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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1933
Page
15
U S buyers push hog market higher amid relief purchases. Chicago receipts led five markets with strong demand and top prices around 360 dollars for choice hogs while other centers showed mixed activity and firm to higher bids.
Local Cedar Rapids listings show wholesale fruits vegetables and graded animal prices. Grain oats corn wheat soybeans meat poultry hidess and furs are priced with multiple weight classes and quality terms across categories.
Grain markets showed a reactionary tilt with wheat down about 2 cents, corn off over a cent, and oats lower as investors awaited signals from monetary factors. U S Steel and GM held near steady while several rail and chemical stocks declined. car loadings dropped for the Thanksgiving period, and farmers held corn for government loan, keeping cash markets quiet.
Grain movement furnished by J E Bennett and Co with W A Jump manager shows quotations across multiple stocks and commodities. The list includes Adams Express, Hudson Motors, Kennecott Copper, Armour, Mack Trucks, and many other company shares along with wheat receipts and market notes.
A noisy session in New York bond trading showed mixed results as traders weighed faint hints of easing against persistent inflation risks. Prices for Treasuries traded within narrow ranges while corporate notes edged higher on late selling pressure and cautious demand from funds.
Prime hogs push higher as prime grades gain 5 cents on Friday boosting top prices near 295. Market reports show strong packer demand with premiums paid across the prime segment, while feeder and good-packers activity remains steady amid mixed wholesale demand.
Chicago and Minneapolis market columns show oats wheat and corn values with scattered figures. The grain page mentions prices, futures, and regional trading activity, noting bid and ask levels and market mood.
Stocks held in a narrow range with overall steady tone as profits tempted speculators and improved business news offset a muted market reaction. Major issues like US Steel and Allied Chemical held near unchanged while American Telephone and United Aircraft showed firmness amid modest volume.
The Eastern Star Chapter of Sigourney elected officers Wednesday night with Mrs Hale Sizemore as Worthy matron and Frank Turner as associate patron. Also named were Mie Lon Pfaff as associate patron and Rood Miles as secretary, Mrs Millie Haffner as treasurer, and others in the various officers.
A birth notice records Mire dee born to Mr tl Mire dee pa bien lak at 1318 Third Street. The fragmentary text confirms a birth event with location details but lacks full parental naming.
The best steer raised by a farm boy earned $761 at the International Livestock exposition junior feeding contest sale in Chicago. James Padgett of Kellersville, Illinois, plans to use the money for college as his 18 year old prize steer Hope sold for a record 61 cents a pound, plus $200 in prizes for a total near $1,000.
Henry Becker, 34, of Norway, was listed improving at Mercy Hospital with a compound fracture of the left leg scalp lacerations a split nose and numerous bruises after being struck by a car Monday night as he crossed a street in Norway Omar Ferrell, a former resident nearby, drove the automobile involved in the crash.
Alfred B Steffens Jr., 33, shot himself Friday in a woman friend's apartment as she rushed for help to stop him. He was the son of the president of Indiana and Illinois Coal Co and a coal salesman. Recently divorced, he worked in Davenport and had just resigned from J K Dering Coal Mining Co in Chicago, saying he could not make money.
TORONTO AP Hearing on Martin J Insull extradition dispute was postponed until December 19 by Justice W H Wright in weekly chambers court. The motion seeks his discharge from custody as the latest legal move in the U S extradition fight.
Chicago dispatch reports Joseph Krall, a heavy prohibition era drinker, lost his stomach after Oct hospital admission. Surgeons at Cook County Hospital performed a delicate gastrectomy on Nov 2, replacing the stomach with a redirected tract. Krall says he feels no pain and has no appetite for smoking. Doctors warn he may develop a pet and stomach in the future.
San Jose officers await identification of leaders involved in a mob that attacked and kidnapped individuals. District Attorney announces possible prosecutions, while LA civil liberties attorney discusses potential witness cooperation and the search for two implicated parties.
In New Orleans, Huey P. Long testifies to the Senate stock market committee that Charles McCain of Chase National Bank ate most of a large breakfast, including eighteen oysters and a steak, then left before the bill. McCain denies full appetite, saying he barely ate and left due to other plans.
Mrs Rosa A Adams widow of Seymour S Adams died at 1014 A avenue NW after a long illness. Born Fremont Ohio Oct 22 1858 she lived in Cedar Rapids 32 years. Surviving Harper Harper Sutcliffe and others. Funeral later. Frank J Heil a former Cedar Rapids resident died in Los Angeles after arthritis and heart trouble. Mrs Bertha Morrison funeral set for Beatty chapel with Christian Science reader. Burial Linwood cemetery.
Funeral services for William B Wiley will be conducted in the Turner chapel at 2 p.m. Saturday with Rev. August Cramer officiating. Burial will follow in Linwood cemetery.
Clark S Adams 69 of 607 Fifteenth Street SE died at a local hospital at 1115 PM Thursday after a two week illness. He ran a barber shop at Tenth Avenue and Ninth Street. Survived by widow Erminne two sisters and four brothers. Masonic lodge member. Funeral in Barta chapel time to be announced.
Four Canadian coast guardsmen captured by the crew of the rum runner Kromhout have landed at St Pierre and Miquelon. The Stumble Inn pursued the Kromhout after a chase in rough seas and exchanged fire when the cutter was intercepted. Offshore drama ended with the guardsmen freed as the Kromhout sped away toward North Sydney, Nova Scotia.
New York AP reports a rise in heart disease deaths with 1497 per 190000 policyholders projected for 1933, based on fifty-one life insurers. All-cause mortality is expected to be favorable, aided by tuberculosis decline from 57.3 in 1932 to 54.8 this year, easing public health fears. Dr William Muhlberg of Union General Life Insurance cites improved resources and healthcare.
Clarence Click was convicted of the May kidnapping of Miss Mary McElroy, daughter of Kansas City’s city manager H F McElroy, and sentenced to eight years in prison. He is the third person convicted in the case, following Walter McGee who received the death penalty and George McGee who drew life imprisonment.
Frances Schildhauer, widow of Captain Edwin O Schildhauer, asked through lawyers for payment of $30,000 on his life insurance. The case was continued to December 22. The renowned bandmaster was found slain on a highway a year ago, with speculation of gang involvement but remembered as a refined musician.
In Sault Ste. Marie Michigan a Friday morning fire destroyed the Hiblen home killing two mothers and five children. The victims were Mrs. Erline Orr and her 18 month old daughter Constantine along with Mrs. Genevieve Hiblin and her children Genevieve 8 Katherine 6 Jerome 5 and Ernest Jr 2.
Dr Walter Dill Scott president of Northwestern University approves a merger plan between Northwestern and the University of Chicago. University of Chicago trustees pledge they will not use the merger to gain tax exemptions. Scott argues mergers will reduce higher education institutions by half without harming tax lists.
Speaker Rainey said Mrs Bolivar E Kemp winner of Louisiana's turbulent congressional race would be added to the House payroll once she files a regular certificate of election. He noted this would proceed regardless of any state plans for a second election.
Paris dispatch quotes Foreign Minister Joseph Paul Boncour asserting France will insist on the sanctity and inviolability of the League of Nations and its covenant. He rejects reports of weakening the league and vows France will stay faithful to its basic principles. Washington reports Roosevelt approves seven new industrial codes including furniture manufacturing, total codes in force now 150.
A Gazette offer promises a $25 reward for information leading to arrest and conviction of anyone using or answering want ads for fraudulent purposes. The notice appears amid local ads including auto dealers, barber college, cemetery wreaths, chicken pie dinner, and various businesses in Cedar Rapids.
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