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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1939
Page
2
Market notes confirm hog prices rising Tuesday with top at 5.85 and a 10-20 cent gain. Cattle prices were mostly steady, with steer and yearling values steady while spring lambs weakened. Reports cover Chicago and several midwest markets including St Paul and Sioux City with ranges for hogs cattle and sheep and note overall market activity and receipts.
Wheat prices fell by about a cent per bushel today with declines across contracts. September and December wheat showed lower quotes while corn and oats also weakened. exact figures are unclear due to OCR garbling but indicate modest price drops for the day.
Minneapolis markets show wheat receipts 948 today vs 497 a year ago with unchanged trading basis and varied quotes for dark northern and Montana milling durum. Chicago futures list mixed opens with wheat, corn, oats, rye, flax, and beans futures. prices range with September and December contracts reflecting slight shifts.
NEW YORK August 2. Bond markets mixed as governments and foreigns supply. cotton firm sugar steady. Foreign exchange unsettled with prices trimmed. In Chicago live cattle steady to firm, hogs up to 10 cents. Leghorn hens and springs listed with weights and prices. butterfat No.1 and No.2 quoted.
Chicago market notes show butter at 1,047,501 with weakness in creamery 930 score 22 percent. carrots and other prices largely unchanged. Poultry movement steady with live trucks reporting hens and chicks prices varying. broad price ranges for different weight classes and grades.
Produce listings from New York Watertown Sioux City and Mitchell show varied prices across eggs butter cheese and poultry. Entries include weights grades and regional notes with changes and freight affects.
The market climbs amid German Russian diplomatic news and optimism for a possible delay in a pact. Traders weigh potential peace near Danzig and a stop to recent tensions as bonds and government notes see mixed movements.
Police Chief Jake S. Nelson urged Huronians to remove hedge and weed hazards at highway intersections before State Fair week. He warned tangled hedges create traffic risks and stressed a cleanup to prevent accidents during the fair influx.
The SDHSAA hosted its first free coaching clinic on athletic problems drawing 105 coaches from the Black Hills and western South Dakota. All Black Hills Conference schools except Rapid City attended, with talks by Jack Barnes, Harry Gamage, Rube Hoy, Jimmy Baker, Howard Wood, and R E Coffey. Evening sessions covered injury treatment by Frank Cramer and 1939 football rule changes, plus football action footage. Morning and afternoon sessions were at the high school gym. evenings at the Maryin Hughitt Hotel.
Minneapolis market report lists bank stock movements with many names and small percentage changes. The page shows bid, ask, and close figures for numerous banks and industrials, reflecting varied daily shifts and market breadth.
George Thompson and Edwin Kindvall pleaded guilty to grand larceny for cattle theft connected to farms in Beadle and Miner counties. They will be sentenced Saturday before Judge Boyd M. Benson. Joe Meyers and Robert Thoryson, tied to the same offenses, face Miner County charges after recent arrests. A barn near the Charles R. Lowery farm and tire marks linked the suspects to the crimes. Meyers bound over to circuit court on a separate cattle theft charge from the J P Rowan farm near Carthage.
CUSTER Aug 22 Nine CCC enrollees were injured yesterday as their truck left Highway 16 seven miles east of Custer. Adolph Janbek 19 died shortly after arrival at Fort Meade army hospital. Peter Baratta 17 Russell Capello 17 Edmond Nicholls 19 Joseph Perry 17 Dale Furze 20 Arthur Rupp 18 Joseph Schimonitz 17 all Omaha were treated at Fort Meade hospital. Robert Berry 26 Dante D treated at CCC map lodge. Baratta and Capello suffered badly shattered legs possibly amputations. Nicholls ribs fractured lungs possibly punctured. Perry nasal injury. Furze jaw fracture suspected. Dead youth body to be sent to Omaha today.
London reports tentative views on a Russo German non aggression treaty not conflicting with a British Russian American balance. Analysts say a clause allowing denunciation if third party aggression occurs could keep parity, while defining aggression remains essential for Poland defense pledges.
The Townsend Club has announced Mr. Ware will represent Dr. Townsend at the State Fair in Huron. He will speak before the grandstand at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday morning, September. Ware served as national chairman at the June convention in Indianapolis. Tennis Tourney Lake Preston results show Beck and Smithback doubles 6-2 8-3 with Ostroot/Ashbaugh runners-up. Smithback beat Olkjer/Jensen 6-1 6-2 in singles.
Grand Forks North Dakota August 22. PIA reports a film and recitation review on Kiwanis growth presented at the 22nd Minnesota Dakota district conference. Badger Clark of S D addressed a dinner. Participating clubs include Albert Lea Morris and the Twin Cities. Today speakers include Karl Mundt C M Austin and Funck.
DEWITT MACKENZIE reports that a Russo German non aggression pact about to be signed shifts European politics. Poland’s position in its dispute with Germany grows more grave as Britain and France seek Russian aid. If Russia stays neutral, Poland is pressured and Germany appears favored in the Danzig crisis, with potential for a Soviet postwar power rise.
Deputy U S marshals rounded up ten more people indicted by a federal grand jury on interfering with WPA workers as part of a week of rioting in Minneapolis. Twenty-four hours earlier 93 suspects were jailed. today five were already held with bonds ranging up to 10,000. Early arrivals included Myron A. Phillips 25 Ben Gallob 25 and Leslie E Watcher 26. Bond totals and severities varied as fingerprints and bookings continued. Street protests and raids disrupted University Research project access at 200 Harvard Avenue Southeast.
A Hermosa youth was arraigned in justice court on leaving the scene of an accident and failing to return to authorities. The case stems from the death of Melbourne Dorman a 77 year old farmer near Ly man County who was struck on Aug 18. McLaughlin's companions Herbert Campbell and Jay were released. He was bound over to the fall term of circuit court after a preliminary hearing.
Chilly conditions cancel diving events at Lake Fete carnival. Track events proceed at Lake Beech with novelty relays and age group prizes. Free tickets are provided to participants in the city recreation program. a 5:30 p.m. picnic follows at the park bath house with buns and lunches supplied.
Joe Daum Jr a city fireman was hospitalized after a noon crash at Wisconsin Avenue and Fourth Street Northwest. He sustained severe shoulder and hip injuries and possible spinal injury, x rays pending. Daum had just returned from a fire call at Floyd Beck’s residence on UWinua Avenue Northwest. Seabert driving a neighbor’s car struck Daum from the rear. Seabert is a fellow fireman. Traffic damage was light to both vehicles. Beck residence sustained minor damage from a kerosene burning mattress as firefighters arrived.
Surplus commodities will be distributed with schedule by last names. A to G served Wednesday afternoon, H to M Thursday and Friday, N to Z Saturday. Bring own containers and be prepared for pickup at Beatle County surplus commodities headquarters.
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