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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1935
Page
28
Chicago reports a week of overall lower livestock trading with nominal prices. Hogs averaged around 10.48 per hundredweight with a 11.15 top, cattle and sheep fluctuated. fed steers and yearlings closed steady to slightly lower, fat lambs and feeders showing mixed results as packers moved limited lots.
Chicago AP reports livestock receipts with cattle 600 and calves 300 as market shifts 25 cents lower to 25 cents higher. Cattle prices: cows 4.56, heifers 11.60, calves 12.75. Hogs receipts 2,500 with 2,200 direct and a top 11.15. Sheep receipts 6,000 with lambs around 9.25.
Receipts 2,500 cattle market shade lower to 25 cents higher with steers 9.00 to 10.50, heifers 9.75, cows 4.25 to 15.25, cutters 3.50 to 4.40. Hogs receipts 200, prices 8.05 to 8.85 on packing sows. Sheep receipts 600, lambs 8.45 to 8.85. Iowa hog receipts show 4,400 for four yards and plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota, with prices across weights and categories noted and trends mostly higher for the day.
Chicago price listings show unsettled markets across eggs and poultry with steady to firmer receipts for live and fresh items. Potatoes on track with on hand and shipments up totaling 783, Idaho and Wisconsin russets and cobblers priced in various U S No 1 and No 2 grades.
Chicago Butter futures closed with storage standards and a 26 percent decline. Egg futures showed 29 2 to 34 2 cent ranges with mixed colors. New York Produce notes steady butter receipts at 10 409, cheese at 114 648, egg receipts 15 634, and live poultry prices firm with chickens at 22 26 cents.
New York markets edged up in a brief session as shares in metals, autos, and airplanes led gains. Transfers reached about 80 000 shares with several rails and utilities advancing, while questions over the war outlook kept a cautious tone. Major movers included U S Smelting, General Motors, Boeing, Chrysler, and International Nickel with several new highs for the year.
McGregor High School crushed Luana 19 to 9 in a Friday baseball game. McGregor offense exploded with multiple runs as Luana struggled to respond.
Haod Mo Warner and Martha Rampott both of Cedar Rapids. Cal Fo Anderson of Keosauqua and Mildred Mac Morris of Center Point. Charles E Snyder and Dorothy M Daywitt, both of Cedar Rapids.
Wheat prices climbed to new seasonal highs on Saturday at the Chicago board of trade. December wheat reached its highest point since August 1934 with gains for December and May deliveries, while corn and oats also advanced. Strong cash markets and European uncertainty underpin the advance as buyers push prices higher across grains.
Chicago cash provisions list bids for wheat corn oats and soybeans with various grades and shipments including No 3 red 93c No 4 yellow 87c and No 2 white oats 46 3 4c plus Minneapolis grain notes showing No 1 heavy dark northern spring and No 1 dark northern prices and arrival forecasts for several weeks ahead.
Moderate wool trading last week with higher firm prices for 648 and finer territory wools. Prices ranged from 71 to 73 cents for short French combing and clothing staples to about 1.07 dollars for average to good French combing. Foreign exchange in New York steady with various regional rates and currencies listed.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Irvin will be held Sunday at 4 p.m. in Beatty chapel. The Rev. Melvin Welke will officiate, with burial in the family lot at Oak Hill cemetery.
Hungerford funeral will be held at the home 143 Thirtieth Street Drive SE at 2 pm Sunday conducted by Rev A A Brooks. Burial follows in Linwood cemetery. Friends may call at Beatty chapel until 5 Saturday and then at the home.
Stanley Klepach aged 38 of 1506 Sixteenth Avenue SE died at Oakdale sanatorium at 1130 am Saturday after a lingering illness. Born in Cedar Rapids he had lived here all his life. Survived by wife two daughters Bernice Irene and Margaret Ann his father Jacob Klepach a sister Mrs Mary Klouda and three brothers Frank William both of Cedar Rapids and John of Florida.
Facing a rabbit plague, farmers in Leicestershire England resorted to shooting the pest and distributing the meat to the poor as a relief gesture.
Hog prices rise on the local market with all grades up a nickel to a top of 10.40 dollars. Wheat and shelled corn also show small increases, supporting livestock buyers.
A Cedar Rapids market listing details current prices for grain and produce. Wheat at 88 95c, oats 23 28c, corn shelled 68 76c, ear 62% 68c, various poultry and eggs prices, wholesale fruits and vegetables with assorted per unit costs, and hides and horse listings. Includes ranges for oranges lemons potatoes pears apples bananas lettuce cabbage onions and other staples.
In New York, government bonds posted uneven gains with the Farm Mortgage 3s under pressure while 7s from Italy led foreign issues up about two points. Rail and utility issues such as Atchison 4s Baltimore and Ohio 4 4s Canadian Pacific debentures St Paul 6s Erie 5s and Southern Railway 4 3s gained up to a point, as Austrian 7s and Polish issues also strengthened.
In Flint Michigan on a Saturday a 69 year old woman, Mrs J Odran, was beaten to death on a street while shopping with her niece Esther Roberts 14. Police say Andrew Goodrich 49 used a table leg to strike her and was grabbed by about six men before officers Capt Edward S Tewhey and Sgt Ray Miller arrived to take him to headquarters.
Mason Smith 25 of Cedar Rapids received an indeterminate five year suspended sentence for assault with intent to rob after pleading guilty. Lenore Duncan 30 pled guilty to illegal liquor possession with deferred sentence. Lucille Hamilton 26 faced not guilty plea in the same case. Russell Fishell 21 was fined 100 dollars for assault and battery in a case tied to an alleged strike with a ginger ale bottle. A jury-waived hearing preceded the disposition.
Linn county's work relief pay roll for the working week ended Thursday totals 5 825 80 for 744 persons who worked 11 702 hours.
Members of the C S A organization planning Sunday's fishing party are asked to contact Jerry Chalupnik or William Carstens. William Carstens was fined 1 dollar in police court for parking before a fire hydrant. Mrs G L Phetteplace, former city resident now in Kansas City, is seriously ill. her sister Nellie Ross went to Kansas City two weeks ago. Charles Earhart was taken to St Luke's hospital from the Quaker Oats plant after a window fell on him, suffering head lacerations.
At the Mid Central County Funeral Directors association meeting Friday evening at Moon chapel Joseph Janeba of Cedar Rapids was elected secretary to succeed Don Gaffney. About seventy five were present.
David Parke 11 of 1618 Sixth Street NW was treated at St Luke's Hospital after a sand burr caught on his mitten and he inhaled it while playing football. He was found at 7 30 a m Friday and the object was removed from his esophagus.
George Cady of 500 Fifth avenue SE reported a pocketbook containing 68 dollars was lost or stolen on Tuesday. D M White of Hotel Montrose said he left a wrist watch in a hotel washroom Friday and found it missing when he returned.
Five year old Marcia Mary Healy, daughter of Mr and Mrs Almont Healy of 558 Forest Drive SE, sustained a deep scalp wound after colliding with a westbound automobile driven by George Laird of 540 Vernon Drive SE on Mount Vernon Avenue SE at Twenty first Street around 11 30 a.m. Thursday.
Five physicians from the area traveled to Waverly on Saturday for the Iowa Clinical Medical Society gathering. Attending were Dr. B. J. Wolverton, Dr. J. Stuart McQuiston, Dr. F. G. Murray, Dr. Howard L. Van Winkle and Dr. F. W. Mulson. Mrs. Wolverton joined as a guest of Mrs. Herbert Rathe. Dr. Wolverton and Dr. McQuiston had returned Thursday from Quincy Illinois where they presented papers at the Mississippi Valley Medical Society meeting.
Goldie Ross, 17, of 907 Seventeenth Avenue SE, riding with C. W. Brandon, suffered minor injuries when Brandon's southbound car on Otis Road SE collided at the Otis road Seventeenth avenue intersection with Claud Guthrie’s car. Guthrie’s vehicle was used to pull Bill Martin’s car from a ditch on nearby streets.
In Neosho Missouri a prisoner captured Saturday was identified by deputies as Thomas L Carpenter not Harry Campbell public enemy No 2 and associate of Alvin Karpis. Carpenter faces charges in Kansas for robbing three Sed an stores mistreating a night watchman and is linked to robberies at Coffeyville Hutchinson. Officials confirmed the capture after reviewing records and photo identifications.
Col. Kyo zaburo Yamada, chief of the War Ministry military affairs bureau, killed himself with a sword after accepting responsibility for the assassination of Major General Tetsuza Nagata last August. Yamada, Nagata’s former chief aide, wounded during the attack on the War Ministry, performed the rite at his home.
Johannes Haslbeck was beheaded with an axe in Berlin for murdering his 16 year old sweetheart. The case details indicate a fatal crime followed by a swift execution style punishment. Authorities reported the brutal act and the subsequent handling by local justice officials.
Psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Woods and Mrs. Margaret Bryan plus Miss Alice Yonkman described aims and methods of social case work. They stressed environment study, careful intake, home placement aims, and broad yet skilled relief workers. The Iowa chapter met for breakfast and planned regional staff sessions.
The Walters family received a large sendoff at a Marion Methodist Church family night, with 225 attendees and speeches from local leaders. Mrs. Walters was honored as the Oxford club and Ladies Aid groups presented gifts, and remarks came from Dr. and Mrs. Walters along with solo and piano numbers.
The Past Noble Grands association of the Rebekah lodge held a guest day Friday with a Picnic luncheon for fifty five women in the I O O F hall. The dinner committee included Mrs. Corda Lewis Mae O Kelly and Mrs. Emma O Kelley. A playlet Inter viewing Servants featured Mrs. Bertha Barnes Mrs. Helen Burns Mrs. Alma Zimmer and others with Mrs. Milner singing a solo. Fire department battled a garage blaze on Lucile Douglas property. Several locals and visitors traveled, including Elmer Schultz and Frank Peterson Jr visiting relatives and attending a wedding.
Capt. Charles M. Lockwood, aged 92, died at the Minnesota Soldiers' Home after living as the sole surviving member of the Last Man's club formed in 1885 by veterans of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. A black drape marked the vigil as taps sounded for him in Minneapolis.
Ownership details for The Cedar Rapids Gazette dated October 1 1935 list publisher J A Miller editor Verne Marshall managing editor John Battin and business manager J L Miller. Names of owners include The Gazette Company Clare Marshall J L Miller Mary Ann Rutherford Verne Marshall Rachel Holt Davis J N Faulkes Mildred Crawford Margaret Mease with no large security holders. Average paid circulation six months to date: 37807.
Addis Ababa dispatches say a bombing of Aduwa killed a American woman and many women and children. Hospital casualties include two white women, one American, and a wounded survivor en route to the capital. Unconfirmed reports link Red Cross hospital bombing between Aduwa and Makale.
A compact listing shows Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran and Neighborhood Chapel services in Marion. Each church reports Sunday school times and morning worship with sermon topics or themes for Bible Sunday and other days, plus union services and midweek activities.
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