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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1934
Page
3
Financial markets held a waiting mood with fractional moves across stocks and commodities. The report notes thin activity in New York stocks, cautious gains in some gold and sugar issues, steady U S government bonds, and cotton futures drifting amid warm weather impacts.
New York June 28 cotton rose on dry southwest weather, inflation fears, and wheat strength. Active months gained, October hit up to 247 and late day prices improved as selling absorbed. Futures closed steady 10 to 13 points higher.
Liverpool cotton reports a quiet spot market with prices two points lower. Quotations list several grades, including strict good middling at 7.36 and low middling around 6.61, while futures closed steady with contracts noted for March and May at 16.46 and 6.45 respectively.
Chicago market notes show poultry items with varied counts and prices across chickens turkeys and ducks. Reads like a fragmented ledger listing rock fryers leghorns and geese with several incomplete figures and section breaks.
Live poultry steady. Freight rates 13 to 17 cents. Other freight and express unchanged. Pressed poultry easier. Fowls and fresh items unchanged. Sotho grades unchanged.
Raw sugar in New York held at 3.75 a hundredweight with no sales reported. Futures opened flat to two points lower and refined sugar unchanged at 4.79.
A Savannah market brief shows turpentine at 44 to 45 percent with sales 265, receipts 568 and stock 36. Rosin trade records sales 1 832 receipts 2 501 shipments 0 146 stock 95 262. Quoted prices include B land M440 I and G 4.20 Tl 4.26 Land ik 1.30 and N 4.00 for various grades and products.
New York on June 28 reports eggs at 25,418 with steady overall market. Mixed colors, white and brown eggs remain unchanged as price levels hold.
Futures and storage standards for butter and eggs described with June 1575 and July 14 dates, mentioning fresh prated firsts and refrigerator standards. Notes include June 24 and November 2a references to futures, storage, and fresh standards.
Chicago market report shows hogs trading mostly 15 lower than Wednesday with 170-210 Ibs at 4.85-4.90, lighter weights about 4.25 to 4.50, and pigs 3.00-4.50. Cattle futures mix. steers 650-900 lbs 5.76-8.50, 900-1100 lbs 6.00-9.50, lighter weights weak to Wednesday, demand steady for other classes.
June figures show No 2 red wheat at 14, No 3 red fig, No 2 hard at 98 percent, corn varieties listed with 614 and 6214, yellow No 2 at 62 6214, and other grains including barley 5698 and timothy seed priced at 2 shillings 50 pence per cwt. Clover seed cited 10 25 to 14.00 per cwt.
Rio No 7 at 9 percent and Santos No 4 at 10 percent led steady Rio and Santos futures. Rio sales 7,000 bags with July and September bids. Santos volumes 24,000 bags with July, September and December quotes. Nominal pricing noted for N contracts.
St Louis cash grain report lists Wheat No 2 red at 90 4 914 No 3 at 90 91 Corn No 2 yellow 63 5 644 No 3 at 62 44 63 14 Oats No 2 white 48 nominal Close Wheat July 91 Sept 91
Raw hide futures in New York closed barely steady with a notable 18 point dip. The market showed mixed bids across contracts including September at 9.05, December 9.50, March 9.65, and June pren 10.095 while sales totaled about $410,000.
Hog prices at Moultrie market on June 28 show Heavies 4.15 to 4.40, No 1 4.40, No 2 3.90, No 3 3.56, No 4 3.15, No 5 2.65, Sows 3.40, Stags 2.40. New Orleans cotton seed oil closed firm with July at 4.88, Sept 5.60, Oct 5.58, Dec 6.76, Jan 3.80.
New York June 28 steady exchange shows Britain at 5.0514 in dollars and other currencies with varied demands and cable rates. Notable figures include France at 6.593, Italy at 8.55, Germany 389.20, Sweden 26.07, Japan 80.00, Mexico City 28.00, and Montreal 98.84.
New York call money remained steady at 1 percent for the day. Time loans were firm with six months and six days at 6 percent.
Ossining New York June 28 Anna Antonio awaits execution by electric chair with only the governor able to intervene Her lawyers say no likely avenue and her family and Warden Lawes travel to Albany to plead She sees her children and contemplates a will as Saettia and Feraci also face death for the same murder
The piece marks the 20th anniversary of Gavrilo Princip killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. It notes millions killed or wounded in World War I, Austria’s punishment of Princip, and lingering memories as Europe remains unsettled. It references Austria, Sarajevo, and Versailles, plus global reactions in Vienna and across nations.
Georgia's 1932 mineral production totaled 15,359,987 dollars led by water power at 9,002,570. Marble yielded 1,351,752 with bauxite fuller’s earth and port land cement totaling 1,569,882. Granite 1,340,047 clay 1,197,078 and clay products about 1,000,000. Gold 5,769 likely doubled in 1933.
New York butter trades at 12,467 with no change. Cheese listings at 200,421 remain quiet and unchanged. Market report notes steady tone with prices holding firm.
Bleachable cotton seed oil futures closed firm in New York with spot quoted at 5.76 for July, 5.78 for August, 3.86 for September, 3.98 for October, 6.03 for November, 6.15 for December, and 6.18 for January. Sales components included two switches.
New York pricing shows curb money steady at 6 percent all day. Time loans steady at 60 days to 6 months with prime commercial paper unchanged. Rediscount rate at the New York Reserve Bank rests at five percent as bankers await further guidance.
New York June 28 todays closing prices of U S government bonds follow Prices quoted in dollars and thirty second dollars Liberty 47 WHS Liberty Ist dys 82 47 10807 Liberty 4th digs 338 38 Tecnd Treasury 44 47 52 119 5 Treasury 44 88148 38 40 10823 Treasury 33 846 56 107 Treasury 38 8 40 43 June 1051 Treasury 34ys 43 47 104 18 Treasury 845 41 48 March 1062 Treasury 3448 46 49 102 14 Treasury 5 1 55 10114 High Low Close Federal farm 34s 6 0 1 24 10122 10123 flome others ds OL 10080 LOW 27 1hu 28
The Farm Administration will expand livestock buys in drought regions to 10,000,000 head with about 5,000,000 sheep included. The plan, originally for 2,000,000, aims to relieve farmers of excess stock and inject cash, set at roughly $2 per head for animals aged a year or more.
Albert Pat Reilly, jailed on harboring charges, told federal investigators that Dillinger is dead. Reilly said Tommy Carroll told him before Carroll’s June 7 Waterloo Iowa murder that Dillinger was dead, a claim made during interrogation after Reilly’s capture in Minneapolis. Chicago detectives observed Dillinger at a Cubs Dodgers game in Chicago two days earlier.
Gainesville, June 28. Frank Elmore, once an aviator and convicted bank robber in Laurens County and the UGA arsenal robbery, again broke from a Hall County chain gang wearing heavy shackles. Officers search as Elmore previously escaped June 7 and was recaptured in South Carolina a week later. He fled again Tuesday. He faces ten years for bank robbery from 1933 and a five year federal term for robbing the university arsenal. the federal sentence requires serving all of it if the bank term isn’t completed.
The Public Works Administration authorized 23.3 million dollars for 228 projects nationwide across 28 states plus Hawaii and Alaska. An additional 33.0 million dollars for 30 states and Hawaii and Alaska was announced, with officials estimating the latest package would provide about a month of work for 197,681 laborers directly and twice that many indirectly in related industries.
Observers at Whitehead coast guard station in Rockland Maine reported the triple-hued monoplane Warsaw passed directly overhead at 9 05 am eastern standard time. The craft carried the Adamowicz brothers and a companion bound for Harbor Grace on the planned Atlantic crossing at an altitude of 2000 feet.
Emergency responders from police fire department ambulance and city services rushed to a scene noted by Whiddon’s ambulance and hospital staff. Officials coordinated through post office city hall and sheriff’s office to secure the area and assist civilians.
The Trading Post offers bargains on used beds chairs and stoves at 313 W. Jackson. Also available is rough lumber including 3x6s 2x6s 2x8s 6x8s 2x4s and 6x6s for building barns garages outhouses and repairs. Dismantling and sale to save moving costs. see Lee BK. Kelly promptly.
Moultrie Georgia June 28 Dean Paul Chapman of the University of Georgia College of Agriculture says Georgia farmers will get more than 12 million this year in AAA payments. He notes Georgia ranks behind only five states, lists payments by crop and hogs, and Miss Mada Barrington, 18, of Moultrie, is crowned festival queen.
Morgan Blake sporting editor of the Journal, absent six days due to illness, is now at Piedmont Hospital after sudden illness. His physician orders several days of rest. he had been at home before transfer.
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