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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1938
Page
2
ARMOUR STOCK YARDS Huron July 14 hog market was active with gains, top at 9.40, receipts around 459. Cattle calves and sheep mixed, hogs led gains while cattle and calves showed weakness. lambs strengthened slightly. Trading slow and uneven with limited demand and prices varying by weight and class.
Markets across Turon Daly and Huron list poultry and egg prices by weight and type. Heavy hens, Leghorn hens, roosters, springs, and eggs appear with regional figures, with variados from Mitchell to Watertown and Sioux Falls noting prices for butterfat and butter.
Markets At Glance reports New York stock rally fading with mixed bonds rails down. Minneapolis cash close shows wheat, corn, oats, flax prices with bids and basis, while Duluth and flour quotations reflect unchanged or modest shifts.
Thursday reports from St Paul Sioux Falls and Sioux City show cattle and hog prices mixed with declines in hogs and steady to weak undertones in cattle. Slaughter steers and beef cows softening while hogs are down 15 to 25 cents, with some top quotes around 9.10 to 9.55 per hundredweight and bulk sales subdued. Dairy cows and springer bids steady to firm in places, with regional variations in calf and sheep prices reflected in scattered market notes.
Across New York and Chicago markets dated July 4 and July 14, dairy prices remained largely steady with occasional slight shifts. Butter and eggs held firm, poultry showed mixed signals with live fowl and broilers varying by source, and potatoes across regions remained near steady with some supplies lifting or lagging demand.
Chicago on July 14 reports complex government wheat loan plans causing volatile price moves with late session declines. Futures fell 72 cents from yesterday as traders await clarity on base seaboard prices and potential export burdens. Minneapolis grain reports show varied carlot bids with No 1 dark northern wheat at 2% to 2% and amber durum prices around 40 to 73 cents.
Stocks faltered after a brief rally on July 14 as leading issues retreated and volume fell. Motors and steel led forenoon gains while late trading saw fractions firm or slip, with many investors cashing profits amid talk of a pending correction. Transfers ran around 1.1 million, well below the prior day, and brokerage rooms noted renewed cautiousness despite some moderating advances.
Hollywood notes a fragile glass prism nearly the size of a half dollar enabling a standard movie camera to perceive a third dimension. The prism, after six years of work by Joseph Valenting of Universal Studio, transforms flat likenesses into rounded figures and separates foregrounds from backgrounds for realer space.
San Diego gala reports Consolidated Aircraft announces plans for a 100 passenger flying boat. The three deck craft would weigh 168000 pounds with a 194 foot wingspan and 30000 foot service ceiling. Capacity 8450 gallons fuel, crew 36, 276 mph top speed, range 5000 miles.
Danish Count Haurwitz-Reventlow seeks access to his young son Lance in London amid divorce tensions with Barbara Hutton. A court hearing ordered he stay away from the London residence while the boy remains under guard and ward in chancery, with connections to the Woolworth heiress.
Washington July 24 AP The government monopoly inquiry chairman Senator O Mahoney said Brookings Institution report on industrial price policies shows large corporations have not reduced competition and have raised the amount of manufactured foods the average worker can buy since 1870. The study aims to set out facts for further findings.
The turbulent Missouri River fell along the Iowa Nebraska border easing flood fears. Omaha reports 18 feet flood stage down eight tenths from the crest. Blair Sioux City and Nebraska City show lower water as observers say a new rise crest has passed and river basins drain slowly.
The Myers Corner Auu W softball game slated for Armour A C diamond will be played at Ravine Park instead due to a pre scheduled intramural game. Ross Gascoigne Myers Corner manager announced the change late this afternoon. The game at Ravine Park will start about 6 17 this evening.
Members of the new Civil Aeronautics Authority gathered to organize what advisers call a made regulatory agency. The independent administrator handles executive authority while the board acts quasi-judicial and legislative, with Clinton M. Hester named to the position.
Fevengnean of the Investors Syndicate and district members meet to reorganize the district and plan stationing of an assistant. Main offices for this area are in Aberdeen. Koughan says South Dakota is leaving a low mood and expects increased business prompting these steps.
A peace committee of United Auto Workers leaders representing about 175,000 workers asked John L. Lewis to restore unity. Walter Reuther of Detroit said the panel would push Lewis to outline steps for reconciliation. The group includes 13 local presidents from Detroit Saginaw Bay City Cleveland and Toledo. Homer Martin had suspended five officers weeks earlier over disruptions to his harmony plan. Reuther aims to reinstate them and fulfill Martin's program.
London July 1447 King George VI has recovered enough from a gassile influenza attack to leave his bed and is expected to fulfill plans to travel to France with Queen Elizabeth the following week. They are scheduled to depart Paris on July 19. The hospital section lists admissions and dismissals including several patients by name and ailment.
A Montana Montana Montanans Inc meeting with culturalists, milling, railway men, and chamber of commerce representatives drafted a plan to preserve spring wheat allotments across Montana, North and South Dakota, and Minnesota. The session opened after lunch to craft a coordinated approach amid a protest to curtailment.
London Kentucky July Hey A defend ant in the Harlan Labor Conspiracy was held today for arraignment in Harlan Kentucky following the death of miner Charles Reno. Lou Fleenor former deputy sheriff faces wounding charges and a hearing before County Judge Cam Ball. Sheriff C C Ball says Fleenor admitted firing at Reno on July and claimed self defense.
London July The Privy Council dismissed the third of three Alberta appeals against Dominion Supreme Court rulings voiding Aberhart social credit measures. The case involved a tax on chartered banks as part of the Alberta press bill and related regulatory proposals.
A sudden insurgent push down the Teruel highway in Spain's civil war threatened to trap government troops at Mora de Rubielos near Valencia. Raiding bands in Palestine attacked the village of Ramat Jochanan near Haifa, wounding two. The Holy Land strife continued with Arab and Jewish deaths, about 350 reported since July 3. Finland ready to host 1944 Olympics if offered. Count Latour expects Finland to accept, Olympics possible on smaller scale.
Hughes and crew landed at Floyd Bennett Field and rode to Manhattan with a police escort. Crowds swarmed the route as officials planned a possible parade through Greenwich Village to Grover Whalen’s residence.
A supplemental CCC enrollment will fix the Huron camp on July 18, announced by Miss Mabel Lucado Beadle County Social Security officer. The July 11 event will draw youths from across the state and assign to the camp. Sixteen local youths recently joined the Mitchell enrollment, near the quota, including George Deerman and Virgil Buckley among others.
Earl Meyers of Horon wins this week's sweepstake prize a ticket to the Huron Theatre. Other winners named include Vernors Meyers LeRoy Ticter Mary Johnson Bey Cor Huron Gene Case Margaret Se eile Rex Route 4 Huron Verelyn Wol gan John Rucers 2 ard Geyer Mary Hammon Yur jon. Entries must reach the newspaper office by 5 o'clock Friday. Tickets may be picked up at the Hance Theatre box office on the show day.
Four persons were slain and one wounded when a 40 year old Black landholder, D Register, went berserk. John H. Smith, a store owner, killed the assailant. A. B. Humphries, justice of the peace, said the killer shot his wife Newell Ellison and another Black man Leonard Hughey, and wounded Roy Allen, former Hawkins postmaster.
Found at circus grounds three small keys in a key tainer. Inquire at Huronite for sale or rent six room modern halls breakfast room automatic water heater. Also four modern duplex downstairs phone 157. Final clearance one 3937 cubic foot electric refrigerator good condition $82.95. Montgomery Ward $4,000 property for sale $1650. All modern five room house basement garage hedge trees shrubs. Real bargain terms to reliable buyer. Mc Traine's phone 8120 or 4337-160 2nd S. WW. For rent modern duplex close in newly decorated 3 room house 11s Nebraska S. W. $20. Six room house 60 Montana S. W. $10. Four room house 43 Ohio S. W. $10. Mell 8120 or 4357-150 nd S.W.
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