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The RAF. bombed Boulogne harâ€" tour and blasted twentyâ€"six airdromes in France, HclkH®nd and Belgium. Three tons of high explosives and incendiary bembs were dumped at harâ€" bour targets in Saturday night‘s raid. The Bculogne harbour was bombed from a low height and the pier at the er#trance was hit several times but most of the bemks fell plumb along ships and seaplanes in the basin. One of the seaplanes was struck and came un atove the smoke in a thqousand plieces. Mtr. and Mrs. Dayton Ostrosser anâ€" rounce the engagemeont of their coughter, Maricn. Rush, to Mr. Freâ€" Herick Evans, "Son "Of MY â€"and Mrs. Bryh Evans, of Toronto. The wedding will Rozorts were current in Dover that Germ#in infantry was massed on the Frenâ€"h shore and the sight and sound of b#tle tended to confirm these asâ€" sertions, % cnanneé£i and lighted with from the ech take ; Emphatic denial that it was associatâ€" ed with or supported by any organizaâ€" tion which had been declared illegal by the government was made by the personnel of the Porcupine Gold Belt Pand in a letter considered by the council on Friday afternoon during an informal meeting. The same letter contained a, declaraâ€" ticm of loyalty to King and country and the assertion that the 49 signatories to the letter believed that Canada in asâ€" sisting the Empire, was fighting for a cause they knew to be just. The letter is as follows: "During the past three years there Imve been various opinions voiced reâ€" R. A. F. Blasts Harbours 26 Airdromes in France garding our organization, The Porcuâ€" pine Cold Belt Band. From time to time different individuals have brought forth unsubstantiated arguments, claimâ€" inz that the band was affiliated to and supported by organizations now declared illlegal by the government. without the knowledge or sanction of rither bandmaster or band members, diffarent bodies have, in the past, proâ€" claimed their sponsorship of our orâ€" Despite desperate efforts en our part to show these claims as untrue, this idea still prevails. "However, in view of present circumâ€" stances, this situation must be cleared up. The Porcupine Gold Belt Band has struggled along for the past years ecntinually burdened by false accusaâ€" tions and criticisms. _ Despite this burden we have continued to serve the Timmins public through medium of concerts, taking part in parades, helpâ€" ing Red Cross work and in general, willingly doing all the duties of a pubâ€" licly supported band. The turnout at our Sunday concerts and other evenis leads us to believe our work is appreâ€" NAZIS LOSE 141 OF 600 RAIDING for Initiative Britain Deals Earthâ€"Shaking Blows at Germany. Waves of British Bombers Cross Chanâ€" nel. Report That Five German Divisions Bombed by R. A. F. on French Beaches Not Confirmed. Attestation of Loyalty to King and Country Made in Letâ€" ter Signed by Bandmaster, Secretary and Fortyâ€"Seven Members of Band. State Sponsorship of Band (‘ilg‘imegl We accepted no nep Irom iegai oOTrganiZa~â€" tions wlhiatsoever, "At the same time we would like to make this statemeiit public: "We,. the . all members of the Porcunine Gold ‘Belt Band, in view mt ol t > D t PA CAAA C LC T16 had bombed serman army 0C4)}) men,., 01 NGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED . .h 7 l)nfférent ()rgamzatlons Without Authority of Band site the strain of defending their sland from ‘the suddenly renewed re ‘German attacks, the RA.F. reat waves of bombers across the el and the port of Dover ‘was 1 with the glare and resounded the echoing bombings from Bouâ€" nz for the initiative in the _ _a‘r war of all times, Britain earth shaking blows at Gerâ€" positions on the French coast. raid was the third since Saturâ€" Cup 1 Section 8 Pages September 14th s e i P P P O L L CA ry declined to confirm n report that the R.A. into confused turmoil of five divisions, up.to the French beaches. ation withdrew the reâ€" An unexplained explosion at a large‘ hotel at Windsor, Ontario, yes-terday‘é resulted in the death of one man amd! the injury of a score of others, some of them sericusly hurt. Several of the injured had to kave hospital treatment. The explosion occurred apparently in the basement while electricians, were | working on some minor trouble with the lights. One explanation given 154 that the blast was due to gases igniting in the basement. Representatives from | the Marshal‘s officeâ€"are> conducting a very careful enquiry into | the matter, | "It will ocntinue to ‘be cloudy and cold" predicted Sydrey Wheeler, Hoâ€"â€" linzer weather expert this morning. It began to rain at 6.30 a.m. yesterâ€" cay morning and continued at initerâ€" va‘s until 6.30 this morning. Total rainfall was threeâ€"quarters of an incu. It was quite possible, said Mr. Wheeler, that we would get mcore rain today. Maximum anad minimum temporaâ€" trures since Thursday have been as fcllows: Thursday, maximum 84, miniâ€" mium 62; Friday, 80 and 64; Saturday, 80 anm 56: Sunday, 58 and 48. â€" At eighit o‘clock this merning the thermometer reading was 48 degrees. Continued Cloudy And Coild of Canada‘s efforts to help the Emâ€" pire, also declare our loyalty and full support to our King and cur Country, pledging our wholehearted coâ€"operation in a cause that we know is just. We know no group can say more. "We trust that this sincere declaraâ€" tion will help alter the opinion of some people and enable us to continue our band work completely in public favour." The letter was signed by A. Welsh, Bandmaster: M. Panchuk, Secretary. Fortyâ€"seven members of the band also signed their names with their addresses. "Well that letter seems to speak for itself," said Councillor Eyre. ‘"There is nothing we can do about it. I underâ€" stam that the band intends to make public statement following approval of Began to Rain at 6.30 a.m. Sunday. Until 6 20 =.m. Toâ€"day Rained % Inch. Blast at Windsor, Ontario, Kills One, Injures a Score \ Lieut. John Farrow (Above) dinzc-z tor of naval information at Ottawa,| has been decorated by the Pope with the Grand Cross of the Order ‘ot the Holy Sepulchre, He is one of the few commoners® ever to be awarded the cross.. The Cross isi one of the oldsst in exisbence.i Lieut. Parrow‘s wife is movie star, Maureen OSullivan. ;wflmmwm ‘ublished at Timmins, Ont Every and TH Council in«@, Ont., Canadas, and THURSDAY ¢ fJorcupine A I To assist pecple in finding the proâ€" ‘per placse to register for the Naâ€" tional~ Mcmday, Tuesâ€" j day and Wednesday Al s week The | A'vance pufifis‘h °d the town map p showâ€" ing the divis‘on of the municipality into polling places. It was noted that the booths for the National Registratâ€" ion were the same as those used for lelection. This is the fact but the booths marked on the map in the last issue of The Advance are those. used. for municipal elections, while the Naâ€", tional Registration booths; are those used in the last Dominion Election. There is no dGifference between the two, however, except in the numbers. On the various booths for National ’Regxstratlon the number of the Doâ€" minion poll is given first, followed by the number used in the municipal eloction. There is a difference of 13 between the numbers. Poll No. 14, for example, is the first poll in Timmins in the Dominion election numb€ring, ! and it is NOo. 1 in the municipal plan. | Poll No. 15 is marked "15â€"2" it being 2 No. 2 in the municipal list. Poll No. ! 16 is marked "16â€"3" and so on. Taking %the polling places as gathered from | the town map and remembering that there is a difference of 13 between the | numbering of the two lists, it will ‘be | an easy matter to find the right booth. i _ For the registration, all the booths | are in the four schoolsâ€"Central, Matâ€" tagami, Holy Family and St. Micha®@l‘s. 3 The numbering on the various booths | is as! follows: Centralâ€"14â€"1; 16â€"3; 174 20â€"17; t 22â€"9; 24â€"â€"11. Holy Familyâ€"15â€"2; 18â€"5; 19â€"6; 24.â€"10; 42â€"2909; 43â€"30; 44â€"31; 45â€"32; 46â€"33; 47â€"â€"34. Where You Should Register for the National Registration At 1120 on Saturday evening Timâ€" mins firemen received a call from Mountjoy Township, over the Mattaâ€" gami river. They responded and hurâ€" ried to 6 Ronald Street, the home of Paul Vaillancourt. Fire started in the house, which was owned by Frank Feldman, somewhere in the vicinity of the light socket. The ceiling was burning, the table below the socket and part of the floor. Damage was estimated at $100. % Firemen did â€"not need to respond to the call but had they not done so it is possible that the whole street would have gone up in fiames. Houses at that point are quite close together and there is no means of fighting fire in the Fire on Ronald Across the Bridge Does $100 Damage Mattazgzamiâ€"48â€"35; 40â€"36; 51â€"38; 52â€"39;, 53â€"â€"40;, 54â€"41 56.â€"43; 517â€"44; 58â€"45. St. Michae‘sâ€"30â€"17; 31â€"18 33â€"20: 34â€"21; 35â€"22; 36â€"23 38â€"25; 39â€"26; 40â€"27, 41â€"28. Starts in Light Socket in Home of Paul Vaillanâ€" court. Cederal Polling Places Used. Municipal Places Given on Map. The tradition of it: days as a dashing cavalry reglâ€" mont will be carried on by twoâ€"whesled steeds, but there is little about the Governorâ€"General‘s Horse Guards to recall when the men wore breeches and spur; _ A tie with the old days was renewed in Toâ€" ronto, however when "Seabiscuit," a small pony in TIMMINS, ONTARIO, MONDAY, AUGUST 19TH, 1940 FAMED CAVALRY REGIMENT GETS STEED AS MASCOT 50â€"37 50â€"â€"42 24 Just Half the Number Of Volunteers Expected, Out for Registration About half of ithe number of volunâ€" teers who said Ithey would be on hand this Fnrorntfs 6 assist with the "Nâ€" tional Registration here did not turn up. |Consequenttly there was a shortage of workers, and in some schools, conâ€" siderable® confusion. Officials said that they were pleased with the number of housewives who pegistered this morning. They reiteratâ€" ed their plea to housewives to register in the morning or during the day when it would be impossible for business people to register, At such times, noon and after work in the evening, the bosoths, it is expected, will be jampacked. â€"Farly registration of housewives in mornings will do conâ€" siderable to relieve pressure. The Deputy Registrar,; Wilfred Spooâ€" ner,â€" said that: he did ncot anticiâ€" pate that dull weather such as there was this morning, would keep the volunteers at home. Such apparently was ithe case: During the remainder of today, Tuesâ€" day and Wednesday, persons registerâ€" ing are asked to bring their own pens with them, if possible. Many persons arrive ‘at the registration depot : with their cards all filled out. Although it is only a matter of signing their names in front of one of the assistant Deâ€" puty Registrars, thty are forced to wait urtil a pen is available. That is not always a short wait. ‘Part of the confusion this morning was the result of the pen situation and part ‘the result of a lack of workers. Whatever the reason there was conâ€" fusion and it was nocn before registraâ€" tion started to go through in an orderly mannéer. A number of workers who did not appear this morning are expected to turn out this afternoon. It is probabie that there will be more than enough workers, . Confusion This Morning Because of Lack of Workers. Registrants Asked to Bring Their Own Pens If Possible. Officials Pleased That Large Number Housewives Takâ€" ing Advantage of Lull in Mornings to Register. Summary of Council Mceeting Goklâ€" Beltâ€" Band emphatical denies â€" affiliation with â€" illeg groups. Attests loyalty to Kin country and cause. Colonel Masson to be presenied with letter expressing town‘s gratitude for work in helping arganize â€" Timmins Auxiliary police. Oscar Robertson asks compe sation for injury received in re cuing drowning boy. . Reduction of $8,000 income tax considered FPive councillors and to cials appointed to attend Municipal Association. Fire Chief granted 3 weeks holidays. l c full galloping order, pony was given t Bain, ma ronto. Hers it ho joint parade of the of th2> regiment. gal 10 Toâ€"mcrrow (Tuesday) starting at 10.30 a.m. the War Beavers‘ Club will have a group of girls in attractive uniâ€" forms selling home cooking, homeâ€"made candy and homeâ€"made lemonade from Girls in Uniform to Sell Home Cooking Homeâ€"Made Candy Allege Slippers and Cap Loot of Shoplifter Felicien Ferguson, 39, who said that he. had no address, is charged with theft. He was picked up by three policemen on Saturday night after he allegedly shoplifted from Bucovetsky‘s store. Ferguson was catholice in his choice Ferguson was catholic in his choicel of anticles. He chose two pair of ladâ€" ies slippers and a man‘s cap. There were several speeders. One man was charged with driving sixty to sixtyâ€"five miles an hour on the Hollinzger flats, another with drivi.ngl between 40 and 45 miles an hour ons the flats during heavy traffic. ! Giving information on a charge of lane obstruction, Chief Gagnon said today that he wanted to warn motorâ€" ists that there is a local byâ€"law forâ€" bidding parking across private lanes and driveâ€"ways. i Police Chief Warns Parkâ€" ing â€" Across Driveways, Lanes Forbidden. Junior Members of War Beavers Club to Have Stand near Imperlal Bank Toâ€"morrow, Many friends and acquaintances in Timmins and district will deeply regret to learn of the death yesterday of Dr. J, L. Simpson, Minister of Education in the Ontario Cabinet. Dr. Simpson‘s death was sudden and unexpected, beâ€" ing due to a keart attack. Shortly after being chosen for the post of Minâ€" ister of Education Dr. Simpson visited Timmins and impressed all with his fairness his doire to be of »râ€" Dr. Simuoson Minister of Education, Died Yesterday 16 bs vroquced to the ranks. The regiment as a mascot from t-h.e Eglinton Hunt club, Toâ€" th the men after the last ind nonâ€"permanent units Heaviest Defeat of War Inflicted on Nazis in Resumption of Mass Raids Published at Tmmins, Ont., Canada Kvery MONDAY and THURSDAY Trio of Auto Crashes Attack London Area for Third Time in a Week. Germans Lost Twentyâ€"Four Per Cent. of Force in Yesterday‘s Battle. â€" Houses Destroyved and Casualties Inflicted in Raids on Southeast Town. R. A. F. Raises Ratio to Nine to One. A charge of careless driving was laid against Raymond St. Denis, 129 Comâ€" mercial Avenue," by Herbert Hoelke, Schumacher, following an accident on the east side of the Mattagami River, early on Sunday morning. The accident took place at 12.20 a.m. The two cars met in a collision on the extension of Wilson Avenue. Damage to Hoelke‘s car amounted to $35, Crash in Timmins At 1145 am. on Sunday, opposite 62 Pine ‘street south, a truck, driven by Emile Therrien, and a car, driven by Howard Brunette, met in an accident. The truck was making a left hand turn off Pine street and the taxi cab was coming north on Pine street when the accident occurred. Drivers agreed to settle the damage between themâ€" selves and no charges were laid. No One Injured and Damâ€"« age Not Great in Car Accidents. s Cars driven by Jack Sanchyk, 268 Birch street south, and Albert E. Lake, 205 Maple street south, met in a minor collision ait the corner of Kimblerley and Balsam streets at 240 p.m. on Satâ€" urday. Damage was only trivial and charges were not laid. Hints That Germany Has Plans to Attack Iceland, Greenland London, Aug. 17â€"Under the headâ€" ing: "Hitler Plans an Attack on Iceâ€" land and Greenland," the military correspondent of the Daily Express toâ€" day write: "Establishment of bases on this route would have the object of cutting Britain from her bases of supply, the United States and Canada." ‘"Details have reached me of a Gerâ€" man plan to attack ‘Bgtain's trade routes by encirclement. "Attacks on the Faroe Iceâ€" land, Greenland and the Newfoundâ€" land are contemplated under this plan. For many weeks troops of the Canaâ€" dian Active Service Corps have been stationed in Iceland and Newfoundâ€" land, including the Labrador coast. A large number of troops assigned to duty is composed of Canaâ€" dians of Icelandic descent, recruited in the Lake Winnipeg area, which is the centre of Canadian Icelandic settleâ€" ment, Newfoundland Also Listed as to be Menaced. German lost 141, nearly 24 per cent of the 600 planes she sent against the British Isles yesterday in three mass raids which saw the London area atâ€" tacked for the third time since Thursâ€" day. "Having regard for the numbers emâ€" ployed this represents the heaviest deâ€" feat the enemy has yet suffered at the hands of our fighters and ground deâ€" fences," the RAF. communique said. _ Only sixteen of the British fighters were lost and eight of the pilots surâ€" vived. German raiders, returning to the atâ€" tack today, dropped 100 small bombs on southeast town before fleeing ‘to sea with British fighters on their tails. Several houses ‘were badly Gdamaged and there were some casualties. A German bember was downed early today in southwest Britain where other German planes canried out a small scale raid. Flyers of one Spitfire squadron are glad the blitzkriege has started, "We know just where we are with Jerry now," one of them said. "Before we were always wonderingâ€"and its fun to turn Junkers into Junk." This squadâ€" ron has turned some seventy German planes into junk, and during the last few weeks, has been in action several times daily. The attack yesterday on TLondon south was the most extensive of the war in the metropolitan area. Scores of bombs were dropped and a large area was rocked by their explosions, One town just cutside of London was heavily damaged and many casualties were inflicted when formiations of Gerâ€" The sky was said to be "black" with planes. The air ministry reponted that several RAF. airdromes were hit and "some service personnel killed and others injured." tives Britain having destroyed four Gerâ€" man planes to each British plane lost during the past week‘s six successive days of raids,made the fatio better than nine to oné in fighting off yesterâ€" day‘s attacks which struck at the outer edge of ‘South London, at CGroydon Airdrome, at Kent, Sussex, the Portsâ€" mouth naval base, Hampshire and Surâ€" rey, the east coast, the Midlands and south and southeast coast. On account of the heavy raimn yesâ€" terday it was impossible for.the Timâ€" mins Citizens‘ Band to present their open air band ‘concert as ‘ planned, However, with the proviso that the weather permits, the programime will be presented in full cn Thursday evenâ€" ing of this week. A programme of special interest has been prepared and the selections to be given at the bandâ€" stand in the Spruce street park on Thursday evening, under the leadership ‘of Bandmaster F. J. Wolno, should prove popular. Timmins Citizens‘ Band to Present Concert Thursday Event Planned Afor Last Night Couldâ€"Not be Held on Account of Weather. Coâ€"operation for mutual defence of Oanada and the United States, which stops only short of a formal alliance was contained in a joint statement isâ€" sued by Prime Minister Mackenzie King and President Roosevelt following a weekâ€"end conference. The agreement nprovides: 1, for the 24 J 4s3 1O DE represen®CG â€"Dy â€"1AALLl or five men, mostly from the services. 2. The Board is to consider immediâ€" ately studies relating to land and sea problems includimg personnel and maâ€" terial. 3. The Board‘s scope will be so wide that it virtually will be considered‘ in the broad sense the defence of the north half of the western hemisphere. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbent G, Schumacher, announcte the engagement Single Copyâ€"Five Cents planes ~dive bombed their objec= . G. Leck, chumacm,'rhp gewtaupmsep" a Atyv + Sn se a w u_ Of a jo t up in 114 rovides: 1, for the joint board for deâ€" immediately. Fach enresented by four