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CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1954.

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NEW ORLEANS' UNIQUE

INTERNATIONAL

MART

New Orleans.

The flags of 60 nations fly from a white, modernistic building in New Orleans that is the hub of world-wide trade activities in such diverse products as fragile pottery, billiard balls and bulldozers.

The building is the International Trade Mart, a unique, non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of two-way trade between the rich Mississippi Valley area of the United States and the rest of the world through the port of New Orleans.

Business Is Good For

Tattoo

Removers

Melbourne.

Tattooing in going out of fashion here and business was never better for the skilled tattoo remover.

The Sea Is His Third Home

Montreal.

The trade representatives of 111 nations have offices in the five-story structure, and pro- duets of at least 20 nations and the 48 states of this country on display in showrooms along the polished corridors,

A tou of 700 stockholders, Futting from school teachers to businessmeer,

$1.5 invested million in the trade mart that hotuse: importers, exporters. forwarding

Menmship Asteti

and foreign

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a new French method times, Use of For the painless removal of tattoos has become so popular

that

grand- two Melbourne mothers, each with an anklel of swallows, have decided to part with their tattoo-marks, The neth? is painless and leaves no

BOWL.

It opened fr business in 1948, them was the first country to locate its trade misdon in the marl. Sinus then, Holland, Italy, West Germany. France, Canada, Great Britain,

A leading physiotherapist ex-Switzerlatul, plained that the method he uses Japan, Cuba and the Philippine: to remove tattoo freezes themoved in to boost their imports area around the mark This to the United States And boost causes an irritation beneath the them they did. skin which rises, bringing out the tattoo pigment. Within week or two the skin heals anil

tation

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is

gone.

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the most part.

The sea is a sort of third home for dapper business man Sydney Jarvis of Red- dich, England, who arrived physiotherapist declined to give here recently after

comis name on the ground of pro- did not. for pleting his 117th crossing of fessional ethles. Ho explained

the anti-tattoo trend with the ocean.

terse, "Men don't like them on women. And wonen don't like

"The Atlantic is part of me," he said as he walked unerringly to his cabin on the Empress of Scotland without guidance from a sloward, "I have travelled on every big liner that has sailed to Canadà in the last 35 years."

then on men,"

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323% INCREASE Imports through the port of Francisco

penetrate the market areas of the cenrtal United States. It was In on this great potential market An urea that was rapidly be coming more industrialised that promotors of the trade mart sold foreign countries.

ti.s

Many of the people who call

Belgium to have their tattoos removed

for instance, im- chyly reveal that the "Gorgeous -ted 33.000 tons through New

Orleans

In 1947. In 1951. Grace" or "Big Jim" have to como off because the hubby or pioneer member of the mart had The shipmates, the stewards wife, as the case may be, want increased its Imports to 108,000 and many of the deckhands are no former attachments around tons, old friends of mine," he said. In tattoos.

From 1940 to 1952, the Ave "We mot in the hectic days after

The

physiotherapist blumes European countries of Belgium, and the First World War, in 1919,

American servicemen, nearly Holland, Italy, Germany when the big rush of troops and

2,000,000 of whom visited Aus- France Increased their volume war brides from Europe was on.

trullo during the course of of imports by 323 per cent. Then there was the carefree World War 11, for Melbourne's

That represents an increase of eru of the twenties, and the tattooed women. clazaifled 360,000 tons per year, with the

He empty decks of the depression

the average ship leaving 2,000 tons of the designs on most

The years and the uneasy days before

service cost on wonen as "American", explain of cargo. the war."

19 ship run to different cach

estimated at Jarvis still

four ng tattoo styles run overages

The latter reaps the different countries. $100,000. crossings or two return trips designs in

Furtherere,

e he

added, most of part of New Orleans a fot $20 between Britain and

The women

to him milion year. who come Canadu. He suid he usually

were between 15 and 20 years) comes over in February and

the "Yanks" the fine August, and each time travek plat

were here.-Unit Press, the length and breadth contient Jorvis repicent

British

year

Jittiesbor

ing Arms.

Crossings

twenties.

11

of the

matulantur.

memorable!

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The i Were du ing On

the ship crashed into an lesberg and just to reach St John's.

nut Now! other an undersen tremor threw up such rough seas that no one could walk the decks or pass ages of the ship.-United Press.

EXPERIMENT IN NEW VACCINES

Tokyo.

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Anyhow, It's Fishy

Ottawu.

This is either a fishy fox story

or a foxy fish story.

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The trade mart, of course, is only one factor in the large in crease of trade through New Orleans, Stoce its establishment here,

been there estimated billion dollars worth of new Industry locating in Louisiana Industrialisation has come south in a big way since the lust World War.

And st another factor W05 establishment of íl free trade zone in New Orleans in

1947,

CENTRALISATION

He

The

World

General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, former president of the Dominican Republic, now in Spain as a guest of the Spanish Government, attends military manoeuvres at the Carabanchel Camp, Madrid, accompanied by General Franco and Chiefs of Staff of the Spanish Army. American war material, which recently arrived in Spain under the new military agreement between the US and Spain, were used in the manoeuvres-London Express.

Four Grounds For Protest

Oppama, Japan, Residents of this small city are up in arms over construction nearby of = U'S 'Air Force helicopter base.

They complain: 1–The noise will koep thelr 2-They children awake. won't be able to hear their radio programmes.

The city will be crowded with bars and cabarcia. 4-There will be a flood of prostitutes.

Merchants, however, are campaigning in favour of the base-United Press.

Santa Claus

Moving His

HQ

Percy Headları, a conserva- tton offer here, reported

The uniqueness of the trade recently saw a fox fishing on smart les in its centralisation. stream a few miles south of the For the buyer, it represents a capital. He said he saw the vast information service.

Bracebridge, Ontario. a flooded has at his fingertips, once inside fox on a big rock in

mart comparative prices creek-the rock wasn't too far the

Santa Claus is moving from one of the banks and the asked by foreign manufacturers his headquarters from the fox was leaping back and forth marketing product and the how A Tokyo research centre has

and all around the rock.

and where of buying and chip- North Pole to a new village anti- prepared three kinds of

"He would grab a sucker in ping. If he does not like what being built for him in one dysentery vaccine and plans to his mouth, crunch it and lay it

is offered

him by West Ger- of the most beautiful spots In experiments on then

in the rock."

he can walk a few steps of the Muskoka district. sald Headlam. many "I saw him catch four fish this to the Italfan trade represent- 150,000 per scenes, which are way

Santa's village will be com- atives, or vice-versa. the dysentery

Office space can only be rent-pleted next spring, and residents Then I started my car and as 012 60,000 I moved closer the fox grabbon

tourist attraction for thousands who, in one way or another, persons last year with no one big sucker in his mouth and the trade mart by those expect it to be a tremendous

took off."-United Press. eitects.-United Press.

have a stake in world trade. of children and their parente

in the mart is 99 The space

from May to December each year. per cent rented, and there is n long waiting list. Its managing Besides Santa's home,

include toy director, Clay Shaw, hints that headquarters will the jam may result in an ex-workshops, stores, a post office, pansion sometime in the future. church, village square and other

art attractions. Santa is also bring The cost of the trade building will be paid offing his reindeer and dozens of elves to make the toys and dolls. through office rental over 2 The Bred surrounding the

The new

derived virus,

from

used were

SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith

tar wants us to learn some wouldn't it be a good idea to

The

READING AID FOR CRIPPLES

Edmonton.

Jet Pilots Given Tough Training