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SKILLED MEN REQUIRED

·THE HOME

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REAL DEARTH IN The Child's "Rompers"

MOSCOW NOW

THEFT OF TRAINED

MEN PRACTISED

Moscow, Oct. 1 thousands

skilled -- While

of workers in America and Europe are looking futilely for jobs, cer- tain kinds of labour are so scarce here that the "theft" of trained men for one organisation by an- other has become a real industrin problem.

That does not mean there in no unemployment in the Soviet Union.. The streets of Moscow, especially' in winter, teem with beggars. With outstretched palms they stand in groups around the stores patronized by foreigners and more prosperous

Ilussians. But any

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Boston, Sept. 27. Mr. Jeremiah Christopher Leon- ard, 34, a sign painter who likes to rummage through musty shops for second-hand art was revealed re- cently as possessor of an apparent masterpiece that may bring him a Furtune.

Some of the country's leading museums have become keenly in- terested, it was learned, 'in "Madonna and Child" that for three years adorned the parlour wall of Mr. Leonard's Somerville Houne.

The duat-smothered painting, belleved that of an Italian makter man with technical skill can get To make up these useful little of the Renaissance period cont Mr. Now it appears that job. In fact, employers hunt"Rompers" for the toddler-boy Leonard $0.

him...

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or girl-you will need only one the work may bring him anywhere Some organizations, particular and a quarter yards of thirty-six from $50,000 to $150,000. So he y the big construction trusts, inch material. Choose something has removed it from the parlour employ special agents to Beck urable and make sure that it, wall and placed it in anfekeeping. Mr. Leonard supports his wife workers. Sometimes, these agents washes well.

and children-five to fourteen "steal" mes from other trusts,

Study the diagram, cut a paper years old-painting buildboard promising them better pay or in-

the mobrementa poaters. His hobby is visiting Freased privileges in the way of pattern to

riven. tack up, try the pattern on second-hand furniture stores, seck- housing and food.

the child, and make any necessary ing art gems among their mouldy alterations. Now

the litter. eut

Five years ago he found the The extent to which some organ.material, as shown, by the cor-

The waist-band,, "Madonna and Child", coated with izations will go to get workers was rected pattern."

is not shown in the dust and grime. in a Somerville illustrated recently by the Staka which

a straight strip of shop. It had lain unnoticed for Regional Executive Committee, diagram, la Needing more workers, they sent material, three inches wide, to be an long that the Jewish proprietor forgot where it came from. A bid Instructions to a number of men used double,

of $6 was accepted ready-the employed by the Magnesite" In making up the "rompers," merchant even threw in a bundle Iactory to report for military arrange the back fastening of the of frames for good measure. training. S1 Ceorge's Bldg.

bodice part by turning in the Though attracted by the under- The workers arrived at the edges and facing with a strip of lying beauty of the painting, Mr. place designated in the order and material about three-quarters of Legnard was equally ignorant of were met by the members of the an inch wide. Lap right side its intrinsic value. It wasn't until con- 'ommittee. With great secrecy, over left, new on Iniltons and | Dr. Charles McCrossan, art

slan or else usenoisseur and friend of the they were shipped off to an un-work buttonholes,

painter, spied it about two years known destination. Upon arrival press-studs.

ago that it was decided to submit there they found not a military

Join the back of the bodice to it to experts. camp but a timber camp and were set to work floating logs down the front of the garment, by shoulder and side seams, Then river.

Meanwhile, one of the furnaces join the back of the knicker part the "Magnesite" plant was to the front by side seama, leaving forced to close for lack of men to them open at the tops for a few

11. The former ironmongers inches for the side fastenings. were rolling logs.

Bem the edges of the openinga The regional committee to, the and the lower edge of bodice to 500 years old.

One authority at Boston Museum Communist Party, which keeps it back. Now gather the top edge eyes open for such trickery, found of the knicker back and stitch thinks it may be by Sasoferrato, out what was happening and the between the doubled waist-band, who lived between 1605 and 1686. "military order" was promptly the ends of which should be long and painted many Madornn and revoked,

enough to go round to the front Christ pictures. An expert at the Museum in Cambridge thinks it Heavy labour turnover, result of the waist and fasten with

may be by Corregion, who lived ing in many

from such small buckle. cases

between 1494 and 1534. A genuine taciles, is one the industrini

Sow up the little log Keim. Corregion. It has been estimated. problems which Soviet adminis trators are now trying to solve.-hem the leg edges, and run elastic might bring as much as $150,000

In fashionable collecting circles. through these hems, Cuited Press,

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(hyphens).

Woman husband's her

to refer

Though Inrgely couteur de rane, not at all poetical,

9 Sharpers do not play the game

in this bont.

11 Jack Sprat should have ked thin joint: there's no fat on it 12 Feasted sumptuously. 14 For anyone who is, it's al! U.P. 15 Glass.

10 Two words that might describe 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 Sentter the tin about the slightly

ruffled heir, in order that he may come in for it.

27 at some future time

28 American city. ·

29 He may not be the best of farm hands, but he might be worse, 30 What is it that points north and south at the same time (hyphen).

Down.

In the midst of anything.

3 "This East Indian ox is lively with

nearly everyone.

4 Part of a-Jooni

5 This horse is useless between

the shafts.

6 Can be gathered in a garden.

The Retual source of Nelson's Victory. 8 Walker; has to be pushed. 101-Perlm~~

Fragments attributed to Sam," 17 Dip.

19 Juet unto the book,

20 Made by a settler from a trestle,

21 Obsolete fendnine accessary,

23 Musical Instrument,

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26 Only a little wheel, but it has its

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Chittagong, Small-pox cases, without When the Indians grow old and tackle polar bear single-handed out of date would be made to look her 29 states that one case of non-fatalities, were reported as follows: feeble in the country they are with only a dog whip. A knife is so ridiculous that he would, have fatal plague was reported at Pnom-C cases from Bombay, from Cal- killed by their familles, for they fastened to the end of a long whip, great difficulty in persuading any Penh, la cases of non-fatal cholera cutta, 6 from Madras, 1 from cach prefer death to abandonmont and and the animal is slowly Inshed to self-respecting woman to walk down were reported at Calcutta, If cases Talicorn and Vizagapatam, --und-- 6

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