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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1939
Page
10
Unofficial Monday livestock receipts show hogs at 15 000, cattle 12 000, sheep 14 000 with hogs for next week at 68 000. At Chicago Saturday hogs steady in small supply while cattle and sheep markets remained nominal. top hog price 7.45 with limited sales in Pittsburgh and East St. Louis services.
Associated Press reports hog and cattle price ranges in Waterloo Mason City Ottumwa and surrounding areas. Hogs 169 to 350 pounds quoted at various per hundred weights from 5.30 to 6.95 while cattle and steers show broader bands from 4.50 to 9.75 depending on weight and grade.
Market listings show hog prices in various weight brackets from 140 to 550 pounds. Prices range from about 5.50 to 6.60 per hundredweight, with different rates for packing sows and larger weight categories.
U S Department reports combined hot receipts at 20 concentration yards and 10 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 74 hour period ending Saturday morning. Prices range for 140 to 350 pounds and heavier hogs with several weight classes listed from 166 pounds to 550 pounds. Don’t see a clear demand shift with fair to strong activity. loading lighter than the prior week.
Hog receipts about 100 with steady trade and small supply. Barrows and gilts around 254 to 356 pounds lower by weights. top hogs near 7.45. Cattle receipts 100 with scarce offerings. fat weighty steers off 59 cents. yearlings and heifers down modestly. bulls lower. replacement stock tight. Sheep receipts modest with fat lambs and ewes mixed. California sprint lambs graded medium to good at 10.75. top wooled lambs around 10.10. range of slaughter and market terms noted.
Sioux City cattle receipts show 100 calves salable and varied stockers with prices from $4.50 to $11.00 for different grades. Hogs listed 150 receipts with top around $7.05 and sows near $6.10 to $6.25. Sheep receipts none for the week with fat lambs and clips higher. feeding lambs and ewes priced to $5.75.
AP field reports show cattle receipts around 50 with fed steers and yearlings down about 25 cents, heifers steady, cows steady to weak, bulls and vealers rising, stockers and feeders weak to 25 cents lower. Hogs receipts about 150 with prices toward 6.75 to 6.90, Friday’s gains eroded, sows and steels down, sheep markets mixed with lambs near 10.50 to 11.25 for Spring lambs and ewes rising slightly.
Souther St Paul market data shows cattle receipts 375 head down from Friday with killing steers 4.50 lower, stockers and feeders 28 to 50 cents lower, fed steers 8.00 to 10.00, top cows 7.00, vealers steady after midweek drop, bulls steady, heifers 8.50 to 9.25, calves mixed with top 11.00. hogs steady to 15 cents higher with near 200 head, lambs lower.
A Cedar Rapids price list records grains such as Wheat No 1 at 60c and No 2 at 58c, Rye No 3 at 33c, Barley No 3 at 28c to 39c, shelling corn 37c, soybeans No 2 yellow 78c, and hay and straw values. Dairy products show butterfat sweet 22c, cream variations, and fresh eggs by hens and roosters. Fresh produce includes lemons 5.50 to 6.50, oranges 2.50 to 3.75, celery 2.50 to 3.00, lettuce 2.50 to 2.85, onions 1.00 to 1.65, tomatoes 3.00 to 3.50, new potatoes 2.75, and potatoes 1.35 to 1.90. Live stock hides and kip prices listed with multiple grades and animal types.
Local hog prices advance by 5 cents for top grades reaching 7.05 while overall hogs show strength. Cattle market holds steady with good to prime steers at 9.75 to 11.50 per cwt and yearlings 9.00 to 11.50. Cream prices ease and other beef grades show minor declines across weights and classes.
Saturday stock quotes published by J E Bennett Co list wide mix of leaders and values. Major names include Allied Chem Allied Stores American Can Conti Can Coca Cola Ford General Motors IBM Луган, with price shifts across steel oil and paper sectors. The page notes a Chicago cash market snapshot and brokerage contact details for Cedar Rapids.
Wisconsin cheese quotations for the week of April 3 8 from the Wisconsin cheese exchange list daisies 12c horns 12c cheddars 11 2c. Farmers call daisies 12c horns 12c cheddars 2c.
In Boston the week saw little spot wool demand from buyers and most sales at reduced prices. Graded combing bright fleece wools ranged 27 to 29 cents, grease prices for fine de laine 28 to 29, and half-bloods 29 to 30 cents, three-eighths and quarter-blood grades 29 to 30 cents.
New York bond market faced a tough session as U S government loans slid amid light offerings. Erie convertible 4s of 1953 fell more than 3 points, while Firestone Tire and Rubber Alleghany Chesapeake and Ohio declined fractions to over a point. Other issues including Uliners Central General Steel Castings and Columbia Gas and Electric eased slightly as foreign dollars retreated.
Government bonds closed Saturday with Treasury 3s at 46 to 49 and 53 to 55, around 199.15 for the 3s. Federal Farm 3s quoted near 49. Home Owners Loan 2s at 101.27 and 3s around 108.60. Bond activity showed varied yields amid market shifts.
AP notes butter receipts at 1 152 840 with steady prices and eggs unsettled at current receipts 15 4c. potatoes arrivals 126 on track 442 with heavy old stock and slow trends in northern whites. Idaho russets firm with moderate demand, Colorado McClures weak demand. various U S No 1 prices and washed stock data across states including Nebraska Wisconsin Michigan North Dakota Minnesota Texas Florida and others.
Dairy market notes from New York show eggs with steady to mixed colors and varied grades, butter unsettled with creamery and higher quality levels, and cheese receipts totaling 171 866. Prices remain largely unchanged across cheese.
Lorenzo Laley of Omaha awoke on his 64th birthday to learn his wife Lottie Laley had died, turning a day of joy into sorrow. Police and investigators were expected to review the case as a possible homicide.
On a brisk Saturday in New York the stock market swung between gains and losses but closed up as traders cited a market correction after recent declines. Transfers neared 1.5 million shares with leaders including U S Steel General Motors Chrysler and Bethlehem among others while Dow Chemical and American Can lagged.
A deadly cobra with unusually short fangs posed little danger as a bystander wearing ordinary street clothes remained largely protected from a potential bite.
Wheat prices fell on the Chicago board after an initial firm start. A private crop estimate of 550 million bushels boosted selling pressure, while improving southwest crops and unsettled European developments kept the undertone soft. Traders await more crop estimates and European news.
Minneapolis Sh grains notes Saturday receipts at 126 cars, down from 61 a year ago. Cash bids vary with No 1 heavy dark northern at 73.4 to 76.4 cents, No 1 dark northern at 75 to 76 1/2, Montana protein wheat at 78.4 to 79 1/2 cents, No 1 red durum at 59 to 60 1/2 cents. Corn No 3 yellow 42 to 43 1/2 cents. Oats 23 white 27.7 to 28 7/8 cents. Barley 30 at 66 cents. Prices quoted higher on some.
Eugene Weidmann, dubbed bluebeard, refused to sign an appeal petition after a Paris jury convicted him of six killings in 1937 including dancer Jean de Koven. His accomplice Roger Million signed, facing two murders. Cotlette Tricot was acquitted. Other victims included governess Jeanine Kelier and several others buried at the murder farm.
New York Sun reports Libby Holman musical star wed Ralph Holmes 23, son of actor Taylor Holmes, in Washington DC last Monday. Holman, widow of Zachary Smith Reynolds, is linked to North Carolina tobacco wealth. Confirmation came from Bent Polikoff, longtime legal representative.
Special to The Gazette Marion and Nevada high schools were judged superior in class B at the University of Iowa high school play festival. Awards for outstanding acting went to Helen Biddick of Marion and Doris Dickinson of Nevada. The Marion cast included Frank Travis Edward Conrad Melvin Arp Earl Fulton Wayne Carpenter Neal Dewees Theresa Phelps Martha Ann Young Glen Jenkins Bob Oakley Bruce Phillips Justin Kinkead Harold Miller and Herbert Ellinger. The festival will close Saturday night.
Born March 31 to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond M. Kent an eight and a half pound daughter at Mercy hospital Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Phillip Shoup of Tulsa arrived in Marion for a visit with Mrs. Rosa Reiter. The Ehaweetanda Camp Fire group met after school with Miss Frances Miller at the Lincoln building. Leather headbands were being stenciled. Miss Marjorie Hayden of Oxford Junction is a guest of the Bid dicks. Miss Clara Russell a Winthrop teacher visits relatives while Winthrop schools are closed due to bad roads. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Adee visited friends in Iowa City. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Young will move to 1373 Ninth Street after purchasing the residence. The Intermediate league of the Methodist church will meet Sunday at 4 pm at the parsonage 1190 Ninth Avenue. Mrs. Kenneth E. Cornel will speak on Da Vinci The Last Supper. Roy Beach, with a fractured wrist and head injuries, is home from Cedar Rapids hospital. Mrs. Thomas R. Shelly returned from Keokuk after her mother’s death. others attended the funeral. Mrs. Joseph Lang of Hopkinton visits her son and daughter in law in Marion. The Women’s Missionary society met at the Guz zle home. devotions by Mrs. McConaughy. program by Miss Metta Bunger. gifts from several members. 17 members served by the hostess. The South Marion study group met at Mrs. Henry Gerdes’ home. Elmer Cherry assisted. lard and meat usage discussed.
A son weighing seven pounds thirteen ounces was born March 31 at St Luke's hospital Cedar Rapids to Mr and Mrs W J Blin. Before her marriage Mrs Blin was Eva Powell of Walker.
The Iowa House approved senate amendments to nineteen tax reorganization bills and sent them to the governor. Fourteen earlier measures had been approved by both houses, transferring state tax collection to a new tax commission replacing the board of assessment. Some bills on gasoline taxes and motor vehicle fees remain to be acted on, while the oleomargarine tax bill is to die in committee.
The notice lists service times and sermon topics for several churches including Baptist Rev L W Inman and Missionary Dr Thomas Moody in the Belgian Congo, Catholic mass, and Methodist and Presbyterian services. It notes Bible schools, evening services, evangelistic topics such as The Palm-paved Highway and The Triumph ant Christ, Holy Week events, and union services across denominations.
The Senate finance committee recommended Friday confirmation of former Senator Fred H. Brown of New Hampshire to be comptroller general. The committee did not meet on the nomination but polled members individually.
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