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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1937
Page
3
Chicago AP reports livestock prices slipped again amid reduced meat demand from floods and a motor strike. Cattle and hog markets fell this week with wholesale meat prices easing. hog top price held at 10.30 while steers and lambs showed notable declines. Receipts approached 9,000 sheep with fat lambs steady to lower and sows mostly unchanged.
In a quiet selective session in New York on Wednesday, steel and specialty issues led gains as several names advanced about a point. The market saw a mixed outlook with midwest losses and a softer labor picture keeping many traders on the sidelines. Transfers ran about 1.9 million shares with bonds improving and commodities uneven. Upward movers included U S Steel Bethlehem Vanadium Nash Kelvinator Yellow Truck Santa Fe N Y Central Southern Pacific Great Northern American Encaustic Pink Mount Montgomery Ward Penn Dixie Westinghouse Boeing and more. Downturns included General Motors Chrysler Douglas United Aircraft Du Pont and others.
U S Department of Agriculture reports receipts hogs 21000 with prices near Tuesday's average and steady to 10 cents lower in parts. Cattle receipts 11000 with light feeders and yearlings steady to lower, prime heavy heifers at 12.00, bulls weaker. Sheep receipts 11000 with lamb sales slow but steady, native and western lambs bid around 10.35 to 10.50, ewes 5.00 to 6.00 locally.
USDA cattle receipts 2 600 at St Paul South Park area show steers and stockers slumping about 25 cents. Heifers mostly 6 00 to 6 50 with good heavies above 11 00. Bulls steady to 25 cents lower. hogs receipts 7 500 with weights around.
Hogs remained unchanged in Waterloo Ottumwa and Mason City with prices steady across markets according to Associated Press notes.
Hogs steady in Austin Minnesota with good to choice 180-200 lb hogs at 9.30 to 9.60 dollars. 200-290 lb hogs bring 9.50 to 9.86 dollars, 290-325 lb at 9.40 to 9.70, 325-350 lb at 9.30 to 9.60, and packing sows 275-550 lb from 8.80 to 9.50 dollars.
U S Department of Agriculture shows combined hog receipts at 22 yards and 9 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours to 8 am Wednesday at 16 400 head versus 20 600 a week earlier and 30 600 a year ago. Opened steady to lower with weak undertone as loading slows. Prices listed for varying weights from 140 pounds to 550 pounds range from 7 55 to 9 20 per hundredweight.
U S Department of Agriculture cattle receipts total 3 506 with calves 200 and fat cattle uneventful. Hogs receipts 8 500 with most $9 25 to $9 75 and sows around $9 40. sheep receipts 4 000 with no early fat lamb action and prices drifting lower. feeders and stockers show mixed results across classes.
Receipts: cattle 5,000 calves 500 steady to 25c down plus cows and bulls mixed. Steers around 14.00, heifers 7.00 to 11.00, cows 5.75 to 6.75, cutters 3.50 to 24.50, bulls 5.75 to 6.50, top dealers 11.00. Sheep 8,500 lambs 25c lower with best above 10.35. Hogs 6,000 steady to 25c off. top 9.90 for 190-200 lb. cattlemen noting varied grade prices.
Persistent liquidation pushed wheat futures down more than a cent as May contracts settled 11% to 17 cents lower. Local selling paralleled declines in Liverpool and Winnipeg while buying power stayed light. Corn and oats also fell, with old and new corn dropping and oats sliding despite some milling demand locally.
Chicago cash provisions show no sales for cash wheat with mixed corn and various yellow and white corn prices listed. Other grains include oats, rye, soybeans, barley, timothy seed, clover seed, and lard with price ranges and delivery notes. Minneapolis receipts and wheat prices show declines with several classifications and protein content noted alongside oats and other grain figures.
Hog prices on the local market drift lower with all grades down 5 cents. The top price falls to 9.70 as other local markets hold steady.
Market notes show calf buyers seeking 140 to 190 pounds and lambs at 70 to 80 pounds. Cattle prices list choice steers over 1,000 pounds at 11.00 to 12.50, medium to good 1,100 pounds and up at 9.50 to 9.50, yearling steers 900 to 1,000 pounds at 11.00 to 12.00, and cows and bulls priced from 4.25 to 6.00 with dry lot cows at 5.00 to 6.00.
Grain prices show wheat at 1.21 to 1.26 per unit, oats 0.49 to 0.53, rye 0.80 to 0.90, barley 0.90 to 1.10, corn ear 0.97 to 1.04, shelled yellow prices 1.12 to 1.10. Livestock and produce quotes cover hay straw hens springs stags cocks with varying weights and prices, wholesale fruits vegetables and hides with assorted values. Includes oranges lemons potatoes bananas lettuce celery cabbage onions apples sweet potatoes and beef hides calf kip horse prices, with notes on manes tails and pony glue hides.
The AP reports steady demand in various currencies with quotes for Great Britain at 490 1-16, France 4.66, Italy 5.2642, Belgium 16.852, Germany 40.23, Holland 54.76, Norway 24.63, Sweden 7.27, Denmark 21.88, Switzerland 22.86, Spain unquoted, Portugal 4.47, Greece .902, Poland 18.96, Czechoslovakia 3.49, Yugoslavia 2.34, Hungary 19.80, Romania .75, Argentina 32.67, Brazil 8.80, Tokio 28.58, Shanghai 29.93, Hongkong 30.65, Mexico City 27.80, with Montreal in New York 99.9334 and New York in Montreal 100.0614. I-Nominal.
CHICAGO AP Live poultry receipts 39 trucks with various prices for hens young birds and turkeys. Butter receipts 6 355 steady. Eggs receipts 7 536 unsettled with local extra firsts and cars. Potatoes receipts 64 on track with mixed U S and regional prices and weak western stock. Prices shown for different weights and varieties.
Chicago futures report shows butter standards for January at 3134c February at 315cc and March at 31% ec. Egg futures list refrigerator standards January 17%2c October 24%ec and fresh graded firsts January 22%2c February 225sc. Potato futures quote Idaho russets January at $3.22 March No 1 at $3.78 and March grade A at $3.48.
New York AP farmers market price notes show eggs receipts 1,006 with mixed colors firsts 23 4c, refrigerator firsts 19 21c, seconds 18 2c. Butter receipts 8,226 with creamery higher. Cheese receipts 89 206 firm. Poultry steady to firm by freight with chickens 19c and colored fowls 20 42c. other freight prices unchanged.
US Department of Agriculture notes scattered sales in Boston for territory wool. French combing fine territory wool—graded and original bag lots—sell around $1.05 to $1.12 per scoured unit, with secured and average runs cited. Sugar futures in New York move narrowly with May No 4 at $1.17% and Sept at $1.20% higher, refined sugar steady at $5.08.
U S government obligations firmed mid day with 2s and 2 3/4s at fair advances while 3s of 1946 eased. Banks stepped in after a postponement of Fed action on excess reserves as corporate loans generally rose with marginal gains for American Water Works Santa Fe St Paul Hiram Walker International Telephone Illinois Central. Youngstown Sheet and Tube advanced about a point while Loews Missouri Pacific and Erie slipped. Fractional yields fluctuated with South American issues only modestly higher in an otherwise quiet foreign sector.
The New York AP bulletin lists U S bonds closing values including Treasury 4 5s at 120 10, Treasury 4s at 114 12, Treasury 3s at 107 70, and 3 47s at 109 12 with various parities and maturities. Additional notes show 3s 46 49 at 108 70 and 3s 51 55 cited.
Mr and Mrs Charles E Rob 1759 B avenue NE learn at 215 pm Wednesday their daughter Mrs Dwight Mound and family are safe in Huntington West Virginia Their daughter is the former Geraldine Roberts Water surrounds the Mound residence on three sides and in the basement but they expect normal conditions in about twelve days They have ample food and uninterrupted milk supply boiled 50 quarts of water Tuesday to drink Downtown Huntington remains under water.
Miss Eutena Blayney of 1210 Fourth Avenue SE suffered a fractured neck in an automobile crash near Waterloo on December 20. She has been moved from Waterloo hospital to her sister Mrs Verne E Henton’s home at 1739 D Avenue NE where her condition slowly improves and visitors are not yet admitted. Her body was paralyzed at the time, with gradual movement in extremities noted recently including hands arms and a right foot and knee.
Townsend club No 3 will meet Friday at 8 p.m. instead of Thursday evening as previously scheduled.
The Kamera Klique will meet at 7 30 tonight in the playground office at the city hall. Jack Steele and Nevin Nichols will lead the discussion.
Des Moines hosted a Wednesday session as Mayor Frank K. Hahn joined the legislative committee of the Iowa League of Municipalities to discuss local government issues.
The Rt. Rev. Monsignor John M. Molloy, pastor of Immaculate Conception Church, will speak to the Waltonians at their Thursday noon luncheon meeting.
Raymond Coward will speak at 9 45 tonight on a local radio station for the Presidents birth day ball. The 8 15 to 8 30 period will carry the Red Cross flood relief fund appeal.
Leonard Boedeker and Joe Bisek were arrested at 3 15 p m Tuesday by special agent Jack Monahan of the Milwaukee railroad. They were caught on a coal car in the Milwaukee yards while throwing off coal and are held in the city jail pending charges in justice court.
The case against Ruth Gibson of Anamosa 36, charged with false uttering of a check, was continued in Justice H. R. Churchill's court to Feb. 5. She was arrested in January on a Star Jewelry complaint alleging she bought a $12.50 clock before Christmas, gave a $15 check, received change, and did not call for the clock, with the check later declared not good.
Ellsworth Palmer of the American Automobile Association outlined the association’s development and services at the Kiwanis club gathering held Wednesday noon in the Montrose hotel. Immediate past president A. T. Pleune reviewed club activities during the session.
Mrs Alexandra Kreutzberger, representative of Carl von Ossietzky, collected the 37000 dollar Nobel peace prize for the invalid German pacifist. The entire sum was transferred to a German banking account after her credentials were verified by the Norwegian embassy in Berlin.
Ashbury Park New Jersey In an ins wire the general council of the fur workers union of the United States and Canada said on Wednesday that all new agreements with manufacturers would require union labels on all skins.
AP report from Minneapolis outlines flour prices for carload lots per barrel in 98 pound sacks. Family patents steady at 7.50 to 7.50, standard patents 5 cents lower, shipments totaling 18,339. Pure brands quoted at 34.00, standard middlings 33.50 to 34.00.
Marion branch reports 363 dollars and 40 cents raised of a 500 dollar quota by 10 30 a m with donors including Mrs A R Hutton Emerson school teachers Marion fire department and many others. Funeral services for Mrs Elizabeth Troxel Kline held in Yocom chapel with Rev Irving Wade officiating and Oak Shade cemetery burial. Out of town relatives listed.
The W C T U meeting at Mrs George Whitney home focused on Mrs Lillian Stevens temperance work. Mrs A E Blinks led devotion and read about the Stevens fund as the union voted a contribution of one dollar. Emma Kline spoke on Women in Congress and Minnie Whitcomb read about Izora Scott. Elda Kemp outlined plans for February state drive for the Frances Willard centenary fund.
Mrs. Mary Shook, after five weeks of treatment at St. Luke's hospital, is back home to friends at 868 Fifth Avenue.
Trojan Lodge No. 548 of the A F and A M will meet Friday at 7 30 p m in a special session to perform work in the first degree.
Mrs C C Beall will host the Friendly Neighbors club Thursday at 2 p m. The event welcomes members and other guests to a afternoon gathering.
Elmer Cherry will enter the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City for treatment on Thursday. The move follows prior medical advice and aims to address his health condition with university medical staff supervising the care.
I A Knyazeff testified at the Trotzky ist terrorism trial that Japan directed railway sabotage in Soviet Union. He claimed to have organized 3,500 rail accidents in 1934 and 1935, killing hundreds, with a Japanese director codenamed Mister X later named Hiroshima.
About 100 residents from Prairie chapel and Marion joined a farewell surprise for Mr. and Mrs. Gene Isham the retiring superintendent and matron at the county home. A picnic supper followed a program featuring accordion selections Marguerite Michel readings by Mrs. Irvin Scott music by local musicians a hunting talk by Mrs. H N Strader and readings by Wayne Carpenter Carl Michel and others Clyde Scott presented a radio to the couple. The Ishams plan to leave the first week in February for a trip south.
The Cedar Rapids Red Cross urges interested adults to enroll in a first aid training program at the federal building February 1 through 12. instruction is funded by the chapter. Instructors are also needed in Marion. Classes run 7 to 10 nightly except weekends in the Cedar Rapids post office basement. Participants must be 20 or older and will be authorized to teach Boy scouts, schoolchildren, and public groups after completion.
Mrs Earl Miller gave a talk on Ernest Sutherland Bates work at a Tuesday Book club meeting hosted by Mrs A A Hardin. A 1 o'clock luncheon was served to seven attendees before the program.
The committee sponsoring a benefit card party on February 9 will meet at Mrs J J Reards home Thursday at 2 p.m. to finalize plans.
Mr and Mrs Jerry Akers Jr of near Central City attended the Jerry Akers family reunion held Sunday at Central City with relatives gathering for the event.
Mrs. G. L. Martin hosted a Tuesday dinner for her son Harold in celebration of his birthday. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Richardson, Miss Lois Richardson, Miss Mildred Heald of Cedar Rapids, and Bill Campbell of Marion.
Ed M. Taylor traveled from Hanover New Mexico following the death of his son-in-law Dr. P. E. Kyllo. The trip was prompted by the family bereavement.
The Progressive A. L. and club donated a quilt to support flood victims. The item will be sent through the local Red Cross branch for distribution.
Mrs H L Shekelton and her daughter Nancy and son Robert moved Wednesday to 1070 Eighth Avenue from Cedar Rapids in a family relocation noted in local society notices.
Chapter C. S. and P. E. O. voted Tuesday to give ten dollars to the Red Cross flood relief fund at Mrs. Lee Fitzgerald's home. Mrs. W. S. Campbell spoke about the P. E. O. educational and loan fund and Cottey College.
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Tokyo faces possible official protest as prosecutors seek to tie Japan to the confessed sabotage and assassination plots in the Moscow trial. Government spokesman M. Gaimushu said officials would consider the matter.
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