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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1944
Page
9
Livestock reports from Chicago Omaha Sioux City and Des Moines show steady hog prices with no holdovers and strong demand for 200-330 lb cattle. Receipts near 44 300 head in Iowa and Minnesota. feeders and sows steady to higher. lambs and sheep mixed with active bidding across major packers and markets.
Chicago and New York markets report mixed receipts and prices for produce and dairy. Butter and eggs show steady to firm prices with varied receipts, while potatoes and idahos list several price points and lighter demand. Live poultry and cheese items appear with multiple regional price notes, indicating uneven activity across categories.
For the week of February 21 to 26, the Wisconsin cheese market in Plymouth lists twins and cheddars with a reported 23346 units traded. The brief notice highlights activity across Wisconsin cheese categories with no additional details on prices or buyers.
In North Kansas City a Larabee Milling Company grain elevator explosion and ensuing fire left one dead Edwin Britton 36 Libell Mo and two others reported dead with at least nine injured. The elevator with a one million bushel capacity burned and flames spread to the adjoining mill as 75 workers were on duty but most escaped. Firefighting crews controlled the blaze as several flour cars burned on a nearby railroad siding.
Ohio Governor John W Bricker will be the guest speaker at Peoria Creve Coeur club Washingtons Birthday banquet Tuesday night February 22. Organization officials announced Friday.
Packers up 10 cents on Cedar Rapids hog market. Top hog price 1345 dollars for 200 to 330 pound good to choice hogs. Listings show various weights from 160 pounds to over 500 pounds with prices ranging from about 11 to 14 dollars per hundred for cattle and calf market notes, plus sheep and lamb values.
Grain and produce prices catalogued with corn shelled at 1.04 dollars per bushel, soybeans at 1.60, hay and straw bids, poultry and eggs quotes, and wholesale fruit and vegetable rates for celery lemons oranges lettuce onions and potatoes. Hides and leather items priced, including No 1 cured hides at 12 cents and calf hides at 13120 cents.
Grain futures showed solid advance in Chicago trading with wheat and rye lifting more than a cent at intraday peaks. Close readings: May wheat 1.69 14, rye 1.26 42, barley 1.22 14, with barley and feeds quoted cambi. Cash provisions listed with nominal values for feed and barley. Field seed prices noted for timothy red top red clover and sweet clover.
Rep Harness accused federal employees of discriminatory 60 day deferments for draft age fathers. Testimony at a House subcommittee hearing cited a directive granting 60 day reviews to decide longer deferments, questioned as unequal and not lawfully applied to all fathers. Maj Gen Hershey and Chairman May weighed in on compliance with the selective service law.
William R. Skidmore, 68, long a colorful figure allied with Chicago gambling interests, died Friday in Terre Haute federal penitentiary where he served a 30 month term for income tax evasion. He was a junk yard operator and would have been up for parole March 23. Heart trouble cited as cause by Assistant Warden C T Gladden.
Stocks showed mixed results in slow Saturday trading with mild bidding on selected specialties while leaders drew little attention and overall activity remained light. Near closing trends were muddled as around 350000 shares changed hands amid broad uncertainty.
New York AP The CIO political action committee challenged the Dies committee authority to probe its activities and refused to submit books and material. Sidney Hillman chairman and Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America president said it is high time someone challenged Martin Dies abuse of congressional power.
Russell Eugene Nickels, 23, gave 810 A Avenue NE address and pled guilty in Judge G. P Linvyille's court Saturday. He was sentenced to five years in the men's state reformatory at Anamosa. Appeal bond set at $3,000.
Robert Belden Carne, 19, of 344 Sixth Avenue SW, pleaded guilty to larceny of a motor vehicle in Judge J E Heiserman's court. He received a suspended sentence not to exceed five years in the men's state reformatory at Anamosa. Carne was arrested February 1 for stealing Archie Thompson's car.
Fred M Hargrave doing business as the Hargrave Construction company has dismissed with prejudice its case against Burch Construction of Cedar Rapids and J P Hurley doing business as the Hurley Construction company of Farley Iowa The plaintiff sought 1535 86 judgment for use and transportation of machinery Frances Schissel named administratrix for the estate of Peter F Schissel who died June 21
Capt Dwight S Varner of Champaign Illinois relates how in May 1943 he used a teaspoon as a gun to bluff and capture 32 enemy prisoners with Pvt Joe Zupaneic near Mateur Tunisia. The former University of Illinois student earned the Distinguished Service Cross at Billings General Hospital. He later reported unloading weapons and turning captives over to a PW camp in Tunis while serving with the Eighth Army and earning the Purple Heart and Silver Star.
Reports from Montevideo indicate Argentina’s President Pedro P Ramirez may resign by Sunday and hand power to the chief justice of the Supreme Court. Navy officers urged retirement amid army turmoil while Ramirez sought a liberal cabinet to steer toward constitutional government, a plan reportedly unmet.
Attorneys mapped plans to attack four federal indictments against Charlie Chaplin and six others over associations with Joan Barry. A continuance to enter pleas will be sought at Monday’s arraignment. Government opposes quashing indictments as defense cites lack of grand jury transcript. A separate civil suit claiming Chaplin is father of Barry’s child set for dismissal motion next Wednesday.
STOCKHOLM AP report from Morgan Tidningen cites Bern dispatches that Nobel laureate Prof. A Szent Gyorgyi has identified a previously unknown element in human blood causing hemophilia, an inherited tendency for uncontrolled bleeding. The Hungarian scientist won the 1937 Nobel for vitamin C research.
The Marion PTA held Founders Day at Emerson school with a pupil program and a candle lighting service. Mrs. O W Lundquist paid tribute to past presidents, and refreshments were served by Emerson mothers. Local news covers students, staff, travel, and family notices amid community items.
Secretary of the Navy Knox said in Washington that in the last few months the United Nations have been sinking four or five times as much merchant tonnage as they lose. He noted no statistics were provided and emphasized ongoing ship construction outpacing losses.
Mrs. Joseph McIvor suffers a badly sprained ankle after a slip on ice at home on Sixth Avenue SE. Mrs. Robert Hanson and Deana Hanson visit Corona California to see her convalescing husband. Allen Mengler 7, on Fourth Avenue SW, injures left ankle when struck by a truck near First Street SE. Dr L L Dunnington spoke at a High Twelve ladies night at the Roosevelt hotel with about 140 attendees.
A consolidated advertisement lists service times and events for Marion area churches. Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran and Seventh Day Church of God share Bible schools, worship times, sermons and special gatherings. Prairie Chapel notes Sunday school at 10, morning worship at 11, and Epworth League at 7:30.
Chaplain Albert A. Martin coordinator for the western flying training command will speak Sunday at 9 30 in Sinclair Memorial Chapel on the Coe College campus to members of the 306th college training detachment stationed in Decay Rapids The subject will be A Balanced Life Music by the Aircrew band directed by Capt Stanley J Vesely Public invited to attend
Harold C. Andrews of 1401 Eleventh street NW faces a disorderly conduct charge in police court and received a continuance until next Thursday. He has not entered a plea. He was arrested by Patrolmen Roy Walker and Jerry Navratil at First avenue and Second street SE after attempting to pick up a girl. Maximum fine is $100 and costs.
MacDill Field officials released the names of 12 Army Air Corps airmen killed when a B 17 bomber crashed during a combat training flight near Wimauma Florida. No Iowans were listed among the victims.
Police records show two jackets and a wrist watch reported missing. Art Grey of 700 Eighth avenue SE and Lee Mason of 604 Third avenue SE said their jackets disappeared on Friday. Robert Kabelitz of 612 First avenue NE reported his watch missing while at the Palace theater. value listed at $40.
Ambitious youths urged to join wartime effort via newspaper routes. Offers potential weekly earnings of 6 to 9 dollars plus War Bond investment to aid the war. Contact Mr Wickham or Mr Groves in the Circulation Department for first choice routes in Cedar Rapids.
A series of small classified notices indicate items lost or found around Feb 7. Missing include photo negatives, a green rhinestone pendant, a gas ration book, a Parker pen, a red fountain pen, a car door handle with key, and a ladies wristwatch. Rewards offered for several losses. contact numbers provided. Local address references appear to place notices in the Downtown district and near 8th Ave SE.
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