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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1947
Page
1
Chicago livestock figures show cattle rising to lift overall market while hogs and lambs hold steady. Receipts include 3 500 sheep and 13 000 cattle with calves and vealers firm. steer and yearling prices improve 25 to 75 cents, top loads around 26 dollars.
AP notes USDA market activity with hogs selling slowly and bids generally down. Early sow shipments weaker. packer bids off 50 cents. Cattle receipts and slaughter classes mixed, top steers around 1142, vealers steady, and lambs at about 20.75 with improving fed ewe trends.
Salable receipts 9,000 hogs and 4,200 cattle with a fairly active market. Steers bulk $20.00 to $26.00 with top totals around $26.00 for 26 or 28 hundred weights. Heifers average $21.50 to $20.00. Cows mostly $10.00 to $12.75. sows $22.50. Hogs top about $25.50 with common ranges $25.25 to $25.50. feeding lambs steady near $21.00. Slaughter lamb market not established.
Combined hog receipts for 48 hours ending 8 a.m. Monday in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota were 26 300 head, down from 41 000 a week earlier and 57 000 a year ago. Barrows and gilts 160 180 lb range 24.00 25.25, 200 300 lb 24.50 25.35, 300 360 lb 24.98 28. Sows 170 400 lb 22 25.
Salable receipts 9,500 with calves 700. Slaughter steers and heifers rise 25 cents. Top mediums $20.00 to $23.00, several loads $23.50 to $24.00. Good heifers and mixed yearlings $19.50 to $22.00, some $22.50 to $23.00. One load mixed mostly steers $23.50. Stockers and feeders steady with good and choice steers $17.50 to $19.10.
Iowa hog market reports show prices down by about 25 percent with top prime butchers at 24.50 and packers at 21.75. cattle and sheep sections list steers cows bulls and lambs with varied weights and prices alongside wholesale grain and hides markets and Dow Jones averages.
New York stocks showed varied activity with profit taking evident. Trading stayed brisk around midday as some gains appeared but failed to sustain, marking the tenth straight session above one million shares and an aggregate around 1.3 million shares.
Nearly 2,500 service personnel were due at U S ports on Monday aboard three vessels. The John Blair docked at New York from Bremerhaven bringing 89 Army dogs and 12 troops. The Goucher Victory arrived at Oakland from Yokohama with 287 personnel and three civilians, while Marine Serpent carried 2,183 military members and 46 civilians from Guam and Saipan.
New York, INS. The Rockefeller Foundation announced it may give a $25,000 grant to the American Soviet Science Society to sustain scientific information exchange between the two nations. Federal approval had been withheld for six months. The foundation is a non profit tax exempt body allowed to grant to similar organizations.
Wheat climbed to a 27 year peak in Chicago trading as cash grain strength from Kansas City and Minneapolis supported March deliveries near 2.21 per bushel. Prices faded toward close with mixed results while corn and oats finished lower and various feed values held.
The column lists receipts and wholesale prices for produce in Chicago including roosters hens ducks and ducklings pigeons eggs and standard potatoes by grade and size. It notes arrival counts for Idaho and Nebraska shipments with market activity described as steady to slower for some stocks and mild effects from low temperatures and car inspections.
New York AP market brief shows receipts totals for milk cartons and eggs with bulk carton pricing notes. Details include cream grades, scores, and premiums, with egg receipts totaling 26 920 dozen and quality grades described as extra fancy and heavyweight.
A coroner's jury in St Louis returned homicide verdicts in the deaths of J Vincent Reardon and Michael D Arcy ages 14. Reardon’s daughter Mary Catherine 14 was held for the grand jury after testifying she shot her father but police and doctors said the fatal injuries came from the car crash.
The House approved by voice vote a resolution giving the committee on executive expenditures authority to subpoena witnesses and records and to hold hearings anywhere in the United States. Chairman Rep. Hoffman leads the panel, tasked as the prime body for investigations into executive departments, with a possible opening focus on the State Department.
After four days immobilized, the Omaha to Minneapolis passenger train resumed its northward journey Monday. Only two of the 19 passengers remained aboard. others traveled by bus, car, or transfer to an east-west line as conditions allowed. The move cleared drifts from the Chicago and Great Western line north of Carroll, Iowa.
Senator Knowland urges a senatorial inquiry into foreign surplus disposal. He charges Britain bought United States surplus property at about ten cents on the dollar, higher transferred value $588 million vs $350 million cited earlier, with no added return. He calls the state department report a propaganda document.
The U S Supreme Court refused to review a contempt of court conviction against Des Moines nightclub operator Alphonse Babe Bisignano. Judge Harry Grund had found him guilty for assaulting and abusing the judge at the Des Moines YMCA and Bisignano was sentenced to six months in jail and a $500 fine. The case arose while a raid on his tavern was pending in Grunds court.
Supreme court officials said it was possible Bisignano might begin a six month jail term within a week. Once the U S supreme court ruling reaches the state supreme court, notice will be sent to municipal court and commitment will follow.
The Committee for Maritime Unity formed last May to direct maritime strikes stood dissolved Monday. It comprised five CIO maritime unions and aimed to direct national walk outs on west east and Gulf ports. Joseph Curran, president of the National Maritime Union, resigned claiming mnist influences ruled the group. The CMU said Curran's resignation rendered it ineffective for all practical purposes.
Rebecca Brown aged 93 of 2316 B avenue NE sustained a wrenching left knee when the car she rode in collided with another vehicle at B avenue and Fourteenth street NE. She was taken to St Luke's hospital where Monday her condition was listed as good. The accident involved drivers I. L. Brown of 2316 B avenue NE and Elmer Sanford of 1311 First avenue E. no traffic charge was filed.
The American Telephone and Telegraph Co says calls to U S military and other personnel in the American zone of Germany may be placed from the United States starting Wednesday, with a 24 hour advance notice and a 12 dollar charge for three minutes.
The public improvements department receives council authorization to buy a truck for the sewer department. A tobacco permit is granted to William F. Ross of 225 Fourteenth Avenue SE.
Twenty people were killed and 64 seriously injured in a Craiova railway accident Romania. The crash occurred Saturday as reported by Swiss radio. Craiova lies about 120 miles west of Bucharest.
Police hunted bold jewel thieves who broke into Leon Lowenstein’s Dilido island winter home and took gems valued at 128000. A 30000 pair of earrings was missed. Diamonds were insured. The break included a cut screen and broken French door.
A Shanghai anti American rally called by department store workers deteriorated into a riot injuring at least ten. The event aimed to boycott American imports to salvage Chinese industry while Chiang Kai shek in Nanking ordered a new five year economic plan to start immediately. Mayor Wa opposed a boycott citing political implications.
Attorney General Clark announced three paintings seized under the trading with the enemy act at Dayton Ohio where they were on exhibit at the Dayton Art Institute. A Rembrandt self portrait valued at 140000 plus works by J H Tischbein and Ter Borch were determined alien property from the Weimar museum seized from a Dayton buyer who knew of the stolen origin.
A crazed Filipino stabbed three passengers in the lounge car of the Sunset Limited near Phoenix. The assailant was subdued by gunfire and hospitalized in serious condition. Among the injured are Susana Barangan about 30 from Carville Louisiana and Chief Petty Officer Jannings Stone 29 of San Francisco. Mrs Goldie Hoffman 61 Detroit and Harvey Montgomery 24 Shafter Calif also were hurt. They continued to Los Angeles by a later train.
At Hines VA hospital a silo coal chute jam led to two men being buried by two tons of coal. Tracy Tolliver, 39, of Besoco West Virginia, and Herman Stone, 25, of Metropolis Illinois, died when they tried to clear the jam and fell into the chute. Their bodies were recovered after rescue workers cut through the silo.
The War Department announced on Saturday that soldiers in the United States will be immunized against influenza due to scattered outbreaks of the disease.
U S delegate to the United Nations John Foster Dulles told Inland Daily Press Association in Chicago that a retreat on Russia could provoke Soviet miscalculation and push leaders to take greater risks. He warned the Soviet system challenges Monroe Doctrine, open door in China, and UN goals, urging a six point program and stronger hemispheric unity.
A list of outlets selling Monkey Island project dance and band concert tickets was released by Lou Dvorak VFW chairman. Tickets cost 1 and are available at the Syndicate Tony's Grill Guy Clark's Barber Shop the Parkson Grand Cafe Clarence Lee's Barber Shop Downtown Liquor Store and Bill Dutrt's Restaurant. The April 11 Memorial Coliseum event features the 50 piece Veterans of Foreign Wars band and Earl Fulton’s orchestra. Proceeds fund the erection of a Monkey Island in Bever Park.
The Cedar Rapids city council accepted Ladage's Cycle Shop bid to supply five Indian solo motorcycles for the police traffic department at 2875 with a 1000 trade in for four old bikes. Morgan Brothers offered 3873.15 with a 900 trade in for four cycles and was not chosen.
City briefs report Jan Hus 51 L0 C F will confer the initiatory degree on a class Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Sokol hall. All members of the degree staff are required to attend.
The Cedar Rapids Association of Credit Men schedules a dinner meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel Thursday at 6 p.m. George P. Hixenbaugh chief engineer for WMT will discuss Your Future Radio. Norman Pauly will play the violin with accompaniment by Paul Anthony.
Mrs Shirley F Bechtel executive secretary of the Public Welfare bureau will leave Cedar Rapids Wednesday to attend a National Community Chests and Councils conference in St Louis The conference opened Monday and will close Friday.
The Iowa Consistory begins its 107th midwinter reunion at 8 30 a m Thursday with fourth degree work. The fifteenth degree will be shown at 7 30 p m Tuesday. Degree work resumes at 7 45 a m Wednesday. Lunch and dinner are served daily through Thursday in the Consistory dining room.
A 10 member committee was chosen at a Marion public library meeting to explore a youth center. Over 200 residents attended the Sunday session sponsored by the Wednesday Study club with speakers including Mayor John Mullin and Ralph Young.
Earl R. Balderston 63 retired farmer died at 8:30 a.m. Monday in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a long illness. He lived in Alburnett most of his life born May 15 1883. Surviving wife Lavina Kruse a son Kenneth two grandsons and three sisters. Services Thursday at 2 p.m. at Alburnett Evangelical Church with burial in Jordan's Grove cemetery.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. DeWees travel to Pasadena to visit their daughter Mrs. Leo Reedy. Mrs. Martha Hood will stay at the DeWees home during their absence.
W. J. Goodyear, a Marion police officer, has been seriously ill at his home for a week. L. D. Smith is serving as a temporary substitute on the force during Goodyear’s absence. Pfc. Donald Benedict and his wife visit his parents, the Benedicts, while the soldier is on terminal leave from Tampa. The Wards, recently discharged from service, stay with his parents, and Young Ward enrolls at Coe College. Nurse Wyoma Carey visits with her parents, the Careys of Chicago.
Mr and Mrs W D Wheeler at 966 Third Street entertained Sunday evening for a rabbit fry. Attending were Mr and Mrs Oral Beck and Virgil Foster of Marion, Mrs Cora E Combes of Cedar Rapids, and Clifford Beck of Tahlequah Oklahoma.
James Vernon and Frank Culen, long time Bendix Aviation employees, depart their posts and are reported as moving to new roles within the industry, with neither party citing details of their next assignments.
Bridgeport hosts Supt C B Vernon and family guests plan a Tuesday departure to Washington state for a visit. The notice lists Mary Fenstermen contact details and mentions an ad line for Swedish massage. Mary Hanna’s son Bobby Joel born to Dr Edward Hanna of Springville with maternal links to Marion and Miss Mary Lyman. Lincoln third grade teacher cited amid mumps. J J Mather of Iowa City spent weekend with Mrs Fontaine and her husband.
In New York, two 13 and 14 year olds, Thomas Soto and Candido Noriega, faced homicide charges after a street fight with rivals. The Rockets gang pooled 20.45 dollars to buy a rifle, hoisted it from a roof, and each fired at rivals, killing 16 year old Early Keller who happened to be near the scene.
Police reported the nude body of a woman about 30 was found beaten and shot in a field in West Los Angeles. Investigators awaited more information after corpsman statements from Cpl. Joseph Dumais, held at Fort Dix, were reported regarding the mutilation slaying of Elizabeth Short in the city last month.
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday received an appeal from a superior court ruling that M. E. Thompson is acting governor and that the legislature had no authority to elect Herman Talmadge to the office. The case was set for argument March 10.
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