Wall Street Stays Cautious as Armistice Details Loom
June 21 stock market activity near halt as traders await German French armistice terms. Transfers reach 331,200 shares with gains and losses mixed. Major issues such as U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler General Motors Douglas Allied Con Edison Johns Manville Eastman Kodak and others show varied movement while rail loans and commodities remain listless.
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Kansas City Livestock Market Report June 21
Kansas City livestock sale totals show hogs 1,500 head with gains of 10 to 15 cents. top 5.25. 180 to 280 lb hogs 5.00 to 5.25. sows 4.10 to 4.25. lightweights to 4.35. Cattle: 180 head salable, calves 100. killing classes steady. slaughter cows and vealers 7.50 to 8.50 for vealers. stockers and feeders unchanged. cows 5.25 to 6.25. Sheep: total 1,300, 1,000 salable. spring lambs 25 cents higher. top natives 10.00. clipped lambs 7.40.
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Kansas City
U.S.C.A
Texas
Boston Wool Market Softens as Demand Stalls Note
Boston reports slow wool demand with inquiries from mill buyers. Prices ease slightly on several lines while country fleece and French combing wools hold at firm but restricted levels. Other market notes include New York bond and cotton activity and Chicago grain closes.
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Boston
USDA
Senate Debates Shape Cabinet Moves Amid Resignations
The sequence of Senate debates focused on Woodring resignation as defense secretary and Johnson’s likely continuation, with charges of personal conflict. Nominations of Knox and Stimson triggered swift GOP rebuke and a cabinet loyalty pledge. Dewey framed the shifts as a step toward war while Clark Wheeler and Woodring led the critics in the chamber.
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Woodring
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Knox-Stimson
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Hamilton
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Kentucky
Hoover
New York
Thomas E. Dewey
Clark
D-Mo
Wheeler
D-Mont
D-Wva
Wool Market Slows After Army Demand Surge
Boston reports the wool market cooled as buying interest from the army textiles program waned. Fine class III wools sold at 85 cents this week after 88 last week, while the Laramie pool saw no bids. Civilian demand remains weak, Mohair dull, and foreign markets offer little. Quoted ranges cover Texas to Oregon and Montana, with pulled and scoured grades detailed for Delaine and mohair domestics.
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Boston
Commercial Bulletin
Army
West
Laramie
Wyoming
New York
Texas
California
Northern
Middle County
Southern
Oregon
Territory
Montana
Delaine
Hitler Visits Compiegne Armistice Site In 1940
The narrative details Hitler's 1940 visit to the Compiegne railway car, the German briefing of French delegates, and the reading of the preamble authorizing a ceasefire. It notes the tense hour, the presence of Hess and Ribbentrop, the ceremonial salutes, and the public sharing of the preamble while terms remained secret. The article describes the ruined Compiegne town and the surrounding fortifications as the French envoys awaited German terms.
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Compiegne
Rudolf Hess
von Ribbentrop
Foch
Hitler
Germany
Horst Wessel
Tele
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Erich Raeder
Maurice Athanase le Luc
Charles Huntziger
Leon Noel
Jean Marie Joseph Bergeret
Hess
Keitel
Foreign Office
Propaganda Ministry
France
Alsace-Lorraine
Marshal Foch
Paul Schmidt
Chicago Produce Prices Hold Steady In Stable Market
Chicago June 21 prices for butter and eggs were unchanged with butter at 1,126,029 and eggs at 23,950. Poultry live shipments showed 50 trucks with spring chickens firm, small hens easier, hens under 5 pounds at 13 1/2 cents, springs under 4 pounds at 4 cents. Plymouth Rock and other prices unchanged.
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Chicago
Plymouth Rock
New Orleans Cotton Reports Dull Market June 21
New Orleans spot cotton closed dull with no sales. Middling price listed at 10.54 cents per pound. Market shows 6 points decline from prior.
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Galveston
New Orleans
Armistice talks stagger as German advance presses French
In Berlin French and German plenipotentiaries pursued armistice terms amid ongoing negotiations. German forces reportedly pushed to Riom while French negotiators met Keitel and Hitler reps in the Foch car. Der Angriff claimed two 35 000 ton battleships, Clemenceau and Richelieu, fell to the German conquest of Brest.
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Brest
France
Library of AKC acquires Monroe dog book collection
The American Kennel Club shelves 250 titles from the late Professor Will S. Monroe of UC. The collection features works in English, Swiss, and German with Monroe bookplates, illustrated by S Edwin Megargee. It recalls Monroe's passion for Great Pyrenees and collie Scottie, and notes their bond and stories from Couching Lion Farm Vermont.
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New York
Library of the American Kennel Club
Will S. Monroe
University of California
Monroe
S. Edwin Megargee
AKC
Couching Lion Farm
Scottie
Vermont
Hugo van Arx
New York Post
Professor Monroe
Couching Lion
Green Mountains
Scottie Pond
Baptist Training Union To Meet July 7
The Pecos Valley Association of the Baptist Training Union will meet at the First Baptist Church in Carlsbad on Sunday July 7. The program features the Chapel Choir of Roswell and the theme Growing In Grace and Knowledge. Berlin radio reported German forces captured 400 planes and 2,000 motors from the United States.
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Pecos Valley Association of the Baptist Training Union
First Baptist Church
Carlsbad
Roswell
Berlin
United States
CBS
DNB
Romanian king forms totalitarian party on Nazi pattern
BUCHAREST June 21 A sweeping German victory in Romania was marked by King Carol announcing the formation of a new totalitarian political party modeled on the Nazi pattern. It was seen as a move to implement a full Nazi program including antisemitism to curry favor with the victorious Reich.
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England
France
Germany
Compiegne
Great Britain
Britain
German Reich
Bucharest
Romania
Carol
The Capital Parade on New Mexico Oil Bids
The Capital Parade reports on New Mexico road oil bidding for 1830 carloads, showing how F O B refinery price plus freight determines contract winners. A single bid price per refinery sets a ceiling, yet shipments to varied towns rely on state freight differentials. The piece also notes a simple spot test for oil quality using a solvent and paper.
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State Highway Department
State Taxpayers’ Association
Highway Department
Texas
California
Hobbs
Clovis
Clayton
New Mexico
Specifications for road oil debate in New Mexico standards
The article discusses the contro versial specs for road oil and the lack of consensus among engineers. It notes New Mexico demands insoluble solids free road oil while other states focus on oxidation resistance and other factors.
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New Mexico
New Mexico Public Health Assn Holds 15th Convention
In Albuquerque delegates of the New Mexico Public Health Association heard Prof. A S White state merit system supervisor urge efficiency in public service as good politics. The group elected officers and held final sessions before a dinner dance, with speakers including Dr S W Adler and Mrs Eva Borden naming leaders of the nursing section.
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Albuquerque
New Mexico Public Health Association
A. S. White
S. W. Adler
Anna Heisler
U. S. Public Health Service
Estella Ford Wagner Albuquerque
The
Indian Bureau
R. L. Jackson
Iowa University
Not a Natural Road Oil Says Highway Report
Not a natural product, road oil is a blend of petroleum distillation residue, volatile gas oil, and asphalt. The mix ratio dictates slow-curing properties, and higher asphalt content is increasingly preferred for highway surfaces.
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