General Electric Leads Slight Market Rally in Quiet Session
New York. General Electric common stock advanced to 37% after an opening sale of 1200 shares, its second day gain following a favorable first quarter earnings report. The broader market ranged, with few big moves as Superior Oil and several blue chips fluctuated.
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Texas Co
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Goodrich
Montgomery Ward
International Harvester
Electric Power & Light
Commonwealth Wdison
American Smelting
Kennecott Copper
Johns Manville
U. S. Gypsum
Southern Ae
Caterpillar Tracor
Grain futures rise in Chicago opening trades
Grains extend gains with fair trading as of April 20 in Chicago. Wheat May at 2.25 1 4 1 2, July 1.95 1 2 3 4, soy May 2.25 1 2 3 4, corn May 1.35 1 2 3 4, oats May 1.70, rye May 1.29 1 4, lard May 11.50 65. Prices show the market maintaining the upsurge begun yesterday.
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Baltimore Stock and Commodity Prices Report
April 20 market notes show apples and eggs steady with minor shifts. Livestock in Baltimore and Chicago featured mixed cattle and hog prices, with steers around 24.75 and top hogs near 18.75, plus steady cow and calf values amid fluctuating weights.
Aly Khan Injury May Postpone Hayworth Wedding
Priffee Aly Khan fractured a bone in his left ankle injuring his foot and delaying his wedding to Rita Hayworth by about a month in France.
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Farmers Livestock Exchange Market Report
Market notes very heavy consignments with steady butcher prices. Cattle values show steers 24-25.25, heifers 23-24, stockers up to 26.25, calves 23-27, dairy cows to 231, bulls to 21-20 range, weaners 26-30, hogs 17-19.10, lam bs up to 32 per head.
Virginia Livestock Market Quotations Summary
Market quotations for Virginia livestock show fat steers 23.50 to 24.75 with some at 25, feeder accounts 25.50, medium steers 22 to 23, plain 20. Fat heifers 23 to 24.25 with odd heads 24.75, medium 21 to 22.50, plain 18. Fat cows and heavy beef bred 18 to 19.50. heiferty 2 to 21. medium and fat yellow 16 to 17. cutter 13.50 to 15.50. Bulls 21 to 22.50, odd head 22.75, light thin 17 to 18.50. Veal calves good 27.50 to 29. odd head above 30. medium eas 26. cull 14 to 20. mbs spring 32 to 34. Fat sheep 10 down. Butcher hogs top weights 18.25 to 18.60, odd lots to 19.20. lights 17.50 to 18.25. fat sows 12 to 14.50. Shoots good and choice 20 to 22, odd lots light weight 24. Pigs 8 to 12 per head. Fresh cows and springers 180, old and thin 90 to 120.
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Local Market Prices For Grains And Feeds
Market list shows prices for flour corn meal cracked corn and barley per bag and per hundredweight. Included are egg mash turkey starter and broiler mash with wholesale and retail figures and notes on feed products.
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Rev Walter Smith Rites Held in Stafford Va
Funeral services for the Rev Walter Smith will be held at 2 30 p m tomorrow in Stafford Virginia. He died at Mary Washington hospital Fredericksburg after a brief illness and will be buried in Oak Hill cemetery. He served as pastor in Stephens City White Post and retired in 1946. He is survived by his wife Sarah Elizabeth two sons in Seattle Washington and Fort Belvoir and two daughters in Stafford and Vinton plus ten grandchildren.
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J. R. Sandridge
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MarketPrices for Eggs and Poultry in Winchester Area
Agricultural Markets report prices paid for U S Grade eggs and live poultry in the Winchester region. Grade A extra large 46 cents, large 44, medium 38, Grade B large 38, pullets and other items listed with per dozen or per pound figures. Includes turkey hens 41, toms 36, Red Broilers 3 lb 28, under 3 27, and Old Guinea 35. Also notes the Academie Francaise founded by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635.
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Dr S S Wise Dies In New York At 75
Dr Stephen S Wise world famed Jewish leader dies age 75 at Lenox hospital. His body to lie in state today at the Free Synagogue he founded forty two years ago with a lifetime spent preaching for peace and liberty. The 81st Congress will serve two years from January 3 1949 to January 3 1951.
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DHIA Plans Annual Meeting at Clarke Farm
The Clarke-Frederick Dairy Herd Improvement Assn will meet at Riverview farm in Clarke county at 8 p m tomorrow. R G Connally head of the Virginia Tech dairy husbandry department will discuss the year’s cow records. President Mark Hannum vice president E B Lee and secretary Miss Aisy Sullivan are named. The group thanks William B Claggett for founding the DHIA and preserving its progress toward better herds and production.
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State Agents to Sit At Vepco Conference
Richmond April 20 Two representatives of Virginia will sit in tomorrow's last chance conference between union officials and the Virginia Electric and Power Co VEPCO officials met this afternoon with an agent of the National Labor Relations Board who is investigating charges that the electric company has not bargained in good faith
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W Frank Plank Succumbs at 75 in Winchester
W Frank Plank 75 died at Maplewood nursing home yesterday noon. Born in Mattoon Illinois he moved to Winchester early. Survived by six Winchester children a sister a niece and three nephews. Services 3 pm tomorrow Kurtz funeral home 21 S Loudoun St with interment Mount Hebron.
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Ceiling Falls Injure 39 at Park Theater
In Houma Louisiana thirty nine people were injured when the theater ceiling collapsed during a showing. Manager Everett Talbot said the acoustic ceiling fell in one sheet causing the injuries.
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