Market Quotations From Baltimore and Philadelphia Markets
Produce and livestock prices reported from Baltimore and Philadelphia on December 30 show steady to uneven movement. Potatoes and eggs move with unsettled trends while butter stays around mid thirties. cattle, hogs, and lambs show varied, often higher, quotes across U. S. markets.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Bas
Goldens
Nancy Halls
U. S
Kent Island
Stock Market Report of Selected Stocks
Market movers include Gen Motors 49 1 8 and Natl Dairy 13 1 8. Penney 85 3 4. Republic Steel 22 1 4. Union Pac 76 3 4. Texas Corp 40 1 8. Western Union 20 1 4. Kennecott 37 5 8. M Ward 37 5 8. Southern Ry 12 1 4. O of N J 33 5 8. Va Car Ptd 25. Int Har 50.
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Motors
Int. Har
Kennecott
M. Ward
Natl. Dairy
Penney (Jc
Republic Steel
Southern R
O. of N. J
Texas Corp
Union Pac
Va. Car. Ptd
Western Union
Boston Wool Market Report Quiet With Limited Sales
The Boston wool market was mostly quiet with little change in quotations. Inquiries were scattered, mainly for South American wools, and a small amount of graded combined quarter blood bright fleece wool sold around 45 cents in the grease.
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Boston
U. S. Dept. Afri
Wheat and grain quotations on futures and cash markets
Chicago on December thirty reports fluctuating wheat prices with a firm close amid quiet milk purchases and government loan sterilization. Also lists futures for wheat corn oats rye and lard with May July Sept maturities and cash grain prices across Baltimore and Winchester markets.
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Chicago
Arena
Baltimore Grains
Baltimore
Winchester
Roosevelt urges greater weapons production for democracy
President Roosevelt declares the United States must become a great arsenal of democracy and speed up defense outputs. He warns against appeasement and calls for no labor disputes while stressing that no dictator will weaken resolve to aid Britain.
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Great Britain
United States
Germany
Europe
Mr. Roosevelt
Sweden
Russia
Roosevelt
College Students Observe Oyster Industry in Cambridge
Forty Temple University students boarded oyster boats in Cambridge to view the industry. They planned an early oyster man's breakfast aboard, watch dredging, see the sale of the catch to buy boats, and visit an oyster shucking plant after returning.
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Cambridge
Temple University
Ford's Contract Still Under Fire
Washington December 30 the army awarded a 1 387 500 defense contract to the Ford Motor Company facing criticism from labor leader R J Thomas who said the decision undermines faith in defense labor and Justice. Sidney Hillman protested as labor representative on the Defense Production Board.
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Washington
Army
Ford Motor Company
C.I.C
R. J. Thomas
United Automobile Workers of America
Ford
Sidney Hillman
Defense Production Board
Lamb market reports steady to lower prices with mix results
Fat lambs and western wooled lambs showed mainly steady to lower quotes. Early sales ranged from good to choice quality with medium weights at 9.50 to 9.60, best kinds around 9.75, a single double handy weight at 9.15, and fat sheep holding steady overall.
Demolition Bomb Safely Rendered Harmless Off Crisfield
A 100 pound demolition bomb was found by an oyster boat crew near Cape Charles Virginia and brought to Crisfield Maryland. Langley Field officer Captain George W McDowell supervised its disarmament after the crew barely escaped injury attempting to open it. The bomb was dragged from 70 feet of water by the dredge Iva W commanded by Captain John Ward of Crisfield.
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Crisfield
Lower Samara County
Cape Charles
George W. McDowell
Langley Field
McDowell
Iva W.” Tg
John Ward
Criseld
Gibbons Leaves Modest Estate After Death
Floyd Gibbons, noted newspaper correspondent and radio commentator, left a net estate of 199025 with principal assets in mortgages notes cash and insurance. He died September 24 1939 and transfer tax appraisal was released in New York on December 30.
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New York
Floyd Gibbons
Axis tensions threaten entry into war warned by Gayda
In Il Giornale D'Italia Gayda argues the United States would intervene if American flag ships attempt a counter blockade or if Germany and Italy cede ships sheltered in U S harbors. He says the Axis will delay action until such moves are in effect.
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Germany
United States
Roosevelt
Americas
Hemisphere
Rome-Berlin
Il Giornale D
Italia
Gayda
Axis
America
Britain
Golf Champion Little Stricken With Flu
Lawson Little, United States Open champion, is confined to bed with influenza at his parents home in Monterey. Doctor Matt Wolfson doubts he can defend the Los Angeles Open title in the southern California tournament starting January 3.
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Monterey
Calif
Lawson Little
Lawson Lite
Matt Wolfson
South California
Rites Held For Mr Campbell
Funeral services were conducted at 11 o clock Sunday morning for William Campbell 67 found dead Friday at his home on Apple Pie Ridge. Services were held at Pine Grove Church with friends meeting first at Jones Funeral Home. The Rev C B Larrick of Gainesboro officiated and interment was at Pine Grove.
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William Campbell
Apple Pie Ridge
Pine Grove
Jones Funeral Home
C. B. Larrick
Gainesboro
Fatal double shooting ruled accidental and self-inflicted
In Forest Hill Harford County a coroner ruled the deaths of Barnet H. Black and his wife Laura Black as an accidental death and a death by own action. The bodies were discovered in the family basement by their daughter Elizabeth after Mrs Black attempted to halt her husband’s act.
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Bel Air
Forest Hill
Harford County
Laura Black
Barnet H. Black
Elizabeth
Noted chemical engineer dies in Detroit
C Harold Wills, renowned metallurgist and chemical engineer, dies at Henry Ford Hospital after a brief illness. A Ford Motor Company chief engineer from 1903 to 1919, he was 62 and born in Fort Wayne Indiana. At his death he served as chief metallurgist for Chrysler Corporation.
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Detroit
C. Harold Wills
Henry Ford Hospital
Wills
Fort Wayne
Ind
Ford Motor Company
Chrysler Corporation
Fears Insincerity in Defense Talk Sparks Congressional Critique
Representative Hoffman accuses President Roosevelt of insincerity if freedom for American workers is not restored and warns of danger from abroad. He blasts Walter Reuther’s plan to use auto plants for defense and cites Earl Browder’s alleged suggestion that industrial unionists seize factories.
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Washington
Hoffman
Rmich
Roosevelt
Walter Reuther
C.I.0
Earl Browder
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