Market Opens December With Mixed Activity In Stocks
AP Financial writers report a steady close as December begins with modest demand in alcohols amusement rails and specialties. Tranners totaled about 440 000 shares while Loews and Radio preferred B touched year highs and several alcohol and distillers show gains amid holiday optimism.
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Victor Eubank
New York
Pthe
Wall Street
Chicago
U. S
Loew's
Radio
American Commercial Alcohol
National Distillers
U. S. Industrial Alcohol
Santa Fe
Pennsylvania
McKesson & Robbins
25 Rescued From Sinking Ship In 60 Mile Storm
A Great Lakes rescue tale describes 25 men saved from a sinking vessel after a gale. The Cort, built in 1898 with rounded sides, had previously sunk in 1917 Lake Erie 1927 Lake Ontario and last December Detroit. The ship earned the nickname Jinx Ship as it battled repeated wrecks.
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Great Lakes
Bar Point
Lake Erie
Colchester
Lake Ontario
Detroit
Ballard
Great Lake
Pittsburgh Steamship Company
Big Wave Sinks Tug In Lake Off Amherstburg
A 25 ton Lakeside tug sank three miles northeast of the Detroit river light in Lake Erie after a gale swept over it as it neared the Detroit river mouth. Four crewmen clung to decking and were washed ashore near Amherstburg Ontario. Captain Jack Izo and crew members George Mizis Emery Johnson and Elmer Keblerly were rescued.
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Detroit
Lakeside
Detroit River
Lake Erie
Amherstburg
Jack Izo
Middle Island
Metzo
George Mizis
Emery Johnson
Elmer Bkberly
Clung & Wreckage
Wash ‘E
China Abolishes Tariffs on Aviation Equipment
China removes tariffs on more than 75 aviation articles and equipment to boost aviation. Seventeenth century doctors mention turnips as a throat infection remedy.
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China
Island Empress Fate Shrouded in South Pacific Mystery
Baroness Eloisa de Wagner Wehrborn and her lover Robert Phillipson vanished in March after two bodies were found on a nearby island. An expedition into the South Pacific isles seeks traces of the German expatriate and her businessman partner as investigators pursue leads amid the eerie disappearance.
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Galapagos
Eloisa de Wagner Wehrborn
South Pacific
Robert Phillipson
Hunt
Paradise
Conference on Recovery Plans Seeks Relief and Reform
Observers view Hopkins and Ickes as proposing two approaches to recovery funding totaling up to 16 billion dollars rather than a single plan. A rising relief caseload shows 18.05 million on some aid. FERA favors more workshops rural communities and rehab loans. Ickes hints at 2 billion for slum clearance and housing and more for rural electrification and grade crossing removal.
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Hopkins
Ickes
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
FERA
PWA
New York Cotton Market Opens Steady amid Mixed Trade
Cotton futures opened barely steady with mixed demand as Dec through Oct contracts show slight gains and losses. Trade buying offset by local and foreign selling while open interest and liquidity thin. spot middling price 12.73 with quiet activity and limited late market moves.
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NEW York Cotton A
New York
Liverpool
New Orleans Cotton Opens Quiet as Markets Await Acreage News
Cotton in New Orleans opens steady with early gains on March and July futures. July and March hold at 12.60 and 12.63 while October slips to 12.26 before rebounding to 12.27 as traders await clearer acreage prospects for the next crop.
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New Orleans
Liverpool
Turpentine and rosin figures from Savannah market report
Naval Stores in Savannah on December 1 shows turpentine dull with no sales, receipts 820, shipments 10, stock 18,327. Rosin also dull with no sales, receipts 1,901, shipments 252, stock 127,337. Prices listed for rosin grades range from 4.00 to 5.15 with varying grades.
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Naval Stores
Savannah
Foreign exchange rates in New York demand list
Foreign exchange rates published in New York show Britain at 4.97 percent in demand and cables, France and Italy at 6.59 and 8.53 percent, with a wide spread of international currencies and peso and Montreal rates listed for trading.
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Foreign Exchange
New York
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Holland
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Finland
Switzerland
Spain
Portugal
Greece
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Jugoslavia
Austria
Hungary
Rumania
Argentine
Brazil
Tokyo
Shanghai
Hongkong
Mexico City
Montreal
Chicago Livestock Hogs Steady. Heavy Weights Lead
Chicago hog market sees about 6 000 head with 5 000 direct. Steady to higher on weights over 230 pounds with top around 6.15. lighter hogs and packers near 5.75 to 6.00. Estimated 1 000 holdovers. 300 shipped. Officials warn power projects expand service to new regions and boost appliance sales nationwide.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
PWA
Market Report Shows Sharp Beef Supply Decline and Toned Prices
Compared with last Friday, the cattle market shows a tighter supply and a firmer tone in dressed beef. Liver cattle trade up across most grades, with light yearlings finishing around 200 loads of show rejects. top weight steers stronger early, but heavy steers retreating to steady. Heifers and bulls rise, cows steady, feeders up about 1 dollar.
Chicago milk and egg markets report steady prices
Chicago dairy market notes butter steady at 29 to 30 cents for creamery specials and 27 to 29 for extra firsts. Firsts 25 to 26, seconds 24 to 25, standards around 28. Egg prices easy with 1 368 cases quoted and current receipts at 24 to 26 percent. no egg sales recorded.
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Chicago
New York Eggs Prices Mixed, Western Receipts Listed
New York prices for eggs show Begs at 16.945, irregular. Mixed colors and special packs from Western receipts range 33-36 1-2 standards and commercial standards 30-32. Refrigerators fetch firsts 22 3-4, seconds 22 1-2, middlings and dirties 22, with other mixed colors unchanged.
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New York
High Waters Flood Roads Across State Highway 24 Area
Heavy rains flood lands and suspend concrete surfaces on U S No 401. State highways 561 in Halifax county and routes to Louisburg close. County roads shut with no major property damage or casualties. Neuse river at Neuse station fell two feet but at Smithfield reached 31.5 feet with more rain expected. Cape Fear at Fayetteville 31 feet and rising. Roanoke and lower Tar river flood warnings likely. Norfolk and Southern rail service restored after yesterday washout.
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Halifax County
Here
Louisburg
Neuse Station
Neuse
Smithfield
Upper
Cape Fear
Fayetteville
Roanoke
Tar River
Norfolk and Southern Railway
Knightdale
Robbery Report From Sam Haney on North Hamilton Street
Sam Haney reported being robbed by two white men last night near Ray Street School on North Hamilton Street. He said the assailants, described as tall slender and short heavyset men in rain coats, accosted him and took about 9.76 in cash.
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Sam Haney
Kelley Street
Hamilton Street
Ray Street
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