Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-20
D. c. FOOD PRICES
TURNING UPWARD
One Per Cent Increase Seen
Following IS Per Cent
Drop for Year.

Retail food prices in the District of
Columbia were reported today by the
Labor Departments Statistical Bureau
as being on an upward trend after
dropping is per cent during the year.
Washington'S wholesale market, as
well as those in other principal cities
throughout the country the bureau as
serted, also has checked its slump and
was reported as being steady. An up
ward curve in its chart is expected soon.
The upward movement in the retail
food market. the bureau explained, is
based on reports from 81 principal
cities throughout the United States.
showing an average Increase of cne-half
Of / per cent since July Is Iast when
compared with June IS, 1881, and an
average decrease of II per cent since
July is. 1880.
Commodities Checked.
Since June IS last the retail market
here has rallied ! per cent.
Likewise since that date, the bureau
said, IL articles on which monthly
prices were obtained increased as fol-
lows Strictly fresh eggs, IL per cent;
pork chops, per cent; butter, per
cent: round steak, onions and raisins.
: 2 per cent; sirloin steak, fresh milk
and oranges. l per cent. and sliced
fiye-tenthS of l per cent
Twenty articles decreased: Cabbage.
per cent; potatoes. 4 per cent; oleo-
margarine and flour. per cent; leg
Of lamb, macaroni, coffee and bananas,
2 per cent: chuck roast. plate beef,
hens canned red salmon, cheese, bread,
cornfiakeS, rice. navy beans and canned
corn, l per cent; vegetable lard substi-
tute and wheat cereal, less than five
tenths Of l per cent.
Thirty of the fifty-one cities from
which prices were obtained showed in
creaSeS in the average cost of food as
follows: Portland, Me, 3 per cent; Chi
cago. Denver, Indianapolis. Milwaukee.
Minneapolis, New Orleans. Providence
and st. Paul, 2 per cent; Baltimore.
Birmingham, Boston, Cincinnati, Fall
River. Louisville, Manchester, Newark,
New Haven. New York, Omaha, Peoria.
st. Louis, Springfield. Ill. and Wash
ington, l psr cent; Buffalo, Cleveland.
Little Rock, Los Angeles. Pittsburgh
and Rochester, less than flve-tenths of
l per cent.
Others Show Decrease.
Seventeen cities showed decreases:
Savannah. 2 per cent; Bridgeport, Co
lumbuS. Detroit, Jacksonville, Kansas
City. Memphis, Norfolk. Portland Greg:
Richmond, Salt Lake City and Seattle, l
per cent; Atlanta, Butte, Dallas, Mobile
and Scranton, less than hve-tenths of
/ per cent. In four cities, Charleston,
s. c.: Houston, Philadelphia and San
Francisco, there was no change.
For the year ending July Is, all OF the
ST. cities showed decreases: Birmingham
and Dallas, % per cent; Houston, Little
Rock, Memphis. Savannah and Spring
field. Ill, 81 per cent; Cleveland, De-
troit Indianapolis and New Orleans, 20
per cent; Columbus, Fall River, Jack
sonville, Los Angeles, Louisville, Mobile.
Peoria. Richmond and Rochester, 10
per cent; Atlanta, Boston, Norfolk,
Providence and Scranton, IL per cent:
Baltimore, Buffalo, Charleston, Cincin-
natl. Manchester, Portland, Greg. and
Seattle. II per cent; Butte, Pittsburgh.
Salt Lake City San Francisco, Is per
cent: Bridgeport, Chicago, Denver, Mil
waukee, New Haven, Omaha, Portland,
Me: st. Louis and washington, IS per
cent; Minneapolis, New York and st.
Paul IA per cent; Newark and Phila-
delphia, i3 per cent; Kansas City, IL
per cent.