Hog prices slip as market shows weakness after steady start
Chicago and regional livestock markets report hogs weak to 10 cents lower in late trading after a steady opening. Cattle steers move slow to steady while fat lambs and springers climb up to 15 cents. Receipts in Sioux City and St. Paul show mixed results with hogs, cattle, and sheep varying by yard and weight category.
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Chicago
Towa
Associated Press
Ottumwa
Waterloo
Mason City
INS
Kansas City
St. Louis
St. Joseph
St. Hs
Cincinnati
Market Report Shows Mixed Livestock Demand at Auction
Receipts near 6 000 sheep and 4 000 hogs with steady to weak demand. Fat lambs sell around 10 25 to 10 75, wooled lambs commanding higher bids, while hogs top near 6 60 and cattle delayed by slow sale. Cattle and sheep prices show mixed movement across weight classes and grades.
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Sioux City Livestock
Sioux City
API
U. S. Dept. Agris Culture
Mrime
California
ST. Paul Livestock South
ST Paul
IAPI
Fed-State Market News Service
Chase
Nieder Springs
Omaha Livestock
Omaha
Api—Iu
Dept. Agriculture
No Local Changes In Hogs and Cattle Market Steady
The hog market shows no local changes with top at 6.65, while cattle remain unchanged. Corn and wheat rise with varied quotes across weight categories and beef grades, listing prices for steers, yearlings, cows, calves, and sheep numbers and ranges.
Cedar Rapids Mixed Prices For Grain Produce And Hides
Wholesale prices listed for Cedar Rapids offer No 1 grain oats barley soybeans and rye with various grades and prices. Fruit vegetables and market items include lemons oranges grapefruit celery lettuce onions cabbage tomatoes potatoes strawberries and asparagus with unit prices. Animal hides are listed by grade and animal type with per unit prices and totals.
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Cedar Rapids
Bond Market Advances Narrowly as Turnover Rises in New York
New York bond dealers push higher as turnover boosts activity on Tuesday. U.S. government issues gain several tenths while some industrials and utilities show small losses. Foreign dollar loans draw wary demand as Europe contends with shifting alignments. Cuba bonds rise around 42 points amid broad market movement.
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New York
Union Pacific
Nickel Plate
Southern Pacific
Mitneis Central
Bethlehem Steellas
Europe
Cuba
Mississippi River
Davenport
Hastings
la Crosse
Prairie du Chien
Davenport Dubuque
Sneeereas
Keokuk Ae Ateee
St Lowls
Cairo
Memphis
Teeteeeenseeenene Eevens
Stocks Rally Slows As Market Edges Higher In Tuesday Trade
The market rose one to three points but failed to sustain momentum with closing prices below the day’s best. Volume around 450,000 shares reflected modest participation as optimism from easing European tensions and domestic signs supported leaders like US Steel and General Motors. Bond loans remained in demand while sugar shares strengthened before easing back.
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New York
Steel
Bethlehem
General Motors
Chrysler
Eastman Kodak
Westinghouse
Kennecott
Montgoomery Ward
Goodyear
Douglas Aircraft
Glenn Martin
Santa Fe
International Harvester
U. S
Wall Street Stocks Quoted In Tuesday Market Listings
A dense list of stocks and prices from Adams Express to Western Union appears in Tuesday quotations. Firms include Allegheny, Johns Manville, Amn Tobacco, Louisville Gas, General Electric, Dewey, Procter Gamble, and many others with varied share figures and trading statuses. A concluding note mentions a survey on machinery displacing 20,000 Texas farm families in 1937.
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Texas
Wheat prices ease after early advance on Chicago Board
Wheat prices on the Chicago board ended little changed after profit taking wiped out initial gains. May wheat to 7434, corn up 34 to 49, oats up 1 to 1. May futures steadied by late covering as Winnipeg rally supported values and export sales exceeded one million bushels.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Winnipeg
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Australia
China
Spain
Italy
Grain Prices and Cash Provisions Across Chicago and Minneapolis
Chicago cash provisions show mixed quotes for wheat corn oats barley and seeds with no. 2 red wheat around 79 cents per bushel and corn no. 1 yellow about 51 to 52 cents. Minneapolis receipts Tuesday total 157 cars up from 24 a year ago with cash quotes higher on several grain varieties and assorted milling grades listed.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Montana
Chicago Produce Markets Report Mixed Prices Across Livestock Butter and Eggs
Chicago market notes a mixed bag with hens steady, Leghorn and Plymouth Rock price figures listed. butter receipts firmer with creamery 92 score at 22c, eggs steady with varied color grades. potatoes show liberal supplies and slow demand. New York prices reflect firmer butter and steady eggs amid broad commodity totals.
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Chicago
Plymouth Rock Springs
Idaho
Burbanks
Wisconsin
North Dakota
Louisiana
Buss Triumphs
Alabama Bliss Triumphs
California
White Rose
U. S
New York
Wisconsin Cheese and Wool Market Report Mixed Prices
Wisconsin cheese quotas for the week of May 16 are listed with various types and firms noted. In Boston, the wool market showed scattered buyers with steady demand for spot wools and larger shipments, with French combing length wools bringing 66 to 68 cents a cwt, and lighter grades sold for 27 to 28 cents in grease delivered east.
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Boston
U 5
Demand Anti-Jap Activities Cease
A joint Japanese army and navy statement in Shanghai urged suppression of all anti-Japanese activities including incitement by third powers citizens. The note was seen as an implied threat to occupy the foreign settlement and the French concession.
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Shanghai
Community Meetings and Appointments in Cedar Rapids
Aldebaran court No 12 and Ben Hur life association hold meetings in Sokol hall and the Electric light company bungalow with refreshments and prizes. Cedar Rapids chapter No 194 Ahepa meets at Moose hall with initiations and refreshments. The board votes to buy three power and five hand lawn mowers for 316.05. R L Jones named Rock Island railroad service inspector with Cedar Rapids HQ. A L Taylor of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce addressed Mount Mercy junior college class. Hilding Olson from Chicago arrives to manage Keeshin Motor Express in Cedar Rapids. family at 1625 Park Ave SE. Promotions at Big Shoe: Roland Fisher to Iowa City store manager, Don Herring to Cedar Rapids. IL Central Boosters host Jones county call case speaker J H Ramsey at 8 pm. Church choirs rehearse for Music Week church night. Bankers Hans N Boyson and Marvin R Selden attend IA Bankers district conferences in Sioux City Osage Waukon Tama and Jefferson.
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Hilding Olson
Chicago
Cedar Rapids
Keeshin Motor Express Company
B. R. Ogden
Minneapolis
Mr. Olson
Park Avenue
Hans N Boyson
Marvin R. Selden
Merchants National Bank
Iowa Bankers Association
Sioux City
Osage
Waukon
Tama
Srey
Jefferson
Friay
Evangelist Levin to Lead Two-Week Sunshine Mission
Evangelist Paul Levin and blind gospel singer Bob Findlay start a two week meeting at Sunshine Mission tonight at 7 30. The program features instrumental and vocal solos and duets in a special music lineup.
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Paul Levin
Bob Findlay
Sunshine Mission
Pontiac man held for hotel fraud defrauding $46
Clarence E. Baker, 34, of Pontiac Michigan, is in custody of Des Moines Chief of Detectives J A Brophy for Cedar Rapids authorities on a charge of defrauding a hotel keeper of 46 dollars, the Associated Press reported Tuesday afternoon.
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Clarence E. Baker
Pontiac, Mich
J. A. Brophy
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Associated Press
Col Randolph Visits Cedar Rapids for Reserve District Inspect
Col John Randolph an infantry officer from Minneapolis arrived Tuesday to inspect the northeast Iowa reserve district. Local reserve officers will host a dinner for him at the Roosevelt hotel Tuesday evening before his departure back to Minneapolis.
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John Randolph
Infantry
Minneapolis
First Reserve Area
Cedar Rapids
Iowa Reserve District
Col
Randolph
Roosevelt Hotel
Bank executives attend American Bankers meeting in East
S. E. Coquillette president of Merchants National Bank returns from Hot Springs Virginia where he attended the executive council of the American Bankers Association. Mrs Coquillette accompanied him. Frank C. Welch president of Peoples Savings Bank also attended with Mrs Welch. They plan to visit the World's Fair in New York City before returning next week.
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S. E. Coquillette
Merchants National Bank
Hot Springs
American Bankers Association
Coquillette
Frank C. Welch
Peoples Savings Bank
Welch
New York City
Philippine student questions Filipino independence timeline
Juan Aguas of Coe College spoke to the Canopus club at Hotel Roosevelt about Filipino political and economic background. He doubted independence in either branch was feasible, saying most educated Filipinos did not want independence for several years after 1946 when the islands would become independent under current law.
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Juan Aguas
Coe College
Canopus Club
Hotel Roosevelt
Philippines
First Aid Classes Open With 44 Attend Meeting
Forty four students attended an initial advanced Red Cross meeting led by Dr. James Ward at the federal building in St Louis. Twenty five joined the life saving class at the YMCA pool taught by Harold Baker. Representatives from Springville Mount Vernon Vinton and Central City were present. Baker will address the Triton club at the YMCA Wednesday night.
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First Aid
Red Cross
Federal Building
James Ward
St. Louis
Harold Baker
Springville
Mount Vernon
Vinton
Central City
Baker
Triton Club
Hopkinton Club Hosts 225 for Bickel Film on Iowa Rivers
Robert O. Bickel of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce speakers bureau showed his motion picture One Thousand Miles of Eastern Iowa Rivers by Canoe at a Hopkinton Community club dinner. Leo J. Sullivan presided as 225 members attended the event.
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Hopkinton
Robert O. Bickel
Cedar Rapids
School program closes with talk by Banta and projector by Hansen
The event followed a Buck Creek consolidated school musical program and included a short talk by George S. Banta of Manchester, secretary to Representative Henry Talle of Decorah, while Paul Hansen operated the projector for Bickel.
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Buck Creek
Linn women map cancer education drive in Linn county
In a luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel Linn county leaders in the Women's Field Army of the American Society for Control of Cancer outlined the spring drive to enroll Linn county's share of 20000 members. The drive runs through May 15 and avoids door to door solicitation. Leaders urged organizations to support education to combat cancer and reduce delayed treatment.
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Linn County
Women's Field Army
The
American Society For Control of Cancer
Roosevelt Hotel
Iowa
Women’s Field Army
A W. Erskine
Field Army
Arthur V. O'Brien
Town City
Rumor of U.S. Owned Power System for Defense
Wall Street utility leaders report a plan by federal power commission staff, prepared with Benjamin V. Cohen, proposes a nationally owned power distribution system for national defense at a $600,000,000 outlay. Assistant War Secretary Louis Johnson is said to have rejected an earlier voluntary private industry expansion. Roosevelt had not decided whether to send the plan to Congress.
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New York
Wall Street
Federal Power Commission
Roosevelt
Louis Johnson
Johnson
FPC
Benjamin V. Cohen
Thomas G. Corcoran
Congress
Injured Chinese Mercy Aviatrix' Recovery Expected
Pretty Hilda Yen, 25, wounded when her Spirit of New China crash halted her refugee mission, showed definite improvement in Montgomery Alabama. Dr. G M Taylor said she woke after hours of unconsciousness and facial injuries required many stitches. no critical injuries found and he expects recovery though possible facial disfigurement remains.
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Montgomery
Ala
Hilda Yen
China
Spirit of
New China
Miss Yen
W. W. Yen
America
G. M. Taylor
Missouri Supreme Court narrows scope of insurance adjuster work
The Missouri supreme court refused to restrict adjuster duties to lawyers, denying a bar committee plea that negotiating settlements for claims constitutes illegal practice of law. The decision draws national attention from lawyer and insurer groups and upholds non attorney involvement in claims adjustments.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Supreme Court
State Bar Advisory Committee
Bar Committee
Leader Of Fight For Mooney Dies
Frank P. Walsh a 74 year old prominent labor lawyer and chairman of the New York state power authority died of a heart attack on the sidewalk outside the state supreme court. He had long led the legal fight for the release of Tom Mooney who was pardoned by California's governor.
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New York
Frank P. Walsh
America
New York State Power Authority
State Supreme Court
Tom Mooney
California
La Porte City seniors stage three one act plays
La Porte City high school seniors perform three one act plays Friday under Lucille Lee. Cast includes Marie Jean Paige Vera Burrows Betty Foss Russell Misaner Oren Hoyt John Hager Marie Butschy Wallace Mooney Garnet Olive Maxine Wilkinson Betty Anton Norman Christopher Ralph Strohecker. Stage managers are Irwin Foster and Laland Brallier.
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LA Porte City
Lucille Lee
Marie Jean Paige
Vera Burrows
Betty Foss
Russell Misaner
Oren Hoyt
John Hager
Marie Butschy
Wallace Mooney
Garnet Olive
Maxine Wilkinson
Betty Anton
Norman Christopher
Ralph Strohecker
Irwin Foster
Laland Brallier
Central City
James Arthur Byers
Byers
Dorothy Slife
Pauline Andrews
May Ford
Oakdale
Donald
M. D. Woodward
Prairieburg
Barnhart and
Clare
West Concord
Minn
Hattie Baisch
Joliet, Ill
Christian
Fanny Baisch
Iowa
Freeman Haislet
Benton County
Bruce Township
Clara Fairbank
Susan Smith
Dallas
Lydia Munson
Waterloo
Elton Baisch
Dan Baisch
West View Cemetery
LA Forte City
Dutler
Emil
France
Clyde Jenks
Clifford
John
John Struve
Charles Wandschneider
Louie Kruckenburg
Mount Auburn
Otto Wandschneider
Grover
Cutler
American Legion Auxiliary
Washington
Homer Paulsgrove
Ainsworth Farmer
Pike County
Elizabeth Paulsgrove
Nina Clark
Ainsworth
Nellie McClellan
Keota
Missouri
Illinois
Marengo
Marengo High School
Band Mothers Club
Richard Bryant
Monticello
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Louis D. Barrack
Harrison Lubben
Ben Schneider
William H. Jarrett
George Rickels
Henry Helms
Albert Hartman
J. A. Hoegen
Oliver D. Harford
Ray Echternacht
F. W. Hein
Arnold Jacobs
John Guler
Lloyd Pinkerton
Ben Ament
Jane Hein
Florence Carmichael
Bertha Sutherland
Edith Helms
Florence Metzenberg
Anne Echternacht
Mabel Jarrett
Dora Ohe
Anna Allamand
Margaret Carmichael
Mabel Hoag
Emma Jacobs
Sophie Jacobs
Helen Barrack
Eliza Thoeni
Design for Living Featured at Wilson High Youth Conference
The second day of Wilson High School's youth conference opened with Dr. Paul Weaver of Stephens College delivering A Design for Living. He urged students to craft a personal life design guiding time use friendships and choices while stressing honest effort and serving others.
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Wilson High School
Paul Weaver
Stephens College
Columbia
Weaver
Marvin Priborseky
Eddie Anderson
University of Iowa
Smiths Top List of Smith Soc Security Board Names
A survey shows Smith is the No 1 surname on the boards old age insurance accounts with 418000 separate Smiths. Johnson Browns Williams Miller and Jones follow, with regional concentrations noted in Tennessee Mississippi Alabama South Carolina Georgia Florida and splits for Burkes Cohens Elliotts Adams Baileys Jenkins Nelsons by state.
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Special Security Board
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Jonses
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Anderson
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Burke
Butler
Cohen
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Edwards
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Foster
Green
Hall
Harris
Jackson
James
Jenkins
Johnston
Jordan
King
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Martin
Moore
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Robinson
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Taylor
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Thompson
Turner
Walker
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Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
South Carolina
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Florida
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Cohens
Elliotts
New York
Ohio
Kentucky
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Delaware
New Jersey
200 000 Slashes Ordered In WPA
Washington AP Works Progress Administration chief F C Harrington ordered a 200000 reduction in federal relief quotas to cut WPA enrollment to 2600000 by May 8. The cut follows a prior April reduction after Congress trimmed 50000000 from the deficiency relief bill. State cuts included Iowa 2100.
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Washington
Works Progress
F. C Harrington Tuesaday
Congress
Roosevelt
Towa
Schaller Man To Head Western Grain Dealers
Sam Eastlak, from Schaller, was elected president of the Western Grain and Feed Dealers association in Sioux City, succeeding Ronald C. Booth. Hugh Hale of Royal became vice president, with Ron Kennedy and Jack Westerfield reelected secretary and field secretary. The group backed wheat crop insurance and farm-equality policy. U.S. farmers received 482,221,000 government payments of 7,631,809,000 cash income in 1938.
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Sioux City
Western Grain and Feed Dealers Association
Des Moines
Schaller
Sam East~lack
Ronald C. Booth
Cedar Rapids
Hugh Hale
Royal
Ron Kennedy
Jack Westerfield
United States
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Wisconsin Cheese
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Wisconsin Cheese exchange—Twins Lic
Cheddars LLC
Farmers’ Call
Daisies Llize
Chedars LLC
Aldebaran Court
Ben Hur Life Association
Sokol Hall
Tirzah Society
Electric Light Company
Order of Ahepa
Moose Hall
R. L. Jones
Rock Island Railroad
A. L. Taylor
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Mount Mercy Junior College
Sam Cohen
Roland Fisher
Iowa City
Don Herring
Illinois Central Boosters Club
Glaw
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J. H Ramsey
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