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Show i WHOLESALERS GET BEST OF RETAILERS WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. Although re-tall re-tall prices for foodstuffs decreased one per cent during 1!1.t wholesale food quotations quo-tations averaged one per cent higher for the year than, in 1114, and wholesale prices in general showed a considerably larger v Increase, according to lipures made public - i tonight by the bureau of labor statistics. ' greatest changes recorded by any one group of wholesale markets were In met-. met-. als and metal products, which jumped 11 per rent. YVholfisnle prices for drugs vCHnd chemicals increased 10 ppr cent; farm fWworhjots. 2 per cent, and clothing 1 per ient. Yhnlf;i lc prices of commodities ,J ; in the fuel and lighting group averaged tV . per cent lower: lumber and building I k ' y,1iatf'v'a'fst Per cent lower, and house fur- ntshing goorls, 1 p,-r cent lower. Of H46 'i ' commodities or gr;idos of commodities llst-u llst-u ' r.l 174 showed increases. 1 decreases, and thirty-seven remained virtually sta-, sta-, tionary. |