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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 02, 1938

Page

2

HOG PRICES STEADY IN SMALL CHICAGO CLEANUP TRADE

Chicago stockyards show hogs steady in a light Saturday trade with top at 895 and bids steady on 180 to 230 pound light weights. Cattle receipts in Chicago at 100 with top 11 and steady bidding. sheep receipts 7,000 with fat lambs up about 35 cents. Other markets including Sioux City and Omaha report mixed but generally steady to firmer prices for hogs, cattle, and sheep in limited offerings.

Chicago East St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago Livestock Aps S Dept. Arriculturer Biom City Livestock Sioux City S. Dept Agriculture ST. Paul ST Paul Top Fed Omaha Livestock OMAHA US Dent Agriculture

Chicago Produce Markets Report Receipts and Prices

AP dispatch from Chicago notes butter receipts at 763 480 unsettled creamery extra firsts 90 91 cents and other prices steady. Eggs receipts 36 613 steady with fresh graded firsts and cars identical. Potatoes arrivals 71 track 240 U S shipments 589 old stock moderate Idaho russets 1 60 1 55 North Dakota cobblers 1 35 Early Ohio 1 12 0 85 90 U S No 1 1 25 1 12 2. Bliss Triempha 1 35 Green Mountains 1 10 new stock. supplies moderate demand light.

Chicago U. S Idaho North Dakota Ohio U S Bliss Triempha U.S Michigan Wisconsin Minnesota Green Mountains

Cedar Rapids Grain and Produce Prices Mixed Across Commodities

Grain: Wheat No 1 8 9c, No 2 78c. Oats 25c. Rye No 2 5c. Barley No 2 50c. Corn shelled No 4 yellow 44c, No 1 yellow 46 1 3c. Soybeans new No 2 yellow 84 1/2c. Hay prices vary. Butterfat 10c. Hogs and hens prices listed. Produce and fruit prices include Oranges 2.50–2.75, Grapefruit 2.60–2.90, Jonathan apples 1.10, lettuce 4.75, onions 1.40–4.00, cabbage 2.35, carrots 2.35 crate. Hide market notes beef hides and calf/kid/horse prices.

Texas Idaho Chicago Lamson Brothers & Co Phono Owney Cedar Rapids Merchants National Bank Aly Gi Gola

Hogs Unchanged on Local Market

Hog prices remained steady on the local market with no changes across grades. The top price held at 8.40 while other local markets showed similar stability.

Foreign Exchanges and Wool Market Report from New York

Foreign exchanges show minor changes across major European centers with varied rates. The U S Dept of Agriculture notes scattered activity in Boston wool markets with firming tendencies for active grades and steady prices for others while sugar futures remain quiet with slight spot changes and July futures inching upward.

New York Great Britain Italy Belgium Germany Holland Norway Sweden Denmark Finland Spain Portugal Greece Jugoslavia Austria Hungary Roumania Tokio Shanghai Mexico City Montreal Boston U. S. Dept. Agriculturer Texas

Bond Market Strong Near Noon In Rail Sector Gains

New York bond market showed strength toward noon with notable gains in rail issues and mixed foreign dollar measures. Remington Rand 414s Studebaker 6s and International Paper 6s rose, while Armour Delaware 4s and Detroit Edison 4s fell. An observatory was built at Saltsjobaden near Stockholm.

NEW York Bond Review NEW YORK +AP Northern Pacific Pennsylvania Southern Pacific Southern Railway Remington Rand Studebaker International Hydro-Electric International Paper Armour of Delaware Delaware and Hudson Consumers Power Detroit Edison Japan

Stock Leaders Extend Gains Of Day Before

New York investors pushed major shares higher amid a rally extending the prior session’s gains. Top performers included U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler General Motors U S Rubber Sears Roebuck J I Case Douglas Aircraft Standard Oil of New Jersey Anaconda Kennecott American Smelting Cerro de Pasco Howe Sound Western Union Westinghouse Du Pont General Electric Santa Fe Great Northern Eastman Kodak and more as traders eyed hope for congressional aid and a possible peace upshot in Europe.

NEW York American Telephone Federal Communications Walker Europe Italy Great Britain U. S. Steel Bethlehem Chrysler General Motors U. S. Rubber Sears Roebuck J. I Case Douglas Aircraft Standard Oil of New Jersey Anaconda Kenecott American Smelting Cerro de Pasco Howe Sound Western Union Westinghouse du Pont General Electric Santa Fe Great Northern Eastman Kodak Adams Express Alaska Quneau Oto Allegh Corp * i Allied Chem Wass Tau Anis Abe Allied Stores Sy Incke Alfis Chalmers Amal Lea Paint Tel & Tel Amn Johns Manville Kayser Julius Kennecott Capralta Kres Lorillard P Louisvie G & E McKesson Robels Am Wat Wiks Tin McLellan Marshall Fid Mathieson Ark Maytag Miami Copper Armour & Co Pet Auburn Auto Avia Corp Ta Motor Wheel Baldwin ‘Murray Corp Briton Ohio Nashkel Barber Co Natl Siscult Barnsdall Corp Natl Cash Rew Bendix Ayn O's Beth Steel Dept Ow & Ay Hohn Atuin Y Central II Borden Co Hore Warner Nor, Pie Ayy Grims Mig North Am Cotea Rucyrus Erie Park Utah Calumet Pating Camp Want Penick & Falta Canada Dry Penna Plymouth Oil Ches & Ohlangi Pullman Co MoSt P & P Radio Corp Choo & NW Rem Rand Oly Chrysler Rep Motors Rep Steel Coc Cola Consol Edison Shell Union Consal Oil Consol Textile Simmons Co Conti Skelly Secony Vane Conti Can Motors Stone Webster Studebaker Union Carbide Uni Aircraft Elec Uni Air Lines O's Gen Fonds Uni Corp Storers United Unas Cod Y Gillette Goodrich B. F Goodyear Tire Graham White Motors Mirae Welker Apiswhite Houston Oil Hshold i Rast Blessing Helleman Butler Bros Mid-West Corp Quaker Com Chicago Corp Quaker Pf Swift & Co Cons Biscult Walereen

Wall Street Stocks Quotations from J E Bennett & Co

Saturday stock quotations list numerous securities with prices including Adams Express Alaska Alaska Airways unnamed entries and major companies such as DuPont Allied Signal General Electric U S Steel and international items across banking and manufacturing. The page lists bid prices and share emphasis for a broad mix of equities and bonds with no single standout event.

Needs Rowboat To Milk Cow

Heavy rains flooded a barn in Ladoga Indiana as farmer Robert Wethington used a neighbor's rowboat to reach the cow. He steered the boat onto a haypile and sat to milk the cow despite the flooding.

Grain prices fall on bearish 1938 winter wheat view

Chicago prices slid on a bearish 1938 winter wheat yield estimate by Bennett and Co. May wheat at 84 1/2 cents, corn down 4 1/2 to 1 1/2 cents, oats 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 cents lower. Weather reports from the southwest spurred initial gains before the crop outlook overwhelmed the session.

Chicago Chicago Board of Trade Bennett and Co Chicago Grain House E. H. Miller Bennett Company Amarillo Texas Enid Okla Froin

Chicago and Minneapolis Cash Grain Quotations

Chicago cash grain prices show corn at 6144 cents for No. 2 yellow, wheat mixed 79 cents, soybeans No. 2 yellow near 98.3 dollars per hundredweight, and oats around 25 to 27 cents. Minneapolis receipts list No. 1 hard Montana and dark northern wheat at about 99 to 101 cents, No. 3 yellow corn around 56 to 57 cents, with oats near 26 to 27 cents.

Minneapolis Cash Grain Montana

Deaths Mrs Anna S Holmgren of Minneapolis

Mrs Anna Sofia Holmgren of Minneapolis died at her home. Born in 1868 in Sweden she lived in Toddville Cedar Rapids and Minneapolis. Survived by four daughters and four sons, one sister and six grandchildren. Funeral in Minneapolis Zion Lutheran 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Body then sent to Cedar Rapids for Turner chapel service 3:30 p.m. Monday. Burial at Dunkard cemetery Cedar Rapids area.

Anna Sofia Holmgren Minneapolis Sweden Toddville Cedar Rapids A. A Wilder Manly A. W. Anderson C. T. Gustafson Jewel Crocgen Wlo Reinold City Edgar Omaha Carl Fred Holmgren Elida Cranquist Canute Cranquist Chicago Carl Cranquist Zion Lutheran Church Turner Chapel Henry Scherer First Lutheran Church Holmgren Dunkard

Five more convicted in Pendergast vote fraud scandal

In Kansas City, five additional election workers were found guilty of vote fraud conspiracy, raising total convictions to sixty-one linked to the 1936 general election. Among the convicted is William J. McMahon, city building inspector, from the First ward stronghold of the T. J. Pendergast organization.

Kansas City T. J. Pendergast Democratic William J. McMahon

Pendergast Warns Stark Let the River Take Its Course

Kansas City reports Tom Pendergast victory as city boss after Tuesday's election and he fires a political warning at Missouri Governor Lloyd C. Stark, urging him to let events unfold.

Kansas City Tom Pendergast Lloyd C. Stark Missouri

No Bad Voices Highlight at Opera Education Meet

J C Wilcox of Chicago told a national conference that there are no bad voices, offering encouragement to young opera aspirants as music educators gathered in St Louis.

ST. Louis J. C. Wilcox Chicago

Benton Linn Teams Win Opening Games In 4 H Tournament

Benton county beat Iowa county 32 to 9 and Linn county defeated Tama county 44 to 18 in the Four H club district basketball tournament at Coe college. Winners advance to semifinal round with finals set for this evening.

Benton Linn Coe College Iowa County Tama County Town Kreiner OiLeahy Wern

Golden Opportunities Not On A Time Table

Dr. John H. McCombe preached at First Evangelical church on the theme Righteousness Temperance and Judgment. He warned that golden opportunities do not travel with a timetable and noted Felix missed his chance. Jubilee Singers and Browne Metropolitan Jubilee Singers were announced for Trinity Methodist and First Evangelical churches with related men women and boys and girls meetings to follow.

John H. McCombe Paul Felix Trinity Church First Evangelical Church

Fairall charged with drunken driving on Highway 151

G H Fairall 46 of Spencer pled not guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated after a late Friday arrest by highway patrol on Highway 151 near Kenwood. Bond set at 500 dollars. Velma Fritz 48 of Marengo fined 300 dollars for transporting an opened liquor bottle in a vehicle, with fine suspended on costs. County attorney noted no evidence of drinking by Fritz.

G. H Fairall Spencer Kenwood H. C. Ring Fairall Velma Fritz Marengo Ring Iowa G. K. Thompson

Will of F. D. Hutchinson Leaves Estate in Trust

The will of Frank D. Hutchinson 76 of Cedar Rapids who died in Los Angeles March 3 was admitted to probate. The estate funds are placed in a trust with Mary A. Hutchinson as life beneficiary and six named heirs as future income recipients with principal to be distributed when the youngest reaches 40. Executors are Mary A. Hutchinson and Robert E. Hutchinson. A marriage license was issued to Jilber Bowers and Ida G. Hook.

Frank D. Hutchinson Cedar Rapids The Hutchinson Ice Cream Company Los Angeles Mary A. Hutchinson Mrs. Hutchinson Kathleen Hutchinson Ford Grace Hutchinson Berg Josephine Hutchinson Wandel Henry F Linn County Jilber Bowers Toddville Ida G. Hook Bowers Holmes

Equine Campus Queens Vote Draws 57 of 156

Students at the University of Kansas City like long faces and big noses on their campus queens. In a beauty contest by the school humor magazine, two horses pastured near the college drew 57 votes of 156 cast.

Kansas City, Mo University of Kansas City Queens

Community groups hold meetings across Marion area

Sunday school at the Presbyterian hosted by Miss Margery Lary with guests Helen Hamm Arline Guzzle and 12 members. The Christian church Ladies United Missionary society met at Miss Elda Kemp’s home with devotionals led by Helen Meggers and a program by Fay Marsh. Seventeen farm women gathered at George Witwer’s Center Point road for a bread making lesson and leadership ballots for Muddy and Center districts. Several Marion residents and visitors were noted, including Brice and family moves and weekend visits, with recoveries and new births reported.

Gleaners Presbyterian Church Margery Lary Sixth Avenue William Lary Helen Hamm Arline Guzzle C. O. Kieckhaefer Lorraine Muhlhausen Janyce Stone Ella Simonsen Madeline Elkins Dorothy Jean Fernow Kathleen Oxley Vivian Benedict Zoe Heath Betty Pickerill Ladies United Missionary Society of the Christian Church Elda M. Kemp Helen Meggers Fay Marsh Vera Price Charles Montgomery LaVerna Crew Benjamine Bulkley Monroe Township George Witwer Center Point Road Orval Quaas Willis

Dumping Of Fuel Blamed For Samoa Clipper Crash

The air commerce bureau tied the flaming crash of Pan American Airways Samoan Clipper near Pago Pago to fire and explosion from fuel dumping. All seven crew members perished on the non passenger flight, including Captain Edwin C. Musick. The board noted an emergency may have forced an immediate sea landing, with subsequent hull explosion.

Washington Air Commerce Bureau Pan American Airways Pago Pago American Samoa Edwin C. Musick Pacific

Relief rolls rise 37 979 in week to March 26

Federal relief rolls climbed by 37 979 reaching 2 894 856 in the week ending March 26 according to the Works Progress Administration. The gain, about two in each hundred Americans, was led by Pennsylvania and Michigan. Fourteen states reported declines, from 9 to 1 150 in Ohio, with other notable increases including Iowa 1 525.

Washington INS Works Progress Administration Pennsylvania Michigan Ohio Towa

Marion area church activities and services schedule

The notice lists multiple congregations in Marion with pastors and service times. Included are Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, and Methodist Episcopal churches offering Sunday school, morning and evening worship, choir rehearsals, prayer meetings, and special programs through midweek and Easter planning.

Lost and Found notices and a dog lost report

Lost and found notices from The Gazette advertise telephoning and in person submissions with special rates for work wanted. A lost fox terrier with white fur and brown ears is missing near Stone's Garage, contact 2 5654. a red truck is also missing with a finder asked to avoid Aify. A reward is offered.

Stone

Notice on Automobiles and Storage Ads

Notice requests references before automobile transport advertisements and urges readers and advertisers to exchange references. It promotes inspecting storage facilities at Cedar Rapids Transfer & Storage and lists Katz Loan Co in Cedar Rapids with contact details.

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Church notices and service details in area churches

Regular meeting of the Brotherhood Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. Sam Fouse of Lisbon will tell of his trip to Mexico. All men of the church and their friends are invited. Presbyterian Rev C V R DeJong pastor. Sunday school 10 am. Morning worship 11. Sermons subject Scarecrows. Christian Endeavor 6 30 Zoe Heath leader. Evening worship 7 30 with the young people in charge of the CU class. Family picnic supper Wednesday 6 30 p.m. annual congregational meeting. St Pauls Lutheran Rev Carl E Krog pastor Sunday school 9 30. Morning worship 10 30 sermon The Doctrine of Substitution. Saturday school 1 15 p.m. Lenten services Wednesday 7 45 p.m. Seventh Day Church of God Sixth street at Ninth avenue Sabbath school Saturday 10 30 a.m. Preaching 11 30 a.m. Prairie Chapel Paul Clements student pastor Cornell college in charge Sunday school 10 am. Morning worship 11.

Baptist L. W. Inman Frank Ward Sunshine Mission Cedar Rapids Financial Committee St. Joseph's Father T. J. McEniott Irving E. Wade Walter H. Staves C. O Monroe E. T. Gough Kenneth Hoeck Oxford Club Epworth Yu Pin Wang Coccul Lege Brotherhood Sam Fouse Lisbon Mexico C. V. R. DeJong Christian Endeavor Zoe Heath St. Paul’s Lutheran Carl E. Krog Seventh Day Church of God Sixth Street Ninth Avenue Prairie Chapel Paul Clements Cornell College

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