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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY. MARCH 31, 1933. A Solid Carload of HIGH QUALITY = LOW PRICED | | off, however, many of these sales heads | Last Year’s OQutput Is Be-|ble venicies haa been placed oo nieh. | All Groups, Except Dairy and as to just what constitutes a normal re- ( NT'N [ T L p . I which has taken place during the years buying o:ders was more or less of a| | theoretical )m& of the industry’s sales | IN HM | directors in early days of the de- | FU[ MUUD cline that bzgan late in 1929, and much | I-EVEI- UP } PUIN]- | | was made of it ‘at that time. As the | | purchase of new cars continued. to fall | began to believe that perhaps their | estimate of the number of indispensa- | " Replacement Estimates. | lieved Low Mark of There s a wide variance of opinloni Poultry Products, Show H 1 t voll 5 i 1 i Depression. Percoment ‘stoony the ‘saics diectors | Gains. that last year's 1,431,000-plus produc- tion wes but a part of the total num- By the Associated Press. ward trend, leaders of the motor car |in which the industry manufactured during the month which ber of vehicles that would be needed DETROIT, March 31.—While current '0]\' renlatucnzentmin normal times. Re- van in prices of all groups of riov % hedules show no | Placements in 1929 were placed by the commodities except dairy r AR Ro S | i:" level production schedules show 10 | Ngtiona)' Automobile Chamber of Come ultrs products raised the index ne. mediate propects of & general UP-|merce at 2,172,838, This was the year |of the level of prices paid farm- ; industry apparently are in approximate | 5 600,000 vehicles. 1at last year's output of In 1931. the total production of the | h 15 of Agricultural Economics 15 DAY SALE APRIL 1 7 15, INCLUSIVE hen 1431000 units was | industry, 2,148,181 cars and trucks, was 1k for the movement that |apsorbed by the replacement market. | beg;’n ln_(v‘dixa'lvsg_s, W & P R | war levels in mid-March, but 11 points | he irductry’s executives are no under March, 1932. The farmer, how- undertaking to “pump up” business with | ever, gained <om ntage in a dro optimistic stztements, but cven in the U. s. INVESTORS HOLD o Lt i ihe prices of materials hg‘ face of the banking emergency an “which stood at 35 per cent over | eceivership actions for tvo imroriant | BIG GERMAN STAKEb war levels cn March 15, [ oducing _companies Dessimism has Advance in Grain. BARBER & ROSS, Inc. n notable chiefly by its absence. l s - D A I First Quarter Sales. < - | Grain moved upwards 2 points dur- g 9 sy Loans Floated in This Country|inz the month preceding March 15 to Sales and production during the first BTt et Ot e oot Pote quarter of the current year will nt ap- | gince “War Total Billion and ‘and vegtables advanced 3 points to 60 rex of pre-war levels; a Quarter Dollars. s to 56 per cent; dairy been attributed to the financial strin- T el | gency. that tied up to varying degrees cenL L . the personal funds of potential pur- | Special Dispatch to The Star. only during the period when all binks | German situation. The total par value | The average farm . 4 . The : rag, price of hogs ad- were closed, but even after many of | = 5 s g h Sl T Serereaponed. " Shlcs cRevutives |Of dollar loans floated in this country | vanced abcut 10 per cent from February | explained this by :aying that in many since the war was roughly $1,250,- i " Gare 22 per hundred weight quarters a hesitancy to buy followed 000,000 being the highsst local market price | the casing of the banking situation. " 5 Bl st October, the | Once more, howeve olille exncy. £ DL Bmonnt Shas | been: yedpeed. by, (JecoRd slnce DSk Ot e ieis tives are boginning : maturities, the operation of sinking | 2.d- The MatCh A3 I',;r"c-;“l- ke potentialities of an inc ing rate of | funds and repurchases by German na- 3 Fos gs%;m‘;qgmt:ntdheolj;‘fl.] ~alr'-121°-nry";“afll; tionals and other European investors, of stocks of wheat in mill- Years given as the “average lifo of the | DUt the sum still outstanding is very ! :’“;‘;‘g ‘TZ})QE?;IIKO;‘“‘;“&?‘H‘; average car’ is more (r less of a | large, more than our interest in any | damage to the Winter wheat crop were theoretical figure arrived at through | other foreign country except Canada. y the bureau with having the inclusion of factors other than me- | The market value of these invest- |caused part of its advance in price. At chanical exhaustion alone, many of | ments, which does not take into account | 3¢.5 cents per bushel on March 15, these executives believe the aggregate |short term credits frozen under the |the farm price for wheat was about 7 number of cars now in use rapidly is | standstill agreement, has severely de-|per cent higher then a month before approaching the point where there can | preciated, involving & heavy paper loss, but remained 22 per cent less than 12 be little or no further mortality without | and yet even at these depreciated values | months before. Teplacement. the capital involved is tremendous. The | Cotton Higher. In this connection, Alfred P. Sloan, | short term credits run to around $700,- 4 e §r, president of the General Motors 000,000 according to the latest compi-| The average farm price for cotton Corporation, probably voiced the convic- | lation. [ O.1 cents pay PO & JEARG, | tion of many of his fellow motor car compared with 5.5 cents in mid-Febru- | manufacturers, when he said in his an- e S dnd €2 cets PiF pEUSE o i W0 | nual report for 1932, just issued, that POTATO MARKET The bureau zays this advance whsac- | it was reasonable “to expect with cer- | . | compaxied by 2 price upturn in foreign tainty that when the period of re-| CHICAGO, March 31 (%) (United |Markets and repcrts of fairly satisfac- adjustment is over, the automotive in- | States Department of Agriculture) — | tory sales of cotton goods in domestic dustry will not only maintain its posi- | Potatoes—Receipts, 147 cars; on track, | markets during the bank holiday. tion as the world’s mast important in- | 335; total United States'shipments, 897; | ——b : dustry, but its rate of recovery will be | dull; demand and trading slow. supplies | New Zealand this year raised the im- accelerated by the depreciation and | heavy; Wisconsin round whites, 75a|port duty on gasoline and cut plug obsolescence of existing equipment | 77%; Idaho russets, 1.25a1.30. tobacco as & result farm prices 1y 50 per cent of the pre- roximate what the motor car executives chasers. ‘The check on the relatively| NEW YORK, March 31.—American |seed ady oped for, and even expscted in many cases, but to no small extent this has small amount cf buying w:s felt not |investors have an enormous stake in the | $5oti%, 3o ) g fyerage from August, A SOLID CARLOAD i the first time in Washington offered dependable, guaranteed ”:t :"“; :. :"' :."' i house paint of this quality at a ofisned aucs DAL GURI e price this low? 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