Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1921, Page 20

7, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (., TUESDAY, JUNE 1921. their stay will|move the new wheat crop continues |®mpared with 1920, according to BO’I’H MERCHANT AND BUYER g“l‘:‘l’;'lh!:!aorel::t ‘;'rnr'.mr b and the supply in the central west|A S. Franklin: president of the merchants are handling a volume of business thag compares very favor- 8bly with tRat of & year ago. Thirty-three planing mills, which were closed June 1 by a strike, have no new taxes and no changes in ex- isting rates of duty. apart from re- duction in the taxes on sparkling wine and imported cigars. FOREIGN TRADE NOTES. S The total declared exports from “¥Havwre to the United States during the Orst quarter of this year were MINNEAPOLIS, June 7.—The flour Pany. This is due. Mr. Frank trade has continued dull for the past |10day, 1o the shrinkage will be increased from now on ternational Mereantile Marine Commodity News % v vi " ir traffic all ovel the worl % 1 T o résumed operations. The strike fol- . week, dealers buying only for their 2 : vorl v'ilz"n“u 306,008 yau‘.-laléwt‘:.ec;fgflfx‘: =y lowed a 25 per cent wage reduction. From Many Sections |immediate needs. Millers are not i iae f;;lsmmrf Snh voyames Mloe quarter and 33,656,000 for the first| EXPOTt8 to Australia during April Many of the old workers returned, looking for any immediate improve- |10 ¥ st oof 1 # uneter aivie b 2 of $9,622.000 show a substantial gain employers say, and places of others Steel ment. over the March figures, which were $7.825,000. CHICAGO, June 7.—Although rail- roads must buy steel for repair pur- poses in liberal quantities in the near future, few orders have as yet been placed. A cut of $5 per ton Latter Follows Hand-to-Mouth Policy in ;v ben fiida trom nearny vointe k 88 to wuge scales in the building New York, Which Has Correspondmg England, Canada, Argentina, Japan and Australia wers the largest buy- ers of the naval stores exported from this country last year. Exports in- <luded 1,164,328 barrels of resin and ¥urniture. FORT WORTH, Tex.. June 7.— vival in the furniture trade ha: noted by merchan Ordere” for Austrian steel are on hand sufficient to Insure operation for some time, according to a report trades. Union leaders say many men have returned to work under the terms of lust year's scales which ex- [in wire nails has failed to stimulate n the s = 7 " ith pri 3 2,458,423 gallons of turpentine. from Vienna. Part of the production . pired June 1. buying. - o] s (= — is going to Jugoslavia, taly, China 1 Oth S Employers have opened an em-!| {(GUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 7. |d¢r those > B0 Eales; ow j % 2 TRe new British budget proposes and South America. ect on olesaler— er -PDections. ployment agency and Geclare they are | s Yoy TRWN. | Oic. | June T |iver have been greater in volume for |Ix under constru securing many men on open-shob | foreign tunnuges of shects and bars, [{he lust month than during the cor- | URICh SECOTTE w terms. The steel business {8 at 10W ! hjefly from Germany. have been | €SPonding perl it !ships as against BY JAMES ALLERTON. market on normal schedule, | €bb With little improvement expected in New York at $34 a ton v 2 nearly oo e LL |and most of it 1s going direct to|before autumn. Op earth bars are quoted in the othing. NEW YORK i 1 TE YO Special Dispatch to The 8tar. ! pyilding operations. Leather is steady, £ 2 ango valley at $35. BOSTON. June 7--Two large cloth- | that the en B N it O et paia L med excti NFW YORK, June 7.—Conditions falthough —shoe manutucturers are |Influx of Tourists Aids i ing munufacturers, including. Crowna and Bridge Work without the least pain. I mean are progressing slowly but steadily |not purchasing beyond immediate Al a s A ey 4 Shoes. NORTH ADAMS, Tron and steel mar- requirements. but trading agrecment with the Amalgamated |tra kets lack Armness, that also. All T ask is an opportunity to extract or fill ¥ Clothing Union and resumed opera- one tooth for you. and I pesitively will convince you that toward a stronger Lusiness basis. I Business in Twin Cities ikt Sl i g ds cenctly ns we say! Merchants are moving cautiously, but | jides hias shoswn & favorable demand BY L. S. McKENNA. Employes of two large shoe manu- | tions 48 closed shops. About twenty |conjunction with the Nationa' H i mt te ‘res. their attitude has in it more of con-|and some advance in quotations. 5 = facturers, Wall, Streeter & Doyle and | other clothizy; manufacturers still re- ! ware Association of the United S Slegtrically cooled eliced>Slasnlitens s’ eme: of owe fidence for a declsive turn for the Special Distjteh to The Star. the Weber Bros. Company, are con- | fuse to r.cognize the union and are started today & camnaign for re A e | Mwat e witis el nand- | Depression Is Noted in . PAUL. Minn. June 7.—The little gidaring today a request of their | operating open shops. Prices arc|iion of hotel rates throughout i semblance oCivats. e er) B“"“"“ &9 ‘?““"’":"_““: -|vep {improvement noted in business con- « that they accept a de-|still nigh. particularly in made-to- The associat ciare the alag U Clock. asd on Ban- to-mouth buying policy, and this has | i e i B e e e Wing and doye Toem tedp.m Lady aad malis in sitendasos. had u corresponding effect on Whole- Steel and Coal TOW"S; litions 1n the Twin Ci ";_ e a al of the manufacturers sug- saving of expense ig the best ‘work Fully Guartateed for 20 Years. Kindly keep . con i B N iy week wus brought about by the H % riew ware mgroemen Con. increase profils. Salesmen, Bame and lecation of eur efice in your misd. sale markets Unemployment still is | BY H. B. LAUFFMAN. e Lo aa IS e R RIS il - A @ maclad factor fn theysiguatlon tmy S0 1 Lo i s o the house marketing campaizn con- S¢ “‘\afl(’:r;..'.fi-;'v}'f?: 1 Thelwage | 35 thespreaen My pert 2 this section. Arthur Williams, head | "0 oo 108 o fitisburgh's |ducted by jobbers “""“:.,hc'":’;fl*::l June 7.—The New England of the anthracite field. now | & o "{.-m"mx};:\s ‘;.r::d(:?::urm\h' effects Suetiomy Eeet Gold_Crowns of 4 bureau for placing former serv 43 The unemployment probiem Pt PR R Rl e sl ry and E Fillings, 30¢ D kics and atmosphe i i A WiIl Not S1ip e7) (g1 up Ingoldjand Bridge ice men, declared today that unem 2 those PADRS {solved in some measure mext monih with labor costs still at|ing the pre-war period. according to ry Dres - W silver,amalgam|Work, ployment was more serious than ever come, s I ative of di- a result of t ul \‘_”h*”-'; war . It is believed inevitable | 5 official of the Delaware and Hud- CHESTER. Pa. June T —Orders havr °‘"." -— or porcelain. |85 per Tooth. before, with no industrial jobs avai inished manufratwring, Depression {the it horthern that both Wages and prices will come | son Coal Compiny That is, the rates || B B e e T Teet up. able especially noted in nearby steel |2 anprox'a| down. of pay now reauire the expenditure AL S R e 427-429 7th St. N.W. | Warmer Weather Alds T and coal towns. Tt is asserted that M of $239 for each dollar expended in | MOtive Company for Ty 1oco = » IN-VVo ! Warmer weather put more life into | many steel workers and miners, who ! S 1914 will use the new enzih | business in the textile, shoe and ap- | last vear were enjoving lurec In-f SAN FRAN June 7.——Hard- S | ernment operated lines 2 | industries. Dry goods prices | oW dreisceking GrouLaC (he | ware dealers complain their business Silk. Rio Grande. Work It is an outstanding fact, June T.—The expected to keep the L ¢ holding steady, with print cloths thousand five hundreu has suffered severely the last month | PATERSON., N J. ite Lansburgh & Bro. and over Grand nion Tea Co. Largest and Most Thorough- g Equipped Parlors in Washington. Fbous ] l#L a slight advance over last week. cver that while the industiics ar¢ | “gnotner indication of the tendency | fhfough the dumping on the market | spurt in the manufacture of hatbands | of the Baldwin company ' Brick is moving out of the wholesale far below normal, the larger CitY iof japor toward acceptance of Wage ¢ \arge quantities of used tools and | here is about over and union leaders | gome time to come reductions was found in the decision |y, pjements from closed shipyards and | declare that only about 20 per cent —_—————— of the ribbon weavers are at work One factor declared that he had at present ahout 47 per cent of his looms in operation. of ome thousand i Washburn Crosby !a flat cut of one dolia {first_wage cut in the icompuny. so officials s Merchants from the iwho came to the Twin Automobile Pricesl: = Tumbling Down! Greatest ‘Used Car Slaughter | Held airplane plants. High prices also i have restricted operations. | PARIS BOURSE IRREGULAR PARIS, June 7.—Prices were irreg {lar on the houree “today: Three rs: cent rentes, §7 francs t change on London, times Grain. CHICAGO, June 7.—The crest of the : | heavy movement of corn to tcrminal markets from the middle west is ex- ! pected to be reached this weel of cars in the southwest Notes. YORK, June 7 Net earnings edged among motorists and dealers aliks as the world's foremost example of Cord tirebuilding. Alwaysdelivering the same repeated economy, tire after tire, and season after season. The stripe around the side-walls is registered as a trade- mark in the U. §. Patent Office. % Ez_ze;r EWashington DISCRIMINATING BUYERS KNOW VALUES WHEN THEY SEE T HEM' 64 In April we announced a Slaughter Sale of Used Automo- biles, and the fact that since that time 64 cars have been sold surely verifies our statement that all of these cars are being sold at very much under the market. While there are but 23 cars remaining unsold, every one of “ them, whether a Roadster, Touring Car,Coupe or Sedan, is a genuine bargain and is not the usual riff-raff that one ex- pects to find in a used car stock. 10 discounts befuddle no one except the man who talks them OST of the retail mand. Quality. Square- successes that we dealing. Stable policy. deliversinexcessof what are proudest of in this All these count of ischarged for it. country have been built course. But of greater . Big Now About the Cars Themselves I . All Standard Cars In the lot will be found Overlands, Westcotts, Chalmers, Haynes, Oaklands, Auburns, Willys- Knights and many others. Nearly all have been thoroughly overhauled; some have been repaint- ed, while others will be sold just as they are, in Here’s a Corker Be sure and see this Model 90 Overland Tour- ing. It is in excellent shape and we can sell it on terms of $32 a month. 7/ thatmore often than not some cases as low as $85. Look at This One - Just that you may know what these bargains really amount to—how would you like a Willys- Knight Coupe, good tires, mechanically perfect and repainted, at $775, on Plan? our Easy Payment A Closed Car Bargain We have a little Overland Sedan which com- fortably seats five persons. It is nicely uphol- stered in brown velour and is equipped with five wire wheels. Just the car for a small family and ideal for week end trips. Imagine this chance— this car can be purchased for a small payment of $330 down and the balance over a period of ten months. - For a Small Family. A car that is sure to go quickly is a 5-Passen- ger Overland, 4, Touring at $525, which can be purchased with only a small payment down and the balance in payments of $38 a month. A Little Work—Save $400 We have an Overland Model 80, Touring, which will be sold just as it is and would be the ideal car for some miechanically inclined purchas- er to fix up himself, and all we are asking for it is $85. A Mitchell Touring Car for $175 Another car that will reward the mechanical- ly inclined purchaser who is willing to put in a few hours’ work. This car will be snapped up early, that’s our prediction. See it. NOW---If you have any idea of purchasing a car at any time within six months, you cannot afford to miss this tunity great oppor- to purchase automobiles at about 60 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR--ANDON THE MOST REASONABLE TERMS EVER OFFERED TO THE PUBLIC. Harper-Overland Co., ‘Inc. 1128-30 Connecticut Ave. N.W. Phone Franklin 4307 Open Evenings and Sundays ’ up on the best standard merchandise at a fair price. Today the truth of ex- perience is making itself felt in the tire trade as in everything else. The guality instinct in the American public is bearing weight. As it always does. * * Ed On May 1st, 1921, there were 36% more dealers selling United States Royal Cord Tires than a year ago. There might be a number of reasons why. Reputation. De- United Stat United States @3.Rubber Company Tire Branch, 1303 H. Street N. W. importance just now is the dealers’ repudiation of “discount” methods of doing business. —. These men are reading the public mind. They are no longer willing merelyto sell “discounts” —“so much off on this tire, so much off on They are selling a tire service—a tangible, par quality tire ata net price <, % oAs people say 3 3 everywhere United Statesflrés | are Good Tires es Ti The leadership of the U. S. Royal Cord Tire cannot be explained on its physical qualities alone. v S You cannot separate it from the policybehind it. A policy insistent on guality first—on sound merchandisingasagainst temporary appeal—on a reality of tire worth in- stead of an unreality of discount talk. The outstandingrea- son, perhaps, why so manythousands of car owners measure all other tires by U. S. Royal Cords as the standard tire to go by. el S -~ res