Market Quotations Stock Market Report New York March 13
Belected stocks reached for high prices amid a quiet opening and later gains. Low-quoted issues expanded activity as favorites peaked since last July. Top performers year to date included Santa Fe American Locomotive Western Union Chrysler Packard Ol iver Forb United Aircraft Westinghouse Johns Manville Schenley Distillers Corp. Other gains seen at Sears Roebuck Texas Co General Motors U S Steel Southern Pacific and Douglas Aircraft. Bonds and commodities remained narrow.
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New York
Santa Fe
American Locomotive
Western Union
Chrysler
Packard
Oliver Forb
United Aircraft
Westinghouse
Johns Manville
Schenley and Distillers Corp
Sears Roebuck
Texas Co
General Motors
U.S
Steel
Southern Pacific
Douglas Aircraft
Universal Pictures
Local Markets: Daily Market Listings
Local markets listings appear in The Star with daily updates. Typographical errors may occur. no responsibility assumed for any inaccuracies or omissions.
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The
Star
Livestock And Produce Markets Report Maryland Virginia West Virginia
Market notes show receipts light for livestock and produce in Maryland Virginia and West Virginia. Poultry prices firm with roasters and fowls mainly 29 to 33 cents per pound. ducks 27 1 2. Butter totals 35 988 pounds.
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MD. Va. W. Vabas
U. S
Timore Livestock Market Report Up Earlier Prices Mixed
Timore market notes cattle hogs sheep with wide price ranges. Cattle steady to higher on certain classes, hogs mostly higher, calves and dairy cows mixed, sheep steady with good lambs at 16.50 to 17.50 and mutton lower. Top hogs near 14.40 for 120-130 pound range. Market activity noted as slow for stockers and feeders.
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France
Timore
Office of Distribution
Chicago Livestock Market Report Summary
Chicago livestock markets show hogs 18 000 head with good volume into the day and cattle 16 000 salable. Hogs steady to 15 higher than Friday with sows strong, cattle mostly steady to 15 lower for mature steers, calves and yearlings. Sheep 7 000 head with lambs opening slow and weak to 15 lower on early sales.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Disposition in Civil and Police Court for Drunk and Disorderly
Judge John Rice presided as Jack Lutz of Mt. Jackson Virginia faced drunk and disorderly conduct charges. He was fined ten dollars plus costs totaling five dollars and seventy five cents.
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John Rice
Jack Lutz
Mt. Jackson
War Notebook Fragments From a Sub Sailor’s Tale
A wartime diary style account recalls disciplined life aboard a destroyer and a captain’s sharp rebuke. The piece highlights humor and bravado among crew, a senior officer Courtey’s long service, and scenes from Coral Sea and Guadalcanal combat, ends amid fading chatter on a bare jumper.
Sailor proposes restricted liberty as punishment at port
Commander Russell G. Sturges of Concordia Kansas considers a Navy dilemma after a sailor repeatedly goes ashore for drinks and fails to return. The sailor suggests being confined to the ship during liberty as punishment, while the commander weighs legality and wisdom of such an order.
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Russell G. Sturges
Concordia
Kansas
Bacchus
Sturges
Navy sailors seek more pay and acclaim for dangerous duty
Lieut. Comdr. William P F Mack argues destroyer sailors lack recognition and pay. He cites a navy anecdote of three sailors, an aviator, a submariner, and a third who share a quiet tavern moment to illustrate public indifference to hazardous service.
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William PF. Mack
Navy
Detroit Dairy Strike Ends With Back-To-Work Vote
About 2,500 dairy workers in Detroit authorized a strike and then voted to return to work at a United Dairy Workers meeting. Army officials offered help to involve the War Labor Board in overtime pay dispute, which the board warned it would not act on while the strike continued.
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United Dairy Workers
CIO
Army
War Labor Board
Trial Justice Court Disposes Disorderly Conduct Case
Trial Justice W Erle Edwards disposes case at Fort View Inn in Opequon Virginia. Ralph Wisecarver faces disorderly conduct. $20 fine and $8.50 costs. Gerald Evans Ethel Evans and Pauline Brocker serve as witnesses for the Commonwealth.
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W. Erle Edwards
Ralph Wisecarver
Opequon
Fort View Inn
Gerald Evans
Ethel Evans
Pauline Brocker
The
Commonwealth
Paris Villa Mystery Echoes Bluebeard Slayings
London reports four charred bodies found in a Paris villa dubbed a red hot furnace. Police probe uncovers a Bluebeard style killer who allegedly butchered eight to 25 women, with organs scattered and a suspect named Dr Piot linked to luring victims. The case recalls Landru, executed in 1921 for similar crimes.
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London
Paris
Piot
Bluebeard
Landru
Junior Red Cross Theatre Program at Capitol Theater
John Kerr School Junior Red Cross students will stage a Victory program at Capitol Theater Friday evening March 17 under Miss Mary Bell Bear. They will sing Victory songs and parodies and deliver short talks on the group’s purpose and relief efforts for war-torn children overseas.
Children Benefit Event Highlights Community Support
A fragmented line describes youngsters at a cream and candy event contributing twenty two dollars to a children's fund, showing local interest and enthusiasm for a charitable cause.
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