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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1940
Page
2
Market news shows hogs up 15 to 25 cents with top at 5.45 and receipts around 6 hundred. Cattle and sheep mostly steady, with sows at 4.50 to 4.75 and feeder pigs 3.00 to 3.50. Sioux Falls reports hogs about 20 cents higher with top 5.70 and cattle steady at 500 head.
Daily price listings from Huron, Watertown, Mitchell, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, Chicago, and New York show poultry and eggs varying by weight and class. Heavy hens, leghorns, roosters, ducks, geese, and Butterfat values are reported with regional differences and dates in May.
May 16 hog prices jump 25 to 40 cents with a top around 6.05 as receipts fall. Cattle and lamb markets rise and steady to firm on fat lambs, fed steers, and yearlings with best steers near 10.90. Across stations in South St. Paul and Sioux City, hogs remain active with midweight and sow prices climbing while cattle buyers show strength in fat cattle and calves.
Markets at a glance show bonds firm with corporate rally and foreign exchange mixed as the dollar rises on new laws. Commodities steady to higher with copper and wheat leading gains, hogs top at 6.05 and cattle firm, while live poultry remains steady and other staples hold. Seven line items reference livestock and irregular price figures for various hens and toms.
Chicago May 10 The wheat market rebounded after three sessions of sharp overpricing as buyers from exporters and investors supported prices. Trading remained volatile with intraday gains and losses, but closing figures showed gains of around 3 to 4 cents from the prior day, while some contracts posted modest losses from the day’s lows. End of session quotes placed wheat up from the day’s lows and above the prior close.
Minneapolis May 1 grain prices show mixed tone with wheat receipts and basis up 2 cents. Quoted values include No 1 hard Montana at 98 and No 2 red durum around 74 54, corn No 3 yellow 58 to 64, oats No 3 at 33 to 34 percent, rye No 2 around 58, flax No 1 near 1.91 and sweet clover seed 4.75 to 5.00 per bushel or unit.
The market rose as Roosevelt's billion-dollar armament program was announced with about 2 million shares trading. Bethlehem Steel Douglas Boeing United Aircraft North American Aviation Glenn Martin Sperry Lockheed and Curtiss Wright led gains while others showed strong but varied advances before slight profit-taking at close.
Frank L. Mease aged 80, publisher of the Madison Daily Sentinel for 20 years, died Wednesday in South Pasadena, California. He will be buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. services set at the Church of the Flowers. Mease and his wife moved to California last October after celebrating their Golden Wedding anniversary on November 21. He is survived by his widow and two sons. The Daily Sentinel merged with the Madison City Leader about two years ago.
Paul Jordan of Milwaukee regional director of the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation will speak on the federal food stamp plan at the 43rd annual convention of the Retail Merchants Association of South Dakota in Sioux Falls. Address set for Wednesday afternoon June 12 at 2 30. The convention runs June 11 12 and 13 in Sioux Falls.
Forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures in Huron after a sub freez ing night at 32 degrees. Federal meteorologist B R Laskowski notes a bright day supports the warmer outlook. Hospitals report admissions including Margaret Magner Raymond medical J C Hammond ois medical and others. Discharges list several patients including Mrs Pintuck Hitchcock and Mrs Edward H Stahl Yale.
A reader summary of many company and corporate bond entries shows Alamedica and Assi AirRedus style listings with percentages for holdings in AmCan AmRad&SiS and other major firms. The piece catalogs corporate names, percentages, and bond quotes across industries and banks, including GenMotors Chrysler ColmG&El and US Steel.
A test of Lester P. Barlow's liquid oxygen–carbon bomb was postponed until next week. goats were temporarily spared as Barlow blamed rain and timing for loss of vapor from the improvised 1,000-pound sack. Senator Sheppard, head of the Senate military affairs committee, arranged a new demonstration date with the inventor.
Berlin reports German forces crossed the Meuse and advanced west of Saarlouis, with heavy air and ground fighting as French counter-attacks near Sedan were repelled. The Nazi high command warned Brussels could be bombed if fortifications and troop movements continued, while vanguard Germans pressed toward the Dyle position and Namur area as Allied retreat continued.
A National Underwriter compilation shows 1939 life insurance payments in South Dakota and cities led by Sioux Falls with 468000. Huron recorded 105000, Watertown 205000, Aberdeen 196000, Redfield 115000, Rapid City 98000, Brookings 92000, Mitchell 79000. Overall SD paid 5200000 to beneficiaries, about 7.51 per person.
Police report that Barney Ayers a paroled convict was arrested Wednesday night in the company of a 19 year old Huron girl State Attorney Ton H Luay Randling presented the case for the state and had not decided charges by noon Ayers had received a five year sentence in December 1938 for second degree burglary and was released on parole when all but one year of the term was suspended
London reports say since the start of the lowlands offensive Allied air power and the British Expeditionary Force destroyed at least 124 German planes with 23 downed by anti aircraft. A fleet of 150 Allied planes raked Meuse lines at Sedan aiding a French counter attack and minimizing German progress. Losses included 36 French and British aircraft. British casualties in the Beal area and Liverpool evacuation reached 60 to 300, with many stretcher cases.
A continued listing of participants in a local cooking school event includes Dorothy Keelin Mary Ferguson Mrs E A Kimmel Mary Ann Waidner and many others who contributed baskets of foods to various attendees and donors such as Mrs Kate Stowe Mrs Rose Zartman and Mrs CaVem Stevens.
Americans Nations, facing invasion risk, plans to relocate from Lake Leman to Vichy France with staff cut from 350 to 50. Many league records already sent to France and some employees resigned to return home.
WATERTOWN May 16 21 F Phillippy of Milbank was selected as vice president of the South Dakota Bankers Association and Deadwood was chosen for next year’s annual bankers convention. L T Motrig of Watertown named vice president. Lllibridge Burke and Charles Russell named to campaign for three war terms. William C Rempfer Parkston named to serve after the convention. A W Powell Sisseton named SBA vice president for the banking divisions. H R Kibbes Mitchell named for savings division. L Lokken Watertown named for state bank division and A Rankin Sioux Falls named for the trust division.
Mrs Hertha Bergdall writes to President Roosevelt claiming her German husband, once a World War draft evader, knows about a Nazi secret weapon used by Germany in Belgium. She says he spoke with her while at Governor’s Island where he is serving in a draft evasion center.
Jury and defense heard from numerous locals including Fred Yantke Harold garage mechanic Robert Perkins Walter Stetkins Arthur Brandt and J D Pinnell among others as the case unfolds. The defense claims Estella Hunt, not Johnson, took missing funds and Hunt pleads innocent ahead of testimony as a state witness.
Conflicting reports say French forces fight to restore control as heavy artillery opens along the French Luxembourg frontier. Paris batteries resume fire while German air raids target Nancy and Sedan region. Belgian Liege forts resist as Belgium appeals for endurance. About 360000 French side troops engage in the Meuse battle.
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