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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1933
Page
15
Market wrap notes liquidation pressure pushes grain futures lower on the Chicago Board for wheat corn and oats. Prices slide amid weak overseas demand while cash prices ease and trading volume appears steady in the morning session with some contracts off by several cents.
Chicago cash grain prices show WHEAT No 32 red 80r. CORN No 3 weed 36%46137¢. various No 2, No 3, No 4 yellow and white bids. Minneapolis market notes receipts 322 cars, lower cash No 1 northern 67 30, No 3 dark 77 27, amber durum and red durum bids. OATS No 2 white 243? No 3 white 253d. BARLEY 38% 73¢. TIMOTHY SEED 0. Waited figures include protein percentages and grade indicators.
Market notes from Cedar Rapids list grain prices like rye 48c bushel barley 45c corn 25c, baled hay 7.00 and 5.00, heavy hens 8.7c, leghorn hens 6.5c, heavy and light springs various per pound. Produce prices include California Valencia oranges 4.25, grapefruit 4.00, lemons 6.50, bananas 6.24, head lettuce 3.00 per crate, apples Jonathans 2.52 per bushel, celery 60c per dozen, cabbage 3.00 per owt, oysters 1.40. Hides, calves, and horses priced per unit. no cured hides.
New York bond traders focus on the Treasury plan to call 1 875 million Liberty 4s. Uncalled portions rose to about 2 point in early trades as the Liberty 4s traded around 102 14 to 102 43.44, with conversion into the proposed 10 to 12 year notes considered.
Investors sold prime investment grade bonds in some sectors while higher quality issues attracted interest in industrial and unity divisions. Dealers noted liquidity concerns and a cautious tone as authorities signaled a stable stance amid foreign issue worries.
Hog prices advance with most packs 5 to 10 cents higher. prime hogs listed at 40 through 445 dollars per head depending on weight and grade. Packers seeing gains, SINCLAIR HOG MARKET notes prime beef and hogs across 240 to 190 pounds ranges. Sheep market shows springs lambs 70 to 80 pounds around 5.75 dollars, buck lambs close to eight dollars, quality dependent.
New York stocks and Staples edged lower amid nerves over the administration’s Liberty loan conversion plan for new long term bonds totaling about 2 billion dollars. The market showed dull, spiritless trading with high grade issues steady while many leading issues slipped. bankers warned inflation risks linger and a future Congress could push currency expansion.
Special to The Gazette. Reports on Delta funerals for Norman V Manley. Hampton Methodist talk on Iowa the Beautiful. Cascade Legion officers. Decorah bank deposits release. Winneshiek medical agreement cancellation. Tama and Cascade marriage notices. Cascade Temple Hill marriages.
Gus Winkler, once a leading figure in Egan's Rats and Chicago's top public enemy, had a hurried St Louis funeral attended by about 3,000 onlookers. The planned $10,000 casket and jewels were absent as pallbearers from Chicago watched over a plain coffin, amid tense moments with photographers attacked by Winkler’s Chicago friends.
Read about Ardella Koppes marrying in St. Peter’s church with a reception at the couple’s home, and Harry Hocrsowsky losing fingers in a rip saw accident. Also reported are church federation speakers, youth conference plans, women’s club elections, legion officers, legal cases, a death, and bank robbery aftermath in Oelwein.
Independence prepares for a Friday night game after a 14 7 victory over Sumner. Coach M A Farrah reviews faults from the Sumner match and works with ends and backfield players on punting and returning punts. The squad reports good health and readiness for Waverly.
In Charlotte fourteen elephants from the Barnum and Bailey circus collapsed with colic after a Thursday feeding. Vets treated the herd while caretakers and roustabouts faced the strain of breaking camp and moving to the next one night stand. Soothing syrup flooded town drug stores as the troupe endured the siege in canvas stables.
Mrs Ella C Watson and Mrs Emma Mueller left Thursday night for El Reno Oklahoma. S H Weiss left Thursday night for Wichita Kansas. Fresh shipment Jones sausage and Baresi. Hladky's 4141 Advertisement. Mrs Aaron Delbridge was called to Milwaukee Thursday by the serious illness of her father. Get the Habit More and more people are dining and dancing at the many popular places advertising nightly under classification 4 A in the Want Ads. Advertisement.
Rabbi Goldstein will conduct services at Temple Judah Friday at 8 pm. All friends and members are invited to attend.
Melvin Cronbaugh aged 23 of 310 Sixth Avenue SW sustained a fractured right wrist at 6 am Friday when a car he was cranking backfired. He received treatment at St. Luke's hospital and was released.
The Boy Scout swimming club at the YMCA pool will meet at 11 a.m. each Saturday starting this week, due to the addition of two new swimming classes. The club provides instruction and examinations required by the Boy Scout organization.
Foster I. Melson of Tipton was fined 100 dollars and costs for reckless driving. Miles Platt of 221 Highland drive NW, Fred Hartt of Fairfax, and W. E. McDowell of Ames were fined 10 dollars plus costs for speeding. Margaret Lawler of 1115 Second avenue SE was fined 2 dollars and costs for overtime parking.
R Maxson reported the theft of a sample case from his car parked at 904 Fourteenth Avenue SE around 6 15 p m Friday. F S Armstrong said a thief entered his locked garage Thursday night and stole a rear view mirror from his truck and that gasoline had been stolen from the truck on several recent occasions.
Joe Rebec of 1107 First Street SW suffered a dislocated shoulder in an 11:15 a.m. Friday automobile collision at Fifth Avenue and Third Street SW. He rode with Frank Stanek of 1109 Hamilton Street SW. Opposing driver Leo T. Walrath of 1208 Third Street SW drove the other car. Both vehicles overturned. neither driver was injured. Rebec was treated at a doctor’s office.
Philadelphia AP report states Ford Motor Co of Detroit must pay $100000 to the defunct Sweeten Automobile Distributing Co for contract violations by Lincoln Motor Car Co. An appeal will follow. Judgment covered promissory notes and receiver claims of $160110. Henry Ford allegedly promised to assume Lincoln obligations. Ford denies.
Morton son of Ralph Budd joined the Chicago Anti Superstition Society by marrying Mrs. Margaret Osborne daughter of Ralph Budd president of the Burlington railroad. The ceremony was a quiet home affair in Dubuque Iowa with Mortons sister hosting.
Cedar Rapids reports traffic toll figures for the year with counts of accidents injuries and fatalities. The brief lists totals and notes rising concern over vehicle incidents in the city.
Senator Copeland of New York told an anti crime conference that organized crime threatens government and urged measures including state compacts with congressional approval, expanded justice department personnel, fingerprinting, updating the Lindbergh law, banning stolen goods interstate, firearms control, parole study, and limited peremptory challenges. He warned new constitutional amendments are unnecessary as public opinion must rise to reform.
Dolly A. of 610 I avenue NW asked police to investigate after thieves stripped two cars in her yard. One car lost ten gallons of gasoline and a spare tire while the other had its generator and tools taken. Brown apartments at 1234 Fourth avenue SE reported petty thefts with a knife opening doors and small items stolen including fountain pens, fifty cents, a cameo pin and an amethyst ring. An attempted breakin occurred at a third apartment.
Mrs Bertha D Williams 55 wife of Robert A Williams died at 2301 Eighteenth street NW after a short illness. Born February 14 1878 in Cedar Rapids she lived here all her life and is survived by her husband six children a sister and a brother. Funeral at Beatty chapel 3 p.m. Monday burial Oak Hill cemetery. Friends may call Saturday and Sunday 7 to 9 p.m.
James B. Colbert and Georgia Ceynar both of Cedar Rapids. Melvin Reeve and Verona Jenkins both of Grand Island Nebraska. Robert S. McIntyre and Thelma G. Mason both of Cedar Rapids.
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