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\ : BR = : : ee = a a ma 2 IN HOT SPOT CHARLIE"S "MOTHER" ~~ | = STEEPLEJACKS RENOVATE N.Y. CATHEDRAL Dutting all 0s pips together wil You Will Enjoy $ . require approximately 25000 coup- hd mioy Staying At n, Lt.-Gen., Sir Alan Cunningham, above, is tha new British High Commissiqner for Palestine, suc- eeding Field Marshal Lord Gort, who recently resigned. Onetime commander of the famous Eighth Army, he had 'been. head of the Eastcen Command since 1944. FLYING FLIVVER 3 dd Just unveiled in San Diego, Calif, is the '"roadplane," above, which combines the advantages of tha air- plane and automobile, according to its creator, Norman V. Davidson, Convair engineer. Simply drive it to A new "boss" for Charlie McCarthy was revealed with disclosure of the marriage of ventriloquist 'Edgar 'Bergen, 40, to Frances Weston, 22, former model, in Ensenada, Mexico, last June 23. 'The newlyweds are pictured, above, in a might club. It was the first marriage for both. 'SHORT' ATTIRE FOR MEN Bare facts of the men's clothing shortdge are revealed in this photo of a-fashion show put on by Washington war vets. There - just isn't enough rayon to fill demands for suit linings as well as tire fabrics, and clothing is .getting the shortg end of the deal. NEW YORK -- Men's clothing One of the twin spires of magnificent St. Patrick's Cathedral is already shrouded in scaffolding as workers begin repairs which will take a year to complete. NEW YORK---Bill Inglis is 63 years old, but he says he enjoys climbing around on one of the big- gest tinker toy assemblies ever put together, d It covers the 330-foot steeple of St. Patrick's Cathedral, fronting New York's famous Fifth Avenue. Ninety thousand feet of pipe have been used and it is expected that more than 160,000 fect will be need- ed to complete the scaffolding re- quired by workmen who are repair- ing the cathedral. - UNLISTED STOCKS touch with Unlisted Stocks, b 54 Adelaide St. E., T. L. SAVAGE & CO. We ara SPECIALISTS on finding Markets for all stocks and Bonds not listed on any exchange. Write for our Free Weekly Market Letter which will keep in close Toronto ° o -- . . Adelaida 6185-6-7 1 , v lers. It takes 10,000 to hold to- gether the scaffolding on the chur- ch now, The St. Regis Hotel TORONTO @® Every Hoom with Shower and Telephone. Slugle, $2.50 up -- - Double, $1.60 up. @ Good Food, Dieglig and Dane- img Nightly. Sherbourne at Carlton Tel, HA, 4135 v vd x " i " Hath, It takes a lot of hustling to climb 4 around the 34-floor-high tinker toy, y but the average age of the workers is near 50. Some of them make the climb twice a day and foreman Bill got quite a chuckle out of the poor office workers when the New York elevator operators went on strike not so long ago. Russia is reported getting ready for mass production of passenger "When we get up there we sce planes lots and lots of taxicabs and lots and lots of people but some morn- ings it's so misty you don't see a thing," he said, . German Farm Split The 5,000-acre estate of the de- scendants of Prince Otto Bismarck, famous German Chancellor, has been divided among the families of 102 agricultural laborers. Leadership -- The Investment = that holds unquestioned leader: ship in Canada -- that provides maximum security -- that returns good income with unfailing regularity -- that is most readily marketable when need arises Victory Bonds the best investment for Canadians Mail orders receive prompt attention 36 King Street West Toronto 1' Wood, Gundy & Company Telephone: ELgin 4321 g Limited tle airport, attach "36-foot wings, While producers of rayon yarn atart tha 75-horsepower aircooled racks are empty because automo- are expanding their capacity, cloth- - pushertype engine and head for the bile tire racks are filling up. So men ing manufacturers declare it will be ] clouds, says the inventor. It may who need both new suits and new a_year before increased production A be 'placed on the market within a tires must take their choice--they is realized. In view of the retarded year, can't have 'both. troduction of new automobiles they ; Rayon; used 'to line men's suits feel that the rayon for rubber tires i i 'and overcoats, also is in great de- should be allocated to clothing to bk i LOSES NO TIME mand ag a fabric for the casings fill an imperative demand. fads; g 5 eo of new synthetic tires. Natural The clothing industry uses ap- $Y rubber tires used cotton cords, but 'proximately 100,000,000 yards of aL) the synthetics gain increased dur- rayon in a normal year, Manufact- ha "ability with rayon, producers, claim. urers, faced with almost twice the [3 'For 'that reason the tire industry normal demand for clothing, say has become an important rayon they will be fortunate to realize 40 buyer, and Akron is ordering tre- to 50,000,000 yards this year, The . mendous quantities of the yarn. supply 1s rapidly dwindling. Clothing manufacturers say MORE WOOLENS there is ne feasible substitue for A further complication is the i rayon linings. Silk is' equally scarce, dissatisfaction of rayon mills with and alpaca, a high grade mixture Office of Price Administration ceil- uging cotton, has been discontinued ings on linings for men's clothing. by mills. Clothiers need approx- A greater return can be obtained imately three yards of rayon lining by selling the finished cloth to for very four yards of suiting. The other markets. : . rayon demand of the clothing in- Two government agencies-- the 5 dustry will be doubled. The supply Office of War Moblization and Re- i has been cut in half, 'conversion and the Civilian Pro- } RAYON FOR TIRES duction Adminjstration--have be- So, severe is the shortage of men's come so alarmed that specific ray- wear, manufacturers say, that not on lining output has been ordered even the veterans' demands can be channelled to men's clothing man- S . | | = met." Satisfying normal civilian re- ufacturers. This move has caused i 'i quirements is an impossibility under women's clothing producers to pro- \ 3 3 present: conditions, they declare. |. test, since they in turn will suffer i . - Since veterans get no priority in the | under the new allocation, J Sought by Nazis, until the war's || clothing market, the inevitable The entire picture contrasts with end, for fleeing from a labor camp scramble may make the clothing the situation in woolens, which is : in' Germany, Oscar 'G. 'Lagao, | problems of ex-servicemen nothing improving. Although the govern- «above, arrived in the United 'States | short of desperate. ment took 100 per cent of all wor- on Oct, 31 and three. days lates en- | Clothing circles estimate: that.on sted production for the armed for- listed in the U. S. Army. He's a | the basis of two suits per veteran | ces from January to August, 1948, Men who think of tomorrow plan for you Self-Reading Books, Uninterrupted Symphonies 5 rookie at Ft. Sheridan, Ill. Born in || 24,000,000 garments must be pro- mills have resumed production for Detroit, he was taken to live with || duced. Civilian demand is estim- civilian use. By January the short- Your radio-phonograph of tomorrow will bring you complete novels, dramas and symphonies magnetically : his family in Belgium at the age of ated at 16,000,000 suits. This total age of fabrics is expected to be { tmpressed on small spools of steel wire. Hours of entertainment will be provided by a single spool il - Hour, of 40,000,000 compares with a peak eased. ' ' no larger than your hand. And on spools of "'hlank" Wire you will be able to make your own \ production of 125,000,000 -in '1941, There will-be no new Yi Low: y : recordings--to keep permanently. or to "wipe clean" for re-use any time you wish! : IN] 3 The story in topcoats and overcoats ever, unless rayon for linings .is 'ictor, nds will buy greater pleasures and comforts tomorrow! i ; "LADY IN'BLACK" 3s-almost. as bad. made available. , Yes, your Victory Bo y § pr fo | FIRSIN TOKYO nay Men who think of tomorrow say 9 SHOLD ON TO YOUR VICTORY BONDS TODAY? 1 NO ONE can repeal the law of supply and By leaving our extra money in safe keeping demand. But we can make it work our way with our government--for repayment when 5 by holding on to Victory: Bonds hought to conditions have become normal--we auto- finance our nation at war. inatically keep prices down and maintain the Here's why: For many months consumer goods law of supply and demand in balance. will continue to be scarce, Bidding for these That's why your Victory Bonds may save you goods with our extra dollars, thus driving twice what you've invested in them--if you ' ; of our hold on to them now. When tempted to cash Marion E. 'Wilson, « the original } prices up, only serves to devalue all Jha | J "Lady in Black" who placed! flow- personal wealth, and that of the nation. them in--think of tomorrow! IN i y ers annually on the grave of movie - "hero Rudolph Valentino, is in eit: Ee : SY Al 5 7 'ical condition at Santa Monica y : fits y Cw. ln W iE : Hospital: after' taking an overdosa A . : THE HOUSE OF SEAGRAM AR : of g tablets. Relatives 'have 'Mount Fujiyama was a fitting backdrop for the Pacific Fleet as it : N < gap revealed that she was married to gathered in Tokyo Bay, marking the sunset of Japan's dream of . : A R -& the silent screen hero and has a world conquest. The .crulser Sea Diego, flagship of the Tokyo X daughter, now 19, reportedly living task force, was firct of the "Fig bey." to encior here, but tars of < § . in London, * os tiie minesweeper leet say they cleared the harbor, % { Lo ba v . " y CI ' \ : * LJ .