Hogs Lower Cattle Climb in Midwest Livestock Report
Chicago and Omaha markets show hogs down about 10 to 25 cents from Tuesday with some loads steady. Cattle and calves firm to higher, fed steers and yearlings mostly around 14 to 15 dollars, heifers near 12 to 15, while sheep and lambs hold near 14 dollars with mixed skim. Des Moines and Sioux City receipts reflect uneven trading and modest declines in hogs, with cattle and sheep varying by region.
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Chicago
IWPA
Omaha
Sioux City
WFA
Iowa
Des Moines
Minnesota
Cedar Rapids Grain and Produce Prices Snapshot
Market notes list Old No 2 yellow corn at 1.00, No 2 wheat 1.40, oats 0.385, and No 2 rye. Straw and hay prices shown middling, with ducks 0.22, geese 0.11, eggs to 0.40. Fruits and vegetables include celery 6.25, lemons 7.20, oranges 5.99, onions 1.70, sweet potatoes 2.50, apples 3.85, russet potatoes 3.95, grapefruit 3.25. Hide and leather prices appear, plus pony and glue notes.
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Frolte
Florida
N. H
Idaho
Texas
Chicago Produce Prices and Receipts Mosaic
Chicago market reports show receipts and prices for butter cheese eggs and poultry with mixed grades and weight classes. New York prices mirror firm butter and cheese with current wholesale egg ranges and assorted sizes and standards.
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New York
Wisconsin Cheese Exchange Sales Report Mixed Car Lots
Miscellaneous notes from Plymouth Wisconsin detail cheese exchange sales and three car lots including U 8B No 1 twins and cheddars with prices around 23 and a quarter cents per unit. Mississippi River stages listed Davenport Hastings Keokuk and Dubuque show no change with Davenport fall readings and rising Keokuk.
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Wisconsin Cieese
Plynouth
Wis
Wisconsin
Mississippi River
Davenport
API
Hastings
Falor
la Crovag
Pfolloil
Dubuatne
McGregor
Fall of
Keokuy
Rail shares stumble as market loses ground in New York
New York reports a sharp market shift as a early boomlet in rail stocks collapses. Trading around 1,600,000 shares, leaders slipped fractions to over a point, with many pivots above day lows by closing time.
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New York
NEW_ YORK BOND REVIEW
Hog and cattle market report with mixed prices
The local hog market fell fifteen cents for a second day with top prices at 13.80 for prime butchers and 13.45 for packers. Prices for various hog weights, mixed yearlings, cows, bulls, and lambs are listed with multiple grade ranges and per hundred adjustments.
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I Prime Butchers
Non-Existent Election Winner in Fairbury Nebraska
County Clerk Homer Brunk said Newton precinct reported Alfred Spitznogel receiving 157 votes for justice of the peace amid write-ins, but Spitznogel is fictitious as a certificate returns unknown and post office officials confirm no such person.
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Fairbury
Neb
Homer Brunk
Newton
Alfred Spitznogel
Spitznogel
Brunk
Grain Unsettled as July and September Futures Slide
Chicago grain futures showed mixed moves with old crop holding firm at times and deferred contracts tumbling on liquidation. Wheat, corn, oats and barley posted scattered changes with December wheat at 1.68 and barley rising to about 1.17, while cash markets showed no wheat or oats sales and mixed yellow corn bids.
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Chicago
Action awaited in Ward dispute moves toward government seizure
The War Labor board tightened its clash with Montgomery Ward as the White House drafts seizure papers for seven cities. Ward defied WLB orders on maintenance of membership and concessions to union workers, prompting referrals to Fred M. Vinson and broadening to Sewell Avery and United States Gypsum Company.
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Washington
War Labor Board
Montgomery Ward and Company
White House
Fred M. Vinson
Ward
WLB
Sewell Avery
Avery
United States
Multiple Civil Actions and a Divorce Annullment in Iowa Courts
A string of local legal actions includes Ella Peters dismissing with prejudice her $20,000 personal injury suit against Cedar Rapids City lines filed February 1942 for injuries from a January 22 bus collision. Judge Floyd Philbrick grants an annulment decree for Robert and Marian Gardner after alleging Marian’s fraud at Des Moines in October. Linn county sheriff probes the shooting of a spotted Poland China sow on a Troy Mills area farm, killed by a .22 rifle. Two district court suits target Carney's Inc. Euclid Sportswear seeks $123.75. D. Meyers and Sons seeks $201.45. The will of Pvt Cecil Gillin, killed in a motorcycle crash in Oxford, England, October 3, probate grants executrix Erma E. Gillin of 715 Second Ave SW.
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Ella Peters
Cedar Rapids
Kenwood
First Avenue
Second Street
Floyd Philbrick
Robert Vernon Gardner
Marian E. Gardner
Des Moines
Gardner
Marian Gardner
Linn County
Carney’s, Inc
Euclid Sportswear Company
Cleveland
Ohio
D. Meyers and Sons, Inc
Baltimore
Pvt
Cecil Gillin
Oxford
England
Erma E. Gillin
Second Avenue
15 Deaths Linked to Labelling Negligence in Drug Case
The government ties 15 deaths to Merck and Company for allegedly failing to label a poisonous drug properly. A 15 count federal indictment from Trenton accuses Merck of mislabeling the drug choloryl under the Pure Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
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Washington
LLP
Merck and Company
Rahway
N. J
Trenton
Merck
Merck Denies Charges Over Labeling Boryl Drug Use
Merck and Company, responding to Wednesday government charges, says its product boryl was not mislabeled and any deaths linked to its use resulted from user error. The case concerns post operative care and treatment of eye diseases.
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Rahway, N. J. (LLP
Merck and Company, Inc
Indictment Ties Campaign Finance to Constitutional League
A District of Columbia grand jury indicted Joseph P. Kamp of New York on failing to provide records of contributions of 100 dollars or more to the Constitutional Educational League Inc. The case arose from Kamp’s Senate testimony before a House committee investigating campaign spending amid charges the league sought to block CIO leader Sidney Hillman and the Communist party influence.
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Washington
House
District of Columbia
Joseph P. Kamp
New York
Constitutional Educational League, Inc
American Democratic National Committee
Congress
Kamp
City Tax Levy Nears Fully Collected At $960K Plan
City treasurer reports 99.347 percent of the levy collected to date totaling $954,052.89 in current taxes plus $4,121.10 in delinquent taxes. Special taxes certified show $3,647.99 with $3,497.68 collected. Road levy stands at $1,250 with $1,168.84 collected.
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Walter Miller
Miller
Marion News Laf-a-lot Club Dinner Highlights Yuletide Patterns
The Laf-a-lot club held a Christmas dinner at the Michael Cira home with 18 placed at tables. New officers installed by the retiring president included Miss Nettie Cira as president and Mrs. Violette Jacobs as vice president. Separately, Marion high school faculty and spouses enjoyed a Christmas dinner for 20 hosted by Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Salisbury. Also noted are several military arrivals and visits, local advertisements, and church program preparations.
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Michael Cira
Fred Shireman
Will Grassfield
Nettie Cira
Violette Jacobs
William Detlefsen
A. W. Salisbury
Marion High School
Christmas Party for Wilson Employees Children
United Packinghouse Workers local No 3 CIO organizes a large Christmas party for Wilson and company children on Friday night December 22. About 700 children are expected at the CSP hall from 8 p.m. Dempsy Jones will host, with a tree and Santa Claus visit. Former Wilson workers now in service invited.
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United Packinghouse Workers Local No. 3
CIO
Wilson and Company
Harold Smith
C.S.P.S
Dempsy Jones
Santa Claus
Gunner Survives Trapdoor Drop In Flying Fortress Incident
Tailgunner Jimmy Taylor slipped through a trapdoor four miles above Germany after his chute snagged. He dangled head first until Sgt. Cloyd Hicks secured the hatch and restored oxygen. Other crew aided as the plane headed home with all aboard alive.
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U. S
Eighth Air Force
England
Jimmy Taylor
Germany
San Francisco
Taylor
Sgt
Cloyd Hicks
Mount Union
German Offensives Hit Belgian Civilians Reported
CBS Correspondent Richard Hottelet said from the First Army front that German counter-attacks overran Belgian villages with substantiated reports of civilian murders. He warned there is no pretense of conquest but a last desperate blow to inflict pain and revenge.
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New York
CBS
Richard C. Hottelet
First Army
Front
Indicted Contact Man for German Spies Named in Newark
Justice department announced the indictment of Carl Emil Ludwig Krepper of Newark New Jersey as a contact man for German spies. He is charged in Newark with violating sabotage censorship and foreign agents statutes.
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Washington
Justice Department
Department
Newark
N. J
Carl Emil Ludwig Krepper
Christmas program and story hour at city library brief
The Foursquare Gospel Sunday school will present a Christmas program and play Why The Angels Sang Friday at 7 45 p m A story hour is set for Thursday at 11 a m in the children's room of the main library Catherine Redmond children's librarian will read A tire and wheel valued at 16 belonging to Clarence Knoebel was stolen from his car in the Wilson and Company lot Tuesday Pancretan association has elected officers President Mike Pagomenos vice president Jim Bellas secretary George Gianopoulos treasurer Nick Couantos council members Gust Mandas Bill Haritakis George Kallas Michael Kapsalakis The South Side Civic club meets Thursday at 8 p m at the C S P S hall F J Payneer state conservation commissioner will speak Refreshments follow No meeting next Monday due to Christmas
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The
Foursquare Gospel Sunday School
Catherine Redmond
Clarence Knoebel
Eighth Street
Knoebel
Wilson and Company
Pancretan Association
Mike Pagomenos
Jim Bellas
George Gianopoulos
Nick Coutantos
Gust Mandas
Bill Haritakis
George Kallas
Michael Kapsalakis
South Side Civic Club
C.S.P.S
F. J. Payneer
State Conservation Commission
All-Out Assault Confronting Elas in Athens
AP reports Lt Gen Scobie vows to strike Elas forces with all arms after nine am in Athens. Civilian warnings issued as clashes follow a gun-dynamite assault on RAF headquarters. Also notes escape of pro Nazi pretender Jean Rallis and possible captures/executions of other prisoners.
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Athens
R. M.scobie
Greece
Elas
Rizopastis
George Bacos
George Pirounakis
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MENG
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Great Lakes Naval Training Center
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Seaman
Billie Mack
West Coast
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Waterloo
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Storm
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Engineer Corps
New Mexico
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Marion
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Topeka
Kan
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Ll. M. Farley
Moravia
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Burlington
Les Cooper
McEnany Nursing Home
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Third Avenue
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Leeton, Mo
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Jiruska
Gainesville
Rayl
Jiruskas
Wilson
By Moward Cowan
City Briefs
Pancretan
Civic Club
Pearl Harris
8Th St
Mercy Hospital
Agnes Taylor
6Th St
A. H. Hobert
Monticello
Pauline Milnean
Maurice R. Farr
Mt. Vernon
el Lain
Beagle
Dec. Ltd
7Th Ave
Minnie Shaffer
Oakland Road
Lady’s Cardovs
Ad Dept. Gazette
Tig
Bob Welty
Orch
Lorraine Lee
Chet Ehrenberger
Les Hartman
WMT Town Cornhuskers
Ce-Mar
Sint
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Hurdle & Halter
Contentment and
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Montrose
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O. K
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Hi-Way Gardens
Stant Wood
Moeller
Lee
Katz Jewelry
St. Oppo
Questlions Sveneereed
Comnaneles
Jack
First Street
William Stark
J. Becker
George Victorine
Singer Sewing
1St Ave
Dial
George Swartzendruber
Guaranty
Osteo-Pathnik
Oxfords
Oerderhoffs
East
Richards R. R
Ted
16 Ave
Schaefer
MFG
Kresee
Claxton College Pharmacy
H. K. Schaefer
Minneapolis
Hunter's Flying Service
Steele
3Rd Ave
1St St
SANDS
Nelson
W. Fuller
Fuller
Probasco Jewelry
2Nd Ave
Palace Theater
Helene Curtis Jeold
Royette
Cold Wave
Paris Academy Dial
A de Rerarraas
Center Point Road
Novak
Ernold Ellingson
Mack Augustine
Ray Leeper
Ae Cao
Fase
T. Kirkpatrick
Sparta
J.T. Thomas
Leo J. Smith
Help Wanted
Sas
Essential
Iowa Manufacturing Company
16Th St. NE
Colonial Baking Co
Sth Ave
Twin Towers Cafe
Hansford
Iowa Steel & Iron Works
12Th Avenue SE
Quaker Oats! Company
Pirst Street
BSE
Troy Laundry CO
OIL Ca
Midwest
F. O. Box
Rawleigh Teenlers
North Linn
Ryou
Rawleigh 8
Dept
Freeport
Ill
Amone
Jersey Farm Products CO
Pittsburgh
Towa Electric Welding Company
Charlies McCormick
Van_ Horne
Newhall
Polehna Bros
16Th Ave
J. R. Watkins Quality Products Co
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Merchants Motor Freight
Red Crown
Aliey
3Rd Bt
Doug Ross
New Process Laundry Co
Tommy
Fox Head
Magnus Hotel
Leo Klinger
Klinger Paint Co
Ave
Bogerd
L. B. Lamb Sales Co
Butterfly Cafe
Ard Ave
McKesson & Robbins
Autos & Trucks
Good Motor
Langhurst Motor, Co
Bridge
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Swank Jewelry
Hardex
LaPlant-Choate Mfg
Con
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Cedar Rapids, ,Iowa
Collins Radio
St. NE
Montrose Hotel
WMO
the Killian Co
Wilson, & CO
IRD
First Street &E
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