Evening Star Newspaper, June 10, 1926, Page 29

. mand slow, market weak; North and TRADING IS ACTIVE - IN'FISH MARKET Season Cloves on Shad To- \ nicht—Crahs and Shrimp in Good Demand. Municipal ¥i Boon presented a retailers being on hand fov for their early I The seaxon for Market scens this after- of activity, ipplies day morning trade. as tonight, ies on hand ot make “oall supply W roe’s 30 conts & pound. buck's bring Three varieties of o1 white meat and claw meat tful recent wired packers to reduce meat was quoted af $ the white meat at $2.7 at_2.00 Soft crabs from Potomac hetween t follk are supplying the prices ranging from § dozen bems were quoted cents a do: Filet of Haddock in Demand. Filet of haddock n Boston, ®ood seller, is in dem: cut and packed homeat —amp, ~were plen- | were dealers em. Lump 00 a gallon, and claw meat ibutavies of the | < ¢ity and Nor: local retaining flavor merely chilled and not - Cooked and green shrimp are it demand, the fo + selling at "T\l a gallon and e latter at 23 cents a pound. Live lobsters were quoted 50 cents a pound. Frogs from nearby ponds. very large, were | $3 a dozen. Bluefich, sea bass and mackerel | from the Jersey were in de-, mand. the blues bringing 25, mack- | erel 18 and hass 15 + pound. | Pan trout were 1 d larger 1b cents. Rockfish arce. panfish | selling 15 and ck at 2 cents Salmon were quoted at but at 25 and scallops brov & zallon. Dealers reported mno meat, poultry butter and since vesterday. The wmeat markert | continues strong and dealers see no sign of relief in the near future, especially on pork products i Market Prices Today. | Rutter—Fancy. one-pound prints, | 46a47: tub. 45246 ! not at 30. hali- ght $3.50 { in | s| | large. STEEL UNCERTAIN TRADE BAROMETER Sentiment Now in Hands of Professional Optimists and Pessimists. BY J. C. ROYLE. YORK has ce: NEW industry June eter of business prosperity in the United States. Temporarily sentiment the hands of professional optimists and pessimists, while con tracts for third quarter requirements ® being discussed. Sellers are attempting to foster the mu that business will be heavy and high, while buyers are pulling Sons fices oversa nbesitie siumnjin building. the automobile trade and is in { other lines. In the Middle West the situation in | steel is strong. Inquiry in the Chi cago district is heavy in nearly all lines and bookings have been very This latter fact has been due to the desie of consumers to ge( their orders in before the advance of selected, 31a32: hen- receipts, 30 40045 Plymouth % { : 1o 2 pounds, 38: 0as0: old. 4V | =, 33a35: broi keats, young, 90al.00, choice, thin, & §2 a ton on plates and shapes went into effect. .In the Pittsburgh dis- t the Chicago advance is rezarded | s a move to along the line for third quarter de livery nd it may ha followed in Pitts. burzh uncertain Northern Ohio Situation. A favorable view of the northern Ohio situation is taken by John T. Harrington of Cleveland, president of the Trumbull Steel Co. He believes 34a37: | h('a\\ | (’|I~4Hm' veuls, 19. pork 3 t | $2. han =houlders. (‘<h' hams, fresh shoulder 3 Fruit and Vegetable Rev Today's market and vegetubles. compiled the Market News Service Burcau of | Agricultural Lconomics, s; i Cantaloupes—supplies liberal, de- mand sood for Rood stock, market | firm; California Imperial Valley. Salmon | tints, standard 36s and 45s, 3.00a3.50; Jjumbos, 45s, 3 5: standards and jumbo flats, 9 125, mostly 1 Tair quality. soft Adards, 458, sal- | mon _tints. 2.50a Jumbo; s, | 27523.00; ponys. 438 and 5ds, 15 and 2.00: honey dews. standard crates, medium size, 2 4 12s and 15%, 1.75a2.00 and 54s, honey balls, few sales, 5. Lettuce—Western, supplies lig ¢ sales to establish market supplies moderate; demand | rket dull; New Jersey. ates, big Boston type, report on m.un pony slow, dozen 1.00 Onion T5a moderate de- | steady: Texas, | Barmudas, | ordi- | Supplies mand ht. market standard crates vellow 1 No. 1, 1.75a2.00 nary quality and conditions, 1.5¢ California. standard crates vellow Bermudas, U. =, No. 1. few sales, © ) few sales (o e\lnbllxln market. Potatoes. demand Michiga rals, U. around ‘Supplies | moderate: demand moderate, marl steady: North Carolina and Carolina, cloth-top stave b; 1 blers, 1 No. 1, South umnw poor Florida. dmlh‘t! 1d ing Rose, Old stock: market Supplies fairly <, Russet Ru- | mostly | ondition rrels, ‘n.mld 0. ies. Strawberries—Home-growns _supply- | ing the market; home-grown, 32-quart crates, various varieties, wide range quality and condition. 3.00a7.00, mostly fair quality and condition, medium size, 3.50a5.00, Tomatoes—Supplies liberal moderate, market steady ripes and turning. w count, mostl 11.00; choice count, mostly, 3.00; few high as .50, poo faney and choice count. | 1.50a2.00 <, "4s. pink. wrapped. | best, 1 5 rer low as 7 Watermelons—Supplies light: ! mand light. market rect to retailers; few sales I Watsons. 26228 pound av und average, mostly - Supplies liberal: uemma, market slightly weaker inla, Norfolk section, harrel | erates, pointed type 115 bushel | hampers. 1.50: few lower | Asparagus— supplies moderate: de. mand moderate, market firm: Dela <. per dozen bunches, small 00: medium size, 3.00a3.50; | targe size, 4.0026.00; run < medium size. Supplies moderate moderate. market steady: N lina. 3-peck hampers, 1.73 condition. low as 1.00; h barrels. small pod varieties Telephones, 6.0047.00; few % | Bean Market Weak. | String beans---Supplies liberal: de- mand light. market wenk: South Caro- lina. bushel hampers, green, some re. fused: fair quality and condi a2.00; few best, 2.50: North bushel hampers green, mostly around 5 3.00a3.50. Sguash—Supplies 1, moderate. market stead: lina, bushel hampers, 1.50. Cucumbers. mand Florida. demand Florida, pped. faney moderate demand ht: demand South Caro. white, mostly Supplies moderate. market T-bushel hampers, 1.00a2.00. according South Carolna, bushel hampers, fancy, 1.50a Virginia, Norfolk sec tlon, hotbed stock, “a-bushel hampers, fancy, 3.50a3.75: choiee, 2. Corn—Supplies light; erate, market steady: baskets, 2.50a2.75; most Blackberries—Supplie: liberal: to o | | demand mod- Texas, bushel o ‘liberal; de- 0 ‘I doubt that while announcements of fand Keniu operations will continue at rate during the Summer, with new business picking up in August. Other steel men in that district predict operations will not drop below 60 I per cent of capacity even at the low | point of the summer. Ohio tube | mills are running at the highest rate of the vear, helped by one order for 200 miles of eight-inch pipe. Repub. ! lie { pipe capacity and turn has increased to Youngstown Sheet and Tube, ever. reports a slight decrease Railroad buyving has aided its average out- per cent. how- the { Colorado mills and the improvement manufacturing activities in general jand California_mills and furnaces a splendid run of business for compara- new ventures. Pittshurgh the efforts of steel bur makers to restore the market to 4 2-cent-a-pound minimum price have not brought a buying movement such mpanied the Chicago plate se advance. In anticipation quarter demand the | tonnage buyer is being asked to 10 cents, the fair sized buyer 2 cen ind large ton huyers 1.80 cents. Coal and Steel Interlock. stesl are most intimately | 4 and the bituminous men nestlr engaged in striving to ¢ their industry to a better basis. The National Coal Association. now meeting in Chicago. is looking to big mergers as olution of unsatisfac. tory earnings. according to dispatches to the writer. here seems little | interloc! e e adjv 41 Indiana and Tiinols s was premature, some such e will o through and be but the beginning of a series of similar com- o ns. e hermanent closing down of the | No. 2 mme of the Pittsburgh Ter- minal Coal Co. has further reduced the coal tonnage of Pennsylvania pro- ducing under union scale. The mines in the Pittsburgh district are not sharing in the increase in coal move ment due to lake shipments. but some of the non-union mines of West Virginia are reported sold up for| menths ahead. Production in north-| on West Virginia has been running | nearly 000 tons a_week higher than ot this time last v Pittsburgh _ shippers freight rates favor the \West Virginia | mines in_transporting coal to Lake Erie ports. and open 4 fight for readjustment of rates {before the Interstate Commerce Com- mission at Atlantie City, June 20. The coal mines at Anthracite, near | Banff. Canada. are expected to resume operation this Summer after an idle- s of 24 years dnv to litigation. UNION CIL EARNINGS HEAVY DESPITE FIRE SAN FRANCISCO, June 10 (P).— The Union Oil Co. of California has made public its balance sheet as of | Jdarch 31, showing sufficient earnings (o pay dividends and add a substan- tial sum to surplus, in addition to pay- sses Incident to the oil fires a merger of s Obispo and the Stewart tank | The howed after uthern California. oil fire losses. the balance sheet {1ast April. dwindled to $784 insurance had been collected. The balance sheet showed total 3.395.000. not including epresenting new dis- T as brought in as producing . subsequent to March 1, 1313 et profits for the three months ending March were listed as $2,706.353. 31 Are You a Sucker? Too many people put thelr money in day dreams and wake up broke. Never put your name on the dotted line until you have inquired of some one in vour bank what he knows about some stock issue that is of- | fered to vou privately. South Carolina, 32-quart crates, 3.50a 4.00: few, Carrots—Supplies liberal; moderate, market slightly weaker; Mississippi 7s-bushel hampers, bunched, 1.75; Virginia, Norfolk sec: tion, crates, demand 10.—~The steel | ed for the moment | [ to be a particularly accurate barom- | rengthen prices all | i \though the success of the | move in the Pennsylvania district is a fair| Iron and Steel has added to its | small | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, CUSTOMS COLLECTIONS TO TOP ALL RECORDS Total Already $30.000,000 Above That for This Time Last Year. New York Again Leads. Customs collections will exceed all previous records for this fiscal vear. ending June 30, with a total between $600.000,000, estimated today by the Treasury. Collections tor the year already are $30,000,000 higher than for the sane !says the St. ESSAY CONTEST MARRIS & EWING PROTOS L. T. Savage (upper right), has been | awarded first prm in the essay cor- test t'onducl«l 3 the local Bankers' | Assoclation. ¥ Perley (upper, Teft), | won second honors, and R. D. Calvo | lower), captured third place. There were about 25 contestants, the win- ners being rewarded with trips to the | convention at Hot sprhun ECUTTBN SLOWER INTRADING TODAY !Improving Crop Conditions in South Leads to Slight Price Declines. Aseoclated Pross | NEW YORK, June 10 tures opened v Oetober. uary. 17.12; & The market \hrr\\(-fl furthe: ;d«“lv(n in toda Cariy trading o to continued reports of improving crop conditions in the South, relative Iy easy Liverpool cables and unfavor- | able reports from the cotton goods trade. i The opening was steady at a daclina |of 1 to 5 points, and more active | positions soon sold off about 4 t points ~Cotton fu- 18.31; .19; Jan’ slight ‘There was further evening-up of the .fuly interest, but |demand seemed to le readily supplied {at a premium of 160 points over Oc | tober @nd 106 points over December. ;The maintenance of this near-month premium helped t> steady the under- tone of the market, but prices were ‘\\hhln @ point or two of the lowest | at the end of the first hour. New Drlemh Quotations. June 10 (P, - mmm\vl steady. July, October, 16.93: December, ry, 16.88: A ool 543 bid v | cotton market ovened easy today. owing to lower Liverpool cahles and the favorable character of the early weather report First trades showed losses of § 1o 8 pointe, The market | continued to ease off after the start |on private reports from the interior, indicating fair progress by the crop a | and confirmation of the early weather | news of the map. October trading at 16.92, and December and January both at 16.88. July continued steady. showing a loss of only 4 points at 17.65. A bearish holl weevil report by the Government helped the easy tone. | STORAGE. F ol ] ‘. SCHLTR :R MOV(: Without Worry or Biss. Se soonsibie Service—Low Reiee. Storage (n rooms, $2 fll p"ob -9 Florida A: NDR-FFI l“ ! novmo | KRIEG'S PACKING €6 EYRST.NW STORAGR XPRESS SHIPPING AN 3010 BONDED WAREHOUSE JACOBS T*RANSFER (O, Moving Storage 111-113 Fla. Ave. NE. North 9500 smmunvon smma TH'S FIHI-PROOF moxonom LONG DISTANCE MOVERS PACK BY! 1313 YOU STREET, N.W. PHONE NORTH '3“",' July declited to 18.24, and ; {in the Far West has given the Utah| December to 17.17. 16.58: | i i ! l 1 29 at 1,081,164 cars, “the heaviest, loading ever reported during any one week at this season of the vear. This figure was an advance of 41,799 cars over the preceding week and an increase of 168,077 over the coi- responding week last year. Miscellaneous freight reached 406.- 077 cars, an advance of 15.858 over the previous week: coal. 177,600, an increase of 12,388: grain and g products, 44,216, 4 growth of 4,556; merchandise and less than carload Tots, 266,966, an increase of 632, and live stock, 28,643, an advance of 1,797, placing |\n the Western districts alone, 22,003 being loaded. FREIGHT CAR LOADINGS SCORE BIG ADVANCE Top Million Mark for Third Con- secutive Week—Record Mark for This Season of Year. Freight car loadings topped the mil- lion mark for the third consecutive week, the American Rallway Asso- ciation announced last night, the total for the week ending May $575,000,000 and INQUIRE ABOUT OUR 1926. DEFERRED FINANCIAL. UNFILLED STEEL ORDERS ; period a yvear ago. when a total of | $547.500.000 was collected. Increased | tmportations of agricultural and mer- | chandise goods from the t‘)uuullkn’ DECREASE 218,726 TONS border is credited with much of the advance. NEW YORK, June 10 (#).—Un. New York again ranks first in col \"““" orders of the United States Steel lections for the first 10 months of | COrPoration on Mav 31. made public the fiscal with Boston. Phila-| today. lut'nlet_!’sfil Geiphia, New Orleant, (hieago, Ral. | CTease of 218726 tons. compared with timor and S o following | the end of the preceding month. in order. l el e - LEAD IS ADVANCED. ] Peace is a perfod when acquaint-| NEW YORK, June 10 (®).—The | anees can argue about almost any-| American Smelting and Refining Co thing without ha: | {oday advanced the price of lead from Paul 1o 7.80 cents per pound. it was ng to spit out teeth, oneer Press. PAYMENT PLAN Free Automobile Parking W, M. Toses & Sons Furniture Carpets Establlslxed 1861 F Street and Eleventh Lmem Upholstery Alteration aiud Remodeling Sale A Special Grouping of Discontinued Pieces for Friday and Saturday Bedroom Furniture Reg. $100.00. £50.00 $70.00 1 Venetian Gray Decorated Dresser. SPECIBL. .viicvivne Mahogany and Gurn Dresser. Mahogany and Gum Full Size Beds Special .... Mahogany and Gum \'amty Dressers. Special . 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Special, $2.50 yard. Plain Cheney Florentines, light weight, 30-in. silk. “Reg. Price, $1.75 vd. Special, $1.00 yd. Many colors artificial and mercerized light- welght drapery fabrics sold up to $250 yard. Choice, $1.00 yard. All remnants Drapery, Curtain and L'pholsterv fabrics to be sold at half price. Fine for single windows, cushions, odd chairs, ete. Curtain Marquisette. Reg. 35c. Special, 25¢ vard. Curtain Nets, Filet and Shadow patterns. Reg. 50c Curtain hets. Filet and Shndow patterns. Reg. 35c. The Linen Shop Moses Elite Cotton Sheets’ and Pillowcases Pillowcases, sizes 45x36 inches. Reduced to, ea., 37¢ Sheets, sizes 63x99 inches. Reduced to, ea....$1.35 Sheets, size 72x99 inches. Reduced to, ea....$1.40 Sheets, size 72x108 inches. Reduced to, ea....$1.50 Sheets, size 90x108 inches. Reduced to, ea....$1.80 25¢ per yard. 55¢ per vard. 60c per yard. Imported Imported Imported Now 10¢ yd. s, suitable for summer curtains at doors Reg. Price, $4.50. Special, 33¢ yd. 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