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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1929
Page
5
Seventeen of the 43 convicts who escaped yesterday from the Clemens state prison farm were recaptured and in irons today. Four others were shot and slightly wounded by possemen and remained in a hospital. Armed posses and bloodhounds pursued fugitives along the river bottoms.
The board of education certified Albert F. Kunze Jr of Columbus as Georgia’s entry in the Thomas A. Edison scholarship contest. Kunze appeared before the Board and was presented to Governor Hardman in Atlanta on June 21.
Grace Nobile, about 20, jailed in Starkville Miss, charged with fatal shooting of Walter Bush near Maven 20 miles west. Information says Bush beat the father in his yard. after pleas were ignored she obtained a pistol and killed him. Bush is survived by a widow and four children.
Washington reports Thomas Heflin Jr son of Senator Heflin of Alabama pleaded not guilty in police court to driving under the influence of drugs and was released on $1,000 bond after a crash on Pennsylvania Avenue. He denied narcotic addiction but admitted drinking. Police said a garage and needle were found.
Viola Gentry and Charles W. Parkhurst launch from Roosevelt Field at 11 25 15 PM on a refueling endurance flight. Their light biplane The Answer carries The Exclamation Point as refueling ship while aiming to break the 172 hour 32 minute 1 second endurance record set by Reg Robbins and James Kelly on Port Worth with the Question Mark.
Lex King Souter of Trenton Missouri won the American Federation national oratorical contest in Los Angeles, earning 1500 dollars. The 25 year old junior from William Powell College Liberty Missouri competed against six regional winners with speeches on the U S Constitution. Souter represented the mid western zone.
Shanghai on June 21 reported no confirmation of London dispatches about a disaster at Eastbund Hospital in Canton. A Canton ammunition dump blast yesterday is believed to have caused casualties, with arms destroyed in the eastern district.
A young Heflin’s car and a bottle bearing a tonic label were forwarded to the treasury department for analysis.
New Orleans cotton showed lethargy with a July surge fading after selling pressures. Futures fell 14 to 23 points, spot prices mixed, while New York trading ended with losses as weather and liquidation influenced prices. Wall Street rose on steel and copper strength with a broad rally in industrials and record levels for several stocks.
The Moultrie hog market report lists No. 1 packer hogs at 10.00, No. 2 packer hogs at 9.00, and assorted hogs around 8.00 per hundredweight, reflecting daily corrections by Swift and Company Moultrie Ga.
Butter prices across tubs creamery extra and standard grades fell with marked spreads. Egg prices remained steady as market quotes reflect June 21 trading in Chicago.
Chicago prices for poultry on June 21 show alive steady with fowls 25, springs 38, broilers 34, roosters 20, turkey 22 to 30, ducks 17 to 20, spring ducks 20 to 26, geese 14, spring geese 25.
Raw sugar held firmer with buyers showing interest at last paid July shipments of 3.52, refiners unchanged at 4.85. Wheat lifted after brisk buying and lower world production estimates, with corn oats and provisions also advancing. Liverpool cotton futures closed quiet with steady spot prices and mixed American sales.
Chicago reports a steady market with varying prices for potatoes. North Carolina Irish Cobblers move from 3.25 to 3.75 per barrel, Wisconsin sacked round whites quoted 40 to 50 cents per bag, old stock trading slowly amid weakness in the market.
Liverpool reports weekly cotton statistics with imports 38000 bales and exports 14000, American shares 13000 imports and 39000 forwards, plus stock 951000. New York butter cheese flat, dressed poultry prices irregular. Chicago livestock shows hog receipts 15000 with top 11.25 for 170 to 195 lb hogs, cattle receipts 2000 with uneven trade, steers scarce and slaughter classes cited with price ranges.
New York cottonseed oil closed steady with a range of prices shown for prime summer yellow, prime crude, and futures contracts including January through December deliveries.
New York call money held at 7 percent per day while time loans eased with 30 day loans at 8 percent and 60 to 90 days at 7 to 8 percent. Four to six months loans stood at 7 percent. Prime commercial paper and bankers acceptances were unchanged.
New Orleans reports cotton seed oil closed steady with multiple contract prices listed. Prime summer yellow at 8.40, crude 7.6244 to 7.75, with monthly futures including January 8.90, June 8.50, July 8.57, August 8.60, September 8.82, October 8.90, November 8.85 and December 8.80 percent.
Chicago markets list grain prices with Wheat No 1 bard Corn No 2 and mixed varieties at 93 to 43 percent No 6 mixed 88 to 89 oats No 2 white 47 No 4 white 44 barley 56 to 62 timothy 4.00 to 4.75 cloverseed 16.00 to 24.00 Lard 11.77 ribs 13.56 bellies 14.75.
St Louis spot prices list cash wheat No 2 red winter 126 to 127 No 1 hard 114 to 115 corn No 2 mixed 93 to 94 No 3 92 to 94 No 2 yellow 96 to 97 No 3 93 to 95 No 2 white 97 to 99 oats No 2 white 46 No 3 46 to 45 34
U S Government Bonds closing figures list Liberty 344s at 96.6, First 4 percents at 98.26, Fourth 4 percents at 99.7, Treasury 3s at 100.24, Treasury 4s at 103.23, and Treasury 44s at 107.4 for New York trading.
Henry H. Cabaniss of the Atlanta Journal turns eighty one today. A Confederate Army veteran who served in 1864, he later helped publish The New Era in Atlanta and led The Monroe Advertiser before joining and rising on the Atlanta Journal staff.
London mourns as Salvation Army officers conduct a brief service over the body of General William Bramwell Booth at Congress Hall Clapton. General Edward J. Higgins, Booths successor, leads the rites after Booths death at Hadley Park following a lingering illness. The body lies in state all day for officers and faithful to pay their respects.
Sam Perry of Birmingham won 19 holes to defeat A J Wheeler of Nashville to advance to the Southern Amateur semifinals in Nashville Tennessee. Perry will face Alan Smith of Asheville who beat Ted Hampton 6 and 4. Lebourgeois and Tyne also advanced in the lower bracket.
Colonel Duncan Major of Atlanta chief of staff for the fourth corps area arrived at Fort Scriven to inspect the Citizens Military Training Camp. He toured the post facilities and met officers and trainees during the morning arrival in Savannah on June 21.
Manchester announces notices will be posted for a 12.82 percent wage cut in Lancashire spinning. The move, agreed by the federation of Master Cotton Spinners to keep the industry competitive, faces strong opposition from about 200000 workers and their unions amid potential strike talk.
Frank Butler a 26 year old metal worker fell eight stories at a new building in Atlanta. He struck the iron air duct and braced himself to break the fall. He suffered cuts and bruises and a fractured knee cap.
A group of Floridians starts training and an official will leave for Jacksonville then proceed to Fort Barrancas in Pensacola to inspect the C M T C facility. The sequence outlines upcoming inspection and deployment steps.
Yale won the first two races of its annual regatta on the Thames in New London Conn. The Varsity finished four lengths ahead of Harvard after the Bulldog freshmen edged the Crimson by three-quarters of a length in the opening race. Both events were two miles upstream.
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