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Newspaper

Amarillo Daily News

Location

Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jun 16, 1936

Page

8

Grain futures rise on weather outlook and demand

Wheat and corn gains led Chicago Board of Trade trading as bullish northwest weather and strong Minneapolis activity pushed July wheat up to the 5 cent limit. Cash grain quotes varied across markets including Chicago Fort Worth and Kansas City, with oats and barley mixed and receipts described as moderate to good.

Chicago Chicago Board of Trade Northwest Minneapolis Roe Fort Worth Texas Gulf Ports Texas Kansas City

Chicago Produce Market News Dated June Fifteenth

Chicago markets report steady butter with high receipts and varied prices. Eggs show strong current receipts, while poultry shows mixed to weak demand. New potatoes firm with regional price ranges and transportation movements noted.

Foreign exchange rates listed for major world currencies

New York June 15 foreign exchange rates show Great Britain at 5.02 and 5.93 for demand and cables, France 6.53 and 6.58, Italy 7.87. Numerous nations appear with demand and cable figures, including Belgium, Germany, Holland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Poland, Czech Slovakia, Jugoslavia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Argentina, Brazil, Tours, Shanhai, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Montreal, and New York relations with Montreal and local conversions.

Foreign Exchange New York Great Britain France Italy Belgium Germany Holland Norway Sweden Denmark Finland Switzerland Spain Portugal Greece Poland Czech Slovakia Jugoslavia Austria Hungary Romania Argentine Brazil Tours Shanhai Hongkong Mexico City Montreal

Fort Worth Produce Market Prices Report

Fort Worth Tex June 14 poultry hens 10 to 13 cents a pound fryers 18 to 20 cents turkeys 12 to 14 cents fresh eggs No 1 candled four 50 a case butter Creamery thirty nine cents? butter fat 24 cents per pound Market notes list these commodities with price ranges and unit details for buyers.

Fort Worth Tex

Amarillo Markets Basis Reports Wheat Carloads Delivered

Basis notes show lots delivered to Texas common points with receipts for wheat including five cars and two cars older. Details are garbled but reference Amarillo and multiple car movements, suggesting a market summary of delivery activity and pricing near Amarillo.

Texas Kerr Ale Amarillo

Midwest markets show 9000 head fewer cattle this week

Midwest markets reported about 4 000 fewer cattle than last Monday with mixed bid levels across major cities. Chicago best medium weight steers around 8 50 and light heifers near 8 40. Kansas City St Louis buyers quoted 5.00 6.00 for western grassers. top hogs near 10 30 at St Louis. spring lambs 11 00 12 00. shorn ewes mostly down from 3 76. Arizona cattle in Kansas City around 4 00. Omaha lambs from 8 50 8 76.

Kansas City Chicago St. Louis Better Grace Arizora’a Omaha

Wichita Livestock Prices Steady With Mixed Cattle Hogs and Sheep

Cattle 1,500 head including 300 calves, mostly steady with top yearling steers and light heifers near 8.00, cows 4.75 to 5.50. bulls 4.50 to 5.50. Hogs 1,000 head, stock pigs higher, top hogs 9.85, good 9.65 to 9.75. Sheep 700 head slow, spring lambs 10.60 top for 65-85 lb, heavy ewes steady, lightweights up 15-25 cents.

Lée Arkansas Bliss U. S Ark. Cobb Fort Worth USDA Wichita Livestock Wichita Kas Dept. of Agriculture

Omaha Livestock Market Reports Hogs Cattle and Sheep

Omaha market notes hogs 7 500 head heavy weights unevenly lower top 9 90 with several 9 75 140 250 lbs. Cattle 2 000 with calves and yearlings steady but heavier steers slow beef cows weak. Sheep 4 600 lambs strong 2 iele higher Idaho lambs 10 50 11 25 native lambs up to 11 00. Also Amarillo Monday Quotations top hogs 9 60 17 240 lbs packing sows 7 40.

Kansas City Omaha Livestock Omaha Neb U.P Idaho Fed Calif

Boston Wool Prices Tie Light Market in New Clip

Boston June 15 business in graded territory wool from the new clip was light. Scattered sales show French combing fine at 85 to 87 cents per scoured pound and strictly combing grades at 85 to 87 cents for 15 blood, 76 to 78 cents for 9 to 12 blood, and 70 to 72 cents for 14 blood.

Boston U. S. Dept. of Agriculture

New York Money Rates and Bankers Acceptances Report

New York money markets show steady call money at 4 percent with a 1 percent all day rate, prime commercial paper at 4 percent, and time loans generally steady. Bankers' acceptances unchanged with 30 days 3 16 to 1 percent and 60 to 90 days 3 18 to 1 percent. Rediscount rate at the New York Reserve Bank is 4 1/4 percent.

NEW York Money NEW York New York Reserve Bank

Metals News Roundup From New York Markets

Copper quiet at 9.59 spot and futures. export 9.05. Tin steady near 41.50 to 41.62. futures 41.05 to 41.15. Iron quiet with No 2 grade at Eastern Pennsylvania 20.50, Buffalo 19.50, Alabama 15.59. Lead steady around 4.49. Aluminum 19.09 to 22.00. Quicksilver 74.50 to 75.90. Antimony spot 13.90. Wolf ramite 16.00.

Chicago New York Pennsylvania Buffalo Alabama

New York Coffee Prices Mix on July Liquidation

New York June 15 reports mixed coffee futures with July down while several months show varied gains and losses. Spot market remains quiet as Santos, Rio and other contracts trade with small percentage changes and unsettled margins.

New York Santos Rio

Dry Goops New York Cotton Prices Report

Active buying of cotton gray goods resumed with prices strong. Finished cottons showed good demand. Ravens sold in fair quantities. Raw silk fell two cents. Wool goods moved in random lots. Burlap remained quiet.

New York Ravens

St Louis Creamery Butter and Poultry Prices Indexed

June 15 price notes from St Louis Creamery list standards for 1914 butter at 25 to 27 cents, extras 29-30, marbled by grade. Poultry prices show light hens 16 cents, heavy hens 16, roosters 13, springs 22-26, turkeys 14-18, ducks 15 per pound, geese 5 to 6 cents, with assorted weights and grades.

ST. Louis

Bar Silver Steady In New York Market

Bar silver in New York held steady at 44 and one quarter cents an ounce, unchanged from Friday. The market closed without notable price movement.

New York

Stocks Edge Higher As Market Posts Broad Upturn

New York June 15 The stock market rose on a broad front with industrial and utility averages at new highs and rails near tops. Seventh advance in eight sessions, with Bonde led by rails and cotton and cocoa hitting multi month highs. Consolidated Edison and North American among notable movers, while banks saw heavy turnover amid government payments and tax activity.

New York Bonde Treasury Department Consolidated Edison Activiti North American United Corporation American Water Works American Power & Light Electric Power Allied Stores Air Reduction Case Gimbel Lerner Eastman Kodak

Stocks in the Spotlight on Active New York Trading

New York stock roundup lists 15 most active issues with closing prices and net changes. Cons Ed is up 3.61 percent, Uni Corp down 7 percent, Me Nor Am up 2.91 percent, Radio down 1.2 percent, Gen Mtrs down 6.4 percent, Corwith & South unchanged, All Strs up 1 percent, Am Pow & Lt unchanged, Col Gas & Elec down 2.0 percent, U S Steel up 6.214 percent, Con Oj up 1.254 percent, Natl Dairy up 2.5 percent, S. Chry Mtis up 9.6 percent, Am Wtr Works up 2.3 percent, Cur Wright up 6 percent.

New York Cons Edis Uni Corp Nor Am Radio Gen Mtrs Corwith & South Pow & Lt Col Gas & Elec U S Steel No. Con Oj Natl Dairy S. Chry Mtis Am Wtr Works Cur Wright Sm & Rf Tel & Tel T& SF Ee Avia Corp Baldwin Loc Aces Balt & Ohio Barnsdala Col & Sou Colum Gas & Elec EAE Doug Airer Gen Pub Service Gen Real & Ut Gillette Veeudues Rr Goodrich Oe Aa Goodyear T & Say Howe Sound Nick Steer Atay Pita Johns Kelvin See Nee Kenne Tereemerere Kresge Retennee Mont Ward Murray Nash Otis

Markets in Brief June 15 New York Stocks Steady

Markets in brief report steady stock trading in New York with specialties advancing quietly. Bonds even as rails rise. Curb securities higher with oils and specialties in demand. Foreign exchanges mixed with gold cur rencies declining. Cotton steady to higher. cables and trade buying up. Sugar higher with buying. coffee lower due to selling. Wheat strong in Chicago with northwest prices alarming corn higher. Cattle near steady, hogs steady to strong with top at 10.25.

New York Siagar Chicago Cntton

Cotton makes new highs for season in New Orleans

Cotton futures in New Orleans hit season highs as active buying pushed values through the day. December rose to 11.18, January 11.13, March 11.19, with nearby July at 11.69 and October 11.14 before ending steady, about 25 cents a bale higher. The Southeast drought relief came as showers eased bearish risk, while New York prices cooled from earlier peaks.

New Orleans

Liverpool Cotton Prices Move Up in Quiet Sale

Liverpool June 15 spot cotton sees moderate business with prices up three points. Quotations: American strict good middling 7.50, good middling 7.20, strict middling 7.00, middling 6.80, strict low middling 6.50, low middling 6.20, strict good or diner 6.00, good ordinary 5.70. Futures finish very steady with July 6.83 and remaining months at 5.90 or 6.00.

Liverpool

Cotton market roundup Galveston and New Orleans spots

Galveston spot cotton closed steady with grades across the scale. Prices range from low ordinary to good middling with middling around 12.10 to 12.75 cents, 225 spots traded. New Orleans spot closed quiet and unchanged with sales of 150. prices for low middling to good middling from 10.64 to 12.49 cents, receipts and stock noted. Cottonseed oil in New York firm on local buying with July at 9.11 and Sep 9.02. Fort Worth reports cottonseed feeds and middling price around 11.78 cents average. Average middling across ten southern markets set at 11.78 cents.

Sil King Simms Og Skelly Ieee Socony Sperry Tex Corp Tex Gulf Wane Tex Pac C&o Oa Ao Unt Corp Nt Gas Us Gyd W.ccce Ind Aleoss Vanad New York West UN West Elm Lids Ventures Wilson Ee Woolworth Ween Associated Press Cyan Maracaibo iy —_Am Superpower Ark Nail Gas Port Movmt Reds Stock Carnation New Orleans I Ag Galveston Cosden Oil Mobile East Gas Savannah Blee Charleston Ford Mtrs Ltd Wilmington Penn Norfolk Humble Oil Seanee Baltimore Boston Houston St Regis Corpus Christi Shattuck Memphis Augusta Tee Little Rock Fort Worth Treasury Dallas Wees Rails Indus Util Fen Indus Rails Util Ltke Low Seeee Low Seveesee

Turpentine and Rosin Market in Savannah Report

Turpentine firm shows 35%4¢ sales 430 receipts 471 shipments 150 stock 25324. Rosin firm reports sales 812 receipts 1593 shipments 1213 stock 58641. Bid quotes include B 4.10 D. 4.85 EF 4.40-50 F 4.65-60 G H and T 4.60-65 K 4.60-70 M 4.70 N 4.75 WG 4.90 WW and X 5.00-5.05.

Turpentine Savanah

New York Sugar Steady As Prices Hold In Market

Raw sugar remained steady in New York with spots at 3.80 and futures up 1 to 3 points. Refined sugar unchanged at 6.00 for fine granulated, as market activity shows a quiet, stable trading day.

New York

Kansas City Produce Prices Decline in Mid-June Summary

Kansas City June 15. Produce prices include eggs at 19 1/4 to 20 1/4 cents, creamery butter 28 1/4 cents, butterfat 23 25 cents, packing butter 18 cents. Poultry shows hens 18 16 cents, roosters 10 42 cents per pound, springs 19 22 cents, broilers 16 18 cents.

Kansas City Springs

Amarillo Weather Expert Attends Meteorology Conference

H. T. Collman Amarillo weather man returns from Kansas City where he attended a meteorology convention on Air. Mrs. Collman will stay through the summer. their daughter remains for summer school.

H. T. Collman Amarillo Kansas City

Dinner Postponed Until Thursday At Church Event

The Women's Missionary Society dinner at Tenth Avenue Methodist Church is postponed to Thursday night from 6 30 to 8 00. Six months before Paula Stone came to Hollywood a clairvoyant friend predicted a screen career and she is in the movies now.

Women’s Missionary Society Tenth Avenue Methodist Church Hollywood Paula Stone

Sellars Files County Commissioner Candidacy in Precinct One

Low Sellars, longtime Potter County resident, announces his candidacy for County Commissioner in Precinct One ahead of the July primaries. He pledges an honest, businesslike administration focused on economy without sacrificing taxpayer services, cooperation with the Commissioner's Court, and truthful government free of political manipulation. He notes limited time for door-to-door outreach but invites interviews and discussion with voters, especially women, and asserts thirty years in Amarillo qualify him.

Low Sellars Potter County Commissioner's Court Amarillo

Bishop Lucey to Speak on Industrial Relations at W T College

Bishop Robert E. Lucey will deliver a series of lectures on industrial relations at West Texas State College during the summer school session requested by the economics department and Dr. J A Hill. He recently returned from a two week lecture tour in Iva focusing on economics and international relations. A new radiophone link connecting Rio de Janeiro to Recife Sao Salvador Belem and Porto Alegre has been erected for coast wide communications.

Amarillo Sixteenth Avenue Monroe Street Texas Company A. H. Brown Texaco van Buren Street Gunn- Hinerman Tire Company Texaco Company Third Avenue North Fillmore Street George Ingham West Texas State College Health Week Council Robert E. Lucey J. A. Hill Bishop Lucey Iva Rio de Janeiro Recife Sao Salvador Belem Porto Alegre

Gas tax rise signals stronger Texas business

Texas Comptroller George H. Sheppard estimated that the state gasoline tax revenues for the year ending August 31 will exceed last year by over 3 million dollars. He noted nine months’ collections totaling 29.543 million, up 2.456 million from 1934 35, with May at 3.344 million, up 419 thousand. improved business and Centennial influx boost the gain. Tax refunds for farming and other exempt uses amounted to 412,900 in May.

Austin Tex George H. Sheppard Sheppard

Court denies plea of labor relation board in Aliquippa case

United Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today denied the National Labor Relations Board’s bid to enforce an order against Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation of Pennsylvania. The court ruled the board lacked jurisdiction over a labor dispute arising from alleged employee dismissals tied to organized labor activity at the Aliquippa plant.

New Orleans United Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals National Labor Relations Board Labor Relations Board Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation Pennsylvania Aliquippa

Wife shoots husband in Abilene in liquor dispute

H W Sanders, 32, oil worker, was shot as he neared his car near a tourist hotel in Abilene. His 23-year old wife was taken into custody and charged with assault to murder. A witness said she warned him about whiskey. Sanders survived with six intestinal perforations and an even chance of recovery.

Abilene H. W. Sanders Justice Court Sanders A. J. Davis Pineville Esco Walter

Regulation of Employer Employee Relations in Manufacture

A historical note states that the Constitution does not grant the federal government power to regulate the employer employee relationship in manufacturing. The remark concerns the scope of federal authority over labor within steel plant production and related processes.

Boles to See Fight in New York

John Boles, film leading man, obtained studio permission for a quick New York trip to attend the Joe Louis Maxi Schmeling bout. He plans to depart Wednesday and return by Saturday to resume work on the film lot.

Boles Hollywood John Boles New York

Marian Martin Shirtfrock for Action Patterns 9795

Advertises a Marian Martin shirtfrock pattern 9795 with a simple open collar yoke bodice and action pleat. Notes sizes 14 16 18 20 32 34 36 38 40 42, fabric yardage, and 15 cent pattern price plus 25 cents for both pattern and book. Orders to Amarillo Daily News Pattern Department with name address and pattern size.

Marian Martin Trousseau Amarillo Daily News Pattern Department I&h

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