Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1921, Page 28

£:25 ; THE EVENII'G STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1921 INCREASED BUYING IN DETROIT BIG STIMULANT TO PRODUCTION Trade Plans Are Unchecked by Prospective Strike—General Confidence Is Growing. “There’s a Feast of Reason” S > ’ BY PHIL 8. HANNA. ;‘;.rn;'.:;' lre|u;abl-i to meet demand vyweight sole leather and the Special Dispatch to The Star. finer quality of upper leathers, but DETROIT, Mich., October 21.—|the call for the other descriptions is Business men here seem determined |limited to small daily orders. that nothing shall halt the slowly = rising tide of business improvement. s g, s = Plans for increased activity are go- | anil-: October 21 (Special) — 6 in every issue of SR . 0.5/ P B I SO D A3 AN ARG R W > * \ @he Foening Star—The Sunday Shae A great newspaper—that measures up to the hi.ghest ideals of journalism, and is cordially ing on unchecked by prospects of a railroad strike. A Although isolated cases of slowing up have been noted in some lines, general confidence 1s increasing. Manufacturers and dealers in stoves, drugs, overalls and paper are ex- periencing the first upward move- ment in more than a year. Buyving has gathered considerable momen- tum and as a_result production is being increased. An official of the Peninsular Stove Company stated to- day that conditions were beginning to_approach normal. Grocery dealers are having diffi- culty in maintaining stocks because non-union mines of the northwest is moving to tidewater at about half tbe volume shipped in normal times. Bunker coal is quoted at $7.50 a ton, with steam and domestic sizes at $10. PHILADELPHIA, October 21 (Spe- cial).—Coal orders are on the in- crease because of the possibility of the railroad strike and the antbracite roads are shipping increased tonnage into this territory. The Baltimore and Ohio is bringing in quantities of soft coal and industrial plants see adding to their stocks. .. obar 21 (Special). ——There has been an increase in activ- 4 ives are & . . ! o oy ® . i of the preparations housewlves Arclity at thelead and zinc mines here as % | welcomed into every home because in every department and with every feature it is clean in e L Ol (2, e it o incrcases in prices for lead g i E Families of railroad men are con- g p 42 | | splcuous purchasers. S PEAFISTAS AT R I TART ARG LS AVASS ITANICIRTIL ~% A great news-gathering staff encircles the globe—ever on the . alert. The Associated Press, sup- plemented by our special Wash- ington Star-Chicago News cable service, and corps of correspond- ents, who know every nook and corner, every feature and phase of the field in which they are sta- tioned. Every turn of the great wheels of national government is care- fully reviewed by competent analysts—and from the impor- tant European centers come inter- esting articles on men and meas- ures, graphically penned by Andre Tardieu, formerly French high commissioner to the United States; Francesco Nitti, ex-pre- mier of Italy; Maximilian Har- den, Germany's great publicist— and others, who are close observ- ers of the world drama. Wherever there’s a great sport- ing event there will be found a Star correspondent accurately re- porting the interesting events, with sidelights of the principals. Whatever pastime is a hobby with you is featured in the sports reports in the Daily and Sunday Star. On the eve of Washington’s most important social season there is much of personal interest to be recorded. You can follow the doings of society intimately through The Star’s society col- . umns—playing host, as it is plan- ning to do, to the nation’s distin- guished guests from the four cor- ners of the globe. You can settle yourself down next Sunday for an- other of those rich literary feasts that are weekly fea- tures of The Star’'s Maga- zine Section. Features and Fiction in the Magazine “The Consul” By Richard Harding Davis With an Introduction by Irvin S. Cobb “The Lure of the Guillotine” . By Sterling Heilig . A Feature by The Sunday Star’s Special Corre- spondent in Paris Another Benny Story By Ellis Parker Butler Author of “Pigs Is Pigs” “Mirrors of Downing Street” With Winston Churchill As the Subject of an Unusual Sketch “Scattergood Borrows a Grandmother” By Clarence Buddington Kelland Sewell Ford Contributes Another “Trilby May” Story Ring W. Lardner’s Weekly Letter And Many Other Intensely Interesting Local and Foreign Features what it prints; progressive in what it champions; aggressive in its defense of Washington and - :' Washingtonians. Dependable and depended upon by its great legion of seven-day rely upon it for— -the-week readers—who The Fashions The way to make sure of never missing a single issue of The Star— _ Daily or Sunday—is to let the carriers serve you direct from the office Phone Main 5000—Circulation Department Daily and Sunday - - - - - - - - 60c a Month One of the most- interesting features to every woman is Anne Rittenhouse’s fashion articles. She writes of what’s-what in feminine dress with an accuracy that can only come through the entree she has to the studios of the renowned -designers of conti- nental Europe and America, and the advance glimpses she is per- mitted of their latest conceptions. Lovers of music, art and litera- ture enjoy a weekly treat in The Sunday Star, with its review of important happenings and its forecast of coming events. Amusements and fraternal news all entertainingly presented in de- tail. — There’s a “barrel of fun” in the colored comic section—Mutt and Jeff, the Briggs Family, “S’matter Pop” and Betty and Her Beau. A hearty laugh with every one of your old friends. The kind of fun that the little folks can join in— and their elders, too. Not only are the pictures in the Rotogravure Section wonderful examples of photographic and re- productive art—clear, detailed and faithful—but the subjects fea- tured are exceptionally interest- ing—persons and places of pecul- iarly timely interest. —— Expectations of lower prices has kept purchases by country merchants to a hand-to-mouth basis, but stocks are short and orders are increasing in size. The Ohio beet sugar fac- tories and most of the Michigan fac- torles will begin operations on this season’s crop in the next few days. Liquidation of Accounts Catching Up With Orders BY RALPH SMITH. Special Dispatch to The Star. ATLANTA, October 21.—Collections in this section are much better than expected, and wholesale houses re- port that liquidation of accounts is beginning to catch up with orders {which began to pour in when the price of cotton advanced to new high levels. The opinion here is that the cotton market has seen its low level for the season, and that better prices may be looked for after the govern- ment ginning figures and the supple- mentary report on cotton yet to be ginned are made public. !” There is a general belief that there i will be no rail strike, but Atlanta has organized emergency committees to act if a tie-up eventually comes. | Heavy newspaper advertising of bar- {gain sales is stimulating trade in the larger retail stores. { Damage to cotton by the boll wee- j vil in this state is called a blessing in disguise, because it has forced farm- ers to diversify their crops and ena- bled them to put food products on the market at good prices. Gasoline prices have been advanced 2 cents a gallon to 24 cents retail, while kerosene is up 2 cents, to 14 cents a gallon whole- sale and 16 to 17 cents retail. Retailers’ Buying Policy Continues Conservative BY J. N. FINING. Special Dispatch to The Star. ST. LOUIS, October 21.—The pros- pect of a railroad strike has not caused consternation here, but it is the subject of more or less concern, and preparations for a possible tie-up have stimulated some lines of business. Merchants do not expect a strike, and some of the railroad men say they will not leave their jobs. As a pre- caution, iron and steel companies have been urged to expedite production on contract work. Five furnaces have been blown in in this district, and the trade has been advised that three or fcur additional plants’ have resumed in Birmingham. Coal and coke are now moving in large volume in anticipation of a pos- sible strike, and public utility com- panies, hospitals, schools and churches are putting in large supplies. Jobbers state that the buying policy of retail merchants continues to be conservative. Purchases are large and diversified, but are adjusted to the immediate demand. General condi- tions of trade and commerce show no decided change, but in the main indi- cate advancement toward normal ad- justment. Commodity Reports From Various Sections Hides. SEATTLE, October 21 (Special).— Hides are sluggish in this market, packers being the only products to show activity. Salt hides are selling at from 4 to 41; cents a pound, with green hides at 3 cents. Leather. PHILADELPHIA, October 21 (Spe- cial).—There is a shortage of sole leather in this market in both backs and bends. Upper leathers are mov- ing slowly. There is some demand ifor packer calfskins at from 19 to 20 |cents a pound. | _BOSTON, October 21 (Special)— e —If you contem- plate having elec- tricity installed in your home we would be glad tq submit an esti- mate, TheE. F. Brooks Co. || Established Over One-Half Century Leo C. Brooks, Manager 813 14th St. N.W. CAMDEN, N. J. October 21 (Spe- cial).—The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company is preparing to erect a $2,000,000 terminal here to re- place the one destroyed by fire years ago. Plans will be completed No- vember 15. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohlo, October 21 (Special).—The steel plants of this district paid their men $76,000 more than was expended for wages in Au- gust. August showed an increase in pay rolls of about $26,000 over July and Qrtahar hids fair to show even a more decided increase. P H v 3 F 2 3 H K —New construction the demand for lun and_other building materials, wih siight in- creases in lumber prices. The sales of some grades of lumber 8o far this year have exceeded those for the entire twelve months of 1920. SEATTLE, October 21 (Special).— Prices of logs have been advanced $! a thousand for second grade and $2 a thousand for first grade. % Bullding Materials. PHILADELPHIA, October 21 (Spe- clal).—There are large supplies of brick in this territory and the demand is very light. Dealers, however, are holding prices firm in expectation of building resumption. Cement prices have fallen off somewhat, but lumber prices are advancing slowly and steadily. Paints and varnishes arc heln‘;(; freely purchased for repair work. Women's Clothing. NEW YORK, October 21 (Special).— Retailers have flocked to this mar! this week 1o purchase heavy women's clothing. Prices have shown no change. Shoes. NEW ORLEANS, October 21 (Spe- cial).—The advance in hide pricesaud the increasing volume of sales among retailers have brought more orders to local shoe factories than they can fill. The plants are working about 80 per cent of capacity, and would increase this to the limit if skilled workers were available. Soap. The content of soap is shortly to be revised. The soap section of the American Specialty Manufacturers’ Association, representing about 90 per cent of the soap manufacturers, has appointed a committee to discuss revision of specifications with the chemists of the bureau of standards of the Department of Commerce. CLEVELAND, October 21 (Special). —The Jordan Automobile Company is employing 30 per cent more men than a month ago, and is running at ca- pacity. Five hundred cars a month are being turned out. A reduction in pay of emploves was put into effect this week, however. NEW YORK, October 21 (Special).— More than a million motor trucks are immediately available for mobiliza- tion in case a railroad strike causes food shortage, according to the | American Automobile Chamber of Commerce. ~The ten thousand fnter- {urban truck lines now in operation .it is said, would triple their tonnaze at a moment's notice. Machinery. KANBAS CITY, October 21 (sp cial).—The belief among the farme that prices will be reduced still fu ther has checked the buying of agri- cultural machinery and implements in i this section. Dry Geods. PHILADELPHIA, October 21 (Spe- cial).—A local dry goods .merchant " who has made a comparison in prices this year with those of 1920 declares the decrease in dry goods prices has | been from 28 to 40 per cent, the aver- :g:"for various articles being 30 per Rubber. CLEVELAND, October 21 (Special). —The reduction in the pay of work- ers making the Mason & Miller tires | is taken to indicate here that sta- bilization of tire prices has not yet been reached. Flour. KANSAS CITY, October 21 (Speci; —The Standard Milling Compan; controling flour mills here and in Minneapolis and New York, announced today its profits for the year ending September 1 were $1.199.017, or about 50 per cent of those for the preceding year. Notes. 0, October 21 (Special).— The smaller manufacturing fowns in this territory are in much better in- duetrial condition than the cltics. Elgin, Tll. for example, has every plant’ running at normal rate. The town has an unemployment problem in_spite of this, however, for there has been-a heavy influx of workers from other points. PORTLAND, Ore., October 21 (Spc- cial).—Mastlers, mates, pilots and en- gineers on the river steamers operat- ing on the Williamette and Columbia rivers have voluntarily voted that thdir pay be reduced $10 a month. The wages of other employes on these lbnflls were reduced several weeks ago. DES MOINES, lowa, October 21 (8Special) —The Des Moines Street Car Men's Union has voted in favor of a voluntary reduction of wages of 7 cents an hour. This action was taken “to get servica suspended Au- gust 3, restored and aid In brivswig about a lower fare.” NEW YORK, October 21 (Spectal)~ The Merchants' Truckmen's Bureaz ~ New York is preparing for a possible strike on November 1, when the pres- ent wage agreement with the drivers expire. The bureau, which represents a large number of merchants, has de- manded a reduction in wages of $5 a week and an increase in working hours from & nine to a ten hour day. il | The teamsters’ union has voted n~t to accept this cut. but will attempt to negotiate with the firms individualis on the basis of the present scate. EMPLOYMENT SHOWS GAIN. BALTIMORE, October 21.—A report on employment conditions, covering eighty widely diversified industries here and nearby for the thirty-day perfod from September 15 to October 115, shows a betterment of 2 per cent, according to official figures. X