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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1940
Page
7
Chicago livestock market notes include hogs 6,000 head with gains 5 to 15 cents on lighter weights. top 5.35. cattle 1,000 with steers mostly 9.00 to 10.00, early top 10.40. best heifers 9.75. calves 300. sheep 1,000 with lambs steady and natives 10.00 to 10.50. Estimated tomorrow receipts cattle 600, hogs 300, sheep 100.
A brief ad lists 25c cold plate special and offerings from T. and K. Dinette with sandwiches and fresh salads. A kitchen item sale note mentions dressed rock fries and credits Mrs. Arthur Duensing.
Spencer women collected 184 in petty fines on Thursday. The money will be given to the Red Cross.
Chicago traders report cash grain prices with corn bids across grades from yellow and mixed lots ranging roughly 64% to 67% and oats bids from 33% to 36% for sample lots. The rates reflect market conditions as of June 21.
Open high low and close values listed for July to December contracts across Wheat Corn Oats Rye with figures in percent and cents. Market activity in Chicago on June 21 reflects mixed movements with seasonal shifts in futures pricing and daily close values.
Chicago market update shows produce steady with receipts of 23 950 cases and 15 percent extra firsts 15 percent fresh graded firsts 15 percent current receipts 13 percent dirties 12 percent checks 12 percent. Poultry market firm with 50 trucks received. small hens 14 percent springs 21 percent leghorn broilers 16 percent. other prices unchanged.
Collier's reports show a New York private yacht captain earns more than the Queen Mary’s master, a Harlem dance hall manager earns more than Pennsylvania's governor, and a Midwest musicians' union president earns more than President Roosevelt, signaling wide earnings disparities.
Fred Svo boda aged 60 of Cedar Rapids area suffered second degree burns while attempting to lead several goats from a burning shed. He was hospitalized for treatment.
SIOUX CITY IOWA headquarters of the federal bureau of investigation discourages formation of civilian committees to fight fifth columnists J L Dalton of Des Moines state head of the G men told the Kiwanis club here Thursday World war No 1 proved Dalton explained that voluntary civilian committees get out of hand
H. J. Bate, Mapleton minister who called himself a safety man at heart, was fined five dollars in municipal court for driving through a boulevard stop sign east of Des Moines. He admitted to police he had complained at highway patrol and police stations about his arrest.
Des Moines Iowa republican leaders said they have been informed that Willard P. Archie publisher of the Shenandoah Sentinel is making arrangements to fly to the Republican national convention. Archie a seventh district delegate recently underwent an operation and is the only one of the 22 delegates whose attendance was in doubt. Governor Wilson his wife and his son Jim plan to leave by automobile today for Philadelphia Penn.
Des Moines attorney G Scott Davies failed to overturn an Iowa executive council decision. The council certified the late Fred D Everett as the Republican nominee for attorney general and will reconfirm Everett’s death before notifying Republican state officials.
A July deadline is announced to nominate a candidate to fill a vacant position. The process begins with a formal nomination and will proceed to appointment or election as required by local procedures.
Iowa executive council warns that state department workers have taken government electric fans to their homes at night and weekends, leading to loss of several state owned units and new policy to end the practice.
Roscoe C. Mann of Council Bluffs in Des Moines promoting a petition by the American Fraternal Union to ban the Communist party from Iowa ballots. Mann says the group publishes a newspaper runs an insurance plan and circulates the petition.
Burlington Iowa hosts the VFW twentieth annual four day state encampment with 1500 delegates expected. Overseas veterans join with the auxiliary in joint sessions as Mayor Max Conrad and convention chairman Carl Hoscheck welcome attendees and W W Fritzsche presides.
Lucas county farmers held an improvised auction on the courthouse square to aid European war refugees. They raised 520 dollars toward the Red Cross quota of 1240, with town donations at 500 dollars and additional cash 550 plus goods from pigs to pickles.
A rare albino buffalo has been sighted multiple times with a Pig Delta herd south of Fairbanks Alaska. Dr William T Hornaday notes that only about 10 or 11 white buffalo have ever been seen by white men in history.
The James Lange theory claims emotions arise after actions rather than before. It posits we feel fear because we run, and other emotions shift similarly, challenging conventional cause and effect in human feelings.
World attention centers on Munich talks with Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop join the session as major emissaries shaping the fate of Europe.
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