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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1942
Page
3
Chicago market reports show hog trading unusually active with open market supply around 800 head. Top price held at 11.50 per hundredweight as Friday's average hovered near 11.09 with mixed receipts across major yards including Omaha and Sioux City.
Grain quotations for Chicago furnished by Lamson Brothers and Company. H. R. Mowrey manages Cedar Rapids office at 503 Merchants National Bank building. contact phone 2-3141 for details.
Federal Judge George C Scott dismissed a charge of violating the selective service act against Donald Mason Clark of Marion for failing to register on M day October 16 1940. Local society notes list hospital returns visits travels and church services among Marion residents.
Miss Hope Greenway has returned to Seattle after a holiday visit and hospital duty in Marion. Mr and Mrs Clifford Johnson, visiting relatives in Marion, have gone home to Dubuque. Mrs Gilbert Rathburn and family travel to Sioux Falls after visiting Mrs E J Reed. Rebekah lodge officers were installed by past presidents with officers named and 16 members served refreshments. The DeJongs return from Orange City and Sanborn with Betty Ann and John. they expect to reach Wilton Junction today.
A garbled market report lists butter receipts and varying price cues with several cents figures and percentages. It notes 6 804 cases and mentions local cars in a terse market summary.
Arrivals total 46 cars with on track 264 and U S shipments 473. Idaho Russets and Bliss Triumphs show steady to strong demand. Prices listed for Idaho, Nebraska, Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Florida croppings. market unsettled. Butter and eggs futures noted with storage standards and January to March quotes.
Wheat No 1 and No 2 oats offered with futures for No 3 rye and barley and soybeans at 1.60 per bushel. Hay and straw priced, poultry and eggs including leghorns and capons listed. Wholesale fruits and vegetables priced by crate or unit with items such as celery lemons oranges lettuce cranberries and onions. Hides and calf hides priced. horses valued at 5.25 and 4.75 respectively.
API cheese prices for the week in Wisconsin and Plymouth show Twins and cheddars at 231 cents. The Boston wool market reports mixed demand with average fleece prices ranging from 45 to 53 cents in the grease for various grades, with notable quotes for combing bright fleeces.
Investment demand offset war news as leading stocks rallied on Saturday with rails, mail orders, sugars, farm implements, aircrafts and ties leading gains. Oils lagged. Carrier bonds popular. Notable movers included Union Pacific, Pennsylvania, Sears Roebuck, Woolworth, J C Penney, Allied Chemical, Westinghouse, American Telephone, Caterpillar, Chrysler, Douglas Aircraft, Sperry.
U S government bonds closed up on Saturday with gains in rail stocks lifting the market. Carriers advanced fractions to over 2 points late in the session while broader issues in all governments inched 1/32 to 3/32. Corporate bonds including Nickel Plate Lines Texas and Pacific 86 Chicago Railway 5s and American and Foreign Power 5s helped support the advance.
Chicago expert report notes bullish sentiment from the senate banking committee price control bill lifting ceilings to 110 percent of parity. September grain futures hit seasonal peaks as corn oats rye and soybeans rose with cotton gains and higher cottonseed oil aiding overall advance. Early jittery trading gave way to professional support pushing prices back near prior closes.
Market notes show May wheat at 78 to 80 with minor changes. Chicago cash grain reports list no sales. corn prices range from 67 to 79 cents for various grades. Soybeans and seeds priced with mixed figures and standard grains, reflecting current trading levels across North American grain markets.
Denver students and workers dispute a psychologist's wartime fashion claim. Evelyn Rothstein argues skirts show legs for attractiveness. others say comfort and economics drive styles. Mrs. Gano Senter attributes trends to fashion industry dynamics, not wartime psychology.
A tornado near Baton Rouge hit Denham Springs causing two deaths including an unidentified infant and a Black person, and injuring six others. Buildings suffered damage and two oil derricks were toppled as the storm moved from Baton Rouge toward the town.
Dr Paul Siple of Erie Pennsylvania has developed three new cold weather head coverings for American soldiers. The gear includes an olive drab knitted cap a knitted stocking cap and a wind resistant cloth hood designed to retain heat in extreme cold. The hood adapts the Eskimo parka style and uses tightly woven poplin to resist wind and water while heat loss rises with wind speed.
A telegram signed by 50 people was sent to President Roosevelt appealing to reverse the State Department stance on Free French control of St Pierre and Miquelon off Newfoundland. Signers include Carl Sandburg Maxwell Anderson Clifton Fadiman Stephen Vincent Benet Walter Millis Rex Stout and Franklin P Adams.
Sacramento readers learn how a $7 bid on an unclaimed trunk yielded clothing, a raincoat, dishes, four cameras, a child’s magic lantern, a kerosene lamp from the 1880s, jewelry including a diamond and ruby ring and an opal brooch, plus a Chinese brass smoking pipe with attachments. The find suggests the trunk’s owners remain unknown.
A roundup of services across Marion area churches including Baptist Bible church morning worship at 10 45 and 9 45 Bible school with Rev Frank Ward preaching at 10 45 sermon The Rev McElliott will celebrate Catholic mass at 8 and 10 am at St Josephs Christian services led by Rev Vernon Carter and Rev Venard McLaughlin with sermons on spiritual need and Where are the Dead. Additional notes cover Methodist Presbyterian Lutheran and Seventh Day Church of God schedules and activities.
London reports say Field Marshal Walther Brauchitsch privately told a friend late in November that Germany would not win the war yet might not lose the peace. He warned about 1,075,000 German deaths on the Russian front and hinted at missteps by Allied policy. Benes reportedly confirmed the private remark through a trusted secretary.
Sergi Martil L. Mahula of Salem Oregon, towering 6 feet 734 inches, receives special Washington dispensation to fly. He serves with the 33rd School squadron at Mather Field near Sacramento and must furnish a seven and a half foot bed while covering transport costs totaling 24 dollars. He wears a 32 inch waist 36 inch seam trousers and is now assistant flight chief after returning from the Curtiss Wright Glendale air mechanics school.
Pittsburgh resident Lafayette Boal, veteran of 85,000 miles of hitch hiking, aims for a national thumb jerking championship. He endorses a business suit, glasses, and a clear stance to attract drivers, recounting a 1,600 mile lift from Coeur d'Alene to Winona and warning youths about legal risks.
Mexico City reports logic suggests exiled King Carol of Romania could urge former subjects to rise against Axis rulers in the country he fled last spring.
London reports rising unrest in occupied states led by Norway Belgium and Holland with 15000 Quislings to be executed and Polish guerrillas raiding Lubin while Jugoslavs list German killers. Nazis show anxiety in broadcasts while Col V Britten names collaborators in sabotage campaign.
Santa Paula California AP report says Consuela Buena 31 gave birth to twin daughters during an ambulance ride to a hospital. She received emergency care at a physician's office, then delivered the first baby within two blocks, and the second at Ventura hospital about 15 miles away. Both mother and twins are doing nicely.
The Wine Institute reports war disrupting European exports, boosting California wine sales abroad. From French Indo China to Cuba and the Pacific, orders rise while domestic consumption reaches 100 million gallons annually and foreign shipments in early 1941 total 596 thousand gallons, doubling year earlier. The national reserve stands at 120 million gallons, about a year's supply.
Margot Du halde of Santiago joins Britain's women ferry pilots with 350 flying hours and limited English. She traveled from Montevideo to England, joined Air Transport Auxiliary training, and may soon fly Spitfires and bombers for RAF bases.
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