% By JOHN .LeBLANC TORONTO. ‘CP: — Leo. Lan- drevitle thought of becoming an actor as sa young man. but there. were too many. hungry <x, acters im those depression days Now he's on stage ‘front and centre im one of the great po- litieal-judicial dramas of Cana- dian history Mr. Justice Landreville of the Ontario Supreme Court. who at- tained wealth and prestige when he decided ‘to turn to a com: ' bination of the law and bus. iness. mow has been labelled un- fit to. hald judicial office. The federal government is acting on =the ‘condemnatory Rand report to ask Parliament to remove him. . | The 56-year-old judge refuses - to resign, protesting of impropriety in a stock deal, and _becomes__the .. first judge since Confederation: to be in- volved im such a remowal ac- tion ite 2 , It is one of the few rebuffs in the life of Len Landreville since he left his mative Ottawa to make his way im the Northern Ontario mining city of Sudbury 30 years ago With only ocega- - siona! detours. his course has DE GAULLE IN CAMBODIA fesse paicele inl ee: Prince Norodom Sinancuk, port - after. his arrival from. bodia and Viet Nam are next. cially Fight, Chief of State of Cam- Oodia, greets French Presi- dent Charles de Gaulle Tues- . day at the Phnom Penh air- French Somaliland. De Gaulle immediately said Viet Nam could lead the world to its worst misfortune.’’ Cam- Aire coiuha BROKE. 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Me, Justice Landreville | ~” Considered Acting Career busiest and most lucrative prac- tices in the north His business acumen was such that he started a busiféss.‘#chool as a sideline in a few years Friends can still recall him) opening class at 9 a.m., teach- ing for an hour and then dash- | ing off for the opening of court. He did this for seven years. By the time he was called to the Supreme Court in .1956—as | one of the last appointees of the St. Laurent government the shrewd and personable lawyer was a going concern .in many directions : ) Besides having amassed a considerable fortune — he said later his income was several times the $15,000-a-year pay of a judge—he. had held most of the ‘major elective municipal of; | fices in Sudbury and was ‘a power in Liberal politics regigh- ally. However,_inhis for the Ontario legislature, in 1951. he was defeated. But he bounced” back and was” mayor when tapped for the bench. — A slim well-groomed man of less. than average height, he dresses expensively. but fully matching ensembles. He exudes affability and is a lively non - stop conversationalist. He enjoys the good life, including big cars, and one of his luxuf- jes is a villa he has owned for | several years in. Mexico. SOLD AT PROFIT Wu URES ma LOR alae aig Ae SOLON EAR ete es mbiobe: |commissioner one—run:! taste-., (fon money t large chunks was f- | lustrated by an instance inquiry Ivan ‘C. Rand pave iv bis report ag the judge {tanied in Parliament Monnay He and a partner had picked up a piece, of, land for $325,000 in 1956 @ “That he is not to be taken jas innocent in such dealings,": Mr. Rand '.observed, “is demon- ‘strated by languas e addressed ito the Tax Appeal Board in the: |course of an appeal from a gift | tax arising out ‘of that sale: | ‘The fact that we had-. ma- noeuvered Kresge’s over. a bar- ‘rel and squeezed the utmost! price out of them 1s irrelevant to the issue." Mr.- Rand described him as “fascinated by the glitter success. and. material well-be- ing’ and, on. occasion. ‘‘not averse from untruths.” He also! § labelled him a snob_who |wouldn’t have Sudbury council- Hors_of lower social rank out to |his home when he was, mayor, FLY. TO WEST EISENSTADT, . Austria (APY) Two Hungarian refugees hedge. | hopped a light sports plane | across the border Monday in an | escape to neighboring Austria. | They told police they had plot-| ted to escape for more than a, year. ; COMMITS HARA-KIRI NEW YORK (AP)—A Japa- nese. doctor was found dead in |his Bronx apartment Monday, japparently a hara-kiri victim. |Police_ said Dr. Yoshimari Ishii, '35, of Tokyo, was found stabbed ° in a few years he had one of the His propensity for picking up ‘in the abdomen. in Sudbury | for $173,000 in 1949 and sold it: of | 4 { | | | fre ee ) SCOUTS ARE STRANDED - Vancouver by the railstrike. to leave their heavy luggage They had been attending a ‘hike: home Rover Scout gathering on Van- and hitch-hike : couver Island. 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