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known Kirkland Lake insurance agent who has made many contacts in the Porcupine district through his particiâ€" pation in sport as an actual contestant in goif and curling and in a spectator‘s role for hockey and buseball, was inâ€" stalled president of Kirkland Lake Kiâ€" wanis Club by W. R. (Bill) Cockburn, International Kiwanis Viceâ€"President, of Riverdale, Toront». Mr. Norton sucâ€" ceeds Dr.Cliff McKee as head of the Kirkland Follows _ Lead of Porcupine Wrightâ€"Hargreaves Mine Places Group Life Insurâ€" ance on all Employees, the Mine Paying all the ‘Preâ€" miums. ‘ Kirkland Lake, Jan. 14â€"(Special 9 The Advance)â€"Follcswing the lead of the Hollinger, MciIntyre and Dome local service club. mines of the Forcupine camp, direcâ€" tors of Wrightâ€"Hargreaves Mines, seâ€" cond biggest producer in this Hub of the North have taken on a group life insurance contract for all employees of the mine. Operative since the first week in January the plan is being received with great enthusiasm by the men who contribute nothing to the premiums and who are covered according to the length of service with the mine. As explained to The Advance by mine officials, the coverings starts at $500 for those who have been with Wrightâ€" Hargreaves for three months and wortks to a maximum of $1,500 coverage ' mrklandwe Jan. 14â€"(Special to The Advance). So popular has secome the market held in a building ie POV Indicative of the ‘more setlled afâ€" fairs of the mining industry and the absence of floaters now was this offiâ€" clal statement that "More than 50 per cent of our employees are covered for the maximum. They have stayed with us, not like in the old days when there was a good deal of shifting around and men dig not stay long at one job." PP S P e L mt s In the neighbourhood of 750 men are affected in the plan with $850,000 peing the total coverage. The entire conâ€" tract was written by Herb. Norton o[ the North American Life here. Employees and citizens generally are high in their praise of the action of Wrightâ€"Hargreaves in providing proâ€" tection for the workers in all branches cf the mine. It is pointed dut that the coverage holds good at all times, around the mine and away from it, and that if an employee leaves the employ of Wrightâ€"Hargreaves he can pick up the premium for himself at 2 slightly higher rate under the terms of a conversion clause. ‘_ ‘The policy is for straight life insurâ€" ance with the insured naming their dependents. "The only thing they ‘let‘ the mine do," one person facetious‘:y remarked, "is pay the shot." It is exâ€" peécted the move by Wrightâ€"Hargreaves first one in the camp to go into this type of insurance, may result in other mines taking on a similar programme before the end of the year. Taris, Jan. 14. â€"Sabotage has been reported in shipyard where the palatial liner Normandie is under conâ€" struction and an investigation into the charges is likely to begin soon. PA Sabotage Reported on Palatial Liner, Normandie â€"* ETT Steel needles have been inserted into the lead conduits that will carry elecâ€" tric current for lighting, it is charged. The object would be to cause short circuits and perhaps disable the ship. The Normandie, when completed, will be even larger than the Queen Mary, officials of the French Line state. N: az1 Vote Seems Heaviest in Saar Plebiscite Vote Sagarbrucken, Jan. 13.â€"Voting cn the Saar plebescits to 2.30 this afternaon indicated that the Nazi vote was the heaviest, though official results will not be released until Tuesday. There had been about 500,000 votes cast by 2.30. Bhculd the vots prcve a close one, the Lsague of Nations is not forced to turn over the Saar to Germany Or France but may continue to g:vern it as they have since the war. en x) L 2 40. M t c nssm Dest;ite expacted theâ€"votâ€" ing had been carried on in an orderly manner up untilâ€"late this afternoon. Twentyâ€"three Below Zero _ Registered Last Night All official temperatures for the past 24 hcurs have been subâ€"zero. Yesterâ€" day the highest point recorded at Holâ€" linger was 4 below and the minimum during last night was 23 below. By eight o‘clock this morning it had rison eight o‘clock this morning it NAad soH to 15 below. ~Four days of cold weather have visi! ed the north country and this mornâ€" there was n> sign of an immediate let up of the wave. â€" Pipes were reported frozen after Satâ€" urday‘s heavy but as yet no seriâ€" has : frost ous harm beenâ€"done. Market at Kirkland Lake aid to Keep Down Prices Lake. Jan. 14â€"(Bpecial to from the vendors | and "ane rink here every " MONDAY, JANUARY 14TH, 1935