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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1945
Page
1
CHICAGO AP reports cattle prices edged higher after a sharp cut in salable receipts. Steers and heifers rose 25 to 40 cents while cows and bulls traded stronger. Hog and sheep receipts also fell, with prices holding steady and sheep showing strength.
Chicago cattle hogs and lamb markets show steady to higher trend amid strong receipts. Hogs at $14.85 for good and choice. cattle receipts 5,500 including calves 400 with steers and heifers up 25-40c, cows and bulls up 25c. slaughter steer quotes around $15.50 with several loads at $18.00, fed heifers $17.98, feed cows $9.50-$13.00. vealers scarce under $15.50. lambs $13.00-$14.00 for natives, some high-quality lots at $14.85, yearlings $12.85-$12.95. Wheat pastured cattle at $7.16.
Sioux City cattle receipts show calves salable at 75 with steers and heifers active and up to 25 cents, cows up 25 cents, stockers weak. Hogs strong on good gains to 14.50 for 160 lb barrows, sows around 13.75, lambs and yearlings bid 25 cents higher with mixed loads and no early sales.
USDA market report from Omaha notes hog receipts at 500 with barrows and gilts at 14.50, sows 13.75. Calves receipts 4 500 with steers and heifers steady, 23 loads of choice fed steers at 17.65 ceiling, heifers 17.25, stockers unchanged. Sheep receipts 4 000 with lambs 14.50, shorn lambs 14.00, ewes 6.75, Colorado feeding lambs 14.25. testing constrained by supplies.
Combined receipts at 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 48 hours ended at 8 a m Wednesday were 30500, compared with 59000 a week ago and 49000 year ago. Activity was strong in butchers and sows, with instances 54 110 c higher. Loadings were lighter than 60200 week ago. Prices for various weights show good and choice barrows and gilts 160 to 180 pounds at 13.50 to 14.30 dollars, 180 to 200 pounds at 14.10 to 14.45, 206 to 330 pounds at 14.20 to 14.45, 330 to 360 pounds at 14.15 to 14.45, and good and choice sows 270 to 450 pounds at 13.45 to 13.70, with good sows 450 to 550 pounds at 13 to 13.70.
Hog market gains a nickel with prime butchers at 14.40 and packers at 13.65. Cattle quotes show mixed grades for steers and cows with various price bands, calves, and lambs listed. Grain and hay prices appear alongside minor market notes and hide values.
Prices for packing sows and feeder hogs shown with multiple rate figures from various buyers and locations. The data includes butcher price comparisons and per hundredweight quotes, likely from Ottumwa and Austin markets, with Saturday or midweek adjustments.
Motors rose about three points while steels rubbers rails metals and certain industrials gained less. Volume was around 1.4 million shares, above Friday's 940 thousand, on a quiet midweek session in New York.
Rails led a modest price advance in New York bonds on Wednesday with activity subdued due to the holiday closure from Saturday to Wednesday. A few higher priced issues showed continued demand from investment sources.
Chicago produce markets show receipts mostly unavailable for butter with limited quotes. Live poultry steady with hens 24 27 cents, springers and fryers around 194 to 128 cents, geese 28 cents, turkeys 37 cents. Potatoes arrivals and shipments total 2 202 with Idaho varieties at about 2 25 to 2 30 per 100 pounds. market firm to slightly stronger with moderate demand.
AP reports current general wholesale prices for New York eggs with grades from extras to dirties. Mixed colors extras No 1 to No 4 45 lb and over fetch 47.85 cents, medium 45.3 cents, standard 45.3 cents, dirties 43 6s per 42 cents per dozen?
Cattle receipts 5 000 with 4 000 saleable. Slaughter steers heifers and cows steady to 15 cents higher. Steer prices mainly 15.50 to 16.75 with light weights up. Medium and good grades 13.50 to 15.25. 750 325 lb wheat pastured whitefaces 13.50 to 14.00. Medium grainfed cows 11.75 to 13.00. Canners lower end offered with odd lots.
A Plymouth Wisconsin dairy item reports a single car of twins or cheddars sold last week to Derry Products at 234. c a pound. The note reflects a local cheese trade update with a specific price per pound and buyer.
Wheat futures advanced modestly on Wednesday with southern offerings. May prices touch 1.8012 for wheat while corn and oats show small moves. rye and barley also shift within narrow ranges as bids stabilize after varied sessions.
AP reports mixed grain prices with No 2 red and No 2 hard wheat at 1.79, oats at 82 to 83 cents with markup, barley around 1.21 to 1.39 dollars, corn with no sales, and field Timothy and alfalfa prices in the mid 20s to 30s per hundredweight, reflecting nominal movement in Chicago markets.
Professor George C. Gates aged 41 completed a 760 mile trip from Cedar Falls Iowa in a railroad boxcar with two riding horses and his car. He praised railroad crews for better service and proximity to station restaurants. Gates left Iowa State Teachers College to teach in Colorado State College of Education and traveled with his car and household goods reading during the journey. The trip began Sunday.
AP reports in Chicago police arrested 30 CIO United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers picketing the Illinois Gear and Machine plant for disorderly conduct. About 200 others were dispersed. all those arrested posted $25 bail and were released pending hearing. Captain George Barnes said the arrests followed pickets blocking access for workers.
Final arguments were presented in Yokohama in the trial of Tatsuo Tsuchiya known as Little Glass Eye, a former Japanese prison camp guard accused of killing an American prisoner and committing atrocities against other Allied nationals.
City briefs report that Townsend Victory Club No 8 will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m in Sokol hall. Also update on Mrs Fred Dolezal 195 Thirteenth avenue SW who has returned from University hospital at Iowa City after a major operation with condition much improved.
Mr and Mrs A N Gelb of 2256 Grande avenue SE left for Dayton Ohio on Tuesday after receiving word that Mrs S Footer, Gelb’s mother in law, had died.
Additional gifts received at the public welfare bureau include A Friend giving 20 dollars and the Woman's Sunday school class of St. Paul’s a donating 5 dollars. Gethsémane Shrine o. 1 also contributed 5 dollars.
Crescent lodge No. 25 A F and A M announces its St John’s day and Past Masters night program on Thursday with a 6 15 p.m banquet at the Masonic hall Jack Shelley who is the WHO news editor will be speaker at the event.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and its auxiliary plan a joint installation at the Knights of Pythias hall Friday. A picnic supper begins at 5 30 with meat rolls butter coffee cream and dessert provided. Members should bring covered dishes their own dishes and sugar. Installation starts at 7 with dancing from 9 to midnight.
Santa Ana California burglars stole 30 presents from under Sheriff Jesse L. Elliott’s tree. The culprit left the sheriff’s uniform cap and badge in plain sight.
National Geographic reports wartime digs uncover vast ancient remains. Gibraltar caves from Mousterian to modern times, Canter bury ruins of a Roman city, and Roman villa foundations emerge. Soviet and Chinese finds push back prehistory with 30 new glaciers and 21 000 foot peaks.
Herbert Brown 37 of 714 Eighth Street SE was made a trusty at the county jail, allowing work inside and outside. He previously escaped the city jail on June 9 while serving a drunkenness sentence, reportedly to avoid a nonpayment warrant. Returned Dec 11 after a disturbance. now serving 30 days for assault and battery with a suspended 30 days for contempt of court over overdue alimony.
Slaymaker 33 is slated to go before a grand jury January 14 on a murder charge. Two men and a woman held on drunken driving charges are expected to plead guilty. Judge G K Thompson will preside until January 14 when the new term begins. The January assignment lists Clark W. Fisher charged with murder, Franklin Edward Baker for breaking into a Cedar Rapids dentist office and habitual criminal status, Ruby M Wheeler for false check, and Sidney Water for assault with intent to commit great bodily injury.
Mary Lala of Center Point dies Nov 22 leaving Marie Fee and Emma Zabokit sky to receive $1000 each for past and future services. Two stepsons Jacob Lala and John Lala get $5 each. Remainder divided equally among Anna Karch Rose Durow and the two daughters. Will dated Feb 27 1935 executed by George Kirk Jr and Frank Zabokrtsky.
Franklin Edward Baker entered a plea of innocent on Wednesday to a breaking and entering charge and a second count of habitual criminal. The first charge stemmed from an arrest by Cedar Rapids police on October 22. County Attorney William Crissman filed the habitual criminal charge on Monday. Baker is set to appear in district court on January 3.
A 24 hour suspension of the daily Ise Shim bun was announced by Col. C. W. Wads worth head of the civil censorship detachment. He cited no details but said the paper violated articles prohibiting publication that disturbs public tranquility or criticizes occupation forces and invites mistrust toward Allied troops.
Linda Marie De Sotel, four day old daughter of Rob ert and Kathleen Paul DeSotel of Alburnett, was remembered in a Marion News brief. The service at Cedar Memorial park was Wednesday morning led by Rev James P Gable. Surviving: parents, grandparents Gilbert DeSotel Central City and Ernest Paul Alburnett, three great grandparents Rose DeSotel Edgewood, Olive Robison Great Falls Mont, E C Grey Hayward Wis.
S/Sgt. Jerry Gerrans reached San Francisco Tuesday and will proceed to Fort Leavenworth Kansas for his discharge before returning home. Gerrans served 26 months in the South Pacific and wears the Purple Heart for an injury suffered on Cebu.
Mrs Elmer Fisher, chairman, reports fund collections now total 156 dollars. Recent donors include Deacon District Garden Club 3.50, Mrs C A Bailey, Ralph Beach, Lakeside Literary Club 2 each, South Marion Farm Bureau 2.50, Marion Legion post 3.25, Reading Circle 1, and West Marion Garden Club 6.80.
Republican women of Marion and vicinity meet Friday at 2 30 in the public library auditorium for officer elections. Mrs Guy P Linville of Cedar Rapids will speak.
The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon H. Carter and their children traveled to Des Moines and Osceola to visit relatives, planning to return Saturday.
Mr and Mrs O W McBride visit as Christmas guests of Mrs McBride s brother Clayton Mur field and family at Martelle Watch for January Clearance to prices The Boston Store
Mr and Mrs C W Barman of 1395 Fifth Avenue hosted a Christmas family dinner. Guests included Mr and Mrs Walter Barman and Mr and Mrs Bob Smith of Cedar Rapids, and Mr and Mrs Charles Slater and Mack of Marion.
Christmas guests of Mr and Mrs H F Lockwood included their son in law Maj M M Delzell of Harvard Nebraska Mrs Delzell and Jane Ellen at their home during the holidays.
Mrs. Minnie Schenken held an oyster supper at her home 520 Eighth Avenue on Christmas Eve. Attendees included her children and a great grandchild among the guests.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Hillerege entertained at dinner on Christmas Day. Guests included Mr and Mrs George A Hutchison and Lt Col and Mrs Robert Hutchison.
Mr and Mrs Chester Cornelius, guests of their mothers Mrs Frank B Cornelius and Mrs Annie Brote markle, return to Omaha on Wednesday after spending the holidays with family.
Capt. William Thomas visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Thomas after piloting a C-47 from Charleston to Chicago and returning to Marion by train on Christmas Eve. Seaman Don Thomas spoke to his parents by telephone on Christmas Day while serving on a transport returning servicemen from Japan.
Wave Seaman Geraldine Kassler stationed in Chicago spent Christmas with her parents Mr and Mrs Will Kassler. Fire Controlman Delmar Burns to report this weekend at Des Moines for discharge. he makes his home with the Kasslers.
Dr and Mrs R E Leidigh entertained at their home 808 Eighth avenue for a Christmas dinner. Attending were Mr and Mrs H A Kahler of Oklahoma City and their sons Don and Philip Mr and Mrs Scott Leidigh Davenport Mr and Mrs Paul Quaas Alburnett and Mr and Mrs W H Applegate Lois Leidigh and Mrs LaVerna Crew of Marion.
Lt Col Everett J. Cartwright arrives Christmas day from Camp Grant Illinois. He served twenty two months in Europe and is on terminal leave until April twenty third.Mrs Cartwright has been staying with Mr and Mrs Richard.
Captain Garth Hunter is spending a leave from Seattle with his parents, the J. F. Hunters. The brief note places the Hunter family in a domestic setting during a military break.
Pvt. Everett Brooks, who served 28 months in England, is spending a furlough with his son Larry Jon and his mother Mrs. E R Brooks. He will return to Cam Grant Illinois for his discharge.
Mrs Leonard Holden and Walter Brockway visit Mrs Lydia Gillmore, with Gillmore hosting a family Christmas Eve dinner.
Washington reports that the United States is expected to extend formal recognition to Romania and Bulgaria after the Big Three finalize peace treaties with the former Axis satellites. Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson indicated the move Wednesday.
A Tuesday night blaze damaged Old St George's Church 176 year old Methodist shrine destroying the Sunday school room and spreading through the historic chapel.
United States officials increasingly offer economic aid to governments slow to adopt essential reforms. Acheson praised Yugoslavia’s new status while urging reforms to enable broader political and economic relations. Some see similar pressure possibly aimed at Romania and Bulgaria, seeking basic freedoms and elections via representative provisional governments.
In Pekin Illinois a 14 year old boy Richard Mason left home with 1500 dollars and a pet cat Cookie. Police say he took the money from a baking powder can. he traveled to Chicago with plans tied to the cat, leaving detailed instructions for hotel staff. The grandfather Henry Gleich hopes for a forgiveness when his grandson returns from Chicago.
General George C. Marshall joined Generalissimo and Mme Chiang Kai-shek for a Christmas luncheon in Chungking. This marked his first meeting with them since his arrival, signaling high level wartime coordination in China.
Classified blurbs list lost items including a brown leather folder with family photos and a red coin purse, a black billfold with money, a brown leather purse on a bridge, a red cocker spaniel named Taffy, a lost class ring, and seeking rewards. Also sewing cabinets ad, cheap ride offer to Los Angeles, insecticide ad, pager requests, and film packs from Baldridge Studio.
A veterans travel assistance concern requests a monthly room space allocation. The organization outlines the need for a quiet meeting area, seating for a small group, and access to refreshment facilities.
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