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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1920
Page
8
Wheat futures rose after initial declines as exporters and domestic mills competed. Prices in multiple months moved from slight drops to gains, with strong buying from houses linked to export interests lifting corn and weighing down provisions in the complex.
Chicago and Omaha market summaries show cattle receipts around 9 000 and 5 800 hogs with mixed shifts. Beef cattle uneven gains to 25 50 cents. hogs mostly 15 25 cents lower. sheep and lambs mostly steady to lower. Top prices cited include cattle to 11.50 12.50 and hogs around 9.65 9.75. lambs 11.00 12.00 and ewes about 4.25 5.00.
Chicago December 30 butter markets show unchanged prices with receipts totaling 2711 cases. Firsts 654% 66, ordinary firsts 57. Market activity remains steady as year closes.
Readable text notes mixed poultry price movements with 2c higher live weights and several categories showing unchanged or modest adjustments. Mentions include fowls, springs, turkeys and roosters with references to Kanew Chay and Dec 30 timing.
Chicago market brief lists wheat No. 1 berd 182, corn No. 3 mixed around 71 to 72, No. 2 yellow and white varieties near 47 to 48 and 46 to 48, rye No. 1 around 62 to 63, barley around 83, seed values for timothy and clover at 5.50–6.50 and 15.00–20.00 respectively, pork and lard quotes with ribs at about 10.75 to 12.00.
Chicago market notes show potato receipts around one carload per variety. Northern white sacks ed at 1.60 per cwt, Idaho rossets at 1.90, Wisconsin kings at 1.20, all pricing and packaging reflecting steady conditions as of December 30.
New York money market reports strong mercantile paper demand with exchange rates for sterling francs guilders and Belgian francs. Cables show slight variations with Belgium and France noted. Greece and Dutch guilders also listed. Montreal discount at 12 percent. time loans steady.
London bar silver 41 4 per ounce as of Dec 30. Domestic money and discounts unchanged. New York bar silver unchanged with foreign at 65 percent. Mexican dollars quoted at 49 percent.
The New York bond market closes with Liberty bonds showing various maturities. e3% yields at 89.54, first 4a bid 86.00, second 4a 84.60, first 4448 85.70, second 4s 8482, third 4%8 87.96, fourth 448 84.72, Victory 3%8 95.01, Victory 44s 95.10.
Geneva December 30 The council of the League of Nations has requested the League of Red Cross Society to supply personnel and materials to protect the health of the international force that will go to Vilna to supervise the plebiscite determining sovereignty over the district.
In Moscow Idaho on May 20 and 21 a women’s tennis tournament will feature University of Idaho students and Whitman College at Walla Walla Washington. A series of campus tournaments next spring, directed by Miss Trene Watson, will select the Idaho coed team.
The Senior District Judge fixes regular court terms for Bannock Power Oneida Franklin Bear Lake Caribou counties for 1921 with dates and start times. The order requires filing in each county and publication for two weeks. Terms begin at 10 a.m. on listed dates, with Pocatello as the venue and December 16, 1920 as the signing date.
New York December 30 AP speakers at the American Association for Labor Legislation closing sessions called for laws across states to cooperate with the federal government to protect maternity especially for working women. They urged employment restrictions cash benefits and free medical care to cut rising maternal mortality and infant deaths. Dr Richard Bolt cited that many women aged 25 to 45 die from childbirth related conditions and warned the government would face 26 000 deaths yearly from smallpox or bubonic plague hypothetically.
New York stock market opened with Crucible Steel and Atlantic Gulf down one and 2 points respectively as the session got under way. Rails led gains from yesterday, with coalers and rail equipment showing demand while several rail names and oils moved variably. The Mexican group firmed and Dutch issues retreated slightly in early trading.
Paris reports the office of industrial reconstruction shows 8,892 of 4,821 establishments resumed some operation. Metal works lead at 88.4 percent active, potteries 81.5, chemical industries 70.8, textiles slow due to destroyed looms. Prior 1914 employment 778,915, by Nov 1920 down to 355,852. Workers live in wooden huts with brick shanties rising where feasible.
Peking story reports Dr. Philip Tyau, foreign office councillor, denying charges of militarism in China. He cites heavy provincial military organization, compares population and forces with Germany, and warns against civil-military power conflicts. He urges lawful separation of civil and military authority and stresses poverty, taxation, and the value of League of Nations diplomacy.
Paris dispatch reports measures by the Seine department council to reduce infant mortality after the war. Louis Mount, new public official, notes a dramatic population decline and outlines steps to address child deaths.
Washington AP Colonel George C Rickards of Oil City Pennsylvania was appointed by President Wilson as chief of the militia bureau of the war department He will assume duties tomorrow succeeding Major General Jesse Mel Carter Rickards will hold the rank of major general and is the first national guard officer to hold the post The appointment follows the army reorganization bill adopted in Congress
A gas line spill on water ignited and burned the Balboa the United States largest passenger and mail aircraft yesterday while en route from New York to Miami to enter service between Miami and Bimini. One wing burned away and four crew members along with two passengers escaped injury.
Reports from the famine region in China describe widespread hunger from Shensi to Henan. Thousands flee toward cities while desperate acts include child selling with prices as low as a dollar, and rescues, deaths, and refugee flows dominate the scene. Funds and aid from multiple governments and organizations push to avert further losses.
Regina Saskatchewan December 30 some 2 500 000 bushels of seed grain bought and distributed to farmers in western Canada during the season the seed grain purchasing commission has spent over fifteen million dollars on selected oats six rowed barley and fall rye with part of 1918 seed corn for distribution in Ontario the statement was made by A E Jilaon seed grain commissioner
New York diners faced high cover charges and premium meals as cabarets along the gay White Way prepared for New Year’s Eve. Establishments announced reserved tables and menus featuring cocktails and non alcoholic beverages, with liquor prices climbing and menus noting non alcoholic footnotes.
Warsaw reports the League of Nations commission notified Lithuania that the Vilna to Dvinsk railway will stay Polish and that the plebiscite will be held only west of the line. Lithuania will abandon plebiscite plans in the Wilno district.
Allen B. Johnson, president of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania chambers of commerce, told the Boston Chamber of Commerce that business readjustment and deflation are more than half completed and that the worst is over. He urged prompt buying to revive industry, relieve unemployment, and spread improvements longer.
Papeete Tahiti Dee 30 AP Those who brave the long voyage to the South Sea hope to escape civilisation but find bitter disillusionment as metropolitan Jazz floods Tahiti. The gramophone has reached Tabete native households and jazz blares through cocoanut groves while surf roars and native singing fades.
A federal receiver was appointed today for Pacat Finance Corporation a foreign exchange dealer in New York. The petition on behalf of Sydney N Greenhalgh lists liabilities at 1 1 million and assets at 482 000. Read the Tribune Classified Ads.
In Waterloo Indiana two hundred gallons of whiskey a new truck and two men Joseph Ponuer Cacceas and John L Burne from St Paul Minn were captured early today. The liquor was hidden in a bank nearby an offer of whiskey prompted two youths to alert the police.
Boston notes a planned January 15 deportation of alien radicals to Russia. The group includes detainees and parolees at Boston and New York ports. Assistant U S Attorney Lewis Goldberg cited Louis F Post, assistant secretary of labor, confirming arrangements have been concluded.
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