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The Washington times., 1936-12-21
Woshinoton Produce Markets

Pears-No carlot arrivals; no cars on
track. Oregon and Washington, boxes
D'Anjou, $2.75@3; Bose, $2.50@2.75.
Bananas-Two cars arrived; un-
broken car track.
Turnlps-One Georgia arrived; un-
broken car on track.
l.. C. L. Express Arrivals
F1Orida-30 lugs avocados; % crates
eggplant 56 bushel baskets lettuce; 6
lugs lines; 32-quart crates kumquats;
bushel baskets okra; 10 bushel bas-
squash; 10 bushel baskets snap beans;
n 3O-pound crates tomatoes.
CalifOrnla-44 lugs avocados.
GeOrgia-15 10O-pound bags pecans.
Pennsylvania - 1O2 3-pound baskets
South Carolina-7 bushel baskets rad
ishes.
Virginia. barrels watercress.
Unknown OriginR - 81 crates mixed
AppIes-One washington arrived; 1
broken and | unbroken cars on track.
Supplies moderate; demand moderate; ;
market steady. Bushel baskets. U. s.
No. l: Virginia, Staymans, IA h-inch
minimum, $1.15@1.25; h-inch minimum
$1.35 @1.4O: %-inch minimum, $500
l.75; Grimes 2h inch minimum. S1.1O@
lis; 212-inch minimum, $1.35 a 1.5O; De-
licious "a inch minimum, $l.4O@ 80 ;
u inch minimum. $1.75 @1.S5; 2% inch
minimum, $4,000: Yorks, 2 inch min
imum. S1@1.1O; 2h-inch minimum. 1925
W l.S0; 2%-lnCh minimum, Si4UW LOU ;
Golden Delicious PA inch minimum,
S1.25 @1.35; 2h inch minimum, $1.5O@ a
1.6O; 2% Inch minimum, $1.75@1.S5;
Jonathans, ~ Inch minimum. $1.25;
2h!nch minimum. $1.35@1.5O; Black
Twigs, 2N-inch minimum, s1.15@l.25;
2h h-inch minimum. $1.35 lao; 2%-inch
minimum, $1.5O@I6O; Bonums, 2-inch
minimum. Soc; "a inch minimum 81 a
lis; 2h-inch minimum, $1.25 @1.35; {;
boxes: Virginia, com bination extra fancy
and fancy: Staymans, S1.6592; Delici-
Gus, s1.9O@2.25; C Grade: Staymans,
&1.iO61.75: Delicious, &1.5OQ1.S5; Fancy:
Grimes, $1.5O@1.75.
POtatOes-One Idaho, Maine. New
York. pennsylvania arrived; broken
and 10 unbroken cars on track. Supplies
moderate; demand moderate; market
steady. 1O0-lb. sacks, L. S. No. 1, New
York, Round Whites. $2.3592.4O: Maine
Green Mountains, $2.65; Idaho. Russet
Burbanks. $3.15@S.25: few. $3.50; Flor
ida, bushel crates Bliss Triumphs, U. S.
No. /. 81: U. s. No. 2. $1.5O@1.75.
Cabbage-One New York, South Caro-
lima arrived; broken and 3 unbroken
cars on track. Truck receipts moderate;
supplies liberal: demand moderate; mar
ket steady. " -bushel hampers, South
Carolina, pointed type, freight receipts
mostly around 81; truck receipts packed
locally. 750S5c; New York and Penn
sylvania. 50-lb. hacks Domestic Round
type, mostly around 75c
The Washington times., 1936-12-21
SIDD0NS FEELS
ANKCHARGES
ARE WISE

Ways to increase earnings In
the face of rising costs, demands
for better living standards and
higher taxes must be found to
answer the most serious and press
ing problems confronting the
banks in 1897 Frederick P. H.
SiddonS, secretary of the Amer
lean Security and Trust Company,
declared in an address before
Group Three of the Virginia
Bankers Association at a banquet
in Richmond.
Mr.. Siddons spoke on the "Fu-
ture Of Banking" Reasonable
service charges should be adopted
by all banks, he said, adding that
smaller banks not having such
charges now will be amazed at
the gains they will achieve in in
come He added:
I'm 1886 new investments will
not be in sufficient quantities
to enable banks to purchase
many bonds, because after a
great depression the forces of
recovery move slowly and the
demand for such bonds will far
exceed the supply. With further
gains in heavy industries in
1887, there should be an in
crease both in employment and
business"
Should the Government reduce
its spending policy there may be
some reaction, but business is
headed toward further improve
ment which eventually will cause
Well-managed companies to want
to borrow money from the banks,
according to the banker. There is
more likely to be an increase than
decrease in the demand for credit
in the year ahead, said the Wash
ington financier, adding that ir-
terest rates will still be low. He
continued:
"A majority Of bankers will
agree that most of the recent
banking laws passed have not
hindered them in their opera.
tiOnS as they anticipated. These
laws have proved beneficial to
stockholders, depOSitOrs and to
the banks. During the coming
year only banking laws of
minor nature are Likely to. be
passed.
Fortunately, many banks TO-
day are earning more than last
year and through careful man.
agement should continue the up
trend in 1897"
The Washington times., 1936-12-21
AIRCRAFT FIRM
ORDERS SOAR

Representing 400 per cent in
crease over business on hand a
year ago, the current backlog of
untitled orders on the Lockheed
Aircraft Corporations books as OF
December IL totalled more than
$2,250,000, according to Robert E.
Gross. president. This is the high
est backlog recorded by the COM
pany since its incorporation in
June, 1882.
The firm also announced the
purchase of its present factory
site at Burbank, Cal, together
with additional adjacent acreage.
The property was acquired from
the California Bank, The Cali
fornia Trust Company, w. A.
Blanchard and several other own
erS and comprises a total of 43
acres. It is the same acreage
which the company has been leas-
ing for the last years.
The purchase price is under
stood to be in the neighborhood of
$165, 900. The property has been
used for aircraft manufacturing
purposes since 1927 and includes a
private landing field which is Used
for the testing Of planes.
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Foods, Rents, Clothes
Show New Gains

had risen something over a dollar
by the first week in December, to
cost approximately $3.50 for De-
cember on the basis of preliminary
estimates.
Pay rolls, which rose much
faster than living costs in the Sec
ond quarter of 1896, dropped be-
hind in the third quarter. The
average family's monthly income
showed a shrinkage Of 1921 in this
period.
Incomes Rise
The average family, earning and
spending $120 per month in 1898,
saw their monthly income rise
more than SIG in the next two and
one-half years, to $136.73 by the
second quarter of 1896; due to the
accompanying rise in prices it
then cost $133.84 per month to
support the same scale of living
which only required $120 to pay
for at 1888 levels, leaving a modest
gain of $3.50 in the family pocket
book, as surplus of income over
outgo.
In the next three months, how
ever, the cost of maintaining the
same scale of living rose another
two dollars, to $135.97, while the
family's monthly earnings de-
clined $2.21; reducing the average
households income to $134.52,
thus turning the previous surplus
into q deficit of $1.45.
The Washington times., 1936-12-21
PRACTICE
LAW HELD NEED

NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-At the
National Economic Conference
held in New York, Spon.
sored by the Society for Stability
in Money and Banking, leading
economists and bankers from all
over the country gave their opin-
ions on important trends in fl
nance. The general theme of the
conference was Security Stability
and Avoiding Depressions.
Presiding at the conference was
DR.. Joseph E. Goodbar, president
of the society which called the
National Economic Conference for
the purpose Of recommending re-
forms in banking to Congress for
their legislation.
Declaring that it is difficult to
understand the aloof attitude Of
bankers towards problems of the
business cycle, in view of the com.
plete diaster that overlook some
10000 banks, DR.. Goodbar sug
geSted that wisely drafted legis-
lation guiding the banking prac-
tices of all bankers, but touching
lightly, if at all, those who volun-
tarily abstain from practices that
exploit prosperity" would seem to
be the only effective solution.
DR.. Goodhar declared that care
full analysis has established the
belief that the development of in
flation in the past has depended
on the common banking practice
of lending bank credit, as distin'
guiShed from savings, for financ-
ing the construction of new capi-
tai goods.
The Washington times., 1936-12-21
Chicago Produce

CHICAGO. Dec. 81 G.N.SD.-Rutter-
Receipts. S.4Os tubs; steady; old cars,
none; new, 2. Extras, 33Ac; standards.
33Ac; extra firsts, 32% @3Sc; firsts,
32@S2lac; specials. 3S% @S4Ac.
Eggs-Receipts, 5,O75 cases; steady;
old cars none; new 3; current receipts.
% l2c; fresh extra firsts, less than cars,
29lzc; cars, 29hc; fresh firsts. less than
cars 2Shc; cars 2Szc; dirties PAN 9;
checks. fresh 23hc; storage. 21hc.
Cheese - Twins, IN @171ac; single
daisies and longhorns, 17@1Sc.
Live Poultry-Strong; turkeys. 140
i6hc; hens. NOISES: Leghorn hens,
9@11c; broilers, 15@16c; springers, 13
q @15 &c: chickens, 12@13c; roosters, IL
q Igc? ducks, 9@17hc; geese. s@14hc.
Potatoes-124 cars; on track. 263; u.
s. shipments, 554; Idaho Russets Bur-
banks. $2.55@2.S5; heavy to small. $2.45
No. ?: $2@2.05; Washington Russets
Burbanks. 1910; Colorado Red Nc
Clures, cotton sacks, $3.50: partly
graded, $2.421a; Wisconsin round white,
S1sO; fair to ordinary. $40; No. 2,
S7hc.
The Washington times., 1936-12-21
FLORIDA CANAL
FIGHT LOOMS
IN CONGRESS
InternatIonal Nsws Service

International News Service
Congressional battle lines were
being drawn today for the ex-
pected contest over completion Of
the $165, 100000 Florida ship
canal.
AS q special board of Army en-
gineers submitted a favorable
report on the controversial project
to the full board, both Florida
Senators marShaled their forces
against those of Senator Vanden-
berg (RD, of Michigan, who an
nounced that he is again ready to
kill it,"
Lost BY One Vote
The huge waterway project was
defeated by only one vote in the
Senate last year after it was in
troduced as an amendment to the
War Department appropriation
bill by the late Senator Fletcher
CD, of Florida.
Senator Vandenberg's attack on
the measure, based on the grounds
that the canal would be economi-
cally unSound and endanger the
water supply and the agriculture
section Of central and south Flor
ida, was held responsible for the
projects narrow defeat.
The issue was thought dead.
but with the report of the special
board of Army engineers it prom
iseS to become one of the major
fights during the next session Of
Congress
Ready to 'KiIP
Announcing that he is again
ready to fight to kill it," Vanden-
berg declared the canal would be
an absolute economic menace"
and that there is no use talking
about balanced budget if this
kind of expenditure is to go on"
On the other hand, the two
new Florida senators, Pepper and
Andrews, are prepared to step out
of their freshman role and
wage a "Iast ditch" contest for
congressional approval of the now
partially completed project.
The special board also recon.
mended that $160.000,0O0 be set
aside to complete the canal. Ap-
proximately $5,000,000 has been
expended already.
The Washington times., 1936-12-21
BETTER
INIRREGULAR
:.
+: DEALINGS
By LESLIE GOULD

NEW YORK, Dec. 81 GN.SO.
The stockmarket quieted down TO-
day after Saturdays outpouring OF
liquidation on the Interstate Com
fnerce Commission railroad sur
charge ruling.
Prices showed an irregular tend
ency, but the undertone was i'm
proved, and some groups, notably
coppers and aviations, scored sub
Stantial gains. However, the labor
difficulties in the automobile and
steel industries we're a restraining
influence.
Rails were Steadier. Eastern
roads which will lose most in the
END of the surcharges were in
clined to heaviness. Others i'm
proved, with Atlantic Coast Line
up a point and Atchison nearly as
much.
Motor shares, were slightly
lower in light dealings though
pressure on the group was slight.
Steels were better, fractional
gains predominating, but both
groups showed a disposition to
await a cue on the outcome of
the labor situation.
Rise in copper prices abroad to
a new high stimulated coppers
where Anaconda rose over a point.
International Nickel, however,
was in supply. Makeup in lead
prices also aided the mining
group.
- Douglas, with rise of nearly
2 points led aviationS up on the
War Departments plans to make
large purchases for 1887. Farm
implements were higher, Deere
and International Harvester riS-
ing around point each.
The Washington times., 1936-12-21
Metal Markets

NEW YORK. Dec. 21 GN.SD-Export
copper continued strong in fairly 40.
tive trading today as rising prices
spurred demand from large consum.
ers. Sales at 11.25 cents pound c. i. +.
European base ports were reported to-.
day, against Saturdays range of 11.225
to 11.30 cents.
Domestic price was unchanged at II
cents.
In a brisk market, lead was sold at
$50 to $50 cents a pound, New York,
and 5.35 to 5.45 cents, East ST. Louis.
1t is estimated that sales in the past
week were close to 10000 tons, with
all classes Of consumers actively buy
ing.
Zinc appeared to be tightening as
demand continued strong. and produc-
ers were quoting 545 to 5.55 cents
pound, East st. Louis, for prime West
ern and 5.s2Is to 5.92a cents, New
York.
The Washington times., 1936-12-21
Northeast Savings
Paying Dividend
AtG St. Office

Distribution of the current divi-
dend by the closed Northeast Saw
ings Bank will be continued at
the home office at 1406 G St.
N. w., it was learned today.
For about ten days distribution
has been going on at Eighth and
H SITS. N. E., but all depositors
who did not call for their divi-
dends by Saturday will have to
go to the G Street office.
Justus S. Wardell is the re-
ceiver of the closed bank.
The Washington times., 1936-12-21
Mail Ships SaiIings

The following shows the
names of ships, the lines Op-
Grating them, their times of sail.
ing from New York and when
their regular and supplementary
mails close. The time shown is
Eastern Standard Time. Date
after names of ports indicate
scheduled date of arrival. (N
Indicates mails must be specific
ally addressed by this steamer.
(+) Indicates supplementary
mails will be accepted on pier
up to 10 minutes before sailing
time,
The Washington times., 1936-12-21
New York Wool

NEW YORK, Dec. 81 G.N.SD Wool.
firm; domestic fleece. unwashed. Ohio
and Pennsylvania. 41@4sc; domestic
: pulled, secured basis, 93c9$1.O7; domes-
tic Texas, clean basis, sic a LOS: domestic
territory, clean basis, 7Sc $1.07.
The Washington times., 1936-12-21
TOMORROW
Transatlantic

EXCAMBION (American Export),
Ponta, Delgada December %, Gibraltar
81, Marseilles Jan. .. Naples T. Alexan-
dria 7, Jaffa and Haifa 10 and Beirut II;
Pier F, Jersey City-Mails close l p. m,
sails 4 p m.-Letter and prints mails for
Azores Islands, Egypt, Gibraltar Iraq,
Palestine. Syria; prints mails for Al
bana. Bulgaria. Greece. Italy, Malta,
Turkey and Yugoslavia; parcel post for
Albania Azores Islands
The Washington times., 1936-12-21

CANADA
COntrPal funds In New York "a pel
cent premium at 81 900.
The Washington times., 1936-12-21
Bermuda

QUEEN OF BERMUDA (Furness), St.
Georges and Hamilton December "a;
close noon; sails p. m.-Letter, prints
mails and parcel post for Bermuda.
The Washington times., 1936-12-21

(a) Optional cash. (b) Includes latest
declaration only. (c) Extra Cd) n
stock LiauidatnE dividend. tf) On accumu
Paid payable this Special Paid
last year (S) Paid lqudang dividend Of 81 cash and
warrants 60 Ex-divdend. (t) Ex-rightA
Dividend n dollars in parentheseA
The Washington times., 1936-12-21

1919 Wabash Of A.. 81
10 9N Waldorf sys Il 42A). II II II r y
Smyrna times., 1936-04-09
NEW RECRUITS
ADDED TO CCC
Men Will Be AppOrtioned
Among Seven Camps of
State After Processing
SOME TO FORT DUPONT

Delaware's quota of new enroll
ees for the Civilian Conservation
Corps, for the present enrolment
period April L to Is, was cut to Sc
men, all white, and from the three
counties of the state and the city
of Wilmington. These men were
sent to Fort DUPONT last week
and given medical examinations
and proceeded, completing this
work in one day. Captain Earle
Ewing, Inf. Res, executive officer
of the Delaware CCC District, said
that the men will be evenly divided
between the seven junior camps of
the district, making eight new en-
rollees for each Of the camps. Each
company in the state will send a
truck to Fort DUPONT for men al
lotted to that company. Captain
Ewing has received definite infor-
nation from Second Corps Area
Headquarters to the effect that be-
ginning April 1 the strength of the
eight Delaware companies, includ-
ing the war veterans company
2213 at Fort DUPONT, will be 157
men instead of the former strength
of 200.
Smyrna times., 1936-04-09
STATE SAFETY
COUNCIL NEWS
The Importance of Care in
Driving Automobiles Over
Wet Roads
SOME TIMELY ADVICE

According to the Delaware Safe
ty Council, driving on wet roads
isn't the safest sport in the world
but it has to be done. When it's
wet, slow speed is always safe but
there are tricks to wet road driving
that make for safety. Today's
cars are much safer on wet roads
than the cars of fifteen or twenty
years ago when we had hard, high
pressure tires. These tires touch
ed the pavement at only narrow
spot as compared wiz today's soft
tires which flatten out more and
afford a much greater gripping
surface. The old, hard tires surely
could do tricks and the roads of
those days were terrors as COM
pared with what we have now.
Some of today's roads are safe
even when wet. Many of the con-
crete roads, when they have not be-
come grease-coated and dirty, pre-
sent a rough surface to which tires
stick. On such a road, provided it
is such road, car will roll safely
at pretty good speed. The thing
to be sure of is whether it is such
a road. One way to find out is to
drive along at moderate speed and
apply your brakes. If the car
sticks, you will know it; if it skids.
for Safety's sake reduce your
speed. If a road is dusty and
slightly wet, it is more inclined to
induce skidding. Frequently a
driver will attempt to pass another
car and find that he isn't getting
by as fast as he hoped he would.
This may be due to the fact that
Smyrna times., 1936-04-09

the other driver, as some do, sud
denly decides that if you want to
pass, he is going to make you work
for it even though that is one of
the most dangerous practices on
he road. Or, it may be because a
car appears coming from the op-
posite direction faster than you es-
timated and the hole into which
you plan to go gets smaller rapid
ly. What you need right there is
some very rapid acceleration and
your car doesn't seem to have it.
How to get it is very important
point. Here's how: Kick your
clutch out and let it drop back in
again. Do it two or three times if
necessary and you will be surprised
at what happens. Your car will
Jump ahead and run faster every
time the clutch drops back in.
Why? Here's the answer: Let's
assume you are giving the car all
the gas you have and it still won't
run fast enough. If you shove the
clutch out, you release the engine
of the load on it and the engine
tends to race, to run very rapidly.
If you keep your gas on and your
clutch out your engine would roar
the way some folks have to roar
their engines on cold mornings. But
you don't leave your clutch out any
time at all. Just quick kick out
and quick drop in, not over sec
ond. And as the engine, now turn
ing very rapidly. takes hold after
the clutch drops back in, the mo-
mentum of the engine gives you a
quick pull and speeds up the car.
What you are doing is getting out
of the car more speed than there is
in it to meet this particular kind
of an emergency.
Smyrna times., 1936-04-09
TO CHAIN STORES
Peach Growers Ask Chain Store
Aid to Relieve Surplus

Cx1Ch oIOWCIS ASH Sudm SbU1t
Aid to Relieve Surplus
Chain store organizations of the
East and Middle West today ex-
tended helping hand to California
farmers when they pledged cooper
alton to western peach growers in
a nationwide campaign to increase
the sale of canned peaches, and
thus relieve California growers of
a large surplus which has threat
ened to surfeit the market. Be
cause nature smiled on the Pacific
peach orchards, the farmers this
spring found themselves on Janu-
ary first with more than six mil
lion cases of fruit on their hands
and a new crop coming on. Faced
with ruinous prices brought on by
this surplus, they appealed to
chain stores throughout the nation
to aid in disposing of the unusually
large supply. Normal sales, the
farmers said, would not disose of
the surplus, which on January first
of this year was 2,727, 900 cases
more than the surplus at the same
time last year. In response to this
appeal, the National California
Canned Peach Sale" is to be inaug-
urated April 18th. Consumers
throughout the nation will be urg-
ed to take advantage of the sale
and to stock up on the delectable
fruit. and special recipes for the
use of peaches are to be advertised
widely In their plea to the chain
organizations, the California grow
ers also asked aid in the permanent
stabilization of the market, through
the use of the facilities of the
grower-to-consume retail outlets.
A Canning Peach Sterilization
Committee, headed by H. c. Mer-
ritt, Jr., of Tulare County, Cali
fornia, is handling the nationwide
drive. THE peach growers are not
asking for charity" said Merritt in
a statement issued from California.
There is an undeveloped market
for canned peaches which can be
tapped only through intensive ad-
vertising and selling efforts on a
wide scale The chain store organ
izations, with their thousands of
retail outlets in every state in the
nation, have the facilities for NOV
ing the several million cases of
peaches whose sale must be speed
ed in order to stabilize the industry
for the coming season. The only
way to do this seems to be by ask
ing help from the chain distribu-
tors. They have helped growers
before through their widespread
selling and advertising facilities
and we think they can help us now
in our crisis"
Smyrna times., 1936-04-09
NEW FARM PLAN
IS UNDERWAY
Third of States 10000 Farm
ers Expected to Share Up
ward of S150,000
$4,000 ACRES AFFECTED

More than third of Delaware's
10000 farmers are expected to re-
ceive upwards of $500 in bene-
fit payments under the pinch-hit
farm program, which will be under
way in the next two or three weeks
in this state to replace the outlaw
ed AAA. These estimates were
made last week by A. D. Cobb, of
the University of Delaware Exten-
sion Service, as he announced that
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace is scheduled to appoint a
Ifive-member temporary committee
for Delaware this week to handle
the program. As the program for
Delaware rounds into shape under
the general direction of Mr.. Cobb,
who has been handling the details
since the substitute farm measure
was first enacted, it is figured by
Mr.. Cobb that between 5000 and
5000 Delaware farmers will partic-
ipate. He also figures they will
convert an average of something
like five acres each from soil de-
Ipleting crops to soil conserving or
soil-building crops under the pro-
gram, making a total of $4,000
acres at the lowest estimate. The
federal government will pay $40 an
acre for each acre converted. Con-
tracts will not be necessary but the
participating farmers must make
formal applications if they seek to
receive payments. A slate of MEM
bers for the temporary state COM
mittee has already been recon-
mended to Secretary Wallace, said
Mr.. Cobb. AS soon as this COM
mittee is appointed, it will meet
and will set up statewide organ
ization, consisting of a committee
for each county. This will prob
ably be done next week, he said.
After that general meetings of
farmers will be held in scattered
places throughout the state to ac-
quaint them with the program.
These meetings, said Mr.. Cobb,
will begin during the week of April
20. The statewide organizations
will be set up and the farmers
meetings held in ample time, he
said, so farmers can arrange their
spring planting in accordance with
the degree to which they intend to
participate. There were some 5000
farmers in Delaware participating
in the old corn-hog and wheat pro-
grams of the AAA, before the Su-
preme Court declared that pro-
gram unconstitutional. Mr.. Cobb
said there will be more taking part
in the new program, because the
new program is not restricted to a
few crops. It applies to all. The
general object of the program is to
improve farm lands by inducing
farmers to curtail planting of soil
depicting crops.