Corn Prices Hit New Top in Six Years
Dull market for corn pushes prices to fresh highs the year. Argentine shipments rise and other grains also climb as buyers face higher costs and storage concerns.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1936
Page
1
Dull market for corn pushes prices to fresh highs the year. Argentine shipments rise and other grains also climb as buyers face higher costs and storage concerns.
President Roosevelt, speaking partly in French, praised the peaceful Canada United States relationship and urged further cooperation. In Quebec the visit featured ceremonies, a guard of honor, and calls for joint action on the St Lawrence waterway reciprocity trade and the Passamaquoddy project as officials from both nations welcomed him.
Harrisburg dispatch reports a revived effort to implement a 50.5 million dollar revenue program after a ten day pause. The plan aims to end protracted adjournment fights and clear a bipartisan tax relief package through a special session.
At the Quarterly Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in Christchurch the return of Rev H Ray Harris was announced. Officials commended progress toward a larger church building and authorized a loan to complete construction. Two trustees were re elected and Erie Annual Conference delegates named.
Harrisburg reports that a joint resolution signed by Governor Basie creates a committee of three senators and three representatives to study unemployment relief needs. The group will draft permanent administration and coordinating legislation for the 1997 regular session, with a $5,000 appropriation. The aim is centralized relief distribution and improved handling of future unemployment funds.
Greensburg Pa July 12 year old William Coy of Vande erltt pleaded guilty to malicious mischief for a prank placing iron on tracks that wrecked a train and killed a fireman. He was sentenced to industrial training school at Morganza.
The Wednen Motor Car and subsidiaries report consolidated profit before Federal income taxes of 2 144 605 for the six months ended June 30. This is the largest earnings for any half year since 1930, compared with 50 978 in the first half of 1930. June quarter profit is 1 551 978 versus 825 367 in June quarter 1935.
Special sale day attracts many shoppers to town with brisk business across participating Corey merchants. Merchants note heavy trade since holiday season and attract out of town visitors, despite congested parking. Golden Rule Club sponsors, reports to be shared at Spring Creek dinner meeting Monday.
Nine American and foreign residents from Palmas Majorca board the American freighter MxochaNér just before air raids. Dispatches warn the Spanish civil war could spark a wider European conflagration as Fascist rebels fight the Socialist Communist government amid divided international sympathy.
Immediate steps include formation of a patrol substation in the city to target high accident areas. Patrolman Calin is promoted to acting corporal. J W Brightie and AL Swain will be assigned to the district. Patrolmen will patrol nine hours daily and dedicate time to reports and driver licensing. Strict highway law enforcement is urged to reduce accidents.
About five hundred Ethiopian warriors were reported killed in a dawn assault on the capital. Italian troops used the American Presbyterian Hospital as a fortress and fought with bombing planes artillery and machine guns amid the rainy season.
Kenneth Wagner eighty and Mrs Jess Hankey twenty five face a murder hearing in Greensburg Pa on charges they killed Wagner's infant daughter by feeding her a solution of lye. District Attorney Richard Laird said arraignment likely tonight before Judge Alverman J Walter.
Prisoners convicted on quadroet charges in the November 1944 Kelayres election eve case flee to appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The appeal seeks review of the convictions with arguments tied to dates and timing noted in court filings.
Former U S senator Knox assailed the New Deal as regimentation and coercion in a Chicago Stadium rally. He accepted the vice presidential nomination with a call to party unity and a bold pitch for the Republican path as the 1936 campaign accelerates across multiple fronts.
Anna Bender, 19, whose flesh is described as hot and nerveless, was declared incurable by doctors. Her family learned of the hopeless condition as she left the hospital to die at home, seeking to be with her loved ones.
50 year old Altoona attorney Oldmixon was held in default of $10,000 bail on charges that he tried to bribe two federal agents. The event occurred in Altoona, Pennsylvania, with the July report noting the bribery accusation and detention.
Pennsylvania National Guard detachments wrap up annual war games at Indiantown Gap with 3 000 acre reserve tent city breaking camp today. Company A and other units head home as the reservation empties amid 9 000 guardsmen and a fatal injury to Carmine Talcontpo of Philadelphia in a truck accident near Ephrata.
A crash ten miles east of Everett, Pennsylvania, killed Mrs Bilsha Gayzakian, 45, instantly and sent five others to the hospital. The collision involved a car driven by her husband and another vehicle driven by Henry Pawlasky of Farrell, Pennsylvania.
A 100 mile hour hurricane roared through northwest Florida causing destruction and disrupted communications. A schooner with nine aboard, the Bob, was reported missing near Port Walton with no confirmed deaths. The storm also endangered a small schooner Tarpon and prompted Coast Guard search efforts from Mobile and Santa Rosa bases. Weather fell from 95 to 54 degrees with a drop in pressure signaling the worst of the storm.
Pennsmoore Oil Company of Olean has let a contract for forty wells on its lease in Warren County near Goodwill. The plan targets 92 wells and new gas and pressure plants within twelve months, with work starting within ten days and using compressed gas as a driving medium. The firm owns about 600 acres in a solid block and aims to fill the tract in a five year campaign.
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