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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1933
Page
8
Market steady on light and medium weight butchers. strong weights down. Cattle and calves mostly steady with varied classes listed. hogs firm to steady with mixed weight ranges. Chicago outside markets mixed. Sioux Falls and St Paul show similar activity. futures mixed in Chicago grains.
MINNEAPOLIS August 4 Wheat futures drifted lower through the session with light trade and scant buying from mills. September and December contracts fell, with oats and rye also down while cash demand remained mixed. Winter wheat showed fair demand, durum steady, oats solid, and barley improving for malting types. Flax demand was fair to good overall.
Sioux City Friday cattle and sheep market shows little change in slaughter steers and yearlings. Fat cows and cutters mostly steady, with feeders and stockers slightly firmer. early sales range near 6.25 to 6.55 per cwt for select cattle, top bids around 6.15 to 6.25 for lighter weights. Sheep and lambs bring around 1.80 per pound for fat lambs, with some loads offered direct and packers indicating coverage needs.
Minneapolis and Duluth markets close with mixed durum, soft red and hard winter wheat quotes. Prices span No 1 northern, No 2 durum, No 3 white, No 1 red durum, with centime and percentage changes for Aug shipments and futures months including Sept and Dec. Flax and oats also listed alongside barley and rye prices for cash trade.
Markets report prices for poultry, eggs, butter, and wool from Huron, Mitchell, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Chicago, and New York. Key items include heavy hens, leghorn hens and springs, eggs prices, butterfat, hides, pelts, and wool quotations with city-by-city pricing and futures notes. Handles multiple firms and regional quotes with dates August 4.
An article reports a disrupted New York stock exchange session where tear gas attacks caused traders to flee the floor. Prices sagged as shares traded in a narrow range, with only about 500 thousand shares moving and significant shifts in several listed firms.
In Chicago on August 4 two U S secret service agents sought to dispose of a gallon of colorless liquid like water suspected to be nitroglycerine. They dragged it through offices including Lieut Treacy at the detective bureau and the county morgue before Dr. Muehlberger safely consumed the explosive by mixing with 20 gallons of alcohol and 20 gallons of lye, then pouring the mixture onto the ground, ending the scare.
Helen Wills Moody, captain of the United States Wightman Cup team, will not play in this afternoon's matches against Great Britain due to a back injury. Sarah Palfrey is named to play singles in Moody's plate, with Moody serving as non playing captain while awaiting further examination by her physician. The back injury is an old issue aggravated by recent practice.
M L Tobin, noted for supporting boys, endorses the Mutt Parade for children and pets staged by the 40 et. 8 during the American Legion convention. He urges every eligible boy in Huron to join the march, stressing participation. Also mentions Berlin minister recall and a flood of stock and bond quotes.
A youthful naval commander plans a stratosphere ascent ten miles above the clouds for scientific knowledge tonight at 11. Weather observers report favorable atmospheric conditions across the Western Hemisphere after weeks of delay.
Avenue Lumber Co will install an automatic cost stoker at the county courthouse this winter. Auditor A M Fuller announced the bid of 675 by the Huron firm was accepted by the commissioners. Estimated fuel savings will pay for the stoker within three years. Farmers Co operative elevator won coal supply contract. Blue Grass treated screenings for stoker use bid was 7.39 per ton. George C Hunt plumbing contractor awarded contracts for repairs and replacements in the courthouse heating plant with a bid of 7.
Evansville learns of a mongrel dog saved from drowning in the Ohio River by Mrs. Billy Lee Weingartner of Louisville Miss Kentucky, who carried the pup to shore. The woman nearly perished herself while rescuing the dog and now provides the dog a home.
Miss Beatrice Gottlieb of Tuckahoe New York defeated the Prince of Wales at golf in London on August 4. She will return to America with a bar of golf balls from the prince and one club missing from her bag, the gifted club now in the prince's possession.
Aug 4 report states Kotkai a 100 inhabitant hamlet on the northwestern frontier was reduced to ruins by two British air force bombardments aimed at compelling Bajauri tribesmen to surrender three agitators. Practically all buildings were levelled.
James P Conroy, wanted for cattle rustling in west river counties, broke jail and escaped Gettysburg this morning after being brought from Mitchell last night. A stolen showing car of a local auto denier, a black Chevrolet with cream wheels and dealer license, is believed taken by Conroy. The car contained a 22 caliber pistol and ammunition.
New York report says Fran cee W. King was sentenced to five to ten years for attempted blackmail of Bruce Barton the author and advertising executive. A general sessions jury convicted her of blackmail for trying to obtain fifty thousand dollars by threatening to publish a novel Barton called a scurrilous and vicious libel.
Chicago reports that twelve more witnesses will be brought before a federal grand jury Monday in the government push to obtain indictments against alleged illegal possession of barcities at racetracks. Names unrevealed but believed to include race track officials owners trainers and handlers.
Gen Italo Balbo announced a 24 aircraft squadron would switch its return path from Shoal Harbor to the Azores and Lisbon due to persistent north Atlantic weather. The plan shift follows the original Valentia Island trajectory, with the new route avoiding rough seas and storms near Valentia.
Dayton dispatch reports aviator Wiley Post, after a brief Wright Field visit and return of engineers a radio directional compass, took off for Oklahoma City. Post submitted a written report on the compass operation to army officers before departure.
Raymond Moley, assistant secretary, is named to head the government's drive against crime. He warns against expecting immediate miracles and refuses to resign his state department post, stating he has no such intention.
New York August 4 Henry Morgenthau Sr United States delegate to the Geneva wheat conference and adviser at the London economic conference returned to the liner Berengatia with the view that Europe is on the brink of war All European countries are conscripting resources and wary of wheat curtailment He said Geneva agreements were the best possible but not perfect Europe is ready for war France seeks self containment and Germany faces internal or external war conditions across the continent with rising armament and mutual distrust
Scores list rain postponements and results across major leagues. National League Cincinnati beat Chicago 2 to 1. New York at Philadelphia postponed. Northern League sweeping results include Superior East Grand Forks 4 Eau Claire 3, Fargo-Moorhead 10 Crookston 5. American Association Milwaukee 3 7 Columbus 5 9. Nebraska League Sioux Falls 13 Lincoln 7 and Norfolk 3 5 Beatrice 5 6.
Oarsmen from San Francisco and Philadelphia head the field as Canada and the United States compete in the sixty first annual amateur regatta on Lake Michigan. Trials in eight events scheduled today after yesterday's postponement due to high seas and rain.
The House approved banking measures aimed at protecting the small town banker. Two other bills passed to punish bad check issuance with fines up to 100 dollars and up to three days in jail, and to let county commissioners use county funds for side road relief. Action on pari mutuel betting was deferred. a 12 percent tax on bets would fund poor relief.
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