Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-09
Trade Trends
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. EEhs
Automobiles Of Ford Motor
Co.'S August assembly OF automobiles,
Indicated at Sc, 900 by company OfElctkas.
the probable output of cars and trucks
for the current month Is $4,000 units
compared with 221 ,4s5 units, including
Ford, In July, Dow. Jones q Co. reports.
Ford motor assemblies are not counted.
in the total, because the company has
long followed the policy of reporting
motors produced each month. in con-
trast to the practice OF other companies
OF reporting cars shipped.
Chain stores--SaleS by chain stores
during July were generally affected by
the unusually hot weather and the fact
that there were only three business Sat-
urdays, as July fell on Saturday this
year. A compilation by Merrill, Lynch
& Co. shows that 81 chain store COM
panies, including three mail order con-
Germs, had July sales OF $l7l sos, 769, .
decrease of 8 per cent from slT6,830,0O5
reported by the same chains in July
last year. Excluding the mail order
concerns, 81 chain store companies
showed July sales of Sl2s,549, see, q de-
crease of ninety-three hundfedths Of I
per cent from $129, 761 ,s33 for the like
month Of 1890. sH
Electrical observation-disclosures Is fair,
with no outstanding Developments, In
most electrical equipment markets this
week, Electrical World reports. Several
centers, notably Eastern and New Eng
land, report q well sustained volume az
sales, though trading activity Is every
where affected by the usual Summer
SlackneSs c sEse
Consumption OF leather dur.
Ing June was the largest for any month
since January, 1880, the New York Hide
Exchange reports. June consumption OF
cattle hide leather was 1.573, 900 hides,
compared with 100000 in June last
year, and exceeded production by lO4,-
900 hides. The output for the first
half this year aggregated S,0fB.OOO
hides, approximately IS per cent below
the like period last year.
Lumber.-With lumber production
apparently continuing along previous
ly established curtatled levels, orders
for the week ended August dropped to
per cent below the cut, reports from
S27 leading hardware and softwcod
mills TO the National Lumber Manu-
facturers' Association indicate. Ship-
ments Of these mills, however, were Z
per cent above their combined pro-
duction of 207. 450, 900 feet. A week
earlier SS7 nils reported orders per
cent above and shipments Is per cent
above a enc of 205 ,279 600 feet.
Rubber .freS.-ShipmentS OF pneti-
matte castings in June amounted 10 s..
1886. an increase of 80 per cent over
May and So per cent over June last
year, the Rubber Manufacturers Asso-
citation reports June production totaled
5,672,463 units. practically unchanged
from May. but an increase of 10.7 per
cent over June last year. Pneumatic
castings on hand, June 80, were 10, Az
2l0 units an increase OF l.3 per cent
over the hgure at the end Of May, but
2I.S per cent under the total at the
end OF June, 1880.
Stlyer.-Bar silver Sagged q uuartar
of cent In New York to 271z cents
an ounce at the close OF the week. IN
London the metal declined an eighth
OF penny to l213-16 pence
6teel.-Operations OF steel mills Il,
the Youngstown district next week viii
be at ~ per cent of rated capacity. an
increase of 9 per cent from the as
point level this week. Dow, Jones Il
Co. reports. Youngstown Sheet a
Tube Co. will operate at 80 per cent
and Carnegie Steel 1T 46 per cent. both
Republic Steel Corporatinn
has resumed operations 1T its nri,acipea
open hearth plant In the Younaskown
district after week Of idlenezx