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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1937
Page
15
Chicago stockyard reports a largely nominal hog market with light gains and mixed receipts. Cattle and sheep trade shows varied demand with steady to higher live prices. futures and exchange rates cited for major markets.
A dated market summary shows receipts weaker for certain items while eggs and live poultry command varied prices. Fresh produce and dairy notes reference several regional sellers and fluctuating rates, with mention of Idaho and New York markets and multiple price points across categories.
Market notes indicate better grades of porkers along with slight advances for good packers. A premium of 5 cents Saturday and a cited figure of 160 dollars for extra fine quality appear among the sparse observations. Corn prices show small gains while hogs are described as weaker overall.
A Boston dispatch reports a quiet session with few buyers and sellers in the tea market. Traders cite lack of demand and uncertain contracts as contributing to restrained activity and stable quotations.
Grain prices list wheat oats rye barley and soybeans with bids for No 2 and No 3 yellow grades, prices across old and new potatoes, apples, lettuce and other produce. Chicago grain quotations, Winnipeg market figures, and Mississippi River stage readings for Davenport Hastings La Crosse Dubuque Cairo Memphis are included.
Grain prices edged higher on the Chicago board with a strong close as May wheat gained about 1.25 dollars and corn rose roughly 55 to 14 cents. Market activity featured short covering in May wheat, rainless sections spurring deferred futures, and broader weather concerns from Alberta to Saskatchewan impacting sentiment.
The Great Shires, once a major league baseball figure and ex boxer, appeared in Chicago court on a Friday after a wrestling engagement was set. Judge John C Leve ordered him to answer Betty Stres's alimony and support demands presented by attorney Emmet F Berne. The case references Shires’s past as a pugilist and his involvement with a semi pro team linked to the Spring ferry Empres.
Practical golf guidance stresses proper grip and square stance for a No 7 iron. It advises aligning the body with an imaginary line, keeping the ball forward, and avoiding loft by not standing too far back.
New York stock dealings were fair for rails and industrials amid light volume around 350000 shares. Steel, motors, and utilities struggled to advance while rails and industrials posted small gains. Bonds stayed quiet but slightly improved as grain and cotton futures rose.
Publication by J F Bennett shows traders listing prices across miners and manufacturers led by Adams Express and Alaska Juneau. It notes Chicago and New York stock movements, including Continental, General Electric and Union Carbide, with close tracking of receipts for hog, cattle, and packing house outputs and Friday market levels.
Wisonsin baseball defeated Minnesota 3 to 1 as Kermit Ruse limited UW to two hits. The win improves Wisconsin’s Western Conference standing with a fourth win in five starts, boosting their bid in the race.
Linn County records show tax deed filed by Treas Linn Co to Charles G Bachman for 40 feet of 102 foot lot in Block 18 Coe College Add. Amount $19,653 with date 3 22 37. Public notice of deed transfer recorded.
Hollywood chatter notes Lupe Velez loudly scorned Glenn Morris as a Tarzan rival and then was offered the femme lead in the Tarzan series by Sol Lesser. The piece also sketches Madeleine Carroll's film dealings and Jeanette MacDonald wedding plans with Gene Raymond.
Paul J. Cash, 37, of Anamosa, charged in a true information by County Attorney G K Thomp son with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated pled not guilty in district court Friday afternoon before Judge H C Ring. Bond set at $500. Cash was arrested by deputy sheriffs between Marion and Cedar Rapids early Thursday evening.
Clyde Perrigo 24 of Cedar Rapids received a three month county jail term from Judge H C King after completing a 30 day sentence for assault and battery. Ada Andrew in district court seeks a divorce from Lowel Andrew alleging custody and child support. The couple wed at Rock Island Illinois on June 9 1932 and the plaintiff seeks custody of a son and support.
In the early 1500s Europeans greeted the white potato with suspicion equating it to the forbidden fruit from Eden. The misbelief reflected widespread prejudice as the crop began to spread beyond its New World roots.
About five hundred adults attended the second annual grade school music festival held Friday in the high school gym. Miss Rose Wilcox directed with a large team of teachers and accompanists, featuring processional, kindergarten songs, rhythm orchestras, and multi grade performances from Emerson Lincoln and Irving schools. Local visits and club activities fill out the social calendar with community, church, and school events.
The SWOC executive committee met in Pittsburgh to outline a strategy to force four major independents employing over 160,000 workers to sign CIO contracts. Election under Wagner Act ends strikes at Jones and Aliquippa plants. SWOC leader Philip Murray calls the settlements complete victories and vows broader bargaining rights for Bethlehem Steel Republic Steel Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Crucible Steel.
A fragmented note from Minneapolis reports flour market items including 68 pound sacks, standard middlings priced around 37.50, bran near 32.50, and shipments totaling about 20 990 units. Names and details are partially garbled but indicate patent references and standard market figures.
Mrs Laura Cone Starbuck, longtime Marion resident born May 15 1846, was honored at a surprise party hosted by Baptist church women. The pioneer lineage includes Linn county’s first white child George Cone born 1839 and the Starsbuck clan’s deep roots, with Starbuck's own sewing and quilting feats spanning decades. Mrs Kling hosted the gathering at 1540 Fifth Avenue. Mr and Mrs Frank Starbuck of Chicago arrived to visit.
Local church listings detail services across Marion churches including Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist, Presbyterian, St Pauls Lutheran and others. Notable items include sermon topics such as How Escape If We Neglect and The Witnessing Church, mass times, Sunday schools, choir and musical events, and midweek prayer meetings with associated superintendents and leaders.
John Sandun 52, of Rake Iowa a Rock Island railroad bridge worker, is hospitalized with a sprained ankle and fractured leg after a gasoline railroad motor car carrying five coworkers collided with a motor vehicle at a Tipton crossing. He was the sole injury and was moved to Cedar Rapids for treatment as the workers left Tipton for a bridge job.
Otto Ernst a Hamburg cotton broker died of burns from the Hindenburg disaster in Paul Kimball hospital Lakewood New Jersey. His wife, also aboard, was hospitalized with burns but in less serious condition.
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