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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1945
Page
6
Chicago livestock and grain notes report hogs selling to a 14.75 ceiling with 13 000 salable hogs and 23 000 total receipts amid steady to strong demand. Cattle and sheep markets vary with beef cows steady to 25 cents lower and fat lambs not yet fully established while calf and yearling prices drift.
New York printers report rails and industrials hitting seven year peaks in late trading. Transfers reached around two million shares as select issues moved higher before profit taking pulled some leaders back.
All prices on the Central hog market rose ten to fifteen cents on Friday. Top prices: prime butchers 14.25, packers 13.65. Details list hogs by weight, yearlings, cows, bulls, calves, and sheep with varied prices across categories.
Hogs remain very active at strong ceiling prices with receipts around 7 000 and top hogs in the 14 45 range for 160 lb barrows and gilts. Cattle show slow killing classes but steady to weak overall with feeders and stockers holding steady. calves and cows vary. Sheep receipts near 6 300 with opening steady but market slow. best western lambs fetch 14 75 to 15 10, native lambs and fed clipped lambs also trading around 14 25 to 14 75, ewes and medium westerns around 6 50 to 7 25.
Sioux City livestock market reports receipts with cattle calves hogs and sheep. Cattle mostly lower with slow demand. hogs steady to higher amid active trade. sheep receipts and prices mixed with steady openings and limited top offerings. Notable figures include steer prices around 12 to 17 dollars, hogs 14 to 16 dollars, and lambs around 14 to 15 dollars.
Combined hog receipts at 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants in interior Minnesota and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ending 8 a.m. Friday totaled 43,300, down from 50,000 a week earlier and 52,900 a year ago. Active butchers are 10 to 20 cents higher, some 25 cents or more up. sows steady to 20 cents higher. Loadings slightly heavier than the prior week. Prices shown for various weight classes reflect gains in good and choice barrows and gilts and sows in multiple weight ranges.
Chicago and New York markets report steady receipts across dairy eggs and produce. Butter and cheese prices hold, eggs show firmer receipts, and potatoes list notable U S No 1 values and regional stock statuses for Idaho Colorado Michigan and Minnesota North Dakota.
Wisconsin cheese exchange reports six cars sold in Plymouth Wisconsin including U S No 1 twins cheddars and various single and square prints with prices noted.
Chicago AP reports dull grain markets with small price shifts on Friday. Wheat slipped briefly but recovered as commission house buying appeared. May wheat at 1.66 1/2, corn unchanged, May at 1.12 1/2, oats up modestly, rye fractionally higher, barley mixed. Cash wheat No. 2 red and No 1 hard red fall into narrow ranges as buyers and sellers paused.
Senate Democrats received an open invitation from Sen. White of Maine to form a coalition with Republicans on sound legislation and oppose unsound proposals. White suggested Democrats and Republicans may align on key bills, while the GOP aims to develop a distinct legislative program.
Three Cedar Rapids youths and five from eastern Iowa join the naval reserve via the Cedar Rapids recruiting office. Cedar Rapids entrants are Gerald Jerome Urbin, Donald Leroy Taylor, and John Donald Singer. Eastern Iowa inductees include Ray Melvin Hanover Jr, Pale Ralph Dillon Atherton, Donald Albert Wagner, Belle Plaine, Cornell Fimmons Robins, and Earl Wayne Hulshizer Marton.
Heavy springs over 3 pounds per bunch and 25CLeghorn stock prices show hens at 2C each ducks 20C and geese 20C Current receipts and eggs quoted Henneries 38C eggs 33C No 2 eggs 10C pullets 23C Wholesale fruits and vegetables list various produce with California celery 4.95 and lemons 7.20 Lettuce 5.29 yellow onions 1.70 sweet potatoes 2.50 P Yams 1 755 Apple Idaho Texas Cedar Rapids grain prices include corn shelled 1.00 old No 2 yellow 1.03 soybeans 2.04 oats 0. tic wheat 1.40 rye 1.00 May and straw baled straw 14.00 clover hay 14.00 19.00 Timothy hay 12.00 18.00 sparnahs 4.00 US No 1 Russet potatoes 2.95 grapefruit 3.25 hide markets cured hides 12c ile calf hides 13 1 2 c calf 12 45e horse 6.56 6.00 kip 12 1 2 c 2 kip 11 2 c Nunes full tall included bony and elute half price
Donald Wright, 31, of Walker, pledged innocent in Judge Floyd Brick’s court to uttering a forged instrument. Held in pay county jail on 3000 bond after Deputy Harlan Snyder arrested him for cashing a 209.12 check at Shell Service in Coggon on Dec 31 for gasoline. The check, signed George L. Harrison, drawn on City National Bank of Chicago, was said to be stolen from Elliott department store in Independence.
Paris AP reports the United States Army lost slightly more than 500000 gallons of gasoline as fuel dumps and tank cars were overrun during the German offensive. The loss equals about 1 percent of stocks in the advance area.
Allied reports say Canadian troops moved east of Alfonsine to within 1.5 miles of San Alberto, eight miles north of Ravenna, as German counterattacks with Tiger and Panther tanks were repulsed. Fifth Army patrols observed limited activity.
In Monessen Pennsylvania flames from a burning coal mine broke the surface of Pierce Street, driving two families from their homes. Ignition holes reached ten feet in diameter and heights of up to ten feet, with several breaches along the street. The avenue was barricaded by city authorities as six houses were reported endangered.
British troops have joined American doughboys as silent partners since the German breakthrough. Allied forces moved into combat positions at the northwest tip of the German salient as Montgomery’s units arrived to bolster weak spots. The Belgian bulge battle darkens with expected high casualties as both sides press the offensive amid a race to seal off the Nazi advance.
Thirty two men representing Linn county draft boards departed Friday for Fort Snelling Minnesota to enter service. Recipients of United Service Aides gifts included George Reed David Jones Robert O Connor Francis Vrba LeRoy Hill and several others. Transferred in were Alman Hinrichs Weiss Ralston Zerba Nelson Pieper Conley Slezak Rehak Burnell Baty Williams Foy Barrett Scott Wall Seery Mercer Smith Mills Brennaman Booth Weis Lyon Benesh Hoover and more.
A 15 year old Dearborn boy Francis Allen Burns was arrested by highway patrolmen at the Pine Inn and held for his father. Also held were three navy stragglers Louis Nagurka Sam Sirio and John Cornitcher arrested on a North Western train. LeRoy Woodings was fined 25 dollars for disturbing the peace and discharged after a brief altercation at Rock Island shops. Dahms reported hat theft valued at 10 dollars from Roosevelt hotel grill.
City briefs report church services at St Johns Lutheran Ely to be conducted by Rev J Hamilton Dawson of Des Moines at 11 a m Sunday. Also noted a Gazette carrier Howard Parks lost an envelope with 18 60 in war stamps Thursday evening between his home 1023 Daniels street NE and the Iowa theater along Maplewood and Elm. If found call 2 5013.
President Roosevelt said the next Big Three meeting will occur after his January 20 inauguration. He teased its agenda will differ from Casablanca Tehran Quebec and Washington and joked by ice conditions might decide if it is at the North or South Pole. He noted attendance by other leaders remains uncertain and Stettinius’s presence would be announced after the conference. Roosevelt also shrugged off the Halifax book delivery and said he would take The English Spirit to the pole.
Services for Chester B. Chet Myers an Iowa Electric Light and Power official who died of a heart ailment will be held Saturday at 1 30 p m in Turner chapel with the Rev Don Cassiday officiating burial will be in Linwood cemetery Friends may call at Turner’s Also services for John W Schafer Rock Island railroad switch man killed Wednesday will be at Beatty chapel Saturday at 2 p m with burial in Cedar Memorial cemetery Survivors include his parents Mr and Mrs John Schafer Cedar Rapids He was a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Switchmen’s union.
Mrs William Jay died at her home at 3 45 a m Thursday. Funeral services set for 3 p m Saturday at Brush chapel with Dr Marion H Williams officiating. Burial will be in Linwood cemetery. Survived by husband Cpl Darrell Jay in England and brother Herman Stock Morrison. Friends asked not to send flowers. Calls may be made at the Brosh chapel.
Edward Womacka of 1125 Ninth Street SE died at 12 50 p m Thursday in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a lingering illness. Born July 29, 1895 in Cedar Rapids he lived here his whole life. He served in World War I and was a member of Hanford Post American Legion and the Benefit Association of Railroad Employers. He is survived by his wife three sisters Mrs Leo Kolar Mrs Thomas Coughlin Jr and Mrs L D Ross two nephews in Cedar Rapids and a cousin in Omaha. A brother in law Captain Emil Bartosh served in Germany. Services will be held at the Polansky funeral home at a time to be announced later.
Mrs. Josephine Stourac of Cedar Rapids died Thursday at 4 45 p.m. after a long illness at her son in law and daughter’s home. She was born in Czechoslovakia March 19 1856 and is survived by two daughters Mrs Martin Uridil and Mrs Frances Racer plus two sons Frank and Joseph all of Cedar Rapids. Burial will be in Bohemian National Cemetery with services Sunday at 2 30 p.m. at Janeba funeral home conducted by Rev Milo Filipi. She was a member of the Homesteaders lodge. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Hoyt E. Battolph of Bennett is charged by the Office of Price Administration with overcharging by 813.63 on a used truck and trailer sold to S. L. Bowman of Maquoketa on January 7 1944. The suit seeks treble damages totaling 2440.89 in federal court, filed by Marvin C. Leysen district enforcement attorney.
Three more German POWs who tunneled 200 feet from Papago Park camp on Christmas Eve were captured Friday, bringing retaken to 15 with ten still at large. It is estimated that 80 percent of modern military air intelligence comes from aerial reconnaissance.
Clarence August Wendt 69 died and his son Art 41 injured when a Northwestern freight train struck their car at the Stanlake crossing near Clarence at 7 50 p m Frost on side windows hid the oncoming trains Art sent to St Luke s hospital in Cedar Rapids The Wendts farmed east of Clarence and the family listed several siblings with funeral arrangements pending at Beck funeral home in Clarence
Cartwright corporation of Cedar Rapids filed articles of incorporation in Des Moines with the secretary of state. Capitalization is 20000 dollars. Incorporators are E. R. Cartwright president Blanche Cartwright vice president and Miriam A. Seigler secretary all of Cedar Rapids.
A collage of classified notices offers tonics for aging, tax forms, Valentines gifts, sewing classes, jewelry, cleaning, and job openings. Listings include Ostrex Tonic tablets, Probasco Jewelry, Singer Sewing Center classes, and various employment ads for bakers drivers clerks and farm help in Cedar Rapids area.
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