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Resigns As Treasurer To Be Clerk of Tisdale Next Meeting to be Held on Thursday. Retail Merchants Asks Abolition of Sign Taxes and of Restriction on Left Hand Turns on Third Avenue, Deputation Asks Interâ€" view Re Rent and Relief. 4 i Patrick H. Murphy resigne0a Ius QJoV as Treasurer of the Town of Timmins on Friday. He will leave at the end of the month to take up the position of Clerk of the Township of Tisdale. There was no discussion of the letter of resignation inasmuch as Mr. Murphy had announzed his appointment to the Township office. The Council agreed to pay his salary up to the end of the month with the understanding that he jeave when he liked after the meeting on Friday. Meeting Earlier Tha regular meeting of Council, slated for Friday next will be held on Thursday. Next Friday is Good Priday. Chief Alex Borland wrote to the Council to suggest that no‘agreement be made with residents of the Feldman Townsite for fire protection. The roads were impassible tnere at the present time, he said. He suggested that the local brigade carry on as at present The Chief was given authority to do 50 Ask Sign Tax Abolition A letter from the Retail Merchants‘ Association that the tax on signs be abolished. The letter pointed out that little revenue was brought in by the tax and that it was a source of annovyvance. Many merchants were conâ€" templating electric signs and were hesitating because of the tax. The letter from the Association also asked abolition of the left hand turn restriction on Third Avenue. Members of Council said that since the restricâ€" tion had been imposed there was an evident falling away in the amount of traffic on Pine Street between Fourth and Third avenues. The Council discussed the requests and. finally, decided to take no action in the matter of the sign tax, However, the police department will be asked to station an officer on the corner of Pine and Third on pay nights and â€" Saturday nizshts and to allow traffic to make a left hand turn. Referring to the sign tax, Councillor Eyre said: "After all they are using public property for their signs." Miss Terry: "We have to carry public liability insurance in case ice or someâ€" thing would fall from these signs and injure a pedestrian,. We also have to pay an inspector to go around and see that they are safe. Are we to get no return for those expenditures?" One tax has been removed howevel and that is the tax on fire escapes. No provision is made in the buiget this year for that item. The Northern Salvage Company ofâ€" fered to purchase an old shack on the pump hcuse property owned by the town. In accordance with its policy the Council decided to ask for tenders on the shack. The Salvage Company offered $50. Asks Interview Mrs. G. Deraspe wrote to ask for an interview with the Council on behalf of a group of ratepayers from the Citiâ€" zens‘ League. The deputation wanted to talk re rent and relief. The Mayor: ‘"‘They want to protest the recent decrease in the amount of relief given with which to pay rents. There is nothing we can do. That action was taken by the government." "Well," said Councillior Roberts, "let‘s not muzzle them. We will give them a hearing." Councillor Eyre: "Yes there is a chance that we might get some conâ€" structive criticism. The deputation will be asked to apâ€" pear before the Council at a private meeting. Goldale Mines, operating principally as an exploration and holding comâ€" pany, had net profit of $39,367 in the year ended Dec. 31, 1939, before proâ€" viding for taxes, compared with $17,729 in the previous year.. After deducting $507 for income tax, deficit account was reduced to $1,003,738. Bala counts slrares in t Coniaurum, $506,533, an aurum are The market ecluding the approximate Current liat and wor was tion wC Globe and Mail:â€"Having virtually banished â€"typhoid fever, diphtheria, smallpox. and a number of other famiâ€" liar old diseases, medical science should concentrate on the mumps, now someâ€" what epidemic in Toronto. "Mumps‘ isn‘t exactly a killer, but it is bad enough, especially as victims get It u1i the neck. toldale Mines Had Profit of $39,367 in the Past Year P P C P P m’”””“’fl 101 Durtt in mit Second Section . Murphy resighned his post r of the Town of Timmins He will leave at the end of to take up the position of sheet shows cash and acâ€" eivable of $105,118, while nining companies excluding . are carried at cost of d the 59,848 shares of Coniâ€" earried at cost of $23,.794. pilities totaled $1,906. e year the sum of $3407 m prospecting and exploraâ€" in charge of A. O. Carufel, urable results were obtailned CALT uCS OI idings $822,689 CMI the shares, inâ€" in at LDec. s were oDmined exercised.â€" No i the properties Porcupine disâ€" Britain‘s Sea Power Essential to the Neutral Nations "When the British Ambassador, Lord Lothian, observed not long ago that ‘the real prize‘ for ‘which the Nazis ‘are contending is not territory dbut Sea power,‘ it may have seemed to some an example of insidious propaganda. . If so, it is interesting to find the Nazis doing their best to confirm him," says New York Heraldâ€"Tribune. ‘"British sea power has been rapidly moving to the forefront of their own propaganda in the last few days. As a Berlin despatch to the Heraldâ€"Tribune puts it: "‘Germany will try to break Great Britain‘s rule of the seas by encouragâ€" ing neutral countries to seize strategic British naval bases, as ‘well as insisting after the war on British naval disarmaâ€" ment, it was revealed toâ€"day in German political circles.‘ ‘Thess invitations to neutrals‘ to help themselves to such British bases as Gibraltar or Singapore are undertandâ€" able as cheap and very obvious bids to Italy and Japan. But they seem a sinâ€" gularly doubleâ€"barreled sort of propaâ€" ganda in so far as any other neutrals are concerned, for they force every neutral state to ask itself more seriousâ€" ly just what would happen if British sea power were demolished." The editorial continues: Role of Navy Vilal In Deciding War Issues "Every trading nation knows perâ€" fectly well that the idea that the Britâ€" isch fleet in peace time exerts any ‘strangling‘ effect whatever on themâ€" selves, on the Germans or anyone else is fantastic. Its power is of significance only in the event of war or threats of war; in war it may exert a severe presâ€" sure on neutralsâ€"as Mussolini is learnâ€" ing in the matter of the coal shipments â€"but the Germans are using what sea power they posses even more ruthlessly against neutrals. "Besides, unless we are to follow the Nazis in looking forward to a future in which »war will be the more or less ncrmal angd perpetual condition of manâ€" kind such mcuient,ak pressures brought on neutral6 after war breaks out are not â€"of first importance. The vital thing is the role of the British fleet in preventing the cutbreak of war Or in deciding its issues if it comes. Here the British fleet has unquestionably buttressed a world system of a sort generally favourable to Great Bfitam Has it beon particularly unfavourable to anyone else? Would even Mussolini, ixf it came down to it, really prefer to see the Royal Navy on the bottom and its world supremacy being exercised by his somewhat erratic fellow dictatorâ€"? U.S. Has Benefitted by KR.N. Preponderance "Would the Scandinavian neutrals prefer a world in which there was no British sea power to check Nzi ambiâ€" tions concerning themselves? Would the United States be more comfortable for its absence? Since the first enunciâ€" ation of the Monroe Doctrine this counâ€" try while it has had its differences with the British, has not infrequently beneâ€" fitted by the existence of their naval preponderance, and while toâ€"day we might still be able to defend ourselves without it, there is no attraction in the idea of its being replaced by a German naval supremacy further fortified by coâ€"operation with Japanese and perâ€" haps Soviet Russian navalism. ‘If Gerâ€" many,‘ said Lord Lothian, ‘can compel us to surrender our fleet and the naval bases whereby fleets may travel all over the globe, Germany will then be on top of the world. Surely it is not wise of the Nazis to make it so plain that this is no British propanganda, but a stateâ€" ment of exactly what they intend to do." word Lothian Proves the Plan of the Nazis by Their Own Propaganda. Post Office Hours for Good Friday and Easter Monday vic@â€"Aill, WICH 8 a.m. to no0l be open from and despatch box collection Globe and Mail: One of the strangâ€" est and most interesting developments of the war is provided by the world‘s greatest passenger ship crossing the sceapn wWithuot, 2 DA Published Every M d at Timmin® Ont.. Canada MONDAY and THURSDAY Miss Rene M. Caisse Disputes Findings of the Cancer Commission A great many pecple in Timmins and district are interested in the battle of Miss Rene M. Caisse to be allowed to continue unmolested and without abuse or â€" uncalledâ€"for derision to treat patients suffering from cancer. Some are specially interested because they or some friend has been benefitted by Miss Caisse‘s treatment. The recent Governmentâ€"appointeéd commission apâ€" pointed to investigate alleged remedies for cancer apparently did not favour Miss Caisse. To the Commxsslons reâ€" port Miss Calsw has made the follow- ing reply:â€" Quotes Actual Cases to Inâ€" dicate the Oddity of the, Attitude of the Commisâ€" sion. | Bracebridge, March 4th, 1940 Editor Muskoka Herald: Dear Sir: May I also speak of the case of E. F. Rose. The comment on this case by the Royal Cancer Commission on page 32 is as follows:â€"Nose drawn out by plaster five years ago. Recurrence a year agoâ€"for this Essiac Oonly. Reâ€" covery. In their summary on page 33 is the following statement: ‘"Recovery attributable to Essiac." 1 find no further comments on this case elsewhere in the report except the general statement on page 36 as follows: "The Commission is of the opinion that the evidence adduced does not justify any favourable conâ€" clusion as to the merits of Essiac as a The first ocfficer of the Royal Canadian Air Force to see sorvice in the field during this war, Squadron Leader W. I. Clements (Right) has recently been apâ€" poirited to the staff of the R.C.AF, headquarters in London. He served in France for five months with Lieut.â€"Commander B. T. Turner, the man who led the boarding party from the destroyer Cossack to rout the Atlmark‘s crew is enjoying a wellâ€"earned leave in TIMMINS, ONTARIO, MONDAY, MARCH 18TH, 1940 HERO OF ALTMARK BOARDING PARTY ENJOYS LEAVE BRINGS FIRST HAND KNOWLEDGE remedy for Cancer and would so reéâ€" port." And this in facge of the facts above admitted. His was the first before the full Commission, but for some reason or other it was slipped in page 33 and 36 with no further comments. Here are the facts as presented to the Commission and not. contxadlcted by any extravagant med1ca1 â€"The trouble started in his nose about 6 years ago and 2 years later he witit to Dr. Boyd of Newmarket who drew out the Cancer with a plaster. That was in the Spring of 1934,. He states that at that time the Doctor told him it would give. him more trouble in about 4: years. He said then that he would have to cut across. to the other side of his nose but he woulc{ ‘have to ‘take the bone out.. This was not done. Last Spring it started again on the left side of the nose. It commenced to get soft and stung quite frequently. He had to stop work in November. His fact by that time was in bad condition. His nose and the area around his mouth began to turn black. In January he went to see Dr. Fisher in Toronto, who advised him to see Dr. Richards. He saw Dr. Richards and Dr. Little who advised radium, but he would have none of it. He then went to Dr. Jaquith and he examined him. They said "There is no doubt the trouble is startâ€" ing in your left nostril again." The Doctor gave him a letter to go to Miss Caisse. By that time the growth had become quite painful and had broken through the surface, and began sluffting and would not heal. His mouth and lips and the side of his face up to his nose became quite black. In January he came to my clinic when the subâ€"comâ€" mittee were at Bracebridge. Dr. Callaâ€" (Continued on rage mour) London with hi Wendy. the R. A. F. and wili bring to his new duties first hand knowledge of his experiences. Seen with him at the Canadian flying headquarters in London are Squadron Leader A, P. Campbell (left) and Wing Commander F,. V. Heakes (centre}. Aunor Gold Mines, Porcupine: (mergâ€" er of Augite and Noranda group) which started production just after the end of year ended 1939, in report to shareâ€" holders states development to date has indicated a somewhat complicated system of veins and it will be necessary to operate for a year or more before there will be any practical basis for forecasting reserves, according to Manâ€" ager 8. 8. Saxton. Progress Report Given by the Aunor Gold Mines Six stopes having total length of 1410 feet are in course of preparation on the 1,000 ft. Ore hoisted durâ€" ing 1939 was stockpiled and will be milled. . At yearâ€"engd the stock pile conâ€" {lained an estimated 30,035 tons. averâ€" aging .253 oz. gold. First g,old brick was poured Feb. 6, 1940. The mill is of 300 tons daily rate. Following are results on levels openâ€" edâ€"625 ft. level, only small portion yet explored, indicating 241 ft. vein averâ€" aging .243 oz., across 3.4 ft. 750 ft. levelâ€"Total ore length apâ€" proximately 4,000 feet. Drifting opens 1,152 ft. with 54.2 per cent in ore. Inâ€" dicated tonnage 267 tons per vertical ft. wife and his sixâ€"yearâ€"old niece, 875 ft. levelâ€"2,091 ft. or 50 per cent of ore zone explored by drifting, indiâ€" cating 1,543 ft. vein material averaging 353 oz. uncut or .256 oz. cut cross 3.74 ft. Indicated 481 tons per vertical ft. 1,000 ft. levelâ€"Total ore length 4,340 ft., explored for 2,518 ft. westward. During year 2,861 ft. averaging .581 oz. uncut or .356 oz. cut, drifted on over 3.89 ft. width. Indicated 927 tons per vertical ft. Yearâ€"end current assets were $216,635 and $2,484 other investments as hydro deposit. ‘Current liabilities were $133,â€" 499. iCompany has agreement to purâ€" chase by option a claim at cost of $290,â€" 00, on which an initial payment of $10,â€" C0O0 as first instalment has been made. Balance payable up to June 15, 1950. Peterborough Examiner: Joe Wilâ€" liamson has been choir leader at Sing Sing prison for five years. Now and then Joe had a little trouble as singers were a few bars behind as well as beâ€" hind a few bars. Published at Tmmins, Ont., Canada Every MONDAY and THURSDAY Tax Rates This Year Are Lower Than During 1939 Public School Rate 1.2 Mills lower and Separate School Rate at .5 Mills Lower Than Last Year. Seek Court Decision to Get Poll Tax from Employers Outside the Town. To License Pin Ball Machines at $125 each., Helsinki, March 16.â€"PFinland‘s rights and the army that has shown its capaâ€" city to defend them are still intact, President Kyosti Kallio told the Finnish nation in a radio speech to the nation. The Pinnish leader said the country hoped for aid in the tremendous task of reconstruction, but would depend primarily upon its own strength and its own unity to see it through. The Minitry of Supply began to assemble trucks, automobiles and all other available transport to remove the population and movable property from the areas ceded to the U.SSR. undcr the peace pact. At least 250,000 people will have to find new homes. Many of the 80,000 inhabitants of Viipuri, 6,000 inhabiâ€" tants of Kakisalmi, and the 5,000 of sortavala have already been removed from those warâ€"razed zones now passing into Russian hands but the task of making the population shift a permanâ€" ent one has yet to be carried out. BORDERS DEFENSIBLE Foreign Minister Tanner made it clear that despite the crushing peace that ended 105 days of war with Soviet Russia, Pinland intended to take every step to protect her newlyâ€"narrowed borâ€" ders from future threats. Finnish President Consoles the Nation In Its IIJ Fortune Asked if fortification of the new borders would be permitted, Tanner said : "Who is going to stop us?" He added, "Our military commanders say all borders are defensible." Those in the broadcasting auditorium wept without restraint as President Kallio said: ‘"‘The peace terms have shown us how the imperial tendencies of Peter the Great have been renewed." INSTITTUTIONS SAVED "But ‘the Finnish people, their inâ€" stitutions, their rights, are still preâ€" served," he said. "After all, we have only lost some territory. "‘On the credit side we can note our fight for justice and our moral victory, which can never be too highâ€" ly valued. ‘"‘The government‘s aim in : peace was to prevent. the Finnish naâ€" tion‘s vitality from being entirely deâ€" stroyed," he said. ‘The epic struggle ‘the President said, was now just another "chapter ‘bf hisâ€" tory," and Finland must turn to the task of restoring her ruined cities and humble homes laid waste by Soviet bombing planes. Field Marshal Mannerheim declared in his final Order of the Day that Finâ€" land has "paid to the very last penny any debt we may have owed to the west." 200000 REDS KILLED Baron Mannerheim estimated the Russian dead at 200,000; the Finnish at 15,000. Russia had lost 1,500 tanks and 700 airplanes, he added. The aid in men that Finland received, he said, equalled two reinforced batâ€" talions equipped ‘with ar Lxllery and aircraft. "Soldiers!" the Order of the Day concluded, "I have fought on many battlefields but never have I seen your like as warriors. T am as proud of you as if you were my own children; I am as proud of the men from our northern sells as of the sons of Ostro Bothnia, the Karelian forests, the hills of Sago, the verdant hills of Hame and Satakunta, the leafy copes of Uusimaa and Varsinaisâ€"Suomi . .. "Burned cities, ruined villages, far behind the front, as far even as our western border, are visible proofs of the nation‘s sufferings. Our fate is hard now that we are compelled to give up to an alien raceâ€"a race with life, philosophy and moral values different to oursâ€"land which for centuries we cultivated in the sweat of our labor. Yet we must put our shoulders to the wheel in order that we may prepare the soil left to us at home for those rendered homeless and deprived of a livelihood . Washington Post:~â€""I don‘t mind beâ€" ing a grandfather," Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg remarked to his wife when informed of the birth of his first grandchild, "but I‘m a little dulious about being married to a grand...OkWicr," "As before, we must be ready to deâ€" fend our Finnish fatherland with the same resolution and the same fire with which we defended our undivided fatherland." Fire broke out yesterday in the second storey of a building in,Rouyn South when stovepipes became overheated. Rouyn firemen were called and by layâ€" ing about a thousand feet of hose to Latulippe street, they were able to get water with which to extinguish the blaze. Olivier Aubry, owner of the buildâ€" ing, praised the firemen today for their excellent work. USE LONG LINE OF HOSE TO FIGHT FIRE IN ROUYXN SOUTH in the second Rouyn South overheated. Treasurer P. H. Murphy said that the Council was able to wipe off the surplus of $5,000 which was a hangover from last year, and it did not have to touch the $7,000 in reserve in the waterworks department. Tax rates were set on Friday at a rate lower than that of 1939. The pubâ€" lic school rate was set at 57.33 mills, 1.3 mills lower than last year and the separate school rate a 70.34 mills, .5 mills lower than the rate in 1939. "And," said the Mayor, ‘don‘t forget that the high school had more than $10,000 increase in debentures this year and that education costs are up generâ€" ally." There ‘was no other discussion of the rates which were merely announced on Friday. They will be ratified by byâ€"law at the next formal meeting on Priday next. Seek Precedent If the Town of Timmins wins a court case it has been long contesting against the Pamour Mines, it will then have established the right to collect poll tax from employees whose companies are located outside the Town of Timmins. The Town would have the right to collect from Timmins men only, of course. The case will have to be heard over again according to the clerk. Recently A. V. Waters of Cochrane was appointâ€" ed district judge for a period of three days. He did not, however, know that the appointment was for so brief a time. A day after his appointment went out of force, he heard the case between the Pamour and the Town, and reserved judgment. It now appeared that, inâ€" asmuch as Mr. Waters was not a judge at the time of the hearing, it was worthless. Golf Club. In a letter to the Clerk he said that last year eight windows in his home which is located near the course, were broken by golf balls and himself and his family imperilled, He said that he had talked to members of the Golf Club executive and they had promised to build a fence. . However despite all their promises, they never did anything. He wondered if the Town Wwould not take some action. The Council turned the matter over to the town solicitor for consideration. Licence Pin Ball Machines . The ‘cld and contentious matter Of the licencing of gambling and of nearâ€" ghmbling.devices was brought up again on Friday. Final result of lengthy disâ€" cussion was the decision ito charge licence of $125 for each of the fortyâ€"odd pin ball machines in Timmins., Says Golfers‘ Victim Peter Macinow wanted the town. to intercede for him with the Timmins ‘Asked his opinion, Chief Leo H. Gagnon suggested a licence of $1,000. He said that the operation and handling of such machines was a "racket" and pointed out, further, that there were three gangs working for the right in Timmins. When one crowd got its machines located the other one called up the police station and made comâ€" plaints. "Don‘t be surprised some night if they are all in the patrol room downâ€" stairs. The licencing of these machines does not make them immune to gamâ€" bling and when they are used for that purpose we come into the picture" said the Chief. "That is perfectly all right, We will licence the machines for use but if they are made use of to gamble then that is entirely your business" said Councillor Eyre. 'Suggested licence fee was set first at $100 a machine and then changed to $125. thing that mayâ€"bc said in favor of the oldâ€"time millineryâ€"a hat looked like Single Copyâ€"Five Cents Summary of Council Meeting Toronto Telegram: There‘ is someâ€" tccept resignation 1. F phy, Treasurer who is position as Tisdale Clerk Set tax rate than in 1939. Sset licence fef machines at $125 ¢ Consider â€" tequest Merchants‘ Associatio: ition sign taxes. Consider organization for hand turn restri Avenue, Decide to go aheiud with test case against Pamour for poll Announce n« ished, AP isL _ LIFOIIL @bolition of ure lower of Council Relail or abolâ€" Murâ€" to takt pinâ€"ba Third