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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1944
Page
5
Hogs lead a mixed livestock report with Iowa receipts at 52 100 across 19 yards and plants while Des Moines and Sioux City show steady to higher bids. Chicago quotes solid hog prices for under 200 lb pigs with top 13 75 and 200-330 lb at 13 45, while cattle and sheep show varied demand and steady to higher tone.
Chicago production receipts show steady markets for cheese butter eggs and potatoes with various grades and prices listed across units. New York dressed poultry markets report strong wholesale activity with broad price ranges for geese turkeys ducks fowls and other poultry items.
Receipts show butter at 801,566 pounds with prices set by OPA. creamery scores above and below 92 with varied cents per pound. Eggs total 22,038 cases of 30 dozen. market described as weak. Various cheese and egg lots listed with color varieties, weights, and price ranges.
Cedar Rapids hog market held steady with top hogs at 13.45 for 200 to 330 pound good to choice. Cattle prices ranged from 9.50 to 14.00 for various grades. calves 9.00 to 13.50. sheep and lambs 11.00 to 14.50 for good to choice native and western lambs with special notes on weights and quality.
The stock market showed moderate gains with broad buying of low priced issues. Turnover surpassed 800000 shares as traders chased early blocks, aided by stronger demand for select specialties and several large buyers.
Grain and farm commodity prices shown include No 2 red winter wheat $1.40 per bushel No 2 yellow corn $1.04 Soybeans No 2 yellow $1.80 oats 76 to 85 cents rye 95 cents bale straw 10 to 12 dollars bale hay 14 to 60 dollars eggs 11 to 31 cents wholesale fruits and vegetables with Florida celery 6 to 6 50 per crate lemons 7 45 naval oranges 5 15 lettuce 66 to 99 onions 2 84 apples 4 25 winesap boxes 4 25 potatoes 3 50 per cwt plus hides and carcass prices for livestock and leather.
Grain prices eased fractionally in quiet trading in Chicago with wheat down 4 to 4.5 percent as milling demand failed to materialize. May wheat at 1.71 1/2 to 1.83 4, rye steady to lower, barley unchanged, oats and other seed prices listed with nominal figures.
Plymouth Wisconsin report notes for the week include a miscellaneous item. Mississippi River stages at Des Moines show Dubuque 6.6 falling La Crosse 3.5 falling Davenport 3.4 rising.
A powerful earthquake in Gerede Turkey 180 miles east of Istanbul destroyed the town killing and injuring many of its 25000 inhabitants officials reported Tuesday a major Turkish disaster.
Officials of the Iowa state highway patrol requested a small amount of penicillin for Patrol Sgt. Herbert W Jennings who is seriously ill in an Ottumwa hospital with throat infection causing blood stream poisoning and a weak heart.
Washington AP reports the army will display atrocity posters in U S factories as policy changes allow public release of information about Japanese brutality. Posters prepared months ago will now be distributed nationwide under new guidance.
Federal Judge John P. Barnes dismissed a $1,000,000 libel suit against Walter Winchell the Andrew Jergens Company and Blue Network Inc. The suit on behalf of George Washington Robnett alleged defamation over broadcasts of the book Under Cover on July 25 August 1 and September 19 1943.
Spain imposes sharp restrictions on liquid fuel use due to supply difficulties, as reported by Spanish radio on Tuesday.
Gene Desautels, former Holy Cross athlete and catcher for the Cleveland Indians, passed his pre induction physical Tuesday and was ordered to report in three weeks for naval training. He previously played with Detroit and the Boston Red Sox before his trade to Cleveland.
Lt Gen Alexander A Vandegrift commander of the US Marine Corps told the North Atlantic area Red Cross conference that island hopping remains the path to Japan though some critics seek shortcuts. He said Red Cross services will be sharply accelerated by Pacific warfare and that Allied forces will converge on Japan by as direct roads as possible.
John W. Pyle, 69, of 1053 Tenth Avenue SE, died Sunday. Services set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Brady Mortuary with Rev. W. C. Porter officiating. Burial in Bohemian National Cemetery. Spanish War Veterans to conduct cemetery services.
Local items list auxiliary meeting for the Iowa Volunteers executive board with Mrs. Peter Hansen, a car wash ad from Rapids Chevrolet, Townsend Victory Club picnic at 6 30 p m in the Glow room, and Spanish American War veterans attending John Pyle funeral services at Brady mortuary. Also ads for prewar closets, agricultural estate admin Thomas F Suchomel, Navy enlistments and waves, G A R badge display at Killian’s, and Cub Pack 12 awards for Bobcat Wolf Bear and Arrow ranks.
The CIO United Packinghouse Workers of America said it will seek a flat 10 cent an hour raise, uniform classifications, and daily job prep pay at a War Labor Board hearing in about two weeks. It also demands extending the guaranteed work week from 32 to 40 48 hours as the old contract expired last August.
Secretary of State Wayne Ropes said 31 applications for absent voters' ballots were received Monday from soldiers in this county. All requested ballots pertain to the Iowa June primaries. A separate local notice lists two lost items including a black faced wrist watch and a Bulova 17 jewel wrist watch with contact numbers.
A jumble of lost items appears among downtown notices including a black coin purse, a dog listings for a spaniel hound bulldog and other pets, along with rewards and contact numbers. The page also features sales listings for paint lumber jewelry watches sewing machines and beauty services with several business ads and a naval officer sharing rides to San Diego.
Young readers aged 13 to 16 are invited to earn 6 to 9 dollars weekly by delivering newspapers on established Gazette routes in Cedar Rapids. Savings from these routes could reach 100 200 dollars quickly, with potential to net 300 or 400 dollars by next Christmas. Applications for Northwest and Southwest routes are now open.
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