Evening Star Newspaper, March 24, 1924, Page 19

MARCH 24 U. S. STEEL BUSINESS | BANKS PLAN TO COMPETE. IN 1923 HUGE TOTAL o =~ D MONDAY 1924, 19 state of Tilinois, which recently re Jected all bids for its bonus issue, expected to readvertise early in April Prospective offerings for next week clude Continental Motors, Duquesn Light and Birmingham Railway, Ligh |and Power issues. | did maication of the prosperity of | the country, and that there 1§ no dan- ger in the situation. It is notable that the paper given Ly buyers of trucks is not so good as that for less than, G billions in the decade ending | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, DECADE OF WONDERS (350 s s passenger cars, York State's 845,- i YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, March Sheet mill operations in the Youngs- town district have been increased by putting in operation of six units of Thomas Steel at Niles. The plant had ¢ sixteen monthe. THE EVENING STAR COUPON “THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT” By Frederic J. Haskin, Partial Payment Plan Dis- cussed Pro and Con by _ Commercial Leaders. W YORK, March 24 showed gross nd net earnings exceeded | ne peac year in| the history of stecl, Eibert H. Gary, | chairman of the board of directors United States Steel Cor tons in 4 f - = total since {he ! tion. informed the compa 99,958 tons, uan | helders in his annual report. ons _over he ' gy g f the company amounted | Recent cold | “ATRINES O pany lto s Mr. | gross to $1 March 2 '_Thl“ll-pon ihat ~ foilowin: n Mills here to- S banner vear climination »lN U s TRADE ABRDAD'M"‘ 1172 billion dollars fn the decade ending with 1923 against 43 billions in / 2 |t ENTIRE COUNTRY i “It would se¢m to me that other in- =AY & | billions against willions, manufac- | dustries are a little jealous. Experts . | tures for further uge in manufacturing | oMW YORK, March 24.—The | . |5 billions against 21 billions, while fin- | CLEVELAND, March 24.—Consump- Ty & | for s of New York state's $45,00 Hlow’ dhe Cimple or the automobils I snea manutactures were 5 hll‘lllign‘tlsozli bton ot Sbal akiows tidtstes th:ou';:- Corporation's Earnings E“"d‘d’nun onus bond Issue, it was report ind e Sl denty of s 5 % ars in the decade ending w . : has resulted in the formati f 1 S L ertiting 19 atvelop seiling punch | tional Business Is Shown e out the country Is proceeding at top | by Only One Peace Year in His- | yions hanking mrowmes oo et foUr big value for every dnllsh| by Statistics .‘IJ;“ “{“' the t?“"'cnfl“f"* I;."?d‘““'“-"‘f in | hea D ihe S e A 11 wanth 1 4 {the importation of finished manufac- i shadowed by the Improvement iz et H jdures being smaller than in any other |t¢¢ Of the National Association of municpal bond market. The buy $1.02 w gasoline and $1. lof the important groups. Purchasing Agents. Reports‘to the | worth of tir 1 pemunl"‘)’fl‘k!“l“““ o) RECORD OF 1913-23 PERIOD Higher Pricex Considered. |committee show that 25 per cent of ' ; other industry where the dollar the plants show increased activit The will bring today m\:re than 80 -C(‘nis-. | . - ymust not, however, I:ltx x-m:-lderrd as per cent show a decrease and 50 SR i 5 . lmeaning a corresponding Increase in pe l ORLEANS SHOWING Figures Compared With Showing |quantity, for in nearly 41l of the ar steadily maintained. NEW A i Lt both ind exportx _— EEK| in Prior Ten Years. than Defore | BLO, March 2 IN COTTON PAST WEEK; . {mines @roduced 834,851 [ | of the big changes lruary, bringing th Sluggish Trading and Narrow | foreign commerce since the | | By Special Dispateh NEW YORK & of autol s rayment nd ROYL PU which § to comy the © in December, 1923, with that ber, 1913, fifty-six showed ces’ in December, 1923, than nber, 3. and out of forty- principal articles imported. in Thi { which monthly average prices can be Nisldetermined, thirty-seven showed high- Trade ler import prices in December, 1923, the erly attacked fended executive Th partial- reh buy- Some in our! Present this coupor and $1.00 at the Business Office of The Evening Star and secure your copy of the book, a 5-color map of the United States, 28x22 inches, and a 32-page booklet con- taining the Constitution of the United States. Mail Orders—Add for postage 1o 150 miles, 8c; 300 miles, B r distances, ter rate for 2 pous: i begin- a com- | New and Enlorged Fion THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT Frederic J. Haskin the pre-war decade; foodstuffs over § Bonus Bonds. have advised them, however, to fol- | Tremendous Growth in Interna- jagainst 314 billions in the pre-war speed, according to the fuel commit- { r the business. Active bidding is That same dollar will | These big increases in total Values cent indicate production is being {first of the year to Range of Fluctuations in Prices | NNE of the war arc noted b equally H the Men, nsion of 1t increase of 187,116 same period of 1923, orously ¢ parizon of the 1923 imports Is Market Report. i ports with those of 1913, ORLEANS. | full vear preceding the war. Astie oo comparison made Ly the activity at t P day o a three-day-a-week i very Dbeginning New York shows that our exports! These chanzes in Imports and ex- the period. i T Gmews month at four days a week. ! 2 leight-hour system, partially in: the past week has devel- o nirabea 5 % 3 o i POorts of merchandise have been ac-! PORTLAND., March 24 cheral!r;fi,.x a year ago, went into ge stuggish trading and a] % In\‘ls;‘.l |u.|;m{.m|ulx l-mnlmm;-‘«ll ‘\l._v L;mld»qu‘JL Pmnkllr:;::(.,,],,m,( gf Hu,b“:‘nk' o MOL,; have' effect on February 1 last. Other S . s 7 <, | totaled $1.478,000,000 ag: = e gold movements, the recently been sold here at $2 Derymanufacturers working on Very) mareow. ERfige. of CULQUBEIONS {0 o 00 i 035, sl HEE the: tat imports of gold Into the jyndredweight net to growers. There |4 similar basis, dvocated by th prices advancing and declining al- | "% ARy 3 mm“{rnnm ates in the decade ending ! ternately in an aimless sort of way, | ®¥POrts of 133 were §4.167.000.000y $2,484.000,000 in 1912, receipts disclosed of the | edit Xy National declared ation of enormous atomobile by sclling may hav other in- of the Commerce nd NEW Xa., moderate March 2 of the busi- stimulated nent p effect sident largely fnstal il dustries T on the extremely an | upon change st Reeves total \utomobile Chamber on the othe ancing of part-pa its lexitimate that exports of i nobody the American fam- 4 its money Reprosents $2 000,000,000, My ¥ in the being in th, ce o mo ant of Federal r been tonna a ar 1 “It “that for said sig of Tat i Tregoe. Stat The Book That Shows Uncle Sam At Work mercials also, With the later quoted | oight hours, w aafus o aBs ol net losses for the wee al 36 per cent. = Gury declared FISICIITIE amacoriul o8 Der sent = dition- of the range: in this state B ket was moderately stimulated pap eded in only vious vea time g ncrense In iexnd | ST. PAUL, March 24.—The volume |1 is a scramble for Burbanks, With |Jate President Harding. . having been 92,584,000 | California leading the demand. There | “The wage rates of employes, whose with very little net change to show | against ;::‘.,‘:)A\ nm‘;h n;“;n lm-- interest in No. 2 stock and com-|aay was reduced from iwelye L0 from day to day. The active traling partly manufact ng with e EO m- R months at the close Saturday show i s last decade having thus [at $1.10-to $1.75 and the former at|uftord compensation £qu iRl i omparing 1 wit] nearly nine times as much as $1.60 to $1.60. { iner. of 25 per cent e hously roints, the most lg 42 per in value, réw pre-war decade. % ===t land base rates previously paid, Mr.! old crop months. A AUSTIN, Tex., March 24—The con- ) start of the week ar gtk : point of outpu At the start of the w the mar- | ¢ o45tums, 70 per cent, and mnished | C0-OPERATIVE CANNING | nniocuatiy hich, cxperis placing 1t at |, o point of tot utput ' % manufactures, $9': per cent 191 per cent. Cattle are cetimated at|7] 5 e tatiok Weavoraple Itvetpgol tady 190 1” r cent and sheep at 98 per cent. | TCPOrt sald, the il iy 1d by quite large spot sales in that Increase in Lxports. { 90 per cen b g ce! RS e s OF TOMATOES TESTED | o T n benefi- | attrituted in a great measure to ex- | finished manufactures il o lof tur business here last year amount- | JATBer oper with_im- icle that j POTLS to the continent of i by the large zains wiich led to $8.000,000. The Assoclated R. selling prices, rnings s od demand from Russia. ¢| made_in "exports o the non-manu- s e ey s world s bui | in | - | show | vear show a substantizl in those of the preceding for the Uwe must not | maiuly due to the slug- | Shipmen U that prosperity i the dry goods market!40 per cent larger In value th 1 evenne of pro- | further talk of mill curtail- | 1913, while those to the non not production alone of factiring sections of the globe show | Mareh 24 ( b _i“’?”:‘“”fffi"’?“fil” nas asked per- {lour turn hud heen eliminated b De- few commoditics, A wage earner is much larger incre o North| co-opers a = of to <, | mission of the federal courts to build | cembe all subs v companles hip o Bis b Y ot ; America 81 per cent, South America | o :”\“. E A ¢ l"",“" | 100 cars at a cost of $1,050,000. exeept one, which was not completed ® 84 per cent. Africa 110 per cent and | Which was tried as an experimen o nunerative mpl until F ruary 4, owing to a AT 00te: 10 ATt o Axia and Ocenni; per cont EX-|lust summer by the canners and { SHERE ;P(srlr.:.‘w;tra‘n-hnl:(|—art1;a: shortage of skilled labor. The num- educing s to Europe, which consist chiefly | zroCore of Somerset county, was cksburg, Shreve and ~ Pacific | Ler additional emploves required Feucing D o Siaviar, | Sromeis ot Somersct county, waw o/| VIGRSNTE, SUvenon, Gud [ Fanifciler of adatcioial omployeel spauieed i o s aceording -to the cars for immediate dellvery at a cost | workers on continuous pro ST a he world, which Agent C.Z. Keller. | of $1,250,000. an cight-hour all othe inst remainder of t Pl out Tentarss L. i # SomElst IarLely Wi ARNAENEOREE in county | TULSA, Okla. March {ten-hour day, wi i T ed- | o e e 10 oo cressed 111 per cent. not res 1 higher hank Oil Company has prought in a | O more than 10 ne This big increase in the Tiate consumer; who WAL s Lompany Test | o Fensions w e fellow who pays the w 000 for a ) e in the ess was due to the|Pa sale plan climinted waste! wd tomato to be market pgices, but | "o the "Droduc, tions of tive % Europe in 1923 wei Complete Success Noted by the |trade has grown 400 per cent in six | Producers and Operators in | years. Maryland County. e e change ST. LOUIS, March 2.—The United |hours, the report stated. the twelve- gishne and the ment With shorts afraid to sell with vim and those Lullishly inclined aring to buy owing to the dry ods and mill situation, the mar- ket relapsed into almost a lethargic | state, with net changes from day to day virtually nothing. Even the pub- | lication of the final ginning figures | for the year by the census bLureau failed to caus¢ any movement ini prices. The in working PALTIMORE, undoubtedly comp! rt of County One of the the succes: was that it did ! prices to t i alwa it hat r cent, and market was supported at the ! of the week by expectation] ndus- | i a bullish report Suc the other i tic not er not ab) CL XD, March 24.—Activity ' n the steel industry has made a large hole in the ore on hand. arly plan worked | 4610 tons were conrumed last month, nd canners wers |and stocks on hand total neariy 1 production, and | 000 tons dess than a year ago. Sivididion CHICAGO, March 21.—Scrap he Grower prices have suffered amother no £ of theldrop of 50 cents a ton on nearly all tomatoes to theq 8rades her. farmers I heretofo S 4 of Wi FISHER'S INDEX PRICES. entire NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 21— he had received | Last week's prices averaged 149.2 for his tomatoes. |per cent of the pre-war level. The cents aba the | purchasing power of the dollar was 5,376, cqual to X nd_consid- | 67.1 pre-war cents. Crump's index a sha £12,000 ents above the | number, 156.1. 13160 capital stock GAIN IN B. & 0. INGOME. it b i T i roprof the way tiw I growers re u m in acquirin out sorporation’s home Statement Made of February Earn- {and many other {And the impcrt ftomabile ings in Preliminary Form. IALTIMORE arch 24 (Special).— Statement of February carnings|otal value ¢f raw saltimore and’ Obio railroad, | (2riu1 Smportc: in preliminary form, shows | (o0- apain ntial gain in gross and net | inclease of a over January. This wis 4c- | white the * I finist throvgh & larke suin in |{ures exporte about and the continuation of mild % weather, enabling the company to es- | Higs Mercien Rcoschatie | tablish the most efficient and econom- | wcarcely realize, says the Trad {ial operating conditions. Indications | Re {remendobs growth in' ou are that March will vield equall fo e decade sine Gntil we co erage cont [(¥oEableTeNulls with those of |71t would not be preceding the war. | ing from popular opinion, to ses | |.the plan tricd somewhere else in| Maryland during the goming summer. | round fern: { 3% has been satd, thé plan does not | billion prices to the con-| partly manu- . ner weans a_higher vl through elimi- | nea That's cMhctenc t every successful iving for. value like ‘to industr Th o would . other roximatel G After full s rmer fo cen pri | highest o bly more was made the § 20 po par v outstanding, the In 1922 ne possible industry an- | because CHAIRS nd manufacturers to ¢ cash basis. The records through these com- best showing made article d the | 4 surprise, judg- | PARIS BOURSE m PARIS, March weak on the bour: per cent rentes, & | times; exchange on London. 0 centimes: 5 per cent loan ¢ centimes. The dollar was quot t 13 francs 15 centimes. such compa tod e notes total- bhalf or 1 thirty day nanc $.—Prices were | with i lion in { nation of - | the same manufact Gum Chewing w thi nount to little negligible. The by a buyer i tween $500 and $600 note outstanding to: reason that the promptly is th. family of the purchas car and.hates to lo Vo f one is going to Americ family what they must do with their money. and aver i turing mater; note given | & siness runs be- and the ave Savings Deposits Increass. | ® During the period in which cars have been extensively sold on part ) payment, savings bank deposits have { increased the country over; there has | in the buying | the that it has pros- { ot been menaced by | tomobiles Che | that th tinue { - hand, is You have the authority of doctors and ! ‘ dentists for this statement. 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