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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1936
Page
10
Chicago livestock reports show New Year hog prices at the highest level in six years with traders noting strong to higher bids. Cattle and sheep receipts and prices are mixed, with hogs leading gains and several markets reporting firm or steady demand.
Local market update shows hog prices higher with top quotes around 9.15 per cwt and steady to higher grades. Corn prices also advance. beef and calf markets listed with various price ranges for steers cows yearlings heifers and bulls across quality tiers.
Grain and produce prices listed for Cedar Rapids including wheat at 45¢ per bushel, corn 75 lbs at 4l¢, No 4 yellow corn, soybeans at 0 472c, heavy hens 17c, leghorns 13c, ducks and geese quoted, wholesale fruits and vegetables with oranges grapefruits lemons potatoes pears apples and other produce priced, cured hides and horse hides offered with standard and extra selects.
New York bond review notes moderate shifts in early trading with few changes in east area issues. Southern Railway and New York Central issues show fractional movements while Italian bonds drift lower amid overall narrow price moves.
The report lists butter and creamery specifications with prices and standards, live poultry receipts and prices for Leghorn and White Rocks, dressed turkeys and pork products, potato prices by region including Idaho and Wisconsin, and Chicago and New York product futures. It notes unsettled markets, steady supplies, and varying demand across states.
Wheat futures advance amid Liverpool market strength with May trading near 1.02 early in the session. Corn and rye move higher on wheat optimism as receipts drop from heavy snow and traders absorb profit taking and daily offers.
The bulletin notes graded wool sales and prices for 638 and finer with averages around 10 short French combing, plus regional bids in Texas. It lists exchange rates from Great Britain to Switzerland and various currencies, then details U S Treasury bonds, sugar futures, and a Minneapolis flour market report with grain prices and shipment notes.
Buffalo police say natural gas caused an explosion that wrecked a ten family tenement killing five people. Six others were injured and buried for hours. Rosa Scoresone, three, was alive after being rescued. The dead include Joseph Lo Pres te and others of the Scoresone and Lo Pres te families.
Cleveland police recovered David Siegels stolen car but Siegel did not know whether to be tid or set. Officers found twenty seven parking tickets and said Siegel would have to pay one dirt for before he could have his car.
New York trading opened the year with profit taking in motors and aircrafts as investors shifted focus to steels rubbers and related ties. American Telephone rose over 3 points while US Rubber first preferred Union Pacific gained about 2. Major risers included U S Steel Bethlehem Goodyear and Boeing with notable declines in Chrysler General Motors and Douglas Aircraft. Transfers around 2.2 million shares. Wheat and cotton advanced. bonds firm. gold currencies weaker. mining dull amid a lower London silver price.
Ten thousand people knelt before the embalmed body of the Ecumenical Patriarch Photios II as he was laid to rest in a Baboukly monastery vault. He sat on a throne during the burial, wearing rich sacerdotal robes, a tiara, vestments and gems and holding a crosier in his left hand.
Paris reports Italia may seek help from King Leopold of Belgium as a mediator in the Italy Ethiopia crisis. Belgian leadership could quietly approach belligerents to craft a settlement, though Paris officials deem success unlikely without a decisive military maneuver. France and Britain maintain a naval air understanding and readiness in the Mediterranean.
Judge H C Ring of Cedar Rapids asked J W Kintzmeyer for assignment of an extra Linn county judge because of the large number of cases this term. A true information charging Alfred Gaskill with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated was filed by County Attorney G K Thompson. Bond was set at $500. A crossing flagman reported Gas kill stalled on a railroad crossing on Dec 15.
Sam Simmons 43 of 729 H Street SW pled not guilty in district court before Judge A B Clark on a single charge of illegal possession of liquor and was released on his own recognizance on state motion. A second charge from December 7 also awaits trial. the latest accusation stems from a liquor seizure at Simmons residence on Dee 31.
The will of John Kuda of Cedar Rapids who died December 17 was admitted to probate Thursday. Beneficiaries named are his wife Emma Kuda who is appointed executrix and his daughter Emilie Kuda. The will, dated July 12, 1933, governs the estate.
District court judge H C Ring authorized D W Bates as receiver of the Wapsie Valley State Bank in Central City to accept a $2,000 bid from WL Huesemeyer for the bank building and fixtures.
A traffic safety parade featuring exhibits on auto accident outcomes will travel through the business district at 12 noon Friday. Arrangements were made Thursday afternoon with the police department by Capt. H C Berry of the Phillips Petroleum company, who is touring the country in a special traffic safety cruiser to promote highway safety.
London report says F N Char rington aged 85, heir to a brewing fortune worth about 6 1/4 million dollars, renounced his share at age twenty and pursued temperance work. The News notes that farmers now use 26 percent of all trucks in operation across the United States.
Italian bombardment of a Swedish Red Cross ambulance unit near Dolo sparked protests in Stockholm and Geneva. Ethiopia claimed two Italian aviators were beheaded by Ethiopian troops while Sweden prepared to replace its Red Cross unit. The incident heightened debates over aerial attacks on medical units and the League of Nations possible action.
Dr Banner Howard spoke at the Lions club luncheon held at the Hotel Roosevelt on Thursday noon. The report notes planning and discussion around the Townsend plan in a city gathering.
Millard Ash, 18, of 1015 Ellis boulevard NW, suffered head bruises when a car carrying him collided with Homer H. White's vehicle at First avenue and Seventh street E. driven by E H Newell of rural route four. Police were notified Thursday.
A series of birth notices reports a son born Dec 27 to Mr and Mrs John G Neff of Mount Vernon at St Luke's hospital. A daughter born Jan 1 to Mr and Mrs Bert Puckett of 1001 Nineteenth Street SE at St Luke's hospital. A baby born Jan 2 at Mercy hospital to Mr and Mrs Frank Teply of 1227 Elizabeth Avenue SW.
ANN ARBOR Mich AP Dr Alexander G Ruthven president of the University of Michigan is hospitalized with a knee fracture after a fall on icy steps at his home Wednesday night He is expected to remain in University hospital for at least a week according to physicians
Special to The Gazette notes Fred J. Farnsworth recorded daily weather for over sixty years. He reports a thunderstorm on New Year’s Day 1876 that left roads nearly impassable. A similar storm hit on New Year’s Day 1936 with temperatures staying above freezing until late evening.
Marion Goodfellows report a total of 227.35 raised after Thursday morning checks, up 10.25 over last year. The list adds many local names and groups including Gas Office, Klatter Klub, Marion Shakespeare Club, and the Athenian club, with individual gifts noted.
Washington report outlines seven bills deemed must legislation for the new session. Items include soldiers bonus measures, continuation relief funding, a revised food and drug act with ad control, ship subsidies ending after March 1, a new neutrality act, NRA substitute widening FTC powers, and wage and hour rules for government contract bidders.
A Pennsylvania freight crew stopped a late Thursday train to rescue a Beagle trapped by a wire fence since Sunday as temperatures fell to 14 below zero. The dog was revived by a veterinarian in Cambridge and the crew planned to adopt it.
Miss Mary McMann woke to a hairy face at her dresser. She grabbed a rifle and killed the animal in her Orono bedroom. The monkey had escaped from the University of Maine laboratory.
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