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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1939
Page
21
Chicago hog futures and cash markets show a broad downturn with prices tumbling toward new low marks. Reports indicate lighter demand, steers and heifers steady to weak, while hogs, sheep, and cattle receipts trend higher amid soft trading volumes.
Receipts show cattle and feeders steady with hogs and canners mixed. Beef cows average around 5,284 dollars for 625 head. bulls and heifers near 825 to 1099 with various lots reported. Sheep and lambs include 4,000 fat lambs bids around 2.35 per hundredweight. ewes and feeding lambs noted with breeding stock prices listed.
Hog prices fell by 20 cents in all grades Tuesday morning and another 10 cents later, pushing the day’s market 380 cents lower with top bids at 4.80.
Grain and produce prices with rates for wheat corn oats rye barley soybeans and straw. Cedar Rapids poultry prices listed for hens cocks and leghorns with weight categories. Wholesale fruits vegetables apples grapes cranberries and other produce prices included.
Market brief covers CHICAGO PRODUCE and CHICAGO API POULTRY with car and truck counts, turkey and duck listings, and mixed egg and butter prices. NOTES on potatoes including U S No 1 and Russets, Colorado McClures, Idaho Russets. butter and eggs prices in New York and Chicago reports. Mississippi River stages show Davenport rise and Cairo fall.
Wall Street stock list shows Adams Express Inth Heiy Alaska Juneau Galutl Hydro large cap names and many industrials with prices amid a long catalog. The page records numerous companies including Penney Chrysler Ford General Motors Radio Corp Goodrich and Steel groups with quoted shares and market context.
New York stocks rose on gains in steels but failed to sustain the rally as the session neared its end. Volume reached about 606000 shares with mixed final prices and several large names showing gains and losses.
Heavy foreign purchases of North American grain and ongoing U. S. drought lifted Chicago board prices with wheat up to 14s cents, December. Corn and oats followed higher while Winnipeg markets posted gains and Britain boosted Canadian wheat and American corn exports. Local receipts and shipping sales of oats are noted along with car counts for wheat corn oats and soybeans.
Winnipeg markets show varied wheat futures with high and low quotes and July and May contracts. Chicago cash provisions list No 2 red, No 1 yellow, oats and barley quotes, while Minneapolis quotes report higher cash wheat by No 1 hard Montana and No 3 white oats with modest corn movement.
Wisconsin cheese quotas for the week of Nov 20625 are listed with several varieties including brick and cheddar. Wool prices on the Boston market show graded staples at 95 to 98 cents per pound, with good French combing wools at 97 cents to $1, scoured basis, and Texas wools at 97 cents to $1.02.
Minor advances dotted the bond market toward noon Tuesday as U S government issues remained firm. Foreign dollar bonds showed strength with French stamps near 3 points higher and German 5s of ’65 up about a point. Corporate listings rose modestly led by Alleghany, St Paul, Commonwealth Edison, and US Steel. U S bonds closed with Federal Farm Mtr. 3s at 107.23.
Maurice Thorez secretary general of the outlawed French communist party was sentenced by default to six years in prison for desertion from the army. The military court ordered confiscation of his property. Thorez, 39, a member of the chamber of deputies, was accused of desertion after failing to rejoin his regiment following leave. He had been sought by police since October 6.
Maury Maverick, San Antonio's new dealer mayor, faced criminal proceedings as 20 of 26 counts were quashed, clearing the way for a jury to try him on a poll tax charge. Eighteen counts were dismissed Monday, two Tuesday, but a bid to strike the entire indictment failed.
Officials of the Holland America Line said Mrs. Frederika Goebel Steffens was a Netherlands citizen, correcting an earlier report that she was American after the S S Spaarndam struck a mine and sank in the Thames estuary.
Cedar Rapids jobbers and shippers will meet at the Chamber of Commerce to discuss a Chicago and North Western permit for truck service to and from Clinton to Council Bluffs. A federal hearing in Council Bluffs December 5 will review the plan’s impact on Cedar Rapids shippers and intrastate Iowa service.
Obituaries list Mrs Emma S Urban 51 of 1106 Ellis Blvd NW died after a long illness. Born March 11 1888 in Mitchell SD she lived in Cedar Rapids 10 years leaving many relatives including Sacora and Urban families. Funeral at English Lutheran Oxford Jun ction and burial Wyoming cemetery. Plus Mrs Dallie R Capron 51 of 1110 Nineteenth St SE died after lingering illness. Funeral at Beatty chapel 3 pm Friday with burial Cedar Memorial Park. Also John N May 76 of 317 F Ave NW died after ill health. Survived by two sons, two daughters, five grandchildren. Burial pending.
Funeral services for Mrs Cecilia E Gillin of 809 Second Avenue SW, who died at a local hospital at 3 am Monday, will be held at St Patrick's Church at 9 am Wednesday. The Rev D J Lenihan will officiate the requiem high mass and burial will be in Mount Calvary.
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Funeral services set for Shirley Lorraine McDowell age 13 months at Janeba funeral home 2 pm Wednesday conducted by Rev W Glenn Rowley. Burial in Cedar Memorial park. Friends may call at the funeral home. The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m Tuesday by Father Lenihan and the fourth unit of the Rosary society at Teahen funeral home. Burial will follow in Cedar Memorial park.
In Memoriam notice for A C Comstock who died November 28 1937 from his daughters. The memorial expresses love and sorrow, recalling his love of hunting fishing and nature and notes a home of happiness left behind. Funeral Home listings appear with contact details.
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