Lower Fur Prices
In Forecast
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WASHINGTON. (/P)—Albert M.
Day, director of the fish and wild
life service, caut.ously predicted
today a decline in the price of lur!
coats in the not-too-distant future.
At recent sales, mink pelts sold
for 25 per cent less than last year’s
prices, and American-processed
^Pribilof sealskins sold for an av
erage of $46.64 each, compa ,e..l
b with an $80.28 average last Sep
tember.
Day told a reporter that due to
the price lag between wholesale
and retail markets, it might take
a little time for these lower prices
to be reflected in fur-coat costs.
Day added that the importation
of cheaper skins—rabbit, badger,
marten, weasel—from Manchuria
and other countries has been re
sumed. and eventually may help!
to bring down the prices of the
^jnore luxurious furs.
Then too, there’s consumer re
sistance to high prices and inabil
ity of women nowadays to afford 1
the fur coats they bought so freely
when they worked in airplane and
munitions factories.
“My wife had her heart set on ;
an Alaska sealskin, but I advised
bher not to buy it,” Day confessed.
“Why? It costs too danged
much.”
lost control of him and in less than
one year he has committed three
acts, each one of which consti-!
tutes a felony?” That is a pertin-1
ent and baffling question.
British Pension Minister Visits Paraplegic Ward
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Sir Wilfred Paling (left), Minister of Pensions for Great Britain, watches a para
plegic patient's exercises to regain use of his legs during a recent visit to the
Veterans Administration Hospital at Richmond, Va. Those in the picture,
from left to right, are: the British Pension Minister, Hospital Manager Edmund
M. Ellerson and L. Isetti.
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Private—Because my pants
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i Sarge—What’s wrong with ’em?
Private—I sent them to the
tailor three times to be cut off and
they’re still too short.
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