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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1938
Page
2
Chicago market notes hogs were nominally steady on Saturday with 30 to 40 cents lower than a week ago. 200 pound hogs up to 9.65 while heavy butcher weights near 9.40. Cattle receipts about 100 with market nominal. sheep receipts 3,000 and spring lambs about 8.60. Week’s trends show steers down 35 to 50 cents and cows and bulls off 25 to 40 cents.
Chicago reports small market activity as hogs receipts reach 3 000 with 2 900 direct salable supply. Cattle receipts 100 with steers and yearlings mostly lower. sheep receipts 3 000 with spring lambs 500. Sioux City and Omaha notes show varied declines for cattle and hogs with steady to lower prices across classes.
U S Department Agriculture cattle receipts mix with Friday figures. Plain and medium steers and most crass fed stock steady to 25 cents off. bulls down 25 cents or more. stockers and feeders steady. beef cows up to 7.00 with cutters 3.75 to 4.50. Hogs receipts 1,000 fairly active, mostly steady with some sows down. top around 0.40 for 180-230 lb. spring lambs 60 6 to 75 cents lower. yearlings 25 cents down. Washingtons up to 8.85 for best.
U S Department of Agriculture reports combined hog receipts at 20 concentration yards and 10 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours to 8 am Saturday reach 17 100 head, up from 9 500 a week earlier and 6 100 a year ago. Prices vary by weight group, with barrows and gilts generally steady to 10 cents lower in spots, while heavier lots show gains.
Hogs steady to 10 cents lower on liveweight in Mason City with varied prices across weight ranges. Prices shown include 140 to 150 pounds at 780, 50 to 160 pounds at 8.25, 160 to 170 pounds at 2.50, and ranges up to 550 pounds around 6.00 with multiple weight bands cited. Waterloo and Ottumwa reports note hogs unchanged from Friday.
The Austin hog market lists varied prices for hogs by weight. Prices range from around $6.50 to $8.90 per cwt with multiple weight brackets including 140-150 Ibs through 350-425 Ibs and packing sows 275-550 Ibs.
Market notes from Cedar Rapids list grain prices No 1 wheat 53 cents, oats 51 3/4, rye 34 1/3, corn yellow No 2 43 4 cents, soybeans 80 cents. Hay straw prices, butterfat quotes, and live stock rates for hides, horses, ponies, and mules. Wholesale fruits and vegetables include oranges, celery, lettuce, and cantaloupes with assorted per unit and crate prices.
Hogs are steady on the local market with no changes in any grades Saturday. The only shift occurs in grain prices, with CALP MARKET weaker and SHELP MARKET showing $850 for good to choice 140-190 lb hogs. Lambs, cattle, and other beef grades listed with varying prices by weight and quality.
Market notes from New York show butter receipts at 1,285,198 with creamery and export prices mostly unchanged. Cheese receipts 150,300 with prices steady. Live poultry shipments light with no sales. dressed poultry prices unrevised.
In Plymouth Wisconsin cheese quotations show slight changes on cheddar and other varieties with farm board calls. Boston wool reports describe slower activity yet firmer prices for several grades, while Chicago potato prices rise on overall stronger shipments and varied regional Lot values across U S No 1 and commercial grades.
New York bond market readings show gains in late session with refunds led by Baltimore and Ohio, Delaware and Hudson, and 5s along with rail issues like Minos Central and Nickel Plate. St Paul 4s lagged while most industrials rose on heavy volume. government and foreign dollar issues largely unchanged.
In New York 22-year-old Julie Ruth, adopted daughter of Babe Ruth, shows improvement after a transfusion of 500 cubic centimeters of blood. Ruth, who coaches the Brooklyn Dodgers, could not write his name due to weakness as he rushed to the hospital with a police escort. Julie had surgery a week earlier for a glandular neck condition and has been lingering with anemia symptoms.
New York stocks rose more than a point, trading steadier as vacation absences trimmed turnover. Market split the prior 10 month high of 14491, signaling possible further gains with gains led by General Motors and other industrials. Rail and steel shares advanced while power stocks lagged amid industry uncertainties.
AP dispatch reports Chicago cash grain prices for wheat corn oats and barley with multiple No. 1 and No. 2 grades and bid prices. Minneapolis cash grain also lists receipts and bid quotes for wheat corn and oats with small declines noted across grades.
Japan's population rose by 972,835 in the past year, according to the cabinet bureau of statistics. Birth rate averaged 13.6 per 1,000, more than twice the United States rate of 6.1 per 1,000.
Classified page notice requests a man to fix a roof leak listed under classification 10 in the Want Ads. The brief call aims to hire a tradesperson through the local newspaper’s advertisement section.
Wheat fell to new five year lows at the Chicago board of trade amid Winnipeg weakness and Kansas City firmness. A late buying spree lifted prices above Friday's close while corn and oats remained near or at multi year lows. Export sales around 300000 bushels supported the dip. Receipts in Chicago about 140 cars for wheat and 138 for corn.
Four suspended officers of the United Automobile Workers refused to go to UAW headquarters as the executive board met to resume their trial. Ed Hall said he had been advised they would not be admitted to the room where the board meets.
In Owosso Michigan five more people fall ill from a mystery malady that has killed six in a week. Health officials and researchers report no diagnosis yet as tests come back negative for germs parasites or poisons. New cases include Gilbert Vogelpohl 18 Mrs Bazel Rathbun 41 and three children Jean Dorothy and Betty Wrigglesworth aged one eight and ten.
Funeral services will be held in Beatty chapel at 2 p.m. Sunday conducted by Rev. I. E. Linkletter. Burial follows in Linwood cemetery. Friends may call Saturday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the chapel.
In Mason Michigan early Saturday a 52 year old officer James Ray Hinkley and 58 year old Richard Sandway died after a confrontation in the business district. Sandway using a shotgun confronted Hinkley as Blanche Sandway, Hinkley wife, had asked the officer to escort her home. Norval Jones witnessed the encounter and Sheriff Allan A MacDonald reported Hinkley fired at Sandway as Sandway fired first. Hinkley returned fire before collapsing. Sandway died from shotgun and gunshot wounds.
The annual playground garden picnic and exhibit will be held at Bever Park on Monday August 15. Mrs L J Smith, children's garden director, said the event is open to any city child who has grown a home or playground garden and their parents may attend. After lunch an exhibit of garden produce flowers and notebooks will be shown with prizes for the exhibit and for games and contests.
Des Moines AP reports the Iowa unemployment compensation commission disqualified 964 Maytag Newton plant workers from jobless benefits due to the ongoing labor dispute. Labor member Walter F. Scholes called the rulings mandatory under state law. Workers may file exceptions and have cases heard in individual hearings before a claim deputy or appeal tribunal.
United Cemetery Workers of America reports 265 of 300 cemetery employees on strike at Woodlawn, New York. Union chairman Frederick C. Ramstedt orders pickets at all gates and urges no molestation of funerals or burials while management says sufficient staff remains to dig graves.
Soviet air raids on Korea described as extensive and supported by artillery and infantry attacks. Exchange Telegraph quoted a Japanese war office report noting forty planes bombed Chang kufeng and Shatsaoping with one aircraft shot down.
Maj. Gen. Yasu yuki Nishiyama, 85, decorated for gallantry at Port Arthur in 1904-05, committed ceremonial death by his own action to allow his retirement pay to be used for prosecution of undeclared wars with China and Soviet Russia, reported from Tokyo.
Real estate transfers recorded in 1938 include Nina R Treichler and husband to A Raymond and Dora E Swein with joint tenancy and full title rights, affecting lot 10 block 5 Grande Avenue Place. Ruth Rydberg as admin of John M Harcourt estate to A R Swemn admin, lot 10 block 5 Grande Avenue Place. Elbert J Sullivan and wife to James Lannan with conveyance of lots 7 8 and portion of block 6 Saxby Add Mt Vernon Clinton Co. Values cited as 1 dollar and consideration.
A Stuttgart newspaper says storks are dying out in Germany due to modern civilization. Noise from urban life high tension wires and swamp drainage are blamed for the decline of stork populations in German chimney pots.
A .32 caliber revolver found with H I Schneider’s body in Marion is under investigation to determine its seller and origin after officials ruled the death a self-inflicted wound. Autopsy planned to locate the bullet while Linn county deputies review firearms history and sources.
Readable church notices list times and leaders for Baptist Catholic Christian Congregational Free Methodist Methodist Episcopal Presbyterian Luther an Seventh Day Church of God and Prairie Chapel services. Topics include sermons mornings evenings and Sunday schools with names of pastors and officers.
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