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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1940
Page
4
Chicago livestock news reports hog prices leaping 25 to 40 cents, top at 6.75, the sharpest gain since late August. Cattle and sheep receipts and bids listed across major markets including Des Moines, Sioux City, Waterloo, St Paul, and Omaha with mixed gains and steady to higher sentiment for hogs and feeders.
Peoria market reports hog receipts 4 500 with prices 20 to 35 cents higher. top 6.60. Cattle receipts 500 calves active, prices 7.50 to 9.75 for yearlings. Sheep receipts 2 000 with native lambs quotable around 8.75 to 9.00. culls to 5.00 and ewes 2.50 to 4.00.
Hog prices rise with good hogs up to 20 cents locally and packers up one dime. Long haul top reaches 6.20 while various weight ranges list price ranges for good hogs and packers. Cattle market shows ranges for choice to prime steers, yearlings, and cows with prices noted across categories. Sheep market notes spring lambs and old ewes with general quality-based pricing.
A list of commodity prices from Cedar Rapids covering grains including oats rye corn and soybeans, hay and straw bale prices, poultry prices by weight and breed, wholesale fruits and vegetables with several item prices, hides by grade, and miscellaneous notes on other market items. The text reads as a price catalog for agricultural goods and related commodities.
In desultory pre holiday dealings the general level of leading corporate bonds eased modestly with minor losses. Some utilities and rails held steadier though overall volume limited, while U S government bonds showed mixed moves and small gains or losses around balance.
Wisconsin cheese prices for the week ending December 28 are listed by the Wisconsin cheese exchange with distinct figures for daisies brick and cheddars. In Boston the wool market opened quietly with government contracts prompting limited activity as buyers considered South American and Australian wools, while most domestic wools held steady with unchanged quotations.
New York stock action remained listless as readings failed to mount a rally. Early gains faded, most issues closed with fractional declines while turnover hovered near 800000 shares. Major losses included U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler GM Anaconda Douglas Aircraft Kodak Owens-Illinois Standard Oil Sears Roebuck Dow Chemical.
An article notes the creation of an absorbent carbon material from cotton seed hulls. It highlights its potential for medicinal use and water purification, signaling a new application for agricultural byproducts. The piece references the producer and context within the broader industry.
Grain prices fluctuated narrowly on Monday with soybeans posting fractional gains. Chicago wheat rose about 40 cents, corn mostly steady, and oats and rye flat to slightly higher. cash bids varied by grade across wheat, corn, and soybeans with light buying and a modest track receipts estimate.
Market notes from Chicago and New York show butter, eggs, cheese, and poultry pricing. Butter storage standards quoted for December to February set at 31.50 to 31.20 with eggs under refrigeration around 18.85 to 19.34, while New York receipts and grades reflect weak butter and mixed egg values amid government graded stocks and live poultry figures.
Milo Grubhoffer doing business as Milo's Market at 1001 Sixth Street SE was reinstated in the surplus marketing administration food stamp plan. The action is immediate with a $20 claim disallowance. Earlier, three local grocers faced suspensions for irregularities including selling nonfood items for orange stamps and accepting blue stamps for nonlisted foods.
AP reports the Pacific Northwest faced its worst general windstorm in two decades. Two dead and about a dozen injured as the hurricane-like storm damaged ships, buildings, airplanes, windows, and power lines from the Oregon coast to the Straits of Juan de Fuca.
Tabulation by Alien Registrar Frank J. McCarthy shows 1 053 aliens fingerprinted through Saturday. Tuesday and Thursday are last days for registration, with offices open late to midnight for anyone reporting. About one third of registrants are Czech, 356 of Saturday’s total, 34 percent, the next largest group is German with 106.
Fewer than 50 families remain on the Cham ber of Commerce Christmas exchange rolls by Monday noon with the office expected to close. The Salvation Army takes on 100 families and the Sunshine Mission 50, ensuring all 850 referred will have a cheerier Yuletide. Donations have risen as groups including Boy Scout troops 12 and 28, John Huss Methodist church, ICBJ drill team, Iowa Electric Light and Power, Round Table girls, Chandler company, Immaculate Conception church, Panther patrol, and St. George Syrian Orthodox women's society join in assisting.
Leo Klima, 24, of Cedar Rapids, pled guilty to breaking and entering and received an indeterminate 10 year term at Anamosa Reformatory, suspended for good behavior. He previously got six months for receiving stolen property from a Montgomery Ward theft, with five months suspended. The Bener Tea Co. break in at 221 Third Ave SW last Feb. 8 involved Klima as an alleged accomplice and a silverware set was recovered by police.
Judge H C Ring approves C F McIntosh as receiver for Cedar Rapids food firm William Singer and Company Inc The court orders turnover of assets to the bankruptcy trustee upon appointment The receiver’s fee is set at 460 dollars and attorney Fred W Hann is paid 250 dollars Receiver appointed October 31.
Judge C J Haas allowed a claim by E H Wadsworth as administrator of Eliza Ann Pratt estate for 2940.18 in the Otto Sikora estate. The ruling defines how Pratt estate assets are allocated within Sikora estate, noting Sikora once administered the Pratt estate before his death.
District court on Monday approved a referee deed selling Bertram township property to Charles R. Volesky for 6300 in a long running realty partition case involving heirs of Elias Doty. The Iowa Broadcasting Company sues in an advertising account and attachment action seeking 256 dollars plus interest against McKabe Beauty Shop.
Chairman Guy M. Gillette of the Senate campaign expenditures committee said Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City will likely be summoned early next month to finish testimony on alleged campaign fee practices in Hudson county. The panel plans to subpoena several witnesses and will limit testimony to the committee’s authority over the 1940 election complaints.
Rev W A Jacobs of the First Congregational church urged Rotary club members to return to Christ’s ethical standards at a Roosevelt hotel luncheon. He warned against a Santa Claus attitude and a perpetual gimme complex, calling for personal responsibility, mercy, reverence, and love. A Coe college trumpet trio played carols as members sang.
Lost small black beagle pup near Franklin school and a red male peke named Skippy with reward. A Czech medal with inscription, an overcoat, a red-brown Chow and a Pekingese named Ginger and Skippy. Police and Iowa Volunteers urged return with rewards. Contact numbers provided.
A roundup of holiday offers and services appears from The Gazette including jewelry specials at Vincent's Jewelry Store and Whitman's chocolates. Also advertised are pharmacy gift sets, cosmetics, candles, silk hosiery and gift items from Podzimek and Richards' College Pharmacy, along with alterations, dressmaking, and a furnace service offer from Kalamazoo Stove & Furnace Co. A student seeks a ride to Detroit around Christmas and a jewelry sale notes prices as low as 69.05.
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