The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1927, Page 2

eogne SAEPE ee eee <8 eee. eee MARKETS By Associated Press Leased Wire - GRAIN PRICES ‘és _. UP AFTER DROP} Dec. es, March pessimistic Advices About Condition of Winter Wheat May Corn— Changes Price Trend Dec. Sco: — vr as aathicate, Dec. 21 (#)—Pessimiste March jusadvices regarding the condition o to domestic winter wheat that if with-| May defjout snow protection tended to rally Fwheat values today toward the last. largHeightened prospects of WV Oats— er incre: a comcorn export business helped to bring , wet about Tate upturns also in the corn March tiormarket. Estimates were current] 1,4 sotithat Europe will require 68,000,000 bee bushels of corn from the United! p.. _ abaStates between now and next sum-)"“p,o. fes' mer. ..1 Wheat closed unsettled, at the ifol same terday’s finish to a 1-4 in cent lower; corn varying from 1-4 Uticent decline to 1-2 cent advance; tonvats 1-8 to 1-8 to 1-4 cent off and anc provisions hanging from 10 cents 104 sethack to a rise of 12 cents. — Mo Among the circumstances which erntended to restrict wheat buying to- theday was the fact that another crop ‘wereport from Washington was duc after the close. The report was (scheduled to tell of the acreage and 6tecondition of fall sown wheat and Earye. In view of a possible surprise wilexhibit, would-be purchasers evinced teéa disposition to go slow until after eufthe new official figures were out, tespecially as the Liverpool market distoday was lower than expected and de: Argentine advices bearish. str Selling based to some extent on ™Msannouncement that corn receipts in to Chicago pio 265 cars, were larger Jesthan a week ago, and about the cursame as last year had a bearish in- ed fluence at times today on the corn he market. Besides, Kansas City corn Siearrivals today, 270 cars, were far in excess of the corn corresponding ‘ho total last year. On the other hand, swe is for corn today at the « of Mexico were again higher. it WHEAT DULL AND EASY mON MINNEAPOLIS MARKET ha Minneapolis, Dec. 21—(?)—Wheat struled dull and easy today, easy cables and dullness in the export wheat and flour market and a dragsy plundertone at Chicago prompting cuagcattered selling. Coarse rains met ‘ by better support on an early decline| New York, Dec. 21.-(AP)—Fre- stand scored a fair recovery. Ease in|@uent shifts of speculative sentiment ‘wicables and at Chicago started prices |imparted widespread irregularity ta eteasy and the market dragged off ¥2|today’s stock market. An opening P1.@1 cent. A long period of dullness|outburst of strength was featured nifollowed, prices hanging near the) by the heavy accumulation of the feday’s lows. coppers shares, nearly a dozen of la Cash wheat demand hel«. good and| Which attained their highest prices ai the market was firm to strong with-|{n years. Several of the insurance ot in an unc ed runge. Offerings of}and surety shares jumped five to 15 ei.country run‘spring wheat were 10d-| points. tierate. Interest. in clevator wheat} Marking up of the call money @ continued. Winter wheat was in|rate from 4 to 4 1.2 per cent coin- stemall supply and firm. Durum of-| cident with the callfng of about $25,- a@ ferings were larger in demand and {000,000 in loans started a broad ef . selling movement just before mid- + Cds showing high moisture was|day: which wiped out many of the fe in quiet demand, and easy. the basis! earlier gains and sent a number of ai for wet offerings 1@2 cents lower. i issues crashing two to 11 points be- Oats were quicter for choice with, low their earlier high levels. The tla better demand for ordinary. stiffening of money was attributed ri. Rye was in light supply and de-‘to the usual heavy withdrawals of mi ‘was quiet to fair. currency in preparation for tie ¢ Barley was firm to one cent high-! holidays. er, with unchanged rat By early afternoon the market Flaxseed offerings light and, started upward again under the demand was fa’ leadership of the oils, buying of CHICAGO LIVESTOCK ally large decrease in crude oll hi Dec. 21.—)—(U. S. D.' production last week. A substantial A.)—Hogs 21,000; uneven; hogs increase in steel mill operations al- 80 pounds up steady; to strong at so had a cheerful effect on senti- ‘Tuesday's best prices; weights 160! ment, but the sharp drop in freight down very slow; steady to car loadings in the week ending De- cents lower; mostly 10 to 25 cember 10, compared with the cor. off; maximum declines on responding week of the two preced- 3 top 8.85 paid sparingly; bulk!ing years ,aroused some misgivings ble 210 to 300 pound aver-las to the actual trend of curreut 8.45 to 8.80; 160°*to 200 pounds, business. 55; most pigs 7.15 to 7.50;| Greene Cananea Copper was the ight 7.75; bulk| hardest hit on hte reaction, break- king sows 7.40 to 7.85; light-|ing 11 points to 124, Radio, Du ‘requently upward to 8. Pont, American Machine and Foun-| hogs 8.25 to 8.85; med-/dry and several others dropped 5 to 8.80; light 7.75 5;/three points or more. Losses of it ligtuts 7.50 to 8.25; packing|one to two points were spread over a broad list and included such fa- vorites as United States Steel, Gen- eral Motors, New York Central and: Atchison. The closing was firm. @"s 56% 1.08 1.09% 1.09% 11.40 12.02 12.37 10.20 11.05 11.20 11.50 11.92 12.42 sacked round whites $1.4 Idaho sacked russets $1.5 partly graded $1.35 @ $1.50. Minneapolis, Dec. 21. D. of A.)—Potatoes: inquiry, demand slow, market dull; carloads delivered sales, freight only too few 8 to establish ‘a market. STOCK MARKET IS IRREGULAR Frequently—Oils Lead Up- ward Movement which was influenced by the unusu- $0 fe] RA aAwe BeAr. 372 iy slaughter pigs ttle 6,000; catch-as-catch trade inevenly and sharp- higher, generally 25 cents up, considerably more on shipper inds; numerous sales $1.00 to 1.50 H coppers, enabling Greene Cananea to recover most of its 11 point drop, and lifting American Smelting 188 3-4, highest for all time, buying spread to the remainder of the list. United States Steel worked up close steady to 25 cents hig! slow; bulls barely steady; vealers 25 to _ 50 cents lower; 18.00 paid for weigh- 5 ty steers; several loads to shippers 14.50 to 16.75; medium weights B16; desirable shot feds 13.50, down- to 11.1 practical! top saus- i bulls 7.7! vealers 11.00 to 11.50; outsiders 12.50 to 13.50, Sheep 11,000; plain and weighty lambs d: , early bids and sales, good desirable weights 12.75 to $13; , choice handyweight lambs held for steady prices; above 13.25; few light native throwouts 10.00 to 10.’ sheep steady; better fat ews 6.00 to 6.7 lly nothing on fe lambs;’ indications fully 25 cents lower. (U. 8. D. of A.) —Cattle 2,000; | Merch | ttle 2,000; classes in li 3 slight! cenerally steeay; severs! bulk 9. 6.50 130. Total sales approximated 2,900,- 000 shares. MINNEAPOLIS RANC® Dec. 21 1.23% 1.2314 1.22% 1.24% 1.25 1.245% 1,265 1.2612 1.26% 1.03 50%, 1.03% 1.02% 51 0% 51% 51% 51% 52% 52% 52% 2.0414 2.0444 2.0415 2.10% 2.11% 2.10% A rs 5.75; bulls; Dec. . 82% 835% 82% and feeders|May . .79% 81% .79% week's decline. steady to 25 ts, BISMARCK Lights” 10.00@11.00; % (Parsiahed by esa Miler Co.) marck, a : 20,000; jing slow; about orthe: 1.08 7 ee it t tigess No. 1 dark n $1.08 ly Hi sow! e ost neo i, 7200@ No. i mixed durum teres ‘ocst Tuesday | No. 1 red durum Li, 12.37 Oats .| white 51% @52%. deducted Minneapolic-St. Paul rate, | 8: Speculative Sentiment ' Shifts] ° to|2 DNS, gd to 150 and General Motors crossed|3 —Today— Low ‘Giose 1.26 1.26% 1.28% 1.28% @129 1.29% — 1.30% @% 83% @% 86% 20%. 91% @% 88% 91% aN ot 56% @% 1.0835 1.0945 1.0913 51K 54% 55% 52% 54% 56% 1.07, 1.08% 1.07% 1.09% 1.08" 1.09% 11.52 12.00 12.35 11.92 12.07. 11.95 12.07 10.20 11.45 11.24 11.60 11.90 12.87 12,35 12.35 durum 1.144% @1.41% orn No. 5 yellow 74% @75%; No. 6 mixed 71. No. 2 white 51%; No. 3 Rye, blank. lax, blank. Serial sample grade 81; No. 3, CHICAGO PRODUCE Chicago, Dec. 21.—(AP)—Butter lower; receipts 3,504 tubs; cream- ery extras 50; standards .48; extra ‘ firsts 42 @ 44; seconds .28 @ .40. Eggs unchanged; receipts 3,365 cases. Cheese unchanged. ———_—— CHICAGO POULTRY Chicago, Dec. 21.—(AP)-Poultry alive steady; receipts five cars; fowls @ .21 1-2; springs .2 turkeys .30 25; roosters .18; ducks 18 @ geese .19 @ .23, CHICAGO CASH GRAIN Chicago, Dec. 21.—(?)—Wheat: No sales recorded. Corn: No. 3 mixed 83 1-4; No. 3 yellow .84 1-2 to 85; Old No. 2 yellow .88 1-! Oats: No. 2 white .56 to 1-2; No. 3 white 54 to 55 3-4. Rye: No. 2, 1.08 1-2. Barley: .86 to 92. 3.00 to 3.75. Timothyseed: 22.00 to 29.25. Clover 119 1.19% 1.22% 1.23 121% 1.21% Rye ~ Dec. 1.01% 1.015 1:01 1.01% May. 1.05 1.05% 1.04% 1.05% Dec. 2.06% 2.07% 2.06% 2.06% May 2.18% 2.12% 211% 211% MINNEAPOLIS CASH CLOSE Minneapolis, Dec. 21— -Wheat receipts cog 191 compared to 170 year ago. Minneapolis gash wheat nd coarse grain closing qoutations today follow 1 hard spring, fancy Monta To ari 594 @ 1.66% 1 DNS, fancy Mont.. 1.57% @1.65%¢ To arrive ........ 1.57%@1.65% 1 hard spring. 1.80% @1.631%4 1 aus Lees «+ 130%@1.55% incy. To rae . 1.29% @1.55% 1 DNS, ch to fancy. 1.50%@1.63% 1 DNS, gg to choice. 1.38% @1.49 4 1 DNS, ord to good. 1.27%@1.36% 1 dark norther roe When a new bulge began in the|1 8, ch to to choice. 2 DNS, ord to good. 1.26 2 northern ........ 1 3 DNS, ch to fancy. 1.43 DNS, gd to choice. 1.31 3 DNS, ord to good. 1.21 3 northern ..... 1.19: 1 dark hard (Mont.) 1.21 To arrive 1.2: PRR KKK KEKE: ve Minn. & SD, hard To arrive .. Fey 2 amber durum. 115% @12i% 13% IDENTIFIED AS No, of course, I couldn’ STORE ROBBER) i. but fou baw how Etec eg! (Continued from page ona). - day to buy a machine. He failed to keep that appointment. Lair Definitely Located Although 8,000 police who had been set on the trail wer. unable to Tun to earth the man whom accused of being “t atrocious murdet hic! i the days-that little Marian was kidnaped and until Sun- day, se’ hours after the child’s dismembered body had been ex- changed for her father’s $1,500. s While ‘the maze of false reports that Hickman had been ‘seen here and there in metropolitan ea ft them to ork on the assumption that he still was within the great guarded the last definite clue as to whereabouts diss This clue was picked up by a ga- rage employe who said « man an- swering Hickman’s description had driven away from the place without paying for gasoline he had bought. he garage man gave chase in an automobile and, as the two cars were seen dodging through the streets, the cry went up that the juarry was within the law's reach. hat was thought to be a hot lead in the search for the kidnaper- killer suspect and resulted in, a posse being organized in Redland: Calif., turned out to be a youthful escape from a detention home in San Bernardino, near there. For a while it was thought the man who we his car here and fled was ‘ickmhgn. nother Angle Collapses Another angle of the police case collapsed last night when Milton Jakowsky, 25 years old, a friend of Hickman, was released. Jakowsky, said to be a native of Kansas, was arrested when a neigh- bor of Perry Parker, father of the slain girl, informed the police that Jakowsky had spent much __ time daily since the ki sage watching the Parker home. Yesterday’ he attempted to break jail. The police finally concluded his interest in the Parker home was only the result of morbid curiosity. The police have determined that, between the time of the kidnapin and the killing, Hickman occupi in apartment under the name of Donald Evans. Led by an identifi- cation mark found on a towel left with the body of the slain child, a hundred police officers descent upon the apartment house kenge? According to the landlady, Mrs.' Ethel Broderick, Hickman strolled by her in a hallway after the police had searched his room, drop) a casual remark and left the building. He did not return. | But the officer, having identified Hickman as the hunted “fox,” returned to the apart- ment yesterda: Hickman’s Tie Found There they found the necktie Hickman had worn while his pio ture was taken for police identifi- cation last summer at the time of his arrest on forgery charges. On this second search, offi- cers found stains which they ordered analyzed to: determined whether they might have been caused by the slaying of little apartment. They also found a shirt bearing the intials H. B. G, name H. B, Gerber inked on the neck band of a piece of a shirt used to tie the bundle taa* was a part of the slain school girl’s body. Whether Hickman actually was in his room at the time it was first raided is a matter of dispute. The police denied he in the apartment, Same Thread Used Articles found in the apartment had come from Kansas Clty, the former home of Hickman. :A crudely made pair of mittens was discov-| sh ered. They were made of black oil cloth and the thread with which they had been stitched was said by officers to be the same as that with which little Marian’s eyelids had been “agetegel Although the police said they had found no absolute ev’ that the child ever was taken to the ay ment, two witnesses had been dis-| calls. covered who identified -Hickman from photographs as a man seen ig bundles and a -suitcawe fi the building to an automobile. jis was Sati night when the kidnaper jivered "3 Perit e missing parts o! slain child's dis ered body were found in) id bendiea along the roadway .into a Angeles ag Facts showing more of the dual character presented by the police in- vestigations were gathered-from the boy’s Sunday school teacher and woman at whose boarding house lived for some time, ~ “The Hickman the he boy seemed a gentleman,” said Pervy Peek, his| One Sunday school teacher. “He had cocasiaenl , tits of melancholy, “He was such a’ neat, derly boy,” declared Mrs, M. Driskell, the manager of the board. ing house in Alhai where Hic 1 1.1734 | Model boy. %@1.18% er $ CARR’ % 8545 83% place them in a Chrysler . % ‘ive *) wormae The information was ‘given by man and his wife who knew. Hick- Donald Evans, the name be house. The STILL BELIEVES City, | Dee, 21—P)—Ree | of Los Angeles, Mrs ot oe Agar, a Marian: in that] th the f her state! Tt epiit It hei “Ni course I would not disown | been transfe: from the 8-4 be- oN * t do| fore the sub left Portemouth, N. H., on her final trip, but stayed formet Norristown, Pa., publisher, ne ted here today that, bis" son, hed jo Write Mother Vistors to the third floor a) spend a few days before Christmas ment, where Mrs. Hickman and her | with his family. 17-year-old daughter, Mary, live, Sang found the mother chiefly conce MAY CALM ROUGH SEA about her son’s neglect in writing} WITH COMPRESSED AIR her. Boston, Dec, 21.—(AP)—The Boa- s hasn’t he let me know/ton navy yard today announced that where he is?” she asks of friends,|the destroyer Sturtevant, now un- “why doesn’t he say he didn’t do|der way for the scene ofthe sink- it?” ing of the submarine 8-4, carried To the former classmates of Wil-|apparatus with which an attempt liam Edward Hickman, debater in| might be made to calm the troubled high school of ae rank and a lead-| seas with compressed air. er of high schoo} activities, the] Use of compressed air was sug: mother presents his record up to hisjgested by Philip Brashear, of graduation in 1926 to support her! Princeten university, who recently contention. She believes he still/set forth the idea that ships anchored may be in Chicago, where she last}in mid-ccean might afford ldnding heard from him in October. places for transatlaatic planés by “Perhaps he does not know they|calming the water around them in ere looking for him,” she told news-/a similar way. pers. “It may be, too, that he/ The announcement from the navy fai heard about it and is hiding in| yard said that Mr. Brashear himself Chicago until he can get word from} was aboard the Sturtevant and that me and learn what to di his scheme for calming the troubled Doesn't Believe Soi: Did It yaters off Provincetown would b9, “I have been ‘reading about attempted if it appeared at all feasi- murder every day. Oh, what an aw-| ple, ful thing it was. How many times I have thought to myself what] NO FURTH! SBE should be done to a man who would] HEARD FROM SUBMARIN: do such a thing. It. was a crime} New London, Conn., that caused every mother and father] No further si Is have in the country to be afraid. And to! heard from the submarine S-4, Rear think they believe my boy did it. | Admiral Frank H. Brumby, com- “Edward never would do a thing! mander of the rescue fleet, re} like that for revenge. lon’t be-i in a wireless message picked up ie he id it at es ‘ae us he did] here today. He Cotesia be! e wasn't rig! le didn’t have any were getting in posi- ill feeling toward Mr. Parker.” Son 8 oi nd ivine operations. HICKMAN BELIEVED DIVER REPORTS AT PLATTSBURG, MO. NO SIGN OF LIFE Chicago, Dec. 21—()—A_ tele-| Boston, Dec. 21.—()—No_ signs im was received at the detective! of life were found in the torpedo ureau here today that a man, posi-| room of the submarine 8-4 by James tively identified by a Plattsburg, Ingram, the firat diver to go down Mo., garage man as William Ed Rear Admiral Frank H. ward Hickman, wanted in Los An-| p y reported in a radio met pris’ for the death of little Marian] age Rear Admiral Philip An- Parker, was headed toward Chicago| draws, commandant of the first nav- in a small coupe. al district. L. R. Toyne, Kansas City chief of detectives, signed the message and Mandan High Adopts seid the man left itsburg about 4 o'clock pestaieey oe noon, over ‘ighway. New Activity Plan Limitation, guidance and stimula- the Jefferson hi The telegram read: “Have information that party in 1925 Ford coupe stopped at Platts- tion of pupil participation in extra- curricular activities will result in Mandan high school since the adop- tion Monday by the student council burg, Mo., asking for circulating pump and fan belt. Left at 4 p. m., Des of the point system of governing all activities, (Continued from page one) erless before the fury of the dcean. Since early Monday morning the tossing of the seas has defeated the carefully planned campaign of the divers, no man had been able to descend into the 105 feet of “od sores over the wreckage of e 8-4, Chicago. The point system is being uni- Seven Taps Heard dan were in PI of being saying he was headed for Moines, via Jefferson highway. Re- aie me at 12:30 a socket at garage man positive wes Hickmany want at Loe Ane geles. May be. possibly headed for ‘The information was Immediately forwarded to all police stations in the city. 3 : We Reyes debe no beret artici: in too ry ou DIVERS TRY TO actin, 0 ‘departmest wil be able to outdo other and limits LEAD AIR LINE q{are. being placed on department TO PRISONERS) buceets. i trom. versally ado) in the preparatory schools of the nation a the best so- lution of “activity evils.” Rotary Snow Plow Attacks Highways Main Bipnvsys leading into Man- e A tenuous thread of hope hung] cleaged of their hhge ‘drifts today from the report of the S-4’s sister/as the new rotary glow, pur- ship, S-8, that it had heard seven|chased by the Morton county board oe at 6 o'clock last night which|of commissioners and operated by m get have come from the S-4. /the merchants of the city, started jut the S-8's oscillati sender| bucking the snow barriers. called steadily, frantically for hours,|_ Work was begun on the highway after that and no one answered. And|leading south to St. Anthony and it the best minds among the navy|was estimated that one and one-half sul ine men, after most careful|days would be needed to open this calculations, determined that the/stretch.. The main blekway six men could not live more than a| will probably be tackled Thursday few hours into this day without/or Friday and it will be cleared to The S-8 is on top of the/the county line. = —_————— Personal and : Social News of | | .Mandan Vicinity ' med by the coast destroyed Paulding lest. Saturday. It was further pointed out that at. the time the $8 heard the seven was elected of io Poe held Monday elected he d, and had elapsed since the S-8’s frantic It was shortly after 6 o'clock sterday morning that three ta) scinawlodged that a ‘which w. ald Sheen,. outer f trustee for years: Art W. Holt, grand lodge representative. C. B. McAllister, who recently rent tt. the Paul, is re; much eee ed “Mandan the six|™*? were making a last desperate effort to save themselves, but their only peas Fos veg Peet through pedo 8 were buried in mud. Were the tubes clear, at- hs them hate te prectially suici- Too Late to Classify — WANTED—To borrow, - until FRIENDLY ACT SENDS | OFFICER TO DEATH Dec. 21.— rother of- Me- Christmas Specials Prices Effective Dec.22 While Articles Last RAG RUGS Sige 24x48, Regular $1.00 value .......4. Size 27x54. Regular'§1.10 value ..... ‘ @VAL RUGS Size 18x36, Regular $1.60 value me smaearnes sans eile board -so another officer could) _, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1927, gg ed feed cid on at en : Will Be Thursday for tern tar "scl kverrwncte Funeral services for Mre. 8. B,|—A¢¥ will be hela tumetaee ctenoee at bag eggs for sale. Phone 1160-M. 2:30 at the First Preabyterian church, With Rev. Paul 8. 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