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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1934
Page
6
Hog receipts in Chicago edged lower in a slow session with most grades down. Prices ranged around 43 to 49 per hundredweight, while heavy hogs and feeders showed varied moves. Cattle and lamb markets also reported steady to lower figures across multiple regions.
The signing of the gun exchange code by President Roosevelt did not affect grain trading as prices swung within a narrow range. Wheat rose modestly while corn and oats showed slight gains and market activity remained subdued amid auto workers strike talk and Dies silver measure passage.
Chicago cash grain quotes show No 1 hard wheat around 8 4 to 8 5 cents, No 2 yellow corn near 49 to 49 1/2 cents, with various No 4 and No 3 yellows noted. Minneapolis cash grain reports list cash wheat prices for No 2 northern about 81 1/4 cents, No 1 dark northern 14 protein, amber durum values, and No 3 yellow corn around 43 2 to 44 1/2 cents, plus oats and seed figures.
Market notes show unaltered sugar futures on Tuesday with refined granulated sugar remaining at 450 per unit. Traders focus on steady demand and limited supply signals keeping prices firm despite mixed global cues.
Sinclair Hog Market reports prime hogs and packers with price ranges across weights. Prime hogs 180 to 320 pounds priced from about 3.10 to 3.85 with premiums for quality. Calf market shows good to choice cattle at 3.00 to 3.19 per pound and sheep lambs listed with buck lambs and market notes.
Wall Street closed mixed as late trading lifted many shares including Du Pont Auburn Santa Fe General Motors U S Smelting and New York Central. Volume neared 1.75 million shares with some gains in motors steels rails and specialties while most issues drifted near the prior close amid wage dispute concerns and a cautious mood.
Funeral services for Jérenteis BR. Dad Mullin, proprietor of Cedar Rapids Boiler Works, will be at St Patrick's church Wednesday at 9. Reverend D J Lenihan to conduct. Burial at Mount Calvary Cemetery. Rosary at home Tuesday 9 p.m. Mullin, a Cedar Rapids resident for 44 years, died at his home at 412 Favenue NW at 9:40 a.m. Monday.
Justice George S. Lightner devoted to the needy was honored by Rev. J R McCullough at Turner's chapel Monday with over 500 attendees. The service highlighted his wealth of lasting friendships beyond material wealth. Members of the Odd Fellows and Foresters conducted graveside rites at Cedar cemetery. The same notice reports William Otto 48 a Rock Island railroad fireman died in a Manly hotel after a Cedar Rapids run. his home was Albert Lea Minnesota.
Illinois market notes show unsettled egg and potato receipts with heavy supplies and slow trading while butter and cheese hold. live poultry remains steady with various chicken and turkey prices reported. New York figures reflect easier eggs and mixed color grading, with butter and cheese largely unchanged.
New York bonds showed improved support in many secondary and prime corporate groups Tuesday after Monday’s downturn. German issues rallied forenoon after earlier slumps, while U S government bonds edged higher in limited cases amid overall irregular price movement.
Scottsbluff Nebraska AP reports a farmer shows a peg legged lamb at the A W Shipman farm. The lamb was born with a deformed leg and will receive a wooden replacement as it grows.
Marion lodge No. 6 A F and A M marked ninety years with a dinner for over 200 men at the Masonic temple. Worshipful Master Earl Welsher led the event with welcomes as Grand Master Lars Larson of Marshalltown reviewed the lodge’s changes over nine decades.
President Roosevelt proposes federal intervention to curb a strike with a walkout extending city to state level, sparing Ford plants. Michigan union leaders report broad strike votes from Pontiac Flint and Lansing and welcome government mediation as city officials urge conciliation to prevent bloodshed. The Detroit area awaits Washington talks with optimism over the possible settlement.
At Budd Manufacturing in Philadelphia only 11 of 6000 eligible workers voted during the first hours of a NRA supervised union election. Employers stopped participation after workers learned ballots required name and badge number, while about 300 had visited the polls.
The revised Rayburn stock exchange bill gains approval from the Federal Reserve Board and the Treasury. Chairman Rayburn of Texas announces the committee will begin consideration of the substitute bill. Governor Eugene Black and Deputy Secretary Tom Smith are set to testify before the committee.
Five year old Charles Hanes Jr son of Mrs Edith Hanes suffers a fractured right leg at 420 pm Monday after a fall beneath a heavy truck on Fifteenth street NE between First and A avenues Wilbur Jackson 1319 Second Ave SE takes him to St Luke s hospital where the fracture is set Jackson told police he halted and restarted the truck after noticing the boy slipped Walter Kramer of Marion reports his car struck a bicycle about ten minutes earlier in First Ave E near Nineteenth street The bicyclist left the scene unhurt and refused to identify himself
August Lange aged 72 a pioneer farmer died Monday at his home about a mile east of the Linn county home after a brief illness. Born in Lixsteadt Germany on March 27 1861 he came to the United States at age 14 with his sister and settled near Bloomington Illinois. He married Mary Cook February 8 1883 in Atlanta Georgia. Surviving are his wife six children two sisters and sixteen grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 30 at the Yocom chapel with burial in Springville. No flowers requested.
Exendine has been named head football coach at Oklahoma A and M College in Stillwater to succeed Lynn Waldorf who goes to Manhattan to coach at Kansas State. Exendine a Carlisle Indian School alum under Pop Warner has been an assistant coach at the college for about five years.
Fire company No 6 rushed to Van Vecten park at 12 30 pm Tuesday to tackle a grass fire. Henry Wetzel is seriously ill at his home 1436 N street SW with flu complications. The VRE circle of St James Methodist church plans a regular meeting at Mrs Clare Murphy 1005 Tenth street NW Wednesday at 2 pm. Gas stolen from auto and dog theft report. Mrs L L LaRue 610 Thirty first street NE reported thieves took about six gallons of gasoline from her car garage and a five month old fox terrier was stolen from the same garage last Thursday night.
W H Snell a Marion pioneer age 79 died Tuesday at 9 am at the home of his son Harry Snell on South Eleventh street after two months illness. Born January 17, 1855 in Bath New York he came west in 1877 and worked as a carpenter for the North Western and Milwaukee railroads. He retired sixteen years ago and moved to Marion in 1882. Survived by wife Ellen Gallagher four children Roy Harry Grace Lang Nellie Gantz one grandson Edward Snell and brother Peter Snell Funeral arrangements to be announced later.
The Marion post 298 American Legion and its Auxiliary held a Monday picnic and meeting in the Legion hall with about 100 attending. Frank Martin from Roosevelt Junior High spoke on Life Saving Plans. a stag event is planned for April 14. Updates covered junior activities, pledges, and community service efforts including donating 100 books to the public library and Memorial day poppy plans. The unit approved purchasing a certificate for a recreation center and the Second district meetup was set for April 24 in Cedar Rapids.
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