saint John 20, 43; Moncton 19, 53; Halifax 35, 50. The Journal thermometer at 1 D.m. resutered IS decrees. The ran roM at 6.31 a m. The sun eta at 6.58 p.m.

PriceofWoollens Likely to Climb i in lanada Higher prices Wpre reported to be In prospect in Canada for woollens, particularly in worsted suits for men, women and children, hosiery and underwear, overcoatings, sweaters, blankets and rues. stdsr2e.tS peak prices for Australian wool whfMi In 10J.B MvhaH Mwltlf. i tion of 1,000,000,000 lbs. worth i. $600,000,000 in cash.

The Australian High Commissioner's office in Ottawa dis-' counted rumors that the. Russian Government had bought1 the en- tire Australian wool clip, but ad mitted the Soviets had secured about two and a half percept, ef the 1948 Concluded ea Page IfVCeL C. Demers By QAHA Edict For Game af Rigaud MONTREAL, March 7. Tony Demers, ace winger of Sherbrooke St Francis of Quebec Senior Hockey- League, was placed under indefinite sus-penslorT today by the Quebec Amateur Hockey Association for having played in a game at i Rigaud, Que last night under an i assumed name. Registrar Frank Dilio of the -QAHA announced the suspension -al noon today following a report by Referee Charlie Deizel that -Demers played with an in termed) ate team under the name of Taylor." Last night Demers was recog- nized at Rigaud, Que in the line-up of Dorlon during a Vsud- reuil-Soulanges League playoff game by DeizeL Dilio said the suspension 7was ordered under a Canadian Ama teur Hockey Association ruling which forbids players -to use an assumed name and to play with a club with which they are not duly registered..