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THE EVE EGGS AT 33 CENTS IN LOCAL MARKET Arrivals Almost as Large as in Summer—Other Prices Hold Firm. ipments of e rket wh nod sult level of il inues outside the pale of eggs at al prices will hold out receipts are now 38 cents. market threate a further hennery are sellin a de market en Wholesale Prices. today nd prints, demand barr in = inches Hack Tw redium to ) LTy mode ype mostly, mand moder fornia, crate Carrot Market Steady. mited: demand | 10-1b. | m s | air quali oice _count, ality and it demand <as, bushel . con- | baskets, Beets ergte, bagke Peppers e Texa and mod bushek demand 1. pep choice, PLANS FOR HUGE OIL MERGER PROGRESSING| Combine May Take in Six Com- panies, With Total Assets of $200,000,000. By the As NEW tions for tinent oil the Waite and Bar idi completio e that formal ann the pluns will be made n The merzer, which will rou Barnsdall Cc eventual compan S of $200,000,0 inies whi malgam nt Oil and and Ofl. five plans are now under consic bankers and interests controlling the various companies. New financing in volved in the different proposals yanges from $15,000.000 to $40.000,000 in bonds and between $10.000,000 and $20,000.000 in other securities, public offering of which probably will follow the formal announcement of the merger terms. wcinted Pr YORK ¥ T ion of mi which will link consc with ncement t week be built | rporation as of bined the c into the Independ Pacific Co: our or i ion are Gas be drawn skelly Of and Texas 1e LIVE STOCK RECEIPTS DECREASE DURING MONTH Special Di o S . creases were general in hoth receipts and sh Unfon Stock Yards ¢ Total number of c ss than th received was number ar- ember, hipments few , totaling last, as against 8§13 of the ar preced- ving in Dy amounted to 564 for Decembe during December ing. Receipts of hogs showed the great- est dec e total of 108,042 for December, being 40, lighter than in December, 1924, ou a Sycker. ople put their money and wake up broke. Never put yur name on the doiied Too many in day dre: NEW YOI tnuary ward movement today nite than it had be | it was noticeable that element was not dispos on the buying side urday and Mond: i | | as wa vith the volume 10 group a { proportions. Buyin in th of NEW YORK, January S an official list of in on the Market today: BONDS. iish New Low o Am 01l A0 et 1200 Vacuun INDEPF 74 —$1.000 at —Call loan: Bid and Asked Prices. BONDS. PUBLIC UTILITY, . Bia. American Tel. & Telga. ds.... Aterican Tel. & Telga, 4145.. A el & Tel. ol tr. baros hone of Va. Pot. Joint Stk. L'd Bl <2 Realty (long) Sonthern Bide. B3e.. . Wash: Mkt. Cold Stora Wardnan Park Hotol 0s. ... STOCKS. PUBLIC UTILITY. American Tel. & Tel Capital Traction.... Pow,_ Int. cif.. v. & Elec. com & Elec. pd NATIiONAL BANK. al Capital Wash. R strict ... . mere’ & Mechanics Di ol Sae- Tnion Trust...... Wash. Loan & Trust .. SAVIE sommerce & Savi st Washington - - Sav. & Cgm. d States i 7 S0 Wathington Mechan American Co~coran Firemen'= .. National Union.. Columbia Title.. Real Estate Titie MISCELLANEOUS. D. C. Paper pfd. Merchants Trans: & S Federal Storage Co. Mergenthaler Linotype. Nat. Mtge. & Inv. pfd. Jine until u have inquired of some one in your hank what he knows about some stock issue that is offered 1o you privately. 0ld Dutch Market pid. LBI\I‘?‘II 31[0"'(‘“')"00 Lenmiy dlonu Washinrton Marke “Ex dividend. 1in_reaching BY WILLIAM F. HEFFERNAN. The up- was more defi n Wednesday bu tive | ome in last he oils, however, continued promi- wuth 1rge Rickenbacker T.—Follow- bonds and rk Y 245 107%. 10 at 10 _at 209, 46—$1.000 at 108. 5 and 6 per cent. Asked. NEW YORK CURB MARKET Received by Private Wire Direct to The Star Office s accom ming au tomobile show the company disclose radical nd that has t been almost t| Land Company of Fl prominent, and there was special buy- ing in pr Trans-Lux above the 11 1, which was be for outoftown account. Santa Venezuelan Pet Wilcox 0 & G 11 2 Woodley Pot new new . Elec D Eiist A Rol Miils 'n t exas El Tex El nlohr & Br v At Lite Bd & Shopfd 10: B & $honco b Rab S5 pr1L " % Woite © Bak B Goneral 1 5 Gillewt Owens pril Fd R&EM vt SIP & L Baking B South 1 South 1 ont way e pfd iry A Quin - wi Radio . . . Auto Sip n t Maryland nf est Pow 1 2 State 10 Hawthorne 4 Hecla Mine 9 Jerome v I, ) Tono Belmont.... 4 Tono Min = 1Uni Verde Ext 1l 11 Wenden Cop 3 Yukon Gold DRY GOODS MARKET. NEW YORK, January 7 (Special). —Cotton goods markets were quiet today, with print cloths steady at 8% or 64x60s and 103 cents for 63x Raw silks declined 5 cents a pound in a slow market, bringing the top of the list to §7, the quotation for the XX-A 20x22 denier. RUBBER DOWN 2 CENTS. NEW YORK, January 7 (Special). —Crude rubber prices fell back 2 cents today to $5. This compares with $1.10 a month ago and 39% cents a year ago. SR STEEL ORDERS PLACED. NEW YORK, January 7 (#)—The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad has placed orders for 5,500 tons of rails with Colorado Fuel and Iron and 4,500 tons divided equally between Illinois Steel and Inland Steel. BUS SERVICE EXPANDS. NEW YORK, January 7 (Special).— Alfred P. Sloan, president of General Motors, id today that operation of busses by electric raflways had in- creased 60 per cent within the last year. Greece has between 700,000 and 800,000 acres planted in tebacco. .+ INTRADING TODAY new line engineering | production for the com- ida continued well PEAK SEEMS PASSED | ING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 1926. - COTTON STRONGER | Good Liverpool Cables and | Better Goods Buying Helps Home Markets. By the Associated Press NEW YOI January futures opened s March, 20.03: May, 14 October, 18.36. A fu ured the openins months showing strenzth on expectations of the cotton taken up on contracts will be exported market relptively steady 1 after opening 10 points, sold net higher in e March advancing to with domestic and f connections were among of March and May, also was some forefgn of October, broker ite cables rted that much Januar; from the infiuenced b ool cables | adva 10 to 16 trading, hous trade buyer: | there buying Pri busines ter, and the early advance Lo nied by rather bette from Fall River and the local g ets at an hout poin rly while trade | id better re, a ew Orleans Quotations. NEW ORLE, ton futures 19.90 bid: M. July, 18.65 bid: Octol market opened highe s with better cables than due, trades showed ga Prices advanced furt on a wave of sh the strength shown b tlons. January traded ch, ring, due t the near pos sment ening of the positions ow lizht certific that is advanc tions. Cotton V: EANS, noon March, , 18.7 October W YORK. January n futur 11:45 am January, March, 58; July 04, October, ues at Noon. J T sy ¥ uture 01; >]\,1' . IN POTATO PRICES Maine Growers Get Largest Re- turns on Crop—Shipments Have | Recently Doubled. | i Ee | By the Associated P | CcHIc Janua | doing recent potatoe k ceful curve itle nearer to the e cent increase s the last week appears to be A report today from the t Bureau of Agricultural | heavy ship ired with the induced by the more moderate I per of potato ship respo Governme us strong marke weather. According to the offic est prices of the se on the last and | al report son for pe of 1 925, | hun home t r ago, been the general signed for the extremely high | prices. Up to date 1 rloads of | Canadian o duty paid, have aled dome: | cause YORK, w January 7 (P)— Atkins of Boston tods v directors of the Punta Co. to succeed his win F. Atkins, as presi- dent of the company. Edwin Atkins sked to be relieved of the re- ility owing to his advanced s. The new president was the organizers of the company NDITION | UNITED STATES | SAVINGS BANK, RESOU 1. aLoans and cluding rediscounts. ceptances of other banks and foreign Lills of ex- change or drafts. sold with indorsement of this_ i A $1.651.570.73 065.12 593,333.55 $609 32" . Other bonds, stoc ties, et ... 6. Banking house, Turniture and $9,230.27 ... Cagh 'in_vault and ‘amount due from national banks . Amount due from State banks, bankers and_trust companies in the United States (other than in- cluded in item 10) Exchanges for house 0.27 161.545.61 29.267.65 20.349.60 s - 50,262.53 LIABILITIE: d in . Capital stock $100.000.00 e 150.000.00 $48,117.28 r depreciation.. 14.206.76 02.324.04 2.869.43 23. Amount banks 5 . Amount ’due Dbanks, bankers st companies i th ted States and foreign coun- countries (other than in- cluded m item 23) ... . Certified checks outstanding | Cashier's checks outstandin Total of items 23. 24, and 26 ... $19.113.01 Demand deposits ' (other than bank deposite) & ject to reserve (depor payable within 30 day . Individual deposits subjec 10 check ... i . Dividends unpaid .. . . Other demand deposits” | Total of demand de: Dosits (other than bank deposits). subject. to re- serve, Itéms 2731 and a3 ~.$081.869.30 Time deposits sublect 10 re- crve (payable after 50 days or subject o 30 days or more notice and postal savings) : . Certificates of deposit (oth- er_than for money bor- rowed) . Other time deposits Towl of tme deponits subject to reserve. ltema and 8 .0 8143606018 - P oBBEAons Wiient fk fmomey borrowed ot er than Trediscounts) due to national 46.577.55 1.390.378.63 100,000.00 Total 550,262 53 District of Colurbia. s I WM. R. de LASHMUTT. cashier of the apovenamed bank. do eoleminly ewear that the ahove statement iy true 1o the best of my knowledge and belie! WM. R. de LASHMUTT. Cashier. Subscribed_and sworn_ to before me this 5th_d: of Janus 1921 ; OMAS E. PETTY, tseil) “Fu Notary Public. Germany Reports Many Failures During December By the Associated Press. , January 7 (#).—There ) bankrupteies during hips in G 1y during mber, the nent an- nounced today. skrupteles represent an in of 20 per cent over the total for November. WALL STREET TRADERS ARE STUDYING COPPER Course of Spring Busin RUBBER SHORTAGE TOLASTEVE YEAS |New Producing Areas Will Not Yield Large Returns for Long Time. I Dispateh to The Star. W ymobile 1nited aul the ss Now En- gaging Attention of Experienced Observers. NEW YORK, Jan street is witness J stock ng expansion going wotive industry, has attached to of rubber pr Rubber con Stutes is near- ry 7.(® the tyaditi ke contus MOVernen S 1 howeve: 1y watching | for indications of the course of Spring | business, which invariably appear | later in the month when inven have bheen compl «d and contrs are made for raw material Part iar attention is being paid this vear ) the copper metai market, orts were current just before the that the demand for the red i particularly from the electrical 4 try. would be unusually h this Spring. Coppers have not participated extensively in the group movements of the present “bull” market. world's Wl interest cular rise he past yea in the Unite wnd all of the rubl mported, most of it from I | Dutch p sions in the Popular attention, therefore. tered mainly on the system of contre worts from British coloni which has restricted supplies t from since the latter part of 19 perhaps even greater importanc been the Heavily inc tion of 1 specially in the Unit- ed States of gr which seems likely to press available supplies in the next few years. and Explained. 3 0 American re- s of rubber were about 40,000 1y ithey are now almost 10 amount. The astounding motor cars in the past BUTTER UNCHANGED. ). Tt 5,750 tut January od; rece v re that ek e e sk ok e ek e ek sk e e sk e sk ek sk ok e skeok ek skok ook ek X KRR XX XX Have You Enrolled Yet —for membership in Commerce Month- | |1 rased consump- | thé increasing use of motor trucks and busses, which require more tires as well as heavier and larger ones than passenger cars; the rapidly-grow ing popularity of balloon tires, whick consume about one-third more rubbe than high-pressure tires; the develop. ment of the electrical industry, an im Jortant consumer of rubber; the widen- ing use of rubber for other article these explain why demand is crowding upon production. “The American rubber industry ther with its closely related ites, the automotive and petroleum refining industries, has experienced a st remarkable expansion since Between 1914 and 19 ibber manufactures .in_the United States rose in v m $300, 994,000 to $953.643.000. Automobile tire and tube production account for most of this develop nt Rubber | anufacture in many European coun- | JGINT STOCK LAND BANK INCREASES CAPITAL CLEVELAND, Ohio, January 7 (®)—An in from $350,000 to $1.000.000 in the capital stock of the Ohio-Pennsylvania Stock Land Bank has been authorized by the tock? t to the approval the n Loan Board. ninth in order of o em, the Ohio- )W is nineteenth d 30 mpeti- it has Samuel total to- | ass0- tors during the been in business, L. McCulne more GARY lNTEND'S TO REMAIN ACTIVE STEEL CHAIRMAN NEW YORK, January 7 (#).—El hert H ry. chairman of the United tes St ‘orporation, has officially denied Wall Street rumors t he in tended to retire. So far as I know has not been three y Presid repor than $9,80¢ o5 one nt or in th crude rubber market. France has one of the most important rubber indus tries outside of the United States.” he said, discussed “the | subject nor Five-Year Shorta; d his uint £l dvance ined the rs of the United States fon since his election to ip over ) t practic The bank points out that “the major question s relation hetween rubber requirem and supplies over | coming years. Plantings have been of | very small proportions past and new plantings n | be ineffective for the longr wufacturers b developing ne Some of the larger e alr 3 rubber- 3 pines, Brazil, Mexico America offer possible duetion. Experi : lone in the wdoned banama n regions. he general inte sources of rubh > chairma S pres ne inter ucing are tire compan a_ footing in! The Philip- | the nd Central | } s for pro-| materially is | the and | ne the officis 8. | industry as current sh itish dominance of suppl on ng this ibbe adfust limited o st a new he Zoening Star Boys Club? The sports masters have begun their coaching in the sports section of The Star— and the Club is in full swing. Just think what it means to be coached in the seasonable games by the men who have made champions out of others, or achieved distinction for themselves. The big men in every phase of clean, wholesome sport are on the coaching staff of THE EVENING STAR BOYS CLUB—and membership in the Club brings you in close touch with and direct benefit by their counsel and advice. In Foot Ball— Coaching by men like Knute Rockne, or Bob Suppke, or Tad Jones, or Gil Dobie, or Lon Stagg, or Jack Wilce, or Glenn Thistle- thwaite. In Tennis— By Vincent Richards, Hal Drew, Alphonse Smith or some other celebrity. In Base Ball— By Connie Mack, George Huff, Carl Lun- gren, L. W. St. John, Ban Johnson and John Heydler. In Track and Field— By Lawson Robertson, Jack Moakley or Harry Gill. 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