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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1944
Page
6
Reduced hog marketings Friday spurred a slow but steady price uptick for lightweights while cattle receipts were slow and prices declined for most classes. Sheep held firm with steady quality. regional quotes cover Omaha Des Moines and interior Iowa markets with varied weight ranges and holdovers.
Good butchers prices listed for Waterloo Ottumwa and Austin regions. Receipts and bidding show hogs, sows, and feeders with varied top bids and steady to slightly rising trends. Sioux City and Chicago grain quot. Lamb and sheep receipts listed with market tone: steady to up, specific weights and prices noted.
Wheat futures surged to the $1715 ceiling as mills buyers and short traders locked in values. May July and September closed at the ceiling with December under but near the maximum. Oats and rye rose, barley gained. cash market notes and field seeds also listed. Dubuque family reports seven children serving in the armed forces, three overseas.
Cedar Rapids market prices held steady Friday with hogs showing top prices around 13.45 per hundredweight for 200 to 300 lb good to choice animals. Cattle and calf sections list varied values across steers cows and yearlings with multiple weight brackets and quality grades.
Market report lists grain prices for No 2 and No 3 wheat No 2 rye corn and soybeans with bids from 1.04 to 1.80 per bushel. Hay straw poultry eggs fruit vegetables and meats priced. includes prices for hides horses ponies and glue products. notes include delivered and crate prices for Florida celery lemons and naval oranges with several regional items.
Chicago and New York markets report mixed receipts and firm to steady prices across dairy eggs and poultry. Butter and eggs show large yearly receipts with varied quotes, while cheese and live poultry list multiple grades and weights. potatoes note light demand though some regional prices are provided.
Doug las M. Stewart former co publisher of Scribner's Commentator was sentenced to 90 days in jail for contempt tied to his grand jury testimony about $36 000 found at his home. The judge suspended the sentence within 10 days if he provides a forthright story. The grand jury probes sedition and has indicted 300 people.
Aviation Cadet Donald R. Freudenthal of Worcester Massachusetts and civilian instructor William O Compton of Ruxton Louisiana were killed when their training plane crashed near the Helena training base, officials announced Thursday.
New York AP reports rails and specialties supported steady gains as readers elsewhere faced profit taking. Midday quotes show mixed advances with transfers around 800000 shares. several issues rose, while best quotations were pared near close.
A Plymouth Wisconsin brief notes weekly cheddar prices, listing Twins or cheddars at 2314c for the period January 3 to 8, with AP attribution. The short item targets local market notices and commodity quotes.
The Justice Department extended subpoenas to 85 distillers and wholesalers to produce books and records for a DC grand jury The probe now covers the entire liquor industry and aims to determine if a monopoly exists and to investigate black market activities The big four firms were previously served last December with orders to produce their books
In Chelsea Massachusetts a youth club imposes a fire starting requirement for membership. Police and fire officials linked 12 arson incidents within two blocks since December 18 to the drive to join the club. A 14 year old was arrested for arson at his own home to qualify. Property losses were estimated at ten thousand dollars.
London AP reports German observers think Hitler’s intuition clashes with the general staff as forces withdraw from the Dnieper bend. Analysts expect a staged retreat toward the Dniester and Bug rivers to shield Romania’s oil and Balkans from Russian advances, potentially involving up to 50 divisions and as many as 750,000 men.
The Cedar Rapids chapter of the American War Dads will elect officers and a board of directors tonight at 7 30 at the Montrose hotel. Edgewood School No 1 plans a Sunday program at 2 30 p.m. dedicating a service honor roll. About 100 people attended the Cedar Rapids Marine Auxiliary dinner at the YMCA Thursday for marines home on furlough. Lt Homer J Cornell spoke after a year in combat flying in the South Pacific.
Philadelphia AP report says Cramp Shipbuilding yards idle for a second day as 17 000 workers strike over pay and spray gun work. Union leaders called for navy seizure of the plant while about 6 000 workers gathered outside and 2 000 employees voted to stay away until grievances are settled. Dispute began when 42 painters were discharged over brush versus spray gun wages. union seeks 1 80 for spray gun work under a War Labor board contract.
Georgia becomes the first state to grant armed forces members the right to vote in state and local elections by absentee ballot. Gov Ellis Arnall signed the bill after senate approval by unanimous vote and prior house approval also by unanimous vote.
Ward Calhoon of Milwaukee, a traveler and Baha i lecturer, spoke at the Montrose hotel Thursday on how current events fit the prophesied goal of a new world order. He said a new cycle of human power is evident worldwide, noting progress from the May 23 1844 telegraph to the era of rocket planes.
Memorial services for Mrs Charles Wilson Bingham widow of a Cedar Rapids attorney will be held at Turner chapel Saturday at 4 p.m. in Cedar Rapids. Dr Robert Little will preside. The family asks friends to limit flowers. The deceased died Monday at the home of her daughter Mrs E H Sherman in Upper Montclair New Jersey.
William D Henecke found dead in his Cedar Rapids trailer behind 1514 First Street NW Dr T F Hersch Linn county coroner lists heart ailment as cause with death occurring Wednesday evening Henecke born August 17 1870 in Clinton Iowa lived in Cedar Rapids most of his life worked as a carpenter for Rock Island Railway Church member Surviving son Richard R two sisters Mrs Jim Risden Des Moines Mrs Lena Ames Patton California four brothers John Ernest Rudolph Cedar Rapids Henry New York and three Cedar Rapids grandchildren Services Saturday at 3 30 p m Moon chapel burial Shiloh cemetery Anton Melichar died in Cedar Rapids hospital at 7 p m Thursday after lingering illness Born May 13 1869 in Czechoslovakia came to Chicago at age one resident of Cedar Rapids 69 years Member of Karel IV lodge No 13 Z C B J Survived by wife Anna and ten children Mrs J F Pycha Mrs Rudolph Zumer Anton J Betty Louis Fred Joseph Mrs Leo Unash Frank Mason City and Mrs Richard Lynn Des Moines Also survived by brother Frank Melichar Cedar Rapids and three sisters Mrs Bessie Sash Mrs Mary Stodola Cedar Rapids and Mrs Anna Conway Pasadena California 24 grandchildren and six great grandchildren Services planned in Polansky funeral chapel Sunday afternoon with time to be announced later
Margaret M Lambertsen widow of John P Lambertsen long time Cedar Rapids resident died Wednesday at home 1431 Ellis boulevard NW services at Turner Chapel 2 pm Saturday Rev Paul Luther Miller burial Linwood cemetery friends may call at Turner Chapel. Melvina E Rottman Lisbon died Thursday at 5 pm after long illness services Sunday 2 pm Johnston funeral home Mt Vernon burial Mt Vernon cemetery body taken to Johnston funeral home friends may call there.
Otto Lange reports a tarpaulin bought for seven dollars at a sale on the Carl Fernow farm north of Marion January 4 was stolen from the Fernow farm after the sale. Lange offers a twenty five dollar reward. Frank Synacek named executor for the will of Martin Synacek who died January 2 in Cedar Rapids. Judge Linville awards Household Finance 303.30 with five percent interest against Thompson G Mason in district court Friday.
Philadelphia officials warned of a health menace as about 3,000 city workers remained on strike for a second day. Sixty convicts were assigned to run a water filter station while street cleaners and water workers walked out, risking a disease outbreak per Public Works Director John H. Neeson.
In Newark New Jersey three of four naturalized Americans born in Germany were sentenced by Judge Thomas F Meaney to eight years each for violating the espionage act of 1917. Defendants Friedrich Schroeder Hans W Koenig and Carl Kranz received the heavy terms. Eric H Wedemeyer got a one week deferment after a motion to set aside the verdict.
Navy physicians Comdr Melvin D Abbott and Lt John R Gepfert report a new burn treatment using a medicated human plasma solution with 5 percent sulfanilamide applied to the surface. In tests on 12 second degree burns the average healing time was five days, offering protection against infection and aiding tissue recovery.
Fort Worth Texas dispatch reports Gen H H Arnold head of the army air forces saying three quarters of Berlin has been destroyed and we are proceeding to wipe out war centers. He notes Allied air forces have knocked Japan's first line of defense from the air and will accelerate Germany's destruction.
Doris Peters thanks friends and neighbors for beautiful flowers sympathy and kindness during their bereavement signed by Chas Peters Dale Peters Mrs Maude Van Dyke Hazel and Harley Dine Dance Roller Skate Diversion.
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