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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1939
Page
8
A fragmented OCR listing covers automotive, business services, education, livestock, and real estate categories. It enumerates sections from automobiles to public sales, with numerous subheadings like moving storage, painting, printing, and for rent or sale real estate listings. No specific events or individuals are named.
New York stocks showed strength and activity after advances abroad and a firmer pound. Bonds were steady. United States Steel rose to 48, Bethlehem Steel to 60, General Motors to 45, Westinghouse Electric to 104, and New York Central to 13.
A list of stocks across rails oils and metals shows varied activity with notable names including Union Pacific and New York Central in rails, Atlantic Refining and Phillips Petroleum in oils, and U S Steel and Bethlehem Steel in steels. Prices appear in fractional form with many issues trading higher or lower against the prior period.
Grain prices show Wheat No 1 red 71 2 and No 2 red 71 2, Corn No 2 yellow 46 2 and No 3 44 4, Oats No 2 white 32 3 and No 3 30 2. Pittsburgh eggs and poultry list steady markets with varied grades and weights. live hens, turkeys, and broilers priced, with dressed and drawn options noted. Cincinnati and Chicago markets report higher eye prices and steady butter and egg values with multiple grades and car lots.
Chicago report states Joseph Paul Cretzer, 27, named public enemy No. 4 and top bank robber, was captured with his wife Edna Mae on the North Side. He faced eight west coast bank robberies and earlier shootings in Michigan City, Indiana. Swiss frontier defense steps followed with 100,000 border troops mobilized.
Hogs range from 6.50 to 7.70 with tops around 7.70 for 200 to 250 lb cattle. calves and cows show steady to strong demand. Receipts include hogs 85 head and veals at 6.85 to 11.00, cattle 360 head, sheep 1090 with blues 8.50 to 8.85 and ewes up to 5.20.
Tokyo dispatch says Emperor Hirohito directs Gen. Nobuyuki Abe to select as temporary head of the foreign office. Asahi reports Abe would steer policy toward friendlier relations with foreign powers led by the United States and Britain in China, with no shift toward Russia contemplated.
The president of Ecuador cabled President Roosevelt to express full approval of Roosevelt's drive to avert war in Europe. This cable marks the first formal Latin American reaction to the United States peace initiative.
In Philadelphia eighty five members of the Women of the Moose will be received into the college of regents as part of the Loyal Order of Moose annual national convention activities.
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