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ERT i a i a are DATONG (Hid MAIR Solon IRR Sn THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1949 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE NINE Car Industry Sees Buyers' Market Soon New York, Jan. 6--Thé automo- tive industry will be marked by many changes in 1949, but chiefly lowest-price cars and a decrease in the public's ability to y. up defence program, then steel dis- tribution will be channelled from pean and Asiatic economies, then the same situation will occur. But, of 1949 should outstrip new purchases. Industry Worried Smmediately following the war, the automotive industry estimated Him Inspecting Atomic Energy Rival Union May Spring From Talks London, Jan. 6-(Reuters)--Talks between British and United States trade union leaders beginning here the next two weeks may prove the first step towards forming a new Trade Union International in com- petition with the World Federation of Trades Unions. Only representatives of the Bri- tish Trades Union Congress and the American Congress of Industrial Organizations will attend the first meetings. Their is described as an exchange views on the future of the WIF.T.U. r= tory to the next meeting the fetleration executive Jan. 17. The T.U.C. must decide before the end of the month whether to implement its resolve to leave the WPT.U. if the latter refuses to suspend its activities. It is general ly believed here that a decision to cut adrift will be followed quickly by a move to establish a new, rival organization, One of the two great United States organizations, the American Federation of Labor, been pressing for a new international for a long time, It is taken for granted here that any new organization would em- brace the British, Commonwealth, American and Western European trade union movements, leaving the Eastern European countries to maintain the WJF.T.U. in name, though it would lose its inter- national character. Edinburgh Festival Finished With Loss Edinburgh--(CP» -- Edinburgh's second annual Festival of . Music and Drama last summer lost about £11,000 ($44,000), a little more than half the loss incurred in 1947, the first year. The Festival Society was launched in 1847 with $60,000. Thanks to grants it still has funds totalling about £56,000, as losses have largely been offset by new grants. The 1949 program is already well in hand. Three British orchestras and the Orchestre de la Suisse Ro- mande have been engaged. The Duesseldorf Theatre Company will present Goethe's "Faust" and the Glyndebourne Opera Verdi's "Mask- : = and Mozart's "Cosi fan Times-Gazette Classified Ads Get Good Results. DIRECT FACTORY BRANCH aS hua 4 FURS 70 KING EAST FACTORY WEARER TO that 15,000,000 vehicles would satis- Allowing newsmen to visit the new atomic pile, now in operation in France, Mme. Irene JoHet-Curie (top) operates the controls at the com- kshot prediction, mand 3 Sistivn, Yith her 8 Francis Perri n. At Jotiom, her husband, rector of France's Economic Commission, explains the "gamma ray" ranging from the original one, to meter to reporters who were taken on a tour of the project. The oie 20,000,000 made recently. The latest | estimate was made an official of | "Oak Ridge" is located just outside of Paris. Central Press Canadian. . RS LAL BOYER Tee. TE 6B me i one of the world's greatest car pro- ducers. All predicticns to date have been "for publication." Actually, the industry is very much worried about the market, and justly so. Indication of the industry's recog- nition of a buyers' market late in 1049 comes from two different sources. In a recent interview, Joseph W. Frazer, president of Kaiser-Frazer Corp., disclosed that his company's plans for a lower- priced car had reached a point where production would begin in late 1949 or early 1950. This would come at a time when demand should be greatest for a moderately priced vehicle. Although Mr. Fraz- er did not, in any way, state that this was the reason for time of the car's market date, it is reasonable to assume that K-F's appraisal of the market indicated a buyers' mar- ket at that time. The other source was E. C. Quinn, general sales man- ager; Dodge division, Chrysler Corp., who stated at various times in 1948 that a buyers' market would be forthcoming at the end of 1949, Orders Petered Out New models will add to the gen- eral state of car-maker WoITy. Priced well above last year's, and representing large capital invest- - ment, they will follow the same sales pattern set late in 1948, when * forerunners of new models were in- troduced. 'When first placed on the market, ' order flurries stimulated producers, but orders have now petered out for all but lowest-pric- ed cars. Initial new car orders will font im SBE will J e, depend on government spending. "New | prices, will remain at high levels for most of the 7 idual company- reaction & buyers' market, at first, will be intensive advertising program. 1 to stimulate business, then price reduction may occur. t is more likely to occur is that production emphadls will be shifted from deluxe to standard models. But if car makers cut prices, they will be following the pattern of in- dustries already in an advanced stage of "readjusting." A buyers' market as applied to the automotive industry, will mean at worst, that sales will fall only slightly below production and that consumers will not have to pay pre- miums. It will mean selling effort for the first time in eight years, but . the thought will hurt much more than the actual fact. Illegal Tobacco . Sold in Durban Durban--(CP)--Police here say large-scale smuggling of dagga (marthuana) into Johannesburg is carried on by a number of motorists who travel regularly from Durban to the Rand. : The smugglers advertise for pas- sengers and charge $24 for a return trip, but the real profit is made from a load of dagga. Before the passengers are pick- ed up, the cars are taken to an Indian shop in Durban, The driver leaves the car and when he returns jve cases have been strapped to After dropping the passengers in Johannesburg, the driver parks the -arranged spot, and of $400 in notes tied to the steering wheel and the cases of dagga have been removed. The cases each hold about 80 pounds, valued at $760 in Johannes- burg. In Durban the weed is sold at $4 a pound by retailers, and is bought from native growers at $60 for a 50-pound bag. : "HICKIES' ON YOUR SKIN Qot great relief from ples, rashes, eczema, blackheads with scientifically medicated Cuticura Sosp and Oin | Visited and OINTMENT: Special Camps Hold Belgian Collaborators By ERIC KENNEDY Brussels -- (Reuters) -- Judicial officials are today, four years after the liberation, reviewing with sat- isfaction the outcome of one of the biggest tasks they have ever under- taken. The task involved the rounding- up, imprisonment and re-education of those delinquent Belgians who, in varying degfee, collaborated during the war. With Belgian prison accommoda- tion designed to house an average of 4,500 internees prison officials had to take charge of 60,000 of these "special class" criminals known as "inciviques." Municipal authorities, the gen- darmerie and "civil affairs" sec- tions of the Allied liberation arm- ies were asked to help with the guarding this vast army. Biggest headache of all arose out of the psychological problems in- volved. It was considered bad policy to leave inciviques inactive for two reasons. Gathered together in idle- ness they would carry on seditious discussion and if Belgium was to achieve recovery, it was impossible to deprive the nation of such a large labor force. The collaborators could have been put to work in the various work- shops and factories set up in Bel- glan prisons long before the war; but it was considered undesirable that they should mix with ordinary criminals. Achille Van Acker, Belgian prime minister, in 1945, launched a cam- paign to step up the production of coal in Belgium, which was the first stage towards national economic recovery. It was decided to put cer- tain classes of the collaborators to work in the mines. There was no question of slave labor. The inciviques were paid $2.20 a day which they were allow- ed to allot to their dependents whose maintenance would other- wise have been thrown entirely upon public relief. In nine months of 1946 collabora- tors mined 1,603,000 tons of coal. In 1947, they produced 718,000 tons, or sufficient to maintain the electri- city supply for the whole of Bel- glum for two months. Other labor squads were organ- ized to assist in the reconstruction of the mations communications. Collaborators initially constituted the whole of the manpower used to bring the country's airports back into working order, and thousands of them were put to work in patch- ing up Belgium's railroad system. Some inciviques were employed to help demolish the stretch of Hit ler's "Atlantic Wall" which lay along the Belgian coast. Many of the collaborators had helped to bujld these defences. . The morale and conduct of the internees rose while working and most of the shorter-term prisoners have been granted conditional re- lease, rom 0. in 1945, the total num! etainees has dropped to 17,000. The majority of the inclviques still in custody are housed in a specially constructed camp at Bourg-Leopold, in Belgium's Lim. bourg Province. PROTECT Your CREDIT RECORD PAY ACCOUNTS PROMPTLY CENTRAL P-X410) CRER EXC dA NC N with German occupation forces | huge task of housing, feeding and | vv AL3dVS MARTENS FURS .SLASHES PRICES Ce A la ALL-TIME L ~-@ For Highest Quality e Latest Fashion FURS! | Marten's Furs as a direct manufacturer-to-wearer " branch saves you the middleman's profit at all times - NOW at stock-taking time we have slashed prices to the bone and an ALL-TIME LOW! EVERY SINGLE FUR COAT IN STOCK IS REDUCED FOR THIS SALE... IN MANY CASES LESS THAN HALF REGULAR PRICE! Every Single Coat in this Sale is Guaranteed Regular Stock. All are Late Models, Full Lengths, Full Flared! 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