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collllsorss VIIIII Silver Fox And. Mink

to Arthur MscAs-thur. wig, President of the

1 ts will con- UM” wwmk mmsinnkd. pflcher mice-

"-"”' w year. ”Many of

mg, crop ' - that of is Y9” 350- bem other drop predicted for next 5”” a-Ric year 153,000 UMPA dark Wm ens were produced. We hlve ml&po( them remaining for sale 80' NO auction houses." Although

MacArthur sees a further ML 4 the amount of dark mink drop -ad nag, year he believes pmdm -ill be an increase the fol- mqc war Meanwhile the demand lfitligrzc mink will continue to in-

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W mam Fitzgerald, Vice President- v the New York Auction Company. 07.1 'hat auctions have restored 03; gagging prestige of a lie” ",....-1 have cleaned up auction Mm He described sales 0'

.. -dui-c. Pfigelillilk as ”cxcellenl." and that 3:-K mink producers were aver-

le of dollar more than

. . their its. Elmer zregeld MIJMPA topeset their . 1... for five years ahead. Then "S, "I...-By, be a. market for dark mt kaand the people who buy dark liliilk Wm always have money and be the last to suffer from

is silt.

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finial Pastels continued to firm up at Hudson's Bay company's ill: sales in New York last week. The company officially reported prices as firm to slightly strong- or than the January 12th EMBA sales. Raw Silverblus which were bciiig sold late afternoon and even- mg, wcre also meeting keen com- petition with a turnover estimated It over 90 per cent. Royal Pastels my 5 top of :58. for males and 524.50 for females. An offering of Hit! Stewart Pastels was 73 per cent mid. males hitting a top Of 545 "10 iemales 319-

The Western Canada Raw Fur Aurtlon Sales, Ltd.. VHIICOWBF. has postponed its February lath sale to March 4th because of de- la): in shipments caused by very cold weather in Western Canada for the past three weeks.

A despstch from Washington,

D. C., has owing: small furs, includt rs, ascots and capciets, are "d to play their

most important role in local re- tail fur history this spring. The trend is toward the small, smart- 'y styled fur in the popular-to low-price category, buyers agree. They feel that the customers here are still not ready to swing into my heavy luxury item buying as yet snd furriers in both depart- ment and specialty stores will play up both style and color in 'hr small fur field, it is said.

Tops in popularity in both the exclusive and mass market stores, the survey. showed. will be the cape-stole priced below 81,500 in hniicr stores and below the 5500 mark in the mass market field. In exclusive fur departments. buyers say that while the cape-stole should be a No. 1 seller this spring. cusiomers will be more interested in the cspe-stole with some new ,5!-lie note added such as a collar treatment or some new ltlp infer- vreiation. Mink will once more be the big name in tho cspe-stols. stale and collar style categories, buyers agreed. Both ranch and 8-ilverblu platinum are expected to he quits popular. Russian broad- tail and colored fox furs should stimulate some buying in spring amonlf customers in stores cater- lns to upper-income bracket wo- men. Boss in both the short and "ms-haired fiirs will also figure importantly in the spring fur fash- ion scene here as will clutch jac- kets, spencer versions snd wrappy- tm fur pieces.

Niulrrel and muskrst furs are Plnscied to be popular with mass market customers this spring in "De-stole and capelet styles, buy- "! My. In more exclusive mar-

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kets, buyers note that there may be It revival of scarf business, especially in the mink and mar- tsns. As for the fox picture, locsl furrisrs believe that this type for might stimulate sales reaction in boss or muffs in n. pastel tone. They expect to introduce the new chinchilla and the golden glory fox furs into this market.

J. Weinlg dz Bon, New York City. fur merchants who have a substantial interest in several mink ranches, recently shipped by air 1,616 live mink to Norway for breeding purposes . . . Mrs. Dorothy Parker, Peck. Michigan, gave s demonstration of s new method of peltlng at a recent meeting of the Upper Michigan Mink Breeders Association on the ranch of J. R. Whitney. She work- ed around a pole rigidly suspend- ed from the ceiling and was able to do a good job in four minutes. Many breeders attending this meet- ing planned to use her system in the future . . . . Joseph ster- ling. Placid, N. Y., well known to fox ranchers as one of the top breeders in the 19201, was a con- trlbutor of 82,250 to various orphanages for Christmas. Half of this money is from his own poc- ket and half from public contri- butions to his St. Nickls Animal Wishing Well.

Norway has no yearly census of fur farms, but according to unofficial data there are roughly 4,000 farms in operation. This is about 500 farms less than for 1052. The decline is chiefly in fox farming and is associated with the rather weak market. Mink breeding has increased somewhat. In some parts of Norway it has been getting difficult to obtain cheap feed and prices have in- creased during the past two years. The supply of fish offal continues to be good in north Norway but shipping to the main fur breed- ing areas in the southern part of the country involves considerable packing. freezing and transport costs.

Of the 4,000 fur forms it is believed that about 2,000 have foxes only, l,000 have foxes and mink" and the balsnce only mink. The estimated number of breed- ing silver females for 1063 was 18,000 which was I. drop of 14,000 from the previous year. There were only 500 female platinum foxes 6.000 blue fox females and mink totalled 50,000 females. The production in 1053 of silver foxes from the above females was estimated at 42,000 with 3.000 platinum foxes, 30,000 blue faxes and 206.000 mink. The Norwegian Co-operative attends to the sale and exportation of all fur skins and it has pushed the sale of Norwqian blue fox pelts in the United States for several years and is spending considerable money on advertising this year.

From the above it will be seen that the Norwegians alone will put on the market this year some 42.- 000 silver fox pelts and to these must be added the Swedish, Dan- ish. Finnish and Russian produc- tions so it will take a lot. of selling to clear up that big bunch. That they are moving we note from time to time by cablegrams to Women's Wear Daily and other Journals that carry fur news, but the quantities are not great and the prices are at the best around the 810. to 812. mark. However, it is possible that with fashions pre- vailing the market will be stim- ulated to an extent that it can clean up the 1003 production in Europe and then there will be a chance for the Canadian and American furs to be released on a better market.

MYSTERY nomn

MOOSE JAW, sssk. .(CP) - A rifle of somewhat ancient vintage was left at the Moose Jaw mu- seum some time sgo. Now the mu- seum committee is appealing for information so that the rifle's his- tory and the donor's name may

be attached to the relic.

bought at

GET YOUR Sinus--Gain Chick States-

AT E; J. Macll0illiALL'S-

't"le Olllclsens that won the Grand Champion Prise at he Royal Winter Fair were fed on SHUR-GAIN

J. Macll0iiGAi.L's

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ms GUARDIAN. CEIARLOTTETOWN

(By Elton C. by)

N (AP) - The U. 5. defence hkh oosnm.snd's stom- ago "underground Pentagon.” built inside si mountain as miles from the national capital is ready.

A defence department spokes- man said today that the project which started three years ago to provide an alternate command post and communications centre if atomic attack should threaten or riestroy the Pentagon headquarters is "100-per-oent completed."

The cost of blasting out the csv- ern under Bock Raven mountain, in Frederick County. Md.. building housing for ,eroonnel above ground and installing communications equipment presumably reached at least the original estimate of 3'35,-

000.000.

Available informaton indicates a maintenance force of military per,- stnnel now is at what the defencl department calls its "joint supple- mental communications i'acility.";

Jurisdiction of the facillty,which l.-iclludcs the former National Guard training site of Ft. Rik-hie as well as the man-made cavern five miles from the fort. is under the defence department. Its use in wartime would he by all three services - army, navy and air force 4 for central direction of de- fence and counlerattaok even though headquarters at Washing- ton might be wiped out.

other Jobs Unmentioned

No details were given to indicate completion of connected projects- such as the construction of a radio tranxnitter station at Greencastlr-, 1:11.. and a receiver station at Sharpsburg, Md., and the laying; of underground cables to provide telephone and telegraph connection

with trans-continental trunk line cs-bles. The emergecy command post

is linked to the normal communi- cations facilities of the army. navy and sir force by five micro-wave radio stations built in or near Washington.

Deep in the interior of the mountain where presumably even .1 direct hit by an atomic bomb could not penetrate. is the main chamber. about 35 feet hlzli. Three floor levels were designed for this hi-art-of-the-command post.

Designers also included two iriightv steel doors near the open- ing of the tunnel and special i-iv intake filtering equipment to pro- tcct against poison gas or germ warfare material.

Destroyer Escorts Patrol ll-Bomb - Proving Grounds

By William J. Waugh

PEARL HARBOR. (AP)-Tough little destroyer escorts today patrol the Pacific west of the H- homb proving ground: on s 24- hcur alert.

They watch the skies and plumb the ocean depths with electronic eyes. alert for any strange sub- marines or-in the words of sin officer-any sneak attempt by hos- tile parties "to set up shop" on deserted islands.

These sea patrols are closely sil- lled with air psirols sweeping the skies from the Marshall Islands to Japan. The patrols go on all the time, but now with hints of impending H-bomb tests at Eniwc- lok, their presence is of even more significance.

Having just returned from one of these sea patrols, I can say that there is more than the usual alertness among the radar and sonar crews.

Mum's The Word

Everyone in the Pacific is tight- iippcd about the test which soon may explode the world's most. awe- some weapon. Officers shudder if the word "atom" comes up in cas- us! conversation.

The air lanes around Eniwetok are so strictly regulated that no civilian planes are allowed and the only military planes going there are those specifically ordered.

A strengthened force of long- range planes, based at Kwajalein, maintains special patrols for the tests.

One of the most potent weapons of the patrolling destroyer escorts is detection equipment for spotting submarines.

One destroyer escort put landing parties, ashore at five islands on a recent sweep from the Bnnin islands south through the Mail- snas

Says Man Man Oath-Taking More Violent

IIGIDON. (Reuters)-Oath-taking ceremonies of the snlii-white Man Man coil. in Kenya now demand human runsi-ns for their perform- anoe, Henry Hopkinson, minister of stats for colonial affairs, mid Wed- madly.)

He told the House of Commons that the terms of the oaths taken by line Kenya terrorists have be- come more and more violent and bloodthirsty and the ceremonies hsvs become oorreqsondisigly more bestisl

"women now take part in sums of the most obscene rites and oth- ers dnisnd human remains for thalr pcrfonnsrlce," he said.

Ropkinson said it was clear that the intention behind the "revolt- mg and beotisi' character of the cesinonies was "utterly to do- grnde and delssse the Initiate in ordsr1o mskfhisn feel a complete sooisl outcast."

In this way. his tribal loyalties were no longer binding. Hopkinson laid. and the lnltlste's sole alleg-

isncs was to the Mars luv

Emergency Defence Post In Washington Completed

Polio Victims Show collection in Halifax

if-IALIFAX (OP) -An old-timer

d ivwo newcomers shared ashmv-

of their oil paintings at a re- cent sale here.

The veteran is Earl Bailly of Lunenbum. N. B. The newcomers are Muriel McAlpi.ne of 1-lassett. N. 5., and Margaret Thompson of Scotsburn. N, 8.

They have one thing in com- mon: All victims of polio, they have lost the use of their hands. They Plllllt by holding the brush in their teeth.

Bailly is known throughout Can- ada, not only for his mettiod of handling I. paint-brush but for the artistic quality of his palntllngzs,

His example started Miss Me.- Alpine and Miss Thompson on the same vocation while they were in the polio clinic here. They say it's more than a. relief from boredom. it is R rewarding experience in creative work.

Urges Oanatld-yll.S. co-operation On Alaskan Problems

WASHINGTON - (CF)-Chali- man Hugh Butler, Re-p. Nab, of the Senate interior committee Monday inserted into the con. grmionai record s plea for co- Olleration between the United States and Canada In the settin- ment of mutual Alaskan prob- lcnts.

The commttee is working on a bill to admit the Arctic territory to full statehood,

Butler said lie feels the U. S. has a. "positive obligation to be -Wmpathctic and generous" to Can- ada's need for access to the Pa- cific ocean across the Alaska pan- handle. He said he can see no ob- jection to the U, S. granting can- ada. one or more free ports along the Alaskan coast, but added:

"I do not believe we would con. sider permanently alienating any American territory to Canadian sovereignty."

Butler said both Alaska and the Canadian Nortl1wc4tt "offer is trp- niendous frontier for future devel- opment" but that neither can be developed without the closest kind of cooperation bebween the two countries.

Would Pave Highway

He felt Davin: the Alaska high- way for its entire length through Canada to be "one of t-he most important. things we could do in

further the development of Alriska."

He also mentioned as "great needs" of Alaska the construction

of sin ovelilnnd rnllro.-id connectinc tihe Canadian railroad system with the Alaska railroad. and access to the headwaters of the Yukon river for the production of power.

In asserting that the U. 8. should seek to work out an arrangement with Canada for paving the Cada- dlsn portion of the Alaska high- way, Butler said he would even be willing to have ilic U. S, pay a portion of the cost, although he felt Canada should bear a fair dhare.

Canada's Populatioii Expected To Rise To 25,000,000 By 175

OTTAWA (OP) -- Dr. E. G.

Pieva, head of the geography dz--t

partment of the University of Western Ontario, told the nation- sl council of the YMCA Saturday that the population of Canada will rcadh the 25,000,000 mark by 1075.

Most of the "new" population will settle in central Canada. re- sulting in a "thickening of already wrll-populated areas."

He said about 60 per cent of Canada's present l3.000,0.')0 popu- lslion -. is urban-divs-liing and in 1975 bhe nation still will con- sist of A majority of city-dwell.-rs.

"Therefore, we can expect the population of cities to double . . as will civic problems."

Early Shipping Days Recalled, By liobbyist

YARAJOUTH. N.B., (CF) -Mem- cries of the tall ships that once slipped into harbor here with sails full of the ocean wind are given solid form by hobbyist Bob Swee- nay.

In his basement workshop. Bweeney has carved and pieced .. 0” 1' scale model: of sailing ships. from square-riggsrs to fish- ing schoone. like the famous Biuanose.

Among his biggest Jobs is a model of the Great Republic, the lamest square-rigner cvler built, designed by another Novs. Bcotisn, the ship-builder Donald Macxsy.

The models are exact to scale of one inch to A fool, including sll rigging. and take an svasge of about zoo hours to build. The hobby fills most of the time Sweeney is not working with his father, a funeral director.

DOING THEIR BIT

WINNIPIO. (OP) - Grade six pupils at I West Kilo school collected 020 for the Juinor Red cross by a sale of home-made pop- corn. at the school. The girls: had

made the popcorn st their homss.lto be more closely drawn. The:

Four London schools adopted British ships in 1034. The ship Adoption Scheme was an outstand-

ing success from the start, and

it spread rapidly over Britain. schools and ships were intensely interested in each other, and the scheme soon had become A power- ful educatlonal force. Wherever possible the children visit ”their ship" and meet the captain and crew; the captain and officers also visit "their school". Gifts are ex- changed and arrangements made regarding the writing of letters by the pupils to the men on the ship, and from the captain and others

on the ship to the school. Early in the movement a Brit- ish Ship Adoption Society was formed, which assigned a ship to a school making application. It has grown to vast proportions, and sister associations were formed in allied countries. Following the war years it spread to the Dominlons and overseas colonies of the Com- monwealth, so that there are now over 9. thousand ships of the mer- chant navy, the deep sea trawlers and four weather ships stationed in the north Atlantic that have been adopted. .

The 3. B. Samkey, lhul. had been adopted by a secondary school at Lingfield, was reported long overdue in the fall of 1947. The boys and girls had been won- dering why they had not heard from "their ship" for many weeks. One of the boys brought a new)- paper clipping to the teacher, which said there was considerable anxiety in official quarters con- cerning "their shlp”. The teacher, in breaking the news to the child- ren concerning the ”Samkey" tried to be optimistic. He said that with the use of modern equipment, ships were not missed long. How- ever, no word was received for some weeks, and then just the tragic news: "The ship was pre- sumed iost at sea." Later an en- quiry confirmed that the ship was last reported January 31st, 1948. and that she had disappeared witiiout trace. There was the pos- sibility iliat the cargo had shifted and the ship had capsized, or she may have struck a stray mine from the 2nd World War.

Representative pupils from the school, some weeks later, attended a memorial service at the Marin- ers' Chapel in London. Their old ship was not forgotten. They plac- ed s. tablet on the hall wall in their school, giving the names of the crew who had died with their ship, and each year on the an- niversary, heid s commemorative service.

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another ship as few nionllis later.

the ”.l-lighland Princess", and the school soon became interested in her voyages and crew. When the captain visited "his school". there was a great time for everyone. The children had so much to learn, and there was very little about his ship that he did not describe to them in detail as they crowded around him asking about his voyages, the places he had called at, what the people were like. what cargo he had taken and what he had brought back to England.

The school gave him a libl'Ell',V of about thirty volumes in an oak case, and he gave them a plaque with the ship's crest. The ”High- land Princem" sailed to the Argentine to load meat for Bri- tain, and the first chance the captain had he sent back a letter to the school. He quoted from his log and gave I. very graphic ac- count of the trip, describing weather, the currents and the climate. A map showing the s'.ilp's route, with lighted globes show- ing places of call, was hung on the wall.

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The teacher selects s pupil to read the Captain's letter; as this is quite an honour. the sl'leCtlOIi may be made on the basis of class standing or achievement. After the captain's letter is read. then in- divldual letters from the crew to pupils are distributed, and much is learned concerning the ports of coil, and by answers to ques- lions taln may mention when the ship will arrive at the home port, and

extend an invitation for quite Al

number of pupils to visit him on board his ship during his stay in port.

Everyone wants to go, and the teacher dares not ask for volunteers unless there is room for all. The ones who have established them- selves as pen-pals with some of the sailors are likely to be chosen.'I'hey may have to be chosen by ballot. When the time comes, the fort- unate ones take with them par- cels prepared by the school: speci- ments of craft work. pictures of school teams, magazines, books snd games. When they arrive, they swarm over their ship, from the bridge to the engine room, ask- ing questions by the thousand. seeing how the radar works. and the records of how the robot pilot kept the ship on her course. Excel- lent afternoon tea served on board checks their lively chatter and on their return they have charts and other reminders of their Visit from the captain and crew; some getting curios picked up in dis- tant. ports, with information as to how they were grown or made.