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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1944
Page
18
New York AP reports a slightly mixed start with Consolidated Edison Chesapeake and Ohio Phelps Dodge and Commercial Solvents up small gains while General Motors U S Steel Northern Pacific and Goodyear edge lower.
Grain and produce prices listed with grades for eggs and poultry including large AA large A medium AA and B categories. Live poultry price ceilings set for farmers producers and wholesalers with caps on live broilers fryers roasters light capons heavy capons. Eye receipts and consumer grade whites and browns prices noted. CHICAGO PRODUCE eye receipts 9 095 weak specials and standards figures. American New York Stocks NOON PRICES listed with numerous companies and tickers including Car and F. W. Rolling Mills Am Smelt Ref Am Tel Tel Atch T and G and others.
American medical officers flew into Southern China and performed an emergency appendectomy by lantern light in a mud building near the front, likely saving the life of Gen. Chao Yao Ming, a top Chinese commander, at Stilwell’s headquarters.
John Edward Wilson, 58, former draft board official under indictment with brewery heir Gert Hans von Gon tard, died last night by plunging from a 14 story Midtown building.
The Most Rev Francis W Howard bishop of Covington in the Roman Catholic Church died at his residence today. He was 76 years old and served as the city’s bishop.
Hog prices range from 13.75 to 14.15 for various weights. 1 220 lb and 220 to 250 lb quoted. Cattle steady with steers and heifers cited. cows and bulls also noted. Calves around 17 with broad range. sheep active with lambs at 14.50 to 15.50 and other categories listed.
Hog prices show slow steady demand with bids lower on lighter weights and strong 160 to 180 pound cattle with good bulls and steers. Calves and sheep offerings are uncertain with limited test, wool and lambs pricing steady around mid teens per hundredweight.
On Ponza Island off the Italian coast, residents recall Mussolini’s brief presence and the island’s isolation from the mainland. Allied officers later landed there, finding the island largely unaware of the war and its upheavals while many locals had emigrated to the United States.
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