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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1932
Page
2
The Chicago market saw light hogs at 4.10 to 4.25 with a 4.30 top and heavies 3.70 to 3.90. Hogs priced up 1 cent with total 25,000 head traded, cattle light supply at mixed steady levels. Beef steers 7.50 to 9.00, stocker and feeder prices mid to high 3s and 5s, calves 6.50 to 9.60, cows 2.50 to 4.00, bulls 3.25 to 4.75.
Combined hog receipts at 21 yards and 7 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota totaled 18 500 for the 24 hours ending today, down from 46 600 a week earlier and 23 400 a year earlier. Prices varied by weight with mostly steady to higher bids and active trading as buyers quoted ranges for light to heavy hogs and sows.
Chicago market notes show butter, eggs, cheese and poultry figures with varied grades and weights. Potatoes and U S shipments move on track with regional price ranges and stock levels, including Wis round white and Idaho russets among others.
Chicago grain figures show wheat futures with mixed highs and lows across Mar May July and Sept contracts. Corn and oats also display varied open high low and close values with several decimals and percent spreads reflecting market activity.
Chicago seed market reports on February 5 with Red clover noted as fair to good. Market observers describe conditions as stable amid mild demand.
Farm Bureau leaders from all counties in the seventh district met in Fairfield to outline a district wide membership drive from February 5 to February 22. J H Jones of Ainsworth presided as Chas K Hearst urged tax revision cooperative marketing rural credit and dollar stabilization work. Nearly 100 leaders attended despite cold and snow with plans to exchange leaders and speakers and form a speaker bureau and township level activity.
Grain receipts show 16 cars of wheat 220 ears of corn and 39 cars of oats. The brief item lists farm produce deliveries to the processing facility and notes shipment totals for the period.
Wheat ranges from 57 to 58, corn shows mixed values around 32 to 34 with wide billing-driven variance, oats cited at 24 to 26, and barley reported 52 to 65. The text notes inconsistent quotes across categories and colors, reflecting market volatility and billing differences.
James Dunn and Sally Elers, co stars of Bad Girl, clash over thrill and speed in the Fox film Dance Team opening this afternoon at the State theater. Sally is a licensed pilot who scorns Jimmy’s claim that automobile racing is the thrill of thrills, challenging him to join a flight, but he declines.
February 5 report notes deep snow and bright sun, with community scenes from Ainsworth. It mentions Harry Castle recovering, Ralph Kelsey Journal subscription, a late Mrs. Allender sale with Charley Lemley clerk, and visits from Ernie Temple and M. Allen. A running gag about a meal request closes the piece.
Miss Bilers told Minna Gambell and director Sidney Lanfield she hopes for an aviation sequence in the next Danese Team project. The idea would place Dunn among the clouds for a thrilling spectacle, adapting Sarah Addington’s novel by Edwin Burke into the picture.
A solemn group led by Appadaca treks through heavy snow to Bakersfield with eight bodies from the San Francisco to Los Angeles airliner crash high on a ridge north west of Angeles. Appadara found the burned wreckage on a 2000 foot slope four miles northwest of Lebe, hidden by snow from pilots.
In a brutal crash the bodies of eight aboard a plane were found burned and mangled after the craft failed in a raging blizzard. Pilot J W Sandblom died in the wreckage while Mrs Fieckeisen was hurled 20 feet from the cabin. Passengers included Frank Dewar S B Swan J H Pohlheim W H Smith Nita McGrath and Marie Combs with several prominent figures among the dead.
Pleasant Hill reports people host Groundhog Day optimism with mild hints of spring. Community members Mr and Mrs Lee Hesseltine and Mr and Mrs William Gamon and others visited the R W Gamon home. Miss Madle Telford returns to Burlington hospital to resume duties after a Sunday visit.
After a weeks vacation at home Mr Stumpf remains very ill at his daughter Mrs Fred Bleese home. John Ganon visited Ainsworth Tuesday afternoon. The Pleasant Hill school closed Monday due to store failure. Mr and Mrs Will Stafford hosted dinner with guests including Mr and Mrs Lee Hesseltine Mr and Mrs John Ganon and Harold. The Pleasant Hill Ladies Aid raised about $30 at the Kennedy Benz sale Wednesday.
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