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hersal for the India Republic Day Parade on Sunday. The high per- ched troops wearglistening white uniforms, and red turbaus. Jet

planes screamed ov« rhead during the parade as the Camel Corps, elephants and bullock carts lent an anachronistic beauty to the parade. (AP Wir _" ‘ )

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DEMAND IS STRONG

‘That the fur business in the United States had one of its heal- thiest yearsin 1957, is shown by a release which states that in- solvencies in the fur industry last year declined about 60 per cent in total valuation. This was con- tained in a report released by American Fur Merchants’ Asso- ciation last ‘week.

'‘'During, 1957,” the report stat- es, “fur insolvencies totalled $3, 757,679 compared to $9,374,600 in

, 1956.” Figures were compiled by

William Kolodney, executive dire- ctor of the American Fur Mer- chants’ Association. Mr. Kolod- ney stated that the 1957 picture might even be brighter because of some of the reports, on fur-

ther examination, proved to be‘

exaggerated. PRICES ADVANCE‘

AIIZ the New York Auction Co. sale in Minneapolis on January 19, standard mink prices advan- ced five percent, and pastels and autumn haze types rose ten per cent, ‘compared with the same sale on December 30. There were quite a number of European cus- tomers and a large number of buyers from Eastern U. S. »

Ninety per cent of the 90,000 pelts were sold, broken down in- to types — 15,000 standard mink pelts were 93 per cent sold. Top bundles of Great Lakes selects (standards) sold at $41.00 for

males and $21.00 for females. 0-,

ther good lots of better color males sold from $30.00 to $38.00; fe- males from $16.00 to_$18.75. There were price advances shown in the 20,000 pastels and 13,000 EMBA autumn haze types, which rose up to ten percent over December The pastels and EMBA autumn haze pelts were 95 per cent sold; top/avutumn haze males went at $36.50 and females at $17.50. Top bundles of stewart type males brought $40.00 and females $18.00. ALL. GRADES

A feature of the sale was the demand for ordinary _types. The 7,000 Sapphires and 6,000 EMBA Ceruleans were 86 per cent sold, and prices, while unchanged from December, held firm. An outstan- ding string of Ceruleans in a good selection brought to males price of $45.50, while the best fe- male bundle brought $20.00,

Nine thousand silverblus and 6,- 000 EMBA Argentas were 87 per cent sold. Altogether the sellers and buyers were -well satisfied with the above sale.

The Canadian Fur Auction Sal-

, es Company (Quebec) Ltd., which , wound up its mink sale on Fri-

day, January 17 in Montreal re- ported a strong demand, for dark, as well as mutation mink, and this resulted in high percentages being moved, and the price level set at the December 20 opening

~ auctions going by the board.

Majestic Dark Mink sold 98 per Cent. Autumn Haze sold 90 per Cent. Desert Gold 90 per‘ cent,

‘Cerulean 92 per cent, Argenta 80

per cent. There turnovers were frequently better in the unlabel- ed section of the catalogue, not- ably in pastels and topaz, which were both sold 100 per cent. WORLD WIDE

Buying power was evenly dis- tributed between New York, Eur- ope and local domestic houses. Interesting highlight of the- sale was the presence of buyers from Mexico, who purchased a substan-

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A despatch, from London, dat- ed January 16, states that Rus- sian ranch mink showed big ad- vances over February, 1957, lev- els at Anning, Chadwick and Ki- ~ver’s sale there on January 16. A general strong trend in mink prices continued all through the sale. The Russian ranch mink were more than 90 per cent sold; males advanced 30 per cent and females 50 per cent over Febru- ary, 1957, saleilevels. _

The offering of Norwegian stan- dard mink was 71 per centvsold. Males were "very firm and fe- males advanced 20 per cent. The despatch also states that a Hud- son’s Bay Company wild - mink collection was 100 per cent sold, and 95,000 ranch‘ mink (standard) was,100 per cent sold.

Our comment on the above is that the indications all over Eur- ope point to a greatly increasing demand for mink, and that means an upturn in prices‘~for mink pro- duced in Canada and the United ‘States. It has been our’ obseriva-

the January sales start off strong, with large porportions of the con- signments sold, it means a good year for the industry.

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MARYSTOWN, Nfld. (CP) - This town of 1,440 in southern Newfoundland may become a city if plans for a free port near here materialize.

The scheme foresees docksand warehouses, oil refineries, distil- leries and meat-packing plants on the shores of neighboring Mortier Bay. . Backers envisage secondary in- dustries developing beside big stockpiles of raw and manufac- tured goods unloaded here for trans-shipment. A free port per- mits shippers to postpone pay-

» ment of customs duties.

But officials in other East Coast ports say a duty-free port here would draw off ships now using Halifax, Saint John, N.B., Mont- real and Quebec.

Legislation paving the way for a free port passed the Newfound- land legislature in 1956. Delegates at a conference of the Dominion Marine Association and Lake Carriers Association at Seigniory Club, Que., Tuesday heard the scheme ‘is receiving f‘favorab1e government a t t e n - tion” at Ottawa.

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The Montreal Gazette’ says the project is promoted by the Mor- tier Bay Development Company, a Toronto group reported to have United States capital behind it. Mortier Bay is a landlocked deep-water arm of Placentia Bay on the eastern side of Burin Peninsula, which projects from

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wide. The bay broadens inside un- til it is about three miles across. The harbor is ice-free, and near the Atlantic and Gulf of St. Law- rence shipping lanes.

Mortier Bay is seen as the east- ern terminus of the St. Lawrence seaway, with Port Arthur, Mil- waukee and Chicago as the west- ern terminals.

Huge lake freighters would haul Canadian and American cargoes from the Great Lakes to Mortier Bay for trans-shipment around the world.

The same boats would pick up freight dumped here by ocean carriers and deliver it to the in- dust-rial heart of North America. Ships of new design are being discussed for trade between the bay and‘ the Great,Lakes.

BINS FOR WHEAT?

The St. John’s, Nfld., Telegram says another proposal is the es- tablishmentof grain elevators at Mortier Bay, “making possible a substantial s a ving on freight costs of Canadian export whea .”

The Telegram says the backers “have already discussed the cre- ation of a meat-packing industry for the shipment of chilled rather than frozen Canadian meats. They have also discu_ssed the es- tablishment of distilleries and oil refineries. Looking far into \the future they foresee the area ad- joining the free port as Canada’s major industrial centre on the At- lantic Coast." .

However, Port Manager J. R.

Newfoundland's south coast, /The entrance is about a mile

Mitchell of Halifax calls it ‘fa far- fetched scheme that could have a

detrimental effect on Halifax if it were to materialize.”

W. Stanley Lee, Halifax port commission chairman, says it “would be anything but helpful to ports like Halifax and Saint John, NE.”

A Halifax labor spokesman says a free port would undoubt- edly be coupled with moves to ex- tend the St. Lawrence shipping season.

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Import goods could be stored indefinitely at Mortier Bay and moved to central Canadian and U.S. markets when the St. Law- rence season opens.

With lake ships continuing east to Newfoundland, Montreal would also be by-passed as a trans- shipment centre.

The history of Mortier Bay goes back to an English promoter known here as “Fog-free Zone” Thompson. He is said to have spent $70,000 of his own money trying to make his dream of a free“ port a reality.

But he never succeeded in in- teresting enough people to put up the millions of dollars required.

Thompson crossed the Atlantic scores of times trying to interest backers. His journeys came to an end during the Second World War when his ship was sunk by a Ger- man submarine. — ‘

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‘ TOKYO (Reuters) —— The man who has been doing a’ roaring trade is selling Japanese citizens plots on the planet Mars Satur- day rejoiced in the successful launching of the U.S. satellite. Mitsu Harada, president of the Japan Astronautical Society, said: “The more satellites launched, the quicker I can get ‘my tenants to their new homes

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WASHINGTON (AP) —~ Presi- dent Eisenhower refused Wednes; day so give Congress a'look a two secret reports on national de- fence ’

A Senate preparedness subcom- mittee headed by D€m0C1"at1° Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas has been trying to get reports by -Dr. James R. Killian, presiden- tial scientific adviser, and “he Gaither committee. .

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