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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1940
Page
2
ARMOUR STOCK YARDS Huc on Aug 14 steady hog quotations top price 6.25 receipts 500 cattle 150 sheep 200 price ranges for various weights and grades noted. Representative sales Sioux City and Sioux Falls report hogs uneven tops 6.35, butchers 6.35, sows 5.45, cattle steady to strong.
Chicago and nearby livestock centers report steady to higher hog bids with top at 6.85. Cattle and calves also mixed but generally firmer, while sheep and lambs display varied gains. Slaughter hogs around 9,000 to 9,400 head in Chicago with strong demand from packers, and steady to higher prices noted for 200-240 lb and 240-275 lb pigs. Chicago, St Paul, and Sioux City listings show firm to advancing quotes, driven by improved demand and weight classes. Includes hogs, cattle, calves, sheep, and lambs with price ranges and top figures.
The New York and Chicago markets show mild upturns in steels and aircraft stocks, with overall list drift after a sharp prior drop. Trading volume eased to about 360,000 shares as investors awaited further cues amid ongoing aerial warfare developments.
Market snapshot shows a mild rally in steels and aircrafts while bonds fall and loans lag. The exchange and sterling edge higher as September liquidity erodes. Wheat and coro ease, cattle and hogs rise slightly. overall activity mixed with scattered hedges.
Wheat prices dipped about 14 cents a bushel then steadied near seasonal lows, with prices from September and December contracts showing continuation of the pressure. Traders cited mill buying and short covering as factors helping steady the market while corn and oats also moved lower or unchanged.
Minneapolis reports cash grain quotes for August 14 to 17 with futures and spot levels. Wheat receipts reach 605 cars, down from last year, with No 1 heavy northern at 72 3 quarter to 74 and No 1 dark hard winter at 71 1 half. Corn and oats show mixed prices, rye and flax listed with current bids. sweet clover seed quoted.
British bombers attacked Junkers aircraft plants at Dessau and Bernburg north of Leipzig and munitions works at Luneb and Gravenbroich last night. Fourteen airframes in Germany Belgium Holland and France were also bombed, the air ministry announced tonight.
Berlin says airfields and highways were attacked as Dover bore the brunt of a fourth day of massed raids. Germans claim a 310 mile coast under fire and a 60 mile wide belt in the south. British planes reportedly penetrated toward Potsdam but suffered AA fire. total British aircraft losses reach 363 in four days, with German losses estimated at 3.
Seven teen parachutes bearing German markings were found in midland villages as Home Security urged urgent reports of any parachute troops landing in England. Police and home guards halted traffic in the area. A farmer found several chutes but no trace of men nearby, as authorities intensify a day-long search in England's industrial midlands.
British forces in Somaliland reported a serious but not critical situation near Berbera as Italian forces fought in the hills. In Europe, German planes penetrated coastal defenses, targeting Midlands industry with heavy raids, while the Luftwaffe sustained waves of attacks across Wales, southeast England, Scotland, and southwest England as Britain entered the Blitz era with fierce air combat and ongoing raids.
Preliminary plans for the Salvation Army annual home service drive will be shaped at tonight s advisory board meeting Capt Adin Read will present his annual budget for consideration at the session in the Chamber of Commerce room at the Marvin Hughitt Hotel at 7 30 o clock Dr I D Sewell will preside over the meeting
Kapphahn, former Huron High School music instructor, sues Martin Haniel of Sioux City and Eppley Hotels for 25,000 after his two year old son Gary suffered a fractured skull when a hotel window screen was removed to view a downtown parade. The incident occurred July 29 at a Sioux City intersection. The father seeks 15,000 in one petition and 10,000 in another.
Foresters directing 1,160 firefighters contend with an 8000 acre fire in the Nez Perce national forest in northern Idaho. High winds pushed growth to over 6000 acres before easing. Officials expect control by Thursday as three new fires emerge, including two from Canada. One fire hit the Kootenai forest in extreme northwest Montana and another burned near Warner Peak by Kalispell.
Lowel Ho Campbell, 80, long time Huron traveling salesman, died in Milwaukee government hospital and was buried there with military honors. He worked as a salesman for Cudshy Packing and later Reid Murdoch in Chicago. He lived in Huron at 241 Colorado Ave NW. survived by two daughters Yoseph Taylor of Tampa and Florence Campbell, a Duke University hospital dietician in Durham NC, an aunt Mrs M Tovina Evans of Sioux City. His wife died in 1930.
Stockholm dispatch reports the 1,300 ton Swedish steamer Varia sunk in an air attack over the English Channel. Eight crewmen are missing while ten were saved.
In a continuation of Page One discussion, the speaker warns that a draft acceptance speech next Saturday could render the issue dead. Senator Wheeler of Montana argues that enacting a US draft would be Hitler’s greatest victory and would sever democracy, urging Burke-Wadsworth as law.
At the hospital admissions include John Kleinsasser and MrsWilliam Fritz with surgical and medical cases in Darland Wolsey, and Mra E H Robert. Discharges list Grant god Ruth n ye Mary Evelyn Olson at Huron, Mr Wherton at Wolsey, Elaine Doyle Faith Seemeren Ervin Carolyn Go at Wolsey.
A flash flood swept Elizabethtown and surrounding hills after 24 hours of rain, leaving at least one death and forcing hundreds to flee rising waters. The W River surged twenty feet, with several homes and roads inundated, and authorities evacuated thousands along the Holston and nearby streams as flood warnings spread.
In Shanghai Aug 14 Adm Thomas C Hart met Col Witt Peek ahead of a foreign defense chiefs council. US observers predict a deal trading British sector control north of Scochow Creek for American gains in China while Japan consolidates other areas. Japanese garrison police guard a Pond district gambling site amid talks.
Pickling cakes and vegetables promoted by Bowder's Gardens while a 1928 Dodge and a 1936 V8 Coach are offered in Beadle County. A store listing on 249 Huronite and a request for a 24 inch steel thresher are noted in Highmore.
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