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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1936
Page
7
Baltimore market notes cattle calves hogs sheep with price ranges for cows bulls vealers and slaughter lambs. Chicago market shows hogs steady to higher, cattle largely steady with steer and vealer offerings and prices. grain and feed items listed with small price figures.
Local markets section lists various patent and brand flour and meal prices for bags of different weights, shelled corn, feed mixes, and dairy products. It also shows live stock and poultry categories with price ranges for hogs, sheep, lambs, and fowl.
A cautious rally picked up as buyers returned to a largely oversold market led by copper and steel shares with motors utilities rails and oils also contributing. Wheat slipped on forecasts of a larger winter crop while major currencies edged higher and a 2 p.m. quotes list showed varied gains across key equities.
July wheat led a broad selling wave in futures with absorption on declines. Closing prices show wheat at 1.35 quarter to 3 8 in Dec contracts and corn around 1.04 to 1.08 in various months. Chicago cash grain lists No 1 dark hard wheat at 1.41 and soybeans at 1.53 to 1.65, with oats and rye also quoted. Baltimore spot wheat at 1.40 1/2 and Winchester at 1.35 per bushel for wheat.
The archbishop urged Parliament to be the instrument of national will as ministers command the Commons. He hoped the new year would shift from a sad, humiliating chapter to a happier future, marking his first public comment on the constitutional crisis after Edward's abdication and Canterbury’s strong rebuke.
The Commons and British newspapers entertained at times a threat to bring into the open the question of separation of church and state.
The council debates budget passage before year end. If not approved, the city faces embarrassment and potential tax hikes or reduced public improvements. Mr Hable favors bonds, while opponents favor pay as you go. The Finance committee outlines recommendations and income estimates for 1937 at $1.20 rate.
Hable defends a 1.20 rate citing 127000 expected yield and 127859.31 actually collected as of Dec 19 with 79 permits totaling 255920. he cites past surpluses and asks for added real estate and sewer water levies next year while council debates cutting street department and utility budgets and publishing parallel budgets for 1936 and 1937.
A club kitchen worker reported a gas odor and found a nude young woman, about 24, dead on the kitchen floor with scratches. Investigators noted gas jets open and the body showed signs of a rough, outdoor-like injury. the building was locked at noon and had not been entered since late yesterday or last night.
The text notes resistance to Japanese and the departure of important personages after attempts to dissuade them from a trip. It fears their presence at Sianfu, capital of the rebel province, could undermine central resistance to Chang's demands and reflects Marshal Chang's control after 14 days of captivity.
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