Wall Street Drifts After Christmas Hold. Industrials Gain
New York shares opened post holiday trading with fair spirits as turnover reached 1,045,765 shares. Utilities weighed on the list while industrial specialties climbed. Bonds held an undertone and non ferrous metals inched higher. Major declines hit Consolidated and several utilities. U S Steel held near unchanged as market activity appeared generally favorable for steel industry during the quiet holiday period.
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Santa Claus
Consolidated
American Telephone
Public Services
O. J
American Water Works
North American
Western Union
American Can
U. S
Cerro de Pasco
Deere
General Motors
American Rolling Mill
Bethlehem,Penney
Montgomery Ward
Grain and livestock prices from Chicago and Kansas City
Closing grain prices show wheat oats rye lard bellies and related futures with December and May figures across old and new contracts. Kansas City livestock data report hogs cattle calves and sheep activity with price ranges and the day’s strong bidding, indicating higher values on choice 230 lb hogs and several classes of cattle and lambs.
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Rye
Boston wool market dull with inquiries on fine territory fleece
Trade on the Boston wool market was generally dull today with several inquiries. Interest remained centered on finer territory wool as buyers sought quotations on medium fleeces. Some Strictly combing 56s and 3/8 blood Ohio fleeces were held at 29 1/2 cents in the grease, most sales at 28 cents. Strictly combing 48s 50s 1/4 blood did not move, no established price, though quotes were 27-28 cents in the grease.
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Boston
US Dept Agr
Ohio
New York Curb Market Prices Summary
AP report lists midday prices for numerous stocks and commodities across varied sectors. Includes Am 45 1/4, Gulf Oil 53 1/2, Humble Oil 49 1/8, Texan 6715 3/4, Swift & Co 18 1/4, and other issues like Ark Nat Gas 5/8, Assoc G & E 5/16, Brillo Mfg 9 1/8, Unit & Pow A 3/4.
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Ord Mot Ltd
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Humble Oil
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Money rates steady as year ends in New York market
Call money remains at 1 percent throughout the day. Time loans steady for 60 days to 6 months at 3/4 to 3 percent. Commercial paper at 3/4. bankers acceptances unchanged. Rediscount rate set by the New York Reserve Bank at 1 1/2 percent.
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New York
N. Y
Reserve Bank
Bond market closes with mixed Liberty and Fed notes
The brief bond market report from New York shows Liberty bonds ending with Fourth 4 174s at 103.24 and 33-38, Treasuries 4 1/4s at 112.26, Home Owners Loan 4s at 1060.22, and Federal Farm Mortgage 3s and 3 1/4s trading around 99.16 and 101.16 respectively.
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New York
Liberty Bonds
Treas
Home Owners Loan
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New York Stocks Close Mixed Amid Market Turbulence
The New York Stock Exchange reports varied closes with numerous industrials and rails posting gains and losses. Names like General Electric, U.S. Steel, and Du Pont show movement as investors digest earnings and market signals amid year-end trading.
New York and Galveston Cotton Prices Shift on Liquidation
New York trading began with liquidation of January contracts and first delivery notices, then activity slowed with moderate dealings. Futures closed steady with slight declines, near 12.39 for January and 12.66 for May. Galveston spot cotton held steady at 12.75 with 210 bales sold.
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Report outlines half of two year power builds to water system
The 2 year billion dollar construction program could allocate about 50 percent to power installations with the rest for flood control navigation aids and other water resource efforts. The committee told Secretary Ickes that life in the Mississippi valley of the future need not be poverty stricken or precarious as it presented the report to the President. Declaring the United States 14
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Ickes
United States
Holiday death toll rises across states and causes
A holiday day of tragedy spanned the United States with at least 15 deaths from a Hamilton Ontario train wreck and numerous fiery, drowning, and shooting incidents. Indiana to New York reported several auto fatalities while Missouri fires claimed families. Notable cases include Sedalia and Joplin deaths, a tree lighting fire in New York, drownings in Nebraska and Ohio, and multiple suicides in New York City.
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Pardons by Hockenhull Issued Christmas Clemency
Santa Fe AP reports Governor A W Hockenhull granted conditional Christmas pardons to nine men and one woman from the state penitentiary. Recipients include Tom Wright Quay county 1933 five years Paul Carroll Lana county 1934 two to three years Capitolia Moffett Chaves county 1933 two to three years Will Gray Lincoln county 1933 two and a half to three years Bailey Hubbell Roosevelt county two and a half years L. J. Stafford and A. Stafford Roosevelt county 1954 two to three years Ed Fraini alias Frezzini Colfax county 1934 one to ten years Henry Gonzales Colfax county 1934 one to ten years Juan Jose Alonzo Valencia county 1928 60 to 70 years.
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A.W. Hockenhull
State Penitentiary
Tom Wright
Quay County
Paul Carroll
Lana County
Capitolia Moffett
Chaves County
Juan Jose Alonzo
Valencia County
First Christmas Day for the Quintuplets
In Callander Ontario the Dionne Quintuplets spent their first Christmas quietly with milk and cereal. They had a noon airing and played with pink rattles while their parents Ovila and Rose Dionne visited with five older siblings to open gifts arriving from many places.
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Ovila Dionne
Roosevelt tones aid for electrical appliance purchases
President Roosevelt discussed stimulating appliance sales through private utilities aided by a government program akin to the Tennessee Valley electric home and farm authority. He urged large scale production to lower prices and noted ongoing talks on the congressional program and flood control cost sharing.
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Roosevelt
Electric Home and Farm Authority
Tennessee Valley
Congress
Senate
House
White House
Livestock prices rise in Chicago on extreme cold
Chicago December 26 hog values jumped 50 to 75 cents to an early top of 7.10 as extreme cold curtailed marketings at leading packing centers. Cattle and sheep shares advanced while lard futures rose 50 cents per 100 pounds, hitting December deliveries at 12.65 per hundredweight, with packers paying up to 9.35 including the processing tax.
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Board of Trade
Artesian Well Plugging Under Building In Roswell
A well beneath the Mitchell Seed and Grain Co building at 601 North Virginia is being plugged today by the Conservancy District crew. It is the valley's first artesian well plugged under a building with tubing inserted. Other wells under Roswell buildings, including one under the Junior High school auditorium orchestra pit, will be plugged later.
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North Virginia
Conservancy District
Roswell
Claim Wife Killed Herself While Drunk
Chester Gideon, 22 year old prize fighter, maintains his bride of under two days shot herself after an argument while intoxicated. He says he did not see her draw a weapon as they shared Christmas dinner with her father George Crapo in Wichita Kansas.
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Loretta Wilson
Fort Jefferson
N. Y
Rene Katz
Little Rock Ark
Sylvia Stredman
Preston
Ida
Blue River
Crete
Neb
LeRoy Maple
Brownsville
Ohio
Wichita
Kas
Chester Gideon
Gideon
Medford
Okla
George Crapo
Crapo
Quiet Christmas Police Chief Young Reports A Quiet Day
Police chief Young reports a calm Christmas with four arrests for drunkenness as the city observed the holiday. Officers noted no major incidents and traffic was light during the observance.
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Fatal shooting in Houston ties to estranged wife
Wiley Tate, 20, a waiter, was held on murder charges for the fatal shooting of Newton J. Kennerly, 44, nephew of Federal Judge T. M. Kennerly. An investigator attributed the motive to Tate's estranged wife. Kennerly died in his underwear at his apartment after Tate surrendered at the sheriff's office.
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Newton J. Kennerly
T. M. Kennerly
Texas
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Kennerly
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FERA Officials Set Meeting in Las Vegas Tomorrow
Santa Fe dispatch reports a district FERA meeting scheduled in Las Vegas for officials from Santa Fe Rio Arriba San Miguel Taos Guadalupe Mora and Colfax counties. Four additional district meetings are planned in other state areas. Margaret Reeves state relief administrator will attend en route from Washington DC.
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Margaret Reeves
Washington, D. C
Santa Fe City Audit Expected Release Soon
State comptroller Juan N. Vigil said he would release the Santa Fe city audit within a day or two. The review into former city clerk Henry Trujillo’s accounts is complete, and Vigil plans to recover any city funds before public release. Mayor Barker asked if District Attorney Chavez had been informed of the facts.
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Juan N. Vigil
City of Santa Fe
Henry Trujillo
Charles B. Barker
Vigil
David Chavez
Cusack to Seek Texas Custody of Children
Charles Edmund Cusack, heir to a Chicago family, said he will resort to Texas courts to regain custody of his three children taken by his wife Ann Hamilton Cusack to Cuero Texas. He also swore a grand theft warrant over silver reportedly taken from his home. Governor Ferguson said extradition would not be granted. The Los Angeles court had granted him weekend custody and her weekday custody pending further settlement.
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Dee
Charles Edmund Cusack
Chicago
Texas
Ann Hamilton Cusack
Cuero
Cusack
California
Miriam A. Ferguson
Los Angeles
Inquest Opens Into Carlsbad Inn Fire Deaths
Carlsbad New Mexico December 26 AP under District Attorney George L Reese Jr the coroners inquest into the deaths of four people in the Carlsbad Inn fire began this morning progress slow. Two jurors were questioned at the hospital about costs for a burned proprietor T D D Johnson and guest Arthur Buckner.
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N. M
George L. Reese, Jr
Fifth Judicial Distric
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Arthur Buckner
Tribesmen on War Path Kill 21 Filipinos in Mindanao
Manila dispatch reports twenty one Filipinos killed as mountain tribesmen surged on the island of Mindanao. Sixteen of the dead belonged to the mountain tribe, slain when they attacked a constabulary camp in Augsan province last Saturday.
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PP. L
Mindanao
Philippine Constabulary
Augsan
County prisoners get Xmas dinner from Sheriff Peck
Chaves county inmates enjoyed a fine Christmas turkey dinner prepared by Mrs John Peck and gifted fruit and candy packages from Sheriff Peck and his deputies. She has also provided meals for Thanksgiving and Christmas during four years of Sheriff Peck’s tenure and his prior terms.
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Chaves County
John €. Peck
Sheriff Peck
Local Cutting Scrape Leads to Jail Charge
A cutting incident occurred last night in town involving Fred Oliver, a local Black man, who was injured. Arlene Waggoner, a Black gro woman, is jailed in the county lockup charged with the cutting and held on related offenses.
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Fred Oliver
Arlene ‘Waggoner
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