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rEDFOT?P MAIL TRTBTTNT. .MTCrFO"RD, OT?EOONT. FT? THAT. SEPTEMBER 30. 193S. PAGE FIVE IN RETAIL TRADE unit ules wen actually cloee to thoaa of last year." Of wholesale trends, the agency added: . "In the sbsence of any general In terest In forward buying, spot de mands continued to provide the bulk of volume In wholesale markets. What contracting ahead there was confined Itself principally to goods In which shortages had developed and price rises were thought Im minent." ' NEW YORK, Sept. SO. (AP) Re tail sales turned upward at most leading centers of distribution this week as shoppers made purchases de ferred during last week's stormy weather, Dun & Bradstreet reported today. The buying rebound lifted retail volume for the country as a whole to within 2 to 12 percent of totals for the like 1937 week. Wholesale trade, however, lagged 8 to 8 percent under last week and 9 to 17 percent below last year. "As shoppers In the east made up for buy in? postponed during the storm period, total retail ttlume re bounded quickly, the dealt agency said 'In stricken areas, an avalanche of calls for roofing materials, glass, electrical specialties, small tools, cau dles, and kerosene lamps depleted store stocks. . t "Low temperatures favored the movement of winter coats, three piece suits, knitwear, and leathn spotting goods. "Although moat cities reported sales atlU below totals for the cor responding period of 1937. many pointed out that the decrease In dollar volume was approximately equal to the fair In prices and that Livestock Portland PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 30. (AP USDA HOGS : 300, Including 234 di rect; market on cleanup basis, weak to 10c lower than Thursday, bulk and top 170-310 lb. 99.35, odd head 225 lb. 98.75, tew light lights 98.50, packing sows 97.25, choice light feeder pigs quoted 90 CATTLE 125, including 108 direct, calves 125 Including 104 direct, scat tered sales steady with lat Thurs day, (at cows quoted 25c lower than Wednesday, tew common steers 95.50 8, good grassers salable 98, few cutter to common heifers 94(95.50, low cutter and cutter cows 92.75 (ff. 3.25, fat dairy type cows $3.75 3 4.25. good beef cows quoted 94.755.50, bulls salable 94505.60, week's top beef bulls 96, medium-good vealers 97 9. choice 910,. common 95.50, t common-medium 300-350 lb. calves 94.50 $ 6, good 275-330 lb. 97.25 8. SHEEP 250, Including 60 direct, market steady, few good-choice 79 85 lb. lambs 96.75(3.7, strictly choice 97.25 and above, few common-medium 95 6.25, odd ewes $2,75. Chicago CHICAGO, Sept. 20. (AP-USDA) HOGS: 8.000. including 4.000 direct; mostly steady with Thursday's aver age, closing slow; few late sales 5 to 10 cents lower than early; top 99-30; good and choice 210-J70 lb. 98.90 9 9.20; 180-300 lbfl. i8.6O3.9O; 140-170 lbs, $8 .50; good light packing sows 97.S5o8.25; medium weights and heavies 97.35 9 .75. t CATTLE 1,000; calves 500; supply all slaughter classes relatively small even for Friday; market full steady In dependable cleanup trade; only few loads steers and yearlings In fresh receipts here; mostly medium to low good kinds at 97.509.60; odd lot and Individuals up to 911 and better; practically no fed heifers of fered; few grass fat heifers 96.50 8; cows fairly active to all interests, mostly $5.50(3 6.25 on beef cows and $4(9.85 on cutter grades; strong weights up to 95; few bulls offered but quotable top still 96.75 on saus age offerings; vealers active at 911.50 down, mostly 910$ U market how Cve? . SHEEP 9,000, Including 3.500 di rect; today's trade only moderately active; spring lambs steady to 10c lower; westerns 98 -25; few loads 98.35; extreme top natives 98.40: otht-rs 98.25; shep steady; slaughter ewej both natives and westerns, 93 ? -25. ment of Europe's war crisis regarding Czechoslovakia swung Chicago wheat ulatlve buyers who purchased be cause of fears of widespread military clashes. Virtually the day's lowest prices here prevailed as trading ended. (wheat) Open Dec. .65 w .65 .65 March May . July 64 Vi High Low .65 .63 H .65 !i .64 3 .65 .64 .64 .63 Close .63 .64 H .64 Portland Wheat MY MEN FOLKS SAY THEY TASTE MORE MAPLE IN c TEA GARDEN SYRUP ' MAW IC TUB 1 TIME TO BUY ITI Vaasl UMi X0UR PMUi SI TIA GARDIN SYRUPS AM PURI Tea Garden Can and Maplt. Pancake time it here. . .yourhotcakesandwaffleBwillbetwiceai taaty served with thia syrup of heavier con sistency that stays on top, so that you taite more pure maple. TaCardnDript. A blend ofrare imported sugars that give it a flavor and fragrance you will find In no other syrup. Flavor-favorite for fifty years with people who like waffles and pancakes. Liberty Bell Syrup. A pure cane and maple blended to give fresh cane flavor along with the maple. Many prefer it. iihaiK tlA OUDIN rw YOUR OtOCH I HM JbitB WIRl MIVIR lOWIR ...ABDUA list turludilMl Blag Chwry Dimon Ftam Black Tartar- Ortnt t.n Cherry Msrt tmn Cherry Apricot Jrtnirs , . Marmtuae Etc. Rrf Currant Mln niMkherrr . . 1 einm Blaclcuurrau BUckBatpbeny Ete. Oft THI CHILDRIN crisp cookies are better when made with Tea Garden Pelican Mo lassesthe light, pure, highest grade New Orleans Molasses. FOR DARK. RICH IAKIN6 . . . see how much tastier your ginger bread anddark, baked dishes are when you use Tea Garden Avon-dale-dark Molasses. South San Francisco SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 30. (AP-USDA)-HOGS: 175, butchers steady to 5c lower; top 99 80; pack age medium to good 232 lb. weights 99.50; short load medium 160 lb. lights 99.40. CATTLE 50, Including 35 direct; nominally steady; steers and medium to good she stock absent; medium to good grass and shortfed steer saleable mainly 97 ($8; good fed steers quoted p to around 98.50; medium to good beef cows quoted 94.75 5.75; scattered sales low cutters to common cows 93.504.50; odd head plain bulls 95; medium grades weighty kinds quoted up to 98. Calves 50, Including 40 direct. Firm, scattered head common to good veal ers and light slaughter calves 97 & 9; choice vealers quoted up to 910. SHEEP 225, light supply unsold early; lambs steady; long deck good to choice 79 lb. Oregon medium-pelt lambs 97.25; part deck good 76 lb. Oregon wooled lambs 97.25. sorted 15 percent medium 96.25. Late Thurs day: 7 decks Nevada wooled lambs taken off market and forwarded; sheep lacking; medium-pelt slaughter ewes quoted 93.25 down. Portland Produce PORTLAND, Sept. 30. (AP) BUTTER: A grade, 29c lb. in parch ment wrappers, 30c lb. in cartons; B grade 28o lb. In parchment wrap pers, 29c lb. in cartons. BUTTERFAT (Portland delivery buying price) A grade, 2727'c lb., Portland delivery; B grade lo lb. lea: C grade 6c lb. less. Country de livery 25c lb. for A grade. EGGS Buying prices for whole salers: specials 32c doz.; extras, 25c d&z.; standards 25c doz.; extras, me dium 23c doz.; undergrades, 17c doz. Cheese unchanged. COUNTRY MEATS Selling price to retailers: country killed hogs, best butcher under 160 lbs., 11 12c lb.; vealers MVsfflSc lb.; light and thin 10 12c lb.; heavy, 89"4c lb.; bulls &$&c lb.; spring lambs 13140 lb.; ewes 46c lb.; cutter cows 77c; canner cows 6c. Live poultry, turkeys unchanged. PORTLAND. Ore., Sept. 30. Orain: . Open High Low Close Dec. 64 64 63 Vi 63 May 6SVa 65 64', 64ft Cash grain : Oats No. 2-38 lb. white 25.00; No. 2-38 lb. gray, nominal. Barley No. 2-46 lb. b.w. 20.00. Corn No. 2-E. Y. shipment 27.00. Cash wheat (bid): Soft white 62; wesrVn white 61 ; western red 60. Hard red winter ordinary 58; 11 per cent 69; 12 per cent 63ft; 13 per cent 67ft; 14 per cent 71ft.' Hard whlte-Baart ordinary 62; 11 per cent unquoted: 12 per cent 63. 13 per cent 66; 14 per cent 68. Today's car receipts: Wheat 24; barley l; flour 7; corn 1; oats 8; hay 1; mlllfeed 3. Atch. T. & S. F. .. 34 Bendlx Avla. ...................... 21 Beth. Steel . 58H Caterpillar Tract. - 60 Chrysler 73 Coml. Solv, ,................,.. 10 Curtlss-Wright ................. ...... 6 Du Pont ...134 ft Gen. Elec. ... ........ ,42. Gen. Foods . 35 Gen. Mot 47ft Int. Harvest, 59 X. T. & T - v4 Johns-Mann .............................. OlHi I Monty Ward ...... .. 484 ) North Amer - 19 Penney (J. C.) ............. . 80 Phillips Pet ........ - - 40 ft Radio - 7 Sou. Pae ............ .......... 18 Std. Brands 7ft St. Oil Cal 30 St. Oil N. J. 63 ft Trans. Amer. 10 Unian Carb ............ 84 ft Unit. Aircraft ...... - 26- U. S. Steel 59 Wall St. Report NEW YORK, Sept. 30. ( AP) Stocks swept upward 1 to moro than 5 points in today's market as Eur ope's war crisis collapsed. Heavy overnight buying orders from all parts of the country and abroad swamped the stock exchange during the first half hour's dealings and the ticker tape was behind as much as two minutes throughout this period as large blocks of the favorites changed hands at soaring prices. The feverish rush to get aboard the ascending van lost momentum near the second hour and, from then on, the proceedings were orderly Transfers for the full session were around 1.900.000 shares. Bonds generally exhibited strength Most rail loans were leading gainers although nickel plate bonds, as well as stock, dropped sharply as the question of the road's meeting a ma turity tomorrow became urgent. Today's closing prices for 32 select ed stocks follow: AI. Chem. & Dye 183 Am. Can 98 Am. fc Fgn. Pow , 8 A. T. & T 142 ft Anaconda ....., 33 ENVOY AND BUND Reading Service Long CORVAUJS, Mont. (UP) The entire New Testament was read dur ing an 18-hour Sunday service at the United church here. The reading started at S o'clock In the morning and closed at 9:18 In the evening. Thirty readers read at 19-mtnute Intervals. Use Mall Tribune Want Ads Octopus Fights Back SANTA CRUZ, Cal. (UP) Sammy Pennington, while tlshlng with a headline from a barge, caught a 60 pound octopus which ' at once en gaged the boat In battle. It seized the gunwales In Ita tentacles with such a grip that they had to b cut off. Use Mall Tribune Want Ada. Butter SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 30. (AP USDA) Butter. 92 score 28c. Longview Man Wins Triangle See-Reel Contest Number One h. W. Johnston, 2342 Forty-Sixth avenue, Longview, Wash., has been i adjudged the winner of the . first prize of 15 In cash for the best solution to Triangle "See-Reel" num ber one. published In this paper j September 16. Second prize of $7.50 in cash goes to Orval W. Dow. 930 Elm Sti-eet. Albany, Oregon, and third prize of $2.50 in cash to Mrs. E. Kochelhoffer of Corvii. , re gon. Readers of this newspaper were In vited to submit answers to a car toon which depicted the mishaps of Mary Sweet in her efforts to evade the villain, . : Bart. In the final frame Mary's horse had thrown her over a cliff, but she had miracu lously landed, uninjured on a ledge. The question, to which readers were Invited to submit solutions, was "how does Mary get off the cliff?" Prizes, according to the Judges, were awarded on the basis of inge nuity, believablllty and relation of the solution to the subject matter and characters referred to in the epi sode. New episodes will be printed in this newspaper each Friday with readers Invited to submit solutions. Cash prizes total $350 with three new prize winners each week. The contest being conducted by the Triangle Milling 'company of Port land, Ore. WASHINGTON, Sept. 30. (AP) Dr. Hans Dieckhoff, German ambas- ! l.sador to the United States, assured the state department today there , was no "understanding" between the ' German-American bund and German envoys in this country. The house committee Investigating un-Amertcan activities was told yes terday there was auch a connection. Ita testimony came from John C. Metcalfe, a committee agent, who quoted Fritz Kuhn, the bund's leader While the ambassador was at the state department, the embassy is sued the following statement, whtch It said was In substance what Dr. Dieckhoff told Sumner Welles, under secretary of state: "The German government has al ways taken the point of view the Amerlka-Deutscher Volksbund is to be considered aa a purely Ameri can affair. There has never exlster' any open or secret 'understanding' between the bund and the German ambassador, the German embassy, or the German consulates, I "On the contrary, for a long time all Gorman nationals have been stictly prohibited to be or to become members of the bund, in view of the fact that it Is their duty to refrain from any interference in internal American affairs. The government of the United States is informed abou t th Is pol nt of view adopted by the German government.' Meanwhile. Representative Dies fD- Tex.), the committee chairman, ac cused Dr. Hans The m sen, German embassy counseler, of issuing an unfair statement" criticizing Met calfe. He quoted Thomaen as saying Met calfe was "not a trustworthy person" and suggested if the committee wanted fact, it question Kuhn himself. Dse Mail Tribune Want Ada Another Reduction In PRICES For The FINAL CLEANUP Before Moving To Our New Location -17 South Central Watch For Opening Announcement Jacque Lenox Main and Bartlett To Englewood Pulpit HEPPNER, Sept. 30. (API The venerable Ralph V. Hlnltle. eastern Oregon archdeacon, has accepted a call to Inglewood. Cal.. to become rector of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Palth. Closing time tor Too Lata to Clas sify Ads is 1 :30 p in. Dse Mall Tribune Want Ada. Chicago Wheat CHICAGO, Sept. 30. (AP) kettle prices two cents a bushel lower today amid active dealings. Much selling was by recent spec- $$L 1 -A & u-l Ctmtm rfsrfal pa? pnuty tf rrmmmrmu-m m ar tf t f A vat tV J XT ti mti rt rUW ft? im&pmjtnt Ofi)W FhM 4ctwmmw farm wk O1'1 TUNI IN tiitTii tiiaon (iicuj, iyiit mot?, t. , mi mo) Nitvon - ) Original price Cutters!! t .Luscious night c&eam, rich in natural oils, helps to prevent telltale lines and to give you a new lease on youth. Non fattening. Will not grow hair. Use this pure ctetm every night ... see what a difference it makes! ilAUTY PMMRATIONS RUBBER RAIN CAPES We still have a stock of these practical all rubber capes in blue or tan. A A ft WHILE THEY LAST U Fine Toilet Soaps A fine assortment of quality toilet soaps, including; hard water Castile and Peter Pan. 5i cake . 6 cakes 29t TABLE LAMPS New styles, new shades. For radio or table. Complete price - C 4 4Q FOR A COUGH OR SORE THROAT So-called common colds may develop into more serious illness if not taken care of during the earlier stages. Check this list of reliable remedies now.! 36c Vicks Vaporub ! 27 30c Mentholatum 27 30c Red-I-Aid Chest Rub 21 35c Laxative Bromo-Quinine 24? 25c Zerbst's Cold Capsules 17 30c Hills Cascara Quinine 23 25o White Pine and Tar Syrup 10 50c Wampoles Oreo-Terpin -..39 50c Vicks Nose Drops 39 35o Nasal Jelly Ephedrino : 29 50c Antiseptic Solution pint 29j 50c Pepsodent Antiseptic 2 for 51 5c Popular Brands Cough Drops ....3 for lOf Tea Garden Grape Juice Pure juice, pressed from choice Wash ington Concord grapes, No sugar added. pint 19c - quart 37c . Cellophane Bag Candy Over twenty kinds of fresh 101 candies in our assortment I U C Generous Sizes Large Soap, HEALTH SOAP bars Sterling medicated health ony (' I B-rw veiuvyi D.W w IVl ww Rubberized Canvas Gloves 29cirr, Mineral Oil 23c pt. - 43c qt. Week End Cases - rre "m" 98c Putnam Dyes ' ' r.',;" 10c Fully Guaranteed For One Year Pocket Watches TWO LOCATIONS Main and Central Under the Big Clock $1.19 Phone 274 125 East Sixth St. Across from Woolworth's Phone .1374 EH A.R KET 313-315 N.Riverside. Phone 358 Open Evenings and Sundays "Pay Less and Park Easier" Trik" UP BEEF Purchnwd at the 4-H Club Fair Our 4-H CLUB BEEF will not be on sale until one week from tomorrow, as we do not sell our beer until It lias ageA just right and reached the moment of perfection. MAZOLA OIL . . qt. tin 39c Salad pCf Dressing, qt bvb Mnner Brll. made by Dnrkee. Sardines 3 cans 25c Oral, All sauces. Prunes 6 lb. 25c . Nrnr crop large Italian. Karo 5 lb. pail 33c .Blue Label syrup. Beets 2 cans 19c Standby sliced, No. I can. GET YOURS TODAY WITH 2 PKGS. MORTON'S FIG BARS, Loose-Wiles, extra fine filling 2 Lbs. 19t CRACKERS, made by Loose-Wiles 2-Lb. Pkg. 25 GRAPEFRUIT JUICE Tex-Sun , , , made from Texaa tree-ripened grapefruit 46-oz. can, 2 39c No. 2 can, 3 25c m Purchaud at the 4-H Club fair but week. FANCY and LEAN PORK Roast, shoulder . . .Ib. nlhc Chops, lb.. 23V2c; Steak,, lb. 20c Shoulder m LAMB Chops, lb. 22c Shldr., Ib. 13V2C Bought at auction laat week. ' TENDER and TASTY Leg, ...lb. 22c Stew, lb. . . .9c FANCY BABY BEEF Shoulder Roast Lb. 15 I Rib Boil Lb. 10 Sirloin Steak Lb. 2S Fresh Tongue........Lb. 12? Hearts Lb. 10 SLICED BACON, Swift's -.U. 29 RABBITS, frying sUe, not too heavy. .. ...lb. 25 Celery 2 bunches 15c r,tra fancy, large, Oregon grown, well bleirhed. Cauliflower, ea. 9c Extra fancy, mow white, nice, large .lie. Cabbage lb 2y2c Very wild, nice life heada. Squash, loc. grown lb. 2V2C nanana. well matured, Cut any rtre pleeft
