Trade Talks Stir US Fruit and Vegetable Groups
Hearings before the United States Tariff Commission consider a reciprocal trade deal with Canada. Industry groups urge lower duties to boost exports of fruits and vegetables, while Florida and Maine producers press for favorable terms and protest past Cuban concessions that affected Florida. The discussion includes representatives from the International Apple Association, California growers, and regional shippers.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Committee For Reciprocity Information
United States Tariff Commission
Canada
Dominion
Maine
R. A. Phillips
International Apple Association
J. L. Lotterhos
Crystal Springs
Miss
Mississippi Vegetable, Shippers Bureau
Ted Landsborough
Sacramento
Calif
Sqobel & Day
California Growers and Shippers Protective League
A. M. Loomis
Florida Agricultural Tariff Association
Florida
Cuba
Loomis
Petition Filed for Termination of Celery Prorate in Zone 1
Sacramento dated March 22 reports celery growers and shippers in San Joaquin Stanislaus Alameda Contra Costa Yolo and Sacramento counties filed with the State Prorate Commission to end the Zone 1 celery prorate. Growers claim allocations based on acreage caused inequities favoring unharvested plantings and seek a new program covering all districts marketing concurrently.
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Sacramento
Calif
San Joaquin
Stanislaus
Alameda
Contra Costa
Yolo
Sacrament
State Prorate Commission
Santa Clara
San Jose
Santa Maria
Guadalupe
West Ride
Delta
Peach Trees in Bloom in North Carolina Sandhills
Peach trees in the sandhills region of North Carolina are in bloom and nearing peak as blossoms mature in the warm March weather reported from Charlotte.
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Charlotte
N. C
Sandhills
North Carolina
The Produce Packer offers weekly market news sample request
In addition to The Packer edition, The Produce Packer publishes nine weekly newspapers with marketing and trade news for shippers and distributors of eggs poultry butter hides wool fur and related goods. A free sample copy is mailed upon request.
Truck Peddling Menace in Grain Trade
CLARK DRURY of Albert Miller and Co. Chicago reports on a growing truck peddling menace tied to the American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Association. The article outlines the trucking committee's concerns, regional impact, and calls for tighter controls.
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Clark Drury
Albert Miller & Co
Chicago
American Fruilt and Vegetable Shippers Association
State Legislation Pushes Regulating Itinerant Truck Peddlers
Recommendations urge unified state action to regulate itinerant truck peddlers. Indiana proposes licensing and penalties, Illinois eyes registration, routes and liability for “freight haulers.” Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota Colorado and others weigh similar bills. The American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Association pushes a uniform bill for nationwide adoption.
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Indiana
American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Association
Racine Avenue
Chicago
Ilaois
Central Motor Freight Association
Illinois
American Trucking Association
United States
Chester G. Moore
Abraham ‘Lincoln
Springfield
Ilinois
Moore
Wisconsin
Michigan
State College
East Lansing
Minnesota
Colorado
First Car Hammond Berries Wednesday
Hammond Louisiana reports the first car of strawberries expected to be loaded Wednesday March 26. Early shipments unlikely before April 6 with volume increasing afterward. Quality praised and outlook favorable for a fancy season in the Hammond district as weather improves.
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Hammond
Louisiana
Waterborne rate control proposal urged by U K representative
J R Van Arnum for the National League of Wholesale Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Distributors testifies before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. He says regulation could guide through routes and joint rates, supports certain bill parts, notes railroad price tactics complicate highway and water competition, and cites 1920 to 1933 rate data to show misleading reductions. The remarks precede continuation on page 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. van Arnum
National League
Senate
Washington, D. C
National League of Wholesale Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Distributors
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Wheeler
Senate Committee On Commerce
Senator Copeland
New York
J. R. van Arnum
Federal court strikes down AAA as unconstitutional in Yakima
Federal Judge J Stanley Webster ruled the Federal Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional in Yakima granting dismissal of a government injunction against Small a Yakima fruit broker. The decision holds Congress cannot delegate legislative authority to the Secretary of Agriculture without definite limits. The suit claimed Small violated his license by selling fruit below minimum prices under the Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yakima
Wash
Pacific Northwest
J. Stanley Webster
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Small
Pass Utah Produce Licensing Statute
Utah legislative approval of a new produce licensing act for shippers and handlers including poultry eggs fruits and vegetables is near final with governor's signature expected. The bill repeals the 1938 act, shifts bond to $5,000, license fee to $60, and adds coop restrictions requiring bonds and licenses when cooperatives ship produce not of their own.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Utah
Utah Farm Bureau
California
State Board of Agriculture
Senate
Whenever & Co-Operative
The Packer clipping racket rises from clipping bureaus
A clipping bureau scheme targets readers by mail offering newspaper clippings for a fee. Subscribers report receiving cards promising clippings about them, often sourced from The Packer two to three weeks earlier. Several readers declined, some paid a quarter, others a dollar, while one author exposed the scam.
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Packer
Government Credit Seen as Chief Bar to Farm Recovery
Canastota New York March 22 J Fenn Smith president of Smith Canastota Inc growers and chippers of onions potatoes and other farm crops opposes House Bill H R 6082 to make potatoes a basic commodity He argues excess government credit harms farms and that banks should resume lending where risk is sound He notes the current potato situation is dire with large overhangs of stock valued at only a few cents and says production limits would not help without credit reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canastota, N
J. Fenn Smith
Smith-Canastota, Inc
Congress
Plan Program for Melon Distributors Meeting in Cincinnati
The 21st annual Melon Distributors Association meeting will be held April 12 and 13 in Cincinnati at the Netherland Plaza hotel. L. E. Holloway of Atlanta says the program will cover mutual interests with carriers and AAA code matters, with railroad representatives invited. An entertainment program and Friday dinner are planned, with reservations through the secretary or hotel. Officers include President L E Holloway, First Vice President R H Dietz, Second Vice President Luke J Leonard, Secretary Treasurer R H Pennington, and Executive Committee Chairman James L Leonard.
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Cincinnati
Code
AAA
Melon Distributors Association
L. EB. Holloway
Atlanta
Netherland Plaza
Holloway
Chicago
Luke J. Leonard
R. H. Pennington
Evanaville
Ind
James L. Leonard
Packer Stand On Subscription Solicitors Approved by Convention Leaders
Chicago March 20 1936 leaders endorse The Packer editorial of March 9 on subscription solicitors for produce papers at conventions. Members and guests have complained for years about aggressive solicitors who gain space and privileges only to have them withdrawn. Briggs American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Association manager signs the letter.
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Chicago
Packer
E. S. Briggs
American Fruit and Vegetable Shippers Association
Turmoil and Confusion Mark Washington Watch
Gordon C. Corbaley, president of the American Institute of Food Distribution, outlines his view from New York on March 22. He cites European monetary uncertainty and U.S. market weakness driven by fear of Washington policy, noting a lack of leadership, NRA doubts, and widespread discontent with the New Deal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon C. Corbaley
American Institute of Food Distribution, Inc
American Institute of Food Distribution,Inc
California navals clean up in good shape
Los Angeles reports show the California orange crop improving with navels gathering pace. By mid month 13 000 cars remain on trees and six weeks of marketing lie ahead. If pace holds, 2 000 cars weekly would clear the crop after culls, with the season likely lasting beyond six weeks. Continued on page 12.
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Los Angeles
California
Minnesota Officials Seize Florida Fruit
Minnesota officials seized and destroyed a large stock of Florida grapefruit and some oranges due to inferior quality and frost damage. Over 160 bags were found unfit for human consumption and removed from the state. Officials warned shippers that such inferior fruit would be barred from sale under the Food and Drug Act and that fruit with color added would not be allowed.
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Minneapolis
Minn
State Department of Agriculture
Department of Foods
E. M. Corneaby
Corneaby
State Department of Foods and Drugs
Truck Peddling ’13 Hurting Winnipeg Business
At a Winnipeg meeting of the Canadian Fruit Jobbers Association a recommendation was passed to urge the government to impose an extra duty on all imports not from their state of origin. Trucks now operate between Winnipeg and St Paul and Minneapolis, seen as a threat to Winnipeg jobbers in fruit and vegetables imported in carlots.
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Winnipeg
Canada
Canadian Fruit Jobbers’ Association
St. Paul
Minneapolis
No Credit Losses On $5,000,000 Detroit Market
Detroit Mich March 22 Preceded by a 6 o clock dinner the second annual meeting of the Union Produce Credit Association was held at the Hotel Statler Tuesday evening March Be The meeting was called to order by Pres George E Thierwechier and the roll call showed 54 dealer members and their employees present. After the minutes of the last annual meeting were read and approved the report of the treasurer Nathan Gilbert was read and approved. The report which had been prepared by a certified public accountant showed that during the fiscal year ending February 28 1935 there had been cleared through the association offices approximately $5 000 000 with only one account uncollected amounting to $195 and on this account payments are being made monthly so that it appears at this time there will be no losses on bad accounts for the year. After the reading of the various reports Charles J Matt manager of the Union Produce Credit Association gave a talk to the members regarding the activities of his office during the past year advising them that the cost of operating the association amounted to two tenths of 1 per cent of the accounts collected and this was very low considering that the mem Continued on Page 12.
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George E. Thierwechier
Holl
Nathan Gilbert
Charles J. Matt
Union Produce Credit Association
Bronx Terminal Market Opens April 27 in New York
The Bronx Terminal Market will officially open on Saturday April 27 with a city wide parade from 100th Street and First Avenue to the market. Mayor LaGuardia Commissioner Morgan and Bronx officials will speak, followed by a banquet and ball at the Plaza Hotel with a major orchestra.
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Bronx Terminal Market
New York
Bronx Terminal Market Merchants Association
LaGuardia
William Fellowes Morgan
Carl Kimball
Farmers Association
Bronx
100Th Street
First Avenue
Bronx Market
Bernard Deutsch
Board of Aldermen
Joseph J. Lyons
Marcol Martino
Cuomo & Martino
Plaza Hotel
59Th Street
Fifth Avenue
East
Senate Bill for Refund of Taxes on Jute Bags
Washington March 22 Pur chasers of jute bags for potatoes and other foods who paid a processing tax may gain hope that refunds will be considered. Senator J P Pope Idaho introduced Bill No 2020 to refund taxes on jute bags over 950 square inches or within weight limits with refunds by Jan 1 1936. New York March 22 Treasury notifies no change in Cuban tomato regulations for port officials.
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Senate
Washington, D. C
J. P. Pope
Idaho
The
Committee On Agriculture and Forestry
New York
United States Treasury Department
Texas growers resist larger trucks as ped dling feared
In Weslaco Texas March 22 growers and shippers oppose bills to raise truck load limits above seven thousand pounds. C O Miles of the Rio Grande Valley Citrus Exchange warns that the so called peddler or itinerant trucker harms markets by undercutting prices and competing with retailers and wholesalers.
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Weslaco
Tex
Texas
Senate
C. O. Miles
Rio Grande Valley Citrus Exchange
South Texas
South
Market on Salt River Valley Lettuce This Week
Phoenix reports rising lettuce prices with strong demand and tight supply. Prices move to about 3 dollars. carload loading volumes peak early in the week and then taper off. Imperial valley and Yuma fade from consideration while shipments total 800 to 900 cars for the week starting Monday if weather warms.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Balt River Valley
Federal Market Review
Imperial Valley
Yuma
Office
The
State Vegetable Inspection Service
Seatrain Application Faces Coastwise Trade Opposition
New York March 22 The Seatrain Lines Inc application for permanent authority to carry coastwise trade between New York and New Orleans via Havana drew strong opposition from railroads and other water carriers. The hearing occurred before the Shipping Board Bureau of the Department of Commerce.
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Seatrain
New York
Seatrain Lines, Inc
New Orleans
Havana
Shipping Board Bureau
Department of Commerce
Mexican Melons Arrive On Chicago Market
The first cantaloupes of the season reached the Chicago market on Thursday. A shipment in a flat from Plenaty Bros Inc contained 1% melons. Shipments from Mexico are expected to increase in the coming days.
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Chicago
Plenaty Bros., Inc
Mexico
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U.K
Mr. van Arnum
van Arnum
Fenn Smith
Smith- Canastota, Inc
Melon Distributors
Washington
National Capitol
Huey Long
NRA
Hoover
California Navals
Lemon Prorate
Florida Fruit
Detroit
Detroit Credit Assn
Mich
Statler
O. Miles
Salt River Valley
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