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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1934
Page
6
Traders clear surplus stock at Chicago yards amid ongoing strike pressures. Cattle, hogs, and sheep faced varied demand with prices uneven while regional reports show some steadiness in feeds, with notable activity from Pittsburgh and Buffalo markets.
A scanned Cedar Rapids page lists wholesale prices for fruits vegetables and staples, including oranges lemons cabbages and bananas, plus livestock items like calves horses hides and wool. Shown are unit prices and brief product notes amid garbled OCR text.
Chicago traders focused on corn as official and private forecasts warned of crop damage from drought and heat. Government and private reports fed a bull market with near term corn up about two cents and wheat, oats, and barley following the trend amid heavy spot buying and strong cash demand.
New York AP reports a cautious session with many stocks advancing modestly early, then facing more offerings that pulled prices down later. Major names such as Bethlehem Steel, American Smelting, Du Pont, and General Motors moved around, while Union Pacific and Pennsylvania dipped, and cotton and grains showed gains as buyers steadied.
Market notes show hogs finishing five cents higher as dairy prices and bids fluctuate. Cattle and sheep sections report steady to selective demand with price ranges for various grades, while retail pork and calf entries reflect quality and condition based pricing.
Federal funds will support a campaign to eradicate Bang disease in cattle. Iowa farmers would be invited to join with voluntary participation, then continue brood testing under accredited programs. Officials anticipate national to state coordination and voluntary owner involvement.
Reports from Little America Antarctica say a tractor party failed to reach Rear Admiral Byrd 123 miles south of the base due to blizzards and ice crevasses. Byrd remains in a 12 by 8 foot shack awaiting rescue as dog teams may attempt a final overland trek to his shelter.
Robert Coleman of Des Moines won a free trip to New York City as a guest of Babe Ruth and Quaker Oats after submitting a winning limerick in the Babe Ruth Baseball club contest advertised in The Cedar Rapids Sunday Gazette. His father, not a clerk, will accompany him to New York from the Des Moines Railway Express office.
In Vienna Mere Aline Dollfuss fainted after being told of the assassination of her husband Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss. She and her children were guests of Premier Mussolini and his wife for several days, with news relayed by a Austrian official to spare her during a holiday visit.
Vienna reports Chancellor Dollfuss bled to death after being shot in the neck and shoulder by Nazis who denied a physician and priest. Commissar Adams says Dollfuss died while pleading for his family and a priest, as security chief Emil Fey and others were captured.
Francois Coty internationally known perfume maker and journalist died Wednesday night in Paris from pulmonary congestion. Survived by son Roland Coty and daughter Mme Lauren and her husband. Former Ajaccio mayor and Corsican senator Joseph Francois Spoturno known as Coty was born in Ajaccio in 1874 and led a major cosmetics firm bearing his name.
Iowa City plans a new fall course for juniors and seniors in the school of education. Prof Moses Jung will teach a marriage course analyzing economic social physical and psychological factors affecting successful marriage. The program will involve the colleges of medicine home economics psychology and child welfare for a multidisciplinary approach.
Strong winds over Lake Seneca wash ashore hundreds of sawbellies along the lakefront. Captain P B Palmer cites severe storms as the cause, noting a past blight of similar fish kills and the resulting odor that forced temporary closures of nearby cottages and camps.
Porterville report notes a unique cat named Jake at a citrus packing plant demanding grapefruit for breakfast each morning. Buckley, the plant manager, cites the cat as a local distinction for Porterside. A second tale recalls a grandmother cat adopting her daughter’s two kittens after the mother refused care.
Vatican dispatch notes Cardinal Lephere will participate in the Maran congress to be held in Portland from August 4 to 12. The event gathers church officials for a series of religious observances and discussions.
Mrs. Re Leidigh hosted the Grace H Starr division of the Woman's Missionary society at 1205 Tenth street with a lesson on Iowa missionary history. The Marion band will give an eighth concert Thursday at 8 p.m. in the city park featuring multiple classical pieces and marches. Several local families and guests, including Mr and Mrs George Schrimper, returned from a visit in Rockford Illinois. Sumner Jordan remains in critical condition after an auto crash while Leonard Taylor shows improvement after heat exhaustion. A birthday and family events are noted along with a Legion picnic planned for Saturday on South Eleventh street.
Vienna reports highlight Engelbert Dollfuss as a pint sized staunch foe of German Nazism. He dissolved parliament, ruled dictatorially, faced social and Nazi attacks, and remained a devout Catholic family man with two children.
Balchen the polar aviator prepares to sail for Australia with the expedition plane Polar Star to renew Antarctic exploration. Lincoln Ellsworth, expedition leader, already sailed for Honolulu ten days ago.
W J Stickney and Lee Peterson, both of Marion, were held at the county jail on a warrant charging fraud on a hotel keeper. Sheriff Petrus issued the warrant at the request of Sheriff Wilson of Clarion. A letter with the warrant alleges they owe a board bill at Goldfield.
Robert Scott a 32 year old inmate from Cornwall Ontario Canada at the Anamosa state reformatory since 1930 was returned to Chicago from Cedar Rapids by federal immigration officer R N Davis for deportation to Canada Scott was moved from Anamosa to Cedar Rapids by Sheriff Roy Radebaugh and Avis.
Three inmates escaped from the Lima state hospital for the criminally insane after overpowering a guard with a fake pistol. The fugitives are Fred Smith 59 Napoleon Ohio leader, Fred Hunter 38 Youngstown Ohio, and Lawrence Steiner 35 Lima. They fled in a car as a posse led by Sheriff Don Farber and state patrolmen began the manhunt.
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