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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 11, 1944

Page

5

Hogs Rally With Top $14.35 In Chicago Livestock Market

Active hog trade in Chicago pushes top price to 14.35 for 190 to 270 pounders with most sales 14.10 to 14.30. Cattle steady with long yearlings at 18.50, calves 13.50 to 17.50, sheep mostly steady though moisture lifts early slaughter bids by about 25 cents.

Chicago WPA Sioux City SIOUX_CITY UPI WFA Sy Eep Ruré South Dakota North Dakota Nebraska Montana Omatia Livestock Omaha WFAI CAE Union

Local hog and cattle market report shows price gains

The week starts with higher hog prices led by prime butchers at 13.50 and packers at 13.20. Prices cover varied weights from calves to heavy packers and include cows and sheep with multiple per hundred weight quotes and a mix of good to choice grades across categories.

Eeenas Iscaesee Iowa Waterloo Pttumes Austin ZG Hess Msd

Iowa Hog Receipts Show Mixed Midwest Market Data

Combined receipts for 48 hours ending Monday 8 a.m. at 19 concentration yards and 13 plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota totaled 40 500, down from 53 100 a week ago and 56 900 year ago. Prices for various hog weights and sows ranged from about 11 60 to 13 60 per hundredweight with activity described as partly active to generally higher in places.

Iowa Des Moines WFA Minnesota

Wisconsin cheese exchange reports mixed sales in Plymouth

Wisconsin cheese exchange notes sales of three cars in Plymouth Wisconsin. Two S No 1 twins or cheddars priced at 2344c and one square prints 24%4c reflect the mixed market for dairy products in the region.

Wisconsin Cheese Plymouth Wis Wisconsin Cheese Exchange

Chicago Produce Prices and Receipts Report

Chicago produce market notes from New Oak. Butter prices and receipts from AP report list New York OPA bulk prices. Cheese and egg quotations shown with two day receipts and wholesale ranges. Idaho potatoes, other state shipments, and farm commodity values included.

York New Oak OPA New York

Wheat Leads Grain Futures Rally on Weather and Demand

May wheat reached a seasonal high as milling demand firmed and bad weather boosted corn. Rye and oats rose while corn and barley also gained amid tender scarcity and mixed cash quotes for Chicago wheat and field seeds.

Chicago

Market Price List From Cedar Rapids Grain and Produce

Corn shelled old No 2 yellow 1.00. Soybeans old 61.86 new 2.04. Oats new white No 2 68c No 3 65c. Wheat No 7 1.40. Rye No 2 1.00. Hay and straw values. Poultry prices including heavy springs hens Leghorn ducks geese and eggs. Wholesale fruits vegetables and potatoes with California Florida markets. Hides calves horses kips and ponies listed with prices.

Gay and Straw Timothy Hay California Florida Texas Hilde

City Briefs Iowa events and schedules

The Iowa Volunteer auxiliary card party for Thursday night is canceled. Mrs. C. C. Hillhouse, 508 Third avenue SW, state foreign policy chair for the League of Women Voters, returned from Des Moines after attending the state board meeting. The unnamed Chamber of Commerce bureau plans a Roosevelt hotel party with dinner dancing and a floor show at 6 30 p.m. Thursday. tickets are 3 50 a couple and reservations close Wednesday noon. Prof Marcus Bach of the University of Iowa will address the Optimists club on Religious Sects at the Roosevelt Florentine room Tuesday noon.

C. C. Hillhouse Third Avenue Iowa League of Women Voters Des Moines Iowa League State Board Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce Roosevelt Hotel Chamber Marcus Bach University of Iowa Optimists Club Florentine Roosevelt Public Finance Service Younker Mason City Younker’s 1St Ave Dial Hawkeye Mt. Vernon Lea Kiinect Klinger Paint Co 117 Ave.se Gazette Linn H. Bleakly Marion Barron Motor Supply Ave LEE Kilborn Photo Paper Company Kilborn Photo Paper Co Laine Kacena Co 2Nd Ave Kilborn Harmony Cafeteria Butterfly Cafe 3Rd Ave Wayne School of Practical Nursing Autos & Trucks

Pair of Escaped Convicts Nabbed

Two men who escaped from the Independence state reformatory were captured Monday in an abandoned Mason City house. Neal Keasey 27 of Des Moines and Charles Bowers 23 of Grundy Center surrendered after a tip. Bowers served 10 years for uttering forged instruments begun July 2 1943. Keasey had a one year sentence for child desertion begun May 17.

Mason City Independence Tim Phalen Neal Keasey Des Moines Charles Bowers Grundy Center Waterloo Keasey Bowers Phalen Cal Dwan Jack Burnett Lou Kreiger Hilbert Leo Alstor State Bureau of Investigation Anamosa State Reformatory

Market gains extend on rails and industrials

New York and Chicago stock rounds show rails and industrials rallying to seven year highs as profit taking eases and midsession activity climbs on heavy volume. Baltimore and Ohio Lehigh Valley Missouri Pacific Southern gains modest as investors recalibrate after a volatile week.

New York NEW

Victory Lay Laid To British Reds

The Army and Navy Journal faulted Britain and Russia for letting political aims in Europe overshadow the main war objective since D-day. It said Russia’s Baltic Balkan campaigns and Britain’s Italy Greece and Albania focus hindered shortening the war, delaying the Pearl Harbor anniversary milestone. The piece noted Communist activity in the United States without detailing specifics.

Washington INS Europe Army and Navy France Russia Baltic Balkan Great Britain Italy Greece Albania Mediterranean India

Cochran Named First Woman Airline Director

Boston report announces Miss Jacqueline Cochran the aviatrix elected to the board of Northeast Air Lines Inc. She becomes the first woman to serve as a director of an air passenger transportation company.

Boston INL Jacqueline Cochran Northeast Air Lines, Inc Miss Cochran Air Passenger Transportation

New British Pacific Fleet Formed for Pacific Operations

The British announce a new powerful Pacific fleet to be commanded by Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser. The move, disclosed Sunday night in Ceylon, signals a major wartime deployment and a broadened naval commitment in the Pacific theater.

Kandy Ceylon Ins Pacific Sir Bruice A. Fraser

FBI Head Warns of Postwar Crime Wave Emergence

FBI Director J Edgar Hoover predicted a growing postwar crime wave centered on kidnapping extortion and bank robberies. He noted returning veterans juvenile delinquency economic readjustment and prewar criminal tendencies as key factors and called for retraining FBI agents and strong economic plans to prevent chaos.

Washington J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation Monsday FBI Hoover

Amvets Formed From Nine WWII Veterans Groups

Nine veteran organizations united to form the American Veterans of World War II in Kansas City. Elmo W. Keel was elected national commander and predicted thousands of members. Brig. Gen. H. C. Holdridge will serve as executive secretary in Washington. The group aims to aid veterans returning to civilian life and remind the public of their wartime service.

Kansas City Amvets Elmo W. Keel Washington H. C. Holdridge U.S.A Keel

Two Drivers Plead Guilty In Court On Driving Charges

Ray Waller 32 of 1311 B avenue NE pled guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and was fined 300 dollars plus costs. He paid 100 and costs now and 100 by Jan 2 and 100 by Feb 1. License suspended 60 days. Charles O. Butler 34 of Mt Vernon pled guilty to the same charge. He was fined 300 dollars plus costs and allowed 100 by Dec 15, 100 by Feb 1, and 100 by March 1. Butler was arrested on Highway 30 near Mt Vernon on Nov 29.

Ray Waller B Avenue NE G. K. Thompson Charles O. Butler Mt. Vernon Butler Highway Patrol

Youths Sentenced For Theft Of Car In Iowa Trio Pleads Guilty

Norman Daringer 18 of Oelwein and William Bathke 20 and James Moore 17 of Oelwein pled guilty to larceny of a motor vehicle. Daringer led the group. each faced up to 10 years in the men's reformatory with Bathke and Moore's sentences suspended. Car owner Francis Burt reported theft May 8. arrests by Sheriff A J Kutschat. Daringer may serve two 10 year terms concurrently. Also, H J Parker 49 of Marion got six months in Linn county jail with 30 days suspended after pleading guilty to lewdness in Judge G K Thompson's court.

Norman Daringer Oelwein Anamosa William Bathke James Moore Bathke Moore G. K. Thompson Daringer Fayette County Carl Hendrickson Francis Burt Third Street A. J. Kutschat West Union Hendrickson H. J. Parker Marion Linn County Parker Carl Badger John Hlavacek Thompson

Olympian Train Derailment Near Chicago Injures Some

The Olympian passenger train of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul line derailed north of Chicago early Monday. Ten coaches left the rails except the locomotive and first car. A few passengers were slightly bruised or shocked. cause attributed to a flat wheel on one coach.

Wadsworth Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Chicago Lake County Charles Rouse

Quick Action for New Draft Policy

Washington dispatch reports Selective Service will immediately implement the Byrnes manpower directive. Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey says occupationally deferred registrants leaving essential jobs will be reclassified as immediately available for service, with local boards allowed to keep deferments if it serves the war effort.

Washington Byrnes Lewis B. Hershey Hershey

Fuel Oil Rations Remain Unchanged

The Office of Price Administration announced that fuel oil rations stay at 10 gallons per unit for period two beginning December 18. Period three coupons with 16 gallon unit values will also become valid December 18, as the two periods are combined.

Washington OPA

Widespread Thanks for Loss of Two Sons and Nephews

A list of thank you notices extends from friends neighbors and local businesses including La Plant-Gheate Globe Mfg Co Hayes PTA school friends and Rev Jacobs and Moons for kindness and floral offerings after the death of two sons and nephews. Other notices announce lost items found rewards and Christmas gift ads from Katz Jewelry Probasco and Vincent’s Jewelry plus local services and sales promotions.

la Plant-Gheate Globe Mfg, Co Chicago Hayes PT Rev Jacobs and Moons R. Nippe R. L. Nippe Ave Hayes Pt.a Ted Hlubucek Janeba Frank Pesek Artha Conklin Katz Jewelry & Loan Post Office Tack’ S First Street Probasco Jewelry 2Nd Ave Palace Theater Chaefer MFG Kresge Noth B. K. Sehsefer

Local Repair and Hauling Ads Bleed Into Classifieds

A jumble of trade lines shows washing machines repaired boiler and furnace work plumbing plastering and hauling services. Listings include Center Point Road and 4th floor Granby Ride addresses with several phone numbers and business names such as Novak Heating Coast to Coast Store Marion and Standard Tire Co offering repair, hauling, plastering, and janitorial tasks.

Novak 3Rd Ave Arnold Ellingen Fizer Kutchera Fuel CO Ne! Elmore Center Point Riad Mack Augustine Ray Leeper Cashman Plumbing & Heating Dial Harry Davis I. Kirkpatrick Sparta Machine Thomas Reliable Man Hoover Marion gauLina Noble 2Nd Ave Leo J Smith Stoker Gazette

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