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?> "HOME WANTED' Throughout the United States and Canada, the worst sufferers from the acute housing shortage are returned veterans â€" heroes once, but homeless now. Their plight is reflected in column after column of "Home Wanted" advertisements in newspapers everywhere, and in individual "stunts" such as that of the veteran above, who set up a pup tent before the Camden, N.J., City Hall to call attention to hii predicament. SCRAP PILE Designed and executed by Sgt. Winslow Anderson of Plymouth, Mass., the African head above is made of a horse-currying brush, tin covers, snap hooks, springs and pieces of brass. It won second prize in the "Inventive Uss of Im- provised Materials" class, in. the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit of handicraft by personnel of the Army Second Service Command. BOY TO HAVE PLASTIC SKULL Sixycar-old Korman Turner was born v/ith scaphocephalus, a rar« skull condition which necessitated removal of most of the bona from the top of his head in order to relieve threatened pressure on his brain. To replace the missing skull, Irving A. Goldman of Ar- lington, Va., plans to provide the boy with one of plastic. Above, he displays a plaster cast of the artificial skull to Norman and hit mother. U.S. PLANS SUPER-LINERS FOR ORIENT TRADE ^ ;^^|g[J^BH^SJBw***»'» â- jga y ' ;^?*«^^^''^^:^^«^^|flV^ Anticipating unprecedented postwar overseas travel ernizcd American Merchant Marine, including two shown in drawing at top. These 000-foot aircondi S9V> knots, carry 1000 passengers, and maintain Far East. Accommodations will be the last word standard compartment, sketched at left, and the pointments include such things as upper and lo-.ver table and chairs, closets, private bath and lavatory shown in daytime aspect with berths closed, will the U.S. Maritime Cornmisrion is pinning a mod- euper-modern trans-Pacific express liners like that tioned queeiis of the deep will travel at speeds of fortnightly service between the West Coast and the in safety, comfort and luxury. Typical wHl be the :.!cre elaborate stateroom, right. Compartment ap- berthG, concealed life preservers, stowed bridge b:'.iind full-length mirrored door. The stateroom, as be even more spacious and luxurious. 4 r FACES NOOSE Convicted by a U.S. Naval Court of ordering the excutions of 96 Am- erican civilians on Wake Island in 1943, Jap Rear-Adml. Shigematsu SakaibaCfi has been sentenced to be hanged. Ten co-defendants were similarly condemned. They were tried on Kwajalein Island in the Marshalls. JAILED AS REBEL Arnulfo Arias, above, former president of Panama, wae arrested aiter the quick and bloody suppres- sion of an armed revolt against the government of President Enrique A. Jiminez. TO COME TO CANADA SOON i # 4 4 « «' * X X 4 4 •• -• 4 4 * 4 » Sir Harold Alexander, governor-general designate of Canada, is seen in an informal pose with his dog Tessa at his home in Windsor, England. He will visit Canada in the spring. THE General Sfatemenf, 30fh November, 1945 ASSETS Notes of and deposits vrflh Bank of Canada ^ $ 154 453 345.62 Other Cash and Bank Balances , I66 690 950 57 Notes of and Cheques on other Banks 97 040 916 90 Government and other Public Secnritiss 1001 072* 550 27 Other Stocks and Bonds 32 767 405 11 Call and Short Loans fully secured iqq 445 918 06 $1,558,477,086.53 Commercial Loans in Canada 284 038 691 85 Loans to Provincied Governments 5'o7o'535 17 Loans to Cities, ToMms, Municipalities and School Districts. 4459 634 54 Commercial Loansâ€" Foreign. 88!44U96."l8 f^i^^f^'V y; 10,848,254.92 Liabilities ol Customers under Acceptances ani Letters of nrt. ^T^'; 49,482,848.75 ^^^^^'^ 6,728:730.92 Total Assets $2,007,546,978.86 UABIUTieS Notes in Circulation j 7,007,429.94 Deposits Y 888 757 074 14 Acceptances and Letters of Credit Outstanding ' 49' 432' 848 75 Other Liablhties [[[] i;480;446:73 t^apital. 35,000,000.00 ReserveFund.. 20,000,000.00 Dividends due Shareholders 572 660 73 Balance of Profit as per Profit and Loss Account 5 246518 57 Total Liabilities $2,007,546,978.86 PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT Proiils for the year ended November 30, 1945, before Dommiou Gov.rnman* axes, but aiter contributious to St..ff Pension Fund, and ^If^lp^topSl ^ ^ua^r^^\^°'^"^'' ""i* °' '"^'=^ Reserves provision for all Ld wd doubtful debts hat been made ""* _- ^y., Leaa provision for Dominion Government taxes ^'^'iir2 A 173,00 0.00 Leu appropriation for Bank Premises *^'?^i2"2 Dividends: No. 230 at 6% per annum 5523 qoo 00 *^'°*''*^'*** M'''^^i*I«^°''""°""' •••••••• S23;000.00 N ^^'fi^"*""*""'"" 323,000.00 No. ^JJ at 6% per annum 323 qqq qq 'â-  â€" 2,100,000.00 Amount carried forward "" « aaaoAtn ' Balance Profit and Loss Account, November 30, 1944. ... . ..,...'. j. oI, !», 2i _, _, ,, 4,^47,671.80 Balance Profit and Low Account, November 30, 1 943 ' -,_-â- ., -.^^ »5,246,318l.W MORBIS W. WILSON President SYDNEY G. DOBSON Ezecutiva Vice-President lAMES MUIR General Maaaget « * * A * -% â-  . » ♦i ,4. i'