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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOURTEEN .'HE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1930 EGGS DROP TWO TO THREE CENTS BUTTER STEADY Portland P) A cut of 2 to 3 cents in me price ox ejrgs was re ported here Friday. With the ex ception of standards, were reduced 2 cents per dozen. Standards drop ped 3 cents. Cutting of egg prices at tnLs per iod. Indicates the rapid approach of the flush production of the sea son. Egg supplies are increasing here with the greater country lay and the same appears teue of the coast and the country generally. While there Is more or less steadiness and even strength In other branches of live poultry mar ket, heavy hens are Inclined to show very much of an easy feeling with prices bid somewhat lower. Market for country killed hogs showed a favorable tone along the wholesale way with prices gener ally unchanged. Occasional sales are shown at 16 cents but the gen eral market does not move that hish. I Quality country killed calves are i showing a very good tone here with prices well maintained at the recent high mark. Lambs continue gen erally of poor quality with demand sluttgish. Decreased production of butter . throughout the country Is giving way slowly to an Increase, reports Indicate. The losses are gradually diminishing In the east and middle west. There was no change In quotations on the Portland mar ket. Latest arrivals of broccoli from the Roseburg section are showing considerable Improvement and sales are shown as high as $1.35 with the best Californlan generally not above $1.10 and Si. la. Borne or dinary to poor Roseburg 75 cents to $1 crate. As expected there has been a change of price basis In the orange ' rrTket. Large fruit Is 10 to 15 cenis higher generally and In spots 25 cents up while small fruit is down a quarter. Sale of the latter was nearly suspended on account of the extreme price asked. There Is a greater supply 0f spring Chinook salmon reaching th-t local trade with resulting decline in the price. Columbia river smelt are selling from 4 to 7 pcn.h pound, according to quality. With much more liberal supply and even better quality, market for Mexican tomatoes is somewhat overloaded here at the moment. Considerable price shading has re sulted. Onions are weaker and lower here, still low In the country. Potatoes show fair movement lo cally. Rhubarb market steady and un changed for hothouse offerings. Mexican peas are selling better around 15.25 crate. . I Lettuce market continues weak vlth a wide price spread. Overload ed. Demand for seed potatoes la start ing unusually early. GOOD PRICES FOR POTATOES IN IDAHO Roy Hurst of the Hurst Fruit company of Salem, has recently re turned here from several weeks spent at Burley and I win Falls, Idaho, where he handled a potato deal shipping out around 100 cars and he his more under contract for shipment a Utile later when the demand once more brightens up which he expects In the near future. "About 3000 cars of pet a toe have been available at thee places," stated Hurst. "I figure about 70 per cent of them have movea out at average price of 11.90 net In bulk f. o. b. shipping point. The low price was $1.60 and the high price 2.15 In bulk. They were a good grade but small, due to an early frost, but for'smoothness and qual ity were fine. This nas been a growers market over there all the way through. The srowers sold enough at the beginning of the sea son to finance their xpensrs and have been gambling on the balance. They have plenty of safe .storage so have been able to gamble. While the price has been good, the demand lately has been slow, to movements have slackened even with the price holding firm. Salem Markets Compiled from reports ol Salem dealers, for the guninnce of Capit al Journal readers. 4 He vised dailyl Wnent: No. 1, white. 97c; red (sucked) 95c, feed oats 47c; mill ing ouLa 6oc; bailey ta per ton. aieats: Hogs: Tup grades 130 lfn) lbs. $10 75; 160220 lbs. $10 60; tO-260 lbs. $10 75; 260-350 lbs. $10 25; sows, $8 00 to $8 25: Cattle, top steers steady $1U to $10 50; cows $5 &0 to $7 50; culls and cutters $J to $4 50; Cheep, spring lambs $10.00; bucks, as to $H no; old ewes $4 to $3. Cslves: Vealsia. live weight 140-1 8Q tbs. $10-$ll; heavy and thins $7-$8. Dressed meats; Top veal 15 rents: No. a grade 14c; rough and heavy 13c and up; tup hogs: 120-150 lbs, 15',c; llier grades 13c down. Poultry Light to medium hen 18-lHc lb : heavy hens 22 oenU per Jound; broilers, springs 2U-22C; stags So lb.; old roosters 7c lb. KffH: pullets U tc; frent extras 97c; Builerfa', 36c; prime butter 38-3Uc; sUm extras 33c; standnrd cubes 32c. uhoi lnao: ruirn Fresh fruit: omnges, navels $4 25 98 case; lemons $8.75: bsnsnaa 7'c; limes, XK Jonathans $2 75: face-fill 160; SplUenberg $2 26-13 75; De licious XK $2 75; Wlnenaps, wrspped and parkrd $1.75: Yellow Newtowns, $l 75. Cranberries $4 box. O rape fruit, Texas $6 26-$7 50; (California $5.50. Khubarb $2 76 $3. 50 20-lb. box. KrMh vegetablts; Tomatoes, nnt Itouse $4 75 to $5 50: California $5 25 crate. Potatoes. Yaklmas $2 50-$3. lttuc. Imperial valley $4 26-15 25. Celery $7 00. Cabbage 4'4-5c; green tappers 35c lb. Spinach $4 crate; cau liflower $1.86; artichokes $1.00 doc Bunchrd vrgeiablea IVtren ouncn es: turnips 90c; parsley SOc; carrnu 40 to 90c; beets uc; oulous SOc; yadlahee 80e. Sacked vegetables: Onions local $3 so, carrots $3: ruubsgas $Sc: fH lSe lb ; squash. Marblehead 4c; Hub bard 4c; banana 4c; turnips c; pf nips 4c; yams 7c lb. H4MH.. MOHAIR " Wool: medium Sue; coarse S7o per lb.; Lambs uol S5c; lali dip 170. MARKET QUOTATIONS PORTLAND LIVESTOCK Portland iT Cattle and calves: QuouibJy steady. Receipt, cattle 36, uiivei 10. Btcera, 1100-1300 lbs. all to 411.85; good Sll-24 to 112: medium SU M) to ii.xb; common 17.60 to sa.50; heifera ttood 10 to 10. tiJ, common to med ium 7 to tlO. Cows, good St) .76 to tit 50; common to medium JUS to IB.7A; low cutter S3.50 to SO 35. bull, yearling excluded. 8 to H 50: cu ter to nifa.f m to so. waives, mea lum to choice B6MJ to c,ii7a to 7c; Old corn. No. 3 yellow to common u to sa.au. veaiers. mux fed. good to choice S10 6O to 12 60; medium S8.50 to $10.50; cull to com mon SS.60 to SB 50. Hogs, Quotabley steady. Receipts Heavy we I ah t S10 to ill. 25: medium weight S10 60 to SH OO; light weight 11.60 to 11.85; light lights 110 75 to si 173: packing aowt. aa to sio Slaughter pig 10.50 to $11 25; feed er and atooker pigs 00-130 lbs. med ium to choice 11050 to 11.60. (Soft or oily hogs and roasting pigs excluded in aoove quotations;. Sheep and lambs: Quotably steady. Receipts 360. Limoi, gooa to cnoice mv.io to sio.- 60. iJimbs, 84 lbs. to 92 lbs. 99.50 to 10 25; 92 lbs. down, medium 9 to 63.75: all wtirhts. common S7.50 to 3 00; yearling wethers 16 50 to 98.60. Ewes, medium to choice 15 to S6 50; 120-150 ids. S4 to e All weights, cull to common 2 to S4. POIITI,AM IMCOIHTE Portland (UP) The following Drtc- es effective Friday. Butter quo tations are lor smpment irom coun try creameries and c a pound is de ducted as commission. Butter: cube extras 34c; standards 33c; prime firsts 32c; first 30c. Eggs, poultry producers prices: fresh extrus 2 tic; standards 27c; fresh mediums- 20c. Uutterf&t, direct to shippers track 32c; No. 2 grade 27c: stations, No. 1 30c; No. 2 25c; Portland delivery pric es No. 1, 33c; No. 2. 28c. Milk: buying price 4 per cent, $2.30 per cwt. Cheese: selling price to ' retailers: Tillamook county triplets. 27c; loaf 28c; Tillamook lob. selling prices: triplets. 26c; loaf 2Gc. . Live poultry: heavy hens, colored, over 4i lbs., 23-24c; heavy Leghorn 2'2 -23c; 3 '4 to 4 lbs., 20-21c; under 3 Jba. 18c; broilers, light 30-32c; col ored 22c: old roosters 12c; stags 16o. i Drensed poultry : turkeys, fancy toms 30c; hens 28c; No. 2 24c; capons 30c. Fresh fruit: oranges, navels $4 to 7.50; grapefruit, Tex 1.8 SU.7& to S7.50; Florida stl.25 to S7; limes, S-doz. car ton S2.5U; bananns, 6-0 'Ac lb. Lemons, Calif. 16.50 to H. I Cranberries, late Howes, 13.40 to $3.50 per bus; Cape Cod J bushel box- eastern. S15 barrel. Cucumbers, Colorado hothouse $3. ; Ore. standard S2.50-S2.75 doz. Brus sels sprouts. Ore. S1.25-S1 40 peach box. Tomatoes, hothouse 27 -30c lb.; mexican S4-S4.au lug repacgeo. Onions, selling price to retailers: sets 5'-OHc lb.; Oregon. S1.65-S2 cwt. Fresh vegetables, selling price: let tuce, Imperial valley $2.25 to $3.00; Dcas 14-15C lb. Celery. Calif. $1.40 to $1.73 doz.; 15. 00 to SO crate: Oregon. l. 2 J doz. Ithubarb, hothouue, extra fancy $2.25; luncy $2; ctiolce fl.&U ZU-1D. Dx Bell peppers 26-27c lb- Caullllower, locul, 7dc to 01; Calif. 75c to $1.25. Hose burg broccoli 75c Sl 35. Potatoes: Deschutes Gems $3.10 to $3.23; yaximns sis.o 10 3 cwt.; west ern Oregon $2.25 to $2.50. Sweet po tatoes, uiu. nominal oc 10.; soutu- ern yams, $35 crate. Country meats: Selling price to re tailers, country killed hogs, best but chers under ISO lbs. ia-iac; veaj, 75 to 90 lbs. 17-lBc; lambs, 20-22c; bcavy mutton 15c. PORTLAND EANTNIIIE MARKET Hothouse rhubarb continues to fea ture offerings on the Eaatside Farm- era' market. Hales were shown at $2 for extra fancy ii0i. Hoot vegetables snowea an ncuve tone, especially carrots, but supplies are am Die. - Oreen onions were In good call at 35 -40c doz. buncnes. Brussels sprouts held mostly $1.10 peach box for best. spinacn was in sman supply arouna $1.40 orange box. Celery hearts sold rapidly at si 2d doz. bunches. A small supply of celery 75c doe. Potatoes steady at S2.33 lor iacny. Carrots 30-3 5c doz. bunches. 40c lug. Beets, aoc doz. buenbes, oo-boc lug, sacked stork $1.50. Turnips 35c doz. bunches, &0-6OC lug. Potatoes, sacks S2 to sa 30. onions dry. large. $1.30 to $1.75: green 35 -40c doz. bunches. Cauliflower, No. 1$1; No. 2. 85-75c. Apples. Jumble pack $1 to $1.25; fare and fill $1 25 to $1.50. Hquasn, iiuobard $1 crate, cabbage, fancy $1.50 crute. NI TS, HOPS, woor, Portland (UP Nuts: Oregon wal nuts, 2a-28c; Calif. 20-2Hc; peanuts, raw 10c: Brazils, new crop 22-24c; almonds 34-35c; filberts 10-20C; pe cans 24 -25c. Hops: nominal, 1029 crop p'jc. Wool. 1U2B crop nominal: Willam ette valley 28-33c; eastern Oregon 18 27 SC HAY marki:t Portland- Hay. sternly, buying prices: Eastern Oregon timothy, $20.50 to $21; Do valley $19 to $10 50; al falfa, $18 to $19: clover $16. Oat hay $16; straw $7 to $8 twi. Selling prices $2 more. CAM AHA BARK Portland (A) -cuscara burk steady. 7 to VjC IIH1KD 1KI IT, HOPS . New Yotk w Kvaporated apples. steady; choice 12 to 13A4c; fancy 14 to 15. Prunes steady; cam. to 12 Kc; Oregoii U1, to 17c. Apricots dtrady: standard 13l4 to 15c; choice to 17c: extra cnoice is to uoc. Peaches, strady; standard 13, to 14c; chohe 14 to 15c; extra choice 14 to I5;c. Hops steady. State, 1929 18-20C; 1928 nominal: Pacific coast 1929 15 18c; 1928 12-Mc. SAN IRANriSCO rOI'l.TRY Sun Francisco f (Fed. -State Mar ket bi remit ; Net prices paid pro ducers for live poultry delivered San Francisco; Hens, Leghorns, all str.es, 24-25o lb ; colored 4 lbs. and up 27 2Hc, Broilers. Leghorns, tinder IS lbs. per doz. 28-30c; 10 to 22 lbs per do. 2H-28C. Fryers, colored, under 3 lbs. 2R-30C; Leghorns up to 34 lbs. 28 -30c. Young roasters 3 lbs. up 30-320; ca pons, none. Roosters, old Lrghorus, 13c; colored 17c. Turkeys, voting: toms. 15 lbs. and up, live, nominal, drewd. 34-35c; hens young ana oia. iu io. ana tip, me nominal: drewted 32-33c: old toms and tindergradcs, live, nominal; dress ed 20-28C ft AN' t'RtM'IMCU APPITS flan Francisco i.4t iFedrralBtstt Market News Service) : Apples, boxes, Calif. Newtown Pippins, $2 50 to $2 - 7; loose, si o-sj; nonnwrsiern Home Beauties fancy $2-$2.25; HKs and lamer S2 50-S2.76: C eiade S1.75-S2: Bpltr.enbuig. extra fancy $3 25-$3 35; i mey bj ao-s.t; iJeuciotia, exira inncy $3.75; fncy $2 50-$3; WinesaiMi $2 75 $3; fancy $2 M-$2 75; New ions, extra fsucy $3-$3.25; fancy $2.7&-$J. PORTI IM Nl tlAR. ri OIR Portland l Cane sugar, sacked hauls, strnfly. Cane, fruit or berry. $5 15 per cwt. Beet sugar $3 cwt. Flour, rlty delivery price. Steady. Family patent 4Us, $7 40; whole wheat $6 50; graham $6 30; Baker's hard wheat 96 $tt0; bakers' Blue stem patent B5s, $7 00; pastry flour, 4Us, $6 DO, a IN VHAM'lCO IH TTI MKAT Flan Francisco Hutterfat prices, f o b. Ban Francisco, 3D to 3tt,c lb. PORTI.AMt UK. AT Portland ir Whrat futures: Mar. all trading $1 10. May. oten $1.11: htch $1 12: low. close $1 10', July, oiH-n, hlsh $1 IS; low. close $1.12 Brpt . open, high $1.13; low, close $1 13V Cash wheat: Biff Bend Blue tern. hard white $1 SO; soft whit, western white $t o; hard winter, northern spring, western red $ 07. Oats. No 3 31-lb white $3.1 Today's ear receipts, wheat $7, fl ar 10, sura $, ou 1, bay $, HI iO liK.tl Chicago Wheat futures: Ma 4.i w ; nun ii.iu; jow i.OB'i; close Si. 10. May, open SI. 14 5-8 to 11.15; high 11.15 5-8; low, 1.13; close SI.H'-j to . July, open l 17 to A: high sl.17',; low ai.is-3-8; close $1.10!. to . Sept., open 1.184 to high al.lB 3-8; low 1.1 o-o; cioee ai.lB' to i. Cash grain: Wheat No. 1 hard 11.20; No. 6 northern aorlnir B7c. New rnrn No. fi mixed 71 to 72o: No. 4 white ic. wi. no. ? Willie to 43c; No. 4 white 41 i to 42c. live. No 77c. Barley. Quotable ran we 58-BAc Timothy seed $5 40 to $8.35. Clover sera siuzs to mu.id. Lard $16.62; ribs $13.25; bellies $13.73. ni.WII'Mi WIIKAT Winnipeg (UP) Wheat range. May open $1.1714; close $1.17 5-8. July, open $120; close $1.1&4. Oct., open LIVERPOOL WHEAT Liverpool lUPj Wheat ranee. Mar. open, low $1.09: high, close $1.I4. may, uycu, iuw fi.ii, lllKll, uiuse 91- 1U 5-8. July, open, low $10 3-8; high, rillCAfiU LIVKSTOCK Chicago U. 8. D. A.) Hogs. 18. 000. including tooo direct. Top $11 50; bulk $11 to $11.50. Butchers, medium to choice $10 40 to su.iu: Digs, medium to choice to B1U. Cattle. 1000: calves 1000. Slow, un even trade. Slaughter classes: steers, $12.75 to $15 25. fed yearlings, good and choice $12.75 to $16; veaiers. milk Blockers and feeders, good andC fed. good and choice 810 to S14.50. Blockers and feeders, good and choice io yd u si 1 . 70. Sheep 8000. Market steady. Bulk fat lambs $11 to $11.50; few choice $11.75 to $11.90: fat ewes $0 down. Lambs, good and choice $iu.40 to sia; medium to cnoice sa.25 to siu.aa: ewes, medium to choice S4.75 to $6; feeder lcmos, gooa ana cnoice $u.ou to $iu.oo. PEP COMPANY HOLDS SALES TACTICS FAIR Continued from page 1) has enabled it to avoid any Increase in rates which otherwise must have accompanied the rising cost of ma terials and labor entering Into the manufacture and distribution of power, Mr. Hamilton alleges. Mr. Hamilton does not contend that lower "unit" cost has re duced the rate of the consumer who Is using the same amount of power as in 1910 or subsequent years that having remained prac tically stable but he claims that the lower rates which attach to increased consumption justify the company's policy of charging the costs of stimulating the sales of appliances to operating expenses. As to the allegation of the Inde pendent dealers that the power company is using unfair tactics In making a census of the appliances tud by its customers Mr. Hamil ton enters a complete denial. He de nies that the information as to outlets and appliances used In pri vate homes secured by the com-, pany's meter readers, given access to these homes for serving purposes by the rules of the public sen ice commission, are being u.wd by the company as prospect lists for Its sales department, contending that tuch information as Is collected by these meter readers would be of little value In this respect. The me ter readers, he says, only get around to the separate home about once In three years. "All of the information collect ed by our meter readers is filed away In an Index system for the information of the service depart ment, and any dealer who thinks he can make use of this informa tion is welcome to it," Hamilton cays. In any event, there will be no "fight" over the matter at issue on the part of the company," says Mr. Hamilton, announcing that "we do not consider our Judgment infal lible, and are perfectly agreeable to having a board of arbitration, the public service commission or the courts, review our policies and decide whether we are right or wrong. If we are found to be wrong we will be good citizens and abide by such decisions willingly and falthrully, and will hold no ill will towards anyone." Contending that the company be lieves Its policy justified in that H produces the greatest good to the greatest number, Mr. Hamilton's statement, in part, continues: "Increased use permits customers to enjoy more service for the same total cost, or much more service at a slight additional cost. Therefore, anything we can do at a reasonable cost or expense to promote the use of electricity, par ticularly In the home, will tend to continue to reduce the unit coat, and Increase the amount of service actually rendered per dollar paid for such service. "Had it not been for increases In the volume of business done by the power companies, they would have been forced to increase their rates for service as have other in dustries been forced to increase their prices. "The industrial and business fields have now become fairly well saturated with electric power ser vice: as an illustration of which here In Salem, we have the case of the Spaulding Lojrain company which has even electrified its plant and is purchasing power from us. On the other hand it is com monly conceded that there Is still a great field for the increased use of electricity in the home which will be as of great benefit to the housewife as the use of electricity has been to the factory employe. It I therefore in the Held of the home that the power com pan- i les must look for their increased I sales of power which are required If I we a re to m a ima i n our i ncrease i in volume of business, and there by be able to meet the Increased j cost of doing business without In I creasing our rates. If we can do this and at the sams time charge a reasonable amount of expense of securing this bustners to the operating expense of the utility as we have been do ing In the past, it seems fully logical to do so. "All other buslne.vcs spend large amounts in their sales and adver tising departments In develop ntt new business, so why should not the light and power Industry, and how else ran the electric power In dustry develop new business aa ef fectively and rapidly as by selling and placing electrical consuming apparatus and appliances? - "As to tht allegations that the CAULIFLOVe FROM OREGON FIELDS LISTED Portland Ore. 0P1 Reviewing the fruit and vegetable situation, the Portland bureau of the United States Department of Agriculture says: "Oregon cauliflower from the Roseburg district Is increasing In volume ol arrivals. Cariot cauli flower movement from this section will start about March 1. One hundred to 125 cars will probably be loaded during March. Winter injury to this crop was much less than was first anticipated, and according to present reports was not over 10 to 20 per cent. Quality is improving daily, and is now about equal to best California stock, but extra fancy cauliflower Is extremely scarce. The potato market continues excited at Yakima . valley points; but this had not been felt at Port land or other Pacific coast mar kets. Shipping point prices increas ed again to $43,000 for stock grad ing 50-60 per cent No. 1. Onions continue dull. Much stock of excellent quality Is being sold by farmers at the Labish dis trict as low as 75-SOc per cwt. plus sacks. Tomatoes were less expensive today, but still too high i$4.50 ner lug) to obtain very extensive dis tribution. The lettuce market is about as low as it can go, without dealers losing money on it. Present prices just about pay cost of harvesting and packing, transportation, and distribution charges." OF WORXLESS STORM HALL Chicago (VP) Several hundred men and women milled aoout the city hall Friday In protest against un employment. Squads of mounted po lice charged the throng, using bil lies to keep the leaders from har anguing the mob that quickly ga thered. Seven persons suffered bruised heads, and several were ar rested. The march on the city hall start cd after a mass meeting at Redhifer hall on North Wells street, called ' to fight unemployment." Squads of the mounted officers warned of their approach, hurried their horses to the walks, striking right and left with clubs and knock ing several persons down. Ringlead ers who climbed to boxes on the cor ners and started addressing their followers were pushed down and beaten. The disturbances broke out si multaneously on all four sides of the city hall, which with the county building occupies an entire block in the Loop, surrounded by Clark, Randolph, Lasalle and Washington streets. When the throng gathered at the Clark street entrance to the county building four policemen rode abreast down the sidewalk. The boldest of the marchers was a young girl who bobbed up on a ros trum every time she was pulled down by the police. She was one of the dozen or more herded into a patrol and taken away. Handbills urging the unemployed to "join the International demon stration against unemployment Thursday, March 6, were tossed about. The demonstration took place about the noon, hour, attracting thousands of loop workers. LA GRANDE PLANS BIG CONSTRUCTION LaGrande. Ore. JP) Approxi mately $1,122,000 will be expended in LaGrande and vicinity during 1930 on new construction, according to an estimate made by a chamber of commerce committee in response to a request from Governor A. W. Norblad. The construction includes about $401,000 in local building, includ ing a new Union Pacific station. $210,000 in cotmty work, $105,0)0 for super-sen-ice stations and about $406,000 in state highway work in this territory. The building- work represents a large increase over the 1929 figure which was less than $305,000. PROTESTS BY SUICIDE Bruenn, Czechoslovakia, (U Be cause her father, at the age of 83, Insisted on taking a flapper of 48 with him on h.s third trip to the marriage altar Julia ittl. a 51-year-old spinster of Unter-Bajanovttch, polsonrd herself on his wedding day. regulations of the public service commission granting our employes access to private homes for the purpose of making service surveys are being abused, I wish to say that as far as I know none of the men referred to are gaining access to the private homes under any regulations of the public service commission granting them that right, or privilege. Th?se men are salesmen to each of whom has been assigned a definite territory as Is customary. in many sales organisations, and these men are calling on their cus tomers to learn If their present equipment Is giving them satisfac tion, and If it is not, they endeavor to have the cause of the . trouble and dissatisfaction remedied, and then to Interest the customer in additional equipment that will be of benefit to the customer and pro duce additional load for us, "As far as w can see. the tales men of any electrical dealer can have the same entree into the home if he is representing a re sponsible and weu-known dealer, and approaches the householder in a gentlemanly and diplomatic manner,' WEATHER CUTS DOWN ATTENDANCE AT MEET Dayton Because of Inclement weather a small number of poultry men were able to attend the second of the series of poultry men's night school meetings held in the Dayton high school Wednesday evening, un der the direction of Burris L. Young, instructor of the Smith-Hughes de partment. i xnis meeting was for the ex change of ideas on feeding for best results. The few men who did at tend received many helpful hints. they report. . STOCK MARKET TURNS DULL IN FRIDAY TRADING New York IP Stocks turned dull Friday and even acceptance of a railroad merger plan by the inter state commerce commission failed to start any more than a temporary buying movement. Carrier shares moved up as a unit for a time and then turned quiet. The majority held their gains, nev ertheless with the highest grade shares strongest. Utilities generally were up frac-1 tlons to 2 points with Consolidated Gas leading; oil shares perked up on rumors of a large merger Im pending; motors were firm under the lead of Packard. Good demand was experienced by such issues as Gillette Safety Razor, American Can, Radio, .Westing house Electric, and Montgomery Ward. United States Steel held a frac tional gain well below the high of the day, despite efforts of the bears to break it. The bearish element was much more successful In. such stocks as Simmons company and Safeway Stores, but even these Issues re gained part of their losses. Toward the close a move started in the oils. This was duplicated on curb market also. On the stock exchange, good demand came out for Mexican Seaboard, Standard Oil of New York, and Union Oil of California. Buying operations spread to Standard of New Jersey and Houston. New York Central spurted 3 points and ruled strong around 184, whlls substantial gains were made by all the other carriers save Un ion Pacific which reacted on expec tation of competition with the new Great Northern Pacific Railroad, a combination of Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railroads. This was the merger which the Inter state commerce commission approv ed, and when the announcement came from Washington rails sprang into action. MERGER OF HILL LINESJUTHORIZED Continued from page 1) the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railway. In ordering the roads to i divorce themselves for ownership of the Burlington, the commission held that question had been disposed of by the consolidation plan. In awarding tne spoxane, fort land and Seattle to the unified system, the commission said suit able assurance must be given that the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad will have ac cess from Spokane to Portland over this short line. The Great Northern company op erates 6154 miles of which 558 are in Canada. The Northern Pacific raifway operates 6668 miles of which 74 miles are operated under track age in Canada. The combined sys tem would be one of the longest railroads in the country. I The two northern roads asked control of the Burlington because they hold 91 per cent of the capital stock of that company which oper ates about 11,437 miles of line. In rejection of this, the commis sion pointed out, "by consolidating the accounting department ol the northern lines and the Spokane company, it is estimated that an an nual saving oX $669,399 can be ef fected." The commission pointed out the two northern lines serve a total of 3619 stations of which 96.1 per cent is non-competitive and tnat only 50 competitive points are served ex clusively by the two roads. The proposal of the two northern lines to operate the Montana West ern railway, a line connecting with the Great Northern at Conrad, Mont., and the Nez Perce and Idaho railroad which connects with the Camas Prairie flt Cralgmont, Idaho, is cared for under the commission's consolidation plan, the decision said. The decision also requires "suitaole aseurance that the Chicago, Milwau kee. St. Paul and Pacific' ralroad company may have access from Spo kane to Portland and intervening points over the lines of the S. P. fc S. railway company, as provided In the said plan of consolidation." Chairman McManamy and Com missioner Eastman dissented from the commission's decision. McManamy declared the consoli dation was 'In complete disregard of the specific mandate of congress that competition shall be preserved as fully as possible." Eastman said the practiramny of really divorcing the Burlington from the Northern lines is in Itself a matter of grave doubt," pointing out its stock Is now pledged under mortgages of both roads. HATLESS FACE POOR SERVICE CAMPAIGN Biidnnest (tPuAx nart of their campaign to combat the ever mora prevalent custom of Hungarian of youths to go bareheaded "for their health's sake' several hat dealers of tliis city have posted notices in their show windows that no one entering their shops will receive notice unless he or she is be hatted or quickly expresses a wish to pur chase some kind of head cover. W. O. "Big Blir Dairta. wrestling captain at Virginia Poly, has won nine straight matches by falls In tht last two years. Davis is six feet six Inches tail, weighlag 237 pounds. GOOD BUSINESS IN FINE WOOLS DURING WEEK Boston fPi The Commercial Bul letin of Boston will say Saturday: "There has been a further good business in the seaboard markets this week, mostly in fine wools, which are now getting well liqui dated. Prices have been steady on the basis noted a week ago. "Foreign markets generally are steady. The extension of the sales in the foreign primary markets, as as to distribute offerings over a longer period, appears to have been more or less salutary. "In the west, there is a steady ei fort being made to tie up wools both on account of the eastern dealers and the new cooperative scheme. Boston dealers bought the best wool at the Phoenix, Ariz., sale at a clean cost landed Boston 'basis of 70-72 cents. The goods market is clarified by the decision this week of the Amer ican Woolen company to drop prices on staple goods to a competitive basis with other large mills, so that business may now be possible in larger volume. "Mohair is sviil rather quiet with prices steady at about 60 cents for best original bag Texas hair and foreign markets quotable on this parity." Quotations to be published by the Bulletin follow: Scoured basis: Oregon, fine and F. M. staple 76-77; fine and F. M. Fr., combing 70-75; fine and F. M. clothing 69-70. Valley, No. 1 73-75. Mohair: domestic, good original bag: Oregon 48-50; domestic grad ing, first combing 60-62; good card ing 65-65. BARBOUR BUYS IN MILES LINEN MILL Continued from page 1) dream of 65 years. The first flax for linen purposes in the valley as grown near Jefferson in this county by Charles Miller in 1875 and captured an award at tne cen tennial celebration at Philadelphia In 1876. The Barbour company has an extensive market in the west for its sack twine, fish net twine and allied products and its decision to enter Oregon means, unquestion ably, .that as time goes on a heavy share of these products will be manufactured by the Miles Linen company. It is understood that the Miles Linen Mill will continue to be operated as an Oregon plant under Oregon officers and directors as It has been since its Inception. It will continue to make its own pro duct but In addition will manu facture western marketed sack and salmon net twine at the order of the Barbour companv. While the local mill now manu factures a considerable product in salmon twine for use by Columbia river and coast fishermen and sack twine for use in harvest fields par ticularly In western Oregon and Washington, it is estimated that if the present mill operated at full capacity the year around It could not supply possibly much over a tenth of those products f'jr nrestern states alone with its present facili ties. According to the story last sum mer a representative of the Miles Linen mill while on an eastern trip called on the Barbour brothers in New York. He Interested them suf ficiently in the mill that one of them in the fall visited Salem and went over the entire flax possibilities in the valley. He pronounced the small mill operating here as a mod el plant and when he left the deal was virtually closed. By this, capi tal in a company which has been in the linen business for nearly 150 years came into the world's newest flax producing field. It is under stood representatives of the Bar bour firm contemplate a visit to Salem in the near future when the destinies of the plant for a few years, at least, will be decider1. At that time it is further understood, plans will be made for tin doubl ing of the capital stock and also lcr Increased capacity of the mill to meet conditions in the near fu ture. Last year around 4500 acres of flax were grown in the Willamette valley and it is expected jiwh heav ier contracting wm oe maoe mis year due largely to the appearance of the Barbour people in the field.! At the present time the preparation of the flax into tow for the spinning machines is handled at the state prison flax plant but moves are on foot for the establishment of private scutching plants which no doubt will work out as the demand for flax products multiply through in creased capacity of the mill. Far over two years t'.ic Miles Linen mill has been operating 24 hour a day with the netting ma chine for fish nets operating 24 hours a day, seven days in the week under the direction of P. J. Oil braith, superintendent and sales manager of the mill. Over 100 knitters have been working on net.-. In addition. 60 of these at Astoria and the balance here. In addition orders have been secured by Mr. Oilbtalth to keep the machines busy and orders also are on file to keep the mill working at full capacity for several months if not another order was taken. Probably to Charles Miller, now deceased, must go the credit of be ing the pioneer in the flax in dustry of Marion county. For In 1875 on his ranch near Jefferson he grew flak which he sent to the Centennial exposition at Phlladel- phia in 187ft. And for it he receiv- ed a bronze medal and certificate saying that the lint wan of extra ordinary length with superior gloss and Mlky finish.' In a little case at Marion, property of a grand child or Mr. Miller, Is still preserved this old exhibit. In light of re cent developments this case may j become to Salem what the first Ford automobile means to Detroit. While flax was discussed off and on after the experiment by Mr. Miller which showed the world In a small way superior flax could be grown In this valley, it was In IBM that Mrs. William P. Lord, wife of an Oregon governor, who had talked flax, dreamed flax and its future possibilities In Oregon organ ized the Oregon Women's Flax Fiber association. She believed if the men could not advance her dream the way she believed it could be advanced that perhaps the wo men could do it. And It was Mrs. Lord who kept the tiny spark alive until the state eventually recog nized the possibilities of flax here by giving It financial support This women s association sent an exhibit of Oregon flax to the Omaha exposition. And it was the same association that sent a ton of flax to Belgium, the then heart of the flax growing Industry. This was ni m ionn mH nun intn napkins and several of these are still in passession ot Miss Elizabeth Lord of Salem, caughter of Mrs. W. P. Lord. Henry R. Crawford. president of the Miles mill, has another and a few more are scat tered around as precious keepsakes. But Mrs. Lord was not content With such petty victories for Ore gon flax. In 1910 or 1011 she In terviewed E. H. Harrlman, then in the height of his activity as a rail road wizard. She so impressed the flax growing possibilities upon Mr. Harrlman that he sent two experts out here to Investigate the possi bilities. And the possibilities so im pressed the investigators that Mr. Hartman urged the organization of an Oregon flax manufacturing plant and offered to subscribe to from $75,000 to (100.000 stock to aid in getting it established. But his 2Si """hL 52!' which had flamed so brightly sud denly died. A few years later Dr. Diemel, linen manufacturer of Alx-Ia-Cha-pelle, was interested through Mrs. Lord in flax growing possibilities. With undying faith ani enthusiasm in her cause she scoured the world for people who might be interested. She so interested this big European manufacturer that he sent one of his experts, Eugene Bosse, here, not only to investigate, but to live and work out the flax growing possibil ities himself. And he with Mrs. Lord became an Oregon flax grow ing enthusiast. He grew flax which won medals at a number of world expositions and was pronounced in all flax growing sections as second to none. Mr. Bosse worked away with Mrs. Lord for a number of yearj, but in efforts at interesting capital their progress was extreme ly slow. A venture was made at Turner years ago in a little flax plant in which Theodore Roth and others were interested but it never expanded to speak of. Then In 1915, Governor James Withycombe, before his first legis lature, addressed himself to seeing flax recognized by the state as a great future industry. Mrs. Lord had often expounded her belief in flax to Governor Withycombe and her hopes soared high with his election. And this time she was not disap pointed. He secured an appropria tion for establishment of a llax plant at the prison and this has been maintained ever since with varying fortune. Then came organization of the Miles Linen mill in 1924 and about the same time the Oregon Linen mill. Mrs. Lord's dreams were com ing true, but too late. For she had passed on but to her unwavering faith may be given the major share of the credit for what has finally oeen developing into an industry which Is apt to grow here far be yond her fondest dreams. B. c. Miles was the moving spirit in the Miles Linen mill, with his money mainly backing It and sev eral months of hard labor put in to get it established. The mill started with paid-in capital of $150,000 and $50,000 worth of treasury stock. A little later 950,000 in preferred stock was Issued. The mill opened In November or December and the following June, first deliveries were made. Orders for salmon twine were large, better than'first expected. When deliveries were made and the twine put in use in nets in the river, almost a death blow was received. The twine proved inadequate to the task assigned to it. It didn't stand up under actual use. The officers and directors were stunned at first. It looked like fail ure for the mill and that all the hopes built up were to finish in a wreck. But they pulled themselves together, brought a fisherman up from the Columbia and went to work to manufacture twine that would hold up. And succeeded. Now i hundreds of thousands of pounds of it are going into nets on the river, pronounced by fishermen, and can ners as equal or superior to any made anywhere. The dream of Charles Miller.1 I Here's the Beauty about Vvon Spray Emulsion There's ft wide margin of safety where severe scale infestation calls for an over-dosage of Avon Spray Emulsion. Here is an added feature of this finer oil spray, re fined by Associated from st kcttd crudes. It gives more assurance tbgrowerswhose trees are more heavily in fested than average. It's as near posith as ft pest con trol can be. The use of Avon Spray Emulsion is increasing in 3 ASSOCIATED I M-rWMr. mf SwSH j 4tL$jT OCUTI on. COMMXV EXPORT BUYING RAISES WHEAT PRICES HIGHER Chicago (JPi Export purchases of 2.000,000 bushels Friday led to lively buying ot future deliveries Friday and hoisted prices here about 3i centa over Thursday's lowest level. Selling pressure increased on thtt price bulges, however, and sharp j reactions occurred. A (actor whicti at times gave a good deal cf addi. tional impetus to specuwUve de. statement from a lead- In P P that unseasonably mUl' weather is causing prematura and is likely to have 111 results later. Wheat closed unsettled 1 cent to 2 cents bushel higher than Thurs day's finis:.. Corn closed '4 to 1 cent up, oats H to U cent advanced, and provisions showing 7 to 25 cents gain. Chicago (P, Wheat prices her took a derided upward swing early Friday influenced by a brisk unex pected Jump in quotations at Liver pool. It was asserted European im porters had accepted all available wheat tendered from this side of the Atlantic overnight but only after the Canadian growers pool had, comlpetelv withdrawn its export of- Stnafnn til. n HA rinrttl higher. Chicago wheat future dellv- erics afterward scored additional gains. Corn, oats and provision rose also. OiVOHCE LEGALITY QUESTIONED, PARIS Paris (LP) Paris divorces may be fashionable in the United States but grave doubts have been cast upon their validity by an American kgal expert visiting Paris. Otto Erwin Koegel, lawyer of Washington and specialist in mar riage laws on which subject he has written several books, declared during his stay here that he doubt ed if Paris divorres would hold water if contested in American courts. "I believe,' he said, "that Paris divorces, in which residence is es tablished solely in order to comply with the local laws, are very likely illegal in the United States. How ever, they are seldom subject to collateral attack as the principals agree to the divorce beforehand." SEIZE MOTOR LAUNCH San Pedro, Calif. (LP) Seized after a race with the coast guard cutter Tingard in which she was sprayed with shot, the motor launch Liberty Friday was held in dock here for investigation. The cutter Montgomery towed the launch from 150 miles northwest of here after the fleeing boat was cap tured by the Tingard. Captain A. R. Ringross, and ah engineer and deckhand aboard the Liberty protested the capture. No liquor was found aboard. The Lib erty Is registered under the name of Fred Orlando, of Long Beach, and is a 70 foot craft with two engines. ATOMS BECOME NUMBERS Pasadena, Cal. i&) Using num bers to Identify the atomic ele ments composing the world Is be coming increasingly important, says Dr. Arthur A. Noyes of the California Institute of Technology. The numbers come from counting1 electrical charges believed to form the nucleus of an atom. As no gasoline is refined in Chile. all the 600.000 barrels which will have been u&ed there this year are imported. drenmed on his ranch at Jefferson In TCT5 had come true in Oregon in 1928. A reorganization wa3 perfected in the mill. Mr. Miles said his health would not permit him to continue againet what then appeared a losing game. Henry Crawford became pres ident of the mill, with Henry Myers as superintendent and Tom Kay a guiding factor. A little later when Henry Meyers became superintendent-at the penitentiary F. J. Gil braith took hold as sales manager and general manager. And gradual ly they forged ahead. The product of the mill has been as big a factor as any in late de velopments and this product was only secured by careful, conserva- tive and scientific management. every section of the West gallonage increased 383.7 per cent for 1929 over 1928. More than 30,000 acres in choice de ciduous orchards are al ready under the control of Avon Spray Emulsion. "Get "Finer Fruit and More of It" with Avon Spray Emulsion. Call at the nearest Associated plant, or better yet, ask our Associated Spray Advisor to drive out to your or chard. No obligation. OIL COMPANY g K iMi.hiW C In linj