Hogs Steady to Higher as Market Ends Week in Chicago
Chicago and surrounding markets report hogs selling actively with weights under 200 pounds up to 25 cents. Best fed cattle steady to higher with steers near 15.40 and heifers around 15.25. Overall receipts show 2,000 holdovers and strong demand on light and midweight hogs, while other classes remain steady amid large yard totals and mixed livestock activity.
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Chicago
WEA
Chicago Livestock
Omaha
Prices Steady On C. R. Market
Prices remain steady at C. R. market with lambs 75 to 100 pounds quoted around 13.00 to 10.00 for fair to good, common lambs 6.00 to 9.00, good to choice yearlings or wethers 10.00, ewes 120 to 160 pounds 5.60, medium ewes 4.00 to 4.50, canner ewes 3.00 to 3.50, buck lambs 1.09 per hundred weight. overall valuations depend on weight and quality.
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Sioux City Livestock
Sioux City
IWPA
Iowa
Des Moines
Mason C. Waterloo
Ottumwa
Austin
Cedar Rapids
Cesar Fee
Chicago Produce Prices and Arrivals Report
Chicago market data shows butter at 92 score A 41c, eggs at 33% 33s, cheese Twins 25.2c, live poultry steady with turkeys at 35c, hens 24c, Idaho potatoes arrivals 29, on track 62, US russet burbank prices. New York receipts illustrate butter firm, eggs unsettled with various grade prices, and live poultry firm with multiple weight categories listed.
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Chicago
Idahos
Idaho Russet Burbanks
Idaho Russet Burbanks US
Wales
New York
Brookhart's Wife Dies in Arizona
Mrs. Smith W. Brookhart 74 wife of former Iowa senator died Thursday in Prescott Arizona after an illness. A son Major Smith W. Brookhart Jr announced the death. Burial will be in Washington Iowa. The Brookharts had lived in Arizona since 19 after leaving the Senate in 1933.
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Ber
Washington
Smith W. Brookhart
Prescott
Ariz
Smith W. Brookhart, Jr
Brookhart
Stackay
Washington, Ia
S. Brookhart
Pee Hearne
Keosauqua
Senate
Brookharts
Arizona
Cedar Rapids Grain and Produce Price List Report
Grain and market prices listed for oats wheat rye corn soybeans and hay and straw. Poultry eggs and wholesale vegetables with delivered prices, fruit citrus and potatoes alongside hides and animal products pricing.
Wheat Prices Hit 15 Year High on Market Rally
CHICAGO AP Wheat and rye futures climbed to new 15 year highs while oats held firm. Wheat rose 1 1 2 to 23 1 2 cents per bushel, oats gained up to 14, rye up to 1 2 to 1 0 1 2 cents, barley up 1 cent amid higher parity and a flour subsidy increase. Cash wheat and corn values listed with maltings and field seed prices.
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Chicago
J. EB. Bennett & Co
W. A. Dump
Merchants National Bank
Adams Express
Kennecott
Aited
Kroger G. B
Aslls Chalmers
Pibby *McNell
Ote Amin Gan
Owens
Adie
Amn
Poco
Mae
Amn Roll Mills
Loews Inc
Bass Amn Smelting
McKesson
Amn Steel Fdys
Marshall Fid
Martin
Armour ¢& Co
Mont Ward
Atchison SF
Murray Corps
Atlantic Air
Nash-Kelv
Aviation Corp
Biscuit
Baldwin Loco
Balto & Ohio
Nor Pac R R
Beth Steel
North Amn Co
Boeing Airp Nor Amn Avi Ba Borden Co
Pac Gas & E
Borg Warner
Packard Mtrs
Brigss
Burrs
Adglita Philcoats
Cal & Hecela
Pepsicola
Canada Dry
Phillips Pet
Pittsden Screw
Proctor Gamble
Cerro de Pasco
Burysler
Motors
Radio Corps
Coca Cola
Rem Rand
Gole Ne
Stee
Reyn
Cons Solvents
Schenley
Comw Southern
Sears Roebuck
Serve! Inc
Cons Edison
Shell Union
Conti
Simmons Co
Cons Aircraft
Sinclair
Cont! Can
Skelly
Socony
Crucible Steel
Sperry Corp
Curtiss
Calif
Baker
Norhe “ Tex Corp
Elec Autolite
Elec Boa
Thermoid
Elec
End & S
Tidewater
Cien Electric
Gen Foods
Fox Film
Union Carbide
Gen Motors Sas
Uni Aircraft
Gillette SR
Ea Ae Lines
Goodyear Tire
Graham Pearge
Greyhound
US Steel Sis Homestake
Walworth Im
Miscellaneous Wisconsin Cheese Prices and River Stages
For the week of Dec 27 31 Wisconsin cheese prices show Tulns or cheddars at 23 4 cents. Mississippi river stage notes La Crosse stationary at 5 7 Dubuque rising 9 0 Davenport falling 6 1 Keokuk falling 3 0.
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Wisconsin
Plymouth
Wis
Mississippi
Des Moines
la Crosse
Dubuque
Davenport
Keokuk
Regional WPB Offices to Handle Jobs Up to $25,000
Washington AP reports the War Production Board authorized regional offices to process applications for construction projects costing up to 25 000 dollars. The move lifts the prior 10 000 dollar limit to speed small building jobs by avoiding the Washington office.
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WPB
Washington
War Production Board
Derailed Train Had Load of Explosives
In Silver Creek Nebraska on December 16 a Union Pacific train derailed after colliding with a truck and trailer. The wreck carried a carload of high explosives and killed a veteran engineer. W M Jeffers urged motorists to stop look and listen at crossings as traffic halted on the main line for hours.
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Omaha
Union Pacific
Silver Creek
Neb
W. M. Jeffers
The
Road
Jeffers
Union Pacifics
Stalin Decorated With Suvorov Order by Kalinin
Stalin received the Order of Suvorov First Class from President Kalinin in Moscow for his leadership of the Red Army’s successful strategy and campaigns.
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Moscow
Kalinin Friday
Order of Suvorov
Stalin
Red Army
Car Thefts Rise Despite Wartime Shortages
The FBI reported Friday that car thefts are increasing even with gasoline and tire shortages during the war.
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Washington
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Stock Market Mixed After Friday Rally Profit Taking
New York area markets mixed as Friday trading edged lower after Thursday’s broad rally. Volume hovered around 1,000,000 shares with irregular shifts and rail, industrial, and utility issues posting small gains or slight losses.
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New York
NEW York Bond Review
Ace Westbrook tops 13th Air Force with 14th zero kill
Maj. Robert B. Westbrook of Burlingame Calif became the 13th Air Force ace with 14 Zeros downed over Rabaul during Christmas weekend. Flying a P 38 he scored Dec 23 and 24 and again on Christmas Day, despite engine trouble. He assisted others in downing two more, earning his lead in the Pacific air war.
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Rabaul
Halsey
South Pacific
Maj
Robert B. Westbrook
Burlingame
Calif
Thirteenth Air Force
Westbrook
Gregory Boyington
Marion Carl
Pacific
Howard M. Cleveland
Haubstadt
Ind
Bryan B. Bowman
Crawfordsville
Army Vote Issue Rates Number On House Docket
The article reports Congress preparing to confront how servicemen and women vote in the 1944 election. Worley proposes a House elections committee review after Jan. 10, amid calls for federal legislation to standardize ballots for service members. Reps Ramspeck and Kearney press for federal involvement while cautioning limits on voting qualifications. The piece notes debate over who should manage ballots and ensures states retain ballot validity decisions.
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Worley
Texas
House Elections Committee
Congress
Senate
Ramspeck
D-Ga
House
Upstate
New York
Rep
Kearney
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Frank C. Walker
Ensign Neenan Weds WAC Lt Harrington Post Navy Training
Medford Massachusetts AP Ensign Richard L Neenan USNR Cedar Rapids Indiana married WAC Lt Norma Harrington of Medford at the Church of St Francis of Assisi shortly after graduating from the naval communications training school at Harvard. The ceremony was by Rev Francis Finnegan with eight officer graduates as ushers. He will report to Quonset naval training station and his bride returns to Providence recruiting post.
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Providence, R. I
Ensign Neenan
E. J. Neenan
Twenty-sixth Street
War Department documentary shown at High Twelve luncheon
The War Department's Office of Strategic Services film War Department Reports was shown at a High Twelve luncheon in the Roosevelt Hotel. It features combat scenes and diagrams explaining Japan's supply lines and Allied bombing limits from Siberian bases, along with captured footage of Mussolini’s rescue and the Pearl Harbor attack.
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War Department
Office of Strategic Services
High Twelve Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Japan
Siberian
Mussolini
Italy
Pearl Harbor
Town Wave Recruiter To Broadcast on MBS
Gail Hughes a Wave specialist recruiter from Cedar Rapids will appear on the First Nighter program Sunday over Mutual Broadcasting System Cedar Rapids navy recruiters said Friday. She formerly was Kitty Keene on radio and had appeared on the program before. The show is dedicated to the Waves with Hughes on special leave from the Iowa Wave recruiting team in Des Moines, currently in Dubuque.
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Gail Hughes
Wave
Cedar Rapids
Mutual Broadcasting System
Cedar Rapids Navy
Waves
Miss Hughes
Kitty Keene
Dubuque
Iowa
Des Moines
Grinning Sergeant Hero of Battle on Bougainville
U S marines on Bougainville consolidated positions on Hellapoppin ridge after a fierce push that cost 46 dead, seven missing and 105 wounded. A lone gunnery sergeant, later killed, inspired the assault by hurling grenades from a foxhole shouting praise the lord and pass those hand grenades.
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Bougainville
Hellapoppin Ridge
Leathernecks
E. H. Strayhorn
Nashville
Tenn
Strayhorn
Retired Mail Carrier R P McLain Dies at 72
R P McLain 72 a retired rural mail carrier died Friday at 2 am at his home 780 Fifth avenue after several months illness Born March 20 1871 in Cedar county he married Daisy M Swails June 16 1898 at South English He retired in 1937 moved to Marion in 1938 Surviving wife two sons two daughters five grandchildren four sisters two brothers Services Sunday 2 pm at the Methodist church South English burial in the cemetery there
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Reuben Phinney McLain
Fifth Avenue
Cedar County
South English
Daisy M. Swails
Marion
Robert I
Chester C. McLain
Cedar Rapids
Marvel Page
Yocom Chapel
Polk County Farm Building Branded As a Fire Hazard
Des Moines AP report: Polk County grand jury calls the main building at the county farm an absolute fire hazard and urges immediate replacement with a fireproof structure to protect the large number of insane patients and elderly crippled residents housed there.
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Polk County Farm Building
DES Moines
Polk County Farm
Polk County Grand Jury
Grand Jury
Court awards 225 dollars in Leatherberry suit
In the Emercy Leatherberry v Magnus Hotel and Eppley Hotels case Judge G P Linville awarded $225 to the plaintiff. Mrs Leatherberry is dead. Ruby M Holyoke administratrix for the estate serves as substitute plaintiff. Both sides waived a jury trial. Plaintiffs sought 10 621 70 with interest and costs for a fall in the Magnus hotel on April 21 1938.
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Emercy Leatherberry
Magnus Hotel Company
Eppley Hotels Company
G. P. Linville
Leatherberry
Ruby M. Holyoke
Magnus
Memorial hall piano school and New Year services update
Miss Ruth Engstrom hosted two groups of piano pupils at Memorial hall drawing 61 attendees. Refreshments featured poinsettia centerpieces and mini Christmas trees. Attendants included R. E. Tanner Richard Bristol Melvin Abernathy and Jean Stoneking Moore. New Year's Eve services at St Pauls Lutheran Church begin 7 45 with Rev Carl E Krog preaching Lord Our Dwelling Place in All Generations. Holy communion and New Year's Day services follow at 10 00 with sermon Beginning the Year in the Name of Jesus. Post Office Will Close. Marion post office closed all day Saturday with no city or rural deliveries. The Indian Creek Bluebirds Four H club held a Christmas party at Jeanne Beckner's home with parents and Miss Margaret Stewart in attendance. Benjamin H. Dey telegraph lineman for Milwaukee moved to La Crosse with family. Mrs Henry Denniston of Collins attended her niece Helen Biddick and Robert Myers wedding. A son born Dec 27 at Dallas Texas to Mr and Mrs Hugo Schenken. Tedh Sgt Robert Colehour and Sgt Colehour’s mother visit in Springville and Cedar Rapids. Fireman 1/c Eugene Wickham on 13-day leave from Quonset Point RI with parents. Searman 2/c Orville K Collins Jr transferred from Bremerton WA to Tacoma WA. Ethel Collins ill at home.
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Ruth Engstrom
Memorial Hall
Engstrom
R. E. Tanner
Richard Bristol
Melvin Abernathy
Jean Stoneking Moore
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Carl E. Krog
Jesus
Men in U S Subs Win High Praise From Admiral King
Admiral Ernest J. King lauded submariners battering Japanese supply lines. He cited figures showing submarines sunk or damaged 536 Japanese vessels and praised the voluntary submarine service as exceptionally tough and deserving of credit.
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U.S
Admiral King
Washington
Ernest J. King
King
Arthur Roosevelt Rinks to Open Over New Year Holiday
Bob Black city recreation superintendent announced that the Arthur and the Roosevelt skating rinks will be open Saturday and Sunday for the New Year holiday. He added that good skating weather is expected and the rinks will stay open regardless of weather so city skaters may use them during the double holiday.
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Bob Black
Arthur
Roosevelt
Black
Attacks on Jews Reported in New York Incident Span Age 10 to 14
The eastern regional office of the Anti-Defamation League issued affidavits detailing anti Jewish violence in Washington Heights New York. Affidavits describe hoodlums aged 10 to 14 roaming streets in groups of two to ten seeking Jewish boys to attack and Jewish property to desecrate including attacks on Jewish children and desecration of synagogues and churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
Washington Heights
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
Judge Rules Against Mother Suing Dentist
In a Cedar Rapids district court decision Judge G P Linville ruled for Dr Earl M Eaton against Loretta Reu who sought 525 dollars in actual damages and 500 in punitive damages for her son Robert Charles Reu alleging an incident at the dentist office on June 10. The same judge awarded W L Musker 277 dollars on a rent account and interest following default by Lyle T Stockwell and Lucille Stockwell. Kenneth Humpal trading as Jones County Hatchery seeks 157 96 dollars from Glen Lacock in an account suit.
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Loretta Reu
Robert Charles Reu
Earl M. Eaton
Cedar Rapids
G. P. Linville
Dr.Eaton
Reu
Dr. Eaton
Dr .Eaton
Lyle T. Stockwell
Lucille Stockwell
W. L. Musker
Kenneth Humpal
Jones County Hatchery
Glen Lacock
Newspaper Circulation Reaches All Time Crest
The circulation of American daily newspapers rose 2.6 percent to record levels in the six months to Sept 30, led by war news. Evening papers gained 3 percent, morning 2.18 percent, and Sunday 5.1 percent, based on publishers to the Audit Bureau of Circulation.
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New York
Trade Journal
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Lost and Found Pekingese Dog and Items Card
Lost red female Pekingese dog dial 3-1280. Black billfold with initials N.B.C. dial 7368. Reward offered for recovery. Lost solid gold wedding ring dial 2-3039. Reward likely.
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N.B.C
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Minnie Schenken
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American Mutual Life Insurance
R. M Threlkeld, SR
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M.N.B. Bldg
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First Street
E. E. Sovern CO
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2Nd Ave
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First Avenue SE
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Stu Ave
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Linn County
Iwanted
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Hunton
Topeka
Kans
Leo Klinger
Klinger Paint Co
R. L. Sweet
3Rd Ave
Iowa City
Marengo
Coca Cola Bottling Co
Red Crown Bowling Ailey
3Rd St
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Bell Boy
Royal Laundry
Garf
Hudson
Stolba Bakery
Aker
Naxcra
Guaranty Bank & Trust CO
Davis Cleaners
W. Myers
Terry Durin_ Co
Hansford Foundry Department
Iowa Steel and Iron
12Th Ave
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