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Evening Huronite

Location

Huron, South Dakota, United States of America

Date

Mar 12, 1940

Page

2

Market News Price Quotations Change at Armour Stock Yards

Hog prices Tuesday held steady to weak after Monday's sale with hogs about 4.96 per cwt top for some classes. Receipts about 4,500 salable hogs. cattle 160 head. Butchers down 2.30 to 3.00, sow and stag ranges noted. Sheep and lamb prices unsure, under underscored brisk demand for fat lambs and slaughter ewes.

Armour Stock Yards Buren Mat Seady Sioux City Mar Chicago Bt. Paul St, Paul M.N. S Sioux Falls

Huron Produce Markets and Midwest Livestock Prices

Market report from Huron and multiple Midwest centers shows mixed demand. Hog prices steady to up to 5 cents higher with top at 5.40. cattle and calves generally steady to higher, with feeds and feeders active. Sioux Falls, Sioux City, Watertown, Mitchell, and Chicago futures noted alongside egg and butter fats pricing.

Sioux City Chicago Mer Plymouth Rock Eges

Markets At Glance From New York and Chicago

Markets at a glance show irregular early stock rallies fading while bonds improve and foreign loans remain in demand. Exchange nervousness persists as sterling declines on a new stamp, cotton steady with foreign liquidation, sugar narrow with buying by commission and operators, metals quiet as export demand wanes, wool mixed with selling. Chicago reports wheat and corn weak on rumors and slow demand, cattle strong with price rises, and durability prices for refrigerators shown in scattered quotes.

New York Chicago Finland

Wheat No. 2 dark leads loss on uncertain peace rumors

Chicago wheat futures fell about a cent as rumors of a Russian Finnish armistice unsettled traders. Prices slid to session lows before closing weak, with May around 103 1 4 cents and July near 101 1 4 cents amid general price pressure. Cash and futures figures for oats, rye, and barley also quoted from Chicago and Minneapolis markets.

Chicago Mar Iz Wis Darrow Conan

Truce Reports Send Aircrafts Into Dive

Markets tumbled as air stocks and blue chips slid after reports of a Finland Soviet truce. Trading closed with many leading names down including Douglas United Aircraft Bendix Martin Sears Roebuck Dew Chemical American Telephone Celanese and Du Pont.

ASO Afr Oes Ae Raircrafts Finland Soviet Russia Douglas United Aircraft Bendix Martin Sears Roebuck Dew Chemical American Telephone Celanese du Pont

Huron Legion To Celebrate Birthday Dinner Event

Huron Legion and Auxiliary plan a twenty first birthday dinner at the Congregational Church next Monday at 6 30 PM. Members, spouses, and friends are welcome. A post dinner program will award essay contest prizes for Beadle Yural school children, part of the Americanization committee activities led by Miss Gladys Pyle and Tom Luby. Tickets from G L McNamara or Mrs Herschel Cooley. Community Activities unit chairs Mrs Grant Van Duzee and co chair Mrs Nick Koppert.

Huron Legion and Auxiliary Legion Congregational Church Legion and Auxiliary Beadle Americanizaton Committee Gladys Pyle Tom Luby G. L McNamara Herschel Cooley Grant van Duzee Nick Koppert

Roosevelt Slate Well Organized in New Hampshire Primary

In Manchester on March 12 a Roosevelt backed slate of Democratic delegates faced unpledged rivals in the states first primary test for a second term. Robert H Sanderson led unpledged opposition while Roosevelt loyalists claimed a five seat edge among 12 convention posts with 24 Democrats contesting.

New Hampshire Manchester N. H Mar WPI Iit Roosevelt Robert H Sanderson New Hampshire House Democratic State Committee James A. Farley Zone John N. Garner

Rescuing Cigaret Drops Cost Newsman Big Bill

Pierre March 12 Harold S Milner complained that saving a dropped cigaret cost him 125 dollars as his car slid on a slick street and crashed into four parked cars. He spent the day paying for crumpled fenders and windshields.

Cigaret Pierre Harold S. Milner

Sting and Swing concert features modern numbers

A senior high school program titled Sting and Swing will stage modern swing and jitterbug numbers along with waltzes and semi classical pieces. Miss Helen Buchgnen directs performances by Treble Clef Club Troubadors and Don Shaw's orchestra in the Senior High School auditorium Thursday at 8 o'clock with tap and dance routines, vocal selections, and school songs.

Helen Buchgnen Claf Clair Troubadors Don Shaw Mary Bluebirds Dorothy Brown Wayne Rowcliffe Belayne Quale Mose Ts Dead Philip Tyrrell Jeanne Hathaway Philip Tyrrel Wayne Rowncliffe Dinah Treble Clef Club Lorraine Olson Marge Georgiades Carol Sikorra Peggy Fickeli Lois Green Dayton Brown Stage Electrician

Scandinavia wary as peace talks stall over Finland

The Copenhagen dispatch notes alarm over peace progress with Finland possibly stalled by fears of a northern front and Russian resolve to defend key points. Stockholm papers mock Western intervention and warn Scandinavia not to become a battleground, while Billie Burke becomes a grandmother and local hospital notices and a school board meeting wrap the day.

Chamberiain Finland Pser Britain France Germany Stockholm Svenska Dagbladet Italy Soviet Russia Madrid Norway Sweden Scandinavia Poland

Committee Favors Elimination of Income Question

The Senate Commerce Committee approved a Tobey proposal by 9 to 7 to delete income questions from the 1940 census. The measure, backed by Senator Tobey, would express the Senate’s sense that income data should not be collected. Chairman Bailey noted the census bureau’s future actions remain unknown and the plan proceeds to the full Senate.

Washington, Mar Senate Commerce Committee Toosy New Hampshire Maloney Connecticut Tobey Senate Bailey North Carolina Democrat of the Commerce Census Bureau Senate Todey

Denning Honored At Farewell Party Before Move

Officials and associates of Gene Denning, secretary of the Baten Chamber Commerce, gathered at Wick's Candy Kitchen Monday for a farewell honoring his upcoming move to Rapid City Thursday to become chamber secretary there. A dinner and informal entertainment followed, and Denning received a traveling bag as a gift. He will leave Huron Thursday and represent Huron at a Missouri River meeting in Pierre before continuing to Rapid City to assume his new duties.

Gene Denning Baten Chamber Commerce Wick's Candy Kitchen Rapid City Chamber of Commerce Denning Huron Benning Missouri River Pierre

State Nurses Association to Plan Annual Convention

The board of directors of the South Dakota Nurses Association will meet next Monday to shape plans for the organization’s annual state convention. The event is set to be held in Huron in October.

Oorgerization South Dakota Nurses Association Huron Taft Elusive

Congress weighs farm bill and navy expansion plans

Congressional debate centers on a three year extension of reciprocal trade and a Farm Bill, with House speedily advancing a navy expansion package calling for 21 ships and 1011 aircraft. Senate split on Hatch bill shows party divides on policy and funding amid ongoing appropriations calendar.

Senate Barkley House Edison United States Hatch South Dakota Bulaw Gurney North Dakota Frazier Nye Minnesota Limdeen Shipstead Wisconsin la Follette Wiley Montana Murray Wheeler

Farm Fund Approval Appears Certain in House Vote

The House is poised to approve about 20 million dollars in parity payments and an 87 million dollar surplus commodity disposal fund plus a 23 million dollar farm loan restoration. A broader farm aid package tied to a larger famine bill may emerge, while discussions touch on a war profits tax on war matériel manufacturers to fund foreign aid and debt limits.

Washington Mac Suni Ehouse Ford Califort House Rep Andresen Minnesota Aindresen

Country Club Names 1940 Committe Chairmen

Hay Country Club board led by E. McKenzie selected chairmen to oversee the year’s activities. Appointments include A. M. Haskell building and grounds Emil Frost house and entertainment I. A. Churchill finance Bil Plummer golf and tournament W. C. Welter membership W. C. Gagnon H. A. McClelland and Mrs. Ross B. Matson for ladies’ activities.

Hay Country Club E. McKenzie A. M. Haskell Emil Frost I. A. Churchill Bil Plummer W. C. Welter W. C. Gagnon H. A

Huron Girl Scouts Honor Juliette Low Play at Banquet

Huron Girl Scouts marked the Juliette Low memorial with an original play The First Girl Scout by Miss Christopherson at the annual All Girl Scout Banquet at state Congregational Church. 185 served including 50 from the Murr Council Leaders Association. Mrs J T Paulson welcomed guests before Miss Christopherson explained the life of Juliette Low.

J 1 Christopherson State Congregational Church Hunn Murr Council Leaders Association J. T. Paulson Miss Christopherson Juliette Low Girl Scouting United States Dorothea Dunbar John Bangerter

Aid for Finns discussed anew in Britain

London reports Allied help for Finland debated as Chamberlain and Daladier promised aid if Finland requests it. Parliament disclosed Britain may have up to 216,000 soldiers in France for western front use while presenting a token budget for the army.

Britain London Finland Chamberlain Daladier France House of Commons Oliver Stanley

Snow shovelers and handy men wanted by state service notice

Lost item notice. Employers seek workers in South Dakota through State Employment Service for snow shovelers and handy men, including gay workers. Also lost is a black onyx ring, oblong E shape. Finder should leave at Huronite for reward.

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