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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 16, 1944

Page

8

Hogs Fail to Hold High Prices in Thursday Estimates

Chicago price report shows hogs steady to 10 cents lower after Tuesday highs. Slaughter steers and yearlings mixed with tops near 17.00, lambs up 10 cents to 16.60, and cattle receipts around 12,000 with varied firmness. Sioux City and Omaha tonnage also noted with mixed movements and price ranges across hogs, cattle, and sheep. Des Moines market summarized with Iowa and southern Minnesota yard activity and generally steady to higher values on select classes.

Chicago Siown City Sioux City WPA Slauchter Omaha FDAS Gom José Coud Iowa Des Moines Cedar Rapids Lancy

Chicago Produce Markets Review 1958 Poultry and Livestock

Market notes show steady receipts in poultry and potatoes with Idaho arrivals and Colorado supplies. frequent price ranges for dressed and processed poultry, turkeys, ducks, and squabs. Live roosters, pullets, and Brown and White stocks appear with varying weights and prices across regional markets.

Chicago Steste Te Ateady Rome Idahos Colorado Burbanks U. & W U.S North Dakota Fonda Bliss Wetote Orr Suimeas Fee

Grain Prices Rally After Early Loss

Chicago grain markets rebounded from early losses as rye buyers returned, lifting gains across cereals. Wheat, oats, rye, and barley finished higher with May contracts showing notable climbs amid Winnipeg rye strength and Winnipeg influences on the local Chicago market.

Chicago Winnipeg

Cedar Rapids Market Report Brief Most Readily Available Items

Grain oats and corn prices listed for Cedar Rapids including No 2 yellow soybeans at 1.80 and corn shelled No 2 yellow at 1.04. Hay straw 10 to 12 dollars per bale, eggs and poultry prices for various classifications, fruits vegetables and dairy product prices, hides and calves market notes, Plymouth Wisconsin cheese weekly price, and Mississippi River stages for Des Moines La Crosse Dubuque Davenport and Keokuk with rising or falling trends.

Sussissippi DES _ MOINES

Japs Still Balk At Captive Swap

Washington Japan refuses a third exchange of nationals as neutral investigators find pretext al legations about camp conditions groundless. Assistant Secretary Breckinridge Long testified to the House Appropriations Committee amid plans to cut funding for State Justice and Commerce. Hull Jones and Long warned of postwar costs and policy aims while noting malnutrition among Americans held by Japan.

Washington Japan Breckenridge Long House Appropriations Committee Roosevelt State, Justice, and Commerce Departments State Department Justice Department Commerce Department Hull Commerce Jesse Jones Jones Long

BACK THE WARRIORS Buy an Extra War Bond

Message urges support for war bond purchases featuring patriotic phrasing and unclear local framing. Likely a call to enlist public financial backing for wartime efforts through additional bond sales.

Profit Taking Curbs Stocks

Profit tak ing stymied the stock market Wednesday, halting rising efforts by rails and oils. The session opened with gains but the tape idled late, with about 800000 shares trading hands in total as investors booked profits.

New York NEW York Bond Dover Rock Island S St. Paul Missouri Pacific New Haven

Courthouse Handles Two Personal Injury Suits In Vondracek Case

In district court on Wednesday two personal injury suits were filed against Joseph Vondracek doing business as Vondracek's Meat Market at 1223 Third Street SE. Gene Davidson seeks 17644.85 for injuries his son Harold, 16, sustained Aug 31 1943 two miles from Bertram when a panel delivery truck upset in a ditch while transporting chickens. James Brown of Bertram seeks 1000 for injuries his son, 15, suffered in the same accident. Both suits request jury trials. John Sankot will probate. will admitted. executors named Guaranty Bank and Frances Sankot.

Joseph Vondracek Vondracek Third Street Gene Davidson Near Bertram Harold Bertram Vondraeck Davidson George Solon Cedar Rapids Gus Brown James

More Children Can Be Handled by Nurseries

A Wednesday announcement from the child welfare board reports a slight rise in attendance at Cedar Rapids nurseries serving children of working mothers. Despite the increase, accommodations still exist for more applicants.

Cedar Rapide Child Welfare Board

Phillies sluggers coach Klein plans 1944 comeback

Philadelphia AP reports 38 year old Chuck Klein, former NL slugger, intends a hard 1944 comeback. He estimates he can appear in 75 or more games if he can condition himself adequately.

Philadelphia Chuck Klein Phillies

Taxpayers Pour In As Deadline Looms For 1943 Taxes

In Cedar Rapids, deputy collectors report 15 000 to 16 000 callers over five weeks as the March 15 filing deadline nears. Since Jan 10, 400 to 500 filers daily sought help with returns, aided by 10 deputies plus two new staffers, with two cashiers on duty for the anticipated flood of payments. In nearby industry, the 1943 safety spend per worker was under one dollar.

Cedar Rapids

Marion youth club elects Burrows president in home meeting

Marion News reports Larry Burrows was chosen president of the American Boys club at Marian Dye's home with Jack Edmunds as secretary and Richard Hotz as treasurer. Members wrote letters to servicemen for war stamps and a Valentine party at the Dye home drew Edmunds, Burrows, Rathje, Hotz, Williams, Davin, Whitman, Paul, Edmunds, Thompson, Hay, Reichert.

Larry Burrows American Boys Club Marian Dye Jack Edmunds Richard Hotz Dye Edmunds Burrows Norman Rathje Hotz Bob Williams Dick Davin Betty Whitman Sally Paul Donna Edmunds Bonnie Thompson Leota Hay Helen Reichert A &B. Black Concord Agricultural and Literary Club A. d. Taubes C. L. Fernow Clyde Kearns C. C. Scott T. Arthur Newman

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