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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1936
Page
11
Chicago receipts were not enough to spark price moves as hogs sold for the day with best animals at about 8.50. Hog weights under 250 pounds were generally 50 to 60 cents lower than a week ago, with lighter cuts losing up to a dollar. Cattle and sheep runs were sluggish with little activity. dressed beef trades remained weak and lambs remained scarce but edged higher by 25 to 40 cents.
Chicago cattle receipts about 3000 with calves 100. Fed steers and yearlings steady to 25c lower. late week weighty steers weaker. Heifers strong to 25c higher. week’s average cost $7.70 vs $8.05 prior. Cows steady. bulls 10-15c higher. heifers active. Sheep receipts 4,000. lambs 25c higher for choice, wooled lambs 15-40c lower. spring lambs steady. California springers $11.50-$11.75. Hogs receipts 2,000. market nominal with best $9.50, weights under 250 lbs down 50-60c. packing sow prices 25-40c lower.
Receipts at St Paul Livestock, South St Paul, show cattle mainly steady with some declines. Slaughter steers and yearlings around steady, cows near steady, stockers about steady, feeders down early. Calves dealers higher for week with better grades rising, sheep receipts moderate with lamb prices mixed and ewes down slightly.
Sioux City AP report: cattle futures mostly steady to up 25 cents, steers and yearlings firm. hogs receipts 300 with prices steady to 10 cents lower, top near 9.00. sheep and lambs show steady to uneven gains, fed clipped lambs reaching 9.85 and shorn lambs near steady, other bids range around 11.25 to 11.75 for native springers and similar.
U S Department of Agriculture reports combined hog receipts at 20 concentration yards and 9 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours to 8 a m Saturday at 11 200 head, down from 15 600 a week earlier. Prices mostly steady with weekend loading lighter. quotations list various weight classes with good and choice grades and price ranges.
US Department of Agriculture cattle receipts total 25 with calves none. Steers and yearlings bring 7.00 to 8.65, heifers 6.25 to 8.00, cows 4.75 to 6.25, cutters 3.75 to 4.75, bulls 5.00 to 6.50, top vealers 9.00 to 9.50. Sheep receipts 3,000 with lambs around 10.26 to 9.85 for fed clipped lambs. Hogs receipts 500 with prices 9.00 to 9.10 for 210–250 lb, 8.50 to 8.60 for 300–325 lb, 8.50 to 8.90 for 160–220 lb, sows around 8.00.
Hogs unchanged in Waterloo with Mason City noting steady quotes. Light hogs 140-160 lbs trade around 7.65 to 7.95. 160-180 lbs 8.50 to 8.80. 180-220 lbs 8.80 to 8.}, 220-250 lbs 8.70 to 9.00. Good packers around 7.75 to 8.05. 350-425 lbs 7.60.
AP dispatch from Austin notes a steady market for cattle with good demand in chores 180-290 Ibs priced at 8.80 to 9.10. Prices for 220-250 Ibs range 8.70 to 9.00, 250-290 Ibs 8.45 to 8.75, 290-350 Ibs 8.15 to 8.25. Packing sows 275-550 Ibs quoted at 7.40 to 8.00.
AP report shows foreign exchange demands in cents with rates for Great Britain France Italy Belgium Germany and more. Included are travel regulations and various country rates such as Holland Norway Sweden Denmark Finland and others.
Sugar prices in New York hold steady with raw futures unchanged and refined market flat, traders noting minimal moves across contracts. The report indicates only slight shifts of up to one point lower in raw futures while refined remains steady.
Local market hog prices remain steady with no grade changes since Thursday. Top price holds at 9.15 per hundredweight as buyers and sellers keep routines unchanged.
Grain prices include Wheat 88 90c, Oats 21 24c, Barley 45 45c, Soybeans 68c. Produce lists heavy hens 17c, under 4 lbs 14c, cocks 10c 5 lbs up, hens and leghorns 8 19 18 17 14c. Wholesale fruits vegetables list oranges 3.65 4.35, grapefruit 3.50 3.75, lemons 6.75, potatoes old 1.75 2.50 new 3.00, apples Delicious 2.25 box, Winesap 1.85 box, bananas 5 6c, lettuce crate 2.85 3.10, celery 3.50, cabbage 2.25, onions 0.90 2.25 bag, strawberries 4.75 crate, pineapples 3.50 crate, grapes 3.00 box. Hides prices No 1 cured beef 9c, No 2 6c, No 1 calf 9c, No 2 calf 12c, No 2 kip 6 12c, green hides 6 8c, horses 3.00 2.50. Includes manes tails pony and glue hides.
Chicago reports live poultry receipts of 16 trucks with mixed prices across breeds. Butter and eggs receipts and steady prices. Potatoes show dull stock with weak undertone and light demand. Regional grain and potato prices listed for Bliss Triumphs Alabama Louisiana Mississippi California Idaho Wisconsin Minnesota North Dakota Ohio and cobbler varieties with U S No 1 quality figures.
New York AP market rundown shows eggs at 35 964 receipts with firmer mixed colors and assorted grades, butter barely steady with unchanged prices, cheese receipts at 119 177 quiet, live poultry steady by freight with all prices unchanged.
Chicago butter futures closed under storage standards for November 27 and egg futures closed for refrigerator standards October 23. Storage packed firsts referenced with May 21 as a related note.
The New York market showed uneven activity with some up moved secondary ratings retreating slightly while prime issues held firm. U S government bonds closed with little change and French 72s led foreign issues higher in early trading.
Two German military airplanes collided in mid-air over Kriftel near Frankfurt during maneuvers. The pilots parachuted to safety, but one plane crashed onto a house killing an aged woman.
Chicago traders kept prices near steady on the board of trade as outside reports were ignored. Wheat edged down to 44c, corn rose to 34c, oats and rye held near their prior closes, and lard weakened amid ample hog supply. Dust storms and light demand characterized a featureless session with short covering boosting May wheat.
AP Chicago cash price list shows no sales for corn rye beans soybeans barley and soybeans with mixed grain quotes for wheat oats and yellow varieties. Timoth y seed per 100 pounds at 2.75 to 3.00 dollars clover seed 12.00 to 22.50 dollars lard tierces 10.27 loose 9.60 bellies 12.75 dollars.
Receipts total 93 cars as bid prices rise for No 1 heavy dark northern spring 60 Ibs at 1.0453 1.1634 and No 1 dark northern 59 Ibs at 1.023s3 1.1533. Fancy No 1 hard Montana 14 protein at 1.03s4, arrivals noted. No 3 yellow corn quoted at 574 58c and No 3 white oats at 237.4 257s¢.
The Burlington railroad announced a new streamlined service starting May 31 offering a 16 hour run between Chicago and Denver. The westbound schedule saves 11 hours 45 minutes and the eastbound 9 hours 15 minutes from prior fastest times. Average running speed is 65 miles per hour with en route stops requiring a 90 mile per hour cruising pace.
Forrest Spec Towns of Georgia posted a 14.1 in yesterday's 120 yard high hurdles qualifying heats at the Southeastern Conference meet in Birmingham, surpassing Percy Beard's 14.2 world record with Beard present to witness the mark.
In Tulsa, Drake defends the title as Washington shows class in a crowded Missouri Valley Conference meet. Preliminary events left questions about team strength with Washington qualifying ten athletes and Drake sprinter Smith clocking 9.8 in the 100 yard dash.
Lester Moore and Gladys Moore both of Denver Colorado. Fred B Ellsworth of Cedar Rapids and Ann Victoria Kern of Perth Kansas. Lewis Miner and Wilma Holliday both of Cedar Rapids. Emil Falt of Moline Island and Mae Knight of Cedar Rapids. Edward Viasek and Agnes Barta both of Cedar Rapids.
Gains limited and prices mixed as trading declined to about 350000 shares. Columbian Carbon rose on few transfers while many blue chips including U S Steel Chrysler and Standard Oil of New Jersey faced resistance amid narrow bond moves and a cautious market tone.
Natalie Schoen, two year recreation supervisor for the playground commission, accepts the job as director of a day camp for the Jewish Peoples Institute of Chicago. She will begin June 8 in Chicago and is a University of Iowa and National Recreation Association School graduate.
Preliminaries run this morning as Marion hosts the district high school track meet. Final events begin at 1:30 on the new Marion field with winners of first and second places advancing to the state meet at Ames. Franklin and Vinton field balanced teams as favorites in today’s district showdown.
A dust storm swept across southeastern Minnesota on Saturday at an altitude of 5 000 feet, blanketing the sun and casting a pall over the area. The weather bureau said the storm blew in from the southwest.
A delayed dynamite blast in the Daisy Fluor spar mine in Rosiclare Illinois killed two men Frank Craig forty and Lester Belt about thirty five both residents of Rosiclare. Company officials identified the victims and noted the blast occurred Saturday at the mine site.
Julius Schreck, 38, Hitler's trusted bodyguard chauffeur, died of meningitis in Munich. He served closely with the chancellor during the early days and remained a stalwart figure in the Schutzstaffel before Hitler's rise to power.
Medical column explains that death in many illnesses stems from asphyxia rather than heart failure, noting the tongue as a lingual check valve. It covers prone positioning, jaw and tongue methods in resuscitation, and warns about anesthesia risk and misattributed deaths.
Ford Hopkin s Co. Inc. defends a $15 000 personal injury suit filed by Johanna McGinness alleging injuries from a fall on a stairway at the defendant s Austin Minnesota store on September 28. The company has filed a petition in district court to remove the case to the Cedar Rapids division of federal court.
Marion Iowa program at Irving School Thursday featured songs, plays, dances, and recitations led by students from grades five and six. Notables included Vernon Akers, Jimmie Akers, Betty Young, and many others. Local events noted: George W Koob visited on business. Mrs. Mary Hanna hosted a weekend in Marion. Epworth League cabinet installation planned. Rebekah lodge held May breakfast for seventeen.
Mr and Mrs Harold Peterson hosted the Dry Creek Agriculture and Literary Club in Memorial hall Friday. LeRoy Cooper assistant fire chief spoke on Fire Prevention in Rural Districts. J W Frazee and Mrs W D Stilions led a program with piano solos readings and duets. Fifty members and guests attended including families from Alburnett Cedar Rapids and Marion. The June meeting will be with Mr and Mrs J W Frazee.
The Pilgrim Highroaders of the Congregational church meet Sunday at 7 p m at the home of Rev and Mrs H O Allen. Delbert Pugh principal of Marion high school will speak on Are Our Schools Fitting Us for This New Age Friends of the members are invited.
Mrs. M. H. Biddick hosted the Fidelis Circle of the King's Daughters at a Friday social. The next gathering will be at Mrs. Thomas Costello's home where officers will be elected.
A Friday evening farewell honored the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Yingst at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Orval Quaas northeast of Marion. Refreshments served to seventy people as the Yingsts move to a new pastorate at Wilton Junction. The Rev. Mr. Yingst was formerly pastor of the Buffalo church.
John Zier 17 of Fifth avenue and Twenty-eighth street Marion has been missing from his home since Thursday. He wears blue striped overalls and a blue striped cap and his parents ask for information. Electa Circle of the King's Daughters met at Mrs. A. C. Maxwell's Cedar Rapids home with sewing and a $2 donation to the camp at Montrose. Virginia Rohrbacker attended as guest with tea for fourteen. next meeting planned by Mrs. E. Barnes.
Mrs Ray McCalley hosted the New Art club Thursday with Mrs LeRoy Cooper in charge of the project. Nine members were served refreshments. The next meeting will be at Mrs James Biesecker home with Mrs Raymond Kent supervising the project.
A list of sermons services and activities from numerous Marion churches includes Baptists led by Rev. William H. Bridwell with a Cedar Rapids singer, Catholic mass by Rev. T. J. McElliott, and Union services at Congregational church with Rev. Ralph Hall Collis. Additional Christian and Methodist listings describe Bible school, communion, and evening meetings with topics on life’s recuperative power and giants hour with a poet prophet.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Berlin hosted a Friday dinner for Dr. Robert Richards of Fort Morgan Colorado returning from a medical convention in Kansas City. Guests included Mrs. Matilda Berlin of Springville and Mr. and Mrs. Max Berlin and their daughter Sally Jo of Marion.
Mrs. Verto Reichert welcomed the Soro sis club on Thursday evening and Mrs. W. K. Lothian presented a program tied to Iowa history week. Edna Roberts, Nevah Prior and Hazel Ross were named as the nominating committee. Federation reports were given by Mrs. R. E. Lehdigh and Mrs. O. M. Carson. The next meeting will be at Mrs. J. T. Grayston’s home in Cedar Rapids.
Mr and Mrs Ned Brewer and daughter Nancy Lou from Chicago arrived in Marion for a visit and will stay with Mr and Mrs Harry J Murphey and Mr and Mrs J H Murphey. Mrs Brewer was formerly Miss Clara Belle Murphey of this city. Mrs Norman J Waffle spoke on Living as Neighbors in This Machine World at the Woman's Missionary society meeting of the Congregational church hosted by Mrs Herbert O Allen. Mrs Ella Terrill led the devotional.
Mr and Mrs S A Fontaine and children Marilyn and Richard and Mrs H B Levnbaugh attended a family party Friday evening at the Shrine Temple in Cedar Rapids. Walter Applegate of Perry was in Marion on business Saturday. Miss Willma Robertson was expected home Saturday from Waterloo where she spent the week with her father J E Robertson.
Dayton dispatch reports the National Council of Federated Church Women closed its annual convention in Dayton and chose Peoria Illinois as the site for its 1937 gathering.
A. Henry Ross surrendered to the district attorney amid an ongoing probe into the alleged blackmail of Alfred E. Smith Jr. by a blue-eyed blonde. Separately Max D. Krone faced $50,000 bail on extortion charges and four additional complaints were under investigation.
The city council, acting as a board of assessment and review, adjourned to hold final action at 2 p.m. on May 25 and 26. The board met daily for about two weeks reviewing the 1936 assessment rolls and hearing objections, with no real estate changes this year. About twenty persons voiced concerns, the lowest turnout in years. Before adjourning, the board taxed capital stock, surplus, and undivided profits of city banks as monies and credits, exempting the real estate portion tax.
Mrs Minnie N Case died after a lingering illness in Cedar Rapids She was born September 18 1852 in Athens Maine came to Cedar Rapids in 1874 She is survived by daughter Harriet Case Chicago and brother Samuel G Tufts Cedar Rapids Funeral services set for 11 am Monday in Turner chapel with graveside at Waverly 2 15 pm Monday Friends may call at the chapel
The body of E. W. Shaw lies at Teahen Funeral Home with funeral arrangements pending relatives' arrival. Friends may visit Sunday afternoon and evening at the funeral home.
James W. Shepherd aged 26 surrendered to local police after Des Moines authorities warned of an arrest warrant. He reported to headquarters and turned himself in once he learned police were seeking him. The charge details were not provided by local officials.
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