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SALES GAIN NOTED
IMMING
Advance of 18 Per Cent
Over First Half of 1935
Reported.
S? che Associated Fress.
• CHICAGO, July 20.—Retail sales
©f men’s clothing the first half of
3936 aggregated approximately 18 per
cent greater in volume than the cor
responding period last year, according
to the comprehensive survey prepared
by the National Association of Retail
Clothiers and Furnishers today.
Other private semi-official estimates
have put clothing store business dur
ing the period at the best level in six
gears.
The national association's Commit
tee on Business reported its regular
survey of the retail branch of the
clothing industry from coast to coast
disclosed every month showed a
marked improvement over the same
period of 1935.
Sharp Upturn Noted.
Of all the committee members re
porting, 86 per cent Indicated they
had experienced the substantial im
provement in business. In some sec
tions of the country gains were shown
to have been as high as 38 per cent
while in many oth«r sections It was
well over 20 per cent. The average
for the entire country, however, was
18 per cent.
Asked what percentage of their
June volume they attribued directly to
payment of the soldiers’ bonus, re
porting merchants estimated all the
way from nothing to 40 per cent. The
peak figure came from only one mer
chant; two stores indicated a 25 per
rent increase; most of the others were
10 per cent or below and the average
for the country was only 4.4 per cent.
Sales Ahead of June, 1935.
TSighty per cent of the committee
members indicated June business was
better in sales volume than June,
1935; 10 per cent indicated it was
about the sape; 10 per cent reported
It was not a* • good. The average im
provement was 19.9 per cent; the av
erage decline among those stores not
inf? a decline was slightly less than $
per cent. . „
The latest Dun & Bradstreet re
port of the men’s clothing trade in
dicated orders to wholesalers for Sum
mer merchandise were 15 to 20 per
cent more than a year ago, while early
commitments for Fall are 20 to 30
per cent ahead. Advance overcoat
business has been between 15 and 20
per cent greater than in 1935. Retail
prices of men’s Spring clothing were
3 to 5 per cent higher than In 1935,
and on Fall lines, according to tnis
report, the advance will run from 6
to 10 per cent.
There is a gct»d demand In the
United States for Chinese liquorice, the
root of which is used to make chewing
gum and in the manufacture of to
bacco.
FEDERAL LAND BANKS
NEW YORK, July 20 (noon) UP).—Fed
eral Land Bank bonds;
Bid. Asked.
4V,s Nov 1958-38- .108% 107
4V4S May 1957-37- - 102% 103V.
4%s Jan 1967-37_ .101% 102%
4s May 1958-38_ . . 104% 105%
4s Nov 1957-37.. . 103% 104%
4s July 1940-44. . 109% 109%
3%S May 1955-46. . 101% 102%
3s July 1955-45- 100% 100%
3s Jan 1958-46. . 100% 100%
3a May 1956-46_ . 100 V. IOO*s
CHICAGO PRODUCE.
CHICAGO. July 20 UP).—Poultry, live,
3 7 trucks; hens firm: balance steady, hens.
4% pounds up. 18: less then 4% pounds.
17: leghorn hens. 34%: Plymouth Rock
Springs. 23: Whit* Rocks. 25%: colored.
22: Plymouth and White Rock fryers. 21;
colored. 18: Plymouth Rock broilers. 19:
Wblte Rock* and colored. IT: Leghorns. 2
pounds up. 17: less than 2 pounds. 16%:
bareback chickens. 14al6: roosters. 14;
Leehorn roosters. 13: hen turkeys. 16:
toms, 16: No. 3 turkeys. 13; heavy old
ducks. 10J/«: heavy voung. U: email whit*
ducks. TO1,,: small colored. 10: young
geese. 13: old. 10.
Butter. 11.10H: steady Creamery—
Soecials (03 score i. 34V«a34%: extras
(021. 33%: extra flrsts (90-911. 33%a
3:1%: flrsts 188-891 32a32%: standards
tool, centralized-carlots,'33%. Eggs, 11.
054: steady: extra flrsts. local. 2(1%: cars,
21: Iresh graded firsts, local. 20: cars.
2o%: current receipts. 19: storage packed
extras. 22%: storage packed flrsts. 21%.
NEW YORK PRODUCE.
NFW YORK, July 20 (JP).—Live poultry
steady to nrm. Bv freight; Broilers < Rocks
and Leghorns). 19*2.3; fowls. 10*22; roos
ters. 15; turkeys. 13*20; ducks, llal3.
chickens unquoted.
Egg.«. 21.097, Irregular. Mixed colors:
Special packs. .24Vaa27%: standards. 23%
*24*4; flrsts, 22; mediums. 20%; dirties.
No. 1. 19*4; average checks. 17%.
Butter. 7,101. easier. Creamery, higher
than extra. 33%a34V4; extra (92 scorei,
33%: flrsts (89-91 scores), 33a33V«: cen
tralized (90 scorei. 33%.
Cheese. 113,738. steady. State, whole
milk flats, fresh, fancy, 19a20, held. 1935,
fancy, 23a23%.
A Statistical Summary of the Nation's
Business-First Six Months 1933-1936
foreign trade
ti,7??-”°|8'MOUW; ,:#^jj^na
1934 —$1.899 896.000
" automobile production
1936 — 2 485.921 Cart
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1933 — 990.114 Cart
steel production
1936 — 21.327.000 Tont
mb— lft.UH.YO/ ions
f". > '
1934— i fe. 181 .OPOlTons^
1933 _ 8,874 388 Tom
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BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
I9U-11.210.000.000
'1933.-$ 432.1'13,400
CAR LOADINGS
1936 — 16,590,870 Cars
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1939—15.936,623 Cars
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1933— 13.344.300 Cart
DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
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U. s. TREASURY POSITION.
By the Associated Press.
The position of ths Treasury July 17:
Receipts. $16,149,249.04: repayments of
(26.011.660,68 created a credit for ths
ley of $4,224,990.70. Instead of ths usual
txpendlturss. Balance. $2,411,866,451.12.
Customs receipts for the month. $17,637.
369.24.
Receipts for the fiscal year (since July
1). $176,502,371.40. Expenditures. $212.
352.561.29. despite repayments of $89.
177.718 bv the Commodity Credit Corp.
and $154,226,730 by the R. P. C., which
created a credit of $28,173,961.42 In
emergency expenditures. Excess of ex
penditures. $36,450,189.69. Gross debt.
t33.614.521.26H.46. a decrease of $1,664.
567.00 under the previous day. Gold
assets. $10,630,253,205.79.
Receipts for July 19. 1935 (comparable
date last year). $25,190,633.06: expendi
tures. $34,462,365.86: net balance, $1.
868.132. Customs receipts for, the month.
$17,272,640,48.
Receipts for the fiscal year. $189.234.
820.72: expenditure*. $000,800,386.65. In
cluding $284,167,255.61 of emergency ex
penditures: excess of expenditures, $411,
FINANCIAL ADVERTISING
LINEAGE SHOWS GAIN
NEW YORK, July 20 (^ —Finan
cial advertising lineage In the nine
largest New York City newspapers
during the first six months of 1936
was larger than for any corresponding
period since 1931, a survey by Albert
Frank-Guenther Law revealed today.
The 1936 lineage was estimated at 33
per cent over that of a year ago.
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.
CHICAGO July 20 (iPi.—Improved
weather conditions, reflected in an easing
in the drought liquidation ol live stock
last week, continued to hold marketings
within normal bounds today and prices
were strong In some Instances.
Hogs ruled steady to 10 cents higher.
Pat lambs were 15a26 up, with spots
higher, and cattle had a steady to weak
undertone. The weather also contributed
strength to the meat trade, reflected to
same extent In steady to strong wholesale
quotations. Steer carcasses were un
changed, selling at 8.50 to 14.00 wholesale,
but pork loins ruled steady to 60 cents
per hundredweight higher.
Last week’s cost of hogs was 9.42,
which contrasted with 9.44 for the cor
responding week In 1935. Por a full year
the hog top has been fluctuating above
the $10 mark and occasionally bobbing
above the $11 peak. A year ago this
week hog quotations reached the highest
levels In five years and they have been
fairly well maintained on a P.OOalO.CO
avenge coat and l0.noall.00 top basil
since then. Today's top was 10.85
Numerous lots of (at lambs sold at 910
today and some were held for more.
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FOREIGN MARKETS.
LONDON. July 20 OP).—Today s stock
market closed steady with a demand for
industrial shares. especially textiles,
cement and electrical Issues. Steels, oil
and home rails also moved higher, the
latter In anticipation of favorable dividend
announcements. Kaffirs were hither on
Cape Town buying.
PAKIS July 20 (PV—The Bourse closed
with a steady tone, coal and railroad issues
being demand. Other sections of the list
moved Irregularly.
Japan has ordered a decrease In the
price of school books.
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One of the Ford V-8 Trucks of the North
eastern Nebraska Oil Company covered
82,787 miles in seven months. Their cost
sheets showed this unit operated for 2.62
cents per mile—gasoline, oil, tires, repairs
and maintenance—convincing them that
their next truck should be a Ford V-8. Al
ready this new unit is rolling up new records.
In every kind of truck use, the real yard
stick of performance is operating costs.
These give owners a quick, accurate picture
of what trucks actually do on the job. Mea
sured by this impartial standard, the per
formance of Ford V-8 Trucks is outstanding.
Naturally, you would like to know what a
truck can do on your Job BEFORE you buy it.
That is why your Ford dealer offers the “on
the-job” test. Ask for a V-8 Demonstrator
Truck. Try it in your regular service. With
your own loads. Let the Ford V-8 tell its own
convincing story of all-around economy.
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■ —are such sensational reduc
tions offered on splendidly
tailored £tAU>atl$
J Suits
now further reduced to
lightweight woolens and cool tropicals
that were 29.50 and 34.50
Men, here are the kind of suits you seldom find at a sale price. Only
for the fact that we must reduce stocks are we enabled to offer such
sensational values. Here you’ll find weights suitable for early Fall
wear, as well as cool, lightweight suits for immediate wear. Choose
from crashes, tweeds, blue serges and tropicals. Some with coat and
trousers, others with coat, vest and two pairs of trousers. If altera
tions are necessary on any sale suits —they are FREE.
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FORIN GABARDINES, Glen Plaids,
Chalk-Stripe Worsteds (in all widths,
stripes and colors) ... tailored of the finest
WOOLENS in the typical St. Albans
manner . .. smart sports backs or conserv
ative models — weights for year-’round
wear—and colors, mostly dark, to ensem
ble with your Summer slacks. Single or
double breasted. Stripes and checks.
Sizes for men of every build.
not "sale suitsff in any
sense . I . all reduced
from our regular stocks
Lorraine Haspel Cotton
Gabardines and
Surf Whites.
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