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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1939
Page
2
Markets at a glance report mixed activity across sectors. Early rally in rails, improved curbs and advancing specialties. foreign exchange steady. cotton and sugar buoyant on trade demand. coffee steady with local support. Wheat declines on profit taking. corn up on new crop futures. cattle mixed. hogs steady to higher. eggs and dairy quotes noted.
Armour Stock Yards Hur an May 23 reports steady hog market with top 6.25 and receipts 350. Cattle and sheep steady. salable hogs 4,000, weights 180-260 at 6.25, 260-280 6.00, 325+ around 5.50. Sows 5.25 and feeder pigs 6.50. Sioux Falls and Sioux City listings show similar steady trends and mixed cattle sales.
Hogs were steady to five cents higher in a moderately active Chicago market with a top at 6.95 and 8,000 hogs sold. Cattle trade was dull with weighty steers under pressure and fat cows weak to 25 lower. calves and sheep with varied pricing, few heavy calves sold up to 10.50 on Kosher accounts.
Watertown markets report varied poultry prices with heavy hens around five pounds and under four pounds, Leghorn hens, old roosters, geese, popneries, and turkey listings. Mitchell arrivals show similar hens ranges and Leghorn hens, roosters, and tom turkeys, with miscellaneous weights noted.
Wheat prices fell after peaking for July September and December contracts. Profit taking, spring rains, and cooler forecasts across major grain belts spurred selling, closing about 4 percent lower than yesterday.
The British government reportedly opened the final phase of a British French Russian mutual aid pact by sending Moscow a note with new proposals while Prime Minister Chamberlain hinted at a potential agreement within two weeks. German papers claim new Polish provocations at Danzig and a mysterious transport linked to East Prussia. Pravda notes Russia’s demands on Baltic fortifications and island guarantees. Hospital and local notices wrap the page.
Maj J P Murphy and Professsor R J Bond led the flying examining board at Huron airport to assess candidates for Kelly Field Texas. Maj M F Creneau and a crew of four then went to Brookings to examine 40 more applicants. The group will complete the state examination by weekend and depart from Huron after the tests. They fly in two Douglas B18 bombers.
Mitchell headlined South Dakota Funeral Directors elect Glen Minor of Sioux Falls as president at the forty-second annual convention. John Hermanson of Dell Rapids re elected secretary. Haron chosen as 1940 convention site with Water town and Sioux Falls in contention. Huron invitation accepted ahead of Watertown and Sioux Falls bids.
Wheat receipts total 257 cars, prices mixed with no change from last year. No. 1 heavy dark northern at 85 4, No. 1 dark northern 84 5, No. 2 84 9 4, protein premiums listed. Corn No. 3 yellow 47 4, oats No. 8 white 32 4, rye No. 2 52 3 4. Chicago futures show mixed open and close. Minneapolis carlot range includes No. 1 dark northern 92 5 to 3 4, No. 1 hard amber durum 41 3 9.
New York trading opened with a sharp rally then profits-taking trimmed most gains. Some issues finished unchanged or down, with a late pressure on motors and about 1,000,000 shares trading hands in five hours. Brokers cited Morgenthau’s note of tax revision measures aiding recovery and talk of a new administration lending-spending push.
In Chicago the 73 year old Rochester surgeon Dr Charles H Mayo showed progress in his battle with pneumonia after a blood donation from his son Dr Charles W Mayo at a Chicago hospital. Dr Walter McGuire reported the slight improvement and warned the fight remains closer.
Briggs Manufacturing faced an idle workforce with over 70,000 men off the job as talks between management and the CIO United Auto Workers continued under Federal Labor Conciliator James F. Dewey. The company blamed unauthorized strikes during the expired contract for the disruption.
Mexico's top aviator Francisco Sarabia rests after a danger filled non stop flight from Mexico City to New York on a 2,985 mile hop. He completed the journey in 10 hours 47 minutes, breaking the previous record of 14 hours 19 minutes set May 8, 1935 by Amelia Earhart.
New York trading ends with mixed results as Cities Service climbs, Ford Motor slips amid closing quotes and market activity, leaving investors cautious on near term prospects.
In Philadelphia a court case ties seven defendants to a large insurance murder plot. Three men pled guilty Morris Bolber Samuel Sortine and Rafaele Polselli while seven others denied guilt and face trial next week. A hospitalised widow known as Rose of Death, Mrs Rose Carina, is charged with murder in the poisoning of her common law husband Pietro Stea and spoke to police about over one hundred other deaths linked to the syndicate.
About 75 members attended the South Dakota Motor Trades Association annual convention in Buren. The session opened at 1:30 p.m. at the Marvin Hughitt Hotel with addresses by state patrol and motor vehicle officials, a Commercial Credit official, and dealers leaders. Officers, including E R James and Verschoor, faced election at the business meeting followed by an evening Dutch lunch.
After surfacing, the Falcon's crew delivered first word on casualties trapped in the flooded submarine. Relatives learned of deaths and oaths of hope, as survivors described cold, with Judson Bland stating there was no panic and all believed in eventual rescue.
Veterans of Foreign Wars post Forrest McMut of the J J Newbery store window displays Verdun St Mikel and Thieucourt war images taken after American occupation. Br H Koch leads with Buddy Poppy fundraiser by disabled veterans in government hospitals to receive compensation from the V F W. Buddy Poppy trademark protections apply and union printed labels alert the public.
Governor Bushfield will hold a Monday hearing on charges filed by S. H. Collins against J. W. Beckwith, a UCC member. Collins seeks Beckwith's dismissal for nonfeasance amid a charged political dispute over the unemployment compensation commission.
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