Stock Market Dips in Listless Weekday Trading
New York stocks slipped with modest profit taking and scattered firm spots. Turnover totaled 458,740 shares as Radio Preferred B Coca Cola IBM and Wilson & Co. Preferred rose to fresh yearly highs while Gotham Silk Hosiery hit a new year low. several rails and industrials declined while bonds and foreign exchanges showed quiet or small moves.
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Wall Street
York
Chicago Pit
Radio Peferred
Coca-Cola
International Business Machines
Wilson & Co
Gotham
U. S
Loew’s
Trico
Union Pacific
Santa Fe
N. Y. Central
Pennsylvania
Southern Pacific
Allied Chemical and Armour of
Illinois
U. 5S. Steel
Liggett & Myers B
Chrysler
General Motors
Johns Manville
National Distillers
Case
Montgomery Ward
U. 5
American Smelting
Howe Sound
Western Union
Public Service of New Jersey
American Sugar Refining
Wool sales in Boston show steady demand despite quieter week
In Boston during the past week a fair weight of wool sold with demand easing slightly from two weeks prior. Fine Otlie delaine reached 27 cents grease weight, while lower grades mostly moved slowly at 28-29 cents for 58s to 60s and 56s to 3/8 blood, with combing wools at 27-28 cents for 48s to 50s. French combing grades ranged from 58s to 64s at 68-73 cents and finer 64s to 70s at 68-70 cents. Twelve months Texas wool traded freely at about 870 cents scoured for bulk merino.
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Boston
US Dept
Texas
Chicago Grain Market Prices Noted for December Contracts
AP report from Chicago on December 8 lists closing prices for grains with December old and new wheat at 1.01 5/8, May at 1.01 5/8, July 96 5/8. Corn December old 93, December new 93, oats and rye prices shown. Barley figures include Beebe and September new at 80 1/4, May 83, with bean and program data showing January to May levels.
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Rye
Beebe
Ebrogramber
Bellies
Kansas City Livestock Market Summary Dec 8
Hogs 2,000 head with limited steady to 10 lower, top 0.90, 180 lb up to 5.00. Cattle 300, calves 100. week’s good to choice fed steers and yearlings steady, others 10–15 lower. vealers steady. Lambs 40–50 higher. week’s top fed lambs 7.50, native and fed lambs 7.25–7.40, shorn lambs 6.65–7.00. ewes weaker. fleshy feeding lambs 5.85.
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Kansas City
Galveston Cotton Prices Hold Steady
Spot cotton in Galveston on December 8 held steady at 12.70 in middling, with sales totaling 200 bales as the market reflected stable demand and pricing.
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Galveston
New York Cotton Steady After Government Report
The government cotton report estimated 9,731,000 bales, matching expectations and leaving the market largely unchanged. Prices held firm with a narrow 6 point range, March futures closing at 12.54, with December at 12.45 and spot middling at 12.70 amid a quiet day on the New York exchange.
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New York
Government
Bond market closes steady on municipal and government issues
New York Dec 7 evidence shows Liberty bonds up to 4 1/4s trading around 33 to 38 for old issues with 105.21, Treas 4 1/4s at 47 to 52 around 112.14, Home Owners Loan 4s at 51 near 101.2, Fed Farm Mortgage 3s at 49 around 98.30, and Fed Farm Mortgage 3 1/4s at 64 near 101.10.
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New York
New Orleans Cotton Close Steady Up Six Points
Spot cotton in New Orleans closed steady up six points as sales reached 697 bales. Middling grade quoted at 12.77 cents per pound.
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New Orleans
Two Die in Wisconsin Snowstorm Rescue and Train Tragedy
A snowstorm in Willow Lake county Wisconsin claimed two lives. A rescue party reached the home of Clinton Moss 85 to recover his wife who died of pneumonia. Moss refused to leave his cabin as a relief official urged. A second victim died after being struck by a train while overcome by cold.
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Clinton Moss
Willow Lake County
Wis
Moss
Air Pilot Dies In Missouri Crash
In Columbia Missouri early today Lou Bowen a Braniff Airlines pilot was killed when his mail and express plane from Kansas City to Chicago crashed about 5 20 am near U S Highway 40. A farmer Walter Clump reported motor trouble before the tail detached and the craft struck an embankment. Bowen 40 lived in Chicago.
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Columbia
Lou Bowen
Braniff Airlines
Kansas City
Chicago
Here
Walter Clump
Clump
Bowen
68 Oil Wells Drilling Expands in Eddy and Lea Counties
Southeastern New Mexico faces its most active oil period since 1929 with 68 drilling wells underway in Eddy and Lea counties. Eleven new locations were started since last week, setting a new regional record. Notable wells include Amerada Petroleum, Texas Company, Stanolind, Humble, and Continental Oil Coast locations.
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Eddy
Lea
Artesia
Lea County
Cooper and Eunice
Amerada Petroleum Corp
A. H. Myers
Humble Oil and Refining Co
R. H. Henderson
Russell. Steel
Atlantic Oil. Co
State
Eddy County
Pecos Valley Drilling Co
Getty Oil Co
Cooper District
Everett No. 1
Texas Company
Everett
Continental Oil Co
Woolworth No
Phillips Petroleum Co
Woolworth
Gates
Neal Wills
Montgomery
Labor Strike Forecast Sparks Debate At New Mexico Conference
Albuquerque December 8 AP. E E Maes head of workers education in Albuquerque and Gallup warned at the University of New Mexico conference that industrial strife in the nation will push toward a labor party or socialism. He suggested a demagogue could sway workers toward fascism, but stressed reforms like shorter work days and statewide school book uniformity.
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Gallup
New Mexico
University of New Mexico
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Labor
State Federation of Labor
W. Carson, Jr
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School of Science
State College
Hugh B. Woodward
U. S
Nationwide narcotics raids sweep multiple cities
The text reports on large narcotics crackdowns across several cities. In Baltimore a raid on the New Condor hotel led to multiple room searches and the seizure of narcotics shipped by mail under coded orders. In Cleveland seven men and three women were arrested in a high school narcotics ring probe, with mothers pleading to save the children. Additional raids occurred in San Francisco Chicago and Kansas City as agents broadened a nationwide drive to curb narcotics trafficking.
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Harry J. Anstinger
Cleveland
Addison
Ralph H. Oyler
Deppties
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Sam Testa
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Jim Hong
Charles Kennedy
Samuel F. Carter
Arthur Taylor
Edward Lynch
Jean Wood
Helen Davis
Ethel Blagdon
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Chicago
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Dec
Vl S. Wood
Missouri
Kansas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Ranges in New Mexico worst in history
Las Cruces New Mexico December 8 AP ranges are in the worst condition on record says agricultural statistician Fred Daniels in the monthly livestock and crop report. The winter range feed is almost unavailable due to drought with most hay and feed imported from other states while water supplies run below normal.
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N. M
Fred Daniels
New Mexico State College
New Mexico
Daniels
Old Mexico
Tingley state program nears completion in New Mexico
Albuquerque December 8 AP The governor elect Clyde Tingley’s legal advisory board and 16 fact finding sub committees near a partial report on a legislative program for submission next month. Final subcommittee reports due by next Saturday with three weeks for bill preparation. Speaker Alvan White optimistic legislature will back the program and shorten the session.
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N. M
Clyde Tingley
Legal Advisory Board
Alvan N. White
House of Representatives
Tingley
Committee On Economy In Government
Stanford Considers New Attack for Rose Bowl
Stanford University may deploy a different offensive plan for the Pasadena Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day. Coach C. E. Thornhill hinted that Stanford will include lateral passes, a backfield shift, and more forward passing, elements unused this season.
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Calif
Dec
Pasadena
Indians
Cc. E. Thornhill
Poison Booze Kills in Portland Waterfront District
Portland reports indicate eleven men died and several others were critically ill from poisoned denatured alcohol in the waterfront area. Police traced the liquor to a local drug store amid investigations, with post mortems planned to confirm causes of death.
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Portland
Ore
Central
North End
Flood claims six teen deaths in northern Luzon
Dispatches to La Van Guardia report six Filipino teens drowned in floods sweeping the Cagayan valley in northern Luzon. Many more were missing and thousands displaced.
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P. I
Luzon
la van Guardia
Cagayan Valley
Doctor Testimony on Victim's Death in Wilson Trial
El Paso Texas December 8 AP Mrs Irene Debolt 30 year old nude murder victim lay dead 30 to 40 hours before discovery west of Van Horn. Dr W Smith testified detailing wounds including a base of skull fracture and possible death by strangulation while under cross examination by defense counsel L V Dodson in the Arthur C Wilson case.
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el Paso
Tex
Irene Debolt
van Horn
Arthur C. Wilson
W. Smith
Cleveland
November births and deaths reported to county health office
The county health office logged 61 births and 23 deaths in November, detailing the month’s vital events and presenting a snapshot of local population changes.
Post Believes He Has Record for Altitude
Wiley Post, famed globe circler, claimed he set a new world's altitude record for heavy aircraft after a hop into the stratosphere in his Winnie Mae. He estimated 50,000 feet or more, with the current record at 47,352 feet. Official certification was awaited in Washington within days.
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Bartlesville
O&kla
Wiley Post
Winnie Mae
Washington
Woman found dead in El Paso hotel
Police and district attorney investigate the death of a middle aged woman who registered as Mrs. C. Creak of New York. Her body was found in her hotel room bed with a chloroform soaked cloth over the face in downtown El Paso Delta Hotel.
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el Paso
Tex
C. Creak
New Yo City
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