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Subscription
 and Job Work Agency

For all kinds of job printing, in- cluding legal blanks, letterheads, sales books, sale bills, envelopes, and all kinds of commercial print ing. He will slso take your sub scription for several leading mag azines and newspapers, and espec- ially the Mena Star.
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New-York tribune., 1919-06-05

but the present rate Of per CO 1t for
time loans of sixty days makes such
loans also serious competitors. Time
loans have the advantage with COM
mercial paper that the bank is assured
that rate for a definite period, an as
surance not given in the case of call
money, but they have also the disad-
vantage that they are less liquid; the
bank cannot rediscount them as it can
commercial paper. Funds flowing in
from western centres yesterday were
mainly for the purpose of lending on
call, but they of course have a help
full reaction on the ability of business
to borrow.
Some dealers have found the accep-
tance market extremely poor in the
last few days. One dealer yesterday
did not sell dollars worth This is
frequently matter of individual luck.
large house has been reporting
reasonably active" business for the
last few days.
Fifteen to sixty day prime trade ac-
ceptances were quoted at and on per
cent; sixty to ninety days, and 51a;
indorsed trade acceptances, Az per
cent, all maturities.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
urs
Fall and Winter Fur Gar.
me,ts No,o Being
Ordered

Not only are the buyers for retail
stores placing orders now for small fur
garments for fall and early winter
wear, but they are anticipating their
mld-wlntcr requirements as well. With
in the last few days many large orders
fer long coats, principally of Hudson
seal, have been booked by statesmen on
the road and in the showroops Of lead
ing manufacturers here.
The popular Hudson seal coat next
winter, say the manufacturers, prob
ably will be fifty inches in length and
made with a large collar of the same
fur which can be turned up around the
head in rough weather. The doman
style is still popular in some quarters.
but the highest class retailers are said
to take the view that the day of the
fur dolman has passed. Part Of the
dolman effect is retained in the new
coats, which are made with semi-iemi
dolman or demidolman sleeves.
For immediate delivery the retailers
are still buying the popular marten
and Russian sable, one and two skin
scarves. Some of the manufacturing
furriers report a strong demand at
present for Kamchatka sables in the
one or two animal shapes. These sell
at wholesale from S150 to $3.50 a scarf.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Style Variety Offered
I'm WOmen's Fall Suits
Fashion S'Feelers" Abandoned
by Manufacturers Because
of Fabric Shortage

Women probably will select their
fall and winter suits from stocks show
ing a wide variety of styles.
According to reports reaching the
manufacturers from statesmen on the
road, the strictly tailored and the
fancy models are selling equally we'll
Some manufacturers favor wider skirts,
while others declare they will con-
tnue models which show little varia-
ton from last year.
Most of the wider skirts are cut
on the bell shape, close fitting to the
knees and faring at the hem. These
are said to be favorably received by
the retail buyers and houses making
business.
One Of the reasons given for the
prediction that wide variety of styles
will be used this fall is that cloth is
too expensive to waste in feeling out"
the trade. Whether the reports of a
drastic shortage of cloth are true or
not, the manufacturers admit that thew
are not uperabundantly supplied, and
that they will be compelled to use
what they can get.
This means that should one particu-
lar type of cloth jump into the lead as
the fashionable fabric, few manufact-
urers will be able to supply garments
made of that material. The cloth used
IN making a woman's suit has much to
do with its style. Hence, the garments
will be made up in styles suitable to
the materials the manufacturers are
able to procure
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Textiles
BIeuched Cotton Goods in
Demand; Other Fabrics
lYluctiUe

Although buying of we'll known
brands of bleached cotton goods was
active yesterday, other cotton fabrics
were in comparatively light demand
Limited offerings of unbleached cot
tons by convcrters at reduction of
Il cent a yard failed to attract buyers.
1t was said that converters who &C
tually intend to convert the unbleached
weaves into finished goods have ample
supplies. Mill agents refused to sell
unfinished materials for future de
livery, and even when orders for
prompt shipment were entertained no
concessions in prices were allowed
The mills demanded 15M cents yard
for the print cloth known as 64-6Os,
while convcrters made sales Of that
fabric at Is cents the yard.
The reaction in the price Of this
cloth was deemed to be temporary.
AS most Of the mills have withdrawn
colored goods from the market, trade
in those fabrics was Of small volume
The strike Of firsmen and engineers at
the New Bedford mills continues to
restrict outputs Of sheer fabrics made
from fine cotton yarns.
Inquiries for goods were received
from China and the Red Sea districts,
but the high prices now prevailing, it
was admitted, have hampcrcd the con-
summation Of transactions.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Metals
Large Holders OF Copper
Maintain Price Despite
Slack Demand

Leading sellers of copper are hold
ing their prices Unchanged although
the demand has fallen off rather sharp
ly in the last fortnight. Most of the
producing interests insist that they are
unwilling to sell copper less than 16 Y
cents a pound, which seems to be
about the general average of the mar
ket, but reports among consumers in
dicate that metal has been purchased
at less than that figure within the last
week In fact, some small sales have
been negotiated for immediate delivery
at 1914 cents pound.
Copper for future delivery is grad.
ually being marked Up. and the quota
tion for August contracts yesterday
was II cents a pound. No important
sales have been made on that basis,
however, and it is not improbable that
sellers would shade that figure were
they to encounter a consumer willing
to buy a good round amount of metal.
The export situation in the copper
market is unchanged. Revival of bust
ness in that department hinges upon
the signing of the peace treaty and
the clearing of business decks for ac-
ton. The extent to which Europe will
buy copper here depends, of course
upon the amount of existing supplies
there and her ability to arrange es-
sental credits in the United States
The bankers have already set on foot
a programme Of taking care of the
international credit situation in which
leading American industrial interests
will play an important part.
An English authority on copper says:
"If the demand for copper were to re-
vive, as it must do sooner or later,
there would not be much copper for
sale in America under 18 cents
pound, and the talk of the bottom be-
ing out Of the market is bit prema-
ture."
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05

dent on every hand for business and
living accommodations
1.-THE lavish use Of our purchasing
commodity, which is our credit cur
rency as represented in our bank de-
posits, gives us situation that calls
for careful watchfulness.
Again, continuing demands for high
wages in the industries, make more
difficult the lowering of prices, and
though cannot reasonably antici-
pate that prices will indefinitely hold
close to those of the pre-war period,
yet in maintaining their upward trend,
with an extension of our credit cur
rency, we undoubtedly have danger
which if not handled intelligently
may give us eventually a big bill for
our improvidence.
Thrift, in our personal affairs, a
more moderate buying of luxuries and
the use Of our purchasing power for
the lcgimitate needs of commerce, will
help us immensely in handling the sit
uation, and this is something which
not alone the grantor of credit should
study and treat intelligently, but every
individual in he nation. The safety
of our credit structure, will spell our
continuing happiness and success, not
only commercially but socially, and
politically.
eve must exert our influence to curb
improvidence, work against extrava-
gance, get to be a nation of savers, and
use our resources for the building up
Ct the nations commerce at home and
abroad"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Business Money

One of the most encouraging develop
ments in the commercial paper market
of recent days has been a noticeable
increase in the volume Of commercial
borrowing. The increase has not been
great as yet, but is thought by some
sufficient to indicate trend. AS the
volume of business borrowing en-
larges, money rates. other things equal,
are expected to become higher.
The per cent rate is now so rare
that 5A is almost invariably quoted
for the best names, and 51s per cent
for names less we'll known. One bank
reported yesterday that notes which
had been offered to it day or two be-
fore at 5A per cent had been marked
up to 51a. Even at this rate there is no
great demand. What there is comes
mainly from western and other out-of-
town banks. A few dealers, however,
found yesterdays business to be the
best for any day of the week.
The commercial paper market is per-
force greatly dependent on stock ex-
change. borrowing. Not only do wild
furries to 10 and II per cent for call
money attract funds into that channel,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Millinery Men Open Campaign

The Eastern Millinery Association
formally launched membership cam
paign last night at dinner at the
Hotel Astor, to which millinery manu-
tacturers, jobbers and retailers were
invited. The dinner was rendered to
the 300 members and their guests by
the officers and directors Of the asso-
citation.
The need of strong organization
IN the millinery field was impressed
upon the diners by several speakers.
Among these were J. M. Moorehead,
president of the association; Alfred l..
Simon, of Alfred l.. Simon & Co.; Ar
thur Ronald, of Arthur Ronald & Co.:
Edmund Wright, of the Edmund
Wright -Ginsburg Company; Jacob f.
Jong. of the New York Flower and
Feather Company; ]. A. Stern; +. s.
Amburg, president of the New York
Millinery and Supply Company, and
Theodore l. Sturtz, secretary of tho
association.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Silks
Buyers N0,u Are Getting
Silk Goods Mostly
From .JObbers

While the manufacturers of silk
goods accepted comparatively little
new business yesterday, the jobbers,
who now are receiving supplies from
the mills, booked numerous orders.
The latter complained that the manu-
facturers were far behind in deliver
ing goods. AS belated buyers of dress
silks will be unable to do much bust
ness with the leading manufacturers,
who have placed most of their pros
pective outputs of fall goods under
contract, the jobbers expect to reap
large profits within the next few
months.
Some of the manufacturers reported
that the only fabrics still available
for the orders of buyers are black
taffetas, black peau de sole aid the
cheaper grades of black satin duchesse.
Even of these weaves supplies are
light, and the manufacturers antici-
pate little difficulty in selling them.
Concerns that deal in French goods
asserted that they had made fair sized
sales from sample of voile brocaded
velour, satin brocaded metal fabrics
and fancy metal cloths. The fabrics
ordered are due to arrive in the United
States during the months of July, Au-
gust and September. The French
weavers will be used for making even
ing wraps and gowns.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Credit Millennium Not
Here Yet, Says Expert
Under Present Conditions, but ]. H. Tregoe
Warns Against Laxity Because Failures Are Few

MEMBERS of the National Associa-
ion of Credit Men are warned by
j. H. Tregoe, secretary of that or
ganlzaton, not to be lulled into a false
sense of security by the small num-
Der of business failures reported for
the last two months. With the ma
ton in period of prosperity, enjoy
ing wonderful purchasing power,
and prices generally firm, it is COM
paratively easy, he asserts, for the
unframed merchant to survive, but
the grantors of credit are told that it
would be unwise to fall asleep under
these conditions and take it for
granted that we had entered upon a
credit millennium, and that old condi-
tions had passed out, not to return.
Present conditions call for the same
degree of care, Mr.. Tregoe says, as a
more complex and involved situation.
1--WE are" he continues, "to pay a
penalty, beyond per adventure, if the
smallness of the present bad debt loss
lulls us into sleep and we go ahead
with our credit extensions, throwing
off the care and skill which should
always be exercised in the making of
our credits.
During the past month commercial
traffic began to take on a perceptible
forward movement, where hesitation
had previously controlled Even build
ing construction, one of the slowest
moving Of all classes of enterprises
during the war period and since, is
starting to meet the demands so ev
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
General Motors
Places a Large
Order for Steel
Prices Paid for Various
Products Said To Be Iden.
tical With Those Approved
by the Industrial Board

The United States Steel Corporation,
1t was learned yesterday, has sold 345,-
600 tons Of steel to the General Motors
Corporation. This is one Of the largest
single transactions closed with an in
dustr!al consumer in many months. Va
rious products arc involved in the con-
tract, including plates, bars, sheets, etc.
The prices agreed upon, it is under
stood, were identical with those recon-
mendcd by the Industrial Board and
approved by the steel industry.
No week since the signing of the
armistice has embraced such large or
diversified buying of iron and steel
products as the seven day period just
past, "The Iron Trade Review" states
In several lines buyers are said to show
desire to engage tonnage at ruling
prices to more forward point than
the producers care to entertain.
"Thc Iron Age" says that some
phases of the steel situation have been
overrated, but admits that activity con-
tlnues in an encouraging way. Men
tlon is made of reports of an expected
advance of 50 ton in certain finished
products, but the "maneuver," it is
stated, has met with little response
CONSUMERS" this publication adds, "do
not miss the fact that the improvement
must meet the test of the summer
months"
1t is reported that Japan is in the
market for another 1o,OoO-ton lot of
rails. The last 10000 tons of the 5O,-
600 recently bought went at SAT for the
open hearth product. indicating that
the $40 spread over the domestic price
for export did not long obtain.
Private orders for ships and several
extensive apartment house building
projects, added to several thousand
tons Of industrial plant buildings in
the East and long list of structural
work in the Central West, promise early
expansion of activity in shapes and
plates, according to "The Iron Age"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Says Women Want Their
Stockings Easy to Put On
Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Could
Also Warns Against Jap.
anese Competition
Business News Bureau
Special Correspondence


PHILADELPHIA, June 4.-Adoption
Of an uniform contract and the sim
piifying Of the procedure Of settling
disputes between buyer and seller so
as to eliminate long drawn out litiga-
ton was urged to-day at the conven-
ton Of the National Association of
Hosiery and Underwear Manufacturer RS
b. Champ s. Andrews, Of New York.
S. Beam, Of the Smith, Cord, Town
send Dry Goods Company, of Kansas
City, declared that the day Of cheap
merchandise is gone and that the job
bers wanted 10 cooperate with manu-
facturers in the development Of the
wonderful busincss opportunity which
the nation now has before It.
protect against the rising price sof
s.ockings and the shortening Of the
length 10 five inches wag voiced by
Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould, Of
New Yorh. president Of the Woman's
Chamber Of Commerce. The women
wish 70 cooperate with the manufact-
urers, Mrs. Gould said, and one way
OF doing that would be TO let their
wants be known. She suggested that
American manufacturers should mako
wornen's stockings easy to put on, and
she also cautioned them to beware Of
Japanese competition in silk union
suits.
Former President William Howard
Taft will speak ct the banquet TO be
given by the association at the Bellvuc-
Etrztford TO- morrow night
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Chemicals
Export Demand Is Ab.
sorbing Surplus of
acetate of Lime

Export demand for acetate of lime
is reported good, and producers saw
their surplus supplies are being readi
~ absorbed. There is a good seasona.
demand tor arsenate of lead, and
prices are firmly maintained.
Buyers of aluminium hydrate are
purchasing only such supplies. in
either the light or heavy grades. a.
they need for immediate consunption.
and there is little large lot buying in
the market. Surplus stocks Of aqua
ammonia in the hands of jobbers are
quite heavy and being offered at lower
prices than quoted by producers.
Adequate supplies of the material are
ava'lable at 6ls cents i'cr pound.
Other grades are priced proportionate
~. Nitrate Of ammonia in large ouan-
titles is offered at II cents, although
some factors are still quoting 20 cents
tor prompt shipment.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Large Hats Increase Buying
OF Human Hair Goods

One of the leading importers of hu-
man hair goods stated yesterday that
trade at present is better than it has
been at any time during the last ten
years. The increased buying was at
trbuted to the wearing of large hats
by women, which, it was said permits
them to add to the size of their colt
fures. Before the war human hair
goods for the adornment of Caucasian
females were imported into the United
States from Germany, Austria, France
and Italy. To-day Italy is the chief
source of the American supply. Chi
nese human hair still is imported into
the United States, but this article is
said to be used mainly in making up
the cheaper kinds of adornments.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Styles Decree Wearing of
Mink bv Younger Women

Mink, long considered fur &c be
worn by elderly women, is fast becom-
ing popular with the younger set. Fur
manufacturers are using it extensively
in coats, capes and coatees for ths
fall trade. Within the past few days
orders for dark mink skins have been
heavy, according to the raw skin deal
ers. At present mink is being used to
large extent in the one and two skin
summer scarfs.
Prices for this fur have advanced be-
cause of the increased demand. Al the
recent London auction mink sold 10
per cent over the January price and
$50 per cent above the price year ago.
An advance of 80 per cent in mink
prices was noted at the st. LOUIS
auction last month, compared with the
January sale.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
GOVERNMENT SALE OF COTTON


The Government. through the Material
Disposal Section of the Air Service, Wash
1ngton. and It's District Offices, will offer
for sale quantity of Cotton Fabric. as
follows
Item No. Cotton Airplane Fabric. 3s in
wide. weight about yds. to the pound
Item No. cotton Balloon Cloth. 36 In. to
IS in. vide. to yds. 20 the pound.
Item No. S-Airplane Tape. from rs in. to
; \. in. wide.
Full information regarding constructions,
put-ups, etc: also samples showing these
goods finished. printed and dyed for COM
rnercial use can be obtained from the fol-
lowing District Offices:
New York. \: Y. $50 Madison Ave.
Boston, Mass. Little Bldg.
Detroit. Mich. 1850 Woodward Avc.
Chicago. Ill, 1916 Consumers Bldg
Buffalo. y. Y. $500 Elmwood Ave.
DAYTON. Ohio slo Mutual Home Bldg.
San Francisco. Calf. 504 Postal Tel. Bldg
Communications should be addressed to
the DISTRICT MANAGER, Air Service
Finance Division. Material Disposal Section.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Roads Ask Higher Rates on
Bullion and Smelter Products

WASHINGTON, June 4.-General in
creases in freight rates on bullion and
smelter products were asked TODAY bv
a number of railroads.
Increase Of IS per cent over the rates
effective prior to June 25, 1918, from
Brownsville, Eagle Pass, Ell Paso.
Laredo and Maria, Tex, to Omaha,
Chicago and Joliet, Ill.,, and Gary, Ind,
was asked by Southwestern lines.
Other increases from producing
points in the Northwest to various des-
tinations throughout the United States
were asked by the Chicago. Milwaukee
& st. Paul, Chicago, Rock Island 4
Pacific, Missouri Pacific and Oregon
Short Line railroads.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Silk Mills Install Looms
Scarcity of Skilled Workers
DELAYS Production

Manufacturers of silk looms are
making strong efforts to supply the
demands of the mills. A leading max
er Of looms stated yesterday that the
silk mill owners started to place
orders in the early part of April and
since then business has been coming
along in relatively large volume.
This manufacturer also stated that if
floor space could be obtained at
reasonable rents by the silk manufac-
turers Of Paterson and Eastern Penn
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
sylvania 10000 looms would be in

sylvania 10000 looms would be in
stalled this year by the mills
The buying of looms is said to have
resulted in increased sales of winding,
warping and quilting machines, these
being essential accessories of the
looms.
Inquiries from foreign countries for
textile machinery are said to be num-
erous, China, Japan, South America,
Australia, Italy and Cuba being men
toned as potential customers. But
it is said that most of the American
manufacturers arc SO busy on domestic
orders that little of the foreign bust
ness can be entertained. The scarcity
of skilled machinists is delaying pro-
ductiOn
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Popular Millinery Models

Navy blue and sand colored hats
made of tricolette. knitted artificial
silk, are said by millinery retailers
to be good sellers now. They are used
mostly for sports wear. One particu-
larly popular model is "flop" shape
trimmed with grosgrain ribbon
around the band and finished with
beads.
According to out-of town retailers
hats with transparent brims and fabrie
or lisere straw crowns are selling we'll
Business in fabric hats, especially IN
silks and satins, is said to be improv-
ing and is expected to reach its peak
with another week or two OF hos
weather.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Export Sales of Rubber Goods

South American railroad officials are
in this country placing orders for me-
chanical rubber equipment, including
corrugated tender hose, airbrake hose
and air signal hose. Some rubber goods
manufacturers report they already
have closed orders for some of this
equipment, and that negotiations are
still pending for additional sales.
Scandinavia has developed into
prosperous customer for the rubber
goods companies, the orders and in
quiries received from Norway, Den
mark and Sweden being greater than
those received from all other foreign
sources, it is said. Automobile tires
are in particular demand.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
Hot Weather Brings Call
For WOmen's Wash Skirts

Salesrooms of garment manufacture
ers making white washable skirts were
besieged with buyers yesterday, all
anxious to obtain goods for immediate
delivery. The period of hot weather
has stimulated sales in the retail
stores. and as result the buyers
have been forced to come into the mar
ket for more merchandise. Few skirt
manufacturers have large stocks on
hand because of the recent strike in
which they were more seriously af-
fected than the cloak and suit makers.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-05
The Tribune's Page of Business News
To Confer Oh Patents
Argentine Agent Seeks Coop
eration of u. S. Officials

WASHINGTON, June Al. A. De
Marval, of Buenos Ayres, sen. to the
United States by Argentina to effect
more thorough cooperation between
the two countries in the matter of
registration and protection of patents
and trademarks, arrived here to-day. He
will confer with the leading authorities
and officials