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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1934
Page
9
Prices fluctuated through a chaotic day with July near 12.00 and December around 12.33 as early gains faded and rallied later on short covering. Late in the session prices edged higher but closed with modest net advances, while spot cotton remained steady with sales of 525 bales and higher middling values.
Openings of 8 to 10 points gave way to weakness as southern selling and interior offerings appeared. October futures fell from 12.26 to 12.15 before steadying. midafternoon trade was quiet with small gains. Futures closed steady to modestly higher, middling 12.19.
Liverpool reports 12,000 bale spot market with 8,800 American base and prices seven points higher across grades. QuotedAmerican strict good middling 7.11, good middling 6.81, strict middling 6.66, middling 6.51, strict low middling 6.36, low middling 6.11, strict good ordinary 5.91, good ordinary 5.61. Futures closed steady, with July at 6.28 and December near 6.22.
In New Orleans on June 6 cottonseed oil closed steady with summer yellow at 4.75 to 4.90 and prime crude at 4.00 to 4.25. Futures quoted June 4.81 July 4.84 September 5.00 October 5.06 December 5.21.
New York reports for June 5 bids in cottonseed futures with slight gains. June at 5.05b, July 5.28b, August 5.27b, September 5.43b, October 5.50b, November 5.53b, December 5.68b. Two contracts sold.
New York stocks showed dull and irregular trading as investors awaited further confirmation of recent rallies. Oil and metal issues led gains with Standards of New Jersey and Amerada among leaders, while names like U S Steel and General Motors drifted lower amid profit taking. Transfers ran about 665000 shares as bonds and currencies moved little.
New York reports mixed stocks with gains in oils and metals and steady bonds. Currents show mixed curb trade while utilities slip. Foreign exchanges rise as sterling strengthens. Cotton weak due to poor weather and New Orleans selling. sugar and coffee largely steady. Chicago notes wheat gains with improved weather, corn down on rains. Cattle rise to $9.75 top. hogs firm up to $3.75.
Chicago June 6 grain markets opened weaker with wheat and corn retreating after an irregular start. Wheat fell 1 1 2 to 2 cents from yesterday, closing weak while July at 99 to 99 1 4. Corn slid 1 1 4 to 2 1 8, oats eased 1 2 to 1 cent, provisions moved 5 cent down to 2 cents up.
Hogs selling 25 000 head with direct sales 7 006 up strong to ten cents. Pigs mostly down two dollars. Cattle about 10 000 with fed steers and yearlings firm to higher. Slaughter cattle and wealers up with varied weights. Sheep 7 000 with fat spring lambs fairly active and ewes steady to higher.
The daily foreign exchange table lists Great Britain in dollars and other currencies in cents. Rates shown include Great Britain at 5.05 7-8 on demand and 5.04 3-4 for 60 day bills, France 6.60 1-4, Italy 8.66, Belgium 23.38, Germany 37.62, Holland 67.82, and many others including Norway 25.43 and Sweden 26.09 with several additional country and city quotations across the globe.
Chicago June 6 Potatoes U S No 1 prices ranged with Idaho russets 1.55 to 1.70 Wisconsin round whites 1.15 Minnesota early Ohios 1.00 Triumphs 1.55 to 1.70 Alabama decayed 1.45 Louisiana 1.50 to 1.60 slightly decayed 1.35 to 1.45 and Mississippi 1.55 to 1.60 with 1.60 for Louisiana Bur banks.
In New York on June 6 the sugar market held steady as house passage of senate amendments to the tariff bill supported prices. July contracts traded around 1.54 with intraday fluctuations, December rose to 1.70, and futures closed 1 to 3 points higher with 21 850 tons sold.
Larry E Anderson, a 26 year old expert penman, has written 53 legible letters on a grain of salt in Los Angeles.
A stream of named companies appears with percentages and stakes such as United States Steel 19 percent United Gas and IMP seven Snells 1558 Westinghouse and Western Union Telegraph 4 percent. The OCR reads like a financial ledger listing many firms including Texas Pacific Land Trust United Carbon United Rubber and Allied names.
Mrs Curtis Gandy Jr says her son Anne Gandy spoke in a fantasy telephone call the day before his body was lifted from San Francisco on January 11. Police say Gandy was dead several days earlier, but his father and twin brother maintain they heard his voice in dreams the same night.
Complete returns show road maintenance tax of 1.5 mills approved 383 for 155 against. Property vote totals 1,719,725 for and 982,680 against. Levy set for five years, replacing a 2 mill rate. Precincts 7 ward 10 had perfect records. several precincts voted against. Monroes wards 3 and 10 split property supports. Totals reflect broad support despite small turnout.
El Dorado Kansas reports brass dog tags attract 50 percent more buyers. In 1930 and 1932 brass tags sold 330 each year, while 1931 and 1933 with other metal sold 222 and 223. In the first four months of this year 297 owners purchased tags.
Poultry live 1 car 38 trucks steady. Hens 12.5 Leghorn hens 9. Rock fryers 23. Colored 20. Rock springs 26 colored 24. Rock broilers 17.5 to 20 colored 16. Leghorn 14 to 16 barebacks 15. Roosters 7.5 turkeys 10 to 13 spring ducks 11 to 13.5 old 9 to 10 spring geese 13 old 7.
Call money steady at 1 percent all day. Time loans steady 60 days to 6 months at 3 4 to 1 percent. Prime commercial paper 3 4. Bankers acceptances unchanged. Rediscount rate at New York Reserve Bank 1 12 percent. Workers on Boulder Dam drink salt to replace loss in perspiration and blood effects.
Classified notices list services from first class vulcanizing by C C Lindley at 1318 Desiard and Spencer Corsets by Mrs J C Ziegler. Also U S Engineer Office invites sealed bids for earthwork on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Mississippi with bid opening June 15 1934. Sealed bids due by 10 am. June 15 1934.
In Weatherford Texas two convict fugitives fled Harlem prison farm after escape Monday. One suspect Odett Charles Hughes identified. A Weatherford officer George Laymance was beaten and farmer Grover Cleveland wounded when officers attempted arrest near a wrecked car. Police chief Bert Reynolds aided in the scene.
Three U S coast guard cutters responded to an SOS from the freighter Mariposa grounded off Lamb Island in Lake Superior. The vessel with a 24 member crew carried a light cargo bound for Port Arthur and owned by Buckeye Steamship. a wind change threatened worsening conditions.
Five Plymouth Rock chickens were found in a sack at Nineteenth and DeSiard street and placed in the city hall basement awaiting owner identification per Police Superintendent L. V. Tarver. Officers chased a fleeing man. no missing-chicken report had been filed.
Alberta Brown a negro housemaid and Wilbert Humble her common law husband were arrested after a three day spree that followed the theft of 1000 dollars from Consul General Louis Borrero of Colombia. Police recovered 399 dollars and gaudy clothes. Brown allegedly confessed taking the money after seeing it in a drawer. Humble claimed she found the money and he spent the rest gambling.
Butter steady with 200 tubs sold and creamery specials at 25 to 25 1 2 cents. Extras 24 1 2, firsts 23 1 2 to 24, standards 24 1 2. Eyes steady with 18 117. Fresh graded firsts 14 1 2 to 15. Current receipts 15 to 14. No egg sales.
The Monroe News Star and Morning World outline telephone want ads with a 45 cent minimum charge and daily closing times. Classifieds are arranged alphabetically by group headings with numbers for quick reference including legal notices employment real estate autos and miscellaneous categories. The notice cautions about accommodation accounts and prompt collection for telephone ads.
Lost fifteen jewel gold watch with hunting case addressed to O. C. Lindsay care of Bancroft Bag Factory. Phone 1971. Also lost black hand bag containing ladies clothes purse with money and valuable papers. Reward offered. Mrs. J. H Dozier Swartz La.
The News-Star and Morning World offer a free Losers Service Bureau for found articles such as dogs purses jewelry fur or other items. An accurate index tracks west and found ads from recent weeks to help locate owners.
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