Open Cotton Market Steady After Modest New Orleans Open
In New Orleans on December 20 the opening advance in cotton prices softened as traders booked profits and awaited year-end holidays. Early gains faded, with the market steady by afternoon. spot cotton held steady at unchanged. Total sales reached 27 988 bales and December futures closed barely higher, while other months showed small gains or muted activity.
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New Orleans
Jule Tad
Tong Dean
I Dawr
Market report shows steady tone and futures gains
The New York cotton market closed mixed with a steady tone. Futures showed modest advances in mid session, with traders noting active selling and covering ahead of the close as prices traded near key levels.
Cotton market slips after early gains on census figures
New Orleans reports cotton prices rose briefly after census returns but faded as day progressed. December ginnings show 15,148,000 bales through December 1, down about 60 percent from a year earlier, with forecasts suggesting less than 14,000,000 running bales.Weather across the panhandle chilled the crop and dampened open market demand as traders await December tenders and manage realized profits.
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New Orleans
Ilec
Texas
Panhandle
Hester
New York
Cotton Seed Oil Prices Hold Steady in New Orleans Market
Cotton seed oil in New Orleans closed firm with listed bids for prime summer yellow and crude varieties. Prices span 9.05 for prime summer yellow to 9.58 for June, with several monthly figures and futures like January 9.18 and December 9.08 noted. Also reported in New York were firmer call money and merchant paper rates and varied banker acceptances across 30 to 60 day terms.
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New Orleans
New York
Prime Mercantile
Bankers
Wall Street Ends Mixed After Sharp Early Selloff
Heavy selling hit New York stocks at the open as year end money rate stiffening began. Early gains vanished, with many issues slipping 3 to 10.25 points. some favorites rebounded late as banks called 18.14 million in loans and time money firmed.
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New York
Time Money
Chicago Grain Prices Falter In Early Futures Trade
Chicago prices for wheat and corn opened near unchanged but drifted lower as bids for Jersey products failed to advance. Wheat No 2 hard traded around 120 1 2 cents, No 3 yellow 24 cents, rye and oats weakened, while lard and tallow futures shifted modestly downward amidst unsettled conditions for the day.
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Chicago
Des
Liverpool
Jersay
Corr
Toimothy
Chicago livestock market ends mixed with declines in hogs and sheep
Chicago hogs and sheep fell in late trading while cattle and calves held near steady. Hog prices 65,000 head drifts with 200 to 300 lb hogs at 8.30 to 8.55. Cattle and calves: steer and yearling trade steady after a 25 to 75 cent drop. vealers milk fed around 12.75 to 15.00. Sheep receipts 15,000 with weak to 25 cent lower early sales. Lambs and ewes also weaker on light demand.
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Chicago
Cotton market notes from Liverpool on Dec 20
Liverpool reports quiet cotton trading with prices easing across grades. American exports and imports moderate, with 4 000 bales sold including 2 500 American and 2 000 shipments. Futures steady with small price levels shown for December March May October.
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Liverpool
Hoover to Visit Havana Not Confirmed During Good Will Trip
President-elect Hoover may skip Havana on the present goodwill voyage but may visit the Cuban capital before inauguration. He also weighs trips to Mexico City and Texas before March 4. The Utah nears Rio de Janeiro and Hoover plans a speech for welcome by Brazils Dr Pereira de Souza. The party sails on the final leg home after Christmas aboard ship.
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Mexico City
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Utah
Rio Janeiro
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Couple Freed in Miscegenation Inquiry
Fred Karna and Sadie Karna were released from parish jail after investigators dropped the miscegenation charge. They plan to return to Europe where they have worked as circus performers. The couple, married in Connecticut, claimed mixed ancestry and exotic pigment. Karna is an acrobat and sword swallower. Sadie, known as Leopard Woman, speaks seven languages and claims circus roots.
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Connecticut
Coleman Street
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Government Bonds Close in New York Markets
Government bond prices in New York on December 20 show Liberty 3 1-25 at 99.15 and First 4 1-4s at 100.7, with Fourth 4 1-4s at 100.8 and Treasury 4 1-48 at 111, plus 4s at 106.6, reflecting market activity across long and short maturities.
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Treasury
Butter and Eggs Prices and Receipts in Chicago
Butter prices rise with 7 200 tubs sold and creamery grades listed for various quality levels. Egg receipts total 3 319 cases. Poultry market shows steady firm tone with carload receipts and mixed prices for fowls sprouts roosters turkeys ducks and geese in Chicago.
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Poultry
Poultry Alive
Appeal Court Decides Local Origin Cases in Monroe
Local appellate court releases decisions on city disputes and personal injury suits. Five Monroe property cases on Riverfront street are transferred to the Supreme Court. District court rulings in several matters are affirmed or reversed, including major damages in Mrs. Mask v City of Monroe and a large personal injury suit in Sherwood v Catherine Tichell. The Keefe v City of Monroe and Sherwood v Tichell cases await decision with extensive records.
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Riverfront
Supreme Court
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W. B. Mask
City of Monroe
City
DeSiard Road
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F.C. Stuckey
Ross Moore
J. E. Doughtie
H. T. Layne
J. E. Henderson
Layne
J. F. Keefe
B. Sherwood
Catherine Tichell
Ivelay
Barbers Hear Explanation of New State Law
Barbers from the Twin Cities gathered at City Hall for a mass meeting to learn the provisions of the new law effective January 1. Licenses must be obtained from the state examiners by January 1. applications were filled out by local barbers. The act includes sanitary rules such as clean individual towers and instrument sterilization and restricts itinerant barbers. G. C. Lewis leads local Union No. 651. George Mullenix is secretary of the state board of examiners.
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Board of State Examiners
G. C. Lewis
State Board of Examiners
George Mullenix
Rotary Club Endorses Tick Eradication Program
North Louisiana parishes receive unqualified Rotary Club endorsement at a midday luncheon in Virginia Hotel. Members urge Governor Long to call a special session to pass legislation enabling the tick program. Brickley of the Louisiana Chamber of Commerce outlined program features. A white elephant sale raised funds for Boy Scouts, S. T. I., Good Fellows and Camp Fire Girls. Music by the Golden Gate orchestra.
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Golden Gate Orchestra
Conduct Lunacy Quiz For Kelly Slayer
Dr Clarence Pierson of Central Louisiana hospital Pineville and Dr T J Perkins of East Louisiana State hospital Jackson examine Fred Jackson a young negro who killed J M Kelly white man in August The physicians and coroner decide on his sanity The case tests insanity plea and potential asylum or jury trial verdicts readins indicate answers not clearly insane with some saying he was acting.
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Central Louisiana Hospital
Pineville
T. J. Perkins
East Louisiana State Hospital
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Fred Jackson
J. M. Kelly
Lad is Given Sentence for Slaying Sweetheart
Vincent Rice, a 17 year old Staten Island schoolboy, was sentenced in New York to 20 years to life for the murder of his sweetheart Alice Joost, 15, at her Port Richmond home on November 2.
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Vincent Rice
Staten Island
Alice Joost
Port Richmond
Governor Advised Lewis on Writ Execution
Attorney S C Broome of Jackson notes the governor said he had nothing officially before him about the writ to act. He urged later communication and told the governor to proceed with the execution.
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Mississippi judge backs writ over sheriff in Lewis hanging
A Mississippi judge says the writ of habeas corpus has precedence over a circuit court order to hang Lewis for killing his stepfather. Sheriff J D Smith plans to proceed, seeking opinions from Chief Justice Sydney Smith and Attorney General Rush Knox. Lewis faces execution between 3 and 4 pm in Mendenhall after a governor granted a one week stay.
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Jackson
Writ Questioned Habeas Reach in Lewis Case
Jurors who convicted Lewis in Simpson County faced legal questions as Chancellor Dale doubted habeas writ would bind without a governor's stay. Sheriff Smith asserted the writ binds, requiring the sheriff to surrender the prisoner to the court. Attorney S C Broome sought interpretation, proposing the writ name the prisoner to the court rather than the sheriff delivering a body.
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Former Monroe Boy Fatally Injured in Shreveport
Mr and Mrs J Finkie of Loop road were summoned to Shreveport as their nephew Iva F Shumway aged 16 died after being struck by a train. Funeral held in Shreveport with interment there. Shumway family formerly lived in Monroe before moving to Shreveport.
Local plant worker wounded recovering at hospital
Hadsal McKinney a 22 year old Cargan carbon plant employee was wounded last Tuesday night and is improving satisfactorily at St. Francis Sanitarium. The bullet entered his chest above the heart but did not injure vital organs and surgery is not required according to the attending physician.
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Cargan Carbon Plant
McKinney
St. Francis Sanitarium
Three Widows Attend Funeral of Man Who Took His Life
In Brunswick Georgia three women identified as widows attended the burial of H E Hickox who died by his own hand. The widows were Nora Jacobs Hickox of Brunswick Christine Hickox of Savannah with his young son Annie Hickox of Florida. The Savannah Hickox woman said she was deserted seven years ago. The Florida Hickox said they had been separated for about two years.
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Christine Hickox
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Hickox
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