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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1938
Page
7
Moultrie Georgia June 3 hog market reports mixed prices with patients and weights. Traders note fattest sows and various barrow categories with bids around five to six dollars per hundred pounds and lighter weights bringing lower figures.
Chicago June market report shows poultry prices for leghorn fryers white rocks and other varieties remaining about steady with slight fluctuations across the trade.
New York reports mixed action with early gains in stocks, sharp price swings, and heavy activity on the trading floor. Bond prices hold. cotton and grain futures move with market sentiment as investors weigh profits and demand.
Chicago livestock markets remained active with gains across cattle and hogs. Fed steers and yearlings hit new highs as trade mirrored Wednesday and Thursday strength, with hogs rising 10 to 15 cents and good packing sows down and up across weights.
Raw sugar in New York held at 4.68 with shipments firmer at 54 000 of Philippines for July to August at 2.73. Futures gained some strength with July No 4 up to 1.00 and March to 0.98 - refined unchanged at 4.50 for fine granulated.
Chicago butter and eggs report shows butter sales at 1,444,831 with steady prices and evening sales at 1,786 with prices unchanged.
New Orleans June 30 cottonseed quotes show steady tones with bleachable prime summer yellow at 5.00 nominal and prime fertilized at 74.06 nominal. Hulls and futures listed Hy 7.698 and Sep 7.708 with Oct and Jan around 7.71.
Memphis Tennessee June 20 price report shows steady average prices across delivery months. Closing quotes for June through December reflect small variations with notable highs for November and a distant June price.
Vatican news service reports Pope Pius XII asked Japan to limit civilian casualties during aerial bombardments in China. The appeal, conveyed via Apostolic delegate Monsignor Paolo Marella in Tokyo, was acknowledged by Tokyo and promised respectful consideration.
The 78 year old evangelist Gipsy Smith announced plans to marry Mary Alice Shaw, a Los Angeles musician aged 26. The couple met in London 14 years ago and say they have the blessing of Shaw’s mother Mrs Alice Geratue Brady.
W H Lovett president of the Dublin Courier Herald and state house candidate will host a July 4 rally in Dublin with speeches by more than 20 candidates including senatorial and gubernatorial hopefuls. In Atlanta, recorders proposed imprisoning habitual drunkards for one year in a state institution and setting a 60 day stockade limit for ordinary cases.
Millen, Ga. June 30 Miss Minnie Holland travels to Gettysburg Pa for the joint meeting of veterans of the War Between the States. Her presence completes Confederate veteran gatherings. She will pick up traveling companion Mrs D J Boyd of Hopkins S C in Columbia. She says she aims to help every veteran feel included and to be a dutiful daughter to each.
Solicitor General John S. Gibson announced Harvey Nelson of Douglas confessed that he and two women, Mary Kent and Verna Mae Fowler, plotted the 10 year old J C Nelson’s death to collect $900 insurance. The boy was shot on a Waycross area back porch May 26. Nelson and the two women are jailed on murder charges. Kent is in Savannah jail while the others remain in local custody. Nelson said Mary Kent drew cash, Verna Mae Fowler kept the pistol and Nelson paid automobile and funeral costs from the remaining funds. The case previously had denied responsibility. The note ends with a historical aside about the first creamery in the United States.
The Vatican report mentions an Apostolic visit in Tokyo with Catholics estimated at about 90 000. The figure highlights significant local Catholic presence and public interest in the papal activity.
New York reports a surge as more than a million shares traded in the first hour on the stock exchange. Brokers, idle weeks ago, faced a frantic rush with prices rising to new highs and gains of over two dollars in key issues as copper rubber and cotton mirrored the activity.
The Treasury closed its eighth straight red ink year and found it owed less to private investors than last year while social security funds invested record amounts. Debt totaled about 37.1 billion and could rise to 40 billion. receipts rose slightly as expenditures fell.
The National Mediation Board certified the Brotherhood of Railway Car Men of America to represent the employees and helpers of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company after a board conducted election. Certification was based on the results of the election.
Boston Georgia residents and visitors are listed with relatives in multiple towns. The piece notes illnesses, recoveries, church events, camp attendance, and upcoming revival plans, naming individuals from Covington, Dothan, Thomasville, Rome, Atlanta, Brunswick, Jacksonville, and Barwick. Local students and ministers are mentioned along with church activities and charitable donations to a home.
The LifeGuard tire device places a reserve fabric tire inside a standard tube to slow and control blowouts at any speed. Local Goodyear dealer J A Whitworth says the system has saved hundreds of motorists and reduces rollover risk, especially in hot summer travel.
A federal grand jury indicted 28 residents of the Bug Tussle community near Cullman Alabama for using the mails to defraud mail order firms. Seven had been arrested earlier. losses totaled about 5000 dollars. Most residents collect their mail at Bremen as Bug Tussle lacks a post office. Names were not released.
About 300 tobacco growers gathered at White Sulphur Springs on June 30 to prepare for the Tobacco Association of the United States annual meeting. President J O'Brien of Louisville Kentucky noted markets dates would be announced tonight as prospects look favorable.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta reports May activity in the sixth district showing reduced retail and wholesale activity from April and May 1937, with construction contracts up 25.4 percent from April and 7.3 percent year over year. Alabama Georgia and Tennessee cotton mills averaged 5151 bales daily in May, up 3.5 percent from April but 40 percent below May last year.
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