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ii i. ii The Ottawa i i i Journal OCTOBER 4,11949. mi W- 7w iii i.niia ii in ii' ii ttmtmijmmwim ird Page i i it II' I'll! Cold Recep ion uiven For Reduction of Cily Wards i ft i j.i 1 i i 1 1 TlFTf ii- Proposal wanted to hand it over to a man ftWi i 1 di if I I ai -n ii ill r- I I I I NEW RECRUITS Both with daughter starting' itvthe kindergarten at Public School this year, Mrs. R. W.

Rosenthal (left), and Ktra. P. White attended their first Homeland School meeting last night to get acquainted wHh the teachers 'and the the other parents. One of Association needs Irooney are shepherded through the to troduces them to icting-treasurer Mrs. J.

O. Hodgkihi tasty Mon- day night: menu topk on a Lenten drabnesa when Alderman Journeaux handed hfs fellows the outsize hot potato of council reduction and they retaliated with herring of vary! ng shades of red. Members; tumbled, lover each other In embarrassed efforts to kill the motion without appearing too eager. It as left to Controller. Pickering, however, to finally save face by pointing out the motion was out of order.

Alderman Journeaux wanted council to have the Opportunity of going on record favoring economy by supporting his move to consider reduction of city wards "as soon after 1950 as might prove feasible. I Lacking1 a seconder motion faced quick death from Acting Mayor Coulter but Alderman McMillan and Controller Pickering both offered their I i Alderman McMiUaji felt the motion "will hava no teal bearing on the Issue when it becomes an Issue later! on He felt it was an Important motion, however, ana deplored the fact council mejmbers had learned of It too late to debate it Intelligently. 1 Alderman Bamiltoa observed It waa another Phase of a fever that' wracked ceanell every ence la a while, i Semetlmea the fever teek the form of economy wave, semetlmes an expansion wave and "new wa have; redaction I He said other feveiis had con cerned different fortns of city government such aa that by commission 1" 'j: 1 "We have even hao; city man ager fever. I haUe noticed whenever a man Is about to leave council he la smitten) with city manager lever, i came nere tonight expecting the Board of Control to offer thelrjresignation because they had found they could no longer run the city and City Council Loses Clty Council's usual president of the Assocution. Capital Press Phbto.) 'CASE OF DIVIDED PA, ENmmo 5 O'CLOCK JAM SESSION Fir arid few ire the daily feature presented by! 0 tawa's I home-gong i automobile- 70-car traffic Jam piled up against the traffic Isfg lal at Bayview rocj and stretching in a solid single file for three-filths of a mile backiaiross the Wellington street viaduct to the intersection of Albert and Wellington street.

Frayed tempers ind warmed-over suppers ire the only prizes for the participants In! le dailjr contest to: get from Centre Town to the West End after their dayjs workr is, dorfe (Capital Press Photo.) I' I JAMS TRY Of Civic Superannuation Funds The "Case of the Divided Parent" had 150 mothers ink fathers shuffling around and around In confused circlet laitj night at Rockcliffe Public Schdolj I It waa the first meeting of the season of the Home and School Association, and Principal H. C. Redfern had a dandy plan to Introduce the parenta Jo their youngsters teachers, During the meeting each teacher sat at the end lot a row of chairs, a large sign brocl timing hi name and grade. jTh parents were asked to sit In the same row as their child's tcac'hef, the better to get acquainted. An' ex- Oh it was a fine pi eel lent plan with only one notable snag.

It couldn't work, Red- Unlighfed Trudk Lefl on Highway Brings Arrest A 43-year old man. Leo Guindon, of Card bnUoad, late ounaay nigm was arresiea ana booked py Quebec Provincial Po lice on a charge of hit and-run following an accident oh the Ayl-j mer road, five miles west of HulL He was remanded; boa week without bail in Hull (Magistrate'a Court yesterday. The accident occurred o'clock when a car driving east crashed into the badk of Guln don'a unlighted truck which was allegedly stopped oh the high way facing 'j I'll Guindon, who was allegedly driving the truck, Was I said by police to have started the truck and driven off following the crash. The car suffered $300 damage. I I i ager," 1 1 i Controller Picketing recalled that on July, 18 council had re jected a motion by Alderman Shaw to set up committee to study council reduction.

They had adopted Instead an amendment by Alderman Irish that the matter be shelved until things quieted down from! the annexation storms. Alderman Irish himself sup ported this with a about of "out of "In view of this are yea milt- Ing te withdraw yur motion, alderman?" the acting mayor 1 asked. i "Under the circumstances replied Alderman Jear- neaax, "My position la a mat-ter of record pow." In moving bis motion the Central 'Ward alderman noted the general opinion in the city was that council was against taking steps to reduce its cumbersome size. I "I have heard considerable criticism of this be told his colleagues. He bad therefore taken this opportunity, to allow council to make a stand on the question without committing them- io too early action.

Council was bound by agree-j ment to Nepean and Gloucester to give their annexed areas representation during 1950. After that and i-ith their opinions; counting, steps could be taken to i reduce7 the rl 4-ward, 28-1 alderman Alderman Journeaux said If; Rockcliffe i and Eastvlew were annexed shortly, the council would have at least 18 wards and 35 aldermen. Alderman Band asked what commitments the city had made1 to the annexed "areas regarding representation. Controller McCann said they were promised two wards with two aldermen each In Nepean and one ward with two aldermen in Gloucester. "There was no time limit set however." Control -t democratic" added Alderman McMillan.

Council agreed to put the clause over so that the pertinent bill might be studied. They realized there was little use in not passing the rescinding recommendation but felt it might be wine to vote against it as a public protest Puff for RCAF On Smart Handling Of Trenton Ceremony Defence Minister Brooke Clax-ton Monday sent a message of congratulations to the RCAF for the way memorial ceremonies were handled at Trenton, Ont, last Friday. The ceremonies were held in connection with presentation of British Commonwealth Air Training Plan memorial gates to Canada by the governments of the' United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. The message, addressed to Air juarsnat v. a.

cuius, enter or the Air Staft said in part: JThe way in which every arrangement necessary to carry through the day was anticipated, planned and executed reflected the utmost credit on everyone having to do with "From every side heard ing a long record of experience in public service, active and retired senior officers of the RAP and RCAF all said that the ceremony was better arranged and executed than any they had ever seen. Wilbrod street, by John Tokaryk. Park Hi JTh School last night. Thomas Neville, of 378 Slater FOR TRAFFIC Would you like to join one of Ottawa's most elite clubi? The waiting lUt three-fifth! mile long and! the only eligibility requirement la the patience ef Job. It is the "Honk arid Halt! also known a the "As-j; of Those Who Havej Successfully Driven Across thei Wellington Stre Viaduct' During Rush The vladuct is Ottawa's juiciest traffic jam during the five o'clock rush hour period when thousands of Centre Town workers climb behind the wheels of their automobiles and head for homes In the West End of the pour endlessly in a narrow stream along one of the only two East-West paths by which the trip can Jae made.

Yesterday afternoon was i typical afternoon, and yesterday afternoon's traffic jam a dally tight along Ottawa's main thoroughfare. Wellington streets That Jam was frequently 79 ears long between and 6 In the afternoon. The aotid lin-of aatomobiles piled op la front of! the traffic light at the corner of BayTiew Road just past the end ef the Wellington street viaduct From there it extended back- its right across the viaduct. 3,500 Homeless In Italian Storm NAPLES. Italy.

Oct. 4-rOJF) Thirty-two persons were killed. 3.500 made homeless and 300 ere missing today in the wortt storm to hit this section of Italy in recent years. Soldiers, police and firemen waded through the flooded Nea-i politan countryside searching fori additional victims. SOUTH ELMHAM ST.

MAR CARET. Suffolk, England. CW-f Tour families have refused new! council houses here. iThey said! the 18s. S2.70 weekly rent was-too high.

j' Aylmer Housing 1 5 I i 1 I I i 1 I City Council members became ttartllngly aware of their waning powers. Monday night when they beard Controller Tard and other members of the boar i tell them provincial legislation had. finally removed control of civic superannuation funds from their bands. The board bad recommended repeal of Bylaw 8834 relating to the Civic Superannuation Fund, made obsolete thls-year by legislation placing fund control In the bands of the Superannuation Fund Board. i i i "This Is Just another Instance bareancrata selstag, council's powers why we did not even know Such a question 'was coming np In the Legislator1" cried Al derman Belanger.

Ia council out of I the picture asked Alderman Ham ilton, -i I "No, council la still supreme" replied Acting Mayor Coulter. il "Excuse interjected Controller Tardif. "Yo were supreme but not any loiiger." I "Provincial legislation of this year put the civic employes' fund In the same position as any other, pamely directly undei the board. "If that is the case it strikes me aa pretty high cried Alderman Hamilton. "II was a vicious bill." "We're Just rubbfr agreed Alderman Avery.

"Not-even that anymore said Controller Tardif. "Well then, it Is tlrhe we stood on our zeet ana die someuiing about shot back the Rideau Ward alderman. "A tier, all we are the elected representatives "In the light of what has been aaid here tonight I thiak the legislation Is not 'right, npr fair, nor was that a Home and School pther clubs The two mothers ribipal Hi Redfern who in- (Seated) and ilrs. H. HiH, NFUSNG Lawrence region, called eq parents to assist In providing Idershlp for the; Girl Guide o-pop woose neaaquanera is at schqoL and Mr Selwya WlU 0 gave a report on the Eastern Ontario regional conference of th Home and School Association held September 21, at Gananoque.

I I I Jack Shakespeare, chairman of lj special names committee of thtf Community also ad-drfased the meeting, urging their support of the campaign; for fundi ebch opens next Monday, Fol slng theineeUng; refreshments were and everj a cup of eoflee the parenta ware able to resumeijthe buslneaa of getting acquainted with the teachers, the announced object of the evening, which bad been, stalled by the earner contusion. Uri-Service Precision Sauad ndi types at three arme1 in vtiawa.wuk nave Vsb' Up on their aqUsrebasb ,1 efenpe Headquarters said Mon- crack tii-service nrecl sloh squad, which has provided a guard of honor for many a visit ing digoiUry, baa been disband edSj From now on. the bonor-guarda Ifor ceremonial functiona will he drawn from Headquarters personnel i- jj-ij 1 I But Headquarters added. "pro-Vision of such guards pf honor WiJ.1. be confined to aa I essential fArmyfHeadquarters personnel have been in on all honor guards Jnj the I past and any i artillery salutes will still be fired by tae pital'S reserve artillery unit 30th Field Regiment Union Jack Stolen FlomjRMC Flagpole ilCINOjSTON, Ont, Oci 4v Cf The Union' Jack; waa stolen; frpm the parade-ground flag pole Royal MOitaiy College1 1 daring iBrlg.

the week-end. W. college -1 Mmm.tfil.nt aahf 1A 4rv4 im takea a view jot the 14 cident 'Police and college atU thoriUek are Investigating. iilSrig. Agnew said he the flag waa stolen by a visiter tr thef college 'parade grounds about I pjn, He ai4; the flag was lowered from Its pole sod taken from the.

without being noticed by menv-i bars of the college staff. iii Fatality But Went on 1 hi. had enough time to get across the Intersection. j-liHt hadn't, and bis car was demolished, i 1 "Mrs. Laf ranee was ta tally l-itlred, and two other passengers were less seriously injured.

I jThe tram operator. Robert Sigouin, of. 643 1-2 Somerset street I said be I bad been; travelling west on Queen at about 12 miles an hour, had flowed down at O'Connor and! had seen no signs of traffic, and pad started across the Intersec- n. i 1 I i A. sudden glare of headlighta pom his left waa th first want ng of danger, and Sigouin; lammed on his 1: emergency I Constable James Cranun told tfce jury the tram stopped la acoui pu xeet iiOTC records show 90 feet as the distance required to brake! ai tram to a stop from a speed of It miles an hour on dry rails, the morning of the accident It was raining, and the reels were wet.

Coroner Dr. I. Richard pre sided at the hearing, lThe jury were: Joseph BelangeH 1 foreman; WUUam Stephens, John Askwith, Thomas Pennock and. Henry Car Iriere. su I The desk Headquartera (-bojj 1 pf tW se'ryices! in pay tne ou otuaents, Mostly women the first things they discovert i keep' operating just, like an financial formalities by I i fern realized as soon las he the crowd of parenta trundling back and forth across! the torn by divided loyalties, Most of the parental bad ehUdreB, Jn different grad Seme had three, and afewevpi had fear attending the school! The prIem ef-wkera ti was lnselabla.Mr.Redjrera threw a bis hands In despair asking them te alt wherever ithay lapl pened te be at the mimni, nhl Tin cllon of jtfc' of all th i during tai "let the teachera i they A formal lntroduc new executive and teachera took place during meeUng, presided over! by the new president, Mrs.

n. P. hul I Mrs. Kenneth bead Gulder leadership training In Two j)ttawa Get Reinstated TORONTO. Oct 4UW Ontario Liquor Licence Bdard i 1 announcea reinstaiemen licences for the Capital house and the Commercial pi house, Ottawa, and the Windsor Hotel, Kingston.

I it has granted a beverage licence i for a Canadian hall In North Bay. The Commercial House, los licence when charges I of alio win a minor on the premises; aqd jp serving minors were levelled a the owner and a waiter i beta recently. The charges were ldi missed in City Magirti-ate's Cduf-tL ifle vpnai puouq aovif uqn i liiJ i it Tiu licence September 22 due it "unsatisfactory Tbdsf conditions, OtUwa Liquor jGont trol Board Inspector Frank McCuUoch said last nighti since been cleared upt .1 a I Earl Cannon, and will be ready wu to start liftfnv Oim nt Freshmen or sophWiorel 31 Tokaryk promised, their mas shopping problem was; so! ed. AU would be making tsefUl gifts in leather weu ahead season. 1 1 une or uie department or ixl Li- cation's top crafts instructoraJ Tokaryk teaches maths and, Earf- lish at Fisher Park during I ttf uivruuijt, Bfia inn craiia afternoon.

He has directed 1 thercraft classes In and at Carleton College. His assistant1 Mk-. Can learned the craft twp years under Mr. Tokaryk's jsupervlsio ana more instructors are po for from this, year's classes. I jij Driver In vol ve daw 1 ram uoi "I stopped.

I saw the coming, but you can't wait a a an hour, ad I started Thus Harvey Roth we 11, recounted the last moments fore bis car waa smashed tVi tram I at Queen and O'Connor Ottawa's hottest corner He was giving evidence! Saat night at a coroner's Inquest vestigaUng the death of gMrM Matilda (Kitty) Laf ranee waa fatally Injured in thef a tram crash at about 1.45 morning of September 9. The jury woman had died decide 1 1 te kf iniulf i received In the crash. and rorOr mended that a farther Invents tlen ef the accident out! Crown Attorney erder, announced that such 1 tion will be made I Roth we 11 la already facih careless driving charge laid bf- fore Mrs. Latrance ded In ptt wa uenerai uospiuu Sept II. I I Rpth well told the.

Jury a driving north on street in, his 1929 coupe in' the early O'Cennbr Oldsntop a tnorniog the and had stopped Queen street 1 He looked east and approaching; but be I i saw atri though Pti mi Show Up for LeatherWork Clas cities! which can match this WELLINGTON Sorherset street also crosses the traiks, but it Intersect Wellington! just two blocks west of the viaduct in any case. f'dr the majority of West End-, Wellington rtreet is far more convenient to their homes and certainly to their "offices, than Carljng is. So Wellington bears the brunt of the traffic. Taj complicate Matters at the cornier of Bayview, commercial trafflo catering town from i the west! usually cnialtff Wellington on Scott street to avoid the streetcars, catting back up Wellington at Bayview to cross the tracks aver the viaduct. Stoplights were! put up at this comer last Spring to help in handling this intersecting traffic.

This is shortly going to give rise I to another) problem the Traffic Department tears. As the approaches to the vla-1 dnctj Ice -over daring the' Winter; automobiles coming down the hill towards Bayview are going to jam en their brakes when the traffic light changes against them, With a smooth downhill layer of Ice tinder their wheels theyi are going- to keep right on going, plowing Into any! traffic onr Bay-vievf which la taking advantage the green light. C6me Winter. there will be traffic jams Indeed. Thfee-WayM Of CanadianJPress Bureau Chiefs Made HALIFAX, Octi CP) A three-way shift of Canadian Press buriau chiefs was announced at yesterday 'a board meeting' of the National News-Gathering Cooperative by General Manager Gllgs PurcelL John DauDhinee.

oresent head of CFs New Yprkj Bureau, moves to Winnipeg as bureau chief 'with supervisory dutiesl for Western Canada. Dauphinee, 38, a native of Vancouver, has been with CP since J938. He was London chief 1945-48. tS. Johnson, chief of bureau Winnipeg, goes to London, where he served previously from 1937 to 1940.

Johnson, 82, is a veteran In the service, having Joined CP In' 1924 and served at Winnipeg. Ottawa, Toronto, New York and. London Stuart UnderhilL London chief, replaces Dauphtnee In New York UrtderhilL a 38-year-old British Columbian, joined CP in Vancouver In 1937. i v. i The following transfers oPmem-bershlp were reported by Victor Sifton, president; Sherbrooke Record from John Baisett, to D.

Gj Amaron; Brockville Recorder frpm the late R. Morgan to t. B. Maclean: Toronto Telegram from A. J.

Buckland tor John Barsett, Jjvyl Royalty toSee 'Forsyl'e Saga' LONDON, Oct. 4 Metro-Goldwyh-Mayer'S movie of John Galsworthy's "Forsyte Ssga" has been chosen for this year's film Koyal Command performance Nov. 17. The King and Queen will see the technicolor show, which stars Greer Carson, Walter Pidgeon, Errol Flynn, Robert Young and Janet Leigh. afonnd 4he Wellington street curve, anfl back several (blocks to the Intersection of Albert street.

distance of three-fifths of a mile. To neg tiate this tlel-up at the igni oiiine rusn nourj a anver rquired ikill. fortitude 20 minute spare me. At night, with clear sailing ong a traffic-free jroad, the sme stijetch can i covered Without difficulty In little more tan a mjnnte. To add to the hazajrds of the aiternoonl tangle "be-bbp" artists fj-equentlV are overcame by an Ungovernable urge to lean their Jlbows on the horn, turning the raffle jam Into a (deafening fjswing" Session.

For lpost drtv-ars, howdver, the slgh of an nn-broken line of creeping; cars fad-tag ont of sight over tnq far slope Of the vlkdnct more than half a mile ahead, is too discoaraging to give them even the remotest hope 4f harrying things along by sounding la horn that the leaders af the line cannot possibly hear. I Reasoii for the qwlock flood of cars along Wellington street the fact thM besides icarllng avenue it isl the only I through street going -right to lithe West End of the city by which the cross-towd tracks may bt crossea. jActuauy 500 Germans Won't Go Back LEUBECK, Germany, Oct. 4 (Reuters) About pOO men, women and children Jvho entered the British zones of Germany from the SoViet zone during "International Peace Day" celebrations during the week-end have reported to the Red Crbss and other lnstitu tlons hdre, saying they do not wisn to go oacK. They have been sent to a refugee reception joamp at Uflzen.

1 Many other Soviet-kdne Ger mans arte reported hete; to have failed return. Project Gets because of lack money. i "We isd a most agreeable meeting with CMHC officials, and with thdr co-operatldn we- are now In a position to go ahead with the be said. IT Presen at last night's meeting were, C. Perkins, district superintendent of CMHC William Toung, Aylmer project'; inspector.

Mr. Perkins assured fi council that the corporation woidld begin lmmedia ely on the lahdscaping of the pi oject. This ould include Individual walks ai driveways from each house to the street. i In a letter received from the Quebec I iquor Commission, council was nformed that thfe municipal police had authority to maintain law and order jit hotels and taverns within the tovVn in ac cordance with Quebec laws. Liquor Police Commissioner p.

For- an told touncll that instl tuctlons wvm.u ui v. ice Emill Cote to rigidly jen force of an provincial ana municipal laws. Council nasied a. resolution proclaiming the week of 'October 9 to IS ak Fire Prevention! Week. During the week lecture Will be given In all schools.

i i Better Streetsond Services; Tenants of Aylmer's housing1 fedy the lituatlon, be said said, A class of 60 students most of them housewives, cleijks and sten ographers showed up for leath erwork classes which opened at Fisher Park Hieh School last night. The new; course, directed by John Tokaryk, was established at uttawa new nigti scnooi wis year through the of cation. Collegiate Institute Board; and various city recreation groups. IN Second-year students In leath- ercraft, representing half thei class, beean new nroiects last night under Mr. Tokiryk's direc tion.

The others were introduced to the use of the knife) and velner gand the jargon of the trade by edse lacina on leather handbag instructor in leatherlyork. dur- Looking on are Mrs. L. 9. uiutssie.

street All three studeht agreed 'm 1 1 tjn I (ry X' rn i If i-i--Az ill project received assurance at last sight's meeting of Town Couniii of early action to construct street in the new 125-house when members unanimously' api proved an offer of Central MofU gage arfd Housing Corporation jtej lrcrcase their loan to' the torn from $75,000 to $81,000. The town had expended ail out $2,000 of the original loan to jnj stall water and sewer The' additional aid for strfej paving was the result of a recent meeting of CMHC and town ofBcj ials. With the additional moey assured, council Monday night tpr somted an enBinecr to make stiff veys and draw up specification for the street paving. At soon as these are available. tenders for the work will be called.

Mayor J.R. Therien said the work would begin within the next: -two weeks. He admitted that the tenants! thej 125-house project had goods reason to complain because thei: recent rains had turned the areas Into a sea of mud. The towrt however, had been unable to rem-l A NEW KIND OP MEEDLEWOBK Demonstration of nlaited la given Jeanne ToussaAt. of 193 ing class 'which opened at Fisher and Mrs.

of 9 Geneva street left needlework in leather was just as difficult as petit point (Capital Press). I I.