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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Jul 31, 1941

Page

6

Baltimore and Chicago Livestock and Produce Quotations

Baltimore market notes show potatoes unchanged and butter at 62 cents. Cattle totals reach 550 with steers steady, grassers weak, heifers scarce, cows 5.00-6.25, calves weak, hogs 600 steady, packing sows lower, sheep 1400 lambs slow with lower bids. Chicago quotes hogs 8.00 salable, 180-240 lb good at 11.20-11.50, sheep 2,000 with springers 10.75-10.90, cattle 3,000 steady to weak, yearlings 12.50, grass steers 7.50-9.00.

Baltimore Chicago Livestock Chicago Hght

Stock Market Report Passes July Recovery With Moderate Bidups

July shows best recovery since September 1939 though some leaders weary. Rails and aircraft shares bid up with new highs. many sectors lag. Transfers around 850000 shares with select quotes including AT and T 1537 8 and Gen Elec 31 7 8.

P. m al Chem AT & T Anaconda B and O Bethlehem Chrysler Con Edison Corn Prod Gen Elec Genl Motors Goodyear Nt Har J Manville Kennecott M Ward Nail Dairy NYC Packard Penn R R Republic Steel Sears & Roebuck Southern R SO of NJ Texas Corp Union Pac U 8 Steel Va-Crofd Western Union Woolworth

Boston Wool Market Reports Slow Trading On Wools

In Boston on July 31 inquiries were received for three eighths and quarter blood South American wools with little business reported. Domestic wools were quiet and quotations largely nominal in the absence of sales. Combing bright three eighths and quarter blood fleeces quoted 45 to 47 cents in the grease. combing quarter blood territory wool sold in moderate volumes at 85 to 87 cents scoured.

Boston U. S. Dept. Agr Territory

Sundial Inscription in Sir Walter Scott's Garden

The sundial inscription read The night cometh when no man can work.

Sir Walter Scott

Ickes proposes national night closing of 100000 gas stations

Secretary Ickes urges compulsory limits on gasoline use by closing 100000 eastern service stations from 7 p m to 7 a m daily starting August 3. The plan covers Atlantic seaboard states and the District of Columbia, with words on possible rationing and ration cards if voluntary measures fail.

Washington Interior Ickes Atlanta Seaboard Maine Flora Ickes Defense Petroleum Coordinator New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island New Jersey Delaware Maryland North Carolina South Carolina Georgia Peninsula of Florida District of Columbia Appalachian Mountains New York Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia

Whitby MP Sir Herbert Latham Arrested for Military Offenses

London reports Major Sir Herbert Paul Latham, Conservative MP for Whitby and Scarborough since 1931, was arrested for alleged offenses against military law. He is held for trial before a court martial. Details of the charges were not disclosed. Latham, 36, served last year as a captain in an anti aircraft searchlight regiment.

London Herbert Paul Latham Whitby Paul Scarborough Yorkshire

Hollywood Producer Visited Winchester Historic Sites

Glenhall Taylor, a Hollywood producer, and Mrs Taylor visited the George Washington headquarters and other historic Winchester sites this week. They stayed several days with Mr. and Mrs. Grant Pollock and left to fly to Havana en route to Cuba for part of their vacation.

Glenhall Taylor Hollywood Taylor George Washington Winchester Taylors Grant Pollock Hvana Washington A Ee

Peach Producers To Be Helped By State Chamber Co op

Virginia State Chamber mobilizes over a hundred local chambers to market the growing peach crop. Surplus across 10 southern states ports increased output by about 62 percent, with August disposal expected. Roanoke Norfolk Charlottesville Harrisonburg and other cities help set up marketing machinery. Appalachian Apples Service Inc coordinates growers across five states with national retail outlet plans. Surplus Commodity Administration backs the campaign.

Virginia State Chamber of Ommerce State Chamber Roanoke Norfolk Charlottesville Harrisonburg Appalachian Apples Service, Inc Surplus Commodity Administration

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