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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1934
Page
5
Forecast for Thomasville and vicinity calls for partly cloudy skies tonight and Saturday with possible scattered thundershowers on Saturday. Record highs and lows for the month noted with precipitation totals for the 24 hours and month to date, including 1.09 inches in the last 24 hours and 2.083 inches this month. Normal rainfall for the month listed as 5.45 inches.
New York exchange rates show varied demand and cable values for major currencies. Britain at 5.06 percent, France at 6.60, Belgium 2s der, Norway 2idi, Sweden and Denmark 22.6, Spain 1.70, Poland 18.95, Czechoslovakia 4.18, Austria 11.056N, Hungary 24 35N, Romania Lal, Argentina 33.73N, Brazil 8.60N, Tokyo 30.72, Shanghai 23.25, Hongkong 36.63, Mexico City silver peso 28.00, Montreal 160.75, New York 99.25.
Chicago livestock figures show hogs mostly lower with finishing sows and light weights between 2.50 and 3.25 dollars per hundredweight. Cattle contracts list steers, heifers and cows at varied ranges from 1.50 up to 10.00 dollars, with stockers and feeders at 4.00 to 5.50 for 600 to 1050 pounds.
Raw sugar held steady with varied prices across types as maturities opened with minor gains. Butter softened with creamery and higher-grade scores easing, while cheese remained quiet with prices unchanged in New York trading.
Savannah trade note lists firm data for June 8 including Rusin and Turpentine firms with receipts shipments and stock figures across multiple categories. Prices quoted for several grades such as B D KF F G Hi and others with minor listed ranges.
Moultrie hog market near June lists prices by weight and grade. Trogs heavy 240 lbs up fetch 3.00 while No 1 166 to 240 price 3.25 No 2 149 to 160 2.75 No 3 720 to 149 2.50 No 4 100 to 129 2.00 No 5 60 to 100 1.50 Stags 2.26.
New York stocks rise as steel shares lead gains and bonds firm while cotton and grains show mixed movements. Wheat and wheat futures advance with weather and crop reports offsetting earlier losses. U S Steel and Bethlehem Steel among top movers in a broad market rally across several sectors.
Chicago June 8 grain and provisions report lists mixed prices for wheat corn oats rye and barley with speculative notes. Prices show July and Sept futures with open high low and close figures and percentages for wheat corn oats rye and barley alongside seed and weight details.
New York markets report Rio and Santos coffee futures with mixed values and steady volumes, raw hides firm with higher bids, and poultry markets showing dressed poultry steady to firm while live poultry remains weak. Chicago markets cover poultry, butter and eggs with varied price ranges and futures, and New York call money rates showing steady liquidity.
The article notes leaders from the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, including Michael F. Tighe, arriving as talks stall. Rank and file factions, protests by Watkins McKee, and a Weirton poll showing 95 percent against a strike accompany broader action from Pittsburgh to Oklahoma City, with bombs reported in Los Angeles as longshoremen’s strike continues.
Carroll revealed a 1925 East St. Louis marriage to Dillinger and ongoing separation since July 14, 1932. She criticized the Waterloo arrest, claiming the other woman was released to lure him into a police trap and warned she would act if she encountered her.
June 8 report from Waterloo Iowa notes dying Tommy Carroll muttered words that sparked instead of solving whether gangster John Dillinger remains alive. Iowa DOJ chief O C Dewey calls the mutterings inaudible while others recall hints of I buried him.
The article details the Molloy murder plot in the Bronx where the syndicate, assisting Murphy, planned multiple attacks. They attempted poisoning and assault, including running a car over Malloy, before finally killing him with gas in a rented room, after exposing him to freezing weather.
The report notes non union dock workers are housed as tensions flare at port facilities. A fragment of a bomb struck, tossing sand into a guard’s eyes, with sporadic violence continuing at other port sites.
Greenwood Miss June 8 Attorneys for Dr Sarah Ruth Dean sentenced to life for slaying Dr John Preston Kennedy plan an early appeal to the Supreme Court if the new trial sought of Judge S F Davis is denied The lawyers argued no motive for the alleged slaying and attacked a deathbed claim that Kennedy accused Dean of poisoning him
Atlanta June 8 continuing a new series of hearings into rate structures for ten Georgia telephone companies the Public Service Commission examined the Southeastern Telephone Company of Georgia and the Central Telephone Company of Georgia jointly serving South Georgia with offices in Tallahassee Florida. W E Glisson and H G Andrews appeared for questioning as the commission revisited cases after federal court injunctions halted earlier rate orders following the Johnson bill changes.
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