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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1932
Page
18
Hog prices rise with Chicago at 4.85 and receipts show 16 000 hogs and 7 000 cattle. Cattle and sheep receipts firm while hogs lead gains with lighter loads pushing higher. beef and feeder figures mixed with sacks and loads showing varied gains and declines across weights.
Chicago reports erratic trading in wheat and corn on the board of trade Tuesday. Wheat rose about two cents from a late dip while corn and oats stayed steady to slightly lower, and rye weakened with July under liquidation. Provisions held firm with hogs advancing, while Liverpool fluctuated and cash prices were unchanged.
Hog prices rise nationwide with Chicago hitting 4.85 as light receipts and strong demand push values higher. Cleveland and East markets show mixed gains while cattle and sheep trends lag. totals indicate active regional trading with Chicago and East St. Louis among with higher quotes and steady to strong tendencies.
Chicago livestock prices show steady to strong trends across cattle and hogs with ranges for different weight classes. Hog prices for 150-170 lbs around 34.50 to 34.50 per hundred, while cattle receipts reach about 5,000 with cattle and vealers showing gains in top grades and mixed declines in lighter classes.
U.S. livestock market notes from St Paul and Sioux City show fed cattle steady to higher with grassy stock mixed and weaker, beef cows and cutters uneven, calves and stockers varied. Sheep receipts are light with slaughter lamb bids down around 25 cents, vealers steady, and heifers firmer in some lots.
Omaha market reports hogs at top 160 lb around 4.10 to 4.35 per cwt with sows to 0ctoa n and feeders 3.50 to 3.85. cattle and bulls mixed with weighty steers around 7.60 to 8.00. cows and heifers in the 2.60 to 5.50 range. Sheep receipts 4,500 with lambs 5.50 to steady changes and feeders down from prior levels.
East St Louis market notes active cattle and hog sales with varied gains and declines. Hog receipts steady to higher with mixed weight ranges. cattle and calves show strength in native and western steers while cows and bulls trend lower or steady. sheep receipts weak with lambs down and ewes easing.
Combined hog receipts at 21 yards and 7 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ended 8 am Tuesday totaled 9 100, down from 10 800 last week and 11 500 a year ago. Prices ranged with weights and grades and trading active at advances though marketing continued.
Kansas City AP reports USDA livestock receipts and price ranges. Hog receipts show 170 to 350 pounds with various bids up to 4.50 per cwt and sow values 3.00 to 3.60. Cattle receipts total around 1 100 with feeders and vealers down modestly. fed steers to 7.85 with mixed weights and wide price spreads. Sheep and lambs receipts near 6 000 with lambs 5.50 to 5.60 for good and choice. ewes and wethers steady to lower on light demand.
The report lists hog price ranges by weight for Iowa cities including Des Moines and Waterloo. Prices vary by weight class from light to heavy hogs and packers, with cents per pound differing by size and quality.
U S Department figures show hog receipts near 4,000 with prices 20 to 25 cents higher than yesterday, some heavies up to 4.45. Barrows and gilts at 169 to 259 pounds 4.30, 270 to 300 pounds 4.10 to 4.25. sows up about 10 cents to 2.85. Cattle receipts about 1,200 with fed steers and yearlings mostly 25 cents higher. top 1,220 pound steers 7.90, 1,110 pound averages 7.85. other fed cattle 6.85 to 7.50. grass cattle 4.25 to 5.85. best heifers 6.20, dealers 5.50. Continuous: early sales saw some 25 cent declines, top 5.50, bulk not stated.
A miscellaneous market note reports flour shipments with prices for pure bran and standard middlings at 10 each and a Toledo seed market update. Hay prices in Toledo are steady at 80 cents per cwt with receipts of six cars reported.
Foreign exchange closes steady as demands keep quotes tight. Notable rates show Britain at 36044, France 3.93, Italy 11.30, Czechoslovakia 66. notations for Yugoslavia 14.00, Argentina 25.79, Brazil 7.59, Tokyo 26.94, Shanghai 25.00, Montreal 87.75, and Mexico City silver peso at nominal rate.
Receipts record 52 cars of wheat and assorted durum and amber durum grades with varied percentages and month codes. Prices show No 1 northern at 66 and No 4 durum at 58.5 with July and September figures alongside regional grain identifiers.
Hog prices on the local market continue to rise with prime grades jumping 20 cents to a top of 3.90. The market has shown steady gains with Good packers adding 15 cents, extending an overall 1.35 increase.
The Cedar Rapids page lists miscellaneous market details with fruit and vegetable pricing. California Valencias sell for $3.50 and grapefruit $4.50, with potatoes priced at a discount or wholesale rate and other items noted in short price lines.
A tentative trading day in New York saw gains at open and midday, then a drop as Coca Cola tumbled three points and Santa Fe slid over two to multi decade lows. Allied Chemical paid a $1.50 dividend while no action on Coca Cola or Santa Fe dividends weighed on sentiment.
Bendix and counterpart assets show modest gains as Chicago trading closes with mixed results. Shifts in industrials and transportation weigh on overall index while some technology names edge higher.
The New York bond market showed a moderately steadier tone Tuesday as government securities again supported price levels. Corporate issues remained dull with mixed results in rail earnings and oil shares, while weekly earnings figures ahead influenced some depreciation in certain segments.
A fragmented AP wire summary reports unclear figures from a Liberty bond drive. Despite a noisy transmission, analysts note uncertainty over total subscriptions and mention treasury pressures. No definitive totals or official tallies are discernible in the available text.
More than 300 unemployed men met in the Memorial building auditorium to discuss self help. E J Hawk urged organization into a cooperative scheme while avoiding violence. Mayor Stepanek warned against regular meetings but pledged job opportunities starting July 1 as city projects loom. The group aims to provide work for themselves and relieve taxpayers.
Moscow reports a new international link between Leningrad and Berlin to run this summer, expanding mail and passenger service. The plan includes about a dozen new routes joining major industrial and agricultural centers, raising total Soviet air mileage from 26 782 to 33 000 miles by end of 1932, with night flying to Moscow Sverdlovsk Rostov-on-Don this year.
The governing committee of the New York Stock Exchange voted to close on Saturday July 2 creating a three day Independence Day holiday period. The decision affects trading and market operations for that weekend.
The landlord demands payment of arrears while the author claims funds will arrive after completing a forthcoming novel. He notes he will begin work once a suitable subject and inspiration are found, and once money due from a fisher is received.
New York markets show steady potato prices from Maine and Jersey, with tenders for vegetables and fruits including onions, mangos, and apples not listed. Lard and dressed poultry hold firm while live poultry conditions improve. milk and eggs show varied receipts and prices amid a quiet trading day.
AP dispatch from Chicago notes alive poultry receipts totaling 51 trucks with broilers at 16c and 4c ranges for others, Fosters and other firms listing spring ducks and turkeys with varied cents per pound. Extra firsts and current prices show steady to moderate movement with storage receipts around 13c and 4c for fresh offerings.
Fragmentary notice references refrigerator standards with dates October and July and November. No clear event, entities, or outcome is readable.
Fire Inspector Clarence Urban said his investigation into the Sunday blast that wrecked three Omaha buildings was interfered with and awaited a Chicago inspector to support his claim the fire was incendiary. Urban suggested an outsider would back his gasoline origin theory, while W. H. Campen of the Omaha testing laboratories favored a leaking gas explanation.
Miss Mary Connery sister of Mrs. George Dorsey of 336 Seventeenth Street SE died in Murdo South Dakota as reported Tuesday. Born in Anamosa she lived there until eighteen years ago and funeral services are planned in Anamosa Thursday morning.
R. C. Cushman, formerly of Cedar Rapids, died at his Ames home Monday at 1 15 p m after a long illness. He had lived in Cedar Rapids many years and moved to Ames about two years ago. He worked for Harper and McIntire while in Ames. Survived by his widow two children Harold at home and Mrs Fern Dale of St Joseph Missouri.
Funeral services for George Sejnoha will be held at the Lesinger-Polansky chapel at 2 p.m. Wednesday conducted by Rev. F. D. Chada. Burial will follow in the Bohemian National cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.
The funeral for Samuel L Barcus will be held at the Janeba and Brosh chapel at 10 a.m. Wednesday with the Rev. F. H. Ward officiating. Burial will follow in Oak Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel Tuesday evening.
In Anamosa Judge F O Ellison denied a motion for an immediate retrial for George E Huckins in a fals pretenses case. Huckins remains jailed while two trials, arising from alleged deceitful dealings in a mythical second cigar business, await the September term. The case stems from a 1929 arrest in Excelsior Springs and a Linn County conviction later appealed.
Ten Americans including five adults and five children, missionaries and their offspring, were kidnapped by bandits tied to communist forces near Kikungshan in southern Henan. Chinese troops arrived to prevent further abductions. Victims include D W Vikner and wife from Mead Nebraska and their three children, Erik Sovik and sons from Minneapolis, and A E Nyhus and wife from Fertile Iowa with missions tied to Lutheran groups.
William Walter Scott 77 died suddenly of a heart attack at the dinner table. Born June 2, 1855 in Mount Vernon Ohio he moved with his family to Iowa around 1872 and lived near Marion. He married Lizzie Lucore in 1886 and they had three children. He is survived by his widow a son a daughter and a brother Charles M. Scott of Orange California. Funeral Wednesday at 2 pm in Yocom chapel with burial at Oak Shade cemetery.
About twenty Iowa City Country club members will travel to Marion for a golf match and bridge party on Thursday. Marion golfers should be on grounds by 9 a.m. Luncheon at noon. Reservations due by Wednesday noon with Mrs. Andrew P. Munsen or Mrs. Gilbert Gordon of Marion or Mrs. Paul Fry of Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Munsen leads the bridge games. a large crowd is expected. Marion women attending should bring table service for two.
Mrs L E Howell conducts a beginners class of 66 with 245 total beginners taught in three weeks at the American Legion pool. Lifeguard Charles Daniels offers swimming diving and life saving instruction with 121 lessons in week one 192 in week two and 187 in week three. No fee beyond pool admission.
Miss Ramona Iliff spent several days at the home of Miss Pauline Keenan and has now returned to her residence in Cedar Rapids.
Paris reports a sustained drop in France’s birth rate prompting study by population experts. Proposals to boost families include better housing, higher taxes on bachelors and spinsters aged 25 to 60, pensions for parents, and inheritance-law changes. The birth rate council notes 1868 had 1,034,000 births, 1930 had 748,000 with 55,000 foreigners. current marriages average 2.2 births, with three needed to prevent population decline.
The Madras presidency and Hyderabad plan the Tungabadra project to irrigate over a million acres of barren land. The proposed scheme, claimed as the world’s most ambitious, would cost about 88.8 million dollars, surpassing the Sukkar barrage, and aims to end famines in a long drought-prone region.
Rome reports Italy will colonize seized Cirenaica lands in Libya to absorb surplus population. A $2,500,000 corporation gains exclusive rights under a government bureau to irrigate and improve the land, selling it to peasants at two cents an acre.
In Council Grove Kansas the noon siren fire alarm test drew complaints as dogs throughout the town raised a loud protest. City officials intended the test to warn fires and perhaps pedestrians but the canine chorus dominated the scene.
Birth announcements list Leanne Elizabeth on June 22 to Elmer and wife at 121 Twenty-fourth Street SE. A daughter born June 26 to B N Shean at Luke’s Hospital. A birth for Kyh family in Tipton at St Luke’s Hospital. A son born June 25 to Hesenius at Mercy Hospital. A son born June 26 to Schietfelt at Mercy Hospital. A daughter born June 26 to Staskl family at Mercy Hospital in Mount Vernon.
A Denver theater features a tree with a visible ee cee sign while a dog observer stands by, peering into nearby windows. Local authorities note unusual, unclear signs amid the curious scene.
William Milner returns from Hibbing Minnesota after visiting his brother Henry Milner.
Linn chapter No. 900 of the Order of DeMolay held a dance on Monday for its members and friends in the Mason Temple venue.
The choir of the Baptist church will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the church for a rehearsal.
Plans are completed for a water carnival featuring races and other sports at the American Legion swimming pool Saturday at 2 p.m. The event mirrors a previous program held two weeks ago. Boys and girls should register at the pool office for the events.
Mrs H H Thunderst and her children have returned home after visiting relatives friends and other points. They were away for two weeks.
Robert Foreman returned from Clay Center Kansas where he attended the golden wedding celebration of his parents.
An error led to the omission of Mrs. Hanneh Carlberg and her daughter Alice and son Arnold from the guest list for Sunday night’s party honoring Paul Hertensen at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Anderson.
Members of the Bethany circle of the Methodist church will picnic Wednesday at 6 30 p m in Thomas park. They are asked to bring sandwiches one covered dish and table service.
All members of the American Legion Auxiliary are asked to meet Wednesday at 2 30 p m in Legion hall for a short business meeting.
The city will hold a special council meeting Friday at 7 30 p m in the library auditorium. Those with bills to present should deliver them to the city clerk by Friday noon or they will be delayed to the August meeting.
Mr and Mrs Charles Major returned to their home in Walnut, Illinois after spending a weekend with the Gilbert Gordon household.
The Misses Lorraine and Darlene Keenan return to Marion after a week with Mr and Mrs D C Mann in Paralta. Phil Bradley of Sigfred clothing leaves for a two week vacation joined by Mrs Bradley visiting her mother near Independence. they plan to visit Mrs Lulu Tordson at Reedsburg Wis.
The benefit baseball game set for Wednesday at Legion Park between the Marion Merchants and Cities Service team of Cedar Rapids has been postponed until next week.
Members of the Marion Merchants baseball team will meet Tuesday at 5 p.m. at Legion Park to discuss season plans and practice schedule.
Mr and Mrs Guy Reed and daughter Bonnie Beryl of near Independence spent Sunday evening with Mrs Reed's sister Mrs George McBride and her son Melvin west of Marion.
Traffic Officer Chester Williams made three speeding arrests fine set in the court of Mayor O. M. Carson. The offenders are H. M. Barber Cedar Rapids La Verne Fox Laurens and Gene Carsner Marion.
The Conference club of the Christian church met with president Verne Breed to finalize plans for the twelveth social scheduled a week from Friday in the church basement. An interesting program is being prepared.
The play The Great Awakening will be performed Thursday at 8 p.m. at the Baptist church by Calvary Baptist Church youth from Cedar Rapids. There is no admission fee but a silver offering will be taken. Written and directed by Mrs Mildred Montgomery of Cedar Rapids, it follows a wealthy society girl who learns true riches are friends and inner peace in a mountain setting with an invalid. Public invited.
Mr and Mrs Leon R Blinks entertained Monday evening at a picnic supper for Mrs and Mr John M Thompson. The Presbyterian church choir, once directed by Thompson, attended. Thompson works in government roles for Indian affairs with Pine Ridge SD and is visiting Cedar Rapids with family and friends.
The Laura Bailey Auxiliary of the Methodist church met Monday at Mrs M O Winter 860 North Thirteenth street with Mrs Effie Miller leading devotional and Miss Lillian Bleakly teaching from Christ Comes to the Village reviewing He Holds Us Responsible. Fifteen women received refreshments from a committee including Mrs Winter Mrs C E Drummond Mrs George Schrimper and Miss Sarah Gilmore Plans for a July picnic at Mrs Harry Snell's home were announced Mrs W C Sheets attended as a guest.
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