Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1921, Page 26

JOHN C. RAU | 524 12th Street N.W.—Telephone Franklin 5457 Electric Light Wiring Electric Light Fixtures 28th Anniversary—33d Year at the Trade Six Rooms, 2 Halls and Bath Also 2 Cellar Lights for $34.50 '$10.00 Standard Make Electric Irons. .. ..$6.00 $7.50 Electric Iron . 1 Personally Guarantee All Irons I Sell The above fixtures are first quality, and arc greatly admired by all who see them. Prompt service. qumdutwn ol chuauud German Propcrty in France By Order of the President of the French Civil Court of the Department of the Seine THE VERY IMPORTANT Manufactory of Automobile Tires ‘Well known as Societe Anonyme 6§ ° 9y TYRE, Wellknownas Socrie anomme “Continental ( LTD. ') Will be sold by Public Auction at the Palais de Justice of Paris on Tuesday, June 28, 1921, at 2 p.m. . Reduced Set-Up Price, 7,000,000 Francs Cash deposit required for bidding: 350,000 francs The sale comprises various rubber supplies, Important Machinery and Materials for the manufacture of solid rubber tires and tubes, as well as the | ARGE FACTORY !ocated 104 to 112 Quai de Clichy at Clichy (Seine)—onm the outskirts of Paris—occuping a total area of 19.250 square meters (acres: 4.75) of which 7.500 square meters (acres: 1.35) are covered by buildingn.’ With Immediate Vacant Possession For information apply to Mr. Legrand. Liquidator. 9 Rue de la Banque. Paris, or to Chicago Tribume Office, 512 5th Ave., New York City. FOR BATHING AND MASSAGE lu l real pleasure to got a rub-down with fi i invigorating and RUB is a pure product com- :fi softening and curative agents that m-ho it ideal for the shin. B has none of the irritating, drying, burn- ing effects on the skin that ordinary medicated alcobol has. . Jtis pon-poisonous but non-drinkable. it after b-tl'nng and for massag WGnddfill for Ideal for mvnlxda. convalescents and eldetly people. Deodorant fix perspiration. Approced by Phguiciens, Nurses and Pharmacists. b At all druggists and toilet counters. H Full Pint $1.00 &1 U. S. INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL CO. i Lavgest Produser in the Werld : New Yoek City {Low Summer| | Tourist Fares|; from Washington 75 to Deywer, Colorado Springs, = Pueblo and return. 'l 1025 to Rocky Mountain National (Estes) Park and return. 3. 120 15 to West Yellowstone ( Yellowstone *156 m Mowmeaia Nesont, small addi- San Francisco and Los Angeles National Park) and return. to s 15675 and return. One way via %l:ha, Ogden, SR eea s ENERs LI ARERs AR Pa s nnEr PN Four and one-half days’ motor trip, within the Salt Lake City, ver. B o e s Detvrer o Bocky Mountaia iver Natioaal (Bstes) Pask $1050. 95 to Portland, Tacoma, Seattle o andnmm. v:mmmnu along the Scenic K 17835 Circait Tour of the West. union r— Pndficw?uflhnd. nil‘:o::e:muta im“:r':: W— Au*lmd&kl‘hag‘mmmbeu- Side trips to Yellowstone and Parks at " All these fares include Colorado Springs without additional Yellowstone tickets on sale June 1 to gé)uLpomB June 1 to September- 30. Low homeseekers’ fares, good 21 days, first and third Tuesdays of each month to certain points in Uuh.ldlho.Mmun.Orqmndehmm Tenuwmmmtm.om-evmwmkndmiydnm Ask . L. Feakins, General Agent rmmm.mmummu..mhulwsu o g mvmsq _Pag ember 10. To all inal return limit TSN RPN e ORI a e baan Tieere ‘| been the tmprovement in the leather THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY, MAY 16, 1921. IS REPORTED |Building Situation Continues Very Un- satisfactory—Labor Growing Factor. Situation Elsewhere. (Dispatches marking the progress of the defintion and readinstment process in ness throuzhout the country, giving the conclusions of mpecial correapondents, who have been mtructed to prerent conditions and dications an they really cxiat, are! ed dally in The Ktar.) BY EDSON B. SMITH. 8pecial Dispatch to The Sta BOSTON, May 16.—The improve- {f | ment 1n business tn New England !s | ¢ | painfully slow. but, none the less, there is some improvement. The principal feature of the moment has market. Hides have had a sharp advance, and it has developed that the supply Is not nearly as large had been supposed. Stocks of leather on hand are so plentiful, however, that the prices of staple goods have not moved up in proportion to the hide market. Even at present improved quota- tions leather is still selling for less than its replacement value based on present hide prices. Textile Trade Improves. improvement in the textile continues. The (onsolidated tile mills, the former Knight prop- s “Fruit of the The trade Te erties whose spe Loom" cotton nM out for | some weeks ahe A Man-) ufacturing , Company, maker of cot- ton blanke and seyerai well known | brands of cotton cioth, has resum-d acity operations. In the wool sec- tion of the industry the American Woolen Company is running close tog pacity. shoe business is dull, with opera- 0 per cent of normal tion is the governing | orkers in Brockion | Here the labor factor. Shoe district have not accep a cut_in wages, and as a result costs have not} fallen anywhere near proportionately to the drop in leather. Rents Very High. | The building situation is very unsat- isfactory. Rents are very high, with no prospect of coming down in the near future. This makes the cost of living high and prevents labor from being willing to accept wage reductions. Ac- tual new building in April in the New England territors was valued at §i.- 160,000, compared with 00,000 in | March: The builders are trying to run an open shop with but indifferent su A large proportion of the skilled me are still out on’strike which has lasted since January. The printing trades and the clothing makers are still on strike. The man who patronizes a tailor in Boston Is likely to find that his suit is made in Fitchburg or some neighboring city. Business on Pacific Coast | Special Dispatch to The Star. SAN FRANCISCO, May 16.—Re- gardless of the conflicting claims of the shipowners and the marine unions | as to the progress of the shipping ! struggle the strike has seriously inter- CURB STOCKS. Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibhs & Co. American_Candy Atlantic Petroleum itig Heart . Big Ledge . Boston and Wy Cousolidated " Copper Cresson Gold Davis-Daly Dominion 0il ... Goldwyn Pictures Guffey Gilleapie Granada Ol Hecla . L3 ¥ EPTtoe P J0) PR 3 wnBsE FFEE Omar 0il (new). Penuok Ofl | bertection’ Tire ol 3 s ife International snopal Divide |‘l‘onoylb Extension Laited Eastern izht and I Cight and H Profit Vaited U. S. Wright_Aero [ OHICAGO— Armonr Leather com. 12% 12y Armour Leather ptd % o0 i Ay 50 oY% n 293, Tnion Carbic o IMPROVEMENT IN NEW ENGLAND |Washington Stock Exchange Capital Traction— R AFTER CALL. Washineton Railway 4581000 at &1, £1,000 At BLSLOW At 61 EL000 At 0L 81,000 ai' Gl £1,000 at’61, $1,000 at 61, $1.000 at 61, Wanitingion Gas THs S1000 8t 10115, Bid and Asked Prices BONDS PUBLIC UTILITIES, . PAINFULLY SLOW | Amertcan A Anacostia and Potomae O Anacostin and Potomae fered Tacifle | of San $45.000.000 | This ' tut & loss und cdly 18| w suspersion of ship- | w sels are tled up ¢ are running oxeept | Wisi | with Tho business on banl the o Gas Tin.. y. and Elee, " and Elec. M here. In fact, those under fors There has bee g of the prune weeks, pa ded strengthen- ix arket in the past few | WV tly due to the renowal of for- | and. A shipment of 600 to om one of tho warehouses of This ship- ment, whic The growing Tess than estimates ind: cated. Shipments rop prom! to be o | Washington Rwy. { Wasnington | e | Wash -V 29 e. com wy. and Llec. prd. Cherrie to be plenti and prices used Ly wil American 1 trict was shipped fruit if of hi from the i to move "Ln!‘rvm\ bxered Half of Texas Re10|clng X Over Rains; Others Dejected | BY JAMES R. RECORD. ~cinl Dispatel to The Star, ORT WORTH, Tex.. May 16.—A Week ago Texas farmers, bankors merchants were beginnine s of worr t day half of th . o is complaining of too much tions of the hlack land cotion BT e have been unable to plant he- = the rains; elsewhere the | rotted in the ground, and will be ne ry | bottom districts are | Washinkton Sarket 10U T T ©0 much rain, but in | ularly in the grain | the r: Yy urday race of the season suffering generally: | t and T wi FOREIGN TRADE NOTES. vity on the part ints in inviting Wican trade is reported the | o the Kighteen American companies and will { two British and Datch com| s ex- roleum from Tampico dur- Wheat Looking Good. American_ com- Prospects for and vats ha cent rains so0d yield of wh heen improved of the en 1,748 foreign companies. H H H ing fair y = Hit Hard by Ship Strike |.2x, Bt 500 | American machine works and_eleo- ‘N P v. damage to bo: Aieiiton it el cering and shipbuilding BY LYNN R. SIMPSON. cut worms andiconon ron| have opened headquarters S and are planning to keep technical men at the offices. ng harve been cut 560 imated, and the | s been i Declared exports from the Brad- . consular district to dur g March to- $4.622 , as agai About 67 «{at th 1821, shipm ! raw wool and semi-manufactures of [ tion of wat posits in their vaults, or employ them in Pcruvian investments and loans. “Some Crop Da the <es in some South African im- < are contemplated, including | 6 pence a pound | hilling a pound on | In north Texas sustained some da as it ) Potato movement out of east Texas has started with the shipment of sevin cae as fruit erc RN Tnere; port du one of on cigar: The production of camphor in Taiwan during the year ended March 31 last will d that of the preceding ~000 pounds, the total being placed 00 pound: bringing 3250 per crate, a s o price, though reduced, to the produc: The general peach movement will not be under way to the north and east until June 1 ANNOUNCEMENT MR. ROBERT MURPHY, Recently Field Secretary for the Masonic Mutual Life ASsociation, D. C., announces to his friends and the public that he has been appointed SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE Of the NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF BOSTON, MASS. America’s Oldest Company—Chartered 1835 Life Insurance for Individuals, Partnerships, Corporations and Salaried Women. D. FULTON HARRIS, General Agent 206-207 Colorado Building. Telephone Fk. 57 29] FOREIGN BONDS, Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co. German gov. 4s. German gov. 5y Krupp 4x. ... Rad. Aniline Vienna 4n. Vienna Vienna 5s. French Frankfurt 4s. Frankfurt 5s Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg 48 Hambuorg 4%s... Koenigsberg 48, Lelpzig 4% Teipzig & Munich FOREIGN EXCHANGE. .Quotations furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Ce. Belling checks: Dollur values at noon today. Budapest Stockholm Amsterdam Belzrade Montrea] . 00 i barrels | Peruvian government decree, | ofiaaien | By A So v apples | ational and foreign banksare obliged | ot pent fy maintain their capital and all de- leads. Prices ranged from £1.75 to $1.9 e per bushel From Galveston comes the | AR | announcement that the great grain | movement has st 1d’ that ship- > ments in April of ere four| The minister of agriculture at Prague times as great ot the purchase of 3,000 car- ever, this may b drrupfed now t loads of phosphate from the United s D tloe sttical isia necting icnatiistatesitoNicoveriitie fineds Rotithefitall The first crates of p es appeared ‘ L Vi on the - Texas market TOC o1 | New York o Py Distant Acquaintance. Quotaticns farnished by W. B. TWiis & Co From the American Teglon Weekly. i Handle that horsa! Don't let him Anglo-American 0il Co. (new).. 19% you'" bellowed the Atlantic Refining 0. Borne-Serymser (' Ruckeye Pipe Line ¢ Cleseborough M Continental 01 Co. 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