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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1940
Page
2
Armour Stock Yards Har m Sept 5 Hog prices ease 5-15 cents with top at 6.90 receipts 500. Cattle weak, sheep lower. Hog lots 3,500 salable. top 7.05 for 210-220 pounds. Feeder pigs 5.50-6.50. Sioux Falls reports 500 hogs, 10-15 lower top 7.06, cattle slow-steady and unchanged.
Hogs fell 10 to 20 cents with price per ton around 7.50 while strictly grain fed steers and yearlings held strength. Native spring lambs were steady to higher, salable hogs 13,000, and cattle and calf markets showed mixed movement with top steer price around 23.65 and veal near 10.50. regional produce reports from Huron Mitchell Sioux Falls Sioux City Watertown reflect varied poultry egg and butterfat prices.
Paul Livestock report from South St. Paul on Sept 5 shows 3,400 cattle and 5,500 hogs offered. Cattle prices mixed with high choices at 12.75 for 1275 yard stock, grass stockers steady, dairy cows 45 to 385, vealers 10 to 11.50. hogs generally 15 lower, top at 7.00 for 200-220 lbs. sheep sellers pushing strong to higher prices with lambs around 9.00.
Bronx City Livestock notes cattle receipts at 1600 and calf receipts at 175 with a mix of good and choice beef steers and yearlings fairly active and strong while other slaughter categories are uneven. Stockers and feeders steady with some lighter sales, fed yearlings quoted around 20 to 25 dollars, odd lots of good to choice heifers around 9.50 to 11.50, bulk beef cows about 0.50.
Markets report from New York and Chicago notes firm leadership gains, higher bonds, and steadier currencies. Sugar improves on hedge buying. copper advances about 4 percent. cotton remains narrow with hedge sales offset. Western trade buying lifts futures. hogs down 10 to 25 cents with top at 7.50.
Wheat rose about two cents intraday tracking securities and defense-linked commodities, closing modestly higher than yesterday. Prices held most gains despite profit-taking after a rally from mid-August lows. December and September futures showed small advances while other grains were steady.
Wendell Willkie urged Republican leaders from two states to build an aggressive organized campaign two months before the election. He met nearly 100 national committee members and state chairs and urged county and precinct level meetings to strengthen party organization nationwide. He said the gathering focused on organization not policy and voiced opposition to conscription or government supervision of labor unions.
Chicago market shows live poultry steady with Leghorn hens and ducks listed, while New York figures report steady to higher cheese and egg values. Fresh and frozen poultry prices vary by weight class, with live poultry and dressed products showing modest changes.
New York traders pushed Wednesday's stock rally higher by about four points amid stronger war and business headlines. Volume reached roughly 1.3 million shares, the briskest since mid June, as leaders renewed gains after offers. Optimism rose on European dispatches expecting Britain to fend off Nazi pressure, with a potential windfall for American industry. The market also benefited from revived outlook in domestic business news and a stock exchange seat traded at around $40,000, up $5,000.
A long list of company abbreviations and stock quotes appears under Closing Quotations. It includes numerous corporations such as AirReduc Alaskadun Loews AmCan AT&T Boeing and Chrysler, with percentages indicating stock levels and miscellaneous financial figures. The page also mentions government bonds and city savings bonds with brief pricing notes and a Minneap lis data snippet.
President Roosevelt nominates Frank C. Walker of New York City and Scranton Pa to be postmaster general succeeding James A Farley who resigned. Walker, a four year lawyer and theatre owner, is a Pennsylvania native who began in Montana and has been head of the national emergency council and treasurer of the Democratic national committee in Roosevelt's first term.
The Italian high command said MAS motor torpedo boats and air units achieved several successful actions against British forces in Africa and the Mediterranean. British ships suffered bomb damage, with six naval vessels including two cruisers hit and 17 British aircraft destroyed. Italian forces also claimed hits on a British cruiser and two destroyers, and a British merchant ship, as actions extended from Algeria’s coast to the Aegean and Red Sea.
Senator McCarran urged a full senate inquiry into last Saturday's crash near Lovettsville Virginia that killed Senator Lundeen and 24 others. He proposed a 20,000 funded probe by the commerce committee to review airline safety and agency efficiency. Civil Aeronautics Board plans 65 witnesses, including Pennsylvania Central Airlines officials.
The House approved a comprehensive defense measure allocating up to 5.25 billion dollars to equip 2 million soldiers, start work on a two ocean navy, and buy 14 394 aircraft for the army and navy, sending the bill back to the senate with changes. It also trimmed a provision allowing navy plant commandeering and noted the broader defense spending would exceed 15 billion in this session.
A hospital table lists admitted patients including Sam FP and M Glanvzer from Yale, De Smet, Carl Mrs. Axel Anderson, Darvin Stahl, Otto Brueske from Forestburg, B R Fuller and W B Lane from Eckelson and Huron, among others. Discharged include W B Law Eckelton, Joe Dalti Schwant, Ernest Swain, Mrs Ray Lemke, Hulda Neuharth, and Alvin Lip nert, with several from Yale and De Smet.
Huron College announces a full opening program for the new year with 9:00 registration in the college library. Azl Huron upperclassmen register Tuesday and Wednesday is Freshman Days with convocation talks and singing led by Myr Ward. A Play Night and picnics finish Freshman Days, followed by Friday’s Student Association reception.
President Hull voiced U.S. opposition to Japanese demands on French Indo China. He urged Japan to honor the Pacific status quo and pressed for negotiations on patrolling the Shan Hai area near the international settlement that includes the American consulate and other interests.
CBS Berlin broadcast cites Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reporting six Americans seized from the steamship Atlantic en route to South Africa. They were taken first to a French port and then transported to Spain. names include O Yoder, F Schmallerberger, Jesse Nichola, Frank Kunizer, Zola Kunizer. Mrs. Lela Bures of Peoria later said the Yoder couple and Fannie Schmallenberger were released in Lisbon after capture aboard a steamer bound for Angola. they are Mennonite missionaries.
Churchill urged free consent for changes while stating Britain would resist, as London endured a fresh air raid alarm. The Commons paused, then resumed to hear Churchill amid sirens and distant explosions. He hailed the British US destroyer deal and bases pact as satisfying both nations.
Night and day raids target Berlin and surrounding military sites with German air defenses active. Eighteen civilians are reported killed in northern Germany as a British bombardment hits workers quarters near the capital. A Berlin attack damages an electrical plant and storage facilities while incinerary bombs are dropped across the Reich.
Fragmented notice listing travel to Chicago and Washington with partial phone numbers and names. Includes sale items for lumber and steel, a Roan milk cow, work horses, a lost keycase, a cream separator and gas stove, and a modern five room bungalow for rent near college with contact numbers.
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