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The Ottawa Journal MONDAY. AtJGUST 27, 195i: The Third Page HeadrOn I Injures17 MATTAWA. Aug. 37 (Staff) 1 Seventeen persona, Including 1L. I i The "Ex" Saturday afternoon carnival hoopla.

tJeuraal IUK rMa kjr Mnl AtLansdownerMerriment's 'Morning After' midway Ssturdsy morning In-Jurmg six persons. A large group of Irate parents stormed the CCEA office with loud pro-testa that the train was travelling at an exceaatve speed. It resumed operations during the r. IN FANCY'S FLIGHT. TO WIDE BLUE YONDER Erte GmundU ton of W01 and Mrs.

R. T. Gemmell of 408 Squadron KockclifTe, It-all eto launch a replica of the Curtla 4,7 Klttyhawk, built by CpL Harry Parklnion, alo of Rockcliffe. With thU acala model CpL Parkinson won the acale model, U-Control competition at RockclifTe Saturday afternoon. Sea Pag 20.

iimad rvxa by Mai 1 1 Fair Fare 9 Miles of Hot Dogs out. of town. Th Ha nrld grand-! tand ahow waa already gone. By Bur vwnm uiue r-Baalaed the A few pigs, eattle aad horses wer hi stalls end pea in the CeUseam, watt-lag- a carted heme. Still standing outside were gaudy signs sdvertising the "world's larjest suker" tor 15 and 23 cents.

In the centre of what had one been the midway was a bettered sink, water dripping slowly from a leeky lap. Pennants marking Ibe way to! the General Purpose Building hung limply. A pile ot cedar branches from th Lands and. Forests exhibit aat behind the grand land. Th farm machinery) was still in its place beside the grandstand.

Inside the building refrigerators, radios snd stoves remained on display, waiting to' be removed today. Uader Last Tear. I The Ssturdsy night crowd of 17.578 swelled the week's total to 425,328. Although the total feU 26.000 short of last year's: record crowd. CCEA General! Mansger H.

H. McElroy war exceptionally pleased" with the talc of the tunutllea. j. th i tleUnj aald haaaily. I 7 I prepared weU ahead this ahow cancellations.

We ars happy." Only major complaint cam to th office after a miniature train ride tipped ever on th v2 i Br bom BamAflf ml JMUaal Su. till 1119 Total ttljtl. 451,771. IIJ.MI Meadsy 67.647 7J.1I 62.IM Taeedsy 61.971 61,111 4S.47S Wed'day 11.71 86,116 661 Th'nday 19.871 11.169 Friday 6U14 6164 41,478 tUt'rdsy 87478 94.671 86,978 The neon arrow on the "Mid way" sign pointed to a paper- atrewa. bare expense.

Children poked about the grounds looking for nickels and dimes. Telephone in vacated offices rang emptily through the deserted buildings. This waa yesterday and Ottawa's 63rd Exhibition was end- ad. The air. which had echoed only a tew boura before with the carefree shouts of 87,478 persons, was quiet' Th grounds, covered the night before with roaring thrill rides, gaming booths, food con cessions and sideshow wss a littered emptiness.

Mighty Crowd Oa Midway. As midnight approached Saturday the mighty crowd, sur- paaaed only once in the history of the swelled to stagger- ing proportions. Bands of teen. agers charged through side gales. bowling over gate-keepers In final attempt at a free spree.

At midnight the rides ground to a stop. Th crowd took two houra to spill out ot 8he nark. Concessions remained open to feed workmen tearing down the midway. At 7.90 Sunday morn ing the World of Mirth rolled i IT I I aoaaii Tuecorri mt TBS Muni lul. Hungry bordca of fair ata their way through nearly In miles of hot.

dogs 86,000 of them In lis dsys at the Ex. last week. In addition, they chomped up 112,000 hamburgers and 72.000, sandwiches; dipped Into 180,0001 I packets ot cnips; orsinea o.uu",duck dipped In batter. a Hull woman, were Injured -six of them seriously la a head-on two-car collision on Highway 17, 14 miles west of Msttawa, shortly before noon Sunday. Taken to Sacred Heart Hospi tal at Hull following the accident was Mrs.

Leandre Maheux, 66, ot 309 Maisonneuv street, Hull, with a fractured nose, facial lacerations snd shock. Her condition is good. Ala admitted to Sacred Heart Hospital wss her son, Rene Maheux, 34, of Montreal, driver of one ot the cars. He received a fractured arm, cuts and shock. Police reported the westbound Maheux car wss in' collision with a second ear driven by Oscar Thomas, of La Cava, Ont, travelling east from North Bay.

-The Thames car wss attempting to passsnother -outbound vehicle When the head-on eraih occurred' on a hill, police said. Both 19S1 model sedans were heavily damaged. Ontario Provincial Police Com lab la Aberdeen Blair, of Msttawa, is continuing the investigation. Other occupants of the -Ms-heux car and. their injuries were: Mr.

and Mrs. Gerald Maheux, of Noranda, Que, both of whom received minor leg injuries and shock; their five children. Richard, two years, slight brain concussion, shock; Joy eel me, four, fractured right arm; Monlque, nine, facial lacerations, shock; Roger, eye injuries, bruised right arm, and Robert, lacerations and a bruised right leg. Oscar Thomas, driver of the La Cave csr, escaped with cuts, bruises snd shock. -Also in the Thomas vehicle and taken to hospital were: Mrs.

Charles good, 15. North Bay, face cuts, bruises, shock; her son. Richard, three years, fractured left leg, cuts, shock; Mr Barbara Contl, North' Bay, fractured left leg, shock; Mrs. Grassl, North Bsy, cuts about the head, shock; her daughter, Sylvia Grassl. cuts to the mouth, and her son, Richard Grassl, heed cuts, brulaes, shock; Victoria Donefrio, North Bay, fractured left arm, shock.

Fifteen of the, 17 persons Injured in the two cars wer taken to North Bay by ambulance and private cars for treatment Woman Killed 2 Hurt in Crash OnWayto'Ex' ALMONTE. Aur. 27-(Sp- eial) Mrs. Harry Houston of Almonte died In hospital- her early today of injuries received In a crash between two trucks on Highway 44 at Caldwell's Corners shortly after noon Sat urday. The collision occurred at the junction of the highway and the Carp-StltUvUle road.

vehicles wer ha If-ton trucks. lf Houston truck proceeding on th highway towards Ottawa and th other to Stittsville. Injured wer her husband, Harry Houston, Almonte, and truck driver Ray Bell, Stittsville. Mr. Houston, in Almonte Hospital, is suffering from head and back Injuries.

Boil is in Civic Hospital with Injured ribs and lacerations. At the time of me accident the Houstona were rout to Ottawa for an -afternoon at the Exhibition. They wer treated at the scene of th accident by Dr. Robertson of Carp and in hospital by Dr. R.

H. Cole of Almonte. The accident was investlgsted by Constable Jack Henderson nd York Polk of the Ontario Provincial Police. The former Jennie- Illing-worth. Mrs.

Houston was a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert IUlngworth. She is survived by three ions, Douglas 'and Donald, of Almonte, and Gordon of Ottawa; and two sisters, Mrs. Dan Mc-Kercher, Arnprior, and Mrs.

Bertram Clark, of Ottawa. Quyon Man Hurt When Tree Blown Down (SUYON, Aug. 37, (Sp-' clsl) Howard of Quyon escaped injury at his bom her when during a7 freak windstorm, a larg maple tree was blown down. Mr. Daley waa putting his car into the garage, but managed to get cut before th tree landed on top of th car, crushing it beneath Ite weight He sub fered ah injured knee.

Part of the tree also fell ross the roof of the house. causing considerable damage to th roof and chimney. Licence Plates To Reflect Ligtit EDMONTON. Aug. 17.

CF1 Motor licence piste in Alberta next year will reflect light at night Provincial Secretary E. Gerhart asid th plates wUl be black, with reflecting pearl-gray letters and numerals. afternoon. Fifty Ottawa Boy Scouts returned, a total ot 46atntldren who strsyed from their psrents during the week. This was double the number handled Isst yesr.

St. John Ambulance Brst aid station did about th same amount ot business as last year, handling a total of 1,086 persons. Midway Employee Bart Th last case came at 4 o'clock Sunday-morning whea two mid way employes fell off th "Silver Streak" while dismantling It One waa taken to Civic Hospital but released after treatment for a dislocated shoulder. The other had a bruised leg and waa treated at the, first, aid sta- Sheeting Gallery Saras. Firemen on duty 24 houWa- dsy during th week had only two minor biases to contend with.

A gss burner in a con cession esught Are Monday snd a shooting gallery 'on the midway was burned out late Saturday afternoon: Operators of the gallery said some looee gunpowder had been hit by a bullet causing the blaze. Shop Feeeasaa Wla Car. Trefele Fleury. 41-yeen-old shop foremen of 196 Gloucester street won the sixth car offered a. I ian breakfast of coffee end but tered bread 'not th.

heavy-meals you eat The pert aviatrlx who started flying when she was 19, landed yesterday aboard her tiny Cessna plane which does not even csrrry a radio. The craft was covered with autographs, met-ssges of good will and flags of the countries ah has visited. Also painted on. th aid in large, Portuguese letters, was a meaaage from President Getulio Vargas of Brazil. "Via this good neighbor flight taken to stay with relatives Id OriUia, Jamleson, shocked by the death of his friend, told police he traded the gun to Thompson for sn electric saw.

He described the Thompsons as a "happy Mrs, Thompson was lodged In the county JalL where' she re- lusea to ia is to ponce or sign a statement Thompson wss a war veteran and wss well-retarded in the community. Neighbors have been able to' throw no light on the The couole were during the week oo th final nighls-tirsw but not beforo.hls wife had been, photographed and given all the credit Both were at the draw the bandsheU. The card drawn waa virtually Illegible. It was an- The Fleury's, veteran bingo players, gnashed their teeth. It was then announced the phone number wss 3-9884.

The riin'i mh.r la 1.1SS uw ru.ni nirni. mmm muvn tor Mrs. Fleury. She rushed up and discovered the ticket wss theirs. It wasn't until they got home that Mrs.

Fleury discovered the winnina ticket belonged to her husband. "It wss probably Just as weir, ihe said today. "All the rest of us (herself and two eons) already nave cars, but this is bis first had sold the wipnlng ticket to her husbsnd. Eighteen-year-old Earl Riley of 94 Billing! Bridge, won the grsnd finale pie-eeting contest at the Jaycee canteen and took home a handaome plaque for his efforts. He defeated ether nightly winners for the grand championship with record consumption of two snd a half plea In 10 minutes.

Today, Lanadowne Park, waa quiet Only a faint after-scent of hot dogs, hamburgers, cotton candy and livestock' remained, hanging over th refuse-strewn grounds on which th feet of better than. 400.000 had shuffled. i 1 4 I send a cordial greeting to aur brother peoples of th Americas" Aboard the map-choked aircraft Ada carried a messsge from Mrs. Vsrgss, the President'! wife, to Mrs. St Laurent, the flrst lady of Canada.

Th aviatrlx aald she had' delivered messages from Mrs. Vsrgss to the first ledles of every country she has visited so far. either personally, or through the Brazilian represent rives there The Brazilisn Government chose Miss Rogato to mak the good neighbor flight because ot her outstanding record aa an aviatrlx. Ada, who has 3,300 flying' hours to her credit holds the No. 1 pilot's licence In Brazil.

She was the first woman ever to fly over the Andes in 65-horscpowcT aircraft, the first womsn to parachute In Chile, and ah has hit the silk 103 times in all. She siao has won decorations from the Brazilian and Uiilean Governments. Girl Cyclist Hit by Car "A le-year-eld bicyclist, Cleo-dett Maheux, 60 Cathcart Street, was in Ottawa General Hospital todsy with injuria received when aha turned in la th Mfh nf a WM MUKWl street, just Wast of Parent ave- wt pan. Bunaay. She waa admitted for observation with braises over th left eye, to the mouth end knees and posslbl head injuries.

Paliea aalH ex .1.1 ides at th Mother House of the wrey nuns, was apparently ma kin a a riaht bm. ki i way at th Mother House when sn was struck by sa eaetbound ear driven by Gaston Allstn. 33. 177 Laval street, Hull, ConsteMaa' Jiwin n- Tawkar raanussa annillaalij atyla (( rolla for the tint time on the ground, told 1,000 in the week, after alow start Moat of them went on Friday, when the name attracted thosaj who found the Midway menu of frankfurters snd hamburgers' ooor oickinas on a fait day. and didn't realize that egg rolls are a mixture of pork, chicken snd The rest of the Midway had the ssme sort of business boom I excepting for the pitchmen who find Ottawa crowds tend to lis- $20,000 Fire Razes Store At Bryson BRYSON, Aug.

27 (Special) dsmsge was Some $20,000 caused by fire which early Sun day morning ripped through the general' atore snd post office operated by Charles Lemaire, Bryson. It wss the first fir of major proportions to break out in Bry eon In many years. The blaze was first noticed about 30 a m. by Eaau Labine, who was on his way to work at New Calumet Mine. At this point flames were already eating at the root of the two-storey -building from the Inside.

Mr. Labine sounded th alarm and In a matter of minutes vol unteer firemen wer training bows on the walla snd crumbling roof. It is thought the fir started in a coal chute In the basement snd worked its way up through the dry walls to the sttlc before it was noticed. It took firemen only an hour to bring th bias under control. Included In the $20,000 loss.

which was partly covered by in surance, was the entire stock In Mr. Lemaire i store. The post office section of the building wss not seriously damsged. Mr. and Mrs.

A. M. weishar, occupsnts of an apartment above the store were not horn at the time ot the blaze. They were visiting at the cottage of Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Rainboth at Norway Bay. Truck Demolished Cyrville Man Hurt Leon Mellette, 39. Cyrville, luffered undetermined baejt in juries when the truck be was driving north on St Michael street, near the Canadian Pacific1 Railway crossing, went out of control early Saturday evening. Mallette told police a car parked In the centre of the toad forced him to swerve into the right! ditch. The truck was The "Ex" Sunday morning desert of debris.

Hemisphere Hopper From Rio Reaches Ottawa tea mora than they buy. Even ao, balloon bootbe told out near) ly 10,000 of their wares, and other standi did a fair trade. Midway Beams. World of Mirth who rats Ottawa as first-class Fair mate rial, were cleaning up on Sa tur day after a sell-out week. Officials rely on four rides (the ferrls wheel, the merry-go- round, the caterpillar and the Bumpee cars) and three abows (the the freaks snd the motorcyclists) to be full-house attractions at every Fair.

But Ottawa, thry find, eats up every type of entertainment they bring. On admittedly "leaser" attraction on the grounds clocked In an average of 3000 customers a day. Business was to good for the girlie showgirls, especially one headllner specializing in an un derwater who went on an exhausting It times on Sat urday before winding up at mid night Only complaint down Ham- burg-and-Hoopla Alley was from to fortune-teller, With only a sparse sprinkling of seer ssekers most young girls visiting her tent, shs found the Ottsws stop-over nearly a rest cure. "It's not Ilka th States, she ssld ssdly. "Here, nobody seem to car what! going to happen to Six Injured In Midway Train Spill Six persons, most' of there children, were shaken up and suffered minor injuries when the rear section of a miniature train on the World of Mirth Midway at the Exhibition overturned Saturday morning.

Hone of the injuries war serious. The train which travelled around a rectangulsr track and takes 90-degree turns waa dragged on its side 40 feet after it had spilled its passengers. Ride owner R. E. Vernier, of Tsmpa, said the train was travelling 10 miles an hour and was caused by one of the adults leaning out ot the ear at the turn.

Several parents whose children wer on the train said it appeared to be going too fast SEVEN DIE IN ACCIDENT. NEW DELHI, Indls, Aug. 37. W)r-A railroad accident at Nagrskata In northwest Assam killed seven persons aad Injured 24 others, reports received here ssld. Hesvy rains had washed out the ground under th track.

after his removal as Supreme Allied commander that be repeatedly asked Washington In February or March for perm lesion to continue bombing Rash-In, but waa denied it The despatch added that Defence Secretary MarshaU told th senators permission waa denied because th port was ao eloa to th Soviet border. On Sunday, shown a copy of the despatch. General Marahall ssld he had no comment to make until he returned to Washington and bad an opportunity to study official bo Uln of soft drinks; 180,000 cups ot coffee; snd cooled off on 10,000 Ice creams. The Midway munchers. traditionally a nibbling lot, aUo gave leal meals a big rush.

Oaa papular eatert that spa-eUliaed la fall-eem-se meala waa eejalpped te serve 31.66 a day. Lang qncaea af easterners aplll-tag bi tenths Midway at leach and oiaaevtlzae. and a steady trickle all day loaf, kept their kitchen helpers wetklag aU haa eet Borne 98,000 people than one out ot every tlvi more every live who visited the Ex. put the bits on that Fair favorite, cotton candy. About 9.000 ot the "world's largest suckers" were lapped up by the kids, and 18,000 packets of peanuts disappeared down the throats of the Midway mob.

Other specialties alio did a fast acroas-the-counter trade. Chinese Style Egg Rolls. One booth selling Chinese- Two 5JiTr WW mm 0 ear Severely Hurt In Car Crash Two Ottawa sisters today were recovering at Civic Hospital Jrora Injuries received in a car accident Saturday night on the Maatiara road, one mile south of Wakefield. Flora St Germalne, IS, of 100 Metcalfe street, suffered a frac- left leg. Her sister Olive, 31.

of the ssme address, received scalp cersUons. The driver of the car. Wilfred A. Maloney, 23, 89 Belmont street, suffered a deep gash over bis left eye but did not require hospital attention. Quebec Provincial Constable Marcel Dusaault told The Journal the Ottawa people were oo their way to bam dance at Wakefield and in a heavy fog ersshed into a rocky wall bordering the road.

The car, lata model, was damaged to the extent of $300. The St Germain girls were tng motorist: a i Goes to Reformatory For Break-in At OgilvY Store Richard Traversy, 18, of 389 month Indeterminate In reformatory when he pleaded guilty in city police a Saturday morning to a charge of breaking and anterrnc Oiilvr'i 6oorta Lodge on Nicholas street St Bea-aarer Friday night Ha was given two months definite and one month Indeterminate on an additional charge of attempted break-In at the prem-taaa of House of O'ltara, 19 Nicholas street Trsveny smashed a nlateluld guay and Argentina, crossed the Andes, flew up the west coast of South America, through Central America, up the west cosst ofthe United States and Can-ads to Alaska. Then ah backtracked to Seattle, went to Washington, DC, and came to Ottawa' from Montreal. So far K'l taken her. 105 hours of flying time.

Thet'i a lot of she said. "And while I'm not tired of flying. I'm tired of travelling. I want to be beck in Brazil. I want to eat a Brazil Peterborough Woman Charged In Shooting of Her Husband Ada Rogato, Brazil's No.

1 a via tr is, who left home nearly Ave months ago on a good neighbor tour of th Western, Hemisphere, said today aha wished ah wer horn with mother. "I'm she said after writing more than 30,000 air milea into her log book. "I've been away from home since April 4 and I wish I were in Sao Paulo with my mother." I Before, ah could return home, around the end of September, however, 34-year-old Ada bad another mine countries to visit Sh already has passed through 17; Still on her list are Cubs, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Tstnldad, Venezuela and (he three Gulanas. Ada, woo nas a long list ot South American aviation nrrts vo ner name, ciawnea to ne uie flrst aviator to make a sweeping three-Americas flight She atarted -from Rio De Janeiro, went to Uru- Hurt in Fall At Church Frank Odo, 55. of 302 Bruyerejg street aomiuea io inlaws HAanital at SSO fiundav for nil iiaHim td hajl Marshall Silent on Report Port Near Russia Is Bombed PETERBOROUGH, Ont, Aug 27.

CF Mrs. Roy Thompson. jg WM Ktieduled to appear in Magistrate Court today on Sj eharge of murdering her hus band. Police last night brought for ward fio explanation for the Saturday night shooting ni Thompson, s. scrap dealer.

The slain man bad apparently been drinking Saturday afternoon and evening. Shortly after jq p.m. Mrs. Thompson ran niK. DOT, William Jamleson, upstairs wben the shooting occurred.

Three ether Thompson children wer away from th house at the tiro. The four children bars bee TjUx4iP- be In comfortable elr- General C. Marshall, United States Defence Secretary on. a week-end visit her, declined to. comment on a' report ttiat VS.

B-l9s have bombed the Korean pork of Raahln, 30 miles from Ruaslafi territory. A VS. Eighth Army head-ouartera despatch from Korea injuries received when he 'there hsd beeen tumbled down the front itepsl Jamieaoa called police who at Sacred Heart Church on fnj Tbompaon lying dead In a ntobU, by th. Fire V-- 43alibr rine bul-Departrnent emergency ear, sat had pierced his chest and a manned by Firemen Cliff Mason rifle, later identified by police as and AhFraser, Mr, Odo requzred'the murder weapon, ley on th severs! stitches to doe a cut kitchen table. ver th right eye.

i The Thompsons' 14-year-old Mr. Odo was coming out of daughter, Betty, and a playmate, the church and was about four 'Nancy Scott, were sleeping in sa cuflawicei nnancisiiy. Quadruple Amputee to Wed. JOLirr. Aug.

Pte. Hubert Reeves, 19. quadruple ampule of-' th Korean Wsr, will soon' marry Beverly Jean Hall, who wrote to hlra to cheer him up when he wsi ut hospital Miss Hall's parents announced the engage ment ana to marriage fiep- 1. Saturday that Raahln was steps down when he missed a step and fell the rest of th way to th sidewalk. Constables Lawrence Xthter snd James Cram, investigated.

glass winoow in tne sports store: tne porv uenerai wuw and was attempting to get away 'Arthur wanted to knock out with an outboard motor when early in the -war. arrested by ConataMea John The despatch aald that Cen-Gagnon and Taylor Cs interns ersl MacArthur testified before ag she city police. U.S. Senat committee last May.