AMERICA WILL
HOLD TRADE
ARGENTINA
WASHINGTON, April 14—“A study
oi market conditions and methods in
Argentina has convinced me that, so
far as this particular country is con
cerned, American trade will continue
for many years to hold its own,” Rob
ert S. Barrett, commercial attache to
the United States embassy in Buenos
Aires, declared today in a report to
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce.
In answering the “most pertinent
question” now in the minds of busi
ness men of the United States—
■whether this country can retain the
commercial prestige gained during the
war—Mr. Barrett found numerous
reasons for optimism. He said firms in
the United States were coming to a
better understanding of their Soutli
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studying its needs. Increased credit
facilities are being arranged and clos
er relations achieved by the establish
ment of branch houses in Latin
America and buying offices in the
United States.
He warned, however, that compel!
live freight rates, trained men, abso
lute honesty and investment in South
American securities were necessary tc
maintain the position which United
States goods now' hold in the coun
tries to the south of the equator.
“While perhaps the United States
percentage of the total imports into
Aigentina may not be so large
has been in the past four years, dur
ing which competition from European
countries was greatly affected by the
war, the value of its exports to Argen
tina will be larger in the next few
years than ever before,” Mr. Barretl
said.
“It cannot be expected that the
United States will continue to supply
Argentina with the greater part of its
imports of cotton and w'oolen goods
glassware, chinaware, drugs, heavy
heavy chemicals, cardboard and cer
tain aw materials, when normal con
diti • are restored in Europe, but, on
the >er hand, imports of such goods
as i and steel, lumber, petroleum
proi ts, machinery, furniture, boots
and !_ oes, cement, automobiles, office
supplies and specialties, in which
America had a large part before the
war and which have been reduced by
war conditions, will be greatly in
creased.
“In passing, it may be noted that in
1917 the United States supplied Argen
tine with goods valued at $133,251.
949 (United States currency), or 36
per cent of the total imports. Its
nearest competitor was the United
Kingdom, whose exports to the Argen
tine were valued at $80,080,322.
There are several fundamental rea
sons which are responsible for this
conclusion:
“American manufacturers and ex
porters are beginning to know and to
meet the requirement of the Argen
tine buyer. The old system of trying
to force goods which conformed to the
demands of the market in the United
States upon the people of this country
is passing away and an intelligent
effort is being made to supply the
things which meet the tastes and de
sires of the consuming public. Care
ful studies of the market have been
made within the past year, not onlv
by United States government agencies
but by individual manufacturers.
“The establishment by two of the
most important national banks of the
United States of branches in the
Argentine, and the general adoption of
trade acceptances, have made the
financing of shipments to and from
the Argentine much easier and given
the American manufacturer an oppor
tunity to grant necessary credits to
compete with other countries. Argen
tina, like all new countries, requires
long credits.
“American concerns are establish
ing their own branch houses or direct
agencies in Argentina to conduct their
sales. Within the last two yearB,
progress in this direction has been
great, but it is expected that when
the companies in the United States
now being organized under the provi
sions of the Webb law are established
in foreign countries, a large increase
in their number will be noted. Large
Argentine concerns, many of them
controlled by European capital, are
locating permanent buyers in the Unit
ed States.”
Turning from the optimistic side of
the development of American trade
in Argentina, Mr. Barrett pointed out
a iew inmgs which win uc ucucaoaij
if manufacturers in the United States
are to continue to occupy an import
■ ant part in this market.
“First,” he said, “the United States
must be placed on a parity with Euro
pean nations in the matter of ship
ping and freight rates. Now that the
war is over there is a tendency to re
vert to old conditions. Establishment
of regular lines of steamers, both for
freight and passengers, between the
United States and the River Plate is
most .essential.
“Manufacturers in the United
States must train young men for for
eign service and give them sufficient
inducements to live permanently in
foreign cbuntries. One of the most
discouraging features of our overseas
trade is the lack of competent men to
fill import positions abroad.
“Some plan must be adopted by
which the foreign buyer may be pro
tected against the unreliable or un
scrupulous commission merchant or
manufacture. Nothing has so harmed
American trade during the past few
years as the action of some concerns,
who have failed to comply with their
contracts and in some instances de
frauded their clients. Perhaps the li
censing of firms by the Federal Trade
commission to do an export business
and the extension of the commission's
jurisdiction over their actions would
be a remedy for this difficulty.
“Finally,” said Mr. Barrett, Ameri
can capital must be more freely in
vested in South American securities
of proved worth.
“No single factor.” he added, “has
been more responsible for the im
portant part that Great Britain has
taken in supplying Argentina with
raw material and manufactured pro
ducts than the very large investment
of British capital in Argentine rail
ways and industrial ehterprises.”
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LEGAL ADVERTlSl_ITS
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION
[n Justice Court, In and for Cordova
Precinct, Territory of Alaska.—
John Muller, Plaintiff, vs. pan Mc
Vae, Defendant.
rhe President of the United States of
America to the above-named defend
ant Dan McVae, greeting:
You are hereby summoned and re
quired to be and appear in justice
court in and for Cordova precinct,
territory of Alaska, within six days
ifter the termination of the required
dx weeks’ period of publication of this
summons, and answer the complaint
3t the above-named plaintiff, the origi
nal of which complaint is on file in
the office of the above-named Justice
3t the peace at Cordova, Alaska, and
unless you so appear and answer said
complaint, judgment will be rendered
against you for want thereof, and
plaintiff will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in said complaint,
to wit, for the sum of $299.25. with
Interest, costs and attorney’s fees to
be taxed.
This summons is Berved upon you
by publication thereof in accordance
with the order of the above-entitled
court, made and entered the 29th day
of March, 1919.
Date of first publication, March 31,
1919.
Date of last publication, May 12.
1919.
R. H. L. NOAKES, >
United States Commissioner and ex
officio Justice of the Peace in and
for Cordova Precinct, Territory of
Alaska.
Frank H. Foster, Attorney for
I'lainun.
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
No. C-150
In the District Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division.—Celia
Graves, Plaintiff, vs. William H.
Graves, Defendant.
The President of the United States of
America to the above-named defend
ant, William H. Graves, greeting:
You are hereby required and sum
moned to appear in the district court
for the territory of Alaska, Third divi
sion, within thirty days after the ter
mination of the required six weeks’
period of publication of this summons
and answer the complaint of the
above-named plaintiff, the original of
which complaint is on file with the
clerk of the above-entitled court, and
unless you so appear and answer said
complaint judgment will be rendered
against you for want thereof, and
plaintiff will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in said complaint,
to wit, for a decree of absolute di
vorce dissolving the bonds of matri
mony now existing between said
plaintiff and defendant upon the
ground of desertion and non-support.
This summons is served upon you
by publication thereof in accordance
with an order of the above-entitled
court made and entered on the 24th
day of March, 1919.
First date of publication, March 28,
1919.
Last date of publication, May 9,
1919.
Witness the Honorable Frtid M.
Brown, Judge of said court, this 24th
day of March, 1918.
(Seal) ARTHUR LANG, Clerk.
F. H. Foster, Attorney for Plaintiff,
Cordova, Alaska.
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
, NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT O?
ACCOUNT
In the United States Commissioner's
Court, Cordova Precinct, Territory
of Alaska (In Probate).
In the Matter of the Estate of Gun
nard Johnson, Deceased.
Notice Is hereby given that V. G.
Vance, administrator of the estate of
Gunnard Johnson, deceased, has ren
dered and presented for settlement to,
and filed in the probate court of said
Cordova precinct, his final account as
such administrator, and that Tuesday,
the 15th day of April, 1919, at 10
o’clock a. m., at the court room of our
said probate court at Cordova, Alaska,
has been duly appointed by the pro
bate court for the settlement of the
final account, at which time and place
any person Interested in said estate
may appear and file his exceptions In
writing to the said final account and
contest the same.
Witness the Hon.
(Seal) A. J. ADAMS,
Judge of the said Probate Court, and
the seal of said Court affixed, this
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To L. T. Gray, heir and devisee or
Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all other
heirs of the said Robert D. Gray, de
ceased, to James Smith, executor or
the last will and testament of the
said Robert D. Gray, deceased, to all
persons claiming liens upon or against
tha interest of said estate, of said ad
ministrator, or of said heirs, in the
mining claims hereinafter described,,
and to all whom it may in any manner
concern:
You and each of you are hereby noti
fied that I have expended during the
year 1918 one hundred dollars ($100)
in labor and improvements upon and
for the benefit of eacn of those three
certain mineral oil mining claims, all
situated at the head of Mirror Slough,
in the Kayak recording precinct, ter
ritory of Alaska, and known as and
called:
The Brown Bear Association Min
eral Oil Claim,
The Bald Eagle Association Min
eral Oil Claim, and
The Gray Wolf Association Min
eral Oil Claim,
the location notices or certificates ol
which may be found of record in Book
6, at pages 148 and 149, of the records
of Mining Locations and Declaratory
Statements, in the office of the United
States commissioner and ex officio
recorder in and for the said Kayak
recording precinct, at Katalla, Alaska,
that is to say, I have so expended in
such labor and improvements upon
and for the benefit of all of said
claims during the said year 1918 the
sum of three hundred dollars ($300),
in order to hold said claims under
the laws of the United States and
the Territory of Alaska relating to
the annual labor upon mining claims,
being the amount required to hold
said mining claims and each of them
for the period ending on the 31st day
of December, 1918.
And if within ninety days after the
publication of this notice, to wit,
within ninety days after the 8th day
of May, 1919, you fail or refuse to
contribute to me, the subscriber, one
of the owners in common of said min
ing claims and each of them, your
proportion of such expenditures,
which amounts to the sum of fifty
dollars ($50) for each of said claims,
or a total of one hundred fifty dollars
($150) for all of said claims, your
Interests in each claim for which you
so fail or refuse to contribute will
become the property of the said sub
scriber under the provisions of Sec.
2324 of the Revised Statutes of the
United States.
A. T. COTTON.
Residence and postofflce address,
Katalla, Alaska.
First publication, Feb. 6, 1919.'
Last publication, May 8, 1919.
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