Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1921, Page 22

y o9 Y Pe— Eyes Examined Glastes Fitted R.CLAUDE S, SEMONES Eyesight Specialist. (Formerly With Edwin H. Etz) SEeLycuion. Bide. ] o G Sts. N.W. Main 721 . FLORIDA H BY SEA . MALTIMORE TO SAVANNAH $245% One \Va Round ACKSONVILLE £30.08 Oue W'Ay. Additional trn charge oo, urn uf May M Stenmer eveny 1'ues, and ¥ Automelntles Carried Merchants & Miners Cler 3 Pentt S0 " ltimore Nt Paul 4200 Unswe eTeNd WAPQRATEP 4 Shave With | Cuticura Soap The New Way Without Mug Keep Your Skin Free From Eczema and Rashes With ture. It heals Tetter and rashes, takes the sting from insect bites, relieves all skin afflictions. Rub \., it onthescalp. All Druggists’. Round Trip, $33.73 m accommodn. ¢ P Trans. Co. ¢ [heavy Healing Zemo S Zemo quickly stops Eczema tor- | iof Pacific coast products to the “At-| |1antic coast and Europe by water avi-| THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. MILLS ARE WORKING FULL TIME. SHOE FACTORIES AT CAPACITY I Feeling in New England That Trade Would i Have Benefited if Rail Strike Had Been Called. , called out by rumors of a cut in|Prices are too high. BY HDNON B. SMITH. Special Dispateh to The Star, BOSTON, October #1.—There is a feeling of disappointment manifested | among business men of New England that the threatened railroad strike wie not called. These men entertaln the copviction that the return of com« vlete papsperity Is dependent on & re- | duction f§ frolght rates und that such | rites ure glependent on lower wages for tullromd gmployes, ‘They feol that | If (e atrine Tuadl miaterialinod € would {huve been eanh'y beaten in New ling- lund and that \his would have been followed by w sharp reduction in tranaportation coati Improvement in \rugineas conditions continues but its \wwogress s slow, The votton mille are Working full time and the mukers of :\onv whoen lavo wll the business they \in handle, The metul tiades are n Lrike more uotive, althougW the murgin of orofit ts small, Nentiment, however, I \rnwlnf more confident ull the time In e betef that the wection 18 in the carly stuges of a brisk eonstruetive period, The Pacifio Mills, tl e seovnd Jargest manufacturer of cotton govda in tha country, 1s working st capwoity and eelling its output as rapidly as goods “n be manufactured, At praseat the Jcompany has less than two weeks supply of finished goods on haud. Improvement, Not Rapid, But Moves Without Halt BY LYNN C. SIMPNON. Specinl Dispatch to The Star. { SAN FRANCISCQ October Steady Improvement in business con- ditioys is taking place in this district, according to bunkers and financial ex- Auerts. This improvement, while not rad, As moving without a halt. One o ><yost_favorable signs noted has ! {,’,;,’,";r‘w cager absorption of high- | { grade J yvestment securities. These oo beiy i =napped up even when the nterest #ates returned are not high. Lower § Mices quoted for country lands has failea {0 cause a revival of bu ity ‘n\'opfl} n(sr)w:i\-er, is mov- | ‘i weasing (reedom. I oot I8 decreasing except n e iines W3 Are affected by sea- nal dullnesd, * Retail business is of fair volume. X% _unusunl feature of Ithe situation 15 Nie heavs lelxwr;oof {toodstuffs to Japau\ These lines con- sists of rice, from th) Culifornia flelds. which s moving in. Shiploads, and large cargoes of grain \'2m the Pacific | nostinvestern ‘statea. N2 also ls buying cedar and_pine Tes" timbers. . Nine miNJon board feet of cedar has been a\ipped to Japan in the last few month\: The metal trades are almox hope express vy ship\ents Heavy ship\elis 81— {nant with Jitt immediate revival tinue and the demand shows no sighp | {of abating. crop to New and other charters will be consum- prices. ware. H SEATTLE, October 31 (Special).— A leading wholesale hurdware com- pany here has glnuml lurge orders in the east for heavy hardware and bullders' tools In the last two week These orders ure larger than those for the last four months combined, Drugs. NEW ORLMANH, October 31 (Hpo. olal)~The busitess In drugs Iv ahout equul to thut of lual year in velume, withough the money value In slightly lows owing to the deoline in prices I KALAMAZOO, Mich, October i1 (Npeoiul).=The Huthorland Paper Company hus resnmead operations with w full foroe wt ite carton plant, This division has large orders ahend und wil operate on & Lwenty=four-hour-u- duy kchedule, NSAN CITY, Mo, October 41 (Hpa- Ad & result of im ened u branch hers to’ serve Missouri and Kansas dealers. NEW YORK, October i1 (Special).— Five steamers have been chartered to transport & part of the Cuban sugar York and Philadelphia These vessels will cover the movement of 500,000 bags. NEW ORLIEANS, October 31 (Spe- cial).—The first of this year's Louis- lana sugar crop was sold at 5% cents & pound. Subsequent sales have been made around 43 cents. Sirups from the new crops is bringing only 45 cents a gallon. The indications are that molasses will be cheaper "this year than for five NEW YORK, October 31 (Special).— All domestic sizes of anthracite coal in this market have advanced about 50 cents a ton in the last two week. while steam grades are up about 2 cents a ton. SENSBURG, October 21 (Spe- ~Three hundred and fifty ovens been fired by the Calumet, South- st and Hostetter plants of the TI Frick Coke Company. These are in addition to the 600 fired at Continen- tal No the same company. Preparations ary being made for funther resumptionfs | Savannah. by the samec compan: Jumber and ]ahu:l 300 ovens at Brownsville will red. Ve Steel. SPORT., Pa., October i1 (Jpe- Forty-four mills of the jMc- Keesport Tin Plate Company ¥rent on full with practically a full force of - men at work. & time operation early tyday 00 The plants have, been part time for months, but {xpect maintain capacity productifm for iSouthwest Retail Trade she Wext two months at least. FOR. 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The result is a full pint of really better cough syrup than you could buy ready-made for three times the money. pleasant and never spoils. This Pinex and Syrup preparation gets right at the cause of a cough and gives almost immediate relief. It loosens the phlegm, stops the nasty throat tickle and heals the sore, irritated membranes so gently nd easily that it is really astonish- IZ- use will usually overcome the ordinary cough, and for bron- chitis, croup, hoarseness and bron- chial asthma there is nothing better. Pinex is a most valuable concen- trated compoand’ of genuine Nor- way pine extract and has been used for gemerations to break severe coughs. # To avoid disappointment, ask your druggist for “2%; ounces of Pinex” with full directions, and don’t accept anything else.. Guaranteed to give absolute satisfaction or money promptly refunded. The Pinex Co., £t Wayne, Ind. Tastes | N IRRITATIONS !Greatest Last Week for 1921, * ' BY JAMES R. RECORD. Special Dispatch to The Star. FORT WORTH, Tex., October S1.— {Retail ‘trade in the southwest showed { the greatest expansion of the: year {last week. Reports from thirty de- {partment stores, located .in widely iseparated sections, showed an aver- {age gain of 28 per cent over the {hgures for the corresponding week of {September. The betterment of the {credit situation and the strength of {the cotton market have been reflected in the retail trade. Buying did not cease In the southwest during the iperiod of uncertainty as to a possible railroad strike. Individual bank deposits for Oc- tober will show a substantial gain over the figures for September, &c- i to estimares made today. {'fhis 15 attributed to the marketing of cotton at unexpectedly high prices. {’This distribution of cotfon was alded iby the most advantageous fall weath- ler Texas has ever experienced. Every Qay in October has been a working ‘one on the farm. As 2 result, prac- itically every crop, including hay and !feed, has been harvested and either isold or stored in barns and elevators. i There has been a decided revival iof activity in the southwestern oil iflelds. For the first time since last: ! March the number of men employed | iin the industry increased instead of !diminished. _Better prices for oil have resulted in the resumption of arilling operations and re-employment | jof office employes. H Noten. i NEW YORK. October 31 (Special).— ! Building contractors and those who | {desire to invest in bu!lding invest-| iments are being much encouraged b: ithe trend toward lowering the cost iof commercial money. Much building. ithey say. is being held up because it lcosts them too much to secure funds {to finance the operations. Wage iscales also have shown a tendency irecently toward lower levels. Builder fare making clgse Investigation of |condll!nns on wHich to base Drovoulll H ' {for wage adjustments in the building ltrades. When that investigation is jcompleted the builders #ill begin lnegatlsuons with the building trades unions for an agreement to take the iplace of the present scale which ex- ipires December 31. LYNN, Mass., October 51 (Special).— Shoe workers in the factories here |hue been asked to accept a wage cut of 20 per cent. This move, the fac- \tory owners state, was made to enable them to meet competition from the l\ve tern manufacturers. A St. Louis factory, the makers say, is delivering hoes in Lynn to retailers at $3 a pair, which under present wages Is _costing Lynn manufacturers $3.40 a pair to make. The Lynn plants in consequence are running at not more than 25 per cent capacity. PHILADELPHIA, October 1 (Spe- cial).—The Pennsylvania Retail Mer- chants' Assoclation has complained to the Anthracite Operators’ Associa- tion that some operators have mixed cmaller sizes of coal with the more costly domestic grades of anthracite. ; The complaint alleges that this s one | reason why the public is not laying {in winter stocks of anthracite which the retail merchants are unable to! sell, i Commodity Reports . From Various Sections | Lumber. : JACKSON, Mich., Octoben 31 (Spe- cial).—Orders aggregating 250,000 | railroad ties have becn received by the National Hardwood .Company. This marks a decided turn lu the tie business, which not_been active the past summer. One order was from a Belgian syndicete. g 7 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., October ;31 (Special)—There hias been a-mariied | increase in the demand for'hardwéod lumber in this market, according: t Calvin Knox, secretary of the Mich! gan Hardwood Lumber Manufactur~ ers’ Association.- Prices are firm. Shoes. ST. LOUIS, October 31 (Special).— Shoe manufacturers in this section are working at capacity and increas- ing the capacity. They expect to be at maximum production for at least two months. PHILADELPHIA, October 31 (Spe- cfal).~8hoe manufacturers bere ex- the opinion will be maintained at t levels for some time. This ement was f of several mX be operated } eventually atiou 300 men willibe em- ployed. WHEATLAND. Pa., October B1 (Spe- | cial).-~The Sharon Foundry.has re- sumed after a ,two-week shutdown. A steady run is expected. ‘ cial). poration will add 1, yEWW KENSINGTON, e Pa.. ©October cial).—The Pittsburgh works ynerican Sheet and Fin Plate " will resume operations to- wgter @ complete shugdown ths. The plant whll not . full at the start. hut A fee. 2 NEW TYORK, Outober 31 (Special). —There is a fair \buying interest in evidence in the Spot is in scant supply. rce market here. Stovens ST. LOUIS. October @1 (Special).— Although the output d4f most stove and range manufacturens is relatively small, the production o stoves here now is greater than normal. ¥ sheet metal NEW YORK, October 31 \(Special).— There are over 1,500 furnilure buyers here this week for the fall showing of the New York FurnitureiExchange, Some manufacturers alread: nounced they have sufficientyorders to keep them going until J:mu*ry 1. have an- Automobhile: MUSKEGON, Mich., Octobert 31 (Spe. —The Continental Moters Cor- 0 men ito their The Citizens e L. €. BREUNINGER, President. WM. D. WEST, Vice President. ROY L. NEUHAUSER. Vice. Presldent. FERNAND PETIT, - Cushler and Secretary. RALPH M. WOLFE, Ass't Cashier. PRICE & DULANEY, Counsel. (itizens 1 and the York Run plants off | 1t is expectedd | ner' Ba.nk Is Ideally Located For the Convenience of the Banking Public the Bank Is Open Until 5 M., Mon. and Tues. Oct. 31, Nov. 1 Bank pey rolls, beginning this weel fili an order for $13,000,000 worth of motors for Durant Motors, Inc. This contract slone Is expected to keep the Continental plants busy for two years at capacity production. to help Glans. CUMBERLAND, Md., October 31 (Special).—The Potomac Glass Com- pany plant has resumed after & shut- down since last Jul: Produce. ! 1 PITTSBURGH, October 31 (Special). —TProduce is being received in liberal supply, but consumers are buying in moderate quantities, ¢ Dealers assert present prices sre based on high frelght rates. Apples are quoted at 3687, | wrapes wt 6548175 for twelve.muart baskets, potatoes, No. 1 white &t $3.60a33.76 per 150 pound: bulk, mnd Virginia sweets at §: $3.50 par barrel. —_—— 1 FINANCE AND TRADE NOTES. The American Beet Bugar Company hus #o%d more than 500,000 bags of new doop sugur und the (24 000-bag chrry-aver trom the preceding season, muking ity totul sules since the b ginniny of it fiscal year, April 1, up- proximutely 1,100,000 buws. Coon Cola Compuny HNNOUNCes A dividenh of §1 per share on common: firnt dividend pald on that tksue wince July, fil-.-o. Neport for third quarter of 1021 shows net fncom: 02,948 aftor dharges, discounth and o pensess groas reuelpts of §4,380,30 manumaturing and general expens: of §7,00%780 und Interest chargas, di counts, ote, of $84,22 Corn Wroducts Refining Company for nine months ended Beptember 40, 1921, repwrts surplus, after RTR und fedewal taxes, of §5,068,4K0, equivalemt, ufter preferred dividends, to $7.54 & share on the common, com- pared with $22,20 per share In corre- sponding period of 1920, Strength in various South American oils is due to the necessity of calling on Venezuelan and Colombian fields for large #mounts of crude oil to re- place the production already lost by many compenles in Mexican fields. Glllette Spfety Razor Company has dpclared & stock dividend of 10 ,ger cént for the year 1921, payable Di cember 19 te stock of record of De- aember 12. A special meeting yof sbockholders has been called for No- Wember 18 to pass on stock increase. + GRAIN EXPORTS IMPROVE. ! | BALTIMORE, October 31.—For week {gnded October 29, grain exports from altimore totaled 631,809 bushels, of |yshich amount 57N.238 dushels was lwheat. The export tgfde in grain Ips becoming brisker a%d congestion in the local elevators is idly being Ir relieved. , SAVANNAH BANK PROBE. SAVANNAH. Ga. Bunk Examiner -T. It i Iicnnett h; can Bank and Trust Company o rding to the exami- | utatement, & portion of the pa-| per held by the institution was con- sidered doubtful. TOBACCO PRICES HIGH. I LYNCHBURG, Va, October, 31.—! Dark loose tobacco sales herwe last| week aggregated 44,900 pounds.| Prices rule high, despite the faat llmli !the offerings are being forced in.order sprinkling. —_— e In the nationallst capital of An-i igora, Mufide Ferid Hanum, author | iand ‘wife of the former minister of | ifinance, and many other women go} about the streets or ride horseback | with veils turned back. The Best is (he Cheapest | We will | 'These are two strains on your nervous eys- tem that go together. If Sou feel ill have ; your eyes examined Srat. Comsult BERNARD A. BAER Optometrist 217-218 EVANS BUILDING 1420 New York Avenue —the wifter season plave havoe with house and ty. Let Ferguson Pamnt IT NOW. Intertor sad Exterier Work, || == FERGUSON, INC. 33%,, Painting Departmest, Ph. N. 531838 ” Savings The “Bank of the People” is ideally situated in the heart of busy Washington, con- venient to all car . lines. This fact, together with the convenient banking hours, the attrac- tive rate of inter- est, and the mod- ern system of ren- dering monthly statements on com- mercial accounts, should prove high- ly advantageous to the public desirous of opening an ac- count-—savings or: commercial. 30 P. Savings 1 dhe Meart of the Businem Distzist. ing that|p October 31.—State ! 1 taken over the affairs of the Amerl | £ BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT HOLDS UP WELL, REPORT Time Near at Hand When Trade Can Bafely Throw Away Crutches. CLEVELAND, Ohio, October 31— Improvement reported in nearly all n August is holding up well he time is near at hand when business can safely throw away its crutches,” according to the monthly iness review of the Fourth Fed- eral Reserve Bank for October. The steel and iron industry, which In considered the thermometer for many lines, reports fires have b stagted under many furn long idle) though there are till “too mar smokelens stacks in the stecl section the atatemant declares. The bullding industry is finding ite stride and A marked improvement was shown last month in many linesx of manufacturing, These facts, with many other en- vouraging wigne, khow A healthy though alow growth toward renewerl prosperity, und tend to dim the speo- tor of unémployment, the report in- diouten, When buniness will return to so onllad normal ix u question wo are all lll(lllq." the review states, "but who oun the duy or ho In look- Ing for thp answer wo should bear In mind that the survival of the fit- tont in not ulways the survival of the best, nor In husiness at s flush als ways bpsiness at ite best, S —— C0AL EXPORTS STILL LAG. BALTIMORE, Octhoer 81 —Only six omrgoes of export coul left thix port m October 1 to 25, tolal tonnage amounting to 0,355 tons. 1taly took threa of these vessels, or n total of 21,042 tons, and of the remainder A gentina received 6,995 tons, Peru 1,5 tons and Porto Rico 814 tons. GASOLINE ADVANCED AGAIN. NEW YORK, October .—The Standard Ol Company of New Jers: has_just announced another advan in the price of gasoline. The in in New Jorsey, Maryland, West Virginia and the Distric lumbia amounts to a cen® a gallon In North Carolina and South Carolina the product has been Loosted 2 cents a_gallon. i Tm::ng Results Heating You can only determine the cost of your work in any of the above branches by the re- sults you get. We usc the best of materials and workmanship to insure satisfaction. Maurice J. Colbert - 621 F St. N.W. M. 3016-17. Call Franklin 4856 Trunks Repaired and Made to Order 80 L Street N.E. Save money and middleman's profits by coming to the factory. Tophams Trunks Made in Washington Ne Branches Feormerly Jantes S. Tophai Established 66 Years C., MONDPAY, OCTOBER 31, 1921." ' l GIVES BIG RAIL ORDER. NEW YORE, Octoben 31.—The Southern Pacific . Railway Company has placed an order with the Ten- nessee Coal and Iron Company for 44,600 tons of open hearth rails for delivery during next year. It rep- resents what is thought to be the {biggest single order placed by any iraliroad In a long time. When the United States Steel Corporation an- nounced, a short time ago, & reduction of $7 & ton in the price of open hearth rafls, making thir new quotation $40 u tqn, it was expected that con- siderable business which had been held back for just such a reduction would be released. e In order to set rumors at rest, direc- tors of Dodge Brothers announce that no change in ownership or manage- ment is contemplated and to that end the company has entered into long- term official contracts. 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