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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1939
Page
7
Iowa and Illinois livestock markets report hogs steady to ten cents higher on a busy trading day as receipts tighten. Cattle and lamb bids show mixed movement with feeders steady to firm and fat lambs slow yet near steadiness across major sourcing regions.
Receipts indicate Cutter grades and feeder stock with bids around 7500 to 9000 for steers and calves. Hog prices top around 5.50 with packer bids near 4.35, while butchers list 3.52 to 4.20. Lamb and ewe markets soften as fat lamb sales slow and demand weak.
Hog market edges lower with prime erudes down 35 cents though top still 540. Packers mostly steady across weights. Cattle market mixed with steers and yearlings varied by grade, while calf and sheep ranges reflect quality premiums and discounts.
Lists of farm commodities and market prices from Cedar Rapids including grain: Wheat No. 1 15c No. 2 3c. Oats White No. 2 33c No. 3 30c. Soybeans new crop No. 2 yellow 85c. May and straw prices. hay and straw values. butter prices. poultry prices for hens cocks and leghorns. wholesale fruits vegetables prices for lemons oranges celery lettuce onions cabbage tomatoes carrots cauliflower potatoes apples cranberries. hides beef and horse prices. disclaimers on horse prices and ponies.
Chicago produce figures show varying prices for hens broilers leghorn Plymouth Rock and White Rock chickens with weights from under 4 pounds to over 12 pounds. Turkey values listed for old toms young, hens, and capons. egg butter and cheese receipts and prices noted for New York and other regions.
The New York stock market showed uneven progress with gains in some areas and frequent fumbles in others. Leadership edged up late but overall closes were irregular with many leaders posting fractional advances while many names pulled back. Transfers around 800000 shares framed a day driven by dividends and earnings news from U S Steel US Rubber Douglas Aircraft American Telephone Anaconda American Smelting Philip Morris American Airlines Safeway Stores Omnibus Corp Great Northern Lake Shore Steel Spring and other companies.
Wall Street lists Monday quotations from Adams Express to Zeolite Prods with many named stocks and prices. Major listings include Allied Chem Johns Manville Kennecott Amn Tel Tel and Coca Colas with notable shifts and index figures for bonds and rails.
Wisconsin cheese quotes for the week include brick cheddar and daisies with prices listed. The report shows butter and egg standards and wool market notes from Boston, noting firmer asking prices and broader bidding strength in domestic wools.
Chicago grain prices rose early with wheat gaining about 1 percent before easing back to near prior closes. Soybeans reached fresh seasonal highs while corn and oats showed mixed moves. Soybeans traded near 1.02 a bushel, the strongest since 1938, as weekly visible supplies and exports shifted. Local receipts counted 27 cars wheat, 145 corn, 12 oats, and 100 soybeans.
Minneapolis cash grain quotes show WHEAT at various futures and cash levels with No 1 dark hard Montana and No 1 hard Montana winter among staples. CORN and OATS values listed across No 2 yellow hard and white categories with barley and soybeans included, plus seed timothy and clover prices. figures indicate higher cash bids and a broad commodity spread for inland buyers.
City briefs note a St Patrick's Chicken Dinner and Bazaar scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday evenings with an advertisement. Maynard Kohl and Alice Katherine Hannafan, both of Clinton, wed by Justice W A Ball. Orville Langheinrich and Agnes Hoffman, both of Milwaukee, wed by Justice H R Churchill.
Evangelist O G Lewis of Minneapolis launches a two week revival at Sunshine Mission with the sermon Assurance of the Christian. He paints In the Cross of Christ I Glory and later Throw Out The Life Line. Rev J Hinkin sings as Lewis begins nightly discourses on Law and Grace using his painted charts.
Two robbery with aggravation charges and one breaking and entering charge against Wilfred Henry Sampica lead a new criminal case assignment by Judge C. J Haas for Linn County District Court effective Nov 27. Other cases include John Bauer larceny Virgil Bascom statutory offense and several defendants charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated.
New York traders saw an upward trend with broad gains across major categories amid steady buying. Government issues strengthened, foreign dollar loans advanced, and rails led corporate issues with notable rises in Baltimore and Ohio, Bethlehem Steel, Santa Fe, and New York Central bonds.
National Commander Raymond Kelly outlined a four point program to keep America out of war promote national defense strengthen belief in American ideals and insure veterans protection. John Thomas Talver said the Legion has 176 resolutions to Congress in January with 70 on disabled veterans and 41 on national defense measures.
Four New Britain WPA employees died when their car collided with a train in New Britain Connecticut on Monday. The victims were Richard McNamara Ronald Loomis William Frazier and Jeremiah Lynch.
Corrine Maddox, 26, surrendered after shooting Brooks Coffman, 39, an attorney. Coffman had faced an assault to murder charge for a May stabbing with an ice pick. Maddox, wounded earlier at a gravel pit near Irving, had recovered in hospital.
Philadelphia AP report: Magistrate Elias Myers required the detective to justify the entertainer costume at a girl show. The detective folded the costume into a match box to prove its flimsy nature and the magistrate fined the show manager $1250.
Earl Browder general secretary of the Communist Party in America pleads innocent to a second federal indictment charging false statements to obtain a passport. He had already pled innocent to an earlier indictment and remains free on $7,500 bail. Trial set for December 4.
Jack Shepard spoke to the Rotary Club at the Roosevelt Hotel urging funding for a supervised skating rink. He called skating a healthy outdoor sport and said parents will feel safer with supervised facilities. Floyd Moody, Townsend plan state representative, also spoke on the program.
Prince August Wilhelm, son of the former Kaiser, denies reports of a split between Adolf Hitler and the Hohenzollern family. He says all family members remain intensely loyal to the Reich. He issued the denial from Berlin on behalf of the Hohenzollern family.
Cedar Rapids real estate board members heard Horace G. Hedges J Frank Cravens and Paul N Clark share impressions of Des Moines state convention speeches held Nov 9 10. Hedges reviewed New Opportunities for Today's Realtors by Earl B Teckmeyer Cravens spoke on Up-To-Date Slants on Farm Merchandising by Max Burrell Clark gave a brief resume of Henry Adams Real Estate in Russia and Iowa with other speakers deferred to Dec 4 meeting.
The Boy Scout board of review will meet at 7.15 p m Saturday at four points citywide to pass on merit badges and advancements. The district No 1 honor board meets at the Cham ber of Commerce office under James Maloney. District No 1 at Central fire station with J G Rayburn. District No 2 headquarters at E avenue fire station with Arthur Axmear. division No 3 at B avenue and Fourteenth street NE with J J Wholarik supervising. Electricity school at McKinley high school Thursday 7 to 9 pm led by E H Christiansen. attendance earns credit toward electricity merit badges. Admission is free.
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