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REAL DEARTH IN MOSCOW NOW
THEFT OF TRAINED MEN PRACTISED
Moscow, Oct. 1. While thousands of skilled workers in America and Europe are looking futilely for jobs, cer- tain kinds of labour are so scared here that the "theft" of trained men for one organisation by, an other has become a reat industrial problem.
..That does not mean there is 'no' unemployment in the Soviet Union, The streets of Moscow, especially in winter, teem with beggara. With outstretched. palms they stand in groups around the atores patronized by foreigners and more prosperous Russians.. But
any
MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1934.
THE HOME
DRESSMAKER
ART TREASURE DISCOVERED
The Child's "Rompegs" Bought For A Song
By Labourer
MAY BE WORK OF FAMED MASTER
Boston, Sept. 27. Mr. Jeremiah Christopher Leon- ard; 34, a sign painter who likes to rummage through musty shops for Fecond-hand art was revealed re- cently na possessor of an apparent masterpiece that may bring him a Fortune
Some of the country's leading" museums have become keenly In- terested, it was learned, I a "Madonna and Child" that for three years adorned the parlour wall of Mr: Leonard's Somerville House.
The dust-smothered painting, believed that of an Italian master
man with technical skill can gat To make up then useful tile of the Renaissance period cost Mr. a job. In fact, employers hunt!"Rompora" for the toddler boy Leonard $6. Now it appears that Hilm
or girl-you will need only one Some organizations, particular and a quorber yards of thirty-six ly the big construction trusts, inch material. Choose something employ special agents to seck durable, and make sure that it workers. Sometimes, these agents washes well. "steal" men from other trusts, promising them better pay or, in- creased privileges in the way of housing and food.
TRICKERY.
the work may bring him anywhere from $50,000 to $150,000. So he has removed it from the parlour wall and placed it in safekeeping. Mr. Leonard supports his wife fourteen and children-five to
old-painting buildboard Study the diagram, cut a paper years
the measurements posters. His hobby is visiting pattern to given, tack up, try the pattern on second-hand furniture stores, seck- the child, and make any necessary ing art gema among their mouldy
the litter. 'Now cut alterations.
Five years ago he found the "Madonna and Child", coated with dust and grime, in a Somerville shop. It had lain unnoticed for forgot where it came from. A bid so long that the Jewish proprietor of $6 was accepted readily--the merchant even threw in a bundle of frames for good measure.
The extent to which some organ- material. as shown, hy the cor- rected pattern. The waist-band, izations will go to get workers was!
13 not shown in the illustrated recently by the Staka which
a straight strip of Kegional Executive Committee. diagram, fa Needing more workers, they sent material, three inches wide, to be Instructions to a number of men used double. employed by the "Magnesite":
In making up the "rompere," Iactory to report for military arrange the back fastening of the the training.
bodlee part by turning in
110
The workers arrived at the edges and facing with a strip of pince designated in the order and material about three-quarters of Lap right side were met by the members of thejan inch wide.
buttons and Committee. With great secrecy, over left, sew
or clay use They were shipped off. to an unwork known destination. Upon arrival press-studs.. there they found not a military camp but a timber camp and were
in
buttonholes,
Then
Join the back of the bodice to set to work floating logs down a the front of the garment by
shoulder and side seams. river.
Meanwhile, one of the furnaces join the back of the knicker part the "Magnesite" plant was to the front by side seams, leaving forced to else for Inck of men to them open at the top for a few end it. The former, ironmongers inches for the alde fastenings.. were rolling logs.
Hom the edges of the openings The regional committee to the and the lower edge of bodice Communist Party, which keeps its back. Now gather the top edge eyes open for such trickery, found of the knicker. back and stitch at what was happening and the between the doubled waistband, "military order" was promptly the ends of which should be long revoked.
enough to go round to the front Henvy labour turnover, result of the waist and fasten with ing in wany cases from such small buckle. Lactics, is one of the industrial!
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problems which Soviet adminis- Sew up the little leg seam, trators are now trying to solve-hem the leg edges, and run elastic
through these hems. United Press.
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Though attracted by the under- lying beauty of the painting. Mr. Leonard was equally ignorant of its intrinsic value. It wasn't until Dr. Charles McCrossan, art noisseur and friend of the sign painter, spied it about two years go that it was decided to submit it to experts.
OF. GREAT AGE. Connoisseurs at Boston Museum Harvard University, and Metro- of Fine Arts, Fogg. Muscum ut politan Museum in New York all have adjudged it as probably 400 to 500 years old.
One authority at Boston Museum thinks it may be by Sassoferrato. who lived between 1605 and 1685. and painted many Madonna and Christ pictures. An expert at the Museum in Cambridge thinks it may be by Corregion, who lived between 1494 and 1534. A genuine Corregion, it has been estimated, in fashionable collecting circles. might bring as much as $150,000
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1 Ilow the father of woman her husband's Rolicitor, and father, might refer (hyphens).
to her
8 Though largely conteur de reer,
Hot
all poetical
l in shape and measuring 14 Bind the arm-holes, and cut inches across and 20 inches from small slit in the centre front of top to bottom, "the painting is in RICHES LOCKED the bodice, Bind this slit colours rich_and_harmonious, together with the neck edge, then The intensity of expression on the IN ICE
taek it together again. This is beautiful faces and the concentra- not a fastening, but it makes ation of the four eyes on a given
11 Juck Sprat Ahould have liked this joint: there's no fat on it. point were said by one expert to remind of both Raphael and Rem- 12 Feasted sumptuously. brandt, but other characteristics14 For anyone who is, it's all U.P.
15 Glass.
Untouched Wealth Of pretty finish to the neckline.
Labrador
A ROMANCE OF ISOLATION
treasures
settlement of the younger and made it clear that it was not the active are entirely governed by work of either.-United Prese. the presence of food and fur.
They kill birds and wild animals |
with bows and arrows of spruce! MAN AS SEEN BY HIS
TAILOR
wood:
of
Vast, untouched gold, silver, copper, nickel... and
Mr.
In June, the Leaf Moon, the ron lle buried in the Labrador Indians travel South. July, St. peninsula, which,."like some diffid-Anne's Moon, is spent receiving NOT GIFTED LIKE WOMEN
instruction. During ent virgin, is still wrapped in gar-spiritual
Men, In the opinion of ments of isolation, having turned August, the Moon of Flight, the
families return to the Interior. Stanley Johnson,, honorary secre- away her wooers.'
This claim is made by Sir The Eskimos, it is suggested, tary of the National Federation of Merchant Tailors, are not natural- Wilfred Grenfell in "The Romance are the most contented of ally gifted in. the matter of clothea of Labrador," published recently people. Not one of them has ever
In this land of snow and rock suffered from nervous postrations woman are, and should, there- It le still only the fittest who can and, as a race, they are brilliant fore, be given some official bureau survive the rigours of the climate, utilitarians. Yet, it is stated that of dress information to which they and until the wealth of the Inter-they are a dying race. In 1897 can go for advice.
fashions should change as rapidly as women's, but it ahould be pos sible to agree on some gradual
Sharpers do not play the game in this boat,
16 Two words that might deserlbe a macaw, or the regular patron of night clubs.
18 There's nothing common about
anything that's this.
21 Unfriendly.
22 Venomous snake.
24 Scatter the tin about the alightly
- ruffled heir, in order that he may
come in for it.
27 at some future time
128 American city.
29 He may not be the best of form
121
the shaft.
6. Can be gathered in a garden.
7 The actua} source of Nelson's
Victory.
8 Walker; has to be pushed. 10 Perhaps.
13 Fragments attributed to Sam. 17- Dip.
Just unde the hook.
20 Made by a settler from a trestle.
21 Obsolete feminine accessory.
23 Musical instrument.
25 Has a note, so hurry.
28 Only a little wheel, but it has its
points.
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4 Part of a loom
5 This horse is useless between.
estimated at They did not desire that men's ior, scrubbed bare of soil by ice their number was and burned by great fires; just-40,000. Four years ago that fies the expense of the establish-figure had dropped to 28.000.
The Health Bulletin for Eastern ported at Madras, and four deaths ment of communications, no white)
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were reported from ди illustration of their changes in men's clothes, so that man can possibly make a home
Chittagong. Small-pox casos, without there.
courage, they will, if need be, a man wearing a sult several years ports for the week ending Septem- from cholera When the Indians grow old and tackle a polar bear single-handed out of date would be made to look bar 29 states that one case of non fatalities, were reported as follows: Teoble in the country they are with only a dog whip. A knife is no ridiculous that he would have fatal pingue was reported at Prom 6 cases from Bombay, 4 from Cal- killed by their families, for they fastened to the end of a long whip, great difficulty in persuading any. Penh 13 cases of non-fatal cholera eutta, & from Madras, 1 from each
er cholern with no deaths were re from Colombo. prefer death to abandonment and and the animal is slowly lashed to self-respecting woman to walk down were reported at Calcutta, 1 cases Tuticorn and Vizagapatam, and 8- exposure. The wanderings and death.
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