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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1941
Page
3
Baltimore market quotes show steady potato prices and unchanged poultry eggs butter. Livestock report notes cattle 700 head with varying prices and trends. calves mostly 12 13 top. hogs 800 head with lower values. sheep 450 head with good to choice ewes and wethers around 11.50 12.00.
New York August 7 Stocks tried to recover but most leaders failed to gain ground. Transfers for five hours reached about 500000 shares with intervals of activity followed by slack periods. Notable quotings included Am Can Am Rad Genl Elec and U S Steel among others with mixed gains and losses as market remained mostly unchanged since July 28.
Chicago market report shows salable hogs 8,000 with 12,000 total, unevenly steady to 15 higher. sheep 3,000 with few sales at 11.25-11.40 for native lambs, ewes 4.75-5.00. cattle 3,000 with stronger trends on fed steers and yearlings, vealers 25-50 higher, top steers 12.50, cutter cows 17.00 down.
Local markets appear correct in daily listings though The Star disclaims responsibility for any errors. Readership is advised to verify figures and details with official market notices.
Graded fine terry territory wools sold in full volume in Boston. Graded good French combing and fine territory wools brought 1.03 to 1.05 dollars scoured. Fine territory wools in original bags moved occasionally at 1.00 to 1.03 dollars. Comb ing 3 8 blood bright fleece wool traded 45 to 46 cents in grease.
Emory L. Coblentz, 71, financier and former Maryland State Senator, died yesterday. Funeral at 3 p.m. from his Middletown home with Masonic rites at Middletown Reformed Cemetery. He helped organize Potomac Edison and served as first welfare director. he was active in church work and politics.
Eminent Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore died today after a long illness. He had been seriously ill since last October and recently underwent kidney surgery. Tagore, once little known in the West, won the Nobel Prize and saw his works translated into many languages becoming best sellers. A scholar educator and social reformer he traveled widely lecturing and reciting in Europe and the Americas. He was knighted in 1915 but renounced the title in 1919 to protest British actions in Amritsar.
Secretary Wickard set a 1942 wheat marketing quota with voting by two thirds of farmers. Frederick County growers will learn their allotments as the May 22 national figure of 55 million acres is announced. The quota aims to divide the market and support prices, allowing overplanting penalties and adjusted marketing for those within or over their allotments.
In San Francisco an 11 year old girl was injured while her policeman father Russell Chambers beat De Witt Bell, 28, accused of raping the child. Bell, held on rape charges, said he had moved from Portland to Treasure Island after separating from his wife. Police report show Bell lured three girls with poisoned drinks. Chambers confronted Bell after a frantic call from his wife. officers had to restrain him.
In Easton Maryland Aug 7 two young boys Dorsey Webb Jr and Russell Skinner died after being overcome by silo gas while helping fill a silo on a farm. A third boy William Dorsey was revived and survived.
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