Cattle and Hogs Market Report From Fort Worth and Chicago
Fort Worth market shows cattle and calves steady to uneven with stockers strong. hogs active with good and choice weights $21 plus at times. Chicago quotes mixed, hogs up to $21.75, cattle and calves generally firmer, feeders steady, lambs and sheep active but uneven. New York wool markets muted with futures steady to higher marginally.
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San Antonio
Federal
Fort Worth
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
USDA
Late rally adds to grain price gains across markets
Chicago and Fort Worth grain futures rose as the Board of Trade showed firming in wheat and soybeans on stronger cash markets. Reports cited higher cash demand, government buybacks, and improved flour business with notices delivering large bushel totals. Prices varied across corn oats rye and sorghum with mixed direction and key bid levels noted in regional quotes.
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Chicago
Rall
Board
Trade Eec
Vance
Ely
Commodity Credit Corporation
Philadelphia
Fort Worth
Grain and Cotton Exchange
Texas
Texas Gulf Ports
Ogden Police Payroll IOU Incident Reveals City Dispute
In Ogden Utah on August 31 1930 the police department paid officers with personal IOUs after a payroll row among commissioners. Mayor Peery refused payroll approval over a conflict with Chief Schooff while Commissioner East backed it. George W Tribe issued personal checks to officers and will seek repayment when Saunders returns and East votes again.
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Ogden
Utah
Edward T. Saunders
Harman W. Peery
Maurice Schooff
Thomas East
George W. Tribe
Saunders
East
Peery
Schooff
Felony convictions hit record high in Dallas
Dallas County recorded 707 felony convictions in the first six months of the year, with Assistant Attorney R. H. Singleton citing steady three year increases. He attributed the rise to closer cooperation between the district attorney's office and city police and sheriff departments.
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Dallas
R. H. Singleton
Stock Market Holds Steady Amid Light Demand
In New York on August 31 the stock market showed a trickle of demand that steadied prices. Most issues closed with gains but overall turnover was light at 720 000 shares with Commonwealth & Southern and United Corporation driving much of the activity. The Associated Press average slipped slightly while a few majors gained and many others moved little or unchanged.
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New York
Boston
Commonwealth & Southern
United Corporation
Associated Press
Barnsdall Oil
Coca-Cola
US Steel
General Motors
Chrysler
US Rubber
Montgomery Ward
Lockheed
American Telephone
Phelps Dodge
Homestaking Mining
Canadian Pacific
Sinclair Oil
Anderson-Prichard Oil
Sears Roebuck
Consolidated Natural Gas
du Pont
American Woolen
Union Pacific
Standard Oil
Twentieth Century-Fox
Washington
ECA
Italy
France
United States
Commisse Ae
New Orleans
Foaman Exchange
York
Great Britain
Europe
Sweden
Switzerland
Latin America
Argentina
Brazil
Mexico
Film Star Sees Count Cini Die In Plane Crash
Cannes dispatch reports Count Girogi Cini, wealthy Italian hotel magnate, killed when his two engine plane crashed after clipping a wingtip at Cannes airport. Actress Merle Oberon witnessed the tragedy and was led away in shock. pilot Giorgio Giradello also died.
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Count Cini
Cannes
France
Girogi Cini
Merle Oberon
Cini
Giorgio, Giradello
Italy
Excelsior
Rome
Venice
US Business Loans Mount 3 Million
Federal Reserve data show loans by leading city banks rose by 3 million in the week ending Aug. 24, lifting total commercial industrial and farm loans to 12.942 billion while real estate lending reached a record 4.181 billion. The year ago comparison shows a 1.905 billion decline from the prior year.
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Washington
Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Board
France Leads Way in Recalling Envoys From China Under Reds
France reportedly headed a Western drift to pull diplomats from China as Reds consolidate power. The exodus could affect ambassadors from the Netherlands Canada Siam Britain and the United States with linerships General Gordon and Marechal Joffre slated for Shanghai departures.
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France
China
Nanking
Jacques Meyrier
Baron F. C. Aerssen
T. C. Davis
Priya Abhibal Rajamaitri
L. H. Lamb
John Wesley Jones
Ralph Stevenson
General Gordon
Shanghai
Marechal Joffre
Leonard L. Bacon
Bus Service Halted in Houston Strike by Negro Drivers
Yale Street Transportation Company halted bus service to additions northwest of Houston amid a strike by 18 Negro drivers begun August 23. Four white drivers continued, and a shot was fired at a bus driven by Frank Stovall near the Bluebell addition.
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Houston
Yale Street Transportation Company
Frank Stovall
Bluebell
M. B. Stone
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