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New York World‘s the barrage of public the world, even the n est totalitarian state knowledge of the papt She was forced to agree to de France 105,000 tons of benzol, tons of coal tar, 900 tons of s of ammania, 500 stallions, 30,000 2000 bulls, 90,000 cows, 1,830 100,000 sheep and 10,000 goats. She agreed to pay (but paid part) _ $5,0060,000,000 reparation May, 1921. In view of the vilifi many and the bitter att Germany it is rather in call what the German the ~â€"Greats War anc asked to pay in reparat In addition to her 1,7 battle, 4,200,000 wounds missinzy, Germany lost 4 mast of Posen and all ( She lost 18,000,000 of hs: 1,000,000 square miles of of ner coal, 66% of hner of her arable lands, 10 tories and 8,100,000 ton chant RBoeet. ation Cf Bri dealing inst man ideas ed. ‘Then c for the righ! De potential Britishers soldiers. have th Thus wil the right t potential n Th New his weekâ€" Longdsn‘s \ lation Soci the slighte I shall pra #od. _ | ticn will give about and a as an emerg2l Things have in Ireland late lawed Irish Rej ed to Londin t ment Was prole the six counties â€" Meanwhile, Pri ern TIreland, Vis a conference 1222 WNAC.C l1Tciatmhd AS £i.~ tional territory, Prims Minister of Eir» D> Valera d@emanded on Woednesday that the British government strike ow all reference to Ireland in its conscripâ€" tion bill Epeaking in the Dail Eireann, Mr. Ds Valera said that his govornâ€" «2e wteateatoatnatectasdtaaly of catwalasts et ateats ofe 62; 31 IsCPrIptIi01n t is exp: forced uj e of disaj eorge 1 inal wi SIETING THE NEWS LUE will be a fashionable color in Canada this spring, accordâ€" ing to stylists who state that the rel‘erence shown by Queen Elizaâ€" ‘th for this color is largely reâ€" sponsible. Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited, reports that blue rates high with automobile owners and many new car buyers specify T Noyal Preference Makes Blue Fashionable All natualiy : * aateate afes tualy ate ate ote ote af s ie ato afeats o+ 3€ BÂ¥ Hughk Murphy 11l} pJI me!t £s in NO Priime M 1€ 1a} 1J 11 pa ‘man naticnh ind what: sh 1J 128 wld‘s Fair begins you heard of the PAir. ConsiderinO ity laid down over atives in the darkâ€" s must have some superâ€"calossal Mr. 1Y 1} ow thAt the Oul in Army has moyv Â¥ up bridzes ther Britai Il 11 1{ populat10 11 €f 1 V C0O0 kille ind 1315 pring, accordâ€" state that the ‘ Queen Elizaâ€" is largely reâ€" Of 16 in KBIM 1l her f her m Breon Mmptlion Irelan 1t 1k ilphaté mares rams t ba Al} ni y_4 JY (ul 0u They do some funny things down in the Scottish town of Fergus. According to Hugh Templm editor of the Newsâ€" Record : "There‘s a rumor that one profesâ€" sional man in Fergus called ancther cut of bed at one o‘clock in the mornâ€" inz to ask him if he was going to a certain meeting. The second man said he hadn‘t made up his mind. He went back to bed, after setting the alar‘n clock for 4 am. Then he called the other man back and said he had decidâ€" time revealed that the motorcycle patrol branch under Inspector J. A. Grant, from April 1 to April 23, brought prosecutions against 746, of whom 529 cperators and_nine chauffeurs weére unâ€" liconsed and 208 claimed they had licenses, but did not have them with them at the time they were examined. During that period also, prosecutions were made against 261 who had noi registered their vehicles. Mr. Conant emphasized that a drivyâ€" er‘s failure to take out a license indiâ€" cated a lack of a sense of responsibility and pointed out the penalty involved a fine of not less than $10 and not more than $50 for the first offense and a steep upward gradation for subsequent ofâ€" fenses. For failing to produce a license the motcrists may ‘be fined not mor than $5 for the first and not less than $5 for the second offense. Grant, from A prosecutions a cpeérators ancl‘ liconsed and licenses, but C them at the t "Ary drivers found without then sperating litenses will be prosecuted even they may have licenses ut did not have them with them. Unâ€" der the law they are required to carry their licenses." said Mr. Conant. Drivers of motor vehicles were given sharp warning this week at Toronto by Hon: Gordon Conant, Attorneyâ€"Genâ€" gral, that they must not only have cperators‘ permits,, but must carry them with them, when he instructed provincial police to maintain a close check upson motorists. of them. He dees not bother with detail, has no capacity for long hours at a desk. Is enough to delegate duties to subordinates. Pictured as emotionally unbalanced, competent observers believe him to have his emotions well under controlâ€"can turn them off and on at will. Hs has come to accept himself as a Meéessiah and is given to occasional megalocmaniacal outbursts. Hei s noncommittal and taciturn even to trusted advisers and will tolerâ€" ate oppssition only on the smallest 1eâ€" pI ize H Must Carry Driving Permit To Escape Fine, Says Conant comedy. H2 can giv> by heart the names descriptions of all U.S. and Britis} warsh‘ps. Youngest‘ of the three dictators (Mussclini is about 55, Stalin abou na Grover Alioysius Whalen and hnis superâ€" eolossal show. It is reputed ts be the biggest fair in history. There are, to quote conâ€" vincin> statistics, 200 buildings on 1,216‘% acres ithat other half atre was probably owned by somecne who> didn‘t like blatant display». There are 62 miles of roads and paths 10.900 tress, cne goosd sized lake and a laâ€" zoon, 2,000,000 shrubs ard planis. Filtyâ€"eight nations, two international orgeanizations, 33 states, 76 consessionâ€" alres and 1,334 exhibitors are repreâ€" sented. To seo the entire fair, includâ€" ing concessions, would cost $15 in adâ€" missions. Thers are 3110 eating places. relr iL. The Attorneyâ€"General nches | His V pite as Un he blue finishes. A recent check reâ€" veals that 26 per cent. of Ford, Mereury and Lincolnâ€"Zephyr cars sold in Canada are blue in color. Black is still first choice with blue a close second; greys, reds and greens following in that order. Jefferson blue, a rich, dark shade, is a standard color for al} Ford ial Hitlerian personalities Thers has ssen only â€" I change in Hitler in IT HAPPENED IN FERGUS is nol n for apparent growing fondneéess fo iining and apparent fondness fo American dancers may or ma a delizserate attempt to human ler in the eyves of the world. L1 evealed ‘Tha jranch unde to his girihn l n has grown coarser. Dâ€" se3 of six physicians he _cancer of the throat. i great reader but has a io cinema. somatimes four full len;th p.ctures m at a sitting and knows every German musical in Thé SIX YEaTS power. The lines in epzned. He has added his we‘ight and four Whalen and his super three dictatoys, 55, Stalin about ss than any cone not bother with theâ€" same motorcycle ight physi e c s1ix vear light shade and the Zephyr in a special greyâ€"blue. Many other shades of blue are optional at exâ€" tra cost,. Pictured above is a popuâ€" lar Mercury model, the sport conâ€" vertible, finished in metallic blue. Smiths Falls Record News: The Reâ€" cord News has a suggestion to make regarding the flying of flags during Their Majesties‘ Canadian visit. It is this: That all merchants put out their flags in front of stores and! busiâ€" ness places daily from the time the King and Queen arrive on Canadian scil until their departure. May this suggestion be carried out. Citizens in general, could also put at least one flag on their homes. albsut 30 years. He is a mining maln. At first he thought thers must be magnetic deposit of some sort which caused these strange jinks. He Cug a shaft more than 500 feet deep, and fcund the same phenomena at the botâ€" tem of the shaft as on the surface. Now he thinks it must have something to do with the relation of this particular spot to the two magnetic poles. Years ago, a twoâ€"storey cabin which had been an assayer‘s office on the mcountain came down on a landslide and halted at this point. Mr. Litster ias left it there, standing all lopâ€"sided. It is convenient for experiments he conducts for visitors. He calls it the House of Mystery. There‘s nothing mysterious about the house itself. But the place where it stands sgems to play Thousands cof visitors and hundreds of physical scientists have observed the phenomera, but none can explain what happens. All that can be said is that there is a strong counterâ€"attraction from the magnetic north. Inanimate objects arse repelled from the pole; aniâ€" mate objects unconsciously seek to counteract this forcee, with the result thsy lean to the north. John Litster, the Seot who owns the place, has been puzzlifiy over this for albout 30 years. He is a mining man. At first he thought thers must be magnetic deposit of some sort which caused these strange jinks. He Cug a tures. He ‘orought A1d trizc cell or light meter. ed to take pictures h apparently was broken gisterine 160, it registe all right. It wouldn agrea, but It worked pe Why? Nobody knows 10n PS3 your fris have you n‘t make things h this limit rapher C "Ysu will observe that if you toss a tall in the air, it will fall not straight daownward, but at an angle away from the magnetic north. Plumb linss bend sharply at the bottiom. Put a golf ba‘l on a board that is inditated by â€"a spirit level to be perfectly horizontal, and the ball wl roll away from the magnetic north. Your friends when they walk across this area, will lean Go‘d Hill, Ore.â€"Here near the southâ€" ern boundary of Qregon, akout hail way Lkatween Grants Pass and Medâ€" ford, fcur miles off the main highway in a little canyon, is a circular area 128 ifjeet in diameter whetre funny thinzs happen. Away back in 1864, when the trail ‘rcom Crescent City, Calif., to eastern Oregon passed this way, prospectors noiiced that their pack mules, as they pasied this particular point, stocod or walked at a peculiar angle, leaning sharply for no apparent reason, toâ€" ward the north. Sy did the prespectors. So will you today, if you pass this way. You will obsirve also that almost every tree within this charmed circle grows, not upright, but inclined in this same direction; whils trees outside the limited arca mrow perâ€" nerdilcularly. Some Odd Things Due to Magnetism Canyon in Oregon Mounâ€" tains is Scene of Some Funny Happenings. Wha a Visit y Aat the bottom. ~PUL a gOll Da‘l bsard that is inditated ‘by level to be perfectly horizontal, the ball wl roll away from the etic north. â€"Your friends when walk across this area, will lean e ncorth as if they were bucking f? gale blowinz from that direcâ€" Ysou stand on a level beard opâ€" ons of them and find that your f vision is opposite, say, his eyes. change places, and find your line sion is opposite his mouth. Has friend suddenly grown taller, ofr vou grown shorier? It just doesâ€" 1€ Why cWw iWwA y t all about? Why do these n, and happen only in rea? _A portland photoâ€" here to take some picâ€" ought along a photioelecâ€" ht meter. When he startâ€" ictures he found his celi is broken; instead of reâ€" it registered only 65. He Nobodv canyon to his car | Before putting th glanced at it. It wa uldn‘t work in tha 4 perfectly outside 1 Knows PORCUPTINE ADVANCE, TTMMTNS3, ONTARIO | _ _One of the boots was returned to the iRoyal Canadian Mounted Police Monâ€" day night and the other was regained iTuesday. Police would not disclose who found them or who returned them. i(It was believed Sunday they had been lstolen by a souvenir hunter. | The boots will be sent to Kokkinaki | at New York. Toronta Telesram: Th2s trouble about moderns is that so many people want to earn a living sitting down. get his prized furâ€"lined flying boots which disappeared just before a plan® tock him and his companion, Major Mikhail Gordienko, to New York Sunâ€" day. Famous Fur Boots Being Returned to Soviet Fhet So march w1‘ skirlin Scottish air Against such swingtime snipers; Show what‘s in store for those whi Far be it frae Scots to give : Or insult to the ladiss; But past a‘ patience goss th O‘ hotcha hired frae Hades If "Old Black Joe" still 1 Wt‘ folks in New York Ci Let saxophonists rule th They‘re myriad . . . mor If New York‘s sidewalks thirst for fany (‘Though Lord knows why they claiir it!) Let blawng brass bands shout ther name Gird on the tartan, rouse the clans (A wink or juts a nod will!) Confound those feckless female pl To put the pipes in vaudeyville. Wake! Seots wha‘ hase wi‘" Wallace bled And chisfs who focht for Charlie; Rise! Proud McCrimmon, from the dead! The bagpipes need ye sairly. (Foemale pipers from En:land arrived for the New York World‘s Fair playâ€" inz "Old Black Joe" and "The Sideâ€" walks of New York.") Fair Warning Given to The Fair Lady Pipers dare Blaw dirt on guid SC An Toronto Harlem hounds pro There Are 1,141 Newspapers In Canada The PORCUPINE ADVANCE DONALD McLEOTD) Monthly Subscription Phone and a boyvy will call ive afront eeds a b pipet the pity The Home Newspaper of the Porcupine District Since 1912 Shortly before the Great War ended, arrangements were being made for the establishment near Prague of an airâ€" base from which our Royal Air Force Prance, 1s a ToOrmidti@Â¥Di? ITOC, aAnd Ond capable of striking a damaging blow through the air at Germany‘s heart. London, we have been warned almost to beredom, is in a peculiarly unfortunâ€" ate position in modern warlare, as compared with Berlin. It is situated a distance of 350 miles from the Gerâ€" man ccast; Borlin is over 500 miles frem our coast, and more than half of this distance is over German territory, where the interseption of bombers is less difficult than over the sea. Even from the French frontier Berlin is st!ll 350 miles away, the whole route being over German territory. From the Polish frontier to Berlin thi beeâ€"line is only 100 miles. Our graphical disadvantage in the west has been redreossed to the extent that the new defensive alliance has worsoned the position of Germany‘s capital, relatively to ours, in any war which may be waged between us and in whith, it must now be assumed, Poland will be her enemy. It must be gall and wormwoaod to Germany to know that another is levelled at her from the East. Poland, defensively allied to Britain and France, is a formidable foe, and one capable of striking a damaging blow through the air at Germany‘s heart. London, we have been warned almost to beredom, is in a peculiarly unfortunâ€" ate pcsition in modern warlare, as Pohsh Agreement â€" Good lm Britaim Our agreement iwith Poland should improve our relative position still furâ€" ther. It is not that Posland herself has cither a great air establishment or a large productive capacity. It is rather that, in the first place, her geographiâ€" cal position serves to set off the disâ€" agqvantass under whitch London labors cither a great air establishment or a large productive capacity. It is rather that, in the first place, her geographiâ€" cal position serves to set off the disâ€" advantasye under which London labotrs as compared with Berlin, and, in the Official pronouncements upan t particular subject have nesessa: been discreet and uninformative. Th is no doubt that an enormaus impro ment in the output of airframes a engines has cccurred in the last moeonrths. Sir Kingslsey Wsod‘s sta ment cn March 9th that we w spending £250,000 a day on p duction of aircraft alone and that | rate would increase still further, heartening in the extrems. Even if a good deal of the expenditure is for proâ€" gress payments on aircraft not yet comâ€" pleted, it points to an of someâ€" thing like twenty aircraft a day in the very near fuure. Some think we have caught up ailre: so far as pnroduzstion goes. Mr. OI Simmonds stated recently, in the Hc of Commoans, that our cutput of : craft was now substantially equal Hithertc we have been engage: stern chas*, in which Ge:many ha leading. The lead has been short Some think we have caught up al G>:many‘s Dr. Dalton trary, maintained tha! widenin > (By J. M. Spaight in The London Spectator) The revoluticnary change in cuy fcroign policy involved in the conclusion ¢!? the defensive past with Poland is particularly welcome from the point oi v.ew of the balance of air power in It tendgs to tilt the balincso in our favor. ‘ Air Force in Poland One of the Best of Todav. To Keep Well Informed on local affairs and happenings have The Advance delivers vour home every Monday and Thursday. a staff photographer regular news feature Yet The Porcupine Advance gives ALL the news of Timmins and district, completely, tially, accurately. It is THE newspaper of the North and its service is not dupl cated anvywhere else. Pictures of Timmins and district taken b is the only ONE devoting itself entirely to the best inters Timmins and the Poreupine. > hat th 1111 {J1 VC altframes and i the last six Wsod‘s statsâ€" that we were ‘~on the proâ€" : and that th 1}} Wi )1 11 tcriesâ€"ten times as many as Germany acquired in Czechoslovakiaâ€"and her annual production in peace is believed to be in the neighborhood of 8,000 maâ€" chines, which is probably greater than Germany‘s. In war her output would ibe still larger. The quality of her maâ€" chines is good. Some of the best are manufactured in Russia under Amerâ€" ican licenses. Her monoplane fighters of the Boging type have shown themâ€" selves in Spain to be excellent machâ€" ines . They were faster than the Italâ€" ian fighters such as the Fiats, thouzh cutâ€"speeded by the new German Mesâ€" serschmitts. The Russianâ€"built Marâ€" Frerch, as well as Polish, bombers o1 erating from bases in Poland. Our ar the French rearmament drive may we result in such a predominance over t Axis Powers as to leave a margin strength for allocation to work of th stI kir this purpose. The propcsal had reached finality when the armis was signed. A scheme cof the sa kind, for raiding Gormany from east, may be orgarnizsd in a major \ 6of the future in whith reprisal bomb is found to be nezsessary. It is to be assumed that the a tions of the three allies will eccâ€"crdinated in any event. ccmmand for the Rritish anc air forces has already been s and this might well ‘be ext« embrace the Polish air force al Dby no means beyond the b: possibility that we shall se> Br Russia has and West. sIMILAR EXCURSIONS FROM WESTERN TO EASTERN CANADA DURING sSAME PERIOD. Tickets, Sleeping Car Reservations and all Information from any Agent. ASK FOKRK HANDBILL ‘T~l1" BAGGAGE Checked. â€" Stopovers TICKETS GOOD IN COACHES at fares approximately 1‘%4c per mile, TOURIST SLEEPING CARS at fares approximately 1%,¢c per mile, STANDARD SLEEPING CARS at fares approximately 1e per mild COST OF ACCOMMODATION IN SLEEPING CARS ADDITIONAL of the North and its service is not dupli Pictures of Timmins and district taken h: ind engraved in The Advance plant are : \ i 0:" CANADA*‘S »*‘* o 5\395' t o BRIDES a‘é'éfs‘ WESTERN CANADA SPECIAL BARGAIN EXCURSTION®S GOING DAILYâ€"MAY 16â€"MA\ INCLUSIVE From All Stations in at the 3 will vent. ish / a} 70 in and The squ d in Pa n sug‘ 23 extended Return Limitâ€"45 Day the sam frcocm th 11r op ALWAVS THE FANVORITE un tis] ift il *O1l tin fo 11 ely M JB Rev. J. J. Harrington of the Uppor Canada â€"Bible Societvy will be in the camp this weekâ€"end in the interests of the organization he represents. On Sunday, May 7th there will be services in three of the churches as follows:â€" At 10.45 a.m. in the Timmins United Church;> at 7 p.m., at, theâ€" United Church, South Porcupine; at 7.30 p.m., at the St. ~Paul‘s Anglecan churohn, South Porecupine. On Monday afternoon at 3.15 there will be a public secvice at the Salvaâ€" tion Army Citadel, On Monday night, May 8th, at 8 p.m.. there is to be a public meeting in Trinity United Church, Schumacher. At this meeting a special feature wul be an illustrated address, "The Bible On Monday night, May 8th, at 8 p.m.. there is to be a public meeting in Trinity United Church, Schumacher. At this meeting a special feature wul be an illustrated address, "The Bible in English History." ‘This address by Rev. Mr. Harrington is sure to prove of very special interest and value. At the Monday evening meeting at Schuâ€" macher it is intended to have the elec«â€" tion of officers for the local branch of the Upper Canada Bible Society, Representative of the Bible Society to be Here Mav 7â€"8 Port Arthur, Armstrong, Chicago in bombers have also There is no doubt t itatively and qualitativ e reckoned with very inz th mDer C Ameri all1 ‘OuUn miln inada im 2i ine ve aifoâ€"aco doubt tha A 1039 JOd a woll r dn th when . i be agi siderabdl: _ quanâ€" 12 mMlUHst