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There will be very general approval of the attiâ€" tude of Magistrate Atkinson in the case of the man charged with vagrancy in Tuesday‘s court but who was reported as not in condition to appear in court. This unfortunate man had been comâ€" mitted to jail last year at his own request so that he might receive proper treatment for a serious Anyone who reads the Toronto publication reâ€" ferred to can be assured that there is no fancy underworld king with any territory or power in Timmins. Possibly as much may be admitted for Kirkland Lake, Sudbury and North Bay. There isn‘t much romance or adventure about any of. the alleged gangsters of the North in the lines referred to. There are a petty and inconsequential lot. The last two who attempted to carve an underworld kingdom in this North didn‘t even have the semâ€" blance of being men.. They were women. Both rings were driven from Timmins. If any underâ€" world king has designs for establishing himself in this part of the North, he would be wise to be warned that it is a futile hope. Peéeople ate not fools enough, apart from the question of morals, to allow these cheap grafting bullies to get a . grip on the towns of the North. If there is anything at all to the Toronto yarns about this super underâ€" world fellow he has not yet organized in Timmins, and he will be startled before he does. The story in the Toronto publication, is meant to be start-} ling, but nothing from that source should startle anybody unless the publication should take the astounding course of saying something good about something or somebody or revealing some of the joy, the honour, the faith and the glory of life as it isâ€"â€"even in the North. At the present time Timmins has no organized vice ring. The town is as free from disorderly houses, illegal liquor vending places and gambling joints as it is possible to make a town of this size. Those who have any knowlege of the people who desire to conduct such places or of the men who like to frequent these sorts of dives know quite well that the vigilance of the police has driven the blindpigger and the disorderly house at least beâ€" yond the limits of the town. Probably Kirkland Lake, Sudbury and North Bay may be able to preâ€" sent as clean a sheet as Timmins. There are many reasons for the perennial stories of the wickedâ€" ness that is supposed to flourish in the North. There are even some people in the North who feel that the North should be wild in every way, and that it can scarcely be a mining area if the stories of wild wine, wild gambling and wilder women are omitted. There are others who simply tell aboutl conditions as they would like to have them. Still: others foster these yarns of wicked conditions for their own personal and political purposes. And| above all, it should not be forgotten that there is} an element always eager to uphold the tall ac-[ counts of evil doings on a big scale in the hope that there will be some discredit cast on the police and other authorities and that while people are occupied with the exaggerated accounts of romanâ€"| tic underworld kings at work, they themselves may be unnoticed or overlooked in their petty lawâ€"| breaking. It is scarcely too much to say that the lawâ€"breaking and vice in Timmins at the present time in on a picayune scale, with little, if any proâ€" fit, and so petty and precarious that it is only followed by those without brains enough for anyâ€" thing else. One of those Toronto publications that pande:r to the prurient under a thin cloak of pretence to expose evil and report crime, this week is forward with a story of an underworld character attemptâ€" ing to organize crime in the North Land for his own profit. This man, given a fancy name and a more or less romantic setting, is supposed to have his evil houses established at North Bay, Sudbury, Kirkland Lake and Timmins. Naming a group of towns in this way is typical of the sort of journal that specializes in this sort of public appeal. Any vice that may exist in any of the towns will be set down by the thoughtless as proof of the presence and power of the romantic underworld ring, while in Timmins, for instance, those who know and are in position to refute the story so far as it relates to this town will be told that of course the ring has not yet secured its real grip in Timmins, but the story otherwise is fully accurate as regards Kirkland Lake, Sudbury and North Bay. In Kirkâ€" land Lake, Sudbury or North Bay the same plan is adopted, and people are inforined that while the ring is not fully established in the particulgr town or city where facts are asked for, the case is true enough for the more distant towns mentioned. It is an ord game that on its face would appear to do little harm further than libelling the places' referred to, but as a matter of fact it has considerâ€" able evil force in that it tends to weaken the vigiâ€" lance necessary to prevent organization of crime. The old story of the lad who cried "Wolf! Wolf!" applies in a measure. Canadaâ€"$2.00 Por Year TIMMINS, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Association; Ontario Queber: Newspaper Association:; Class "A" Weekly Group OFFICE 26â€" PHONESâ€"â€"â€"â€"RESIDENCE 70 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: PAGE POUR Timmins, Ont., Thursday Che ORCGANIZED VICE IN NORTH? se Toronto publications that pander ‘nt under a thin cloak of pretence to nd report crime, this week is forward of an underworld character attemptâ€" ize crime in the North Land for his This man, given a fancy name and a Uniteg Statesâ€"$3.00 Per Yeat Jan. 16th, 1936 Recently The Advance mentioned the fact that a post office in Indiana bears the name of "Santa Claus," and that letters and parcels are sent from all parts of the world to that post office for forâ€" warding to other addresses so that the envelope may bear the postmark, "Santa Claus." It may be well to shop early for Christmas, so The Advance passes on now an item from a recent issue of The Wall Street Journal, which newspaper notes that There are Hauptmann may be some One day last week a Toronto man on a visit to Timmins met an acquaintance on street and said, with a laugh, "I thought you had cold weather in the North?" The Timmins man did not say a word. This week the two met again on street, but it was the Toronto man who didn‘t say a word. He was too cold. â€" There will be a Burns banquet in Timmins on of next week, Jan. 24th. This fact will reâ€" call to many previous events of the same kind., There are some in Timmins who will never forget the first Burns banquet in this town. Though it is twenty.years ago it is still remembered in detail. Recently The Ottawa Journal referred to the reâ€" port in a Halifax newspaper of the year 1824 of a report of a St. Andrew‘s banquet in that city in that year, the event continuing for over twelve hours. The Fergus Newsâ€"Record comments to the effect that in the Scottish town of Fergus, Ontario, there have been St. Andrew‘s Night and Burns banquet events of almost equal duration to that 1824 event in Hailfax. The Fergus newspaper reâ€" marks on the long and varied toast list for these occasions and suggests that the oldâ€"time Scots had great endurance and great capacity. While Burng banquets in Timmins have never lasted for twelve hours, the first one did occupy a long sucâ€" cession of hours. Those at that banquet differ as to the actual time occupied, but all agree it was a "braw, bricht, nicht." Sarcastic Sassanachs may suggest that if time is money the Scots are more free with than with their money, but the proof of the haggis is in the eating and the Burns banquets in this North (as in other lands) have never been wearisome and they are a perenâ€" nial joy to all good Scots and also to the unfortunâ€" ates who can not boast Scottish lineage. Ni ds _ Am._ . ts stt imA i GRAV EL A‘ND SANDâ€"-â€"AND PLACER «sn N l eP The trouble in this unfortunate man‘s case seemed to be that all concerned were trying to pass on the problem to someone else. His home was in a small town down the line and when he reached there he was promptly forwarded to Timmins This town had no responsibility in any W'ay, but the fact remained that something should be done. To start that something there seemed to be no other plan than to enter a vagrancy charge against the sufferer. Magistrate Atkinson gave the proper advice. The Minister of Health should be notified of all the cireumstances of the case, and other proâ€" vincial authorities should be asked to move in the matter and act promptly. The public will approve theâ€" note of urgency in the magistrate‘s suggesâ€"' tions. Cases like this should not be allowed to occur, but when they do, then in the interests of common humanity and for the protection of the public, no time should be lost in giving the victim proper treatment and guarding the public to the fullest extent. ] lawâ€"breaker. What is wrong with red tape that the authorities have placed themselves in the posiâ€" tion of endangering the public health by turning this man out without hope of treatment for his ailment. The man‘s condition is pitiful. In the poor fellow‘s interests it was a matter of common humanity that he should be kept under care. In addition the danger to the public through the proâ€" cedure is a startling one. Some idea of the serâ€" iousness of the matter may be estimated from the fact that the cell he has occupied must be thorâ€" oughly disinfected at considerable cost as soon as he is out of it. If there are no adequate facilities for the treatment of such cases at the jail, the man should have been sent to some place where he could have been given proper care. There is a home for incurables, if the man is beyond help. There are other institutions for such cases jf the stage of the ailment is not too advanced. The public will have the greatest difficulty in finding excuse for the endangering of the man‘s life and the menacing of the public health by the procéâ€" dure followed. Unfortunately it is not the case of its kind to come to attention. Probably, it | is the worst example of the evasion of the spirit of the law by the law itself, and as such it merits publicity in the hope that it may never happen| again. disease from which he suffered. At the time of his trial last year it was apparent that the man was ill, but he was able to stand and to walk. Toâ€"day he cannot walk and he needs support to stand on his feet. Instead of being improved in health he is apparently worse than ever. Why he was turnâ€" ed out of jail, carried to the train and set adrift again, is one of the horrible oddities of life and law. The health laws of the country demand that all suffering from diseases such as has affiicted this unfortunate man must submit to treatment. All are liable to imprisonment who fail to observe this precaution for the safety of the general pubâ€" lic. Had this man of his own volition neglected medical treatment and wandered around among the general public, menacing them with the danâ€" ger of infection, he would have been accounted a people who are earnesly hoping that may soon be executed, so that there thing new in the newspapers. THE PORCUPINE ADVANCT, TIMMINS, ONTARtO The reader who wrote last week to suggest that there isn‘t any newsâ€"that it is just the same thing over and over againâ€"nothing new under the sun â€"writes again this week to add:â€""But it shouldn‘t be forgotten that what is old to many is new to millions upon millions of others who haven‘t lived so long.‘" Another good point! In other words, to paraphrase the saying of another old friend, **‘There may not be any news, but it will do till we get some!" "A new entrance to the town of Timmins" has been advocated. There are things the town needs much worse,â€"right in the town. A valued subscriber writes The Advance to ask whether the statement in these columns on Monâ€" day should have read to the effect that the North needs a government radio relay station, or wheâ€" ther the expression a "radio relief" station was the correct one. The answer is "Yes!" The North needs both "radio relay" and "radio relief"â€"relay of good radio and relief from the other kind. one of the busiest post offices in the United States a month ago was that at Christmas, Florida. Kenâ€" tucky and Arizona formerly had towns named Christmas, but the names have been discarded. The Christmas, Florida post office (so The Wall Street Journal says) was established in 1892. 57 years after the town was established; and ever since then, post cards, letters and packages have come in from all parts of the world to get the ‘"Christmas" postmark on them. Having thus proven that there is both a Christmas and a Santa Claus, everything should carry along all right until Santa Claus and Christmas arrive once more. speed things up. And on top of that we have no assurance that Mexico will viieres not much we can do." He says:; "As Canada has no minister in Mexico, the department will have to turn the matter over to the British foreign ofâ€" fice. Dealing with the gouthern country in such a roundâ€"about way will not The letter was the complaint that they could not hear The Star Santa Claus broadcast. "We tried to get it and every time we tuned in to CRCT it was drowned out by the Brimbley hosâ€" pital, Mexico. It sure was disappointâ€" ingâ€"it seems another experience like CFRB had to contend with so long against the highâ€"powered station WLW . Col. W. A. Steel of the Radio Comâ€" inission:. ‘"‘Since "tha shiftine. ‘at +h Dear Editor:â€"In the issue of a To-“.‘le ronto paper under the heading of | :o ‘"Voice of the People," there appearedf 3 a letter signed "New Liskeard." On the | ‘ar same page under the heading "Are You | on Listening?" was an answer to the letâ€"| a ter by Col. Steel of the Radio Commisâ€" j s SiOIl. i cCnE To the Editor of The Advance, Timmins Asking Government Station for North Radio Owner Suggests License Fee Should go to U.S. Stations or to Canaâ€" dian One. | ‘"You‘re not going to get me sending him to jail," the magistrate said, adâ€" vising the police to get the mayor, the president of the local medical asociaâ€" tion and others to work on the case immediately. Three Months Hard Labour. Henry Heikkela will serve thrce months at hard labour for keeping liâ€" quor for sale. He‘d just invited seven of his friends who had been standing outside the Finn hall on the night of a dance there, over to his place for a drink. Where the other six men police saw going into his room had come from he didn‘t know. Of the 72 botâ€" tles of beer and 40 ounces of gin Heikâ€" kela had purchased the same day, only Constable Fretorius of the provincial police said that they‘d been "kind of passing the man back and forth" but that every effort had been made to get him somewhere. The magistrate refused to send him to jail. Some months ago the same man had appeared in Timmins police court and since he asked for a term in Jail in order that something might be done in the way of a cure for the danâ€" gerous disease from which he suffers, he was sent down. Att hat time he was able to walk, police remembered. Whoen he arrived back from the "cure" his condition was so bad that he had to be carried from the train. "Have somebody get in touch with the minister of health!" was the order isâ€" sued by Magistrate Atkinson in Tuesâ€" day‘s police court when a charge of vagrancy was read out against a man who was too ill to be brought before the court. "The proper thing to do is to wire down to the minister of health and demand to know what can be done with him." | "Notify Health Minister" is Advice of Magistrate bottles of beer were left. His;w poc,-k“. ase ise of Man Seriously HI with Communicable Disease Beâ€" fore Court. Not Right to Send Him to Jail Again, Says Magistrate. Stabbing Charge Remanded. Timmins, Ont Jan. 14. 1936}na1s in | evening He says it will be a slow process to Toâ€" | clear the situation up, that is, if Mexiâ€" of,fco wishes to move. ared | Why should it be a slow process as the | ‘ar as the North is concerned? There is Y ou ane way out and only one way: "Build letâ€"|‘a station for the vast North." nis-] The letter from "New Liskeard" ‘speaks of the CFRB being interfered that | with by WLW for a long time. Well, I nta |am still being interfered with by this t it station and with a 1936 radio. TAf If the South cannot pick up the 1os-lCommission broadcast then what are intâ€"| they doing with the license fee? If it like| is for artists, why pay artists that canâ€" ong | n0t be heard? ion: Remember Col. Steel has admitted !XERA is interfering with the Commisâ€" m â€" f.«:icn broadcasts. thef A bright idea was given to me by asâ€" | several. Why not pool the $2.00 license gue‘fee from the whole North and either .-'ithlibuild a station of our own or donate the| it to WLW, WGN, WEAFP or KDKA the | which the majority of the people listen Personally I think it is a shame to prosecute the radio owners for not payâ€" ing the license fee when they only lisâ€" ten to American stations. If Canada cannot build stations strong enough to 2e heard, why pay enginecers and other men salaries for nothing. My motto is: "Get on the air, or get off." Thank you for the space in your valuable paper. Iattacked is still in hospitll. Markulin‘s bail was set at $3.000 property, which Bavick‘s is $5,000. ’ "You‘re very lucky the man in hosâ€" pital didn‘t die, I‘m told." the magisâ€" trate addressed them, "I won‘t interâ€" ifer’e with the bail. You were brought over here for your own convenience." : S. C. Platus, counsel for the two men, | though the bail too high, sincs the men ‘might elect summary hearing in Timâ€" mins police court. The man in hospital will probably be there for three months, it was learned, but in the meantime all the other eviâ€" |dence will be taken, it was suggested. | move the station." Now, Mr. Editor, the above has given me more and no doubt it will also eep you still fighting and also our member for the riding who has been bringing it forwarg from time to time in the House. Col. Stsel has admitted XERA, Mexiâ€" ¢0, interferes with the Canadian Groadâ€" caster in the evenings. That‘s too bad, for the North cannot pick up the sigâ€" Report of ‘other police court cases on Tuesday will be found elsswhere in this issue. j Stabbing Charge Remanded. Andrew Markulin and Joseph Bavick, both of Schumacher, charged with wounding a man with the intent to maim him, wore remanded again, beâ€" cause the man they are alleged to have attacked is still in hospitll. Markulin‘s ets were full of small bills and a quanâ€" tity of quarters and half dollars and he himsekK had apparently not been drinking. On top of that, he had no job and in lived in a single small room beside the furnace in the basement of a Fourth avenue rooming house, "Wasn‘t Making Any Money" Constables Walker and Olsen told of the raid made on the place at midâ€" night when they founrt seven men in the cramped quarters, all drinking beer, and all of whom had just run across the street from the dance, without coats. "He told me he wasn‘t making any money at it, he was losing all the time." said Consta‘ble Walker. Heikk:la claimed he had worked from July 1st until near Christmastime and that he did not sell any of the liquor. the daytime, let A Station for bail. You were brought your own convenience." counsel for the two men, A writer in Trenton, New Jersey, tells the world | that thirteen is the unlucky number of Bruno a h + \ + l I 1 ! | | 1 Richard Hauptmann. It was on the thirteenth of March that first contact was made with the kidnappers through Dr. John F. Condon. It was thirteen minutes after 11 a.m. that the jury retired to consider Hauptmann‘s fate. He was convicted on the thirteenth of February, 1935. Thirteen judges heard and refused the appeal to the New Jersey Court of Errors. The second death senâ€" tence was pronounced on Hauptmann on Dec. 13th. There are thirteen letters in the names of each of the principal attorneys at the trial, the Attorneyâ€" General and Edward J. Reilly who defended. There are also thirteen letters‘ in the name of Roberti Elliott, whose duty it will be to execute Haupt-! mann. It was thirteen minutes after 5 p.m. Satur-l day that the New Jersey Court of Pardons refused the plea for a reprieve. Hauptmann is expected to die in the week of Jan. 13th. In presenting this summary of the luck of Hauptmann, The Ottawaffi Journal adds the line:â€""See also page thirteen." | A friend of The Advance last week made menâ€" tion of the fact that many wealthy people made gifts to towns with which they were connected. He instanced the case of the beautiful community hall given to Newcastle, Ontario, by the Massey family. "Wouldn‘t it be a wonderful thing," he asked, "if some of the wealthy people who have interests in the town of Timmins would present this town with a community hall? There are few greater needs here." It would assuredly be a fine example of generosity and publicâ€"spirited action, and perhaps the mention of the idea may turn the thoughts of some rich friend of this town to this form of gift. the North alone in the chickens, ducks, geese, beef and pork for the occasion. The mingr‘s purse is well filled and there is nothing wrong with his appetite. Not having the time nor the opportunity to raise his own poultry, cattle and pigs he depends upâ€" on the farmers of the east and west for his table fare. It is a oneâ€"way traffic that plies between the gold mining areas and the farming sections. The miners consume what the farmers proâ€" ducs but there is no reciprocation, the agriculturist having no use for gold. The two groups are not in competition in any way. The cities manufacture for the rural areas but the mines proâ€" vide nothing but a market and it is a good one, paying cash on the nail. Thus the farmer has a real stake in the mining industry and it is to his interest to promote it." "The Porcupine mining camp bought 110,000 pounds of turkey alone for the past Christmas. The fiftyâ€"five tons of birds came from all over the country but mainly from the prairies. In addiâ€" tion the camp imported carloads of In a recent issue of The Advance there was an itsm in regard to the amount of turkey consumed in the Porcupine camp during the Christmas season. The Northern Miner uses the item to draw the lesson that the minâ€" ing industry helps the farmers as well as all others in the country. This is a point that The Advance has made on nearly every eccasion in discussing the undu:> taxation of mines. The mining industry in its enterprises starts chains and circles of business and employment that add to the prosperity of all in the country. Of course this is true of all industry, but in view of the fact that ‘mining creates new wealth it has speâ€" clal application to the industry. Acâ€" cordingly all in Canada should be inâ€" terested in the development and proâ€" gress of mining. Farmers particularly have more interest in the matter than they realize. The case of the Christmas turkeys is a case in point. There were 55 tons of turkeys import:d into Timâ€" ‘nins for the Christmas trade this year â€"a total of 110,000 pounds of the bird. 1 The figures were carefully compiled here, but it may be said that the totali amount may be a little more, as there may have been a few merchants who brought in some quantities of turkey for sale. All known sources, however were checked up in making the survey for the article in The Advance. It is certain, however, that the amount was fiftyâ€"five tons, though ‘it may have been a few hundred pounds more. Th: editorial comment by The Northern Miner is as follows:â€" Mining Industry Helps Farmers as Well as Others SARDINES :â€"â€" MEAT SPECIALS :â€": Pork and Beef Sausage, 2 Ibs.. . . .; Fresh Ham Rolls, Ib. ... .. .. y Kolled YVealIh............... blade Roast of Reef, Ib, ...... ... 1 Pride of the Valley, 2 tins Sweet Mixed Pickles, Ige. bot.. .. . 290¢ Blue Rose Rice, extra fancy, 3 Ibs. 25¢ PURDON LAFL AMME TIMMINSâ€"PHONES 111 and 133 SOUTH PORCUPINEâ€"PHONE 150 Granulateg 10 lbs. Fresh Ground. lb BRrunswick per tin 2 3¢ 59c _ fEmorrnomws 000 intert 20()â€" 2 be abl¢ There are a large numbe sets in operation in India portion being of United Great Britain is the next l of supply followed by Holla many. The native is keen per cent. of the licenses . days of broadcasting in taken out by Indians. In electrically operated sets, w creasing as electric transr are extended, baittery sets where there is not an avai of electric current. There i mand for parts for asssml more simple types, accor« Industrial Department of t] National Railways. Radinâ€" Ir India is c he count: ind cther anbie to export considerable quant of chemical woodâ€"pulp. Germany, } ever, is unable to prudguce suffic quantities of the special types of | required for artificial silk and graw supplies from Scandinavian and o adjacent countries as well as C: da, according to the Industrial Dep ment of the Canadian National R wavs. able to e of chemic ever, is 1 quantities required f4 Big Broadcast Station to be Erected in India Germany‘s position a world‘s greatest produce silk, has compelled her t« side countries for raw forest resources are stric are well preserved so tha Try The Advance Want Advertisements Germany Securing Supply of Pulp from Dominion 14 Pine St. N COIY OPTICAL COMPANY Avoid eyestrain. Ha v c your eyes examined by the ‘"at theâ€" d i ffere nc c glasses made in my husâ€" band‘s disposition. 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