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_| Sleep in Shelters in the ‘ Underground Stations I assured him I was and wbndered if any constable in any other large city At a corner in Regent street, I stopâ€" ped to check up with a policeman. He was: standing outside his little brick bombâ€"shelter. Every main corner has one of them. They would not hold moreâ€"than two or three persons, hudâ€" dled iclose together, but they do givy: protection from‘ blasts and fying splinters. I The constable seemed surprised when I asked if I was headed in the right direction for the Savoy. "Yes, sir," he said. "You areâ€"but it‘s a long way, sir. You wouldn‘t be thinking of walking that far!" There was no taxi in sight as I came out into the blackout, but it was a moonlit night and I was used to the blackness by this time, so I started off. It isn‘t hard to find one‘s way in Lonâ€" don. The moon was in the south and the Thames lay in that direction. It was about 10.30 when I came out, showing another pass at the door beâ€" fore I‘could get out. I had done my broadcast from a basement room, two storeys below the surface of the earth. It hadn‘t been an ordeal, in spite of the â€"sign that said that we would be warned if enemy bzmbers were directly overhead, and would we please conâ€" tinue:â€"as long as possible after the first warning sounded, There is much less formality about the broadcasting in theâ€"B.B.C. than in studios on this side of the ccean. I soon felt quite at home. When the director learned albout the anniversary, he insisted that 2 ds 2s i butortinths.cs A. I add a personal méséage to my wife I apporeciated his thoughtfulness. It isn‘t an easy building to enter, for it is guarded by both police and soldâ€" iers. Ong has to have a pass and a definite appscintment to get past the soldier who stands with fixed bayonet beside a portable bomb shelter in the main hallway. The British Broadcasting House is in the West End of London. Perhaps you have seen pictures cf it in days of neace. It has been an enemy tarâ€" get and it lcoks rather different now, but we thought it had been designed with bombing in mind, for much of it is ~underground. We decided that when the Hun knocks a bit off the top! the=staff just moves down one storey farther into the cellar, but I cannot vouch for that. ~PHONE 935. in»@ _Wain aild about i1t, as I wrote | it down after reaching the warmth of my rocm at the Savoy. It Wwas the night of October 1st, and, as W hanvpened, the weddingâ€"the away from home on that years â€"f married life. It was my turn to broadcast a messge to Canada that â€" night and I had sent my wife a cable | to be listening. I honed she would hear my voice, at least. The British Broadcasting House is in the West End of London. Perhaps you have seen nictures cf it in days of neace. It has been an enemy tarâ€" wmat ko 1t _armid o 1 y +o anniversary of my . first time I had been boarded up, but the stores were eviâ€" date in 20 ; dently carrving on, though I couldn‘t either â€" side, In the next block, it was stores that light and had suffered. Sometimes the window was just a great, gaping hole and the inside of the store wasn‘t there. On the windows had been read what was on the little signs nailed to the boards. , No lights of any kind were to be seen except the traffic lights at the main corners and the single, shaded headâ€" lamps of approaching cars. The trafâ€" fic lights were tinvy red and green crosses cut in sheets of metal that had been fitted over the lenses. The red a degcrintion, yet it is hard to describe as one really sees it, partiâ€" cularly at night when the eye sees litt#. There have been so many desâ€" cripticns and vet most of them fail to paint a true picture. Perhaps 1 should not iry, when so Ay experts have failed. But it ought Beasy enough. T‘ll take one evenâ€" ing Walk and toll about it, as I wrote For the twelfth story, 1 am chcosmg: one of the simplest of them all, and yet one of the hardest to do. So many pecople want to kncw what London is really like in wartime, with the blackâ€" cut gnd_ tr_m bombing. So many ask for | one as ¢ leve I apa This series has stretched out and this story will compniete the twelve that I originally planned to write. 1t seems that there has been so much to tellâ€" much mors than I thought when I arrived batk in Canada. Record. He fiex to Great Britain as guest of the British Councit and was given an cpprortunity to see what is being dorse in Britain, Treland and Portugal in wartime. PPE OB weekly newspapers of Canada by Hugh | Templin, cditer of the FPergus Newsâ€" Broadcasting House a Spe Special Ta a:t Bo-ba Cudian Editor on Visit to En ndGi Impressions of Life in London in War Days. This is tho tweifth in the series of rudes writien exclusively for the Vital To Victory! TIMMINS need for bouvant hcalth. For energy and stamina, drink plienty of rich, satisfying Timmins Dairy milk. Make sure your family gcets lots of it in their food too. ~Use milk in cooking cereals and vegetables, in cream soups and desserts. They‘ll enjoy it, and you‘ll be doing your part to keep ‘em working for Victory. Canada needs you now as never before . . . Needs you strong, healthv, ready to do your share and more in the all out drive for Victory! Milk, more than any other food provides the vitamins and minerals we all Have a Driver Call Regularly I appealed to another constable. I explained who I was, where I had come from and what I wanted to see. He called to another man in the blue uniform: ‘"Here, mate, will you watch things for me for a few minutes," and then herded me past a ticket turnstile and down an escalator. It was 75 feet long or more, but that was just the beginning. We walked down scme stone steps and took another escalaâ€" tor for another 80 feet or so, past rows cf theatre posters and other advertiseâ€" ments. I had missed a tour of the air raid shelters a few night before, but I reâ€" called that the most famous of them all was in the Underground station below Piccadilly Circus. I went down the stairs and into the bright light of the station. ' I was passing a block of stately apartment houses. Most cf them apâ€" peared to be intact. Then there was a gap where several had been blown out into the street. The rubbish had ‘‘been cleared away, but the moon shone ‘down en a blank white wall, studded |here and there with little fireplaces and against the sky a row of about 20 chimneys stood silhouetted against the ‘midnight blue. My travelling before that time had been above ground. This was my first visit to the Underground. The streets may have seemed deserted but there were lights and action and crowds beâ€" low the surface. A long line moved slowly past a window marked 1‘%4d and another line past the 24 wicket. Movâ€" ing stairways seemed to go down into into the bowels of the earth in every direction. Evidently this was just the vestibule. I found myself, bye and bye, in Picâ€" cadilly Circus. Loyal Londoners claim that this has the busiest traffic of any place on earth in normal times. It certainly hasn‘t now. Occasional taxis slipped past, and buses with their windows covered with some opaque substance with tiny holes scraped in the centre of each window pane so that a passenger can look out with a single eye. The statue cf Eros is no longer seen in the centre of the Circus. It is covered with a coneâ€"shaped proâ€" tection against bombs and the boards on the outside are plastered with signs advising the onlooker to buy bonds. (I saw them in daylight several times.) i 1Iau o need 0f it. ‘Ine moon gave light enough. The main streets ln the West End have suflered from the bombing. As and green looked rather decorative.; but when the yellow came on, it looked unlawfully bright for the five seconds it remained. The car lights made only dim moving circles on the pavement as they passed. one side cf the street and down the other, letting his high explosives drop as quickly as he could turn the bomb lever. I walked along, it seemed that the vacant spaces were at more or less reâ€" gular distances. 1t seemed as though a German pilot might have gone up I had mylittle bocket torchâ€"the kind we call "penâ€"lights" in Canada. Even that was too bright for the Lonâ€" don blackout, unless covered with a layer of blue tissue paper. That night, .I had no need of it. The moon gave in the world would have been so polite about it. Slecping Under the Ground Good Health Is. | | | It sounded familiar. I thought of the carpenters at Camp Borden and number of other complaints back home. The constable had other criticisms to make while he had the ear of the Press. The Army shoauld be helping the Russians. He had a son in the army for two years, just doing nothing. Conscription wasn‘t fairly enforced., A lot of voung fellows get free, though they are calling up men of 45 now. He pointed to two yvoung chaps in evening clothes (about the only ones I saw so dressed in London). They were drunk and leaning on each other. The conâ€" stable said he saw the same ones every day. Why weren‘t they in the Army? I didn‘t know, so I said goodâ€"bye and reached the upper air again. Walking along Piccadilly, I passed several groups of loving couples. The men were mostly sailors. some of i them were singing. They had theif arms around the girls. It was just dark enough for that. # a job as a carpenter, though he had no training. Building defence works, he was, and still at it, and he gets £8 cr £10 a week. He keeps changing from one job to another and nobody ever checks him up and he never paid any taxes. They say Bevin favours the trade unions anyway. As we went back upstairs, my newâ€" found friend and guide complained about the Government in a way that sounded thoroughly Canadian. The income tax was unfair, he said. Here he was, working for two days cut of every week for the Government. He had been retired on a pension and they called him back to work â€" and then taxed his nay and pension as well. Yet he had a voung nephew on the socutlh coastâ€"a publican, he wasâ€"that didn‘t have anything to do because his pub was in a prohibited area. He got I could see â€" a strangely assorted folk. They looked different to me than they did to him. He may have been right, but I thcught I saw beâ€" hind it the homes that had been deâ€" stroyed and people with no place to go where they felt safe. Surely it took more than an ordinary terror to make people live like that. Yet he may have been right: after ali, it was five months since the last bombing of that part of London. I was more moved by these things than P had been since I arrived in London, â€"but to the constable it was an old story. He was secrnful: "A lot of foreigners what hasn‘t got any guts, sir, or ‘odging house folk what won‘t pay their rent. You can see for yourâ€" self, My guide took me down to a lower level. â€" There were more bunk$. Atf the end of the row was a temporary first aid post, with two nursese in uniform. At a counter.nearby, three girls were selling «ea,Aâ€"coffée, cakes and sandâ€" wiches. A stcne stairway ran up 20 steps or so. Lying on it was six or seven msn. They weren‘t cressways on the steps, because that would have impeded trafâ€" fic, but they were lying up the stairs. The sharp, metalâ€"bound edges dug into their sides in three or four places, but they slept on, while hundreds walked past them and the trains thundered by 20 feet away. I would not have teâ€" lieved it if I had not seen it. There were more womsen than men and theyv.were in various stages of unâ€" dress. Some never tock off their clothes at all; other women were comâ€" ing ‘out of the lavatories with pyjamas or nightgowns showing below their dressing gowns. I saw no children over a ear old, but there were three babies, one cf them very tiny. An old couple, wel dressed, sat together on the stone floor, taking their things out of an exponsiveâ€"looking suitcase. In some parts of the "tubes," there were rows cf doubleâ€"deck cots along the walls. The cots bore numbers and the same peopnle occupied them night after night. Some of them had been fixed up a bit, with blankets hanging down in front, like the curtains of a berth on a train. But most of.them were onen, to the gaze of hundreds who.pass@d, By. ; I really wasn‘t prepared for what I saw. London hadn‘t been bombed in months, vet there were several hunâ€" dred neople sleeping beside the subâ€" way tracks. The trains came racing out of the darkness, like great caterâ€" pillars, stopped a moment, and went on again. The platforms were none too wide, but all along thke walls were rows cf men and women sleeping on the tiled floors, with blankets over and under them. sir!" To meet the threat of Axis flameâ€"throwers the Canadian Army trains crews of fire fighters who will play an important role when Canada‘s soldiers come to grips with the enemy. ~Here two fire fighters train a stream of water on a roaring bush fire. ARMY FIREFIGHTERS ship ._ Wards placed m f cster homes Adoptions completed ... Mileage travelled ... ... _ Children placed in foster homes (not wards) _ Children admitted to Shelter (not â€" wards) M Children given hospital and medical care Investigations for other societies Cases under the Unmarried Parents Act adoption ... . .:. tOfiice InteryvIEWS .....:.;....... ... ’Intervxews out of ofilce ................... Complairts received Investigations made ................. Children involved ............ (Mail received l Afail sent out 0.: Children in Shelter _ Children boarding out Ccourt attendance ._............ is Cfpaaays Wards visited ............._... .: Juvenile â€"‘cases ... Children on probation to court Children released from guardianâ€" The following is the report of Mr. A. G. Carson, local superintendent of the District of Cochrane Children‘s Aid Society, for the menth of March, 1942 :â€" Applications for children for Report for March of the District Children‘s Aid "Last cvear," he said, "they came over every night, moon or no moon.‘" (Hitler is never mentioned by name and the Germans seldom: it is ‘he‘ or ‘they‘.) "About halfâ€"past eight, it was. You could set your watch by it. One hundred and sixtyâ€"eight nights without a break. Hell, it was. But I‘d rather te in London in a blitz than have to live anywhere else. No place like Lonâ€" don! And T‘ll live here while they leave two houses standing. But there‘s the entrance to your hotel across the street, sir." We parted and I edged my way careâ€" fully across the Strand, and passed through the revolving door into the bright lights. Noteâ€"This completes the series of 12 articles which I had agreed with the C.W.N.A. that I would write. He turned t3 me, "You‘re an Amerâ€" ican and don‘t remember it?" ° â€" I explained I was a Canadian. . "I knew it was one or the other," he said, evidentally thinking there was no real difference. On a beautiful night like that, it was natural to turn to the weather next. "It is that," he said, "though it‘s not like it used to be in the old days when it was so full of traffic that you couldn‘t cross it anywhere hereabouts." "Is this the Strand?" I asked. I knew it was, but that might be an opening. Trafalgar Square was familiar to me, day or night. I turned down past a bombed church and an ambulance passâ€" ed me in the darkness with its bell clanging, and stcpped at the next corner. As I walked past, a lady on a stretcher was taken in the little door. The last time I had been past that corner, a friend had pointed to that same dcoor. "That‘s where they took me the night I smashed up my car in the big blitz," he had said. That was the first time I had known he had been bambed. I caught up to a very fat man at the rext corner. He lsooked congenial. "Sorry, sir," she said, so I asked her which way to the Strand. ‘"Down that way," she said, "But I am going this way. You coming this way?" "No thanks!" I said and continued on my way south. At Leicester Square, I paused, for there are several streets. .(You know the lines of the song, of courseâ€" "Goodâ€"bye, Piccadilly; farewell, Leiâ€" cester Sauare.") I stood at the curb locking ‘at the streets across the clrcie. A shorttish lady came along and bumped into me. There wasn‘t any need: the sidewalk was wide and it wasn‘t really dark. I caught up to a pair not so loving. There was mcoonlight enough to see that he was an officer in the R.AF. The woman said: "Well, I hope you are proudâ€" of yourself after ‘that exâ€" hibition!" The voice was full of bitâ€" terness. I thought he might hit her, but thevy turned in a doorway and were gone. . 10 107 173 21 Coal, lignite ... .. Crude petroleum Steel . Iron ore n Manganese ore . Nickel ore ... . Copper ore ........... Lead ore ........__ Sugar ... Butter, etc. Cotton ... .. Butter, Margarine Cotton Flax ------------------------ ................ Coal, lignite ... Crude Petroleum Iron ore ............. Manganese ore .. Nickel ore ...;........ 1 Copper ore Lead ore ............... 2Inc Ore ........ TTinâ€"ore:.":.".:......:... Chrome ore ......... Bauxite ............... Potash ..........._ in 1942. The figures below are perâ€" centages of total output, based on 1938 production. Figures given on ores (reâ€" present percentage of metal content (in the case of chrome ore, percentâ€" ages of chrome oxide content.) As in 1938 One of the tables showing in startlâ€" ing way that time has not been on the side of the Allies is one contrasting the resources of the United Nations and the Axis Powers in 1938 and 1942 respectively. Here is the way the booklet puts this feature:â€" Haves and Have Nots in 1938 and in 1942 Japan‘s conquest of rubber and tin and Germany‘s accumulations of inâ€" dustrial raw materials have shifted, the balance of economic power in many significant waysâ€"and set the.stage for a dramatic swap if the anticipated Middle East drive to join Axis forces is successful. This is revealed by an examination of how the Axis and the United Nations (as now constituted) split the available world production of key commodities, first in 1938 and now of Figures for 1938 and 1942. In making reference to the wonderâ€" ful part the people of Britain have takâ€" en in the war, special mention, is made to the rationing that has been carried in such drastic way in Britain, and particularly to the remarkable way in which the British utilized their facâ€" tories and business places to meet the needs of war. ‘"We can no longer afâ€" ford to spend our efforts planning new factories which will be in production next year, or later," says the booklet. ‘"‘Like the British after Dunkerque, we need to make the most of what we have now. And like Britain, we shall likely be surprised at what we can do with what we already have." Of course, the reference in this is speciâ€" fically to the United States, as the whole booklet, maps, charts and text, is based on material published by Business Week of New York, and reâ€" produced by permission of that busiâ€" ness journal. But it applies with the fullest force to Canada as well. In a wordâ€"this is a total war, and should be fought now and every inch of the way as a total war. "All energies, talâ€" ents, facilities and resources should be given to direct and indirect war proâ€" duction." pany, Limited, has issued a nolable booklet for its emplovees, customers and friends, and a copy of this booklet coming to the desk of Mr. J. D. Macâ€" Lean, town engineer, some of the startling facts contained in the pamphâ€" let are repreduced herewith for the general information and interest of readers of The Advance. The comâ€" pelling thought of the bookict is conâ€" tained in one of the headings:â€""1942â€" The Year ts Win or Lose the War." Emphasis is given to the thought that "time" is no more on the side of the United Nations than on the side of the Axis. It is stressed again and again that the gresat success won this year against the gangsters the quicker will victory come, while if this year is allowâ€" ed to see further advances by the gangster nations, the war will necesâ€" sarily be woefully prolonged with inâ€" creasing difficulty for the peoples who believe in democracy and decency. The bosoklet is illustrated with several illuâ€" minating maps and charts that make the situation plain. Brief but very inâ€" formative reference is made to the several fronts, with special reference to Russia‘s part, and the danger to all should Russia‘s recent successes fail to continue. Allies and Russian Other Axis and . US. Powers ..... 86.5 . ...............13.5 100.00 755 100.0 100.0 97.3 74.8 75.3 76.0 Dominion Member Urges Large "Yes" Vote on Plebiscite Constable Belanger has been a member of the Timmins Police Deâ€" partment for the past two years and will be missed by the department. On Tuesday afternoon of this week before the regular police court session the constable was presented with an army kit by the members of the police force in a special ceremony that took place in the patrol with all of the constables present. Constable Rene Belanger Joins Army Next Week The late John Alexander Lawn was| home on sick leave following a minor plane accident at his training school in the West. He was born in Pemâ€" broke and was educated there and at Ottawa. He taught at Pembroke and Timmins. At the time of the acciâ€" dent he was a student pilot in the RCAF. He is survived by his parâ€" ents, two brothers, Thomas, of Pemâ€" ‘broke, and James, overseas, and three sisters, Mrs. Gerald Sloan, of Timâ€" mins, Miss Gernadette cf Ottawa, and Miss Margaret, a nurse in training at | North Bay. ( Constableâ€"Rene Belanger leaves next Thursday to join the Canadijan Army. The contsable received his call to reâ€" port for training so he joined the active army going into the Provost Corps. John Andrew Lawn, R.C.A.F., son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lawn, and until his enlistment in the Air Force, a popular and esteemed member of the teaching staff of the Holy Family School at Timmins, was one of five Pembroke young men killed on Tuesday when their car was hit by a fast C.PR. passenger train on a level crossing near Pembroke. Three of the five young men were in the Air Force and while on leave had been attending the wedding of another friend in the air force. Former Timmins Teacher Killed in Crash at Pembroke J. H. Tremblay and his son, J. A. Tremblay were charged with serving beer illegally in the hotel at McIntosh Springs. Provincial Police Stromberg told of finding guests in the hotel last Sunday with glasses from which they had apparently just taken beer. The charge against the son was dismissed, and the charge against J. H. Tremblay placed under a diffecrent section as there was no evidence of any sale. A fine of $50.00 and costs was imposed. A man, who, while apparently drunk, had without reason or excuse struck Mr. C. P. Walker in the face, was fined $50.00 and costs or three months. $. C. Platus, KC., acted as presiding magistrate at ccurt here Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Imbrosak were commitâ€" ted for trial on a charge of being in illegal possession of gold ore. Gold buttons valued at $543.77 were found by police in the Imbrosak home. €outh Porcupine, April 8â€"(Special {» The Advance)â€"Owing to the absence of Magistrate Atkinson through illness, Committed for Trial in Highâ€"grade Case at South Porcupine Dther Cases at Police Court at South End. Among those present were:â€"Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Holland, Mr. and Mrs. J. Platt, Mrs. B. Pecore, Mrs. L. Childs, and daughter, Jacqueline, of Kapusâ€" kasing, Mrs. C. Priddle, Miss Kay Greâ€" gory, Mr. W. Baker, Mr. Dick Strong, the guests of honour, Miss Dorothy Hudson and Sapper George Holland, Mrs. W. E. Strong. Main avenue, entertained at a lovely dinnes party at their home on Monday evening in honour of Miss Dorothy Hudson and Sapper George Holland, who have just announced their enâ€" Mr. |rested at 11.40 last night in his room in the Algoma hotel. The stolen article North Bay Nugget â€" Thought for those irate Americans who are demandâ€" ing to know the whereabouts of the US. fleetâ€"You could join the navy and find out! | Special interest was shown by many in the car showing guns and ammuniâ€" tion of the most modern type. ‘The R.C.AMC. exhibit was most comâ€" plete, showing the most upâ€"toâ€"date ; hospital, medical and first aid equipâ€" ment. The Dental car was also a cenâ€" : tre of special interest, while the Royal Canadian Engineers and their display bridges, pontoons,:etc., secured much attention. The signal system display ;held the keen attention of many, while |the car showing the foods of the army also attracted particular notice. North Bay Nuggetâ€"In Washington a stripâ€"tease artist has offered her serâ€" vices to the Federal Bureau of Invesâ€" tigations. As an uncover agent? Noteâ€"Men working on late shifts must report at "D" Company‘s Orderly Room at 1000 hirs., (10.00 a.m.) on day of Parade. : Dressâ€"Field Service Caps and Battle Dress. The arrest followed a Jong â€"and careâ€" ful investigation by the. railway police. The accused is said to hfi.ve signed a statement saying that he stole the coat. The coat was returned to the owner this morning. The draw will take place on Monâ€" day, June 1st, and the entire proceeds will be put into the Timmins Local of the Firefighters Association to be used for the British Firefighters‘ Relief Fund Nicholai , Ivan Mussick, a "drifter" from Unity Saskatchewan, is lodged in the local jail and facing a charge of theft. The charge was laid by the T. and N. O. police and the man was arâ€" Tickets are expected to go on sale in the near future and they can be purchased from any of the firemen, just take a walk down Fourth ayenue and see for yourself. Overseas. "D" Company Orders for week endâ€" ing April 18, 1942, by G..G. Countryâ€" man, Capt., O.C. "D" Coy. Alg. Regt. C, A. (R). > in the Algoma hotel. The stolen article was an overcoat the property of trainman, Perry Smith. Following their initial success last year when they raised a tidy sum for their local fund, the Tithmins firemen are again holding a bicycle draw. This year they are offering two bicycles as prizes instead of one as last year. Company ‘Paradesâ€"Monday, April 13, and Thursday, April 16, at 1830 hrs. (7.30 p.m.) Company Orders D. Co. Algonquin Regt. C. A. (R.) Other cars of particular interest were those showing the clothing of the soldiers, trades schools display and the Red Cross car. The latter showed in effective way the remarkable part played by the Red Cross in the war. Firemen are Holding Another Bicycle Draw throu.h did not have time to give the thorough study they would have liked to the remarkable display of war equipment and supplies. The train reached here at 10 p.m. Thursday night and shortly after ecight the next morning the crowds began to gather.© The Timmins Citizens‘ Band was at the station and played~ good music during the stay here. The staâ€" tion was suitably decorated with flags and bunting for the occasion. The train is under the command of Lieut.â€"Ool. J. E. McKenna who has a very efficient staff, of 60 officers and men. There are 15 cars in the train, 10 of them exhibition cars. At the end of the train are two flat cars carrying an army tank, a Valentine truck, and an 8C0Oâ€"million candlepower antiâ€"aircraft searchlight. ‘Drifter" Faces Theft Charge in Local Court Many Left in Line Too Late to Inspect Train.‘" .