Stocks Break as Wheat Dives to 15-Year Low
Stock prices slid broadly as wheat futures fell below 81 a bushel for the first time in 15 years. Major declines hit Case Threshing, United Aircraft, General Electric and Johns Manville, with market liquidity thinning and call money seen rising toward month-end.
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New York
Case Threshing
United Aircraft
General Electric
Johns Manville
General Motors
Montgomery Ward
Canadian Pacific
Northern Pacific
St. Paul
Northwest
Western Railroad
Wall Street
Commercial Solvents
Allied Chemical
Columbia Carbon
Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts May 27
Chicago livestock market report shows hog receipts at 65 000 with most prices 10 to 25 cents lower and top around 11.25 for 200 lb hogs. Cattle receipts 19 000 calves 3 000 with steer and yearling markets steady to 250 lower and top 15.00 for long yearlings. Sheep receipts 15 000 steady with wooled lambs around 15.00 and California springers 16.25 to 16.50.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
California
New York and New Orleans Cotton Markets Open Higher
The New York cotton market opened steady with gains of 4 to 11 points as rains in the south prompted buying, with July up to 18.70 and October 18.72 before pulling back. New Orleans followed with firmer trades on favorable Liverpool cables, July to 18.73, October 18.58, December 18.67, amid profit taking and rain concerns.
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Liverpool
New Orleans
Diplomats Would Ban Rum If United States Proposes
Sir Esme Howard, British ambassador and dean of the Washington diplomatic corps, writes that diplomats would cheerfully accept and promptly adhere to a formal suggestion from Washington to stop importing liquor. He responds to a Lynchburg man annoyed that embassies are allowed intoxicants for their own use.
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United States
Esme Howard
Lynchburg
Washington
Sir Esme
Boy Shot by Woman Near Home In Garden Incident
The condition of D. EB. Smith Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. D. EB. Smith, improved after an accident last Saturday afternoon. He is under care of Dr. W. L. Jackson at Guilford General Hospital. The boy was shot by a woman aiming at chickens in her garden, about a block and a half away.
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D. EB. Smith Jr
D. EB. Smith
W. L. Jackson
Guilford General Hospital
Kamm Tops AL Batting List As Jamieson Drops
Chicago’s Bill Kamm lifts to the AL batting lead with a .395 average after five weeks, displacing Charlie Jamieson who slides to fourth at .358. Detroit leads team batting at .319 while pitchers and fielding mark strong for Uhle and St. Louis.
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Bill Kamm
Chicago White Sox
Bob Fothergill
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Gehringer
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Clancy
R. Johnson
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Tigers
Uhle
Robert Moses Grove
Iddie Rommel
Rip Collins
Browns
St. Louis
Washington
Senators
Indians
New York
Gehrig
Blue
Jamm
Johnson
Averill
French airmen claim world speed record over 5000 kilometers
Majors Weiss and Girier of the French Military Air Service say they set a new world speed record for a 5000 km course, flying 26 12 hours over a route of about 100 miles from Etampes to Chartres to Orleans for an average of 116.7 mph, surpassing the Italian Ferrarin and Delprete who averaged 86 mph over 4760.6 miles. An unrelated note mentions Mohave desert alkali lakes yielding a substitute for comers used to seal oil well cases.
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France
Weiss
Girier
Etampes
Chartres
Orleans
Ferrarin
Delprete
Congress Seeks Early Recess Amid Tariff and Census Clash
Congressional leaders hoped for an early summer recess as votes loom on the census reapportionment bill in the Senate and tariff measures in the House. A key conflict centers on a proposed expert debenture plan and a Sackett amendment to exclude aliens from census counts, sparking constitutional and regional disputes.
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Senate
House
Ways and Means
Representative Garner
Texas
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Sackett
Kentucky
Charlotte Park Razed by Blaze in South Atlantic Affray
Fire destroyed the grandstand and bleachers of Wearnfield the home park of Charlotte club the Hornets in the South Atlantic Association. Firemen prevented spread to nearby buildings as inspectors probe the undetermined origin. Hornets owners Hyman and Moore weigh future home games as the team opens a series in Asheville against the Tourists.
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Wearnfield
Charlotte Club
South Atlantic Association
J. H. Wearn Lumber Company
Felix Hyman
Charles Moore
Hornets
Asheville
C. A. McCall
Charlotte Wagon and Auto Works
Ball Park
Missing Airmen Located After Western Australia Search
Two flyers missing since May 17 after attempting a flight from Bima to Port Darwin were found by Pilot Brain at Cape Don Queensland. They said they landed at the Cape Don Lighthouse after mistaking it for Port Darwin and could not take off again.
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Aus
Air
Western Australia
Moir
Owen
Bima
Sumbawa
Dutch East Indies
Port Darwin
Brain
Cape Don
Queensland
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