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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1946
Page
11
Unofficial Monday livestock receipts show hogs down 70 to 15 cents with top bids around 14.45. Cattle and sheep remained steady, with varying receipts in Chicago Omaha Kansas City while live cattle and hog prices differ by region and weight class.
Chicago produce receipts show mixed tubs and eggs with nominal steadiness and varied prices including 92 A score and 44.6 cents for eggs. Cheese prices listed as Twins and Daisies ranged around 25.2 to 26 cents. New York bond review notes a narrow, mixed session with improving Baltimore and Ohio issues, gains for American Tobacco and British Old, and utilities like American Telephone and Columbian Gases posting small advances.
Six new members were named to the public welfare bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. Harry Boyd and L. P Boudreaux were appointed by Chamber President P F Keehn. Rollo S. Pickford and John Berger were named by the Community Chest agency. members at large elected are William P. Whipple and Mrs. E. E. Fisher. Keehn will serve ex officio.
Police search for Lloyd Dennis after his former wife Gwen Perrine of 308 First Avenue West accused him of striking her with a car at First Avenue and Third Street West around 7 40 pm. Perrine, knocked down but not seriously injured, signed an information charging Dennis with reckless driving.
New York traders faced scattered gains and continued volatility as the market flickered toward recovery. The two hour transfer total neared 500000 shares while Dow Jones averages edged higher and several industrial and commodity stocks posted mixed results in a broad, unnamed session.
Cedar Rapids hog prices held firm after earlier declines with top prime butchers at 14.05 and packers at 13.30. Readily listed cattle quotes cover dress grades from AA to D and utility, with various weights and yearling categories. Prices also note grain, hay, poultry, hides, eggs, and assorted fruits and vegetables in the latest market roundup.
C B DeWees returns home after his father Isaac DeWees dies in California. Ed gar DeWees accompanies him from California. Dale W Zemanek visits Bayard Nebraska with relatives William Lingard. Mrs Frank Lafferty shows improvement after illness. Ina Dye Minor notes death of sister Kate Austin Crew born in Marion. Patricia Georges returns to Savannah after visiting grandfather Co E Reiter and Aunt Florence Reiter. James F Pope promotion to technician fourth grade in Seoul Korea. Pvt Dale Lary to report Jan 19 at Fort Sam Houston. Jack Blessing and children visit mother in Sparta Wisconsin for army post engineer training. Kenneth Weaver moves from Central City to a Marion area farm.
Des Moines Town Farm Bureau urged farmers to market prudently through Jan 16, aligning with the CIO packinghouse workers strike. President Allan B. Kline warned against flooding markets with a full month’s supply, urging storage of light animals into February to protect prices and avoid losses.
A dense classifieds page lists multiple service providers and job seekers including repair and hauling businesses, floor cleaning, heating, window and blinds, fur work, trucking, plastering, and domestic help. Notable entries mention Morris Fur Shop, Drake Theatre area ads, and several farm help and trades positions with phone contact numbers.
A federal grand jury indicted three individuals on Friday and charged others yet to be caught as the January term concluded. Robert Lee Davis of Sioux City faces charges for transporting a stolen 1938 Ford to Armour South Dakota. Arlene Dehmlow of Ayrshire Iowa posted bond and is to appear January 28 in Fort Dodge. Jimmie Lee Bryant and two juveniles, Adolph Holmes and Floyd Alexander, were charged with interstate car theft. Bryant drew three years in federal prison, Holmes and Alexander received three years in a juvenile correction facility. Gilbert Spendickson of Northwood was sentenced to three years for failing to notify his draft address.
A special federal expediting court on Friday approved a final decree approving the executory contract for the sale of Pullman sleeping car service to a combine of 43 American railroads for 75 million dollars.
Chicago reports show grain futures edging higher most of the day despite early profit taking in wheat. May wheat listed at 1.80, corn steady, oats up modestly, rye up to 2 percent, barley flat to slight dip, with cash wheat around 1.79 and oats around 82 cents for heavy mixed lots. seed and pasture prices varied in a market reacting to rains in the Great Plains.
Washington Treasury Secretary Vinson announced final results of the Victory loan drive totaling 21 billion 144 million dollars from the eight campaign. Individual sales reached 6 billion 776 million dollars (169.4 percent of 4 billion quota). Corporate sales hit 14 billion 351 million dollars (205 percent of 7 billion goal). E-bond sales totaled 2 billion 204 million dollars (110 percent of 2 billion quota).
Tokyo dispatch reports Japanese Communist leaders accuse the Japanese medical corps of inoculating American and Chinese prisoners with bubonic plague virus during bacteriological warfare experiments at Harbin and Mukden in Manchuria.
Police detained Pvt. Sterling Harman at the city jail on request of Army authorities. Townsend district to meet at Pythian hall with Susie Hauskin presiding and a state organizer speaker. Imperial Shrine conclave moved to July 23 24 25 in San Francisco and housing will be ready. Articles filed for United Casualty Co Cedar Rapids with McIntyres and Hagen listed as incorporators. W W Boardman reports a thief ransacking a residence on Grande Avenue SE.
The bulletin lists multiple churches with pastors and service times. Marion Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Westminster Fellowship, St Pauls Lutheran, Prairie Chapel and Seventh Day Church of God note Sunday school at 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Morning worship from 8:30 to 11 a.m. Evening services and midweek activities are specified for several congregations.
A Friday night installation by Maine lodge 643 11.0.C.F. at 438 First Avenue NE installed new officers. James Bowersox district deputy grand master and staff oversaw the ceremony with Clarence Whisler Walter Siebert Roy Jackman William Hemmer Norman Smith and Ralph Chiverton named to roles. A car theft incident nearby reported a man fleeing Boardman and a missing 75 foot steel tape measure.
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