Ottawa's squatting veterans got rough. Led by fiery half-pint Franklyn Edward Hanratty, president of the Veterans' Housing League, 500 vets and spectators massed in Victoria Park last week, their furniture piled in 20 trucks. In the quiet of the supper hour, they tootled off in search of housing. They made a feint at the well-protected R.C.A.F barracks downtown, then headed for the Navy's wartime barracks H.M.C.S. Carleton on Ottawa's outskirts near Dow's Lake.
A patrol car of the Mounties blocked their way. The vets, 200 strong, jounced it aside, crashed...
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