Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1921, Page 22

22 e bl - CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT 1 - SOME LINES IN CLEVELAND AREA Goodyear Reports Largest Sales in Its History for Week Ending July 16. Other Sections. ‘ 1oy BY GUY T. ROCKWELL. > i ort to sauge the purcha: Mpecieiiavalei to This Star. X consumers, which now CLEVELAND, Ohio. July 21L.—In|ing the raic of crops. connection with a widespread move- | Despite cfforts to curtail ol pro- : luction in the midconinent field to 1 . country to curtail | duction he mide 3 e o sonattr o curtail | 4 equal basis with consumption, the expenses, . Phipps. director of | patio of otion g to the Ohio department of commerce, | mount. a 000 has calle dfor au investizativ: inm"’f‘x"l';‘Lh Ohio freight rates, which will 1..~;:|nk‘,:“‘ o The first matter to be southw aken up will be the ¢ rates from ' the Hocking fields to Toledo. This Investigation was hastened by nouncement by Henry Ford that rates on the Detroit, Toledo and Irenton road would be reduced 20 per cent August 1. The Cleveland board of education ment in industrial centers in an ng power re affect- shown the than per tien h pine milis i t are operating at lc with business about of ‘normal. mines in this field are pro- ducing 40 per cent of capacity. op- erators claiming that the smaller oroduction is forcing a higher av- erage cost of output. They account in this way for an increase in prices. has just cut $189,130 from its budget | Sales of zinc and lead ore have been for the ensuing year. larger this week than for some time, producers abandoning their plans to Continucd improvement Is report- ed in some lines of industry. The Goodvear Tire C tny of Akron re- ported the largest sales in its history for the week ending July 1€, when hold for higher prices. | Many Products Touch 72.000 complete tire outfits were 3 fumnea out" The Gooayear ot Call | Pre-War Period Levels - fornia plant now making 00 e 2 0 tubes & day. Fir BY PAUL C. HEDRICK. ts tire out- rsted Mills ng Spectal Dispatch to The Star. Wo SEATTLE. Wash., July 21.—Many : running its plants at|pasic commodities here have touched 3 capacity steel salesmen ave |jevels closely approaching those of bringing in an increasing number Of | the pre-war period in late weeks. orders. Ratio Oil Production Continues o Mount BY DICK SMITH. 44 Bpectal Dispatch to The Sta KANSAS CITY, Mo.. July 21.—With the wheat crop better than expected end part of it already harvested and with other erups Very promising, farmers and busincss men are_anx- fously watching the trend of Euro- pean economic conditions and of em- Prime light hogs are selling at 10% to 11 cents a pound. A leading packing house in 1911 offered to con- tract to take all choice hogs of farm- ers in this section at 10 cents a pound for two years, the then ruling price being above that figure. A good wholesome lunch can be obtained in respectable restaurants here for 35 cents. Men's work shirts are sell- ing at $1.50, approximately the pre- war price, and fairly serviceable men’s suits may be obtalned for $25 each. ' Butter, eggs, lamb ana chickens are going up in price slowly. Labor | 13th and F 1006 F 15th and G 13th and Pa. Ave. i Things You Need { = H Toilet Soaps : Woodbury’s Facial Soap.. Resinol Toilet Soap Rexall Toilet Soap.. Palmolive Soap . ‘uticura Soap ...................18c Physicians and Surgeons Soap, 2 for 15¢ Lifebuoy Soap .... ...9 Lux Flakes .. o ..10c Corona Genuine Castile Soap, 3 for 50¢ For the Hair and Scalp 1.00 Danderine : . .64c 50c Mulsified Cocoanut Oil 34¢c 50c Harmony Liquid Shain. r 3 i poo (with cocoanut oil)..28¢| $1.00 Eskay’s kood St B | 15¢ Venida Hair Nets 2 for 25¢c| “1.00 Scott’s Emulsion ..... = 25c Packer’s Tar Soap....19¢c| 1.25 Father John’s Medicine . 1.00 Wampole’s Cod Liver Extract .....75¢c . o 5 Laxatives,Ointments,etc.* 15 vino! ... 70c Sal Hepatica seeesccecm pooe 1.00Nujol coieveee eeee .. 25c Carter’s Little Liver Pills 25¢c Beecham’s Pills ...... 60c Musterole Ointment . £0c Mentholatum .... 50c Cuticura Ointment . 40c Fletcher’s Castoria COc Bromo Seltzer . (0c Doan’s Kidney Pills . 1.00 Pinkham’s Vegetable .79¢ 16-oz. Horlick’s .38c Toilet Powders & Creams 60c Levy’s La Blache Face Powder. .43¢c 1.00 Coty’s L’Origan Face Powder..69¢c 25¢c Tetlow’s Swansdown Face Pwdr. 21c .33¢ .67c 325 size No. 11 i 525 size No. 11 50c Java Rice Powder.. 1.00 D & R Cold Cream. 75c Pompeian Massage Cream......54c 50c Hinds’ Honey & 25¢c Mum .........: Almond Cream, 33c For the‘ Teeth ; 50 Pebeco Tooth Paste.. 30c Kolynos Tooth Paste 25c Lyon’s Tooth Powder. 50c Pepsodent Tooth Paste S0c Klenzo Dental Creme.......... (A cake of Klenzo Toilet Soap FREE with each tube) | Imported Tooth Brushes at 25c, 35c, 50c, 65¢ 100 Lavoris «...covvvenecanescnnnesa.69C 1.00 Listerine (1402,) ceeeeeenenen....74c 2 packages for slightly more than the price of one every Friday and : Ma Most delicious, aromatic flavor. A c late Several million pounds sold each year to sat- isfied users. You may try it on our guarantec that 'y(ou,will like it. " i et 20 46 O Liggett’s Pure Cocoa " weather : H 1 H e soeven. H uct. There conld be’nothing better.. Fine se- 3 From our own Cocoa plant in Mansfield, Mass. * lect peanuts, finely ground . with aii the nour- : Makes a o drhk.“cln half-pound tins. isking Oil )chn 110 ’oux;cs: jar, H wisrly p v'.‘a--az for 36C Wearonze e 2 for 36C| 1715 Pa. Ave. F Aot Shaving Needs *50c Mennen’s Shaving Cr..29¢ Rubberset Shaving Brushes 500 New Style Improved ! Gillette Safety Razor...4.49 1100 New Brownie Gillette, complete in case........89¢ 1.00 Gillette Blades, doz ) Rexall Shaving Cream.... i“Puretest” pure, double distilled, extra strong " Tonics, Strengtheners | and Baby Foods e 1.50 Fellow's Syrup of Hypo .’ .42¢ 1.25 Gude’s Pepto «se.13¢c 75c Mellin’s Food .......... -16c 1.00 Nuxated Iron .. A Few Hints for the Vacationist LORD BALTIMORE PORTFOLIO Centains 50 sheets of Writing Paper and 24 Envelopes to match. THERMOS BOTTLES Sterno Canned Heat . Eversharp Pencils ... Waterman Foustain Pens. . Ingersoll Watches.....oeeeeees 175 up Rexall Skeeter Skoot ‘Applied directly to the skin, it has absolutely Rather pleasant odor, but does re- pel mosquitoes and flies, and other troublesome summer ounces, —and an almost endless variety of those little things to add eomfort and ¢ tion, such as shaving accessories, Tooth Brushes, Talenm Powders. Sunburn remedies, etc. Tea, Coffee, Cocoa, Etc. dressing for meats or vegetables. Will keep sweet in hot ‘weather. ; g Reguiarly 33c: Week-ends. ... Vanilla Extract Mazde frorh select Vanilla beans, rich in aroma. Mellowed and seasoned to produce a lasting L g 2 for Chocolate Pudding :aticn of Corn Starch prdding, choco- avored. M and quickly prepared. Regularly 19¢ Week-snds.... Peanut Butter We are very proud of the quality of this prod- THE /ZEVENING ‘STAR. ‘WASHINGTON, -D. C.. THURSDAY, JULY 21, -1921. disputes continue unsettled, elDechlllg in_the building trades, although som! carpenters are reported at work un- der open-shop conditions at $3.50 a day, a8 against 2 union scale of §7 and $§ a day. The reprcsentative of ome of the large mail-order houses declaves his firm is fixing prices on a laige range of merchandise at from 40 to 50 per cent below peak prices of May, 192 Commodity Reports ; From Various Sections ‘Wo PHIA, July the foll Vi P 21.—In the tocal TLAD market if-blood. to 30 cents a po threc-eighths 5 to . and Guarter-blood, . Wisconsin. Illinois and ri medium, 23 cents. Montana 2 to cents. Montana half- cents. 1t is estimated consumption in the r may reach 140,000 short -thirds of normal. I credit terms, it is reportéd ha been extended German buyers from South Africa and Aus- tralia. In some cases these credits extend for two years. SOUTHBRIDGE, Mass.,, July 21.— The Hamilton Woolen Company has reopened its mills, after a closedown of two weeks, with a full force of 1,300 operatives. Coal. NEW YORK, July 21.—Stagnation continues in the coal market here. This, it is stated. 18 due largely to the feeling among manufacturers that they can better -afford to pay slightly higher prices later. than to tie up money now for reserve stock LONDON, July 21.—The British go ernment iS endeavoring to resell at £2 a ton about 250,000 tons of Amer- ican coal to arrive, bought during the cnal strike. No buyers have ap- peared, although the coal cost the government in the neighborhood of £3 158 a ton. German cominxg Steel. KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 21— Large oil well supply houses are daily expecting a sharp reduction’in prices for oil well casing in the midconti- nent fleld. The drop is expected to be at least 7 or 8 per cent. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. July 21— Light bars intended for bolt stock, for use in repair of freight cars, are being turned out in some units of mills here which have been idle for 14th and F 418 7th St. Saving $1.00 up ..79¢ 30c Witch Hazel— . .per pint 33c ;\lar;gan . Malted Milk ... 9¢ Complete4 ..51.98 int, now reduced to K %19 quart, now reduced to... no harmful effect. insscts. 2, 25¢ . R to your vaca- g perfectly compounded salad 2 for 390 2 oz. bottle. 36¢ akes a dessert that s easily Most delicious in hot 2;;»’20(: | some time. Strip-steel s belng tagen by manufacturers of lower-priced au- tomobiles, and one Indepondent Strip steel manufacturer. is operating &t capacity. : BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July Na- tional Cast Iron Pips Company now is operating at about capacity and is continuing to take In new orders..Jhe United States Cast Iron Pipe CuTa- 2! “ipany is operating at- Bessemer and {Anniston only, the Birmingham plant {having been dlosed. i Food Products. STOCKTON, Calif., July 21.—Thirty thousand sacks .of onions stored in local warehouses, have been dumped owing wool jout with a loss to commission mer- | ests, ginia. West , chants of $60.000 because there was no [ ency in the value of all sound securi- market for the onions. which were_in £00d_condition. | ROME, July 21.—Restrictions on the juse of ‘meat. “bread - and macaroni, which have been in effect in Italy since the beginning of the war, have now been abolished by the govern- ment. Naval Stores. BERLIN. July 21.—A patent has been f{ssued to C, C. Bohler of Dres- den for an artificial rosin manufac- tured by heating anhydro-formalde- hydcanaline to 140 degrees centigrade for twelve hours. Clothing. BOSTON, July 21.—In announcing retirement from business.' the J. ‘Welton Company,- manufacturers of clothing, declare their. action is due to domination by the union. “We have been compelled to pay constantly in- creasing prices while operatives ha been giving constantly poorer wor! says the announcement. “Until such a time as we can properly control and direct our own shops and insist upon definite schedules of workmanship it is not for our advantage or that of our customers to continue.” Textiles. CENTRAL FALLS, R. I, July 21.— The Pennsylvania Textile Company, silk manufacturers, has 450 looms idle because of inability to secure skilled operatives. About 950 looms are operating. PAWTUCKET, July 21—J. & P. Coats, Incorporated, thread manufac- turers, will start two new units of their mills as soon as equipment can be installed. The Pawtucket plant to‘! the company now is running full ime. . 3 Grain, NEW YORK, July 21.—Bankers with connections in Rumania have received reports denying statements that the grain crops of that country would be but 50 per cent of normal this year. The present crops, it is :l-ld. will be of fairly large propor- ons. Sugar. NEW YORK, July 21.—The market for refined suger is still strong even at the increased price of 5.90 cents & pound, to which point it has re- acted from the recent low of 5.20. OGDEN, Utah, July 21.—The Utah- Idaho Sugar Company, @& large beet sugar producer, is oumnlnf a plan for extension of actlivities in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming for the coming year. Cotto: NEW YORK, July 21.—Two addi- tional firms of cotton goods manu- facturers, Smith, Hogg & Co. and Vietor & Achelis, have announced thelr prices for spring goode, follow- ing the example of the Amoskeag mills. Only a few changes in prices from present quotations were noted. Berwl‘;:k chambrays advanced 1 cent a yard. Drugs and Chemicals. NEW YORK, July 21.—Blue vitriol is’ steady at $5.75 per 100 pounds, with a fair demand for jobbing quan- | titles in this market. Caustic soda is quiet, and cream of tartar is easy, with slackness of demand. Fertilizer chemicals were quiet for spot deliv- ery, but some inquiries have been un. covered for ammonia sulphate and nitraté of soda futures. Notes. PHILADELPHIA, July 21.—The ex- periment of Henry Ford in the man. {agement of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton raflroad, on which he has announced a cut of 20 per cent in freight rates and a minimum wage of $6 a day, is being closely watched by railroad executives of the Penn- sylvania, Reading and Lehigh Valley roads here. The Fennsylvania re- cently reduced salaries of execu. tives on a like basis with the wage | reduction of the men. Cuts in the! salaries of President Willard _ and other executives and general officers of the Baltimore and Ohio have re- cently been announced. The Atlantic Coast Line and Erie roads have cut heads of departments and other of- ficers 12 per cent In some cases, and other Toads are considering similar moves along the line of economy. BOSTON, July 21—The five-cent shine has' returned to Boston. In- dependent bootblacks have fnvaded | the business district and Worked up strong comipetition to the regular stands on the basis of the cut in price. Many of the stands have re- | sponded with a similar cut. ‘BOSTON, July 21.—The hours of 10,000 women and minors were limit- ed to .a nine-hour day and a forty eight-hour week today, the state law ; limiting hours of employment in | laundries, hotels, manicuring estab- | lishments, movie theaters, elevators | BOND BUYERS ARE AFTER HIGH RATE NEW YORK, July 21.—The bond market felt at once the good effect of the reduction in federal reserve rates, which indicated a steady downward tendéncy in many inter- with consequent upward tend- ties the yield on which is fixed. Trading was more active and prices decidedly higher in numerous parts of the list. Railway bonds were benetited more than the rest, With the exception of some of the con- vertibles, which were more inclined to take their cue-from the sluggish- ness of their stocks. _ The principal ‘demand was for the more recent issues ylelding a high return, such as the Pennsylvania 63%s, the Great Northern 7s, and the Ché- cago, Burlington and Quincy joint 6%s. The Pennsylvanias got up more than a half point to 98%, and the Hill road bonds reached new high points. Missouri Pacific 4s sold a nalf point higher at 53%:. St. Louls and San Francisco adjuétments and Kansas City Southern 3s were up a fraction at 66% and 56%, respective- ly. while Atchison adjustment 4s galined a half point to 7013. Southern racific convertible 4s were stronger at 799, while St. Paul convertible 4138 were down at one time nearly a point. Active in Industrial Issues. There was a lively demand for Denver and Rio Grande refunding 6s, which carried them up over two points, starting from 43%. This was taken to foreshadow important de- velopments in the Denver-Western Pacific situation. Among industrials American eTlephone and Telegraph convertible 6s rose a point to 98%, Goodyear 88 were stronger at 991; and Central Leather 58 were up % of a point to 89%. Duquesne 6s sold at 91, against 90% at last night's close. Recovery con- tinued in Cuba Cane convertible 7s, while Virginia-Carolina 7%s, which were recently down around 89, and ;e(;‘ off yesterday at 90%, sold up to 13%. The feature in the foreign govern- ment division was a jump in Danish municipal 8s, which yesterday were 99%, to 101. Swedish 6s were frac- tionally higher, and Republic of Chile 8s gained more than a half point to 97. Liberty bonds had the largest gain of any day in some time. ‘The good market for new offerings was again demonstrated by the reargz sale of the $4,000,000 Atlas Powder 7% per cent fifteen-year bonds, which came out this morning. Within two hours of the opening of the books they were reported as oversubscribed. —_— RAR SILVER QUOTATIONS. NEW YORK, July 21.—Bar silver, domestic, 99%: foreign, 60%; Mex- ican dollars, 4634. LONDON, July 21.—Bar silver, 38 pence per ounce; money, 314 per cent. Discount rates—short bills, 4% per cent; three-month-bills, 4% per cent. —_—— TRADE NOTES. Spot crude rubber, first late crop, is quected at 16% cents a pound, an ad- vance of 1 cent from last week’s high price and 5% cents from the record low-of 11 cents at which small ton- nages of the commodity sold last week. Coca Cola Company's net earnings for May were $376.680. and for June are estimated at approximately $400.- 000, making total net for the first six months of 1921 approximately $1. 6,235, compared with $3.089,298 fo! the first six months of 1920. r north Texas fleld amounted I week to 181,530 barrels, a drop of 0 bar- rels from the average. In the gulf coast fleld the week’'s production was 75,270 barrels, a decline of 1,179 bar- rels. In California the daily average production in June was 3 bar- rels, in contrast to 337,101 in May Paul M. Warburg will sall next week for Europe on the Aquitania. There was vesterday no announce- ment regarding the $9,000,000 grain credit for Germany being nesoti: v the syndicate headed by the In- ternational Acceptance Bank, but one is expected shortl S S— BOGALUSA, La, uly 21. — An- nouncement that ~ $2.000,000,000 of new buflding contracts throughout the country are ready to be awarded as soon as some labor disputes are adjusted, and that another twe and a contemplated before the end. of the year, has induced several of the iargest lumber mills in this section ble time, to prepare for the orders they expect soon. Mill owners also are informed that no small portion of the half billion dollars the gov- ernment is expected to pay to the railroads will_ be used in of lumber for repair work. NEW YORK, July 2L—Mates on Amcrican vessels have agreed to ac Ccept a 15 per cent reduction in wages effective August 1, and hereafter masters of American vessels will deal individually with the companies by -whom they are employed. on the question of salaries paid them. The salaries of ' captains, it was an- nounced today, will be based on and privafe telephone exchanges hav- ing gone into effect. merit, taking into.consideration ex- perience, eficiency and service. ' follow " 'while you are away. Address may bé changed as ofte g 7 ‘well as the - The Evening Star is ‘in 'Washington dispatches. your vacation Call at The Star office or mail check or money order before leaving for the seashore or moun- tains and arrange to have The Star mailed to you -RATES"BY MAIL, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE » " Maryland and Virginia you on g ok : : 1 Month, - 1 Week. s Daily and Sunday.......70c 20c ‘Daily only ........c....50c 15¢ : Sunday only ...........20c 5¢ : All Other States 1 Month, 1 Week. Daily and Sunday.......85c 25¢ Daily only .............60c 20c Sunday only eieer..25c - 10c n as desired by giving the old as new address. the only afternoon paper carrying “the Associated - Press Daily average ofl production in the‘ half billion In bullding operations is to run full time and a few on dou-{ 1 purchase | COTTON MARKETS. NEW YORK, July 21.—The action of both the local and Liverpool cotton maarkets were disappointing In view of the reduction in the Bank of Eng- land discoupt rate, the steady cabies and continued showery weather in the south. Although ;Liverpool and trade interests were buyers here, local and Wall street sclling was sufficiently lib- eral to open the market 7 to 9 points lower, after which it declined to 12.62 for Octobcr and 13.02 for December. Later forelgn buying checked the de- cline, but the murket toward the end of the first hour was very unsettled. Futures opened steady: July, 12.10 bid: October, 12.69; December, 13.05 January, 13.10; Mgreh, 13.28 bid. LIVERPOOL, July 16 quiet; prices easier 19.05; "tully middling, low middling, 7.3 6.15: ordlnary, 5.40. including 4,000 Amer: 1.000 bales, no American. iosed firm; Ju'y. 8.43; October. 5.63; December, $.77; January, 8.79; March, CURDB STOCKS. - Quotations furnisbed Ly W. 1. il & Co: 7 Sl pmn C Steel” . Carib Syndicate Carib Trading . om: Consolidated Copper Continental Mofors old Davis-Daly Dominion_ 01" RoePiilulioass F& Food Engincers’ Petroleum Eureka Crocsu 1% 1316|586, May.*s.91’ Gillilana 0l 2 NEW ORLEA} Poor ca- Glen iAldenCon) fi 9i |bles caused a lowcr opening in the .k o1 d 101 | COtton’ market here today and during ST ile 3 47| the first hour of trading prices lost 3% 12 to 13 points, October dropping to per 7 12.14. The market was steady at the Intercontinental Rub o 7 7!4 | decline, because of the lower federal her International Petroleum (new) | Jerome Verde Kay County Gi Lake Torpedo “ | reserve discount rates announced In several districts of the country and . | the reduction to 5% per.cent in the 20" [Bank of England rate. .| Futures 2% October, 1 uary, 12. - 52 Muson Valley Merrit Ol Midwest Ol com. 3 135 (] 32" SUGAR MARKET STEADY. NEW, YORK, July 21.—The raw sugar market was unchanged early today at 3 for Cubas, B freight, equal to 4.61 for centrifugal, N (3 19 Northwestern Ofl Pennok Ol Perfection Ti Producers and Refiners Kadio com. £ Ray Hercules Ryan Consolidated .. Salt Creek Producin; It Creek (ew) ipa_com. Tonopah Divide . Tonopah Extension stern U. 6. Light and Heat com. U. K. Lizht and Heat pfd United Profit Sharing. 7. §. Ship Corporation . U. §. Steamshi United Retail United Texas 5 aunEha88 uuundRunaanSBaliounBaBe! el L ] BRI [2 Carbide —_— More than one thousand southern Baptist girls have enrolled‘in a so-: clety which pledges its members not| to dance and to discourage dancing| in others. Union the hillside. Customers the Best Butter ICKING up a horsgshoe is unfucky where ordie nary ic tires are concerned. The same applies to nails, tacks, spikes, sharp metal and splinters of stone or glass. : But Lee Puncture-proof tires are different. They carry our cash refund guarantee against puncture. ‘The air in the tire carries the Joad. That's why Lee Puncture-proof pneumatics have grown in favor every day for the past ten years—for passenger, business and delivery cars—for trucks. We stand ready to-prove that Lee Puncture-proof tires will solvc your tire-trouble problems. 1600 14th Street N.W. - LEE JULY 20th, 1921 OFFICIAL Parking Time, One Hour On Pennsylvania Avenue (Between 13th and 15th Streets N.W.) To Give the Poeple in the Dining District Sufficient Time to Park Their Cars and Eat With Comfort " The Coolest Place to Dine— Hotel Occidenta Under Personal Supervision of GUS BUCHHOLZ & SON, Props. ELK GROVE —is a strictly fresh—Farm Butter Let memory carry you back to childhood days—to the old orchard and the swimming pool down in the woods under the shade of the drooping trees—and the fields of clover, tossed about by the cooling breeze over Elk Grove Butter will refresh these memories—for it is a fresh butter —made from butter fat supplied by pure-bred cattle. butter that is served on the tables of the best families in the land Elk Grove But‘er is Sold by Grocers Who Supply Their GOLDEN & CO., Distributors “It’s lucky we had Lee Puncture-proof tires* WASHINGTON BRANCH with sales of 35000 bags reported at that level. Porto Ricos were quoted at 4.50. Raw sugar futures were steady and prices at midday were 1 to 3 points higher on covering and a little trade buying. The demand for refined cone tinued of fair proportions, and, while list prices remained unchanged at 5.20 to 5.0 for finé granulated. it was believed that no business was being taken at the inside price, whily some of the higher-priced were sald to be accepting orders be Jow their list quotations. Refined futures were nominal. ZeE ha e OIL STOCKS. Quotations furnished by W. B. -American Ofl Co. (new) tie Refining Co. Serymser_Co. Anglo. Atls c Continental 0il _Ce ¢ bardened steel discs imbedded in rubber are LEE Tire and kubberj Company of N. Y., Inc. . " Telephone: North 9458