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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1940
Page
2
Sioux City and Chicago market reports show hogs steady to modestly higher on May 1. Prices ranged with top bids around 5.55 for barrows and gilts, 4.75 to 5.25 for sows, while cattle and sheep activity varied. receipts were sizable and market tone mixed amid rain and snow conditions.
The listing details daily price ranges for Huron, Watertown, Mitchell, and Sioux Falls markets including hens, leghorn hens, roosters, geese, and eggs, with butterfat, butter, and various grain futures. It also covers Chicago futures for wheat, corn, oats, soybeans, and rye, summarized with opening, high, low, and close figures.
New York May 1 summary shows declines in stocks and sterling, mixed bonds, broad weakness in cotton and sugar, quiet metals with slight copper slip, wheat and corn lower in Chicago, cattle steady and hogs largely steady with various live poultry prices listed. Notable figures include top hog price about 6.25 and several live poultry quotes for hens and toms.
Chicago reports show wheat futures slipping nearly three cents as markets assess heavy grain marketing and Italy's non-belligerent stance. May deliveries price down with mixed overseas signals, while Minneapolis captures receipts and cash bids for No 1 hard and durum wheats, illuminating ongoing market softness.
May 1 livestock listings show cattle prices by class with steers at 10.6 top, heifers 7.25 to 18.40, cows 4.00 to 5.75, fat cattle around 5.7, calves 2.00 to 10.00. hogs slow but steady with 199 to 240 pound range and sows 4.90 to 5.25. lambs and clipped lambs variable. dairy cattle steady 60 to 80, bulls 85.00. Sioux Falls market lists similar ranges for Wednesday with hogs and cattle quotations.
Hogs traded 15 to 20 lower with a practical top near 5.63 for butchers and packing sows from 4.55 to 4.86. Cattle and veal steady. Sheep rose 25 to 50 with spring lambs around 10.50 to 12.40 and clipped lambs 8.00 to 8.76.
Sioux City reports live poultry and eggs pricing with Leghorn hens, cocks, and heavy breeds list, plus butter and eggs values across Chicago and New York markets. Chicago futures show steady butter with no sales, while live poultry, eggs, and creamery butter remain firm in New York and Chicago summaries.
New York May 1 Shares in steels aircrafts motors and related sectors drifted lower as the overall market weakened. Trading activity was modest with about 950000 shares exchanging hands. Bond listings showed government issues steady with several issues cited, while Minneapolis bank stocks showed mixed results across major local institutions.
On May Day Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson defended Sweden neutral stance amid wartime pressures. He urged loyalty and government cooperation to protect independence, hoping peaceful cooperation with Denmark and Norway can resume. In Washington, UPI reports that Barden amendments were defeated 156 to 66 as House approved milder wage hour revisions and limited minimum wage concessions for farm processors.
Chicago residents faced milk and cream shortages as the Milk Wagon Drivers Union voted to strike, halting virtually all metropolitan deliveries. About 4,000 drivers were affected, with the union demanding the old wage scale and commissions while dealers sought a higher weekly wage of 29 dollars.
The Hellenic Ladies will meet tomorrow afternoon at 2 o clock at the home of Mrs Helen Zarifis for a community gathering and discussion.
A long and dense list of corporate names and percentages appears, resembling market quotation data or a compiled board of trade report. It includes numerous firms such as AlliedCh-Dye, AmLoca, Chicago area companies, and major manufacturers like General Electric, DuPont, United States Steel, Westinghouse, and WarnerPict. The fragment reads like an index of stock or ownership percentages, with many percent values and varied company spellings, likely part of a broader financial sheet.
Early Clarence E. Buehler of Mitchell was elected grand high priest at a Tuesday meeting closing the fifty first annual grand chapter convocation of South Dakota Royal Arch Masons. The two day Masonic gathering opened Monday with the grand council assembly and the Order of High Priesthood. Officers were installed across the three bodies and the 1941 conclave will be held in Chamberlain.
Seven Harvard students were fined 3 each in district court for disturbing the peace after a student riot sparked by an MIT prank involving Eddie Rochester Anderson. A Negro comedian on the Jack Benny show was misdirected to appear at Harvard, then diverted to the Delta Kappa Epsilon house at MIT following a prank.
Funeral services for M. Harry O'Brien South Dakota state attorney died Monday night in Pierre hospital after a major operation. He practiced law in Highmore 35 years and served as assistant attorney general and as state insurance commissioner. Survived by wife Margaret and children Muriel Flynn Bonnie O'Brien Gerald O'Rourke and Harry. brother Thomas O'Brien and daughter Lucille. Change noted: Missionary Society meeting moved to the church Thursday with pictures of New Mexico. Admissions and dismissals listed for local hospitals.
Reports of Italian military activity near the Yugoslav frontier worried authorities in Croatian Slovenia and Dalmatia. Italian coal imports from Germany via Slovenia have nearly stopped due to heavy rail traffic toward the frontier. Railway workers saw tanks moved into Italy and new antiaircraft defenses rising at Fiume and Trieste ports.
Two separate wrecks left cars damaged but occupants uninjured. O Z Crank and Chitard Smith collided at Ohio Avenue and Twelfth Street Southwest with Smith’s car overturning. Nearby, James Esheiman struck by John Gable’s vehicle near West Third Street’s Presta Cafe, damaging the right rear end of Esheiman’s car.
Reports detail Allied and German actions along the Norwegian coast near Trondheim and Steinkjer, with claims of air losses, prisoner captures, and shifting supply routes. Britain diverts Mediterranean shipping amid Italy’s uncertain stance while German bombers hit English coastal towns. May Day displays in Moscow mark Soviet resolve.
PORTLAND Ore May 1 Detective John Goltz reports the arrest of Terry Walton 47 a fugitive who escaped from the South Dakota penitentiary Walton admitted identity and escape and asked for consideration for good conduct He claims years of trouble free behavior and intends to seek leniency Walton held in custody in a shackled state pending notification of Saint Dakota authorities
Sioux Falls reports Warden G Norton Jameson of the South Dakota penitentiary discussing Oregon's 11 steps to return Terre Waltoni, a fugitive captured after walking away from the prison yard. Waltoni, 28, from Hand County, was sentenced to 13 years for rape and is hoped to complete his sentence with due process and respect for law and court.
Watertown officials report strong support from the American Legion for National Employment Week May 1 to 8. The proclamation urges cooperation with other groups to aid job programs, with focus on men and women over 40, including many World War veterans, facing unemployment and family pressures.
Classified note offers trade in a perm and removal service with prices, plus rental ad for a five room bungalow at 937 Wis. Cal' Orla J. Ser. and a job listing seeking two young men aged 16 to 24 to travel the Midwest with compensation and transportation paid, details via Mr. Hurt after 7:45 p.m. at Dakota So Hoom 4.
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