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the tribune stouffville ont thursday march 21 1940 page seven londons subways safe from airraids by beatrix moore changing londons railways from peace to war conditions has meant an immense job of work the speed with which it had to be carried out so as to interfere as little as possible with the millions of people de pendent on the railroads for their daily transport makes the story more exciting the job meant 1 emer gency measures for public safe ty 2 an immediate black out so that no clue was given to enemy aircraft of the where abouts of vital sections in london the london pass enger transport board controls all the traffic for twentyfive miles round london ad has some eightyseven thousand employees on its pay roll one of the boards stations char ing cross is used by more than fortyone million people a year cars ford standard coupe heater and defroster 1938 ford standard tudor heater and defroster 1938 ford delux fordor heater defroster 1935 ford delux fordor heater and defroster 1935 ford roadster 1928 whippet sedan 1928 chev coach 1928 oldsmobile sedan 1928 oakland sedan 1928 trucks chev truck 157 vv b 12 platform and racks 2 ton h d 32x6 dual 1936 international platform and body 1932 chev 1 12 ton panel dual wheels 1934 studebaker platform and racks dual wheels 1931 rugby platform and racks dual 1931 tractors 3 fordson tractors fordson tractor late model impulse starter and german bosch magneto international 2 furrow tractor plow practically new fleury 2 fur row tractor plow repossess ed for none payment must be sold at once also a number of other good reconditioned cars and trucks priced to sell quickly dfholdensonsj last year including bus ser vices the board carried three thousand eight hundred and seventytwo million people to work and play as far back as 1936 prelim inary surveys were made to see what measures would be needed if war ever came in 1938 after the september crisis transport authorities made a survey to determine what constructional alterations would be necessary a vast program of emergency work was undertaken by the lptb the total cost being about 1000000 in london in january 1939 antiflood meas ures in the london under ground railway were begun and engineers made a survey of all stations and tunnels to pre vent possible entry of water during a raid it was found necessary to do work of some sort at 51 stations and by the time war broke out all but 19 had been completed the london public saw or knew little of the laborious work going on for its safety it only saw the superficial changes instructions on what to do in event of an air raid for in stance appeared in trains arid on stations notices requesting passengers to he on the floor in the event of an air raid caus ed amusement on some of the crowded suburban lines other notices at the entrance to underground stations warn ed the public that they could not be used as air shelters and that when a raid warning was given the gates would be clos ed one of the most difficult problems to be faced in london was that of protecting the underground railways from risk of flooding either from the river thames or from sewers or water mains electrically operated steel floodproof gates of two types have been installed heavy tunnel gates weighing six tons and smaller gates weighing four and a half tons to cut off passages leading into stations besides concrete walls in the passages so successful has this work been that within three minutes of an air raid warning those sections of the line in between stations running under the riv er can be completely isolated when an air raid warning is received at the traffic controll ers office the controller im mediately transmits an instruc tion to the operators of all gates who are continuously on duty in the operators cabin at the end of each platform illumin ated diagrams of the section of the line indicate the presence of a train in the underriver section as soon as the operators have satisfied themselves by means of the diagrams that all trains have cleared the section the gates are closed special interlocking devices make it impossible for any gate to be closed while there is a train in the underriver section of the tunnel as soon as war broke out men began working by day and all night to complete the work and by the end of december all but one of the stations were opened the seasons first spring dance under the auspices of the unionville junior farmers will be held in mammoth hall malvern on the evening of fri april 5 refreshments admission 50c russ creightons music election to cost canada million dollars less peaches too late last week peaches young people held their meeting last friday night at the lewis home the meeting was opened with a short pro- gram followed by games lunch was served to about thirty a number from our ine at tended the hockey game on fri day night at cobourg also the game at markham on monday night the wms held their monthly meeting on tuesday afternoon at the home of mrs painter the study book was taken by dorothy hoover aprons are being made and sold by the members to help with the funds colds are the order of the day on our line i sneezed a sneeze into the air it fell to the ground i know not where but cold and dark were the looks of those in whose vicinity i sneeze best news so far about the dominion ejection on march 26 is that it will cost the country 1000000 less than the last one the 1935 cost was around 4000000 this one will run about 3000000 which will in clude 50000 to take the soldier vote lower cost and greater speed have been made possible by amendments to the canadian election act passed since 1935 by that act jules castonguay chief electoral officer for can ada will have more power on march 26 than any man in can ada not including the governor general there are 65500000 persons in canada eligible to vote ont the basis of past records about 75 percent of them will do so five hundred tons of printed j matter will be used in 175 differ ent forms printers across the country will harvest about 850000 with about 650000 scattered in local areas more than 150000 officials and semi official em ployees will be needed they include 243 returning officers 243 electoral clerks 45000 en umerators 1000 clerical assist ants 300 substitute revising officers 300 assistants to re vising officers 35000 deputy re turning officers 35000 poll clerks 8000 special constables and 35000 landlords of polling booths political broadcasts are for bidden on the two days im mediately preceding march 26 and on polling day loud speak ers on trucks are banned on polling day l see us about a john deere tractor successfully and efficiently burns low cost fuels economy easy handling lower upkeep unequalled- performance also full line of john deere farm implements 24 hour service on repairs no 1020 mccormick and 2 fordsons priced for quick sale phone or call for demonstration fred e byer phone 2216 claremont rr many do not vote the voters list for the fed eral general election is expected to total 6400000 voters and usually between 70 and 75 per cent of those entitled to vote acually cast their ballots in a dominion election in 1935 th popular vote as tabulated un officially by press sources was as follows liberal 91430 this year no returns may be published until all polls have closed from coast to coast re sults from the maritimes for instance will not be broadcast as a possible influence on voters in the west whose polls are still open evidence that any successful candidate has signed a pledge to support or present any legis lation or parliamentary action will be a cause for disqualifica tion under the act and the word has gone pt that this year more than ever before peace and order must prevail in other words theres to be no rough stuff liberalprogressive 18215 con servative 1311392 ccf 390200 reconstruction stev ens party 384222 social cred it 177045 communist 81151 labor 15206 ufo 9065 all other 16744 unionv fi a crowd filled the township hal for the annual euchre and dance given by the unionville fire brigade fiftyfour tables of players besides many more who came specially for the dance which followed the euchre comprised one of the largest gatherings of the kind seen here for some time the lucky winners at cards were mrs r lotton mrs george kelly miss velma findlay miss vera weighill also d mackay s mcqay r j duffield r woodcock well equipped with modern firefighting apparatus and answering calls as far as twenty miles distant this brig ade is an efficient one and popu lar throughout the district clean rest rooms enjoy our prompt battery oil and gasoline service spring is just around the corner come in for your spring check up be fore the rush begins bo ad ways service station phone 265 stouffville first steps had to be takev for the safety of the workers themselves so concrete plugs each plug weighing thirtyfive tons were put in the tunnels and passages as time went on all sorts of unexpected difficulties were en countered the huge steel gates for charing cross for instance left scotland on december 6 but the lorries ran into fog and did not arrive in london until december 9 then they had to be loaded on to specially design ed trains and hauled into the tunnel by locomotives driven by batteries since there was no current on the lines in spite of this by december 14 charing cross was opened in event of an air raid pass engers on the underground are warned at the nearest station those who wish may alight and seek shelter the train contin ues its journey those who stay in the train are expected to close the windows and ventila tors and pull down the blinds beating the blackout on the railways has also been a problem especially now that the peak period is earlier in the evening the first phase when ordinary trains were plunged into darkness and underground trains had subdued lighting was soon over now a scheme of reading lamps has been devised and successfully carried out an immense job which has meant installing thirty thous and more electric lamps a hundred and ninety miles of wiring and special reading shades of steel weighing in all twentyone tons through white steel boxes the ray shines on to papers and books but not through the windows cimhki a sun life policy gives you this and more it plans security for the time of need j l abell ringwood ontario sujuni life v canada shall i vote for kingrmanion there is only one decision to be made by the canadian people on march 26th it is this shall our countrys war effort be handed over to unknown unnamed politicians to a make shift cabinet with drmanion as the selfappointed leader or shall our countrys war effort be continued vigorously and faithfully by the known and proven administration of mackenzie king that is the question you must answer up a blind alley or oot in the open it is time for plain speaking dr manions pretence of offering national government is sheer polit ical deceit because even if he were elected to office dr manion could not organize or lead a truly national gov ernment the parliamentary group which might follow him would fail to represent all canada it would not represent the people of the national liberal party it would not represent the people of the ccf party it would not represent the people of the historic conservative party which dr manion has now scuttled do not be deceived dr manion cannot give you national government the best he might give you would be government by unknown followers he invites you to follow him up a blind alley to vote for a government of his own imagination answerable to some undisclosed political group mackenzie king offers you something entirely in the open the most truly national government canada has ever known his parliamentary followers represent the people of every province in canada every section of our country every economic social and racial group there is not an area of this country not a single classification of our people without proper repre- sentation in the mackenzie king following mackenzie kings cabinet ministers are well known to you they are broadly experienced men eager and able to continue the sort of admin istration which brought progress to canada in times of peace and national pride to canadians since the outbreak of war the mackenzie king administration is answerable to the people of canada to no one else the responsibility is now yours canada is facing the greatest crisis in her history it is your responsibility to say how she is to deal with this crisis therefore when you go to the polls on march 26th you should consider only what is best for canada what is best for the empire and our allies what is the sure direct road to victory and peace forward with mackenzie king the national liberal federation ot canada ottawa