Zurich Herald, 1945-11-29, Page 2•
CHARLIE'S "MOTHER"
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 night club. It was the first
marriage for both.
`SHORT' ATTIRE FOR MEN
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Bare facts of the men's clothing shortage 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 shorts end of the deal.
NEW YORK — Men's clothing
:racks are empty because automo-
bile tire racks are filling up. So seen
who need both new suits and new
Ores must take their choice—they
{ can't have both.
Rayon, used to line men's puha,
'^'"seat^ overcoats; also is in great di -
* land as a fabric for the casings.
of ' new synthetic tires. Natural
rubber tires used cotton cords, but
e synthetics gain increased dur-
bility with rayon, producers claim.
'or that reason the tire industry
I11as become an important rayon
buyer, and Akron is ordering tre-
mendous quantities of the yarn.
Clothing manufacturers say
there is me feasible substitue for
rayon linings. Silk is equally scarce,
and alpaca, a high grade mixture
using cotton, has been discontinued
by mills. Clothiers need approx-
:mately three yards of rayon lining
for very four yards of suiting. The
rayon demand of the clothing in-
dustry will be doubled. The supply
has been cut in half.
RAYON FOR TIRES
So, severe is the shortage of men's
wear, manufacturers say, that not
even the veterans demands can be
suet. Satisfying normal civilian re-
quirements is an impossibility under
present conditions, they declare.
Since veterans get no priority in the
clothing market, the inevitable
scramble may snake the clothing
problems of ex -servicemen nothing
short of desperate.
Clothing circles estimate that on
the basis of two suits per veteran
24,000,000 garments must be pro-
duced. Civilian demand is estim-
ated at 16,000,000 suits. This total
of 40,000,000 compares with a peak
production of 25,000,000 in 1941.
The story in topcoats and overcoats
is almost as bad.
While producers of rayon yarn
are expanding their capacity, cloth-
ing nnanufacturers declare it will be
a year before increased production
is -realized. In view of the retarded
production of new automobiles they
feel *j:.,«,.!•laer A+d;t ::-entatrer%weei
should be allocated to clothing to
fill an imperative demand.
The clothing industry uses ap-
proximately 100,000,000 yards of
rayon in a normal year. Manufact-
urers, faced. with almost twice the
normal demand for clothing, say
they- will be fortunate to realize 40
to 50,000,000 yards this year. The
supply is rapidly dwindling,
MORE WOOLENS
A further complication is the
dissatisfaction of rayon mills with
Office of Price Administration ceil-
ings on linings for men's clothing.
A greater return can be obtained
by selling the finished cloth to
other markets.
Two government agencies— the
Office of War Moblization and Re-
conversion and the Civilian Pro-
duction Administration—have be-
come so alarmed that specific ray-
on lining output has been ordered
channelled to men's clothing man-
ufacturers. This move has caused
women's clothing producers to pro-
test, since they in turn will suffer
under the new allocation.
The entire picture contrasts with
the situation in woolens, which is
improving. Although the govern-
ment took 100 per cent of all wor-
sted production for the armed for-
ces from January to August, 1045,
mills have resumed production for
civilian use, By January the short-
age of fabrics is expected to be
eased.
There will be no new suits, how-
ever, unless rayon for linings is
made available.
FIRST IN TOKYO BAY
Mount X+ujiyania was a fitting backdrop for the Pacific Fleet as it
gathered in Tokyo Bay, marking the sunset of Japan's dream of
world conquest. The cruiser San Diego, flagship of the Tokyo
task force, was first of the "big boys" to anchor here, but tare of
the minesweeper fleet say they cleared the harbor.
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STEEPLEJACKS RENJYATE N.Y. CATFIEDRAL
One of the twin spires of magnet
already shrouded in scaffolding as'3
take a year:
NEW YORK.—Bill Inglis is 63.
years old, but he. says be enjoys
climbing around on one of the big-
gest tinker toy assemblies ever piit
together.
It covers the 330 -foot steeple of
St. Patrick's Cathedral, fronting
vent St. Patrick's Cathedral is
,'orlters begin repairs which will
complete.
...New York's famous Fifth Avenue.
Tinety thousand feet of pipe have
hen used and it is expected that
' amore than 160,000 feet will be need -
to complete the scaffolding, re-
. ." *red by workmen who are repair-
ti,- the cathedra].
Putting all this pipe together will
require approximately 25,000 coup-
lers. It takes 10,000 to hold to-
gether the scaffolding on the chur-
ch now.
It takes a lot of hustling to climb
around the 34 -floor -high tinker toy,
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.
"When we get up there we see
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.
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for mass production of passenger
planes.
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