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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1946
Page
5
Chicago AP notes Saturday market mixed with hogs down 10 to 15 cents while cattle hold steady. Estimates show 500 head of each beef and pork, with hog receipts around 1 000 and prices mostly 14.10 to 14.25, top 14.45. year over year hogs 35 to 50 cents lower across weights.
Hog receipts around 10 000 head steady with bulk at 14.50 to 14.60 heavy and medium hogs. sows and calves priced down the line. Sheep receipts about 2000: steady with medium to choice ewes 5.00 to 7.50. feeder lambs 13.00 to 15.50. yearlings and other ranges noted.
Omaha hogs barrows and gilts down 50c sows 25 50c off closing sales good and choice prices around 14. Cattle fed steers steady to 25c lower with slaughter cattle and cows weak to steady bulls steady. Feeder steers and heifers weak around 15.25 to 16.25 for feeder stock. lambs paid around 14.50 with several 12 to 13.5 for yearlings and good slaughter lambs noted.
USDA cattle market report shows salable receipts at 100 calves 50 against Friday. Slaughter steers and heifers mostly lower by five cents per hundred weight, with bulls and calves steady to up slightly. Prices cited include good steers around 147, medium and good bulls 11 to 13, vealers 12 to 15, and replacement heifers up to about 13.40.
Sioux City market figures show barrows and gilts down about 50c while sows drop 65c, feeder pigs up 25 to 50c. slaughter steers and heifers mixed with slight declines. Cattle loads around 330 lb. bid at 17.25 to 17.65, cows mostly under 13.50, stockers and feeders softer, lambs and yearlings mixed with woolskin and shorn grades quoted from 12.50 to 14.25.
Des Moines reports USDA figures show 43 800 hogs for 24 hours ending Saturday at 19 yards and 11 plants across interior Iowa and southern Minnesota. Prices range from 13 00 to 14 10 per cwt for various weights with light loading and slower trade noted.
Auction and market figures show varied selling ranges for livestock and commodities in Ottumwa and Austin. The report lists price bands and index figures such as 160 to 170 and 170 to 180 with several quoted values around 13.0 to 14.0 per unit.
In Chicago market notes, butter receipts total 1 985 tubs with slight firmness across grades such as A B and C. Cheese receipts show 10 986 cases with extras 1 and 2 and varied weights and prices including 44 6c and 26c for daisies and horns.
The market was narrow and mixed with some Baltimore and Ohio issues rising fractionally. Tobacco 3s and Oil 2s advanced modestly while American Telephone 3s and Columbia Gas 5s, among utilities, posted slight gains.
Six new members were named to serve in the public welfare bureau of the Chamber of Commerce. Harry Boyd and L. P. Boudreaux were appointed by President P. F. Keehn. Rollo S. Pickford and John Berger were named by the Community Chest agency. Members at large elected by the bureau are William P. Whipple and Mrs. E. E. Fisher. Keehn will serve ex officio.
Police pursued Lloyd Dennis after Gwen Perrine accused him of striking her with his car at First Avenue and Third Street West around 7 40 p m She escaped serious injury and filed charges of reckless driving with authorities.
New York traders faced a scattered session with favorites attempting a recovery while overall momentum remained weak. About 500000 shares changed hands in the first two hours as leaders drifted into modest red or flat territory.
Saturday quotations for merchants and industrials listed with prices and percent changes. Alaska Juneau notes various corporations and stock figures while Iowa Cedar Rapids hog and cattle markets show top prices and grade ranges, plus grain and produce rates for corn soybeans oats hay and poultry.
A federal grand jury indicted three defendants and charged several others as it wrapped up the January term. Arlene Dehmlow Ayrshire Indiana faced $200 theft allegations on a Great Western train. Jimmie Bryant Fort Dodge and two juveniles Adolph Holmes Floyd Alexander faced interstate car theft and related code violations. Judge Graven sentenced Bryant to three years and Holmes and Alexander to three years in a juvenile facility. Gilbert Bendickson Northwood received a three year penitentiary sentence to update his draft address.
Philadelphia AP report says a special federal expediting court approved a final decree for the sale of Pullman sleeping car service to a group of 43 American railroads for 75 million dollars.
Chicago AP reports moderately strong demand kept grain futures mostly higher despite early wheat profit taking after rains across the Great Plains. Wheat closed unchanged to a fraction higher, May at 1.80 ¾, corn steady near 1.18, oats up ½ to 1, May 75¾–76, rye up to 2½, May 1.75 ¼, barley unchanged to ¾ lower, May 1.21.
Chicago AP notes wheat prices for No 2 red and No 2 hard at 1.79, mixed at 82 cents, barley around 1.39, feed about 9.18, oats 95 to 50 cents, clover and hay values cited including alfalfa at 28.50 and 33 for common. Prices reflect nominal quotes for market components.
Washington reports final Victory loan results showing 21 billion 144 million dollars raised. Individual sales totaled 6 billion 776 million or 169.4 percent of a 4 billion quota. Operation sales reached 14 billion 351 million or 205 percent of 7 billion. E bond sales totaled 2 billion 204 million or 110 percent of 2 billion.
Japanese Communist leaders alleged that members of the Japanese medical corps inoculated American and Chinese prisoners in camps at Mukden and other locations as part of alleged biological experiments during the war.
Pvt. Sterling Harman, 23, of 837 Fifth avenue SE, was picked up Friday night by police at the request of the Seventh Service command in Omaha. Harman, not in uniform, is held at the city jail for army authorities.
Townsend clubs hold a Sunday gathering at the Pythian hall 420 First avenue NE starting with a noon picnic dinner. Mrs Susie Hauskin district president will preside and a state organizer will speak.
W H Woodfield Jr, Imperial Potentate, wired Potentate M D McWilliams of Cedar Rapids El Kahir temple the 1946 Imperial Shrine conclave dates are now July 23 24 25 in San Francisco. He said hotel and housing facilities will be adequate.
Articles of incorporation filed in Des Moines establish United Casualty with Cedar Rapids as headquarters. Incorporators and directors include Scott McIntyre Don M McIntyre Mildred R McIntyre Harvey E Lynch and Fred M Hagen all based in Cedar Rapids.
W. W. Boardman of 1933 Grande Avenue SE told police he witnessed a man ransacking the property. Details on the suspect or motive were not released, and no arrests were yet announced.
Marion News reports travel and family updates including C B DeWees called home by his father Isaac DeWees's death in Whittier California. Ed gar DeWees accompanies him. Dale W Zemanek visits from Bayard Nebraska. Mrs Frank Lafferty shows improvement. Ina Dye Minor learns of sister Kate Crew's Omaha death. Patricia Georges visits grandfather C E Reiter and Miss Florence Reiter before returning to Savanna. Marvin E Rathje travels to Indianapolis. James F Pope promoted to technician fourth grade in Seoul. Dale Lary home from Corvallis Ore to report Jan 19 at Fort Sam Houston Texas. Jack Blessing and children visiting Mrs C W Biggs in Sparta training for army post engineer. Kenneth Weaver and wife relocate from Central City to a farm north of Marion.
A consolidated church listing notes service times and activities for Marion worship centers. Baptist Rev. Charles Moore at Marion Churches hosts Bible school at 9 45 a.m. and morning worship at 10 45 a.m. Catholic Mass at 8 and 10 a.m. at St Josephs led by Rev T J McElliott.
A man fled from a car in front of a residence Friday night after being spotted by Boardman. Police report the only missing item is a 75 foot steel tape measure from the glove compartment.
Maine lodge 643 LO OF F held a Friday night ceremony at the hall 838 First Avenue NE. District deputy grand master James Bowersox and his staff presided and installed elected officers including Clarence Whisler junior past grand Walter Siebert noble grand Roy Jackman vice grand William Hemmer secretary Norman Smith financial secretary and Ralph Chiverton treasurer.
The Iowa Farm Bureau urges farmers to market livestock with caution between now and January 16, ahead of the CIO Packhouse Workers strike. President Allan B. Kline warns against pushing a full month of stock onto the market early, risking value loss and price disruption for near term sales.
Local column lists missing pets and items including a Schipperke dog, a yellow wool glove, a white terrier puppy, a Bulova wrist watch, papers, and a cow. It also notes services from Sears Roebuck and various ads for flooring, plumbing, trucking, jewelry, and other local businesses.
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