Hog Price Advances Echo Inflation Talks Across Markets
Market centers felt inflation chatter as hog prices edged up mildly while stock and grain markets surged. Chicago led gains with top bids around 415, while Cleveland and Pittsburgh showed solid to higher trading. hog receipts totaled near 30,000 across major centers with light to heavy hogs sold in varied lots. Lambs and sheep also rose in Chicago and other hubs as cattle steadied with mixed gains and steady to higher calves and bulls in regional runs.
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Chicago
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
East Buffalo
East St. Louis
Cincinnati
East St Louis
St. Louis
TNS
Omaha Livestock
Omaha 'Ap
Fieht
Hoeher
Stoux City Livestock
Sioux City
Aps
Enoh
Chicago Produce Markets Report Summary
Chicago produce and egg markets show mixed quotes with live poultry steady to firm. Eggs and butter futures move on supply, demand, and grading, while potatoes and other items reflect variable stock and prices across regional shipments.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Michiswan Russel Rurals
Idaho
Texas Bliss Troimphs
Florida Doudie
Bliss Spaulding
New
Hennery
Ife Express Lic
Sugar Market Mixed With Broad Signals Across Exchanges
The market shows mixed frontpage activity with raw sugar at unaltered levels near 735 futures, refined at 3450, and reports of firm prices in various regional markets. Exchange quotes from Minneapolis, New York, and London show fluctuating candor across foreign exchange and commodity contracts, with several currency and price listings in flux.
Cedar Rapids Wholesale Produce Prices Listing
Miscellaneous Cedar Rapids wholesale fruits and vegetables with prices for citrus grapefruit temers potatoes cabbage and onions. Includes crates and bags with varying per unit costs and quality grades.
Grain futures rally faded as profit taking trimmed gains
Heavy profit taking cooled early wheat advances on Monday with Chicago prices closing 11 2 cents higher. Corn and oats rose modestly while rye gained. Winnipeg wheat stayed firm amid gold standard confusion. Cash wheat up slightly. receipts modest. Bookings and sales supported corn demand. oats saw light gains. Provisions remained strong on near end buying.
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Chicago
Winnipeg
New York Stock Exchange
Grain Movement Chicago Casis Grain Prices and Wheat Details
Grain movement notes from Chicago and Minneapolis markets list wheat grades and prices, corn and oats values, mixed lots, and rye and barley figures. It shows spot and futures ranges, sample grades, and moisture or test weights with occasional month references and yardage terms.
Local Hog Prices Rise in Dime Advance Across Grades
Hogs continue to strengthen on the local market with a 10 cent advance in all grades, lifting the top price to 3.30. Market observers note continued demand and steadier weights as buyers push for steady processing costs.
Wall Street Rallies Amid Confidence In Stocks
Stocks moved in brisk, volatile trading with fractional gains as oils and rails steadied while tobaccos and other industries fluctuated. Major advances posted by United Aircraft, Alned Chemical, US Steel, Case and American Telephone. turnover around 5 million shares as markets hit new highs under a buoyant tone.
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New York
United Aircraft
al- Ned Chemical
Steel Common
Preferred
Case
American Telephone
Standard of New Jersey
Standard of California
Barnsdall, Texas Corp
Continental
U. S. Steel
U. S. Steel Common
General Motors
Santa Fe
New York Central
Union Pacific
Public Service of N. J
Consolidated Gas
American Can
Continental Can
Sears Roebuck
Goodyear
DuPont
National Biscuit
Rais
Merchants National Buys County Refunding Road Bonds
The Tinn county board sold 74,000 in refunding bonds to Merchants National of Cedar Rapids at 5 percent interest with a 125 premium. Other bids came from Glaspell Veach Duncan of Davenport and the Iowa-Des Moines Co. Des Moines. Bonds mature May 1 1945 1946 1947. Original issue was 1928. New issue funds the state highway commission bond repayment from gasoline tax and license fees. no increase in indebtedness.
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Tinn County Board of Super- Vasors
Ourman Road
Na- Nera Burk
Cedar Rapids
Glaspell Veuch and
Duncan
Davenport
Iow i-Des Moines Company
Des Moines
Tre
State Highway Commission
Births Report From Mercy Hospital Listings
BORN to Mr and Mrs George Mc Niel 3741 Center Point road NE Friday at Mercy hospital a son. Born to Mr and Mrs Henry Schaefer Middle Amana Saturday at Mercy hospital a daughter. Born to Mr and Mrs Joseph Spooner 1028 Fourteenth avenue SW Saturday at Mercy hospital a daughter. Born April 23 at St Luke's hospital to Mr and Mrs Frank J Paspishil 1217 Hoover avenue NE a son. Born to Mr and Mrs Homer Blackford Ro Ro No 1 Marion a son April 23.
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George McNiel
Center Point Road
Mercy Hospital
Henry Schaefer
Amana
Joseph Spooner
Fourteenth Avenue
St Luke's Hospital
Frank J Paspishil
Hoavenue
Homer Blackford
Marion
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll This Year
Cedar Rapids reports figures on road tolls for the year with counts of accidents and casualties. Data include numbers of injuries and fatalities across municipal routes and funded projects. Local officials emphasize safety measures and enforcement to reduce future incidents.
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Cedar Rapids
Safecrackers Drain Two Safes At Local Firms
Police report a weekend break in at Merveaux Coal and Mogul Manufacturing in NE. Loot includes 75 dollars cash two county poor fund warrants 5 and 7 38 caliber pistol and shells with stamps missing from Mogul according to officers experienced safebreakers exited through a window and side entrance.
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Merveaux Coal Company
Havenue
Weing Road
Mogul Manufacturing Company
Seventeenth Street
Merveaux Company
County Poor Fund
Aney Eges
Deaths of Mrs. William Brody a Cedar Rapids resident
Mrs. Mahala Harrison Brody aged 72 died Saturday at her son Forest Brody's home in Cedar Rapids after living there six years. Brief services will be held Tuesday at 1230 at the Brody home, then at 2 p.m. at the Urbana Church of the Nazarene. Surviving: husband, nine children, twenty-eight grandchildren, eleven great grandchildren, three brothers, one sister. Friends may call at home Monday and Tuesday.
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William Brody
Urbana
Cedar Rapids
Forest Brody
E Avenue
Brody
Christian Church
E. E. Russell
Church of the Nazarene of
Mahala Harrison
Stockton
Calif
Rye Harrison
Center Point
Frank
Grand Rapids
Mich
Carrie Stookey
Des Moines
Funeral for Rev J H Brammer Set Tuesday
Funeral services for the Rev. J. H. Brammer 82 pioneer minister will be held at Trinity Lutheran church at 10 a.m. Tuesday after brief services at the family home 658 Nineteenth avenue SW at 9 40. The body will be moved from the church at 1 p.m. by motor to Rock Island for burial.
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J. H. Brammer
Trinity Lutheran Church
Nineteenth Avenue
Rock Island
Death notices of Mrs Wing and others in Cedar Rapids
Mrs. John Wing died at her daughter’s home in Cedar Rapids after a six month illness. Born Mary Frances Wood in Pittsford New York she married John Wing in 1866 and had six children. Funeral arrangements pending. Also listed are obituaries for Mrs Harriet Ellen Chapel aged 88 of Cedar Rapids, William Watts 72 former Quaker Oats engineer, Mrs J A Richley former Cedar Rapids resident and Henry Chapman of South English who died after brief illness.
Arthur Henderson Receives Peace Award in Hague
In The Hague Arthur Henderson president of the disarmament conference and former British foreign secretary receives a Carnegie Endowment prize valued at 2 200 pounds for promoting peace. The award presented Monday honors Henderson for his work in international disarmament and peacemaking efforts.
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Hague
Holland
Carnegie Endowment
Arthur Henderson
The
Ohio Scientist Claims Ether Drift Proof
Washington report says Dayton C. Miller of Case School presented at the National Academy of Sciences meeting that he proved Earth and the solar system move through an ether at about 155 miles per second using Michelson interferometer data from Mount Wilson. He asserts the motion is absolute and opposite to the solar system’s galactic travel, which could upend relativity theory if confirmed.
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Washington
INS
National Academy of Sciences
Dayton C. Miller
Case School of Applied Science
Cleveland
Solar System
Earth
Hercules
Miller
World economic talks move toward London meeting
Ottawa trade pact talks signal tariff barrier reductions but Secretary Hull says no monetary decision yet. World economic conference expected in London June 15 to July 1 with Roosevelt and MacDonald in daylong discussions, Taussig joining experts, and cautious remarks from Hull amid brisk speculation on progress.
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Hull
London
Roosevelt
MacDonald
Charles W. Taussig
American Tariff Authority
Kite House
United States
Britain
France
M. Herriot
Treasury to sell 500 million three year notes
Washington authorities opened the sale of 500 million dollars in three year treasury notes at 2 percent. The issue, the first long term financing of the Roosevelt era, tests investor confidence amid looming inflationary policy. The low rate suggests easy market reception and expected strong demand.
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Washington
Treasury
Roosevelt
No Siding At Quarry Hits Island Rock Haul Plan
County supervisors abandon rock haul by freight cars after discovering the old siding to the North Western quarry is missing. Charles D. Manson proposed using freight cars to move rock to the island to provide Reconstruction Finance Corporation work, but cost concerns and trucking hesitations persist despite city rock donations and potential employment for over 100 unemployed men.
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Charles D. Manson
Chamber of Commerce
County Board of Supervisors
North Western
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Fit
Two Marion burglaries yield little loot and a failed safe break
In Marion over the weekend burglars gained entry at the Farmers Elevator office and Linn County Co-Operative Oil, breaking glass and locks but failing to open the safe and stealing some gas. Sheriff Petrus and Deputy Condon investigated, with OG West reporting the oil breakin. Also, a large audience attended the church play The Half of My Goods by Ralph G. Claggett at the Methodist church, with plans to repeat in late May.
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Marion
Farmers Elevator Company
Irvin Ford
Joseph Petrus
Linn County Co-Operative Oil Company
OG. W. West
Oil Company
Shera Larry Condon
Monay
Congregational Young People Hold Conference
A regional conference of Christian Endeavor societies from Cedar Rapids Muscatine Marengo Williamsburg and Marion was held at the local Congregational church in Cedar Rapids Sunday attracting about forty youths. Rev H O Allen presided. Walter Staves elected chairman with Jean Dow secretary. The theme Why Should Christianizing the World Be a Major Concern of Youth featured sub topics and discussion leaders Gray Wilson Betty Holt Adelaide Steenbergen N C Drier among others. A social hour trombone solo Bible contest and a talk on the Grinnell conference followed. supper served by Priscilla guilds Second division. Mr and Mrs Jerry Ryan of Davenport visited the Bleakly home. Bethany Circle Methodist meets Wednesday at 4 p m. L R Blinks and D H Smith co chair supper committee.
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Christian Endeavor Societies of Congregational Churches
Cedar Rapids
Town City
Muscatine
Marengo
Williamsburg
Marion
Congregational
H. O. Allen
Walter Staves
Jean Dow
N. C. Drier
Donald Bragg
Adelaide Steenbergen
John Blomquist
Betty Holt
Priscilla Guild
Murphy Seeks Temporary Farm Bill Moves
Senator Murphy outlines a non permanent farm bill with aims to curb hog production by premiums for hogs under 216 pounds. Cash bonuses would not hurt farmers, and government guarantees may raise hog and corn prices gradually. Mortgage relief includes 4 percent bonds, 4.5 to 5 percent loan rates, five year principal suspension, signaling deflation ending and recovery under way.
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Murphy
Towan
Bil
Iowa
Senate Agricultural Committee
Bandits Torture Farm Couple To Get Hidden Cash
Four men beat and branded Nick Tesch 55 and his sister Kate at a Wisconsin farm to force disclosure of a hiding place for 5000 Liberty bonds and 1700 dollars. The assailants abducted Matt Tesch and fled with the loot as deputies from Fond du Lac and Washington counties pursue them.
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West Bend
Wis
INS
Nick Tesch
Kate Tesch
Matt Tesch
Fond du Lac
Washington
Light Company Gets Rate Injunction In Marshalltown Case
Federal Judge Charles A. Dewey issued a temporary injunction restraining Marshalltown city officials from enforcing a lower electric rate ordinance. Special Master F. F. Faville will hear the case starting June 15. Iowa Electric Light and Power was ordered to post a $25,000 bond to protect customers if charges are reduced.
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Des Moines
Charles A. Dewey
Marshalltown
F. F. Faville
Iowa Electric Light and Power Company
Death of Marion Resident Kathryn Layer at 501 Seventh Ave
Kathryn Layer 77 longtime Marion resident died at her home Sunday at 3 p.m. She had been ill a month. Survived by sister Mrs. L. J. Kelsey Cedar Rapids and brothers Louis and Will Layer Marion. Funeral Tuesday 2:30 p.m. Yocom chapel Rev I L Baumgartner German Evangelical Cedar Rapids in charge Burial Oak Shade Cemetery. Friends may call tonight 7 to 9 at Yocom.
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Harriett
Harriett Ellen Chapel
Willis
C Avenue NW
Cold Springs
Wis
Thompson
Oscar
Elmer
Cedar Rapids
Luella Quisenberry
Stella Craig
Davenport
Beatty Chapel
Mr Miller
Ainsworth
Town
Kathryn Layer
Marion
Seventh Avenue
Louis Herbold
Baden Baden
Germany
United States
Louis
Will Layer
Yocom Chapel
I. L. Baumgartner
German Evangelical Church of
Oak Shade Cemetery
Yocom Funeral Home
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J. BE. Bennett & Co
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Varadiem
Graham Pater
Ifa Granby
Conger Hs
Werner
Ares
Lotsa Wertehse
Stas Steel
Guilt & Co
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U S
Merchants National
Wm. Brody
John Wing
Elizabeth Lindsay
Eleventh Street
Mary Frances Wood
Pittsford
N. Y
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William Watts
Quaker Oats Company
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M L. Gibson
Kate Mahan
E. F. Austin
Linwood
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J A Richley
Huntington Park
R. B. Winterbottom
Rock Island Railroad
Wilma
Swuntington Park
Norman Chapman
Third Avenue
Henry Chapman
Arthur Flenderson
Ohio
U.S. Treasury
Marion News
Ralph G. Claggett
Fred Liddle
Carolyn Gillmore
Edgar Harville
Balster Furniture Company
Craemer’s
Mary Lockwood
Darrell Gilmore
John M. Walters
Jerry Ryan
James Bleakly Homie
Bethany Circle
Methodist Church
D. H. Smith
A. A. Hardin
Mrs. L. R. Blinks
Linn County Federation of Clubs
William Fowler
William, Jr
Bunco
Ornetta Reinheimer
Joe Cira
Lst
Gladys Brenneman
Nadine Dove
Eunice Mershon
Ornetta, Reinheimer
Robert Atz
Oper Shekelton
William Fower, Jr
Thomas Perk
K. M. Saunders
Thirteenth Street
Marion Nature and Se
Tennyson Club
Hugh Gordon
R. C. Booth
Lee van Cleave
Guy Berlin
Lincoln School
Lloyd Coakley
University of Iowa
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W. J Goodyear
Donald Scott
Willam Robert
Ottumwa
Robert Hibner
G. M. Hibner
O. O. P. Club
Max Voris
Mary Baker
Sherman A. Fontaine
H. Ly House
of Coggan
Grace H. Starr
Woman's Missionary Society of the Christian Church
Walter Kennedy
John Reynolds
Francis Beresford
Near Robins
Yocum Chapel
Shakespeare Club
Ivan Brenneman
Sam Fulkerson, Jr
Kent Finger
Charles Birmingham
Earl G. White
Perry
Mr. White
George White
Louis Ross
Kiatter Klub
Fanny Keithly
Springville
St. Luke's Hospital
Pete Hollingseworth
Sixth Street
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