Selective Recovery Noted In Brisk Market
World War II era stock market closes week with selective gains. Steels lead early with others facing minus results. volume around 600000 shares, largest Saturday since last December. Chrysler and General Motors hit new 1941 bottoms while U S Steel Bethlehem Chesapeake & Ohio Phelps Dodge Patino Mines Texas Co duPont Dow Chemical Johns Manville American Telephone Boeing United Aircraft show strength.
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Associated Press
New York
Chrysler
General Motors
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem, Chesapeake & Ohio
Phelps Dodge
Patino Mines
Texas Co
duPont
Dow Chemical
Johns Manville
American Telephone
Boeing
United Aircraft
Produce Provisions And Buyer S Guide Market Prices
Wheat advanced nine cents to a new high of 1.17 per bushel amid war fears. The issue lists varied prices for grain hay butter poultry produce seed and related commodities from Canton and Dumont Seed Co with specifics for carots beets celery lettuce onions mangoes oranges and many others. Prices cover retail and wholesale quotes across meats dairy fruits vegetables and seeds with numerical values attached.
Merrill Lynch Curbs Bond Transfers Noted in New York Menu
New York curb listings show transfers of bonds from Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner Beane and others including American Cyanamid Gulf Oil Penn Louisiana Land Niagara Hudson Power with various percentage stakes and tranch notes across several securities.
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Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Fairchild Eng
Gulf
Penn
Louisiana Land
Niagara Hudson Power
Wool quotations in Boston on December 13
The United States Department of Agriculture reported demand for domestic wools with prices in Boston. Fine territory wools sold at 1.12 dollars per scoured pound for good French combing lengths and around 1.08 to 1.10 for average to short French combing lengths. Graded 3-8 and 1-4 blood bright fleece wools brought 52 cents in the grease.
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Boston
United States Agricultural Department
Territory
Grain Quotations Fall as Soybeans Lead Declines
Chicago reports soybeans tumbling 6 cents per bushel at the open, the daily limit for one session, triggering sharp drops in other grains. Wheat opens 11 4 to 21 8 cents lower, May at 1.28 1 4, corn down 11 2 to 83 1 2, December soybeans at 1.71.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Grain close Friday in Toledo market report
Toledo notes Friday grain prices with two red wheat at 1.22 to 1.24, two yellow corn at 80 1-2 to 81 1-2 cents, two white oats at 56 1-2 to 58 cents, and two yellow soybeans at 1.74 to 1.75 dollars.
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Toledo
Government expenses and receipts through Dec 11
Government records show total expenses at 9,890,214,077 with a defense share of 7,069,241,035 and receipts of 3,332,595,794. Net deficit stands at 6,567,518,283, cash balance 1,981,723,573, working balance 1,224,323,694, public debt 55,321,526,393, and gold reserves 22,774,819,649.
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Nited Press
Washington
Want Ad Seeks Cash Buyer for Adding Machine
A brief want ad promises a quick sale by finding a cash buyer for an adding machine. The notice suggests straightforward transaction terms and emphasizes immediate payment. The reader is invited to respond to secure a fast deal.
Livestock Prices In Chicago Market Report
Hogs and cattle show steady to firm prices with varied ranges across grades. Hogs top at 11.35 and bulk around 10.80 to 11.25, sow and pig categories listed. cattle and calves display mixed values with beef steers up to 13.90 and cows 7.50 to 9, feeders and stockers noted. sheep steady with lambs 12.25 to 12.50 and ewes 4 to 6. vegetables and potatoes show modest gains or firmness with regional price variations across several U S and Idaho varieties. Watercress priced 900 to 1.00 per peck.
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International News Service
Chicago
Ohio
Pennsylvania
U. S
New York
Maine
Idaho
Bakers
Pittsburgh United Press cattle and hog market report
In Pittsburgh on December 13 the cattle market stayed steady with ranges for steers from 9.25 to 13.00, heifers 6.00 to 10.50, cows 6.00 to 8.00, canners 4.50 to 6. Bulls 5.50 to 10. Calves 6.00 to 15. Hogs rose about 30 cents with classes from 10.75 to 11.65 depending on weight. Sheep and lambs showed limited activity with lambs 12.25 to 12.75 and feeders 10.50 to 12. Calves steady at 6.00 to 15.
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United Press
Pittsburgh
Prices and ranges for butter eggs poultry and Ohio produce
Cleveland prices and market notes list butter 40c extras 36 1 2c standards 36 1 2c. Eggs to shippers in 100 case lots 36 1 2c to 33 1 2c. U S graded eggs prices to retailers 43c for extra large white cases 39 1 2c large white 36c medium white 34c. Poultry and ducks prices shown for hens broilers leghorn roosters turkeys with mixed weights and steady markets. Homegrown Ohio produce items including apples beets carrots celery lettuce mushrooms parsley parsnips potatoes radishes squash tomatoes turnips with assorted prices per unit.
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Canton Pure Milk Co
Tub Creamery
Paul Overholt
Pure Milk Co
Canton Poultry
Steiner-Hitz
California
Florida
Dumont Seed Co
Kansas
Michigan
Ohio
International News Service
Cleveland
U. S
Poultry and butter prices steady in Pittsburgh market
On December 13 Pittsburgh reports steady poultry prices with heavy hens at 20 to 22 cents and leghorns 14 to 16 cents. Leghorn rocks 15 to 17 cents, rock springers 20 to 22 cents, geese 16 to 18 cents, turkeys 24 to 28 cents. Butter remains steady with 92 score at 36 cents and eggs steady for nearby receipts at 36 cents, white standards 40 cents.
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Pittsburgh
Chicago Markets Report: Butter and Eggs Steady on Mixed Grades
Chicago price report shows butter at 7 034 titles steady with mixed grades and 92 score 35. standards and 90 score 33 percent. Eggs at 7 262 cases steady with current receipts 3354 and fresh grades around 37 37 percent. Live poultry markets closed.
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International News Service
Chicago
Alliance forms civilian defense committee at country club
Alliance leaders organized a civilian defense committee with Mayor Floyd Senn as general chairman and Richard Lamont as executive director. W J Packer named city chairman. E H Turkle public. Paul Siddall civilian defense. Members include C C Henderson Carl Rickard Dr C B Ketcham Frank Greneisen Dr G O Rowland and assistants William M Corry B E Saffell Dillon Crist Joseph Wagner Paul Reed A J Fennerty. Meeting scheduled next Friday at noon at the Alliance Country Club.
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Repository Bureau Alliance
Alliance Country Club
Alliance Civilian Defense Committee
Floyd Senn
Richard Lamont
W. J. Packer
E. H. Turkle
Paul Siddall
Leetonia Driver Fined in DUI Plea
Charles B Burns of RD 1 Leetonia pleaded guilty before Mayor Norman Phillips at Salem after arrest by Deputy Sheriff Howard Clark on a charge of driving while intoxicated. He was fined 100 dollars and costs.
Airman heads work at Alliance plant
Dec 13 Alliance. Capt. Frank G. Osgood was released from active duty at Wright field to become works manager at Taylorcraft Aviation Corp. He will accelerate production of light Army planes. Osgood previously managed Burgess-Curtiss production at Marblehead, Mass., and designed at McCook field near Dayton.
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Associated Press
Alliance
United States Air Corps
Wright Field
Taylorcraft Aviation Corp
Frank G. Osgood
Taylorcraft
Army
Capt. Osgood
Burgess- Curtiss
Marblehead
Mass
McCook Field
Dayton
U. S. Indicts 3 Agents for Setting Up Still
The Associated Press reports in Cincinnati that two former state liquor officers and a federal alcohol tax agent were indicted for conspiring to violate federal liquor laws by setting up a still in Mainesville Ohio and selling liquor to bootleggers. Roy Terry of Cincinnati Charles Bass of Wilmington and Thomas A Fehey are named as defendants with J Clark Allen named as a co-conspirator.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
Mainesville
Roy Terry
Charles Bass
Wilmington
Thomas A. Fehey
J. Clark Allen
Fehey
Picket Ban Hearing Continued to December 22
Common Pleas Judge J L Floyd heard witnesses Friday afternoon and then continued hearing to Dec 22 in the case of Acme Laundry of Canton Inc against Laundry Workers Local 140 of Akron and Walter Burns of the McKinley hotel. The laundry seeks a permanent injunction to stop picketing at the plant.
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Common Pleas
J. L. Floyd
Acme Laundry of
Canton, Inc
Local 140
Akron
Walter Burns
McKinley Hotel
Massillon Fund Seeks Court Action Over $204.31
A civil suit filed in common pleas court by the Bring the Boys Back for Christmas group seeks disposal of 204.31 dollars collected in Massillon. Judge George N. Graham signed a journal entry directing Mayor Harry W. Lash to hand the funds to treasurer C. E. Chidester of the organization.
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Massillon
Common Pleas
George N. Graham
Harry W. Lash
C. E. Chidester
Bellevue Crash Fatal Claims Life of 18YearOld Robert Herbel
In Bellevue Ohio on December 13 a car veered from the road and crashed into a tree, killing 18 year old Robert Herbel. Investigators reported no immediate signs of another vehicle involvement. The victim was alone in the vehicle and the crash occurred near his home. Authorities are examining the wreckage for further details.
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Bellevue
Robert Herbel
U S Rationing of Tires Begins in Wartime Order
The Associated Press reports from Washington that a temporary ban on new tire sales signals the move toward formal government rationing. OPM official Leon Henderson says details are pending but aims to prevent dealer stockpiling and preserve patriotic compliance. Noncompliance has been rare but risks hindering stock recovery. A price schedule for lead scrap and secondary lead will be set within two weeks, and a December 15 meeting of smelters and dealers will discuss implementation. Temporary price ceilings on fats and oils except butter were imposed.
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Associated Press
Washington
Leon Henderson
OPM
Henderson
Plain Grange Plans Christmas Program
Plain Grange met in the grange hall at Middlebranch to set a Christmas party for Friday December 26. A committee of John Fohl Jr L W Dunwoody Cecil Smith and C G Boettler was named. The group also announced the Stark county farmer institute will be held January 12 13 and the grange dramatic club will stage a play January 13.
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Plain Grange
Grange
Middlebranch
John Fohl Jr
L. W. Dunwoody
Cecil Smith
C. G. Boettler
Stark County Farmer Institute
the Grange Dramatic Club
Maxine Braswell
Juvenile Grange
Wilbur Wallace
R. E. Bradley
Freda Metzger
Lorene Werstler
Violet
Mr. Dunwoody
The
Grange Hall
Japan Can’t Replace Warships, Writer Tells Exec Club
Don Bate, foreign correspondent, told the Canton Executives Club that Japan must be reduced to a second or third ranking naval power. He argued Japan lacks raw materials, will struggle with food shortages, and faces crippled foreign commerce as the U.S. widens bomber bases in Siberia. He also forecast strong American naval action and outlined defenses around the Panama Canal and Alaska.
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Japan
Don Bate
Orient
Canton Executives Club
Belden Hotel
Bate
America
Mr. Bate
United States
Russian Siberia
Netherland East Indies
Canal
Panama Canal
Alaska
Dutch Harbor
Midway
Pacific Northwest
Hawaii
Former Canton Man Promoted by Army
Lieut. Col. Harry L. Reeder, Canton native born May 19, 1891, as of wartime promotions to temporary colonel, one of five Ohioans in the regular army since Pearl Harbor. Reeder, a St John’s College graduate 1914, attended infantry tank and French tank schools and the command and general staff college, listed in April 1941 as lieutenant colonel with the inspector general’s department at Fort Blanking Florida.
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Harry L. Reeder
Canton
Japan
War Department
Army Register
Col. Reeder
St. John’s College
Annapolis
Infantry
Command and General Staff
Army
Inspector General’s Department
Fort Blanding
Fla
G V Fuller Reported Safe on West Coast
Glenn V. Fuller former assistant director Canton Welfare Federation was reported safe in the United States. He had been on leave from the Associated Mission Treasurers in Shanghai and sailed back last Saturday the day before Japan’s attack on U S possessions. He is now in Claremont California awaiting plans for the future after ten years in Shanghai as treasurer of Methodist missions.
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Glenn V. Fuller
Canton Welfare Federation
Shanghai
China
J. L. Tuttle
Federation
Associated Mission
Japan
United States
Claremont
Calif
Methodist Missions
Tax blanks sent to county corporations for stockholders
County Auditor Ross Tisher started mailing tax forms to corporations in the county to record all resident stockholders as of January 1, 1942. The deadline to file these blanks is January 15, 1942. Blank forms will go to the state department in Columbus for booklet publication.
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Lisbon
Ross Tisher
State Department
Columbus
Ice Breaker on Lakes Funded in Defense Bill
The Associated Press reports an $8,000,000 appropriation to build a large ice breaker for keeping Great Lakes shipping channels open in winter. The provision appears in the third supplemental defense appropriation bill now before the Senate.
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Associated Press
Washington
Great Lakes
Senate
License Suspended for Legion Post in Alliance
Alliance December 13 The private club permit of Louis Dixon post American Legion was suspended for 10 days by the state liquor control board on charges of selling to non members and Sunday sales.
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Alliance
Louis Dixon Post
American Legion
State Liquor Control Board
Parking Meter Referendum Certified With 75 Percent Support
An official tabulation by Os car FP Bartlow, CPA, shows 12 373 ballots of 28 291 mailed in the parking meter referendum. Of those, 9 487 favored meters and 2 886 opposed, with 60 cards excluded. Mayor Folk will seek council ratification.
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Oscar FP. Bartlow
Certified Public Accountant
Ed S. Folk
Folk
Bartlow
Gunwomen Rob $12 From Fremont Orchard Worker
John E. Keller told Sheriff Myers that two heavy set women, one about 50, robbed him at gunpoint of $12 in Fremont. He described a pistol pointed at him and said the women fled in a car driven by a man.
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Fremont, O
John E. Keller
H. L. Myers
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Leetonia
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U.S
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