Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1928, Page 13

- ATTRACTIVE FISH y THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. . THURSDAY, MARCH 15 1928.° light, market steady: Texas, Western { lettuce crates, bunched, 3.25. Beets—Supplies light; demand light, market steady; Texas, Western lettuce crates bunched, few sales, 3.25. | Cauliffower--Supplies moderate; de- { mand moderate, market steady; Cali- fornia, pony crates, mostly, 2.25. Peas—Supnlies light; demand moder- Big Catches of Potomac!’ Perch Reported—Shad Also Are Plentiful. Mexico crates, most- ate, market stead! crates, few sales, Iv. 500 California Oranges—Supplies moderate: demand t steady: Florida, boxes, medium size, 6.7527.00, best mostiy 7.00, larger and smaller sizes discounted: California, boxes, medium size, 6.000 §50; few higher, 6.25a6.50; large sizes discounted. Grapefrutt—Supplies moderate: de- g g mand mod:rate. market steady: Florida n finds dealers at Munie- | poces, medium size, 5.2505.75; few 6.00. | moderate, nu: t with most attractive pc products. Large o and U..5. AUTO SALES ABROAD GAINING Foreign Fields Studied by Makers—Used Car Still Problem. BY J. C. ROYLE. Special Dispateh to NEW YORK. March 15.—The black cloud which always hangs over some plled up by the leading interest and some of the other motor car makers, there 1s evidence that some units in the industry are finding the going unusually bumpy. ‘There have been rencwals of consolidation rumors, and while these have not come to a head, there is something behind them.. More price cuts are in the offing. On the other hand, those concerns which are doing well are 'v prosperous indeed. Some will show record-breaking profits for the current half year. Foreign trade in the industry is likely to exceed that for 1927 by 12 to 15 per cent. = = FUSION ARRANGED. Eastern Telegraph and Marconi Wireless Interests May Join. LONDON, March 15 (#).—The East- ern Telegraph Co., with its assoclated COAL TRAFFIC DROPS. Three Roads’ Car Loadings Show Decrease in Fuel Movement. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, March 15.—Yhe fall- ing off in both soft and hard coal shipments is shown in the decrease of car-loadings during the past month. The three local roads, the Baltimore & Ohlo, Pennsylvania and Western Maryland, sustained large losses, due to depression in the soft-coal industry. The Baltimore & Ohlo handled 227, 029 loaded cars, a decrease of 40,051, or 15 per cent. The record of the Pennsylvania Rafl- road was 560,143 cars, a shrinkage of 65,195, or 10.4 per cent. The Western Maryland Raiflway handled 40,822, a comparative decrease of 4,948 cars, or 10.8 per cent. Former Clerk Pays $315,000 for Seat On the Exchange Dy the Associnted Press. * NEW YORK, March 15.—As a cli- max to his market coup, which ad- vanced the price of radio stock $62 a share in five days, Michael J. Mee- han, former clerk in a Broadway theatrical ticket agency, has pur- chased another seat on the New York Stock Exchange at a new peak price of $315,000. The price was $5,000 above the previous high mark, established about the beginning of the year. The pur- chase increased holdipgs of Mee- han’s firm to six seats on the ex- change. To See RIGHT See FORIGHT 915 G St. N.W. | Socoo e TS 2EETEE SPECIAL Friday and Saturday P SEBOCREDIDEE PP PPRIRPRRE AR | lines, and the Marconi Wireless Tele- used car problem preading r v.| graph Co. today announce that a pro- l" K(]ml's not »\clfl(hh‘ i(‘ll‘ a (:):\' s | visional arrangement had been reached disturbance in the industry, but some | gor the bic E din ] e industry, but some | for the fuslon of their interests through Meehan's coup, which brought about the sensational rise in Radio common, brought him a fortune of millions of dollars. Estimates in Wall Street place the figure between to! part of the automotive industr: | People’s Corporation in Baltimore to Ask Lower Trolley Tariff. Genuine $ " Genuine Toric PROFIT SHOWS GAIN. Toric Reading KRYPTOK * NEW YORK, March 15 (#).—General Motors Acceptance Corporation, which finances the retail business of General TmEReeeEEeeE or Distance Glasses e s AT T L35 Nekk »ay (13 g o L Ce: BALTIMORE, March 15.—A c n the appeal of the U which controls the trolley 3| systems of Baltimore, for a 10-cent eqfwill be filed within a day or two in e hCNil | Circuit Court i oon NIl “Acting for the People’s Corporation. Shad | ;b resenting 300.000 car riders, Linwood alL.C will file a petition not only acking the 10-cont fare plea, but as ing the present 9-cent fare be set aside and & 7iz-cent rate be restored. The city will also join in the fight st the United. SHIPMENTS SMALLER. NEW YORK, March re shipments from were 303,114 tons. against 6314 cbruary last year. Shipmen! t two months this y FORT WORTH, March Throckmorton, the newe: to get a railroad, has steers awaiting shipment to the destined to tidewater. The froad, 50 miles in length, was the Texas & Pacific and opened |l ! to traffic March 1. The county is the ground of some of the State’s CHICAGO.—Output of steel is con- uing at @ heavy rate in Western In anticipation of price ad- éffective April 1, some producers make deliveries at present prices when specifications are given in month. of | VANCOUVER.—British rof I now shipping large quantities of cucum- 27 | bers and tomatoes to California, Colo- do, Oregon, Washington and other ates of the West, despite the fact that e vegetables are grown north of the fifty-third parallel of latitude. ~Accord- 52a5213; | ing to & census just completed, British Columbia is | Columbia has 2.764.000 square feet of | hennery, | ground under glass where the vegetables | i are grown in hothous 7a40; Spring | ! 2405 SPrINE | \MARILLA, Tex—West Texas oil | production increased 22,060 barrels a in the last week owing to at were completed in Winkler The total daily production was | ATLANTA —Peach blossoms are two veal, | weeks later than usual this year and 8a20; | this will mean a corresponding delay in : | fruit movement this Spring and Sum- mer. This delay has probably assured | the largest crop in the history of the large few sales | inesaps, 4.00; bushel 8. commercial, &”553 00 215 1n b, Winesaps, ania, U. 8. No. 1, Romzss,‘ b few 1 crates, | demand mod- | . Florida, 10-inch 3.25; few high | ly uncomfortable Cars are being turned out at a rate which indieates that all previous records will be obliterated by the end of the { year. ingig in to play | eve expedient of high | splendid | s ing | |1 r ales | and turers themselves are largely responsible | for this. With one of every five or six American families already possessing | automobiles, the distributors are devot- ing their cfforts ing two or 3 ‘To do this style and re making | efforts to present their uments !u[ the women of the houschold, feeling that the knowledge women possess as to style and color combinations and the | importance they pace on them will | further the sales efforts with the male | members of the family. Exports to Be Heavy. as resulted in sales of new cars. pidly flooding the used car To meet that situation, manu and dealers are closely studying the foreign fields. The exports of nev automobiles have grown to t proportions in the last two v 19! s abroad reached 384,000 cars. year they are expected to top 550.- England and continental Europe proving prolific fields despite the measures taken to protect the Euro- pean manufacturers through tariff bar~ i ers The foreign business, however, is too new to have fostered the accumulation of many traded-in American cars and | dealers and manufacturers now are usly considering the invasion of ficlds, notably those of the Orient and South Am with ship- s of reconditioned automobiles. It ‘that if the American manufac- can once make drivers of the | foreign peoples, the task of selling them new motors for years to come will be casy one. 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N.W the medium of a holding company. - The fusion is subject to a satisfac- agreement being reached with the governments of Great Britain, the Dominions and India, and to accept- ance of the angement by the stock- holde olders of the various comp k stated that no an- nouncement of the terms of the ar- rangement could be made at present. “The question of approval of the mer- ger by the governments of the empire will be decided by the Imperial Wire- less and Cable Conference now sitting her GENERAL CABLE DIVIDEND. NEW YORK. March 15 (#).—Directors of General Cable Corporation have de- clared a dividend of $2.331-3 on the preferred stock, payable May 1 to hold- ers of record April 10, and $1.66 2-3 on the cl A" stock, payable June 1 to stock of record May 10. The action is subject to approval of stockholders on_March ‘These dividends nor- mally would be paid April 1. 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