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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1933
Page
6
New York June 21 Iron Age reports U S steel production at 59 percent capacity for the first time since April 1931. A week earlier the rate was 47 percent as operations advanced this week and April 1931 comparisons were cited.
Cotton prices in New Orleans and New York showed quiet trading as traders awaited the government acreage curtailment plan. October and December contracts moved modestly, with gains amid short covering and firmer stocks. Overall, futures closed steady with slight advances for most contracts and spot middling around 9.40.
Liverpool cotton prices fall five points with American bids listed for various grades including strict and good middling. Futures edge lower or steady with monthly values cited from A02 to May 6.02. In St Louis cash grain, No 2 yellow corn and No 2 white oats shown with wheat around 77 to 78 cents and corn near 45 to 47 cents for nearby contracts.
Forecast calls for local showers tonight and Thursday with unsettled conditions across the east Gulf and south Atlantic states. Rainfall reported in the last 24 hours includes lighter totals in New England and the northern Plains, with Santa Fe, New Mexico recording the greatest 1.32 inches.
Chicago markets report butter prices by grade with a total butter stock of 12 043 pounds and eggs at 13 891 units. Prices are unchanged and futures for butter and storage standards are noted along with a poultry section listing live birds, turkeys and ducks by weight and grade across multiple lots.
New York price bulletin shows eggs at 31 618 firm with mixed colors firsts 13 8 percent and storage packed. Brown eggs western standards 14 15 with other whites and browns unchanged. Butter at 17 623 steady with creamery and higher grades listed and cheese at 129 964 steady with no change.
Hogs totaled 32 000 with mixed weights. prices range from 3.00 to 4.60 for various classes while lighter weights bring 3.50 to 4.60. Cattle on 7 000 head with higher demand for emide fed steers and yearlings. steers and feeders mostly 4.75 to 7.25 for heavy weights and 3.50 to 5.50 for lighter stock. New York sugar and poultry markets also noted unchanged spot and refined sugar, with dressed poultry steady and live birds weak.
June 21 report shows easy foreign exchange with British pounds at 4.16 dollars and various currencies in cents or decimal terms. Rates include France 1.81 demand and 4.81 cables, Italy 6.42 demand and 4.81 cables, Belgium 17.10, Germany 29.16, Holland 49.15, Norway 21.00, Sweden 21.42, Denmark 18.55, Switzerland 23.60, Spain 10.40, Portugal 3.78N, Poland 13.75N, Czechoslovakia 3.68N, Yugoslavia 1.66N, Austria 14.33N, Romania T3N, Argentina 31.56N, Brazil 7.64N, Tokyo 26.25, Shanghai 26.6244, Hongkong 29.6234, Mexico City peso 27.95, Montreal in New York 89.8714, New York to Montreal 11.18%. N-Nominal.
Savannah reports turpentine sales 29 percent with 855 receipts 30 shipments and stock 13297 while rosin shows sales 668 receipts 2333 shipments 833 stock 111624. New York money market steadiness and sugar futures pull back after early gains with September and December contracts easing.
New Orleans June 21 Cotton seed oil closes firm with quotes for prime yellow and crude grades and varying June to December futures. New York June 21 Coffee spot steady Rio and Santos futures show modest gains and steady sales across July to May contracts.
A buoyant grain rally driven by adverse crop reports lifted many lagging leaders by 2 points or more late in trading. Overall, dullness lingered with a steady to firm close as volume neared 3.5 million shares amid mixed moves in bonds and foreign exchange.
The Georgia coastal plain experiment station at Tifton will host the annual tobacco field meeting on June 28 at 10 a.m. Tobacco growers and others interested will tour some five hundred experiments on two soil types covering rotation, fertilization, top dressing, varieties, and fertilizer sources. Station experts will guide groups through the fields, with questions invited and no long addresses. County agents and vocational agriculture teachers are urged to bring farmer parties.
Georgia newspaper editors arrive in Rome for the Georgia Press Association meeting at Shorter College. Activities include registration and rooms, a 7 p.m. dinner, an 8 p.m. opening session with welcome by Dr. C R Wilcox, and presentations by John Paschall and William G Sutlive. The event runs through Saturday with business sessions a Cartersville visit and prize awards.
Postmaster General Farley said 1,000 or more federal appointments would follow President Roosevelt’s vacation, to include collectors of internal revenue, postmasters, district attorneys, marshals, and customs collectors. About 25,000 to 30,000 new jobs may open under emergency acts.
Washington June 21 Three senators on the sick list were reported improving from the effects of the extra session. Senator George of Georgia ill at the naval hospital from overwork had a restful night after a slight pneumonic development. Senator Borah of Idaho was much improved while Senator Lewis of Illinois began his first full day of rest after treatment and will need a few more days before returning to office.
Official minutes from the June 13 1933 meeting record attendance with McMillan absent, reviews of May 9 minutes, referrals to committees, approval of audits and bills, and various resolutions including official depository designation for Commercial Bank of Thomasville. It notes tax claim settlement plans, road work progress on Monticello road, relief reports from Mrs McKinnon, sanitation funding issues, and an invitation to the county officers picnic.
Washington on June 21 Treasury receipts for June 19 were 25 671 521 41 dollars expenditures 27 661 934 42 dollars balance 1 006 109 404 48 dollars Customs duties for 19 days of June were 14 348 737 76 dollars
John McGraw will lead the National League all star squad at Comiskey Park on July 6 with 23 players and advice from two active managers Bill McKechnie and Max Carey. Club owners approved coaching assignments and kept the regular season limit, while discussing schedule changes and a two six inning games proposal was rejected.
In Macon, Barnesville hitters collected 14 hits off Doss and Smith, beating Columbus 7 to 4 and ending the Leberns’ long winning streak. Americus edged Albany 8 to 7 with a late ninth inning run, Milledgeville swept Macon 12 to 9 and 10 to 7 as one big inning spurred each victory.
Macon Georgia June 21 loyal to President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley pledged by resolutions adopted by the Georgia League of District Postmasters at their closing convention session yesterday. Special mention was made of Hale Branch executive assistant postmaster general as one of Georgia s own.
Philadelphia report notes Mrs Ed win H. Vare Jr former Glenma Collett, five time women's national golf champion, is mother of a seven pound girl born last night on her 30th birthday. The baby will be named after her mother. The Vares were married in June 1931.
IA city reports Dr Esther L Richards of Johns Hopkins endorses the good sound spanking for young children in public speech at a child welfare conference. She says reasoning is not productive with toddlers as they have little to do but listen, making discipline direct and brief. Suspender debate prompts Chicago police to consider black belts with trouser suspensions. A Kansas City woman, Lyra Ferguson, pursues 52 jobs in 52 weeks across 52 states and other places including Detroit Longview Santa Fe Hershey Winston-Salem Suffolk and Canada trades.
A 11 inch bass with a 10 inch bass in its mouth was found on Tarsney Lake near Grain Valley Missouri. Edwin A Morrow a Kansas City investment executive said the larger fish choked to death trying to swallow the prey.
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