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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1938
Page
3
Baltimore prices list apples, potatoes, poultry, eggs, butter, and dressed poultry with varied grades and regional quotes. Chicago market notes brisk livestock activity, hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep advancing with strong demand. retail and feed details follow.
Market notes list prices for bags of various weights on per barrel basis and per bag. Items include patent orand 112 lb bags 4.30 24 lb bags 3.37 22? 410 48 lb bags 4.10 98 lb bags 4.00 Shelled corn 3.50 cracked corn 1.55 Corn meal 1.80 Bran prices shown with notes of typographical caveats and unclear final lines.
New York July 8 light profit selling pulls major stocks down fractions to about 3 points amid slow dealings. Transfers run about 1.6 million shares and a few steels and motors show modest gains while utilities and rails soften. Brokers cite a needed technical correction after a sharp earlier upturn tied to unsettled Palestine and European tensions.
Chicago July 8 Wheat rose one cent a bushel at times for a net gain but gains did not hold amid weakness in securities markets. Other grain quotes also appeared tentative with limited follow through.
Interviewed in Wales, Prince Frederick of Prussia says Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow did not want to shoot him. The prince, employed by a London bank, met the counts a few times and found them kind. London kept seeking the unnamed "mystery man" in the Barbara count battle as rumors circulated.
The American Viscose Company and the Textile Workers Organizing Committee signed a wage pact maintaining the current wage scale. Twenty thousand workers in Roanoke Parkersburg Nitro Meadville Lewistown Marcus Hook plants gain a $15 minimum wage and a paid week’s vacation. Sidney Hillman and Herbert Payne signed for the union, Frank Griffin for the company.
Harrisburg report says Pennsylvania CIO leaders plan a talks with Governor George H. Earle to discuss the fall election test of New Deal strength in the Keystone State.
Reports show weaker harvest weather in parts of the winter belt dampening movement to market. Prices listed for wheat corn oats soybeans rye lard bellies and cash grain quotes across Chicago Baltimore and Winchester reflect mixed demand and regional supply conditions with July to December contracts noted.
Walter Smith Sugden 58, immediate past national potentate of the Shrine, an attorney and noted football official, died at his home in Isterville West Virginia after a coma since Wednesday. Physicians cited a cerebral hemorrhage. Sugden fell ill at the Shrine convention in Los Angeles last month.
In Marietta Ohio Roosevelt uses an address to frame a new frontier of social and economic security. He argues government is the people and urges growth through cooperative self help as he campaigned for liberal senators and representatives. The tour highlights reorganization debates and frontier statutes.
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