Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1928, Page 13

THE EVENING BOOD FISH SUPPLY FOR FRIDAY TRADE Oysters More Plentiful—But- ter and Egg Markets Are | Still Firm. i Disappearance of ice from the Po- tomac River and warmer weather all along the Atlantic Coast has resulted | n laveely increased receipts of sup: Plies at the Municipal Fish Market | av experienced no dif- what they wanted for ade. 2d white perch, rockfi carp, most of the catfish alive, were received from Totomac River fishermen. Carp and catfish were in demand. the forme 15 and the latter at § cents ¢ rockfish bringing 30 cents Whiie perch were 18 znd yvellow perch 0. 7 and § cents a pound Trawlers in the vicinlty of Old Polnt sent shipments of flounders that =old »t 10 and 20 cents and nall eroakers that brought 10 cents. Scal-| lops also from Virginia and ¢ a2 wa ers, sold at §3 a gallon. Oysters were more plentiful, and in demand. The weather held prices to Ohio, 100-pound sacks yellows, No. 1, R|SE Potatoes About Steady. Potatoes—Supplies libe demand igan, 150-pound U. § No. 1, 3.25a% pound sacks round whites, U. 1, 3.25. Spinach — Supplies liberal; demand moderate, market slightly weaker Toxil Bushel faskets, $nov Gue, Retailers Oppose Move, but ‘ ! Cost of Raw Materials Is Up 50 to 60 Per Cent. folk type, 3 Tomatoes — Supplies light: den light, market dull: unknown origin, repacked in New York Clty, 3, ripes, wrapped. faney 13.00; e L i ] BY J. €. ROYLE. mand moderate, Snacial Dispateh to The Star, Ty-bushel hampers green 3 = MUSETINGY. 20: fait quality and condition, iva| NBW VORK, Sdanuary “18~Tie 6000 host, 5.00: poorer, 3.50ad.00 price of shoes is going to advance, Peppers - Supplies very lightt de phat fact, of Keen import to every elt mand moderate, market sHEhtY zen and the head of every family in stronger: Flor . pepper erates fan the United States and which affects a oy, 30 75 ozen subsidiary industrics, — was Feaplant, encumbers and squash— | vouched for today by men in closest No supplies on market. touch with leather production, tanning Carrots - Supplies moderate: de-land shoe manufacturing. They united mand moderate. market steady. Tex- in declaring that the price of leather 'S, Western lettuce crates. mostly [at the present tima mude such a step hsolutely obligatory 330 bushel baskets, 2.50a2.75 Beets pplies light: demand mod | Fhe move is being keenly opposed by ket about steady as, [retailers Who have no desire to see the Westorn” o crates, 323, bushel price of shoes advaned or to take baskets, 2.6 hances of checking sales and arousing | buyer resistance by boosting nrices to ! th> consumer BUYS UTILITY FIRM. | The mam say this is a nat- ‘EW YORK St ural attitude. Thi int out, how- DBV DN IS0 U= AN (er. that the manufacturer of shoes the capital stock of the General Light ig the first to feel the advance in the & Power Co. of Chicago has been p ost of raw materials, while the re- & Power Cor- | (2iler is the last to feel it except the SEEN BY MAKERS. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1928 priced lines. The manufacturers say [tle Is very slack, with most I::rmiven cent higher than a year ago. Despite that a man; ople holding back their steers and calves. | this fact, however, the tanners an- at & good many people overlook | yl7lILE [Lical ponition of leather fs | ticinate i fino her advances in the | profits. since the stocks of leather are | Marshall are anticipated next | small, and they at least are confident g and this is thoroughly recog- | the demand for shoes and other than $6 a pair. nized by shoe manufacturers and | leather goods will be good. In the last few weeks the United | other large consumers. entirely the fact that between 76 and 80 per cent of all the shoes In the United States are sold at a trifle less very firm. Government bought a large ty of shoes for the Army at less than $8 a pair. This, of course, was w bulk order and priced at less than the retallers would be forced to pay. vate concerns, short perfod. ‘The marketing of cat- Increasing Production, r with excellent The demand for leather for other articles of elothing besides shoes has and |1 her coats, the increased for gloves and the imitations of the veptile leathers, most of which are fskin and printed of h raw ma- ted recently by the government. John Ramey of the Mar- shall National Bank reports a gain $30,000 in deposits during vomber, bringing the total for 1927 to an increase of 11 per cent. At|430,133 tons, agatnst 8 the annual meeting Just held Edward | 1026 " sno American Bureau of Metal e . €. Flettner G, Harria | Statistics reports. Stocks of refined “ield, T, Maddux, Dennis Me-|copper in North and South America tv, J. T. Ramey, C. Renalds, Thomas N. Russell, Allie | pared with 118,269 in November, and and John F. Walker were|for the year. 1. directors for 1928, 5 directors elected John president, A Efforts of agricultural machinery | Smith fron workers in Victoria, Australia, to | elected ablish a2 44 hour week were fre-| The Ramey 13 A president, P. W. Ande “ VIRGINIA BANK GROWS. [0 Ponitin: Smeer, "M Cor ter cashier. National Adds Nearly - . $90,000 to Deposits in Year. | Special Dispateh to The Star. MARSHALL, had a most marked effect on the con- | president Shoe factorles have started to In- | sumption of the lghter crease production this but the specifications for the Army | Still retallers’ stocks do not appear supplies are pretty severe and manu. | excessive. In the last vear shoe pro- | mage of supple (acturers usually have to wait longer | duction increased ahout 8 to 9 perlin the reptile designs, have called for thelr money when selling the Gov- | cent, as compared with 1936, but the | ¢, 200 quantities of sucl ernment than ‘when dealing with pri. | condition of the industrial and a&- | tepjy]s. . ricultural districts points to a de- The buying of leather is on an|cidedly better shoe demand during exceptionally ‘active basis and there|the $pring. Manufacturers 18 no indication of a drop in prices. | considerable hope on this latter ‘The supplies are sufficient only for a | tor to keep up the volume of Hide prices are ahout 50 to 60 COPPER PRODUCTION. NEW YORK, January 12 (®.—Fro- Va., January 12.— |duction of primary cepper by United States mines in December was 67377 short tons, against 65,030 tems in No- 09 tons in Anderson, J. Leroy F. Ramey. E.[in December was 128,923 tens, com 76.506 tons. a 4 in 192 Shipments d 27 were 1.486.70% tons, against 1 035 Leroy Baxley | in 1926, Simultaneously With the 100th Grand Rapids Furniture Exhibition We Present what they have been the past few |chased by People's 1 weeks, $2 a zallon for standards and | poration of New York, it has been a s for selects. Shell stock sold at |nounced by 1. C. Deal, pre [tinal consumer. They allege that the - | retaflers have been insisting on retain- . s el ont of {ing the old price levels even at the Potomac and some from Chesapeake | the latter company. W e > SO e Bay chase the People’s Light & Power Cor. acti e 100 ite dehaaner Prices of several varieties of fish poration owns utility prope :lm\rvx the | f Fices. Rut both seemingly now were quoted follows: Jack Alea AmesL the Missis- | e convineed that this is neither good A Million Dollars Worth of Dependable : . L] LJ L] L] L] white perc vellow-tail flounders. especially in A E R: red s y Spanish mackerel. there will be new fina S Large Advance Untikely, 20 Kir 5 green shrimp, of which are not mad i The advance, when it comes, i not | 20. eocked shrimp. 30; haddock. 4 . likely 1o be of large ood, &: filet of haddoc 4 CHESAPEAKE CORP. PROFIT. The industiy suffered too many | A continued firm n of the * years 1o force huyer opposition unless 2 butter and exg market was reported; NEW YORK, J it is absolutely necessary. and prices of most commodities this | Chesapeake Corpor | PTrices still will be relatively low, | were the same as prices|share from May 14, hough. of course, the upward move- n s, o De Will be heaviest in the higher- Overwhelming Price Reductions Throughout Store— No Better Time to Buy Has Ever Been Offered You Today's Wholesale Prices. fresh killed—Beef, 20a25: 26: 1 26 fresh han ulders, emoked hams. 20a22: smoked sh ders, 16 strip bacon, 20a22; lard, 127, calves, alive, 16; lambs, alive. One-pound prints, 5455 re Spring chic capons, f: 5 40; ducks, 23a stops Coughs and Sore Throat by going direct to the seat of the trouble. A swallow of THOXINE goes right to the internal cause and you can feel relief almost instantly. Pleasant taste. No dope or harmful drugs. Safe for the whole family. 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