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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1941
Page
11
Hog prices rose up to 10 cents with weights under 240 pounds active Friday. Chicago and Sioux City reports show steady to higher bids across hogs 160 to 330 pounds, with top values around 7.75. Cattle and sheep receipts remained sizable as buyers balanced demand and supply in regional yards.
Salable receipts 2,000 and total 6,000 with fair activity. Steers mostly 190-220 lbs and 700-900 lbs range top around 7.85. Comparables 100-140 lbs at about 7.60. A few 300-300 lb cattle listed near 7.40.
Salable receipts total about 1,500 cattle and 1,500 sheep with fairly active tone. Slaughter steers and heifers mostly steady. medium slaughter steers at 11.00 to 11.50 with add ons up to 15.50 for select stock. cows and cutters vary. Sheep open with native lambs trading near 9.90 and western wool lambs around 10.00. fat lambs and feeder lambs noted with ranges up to 10.50.
Hogs receipts 3 800 opened active generally 106 15 over cents higher later trade slower advances partly lost best and good 170 260 lbs 750 775 per ton 7 75 most rate bids and sales 7 65 down 270 350 lbs 7 00 7 35 some 140 170 lbs 7 09 7 50 packing sows to higher good 300 500 lb sows 6 00 62 0 cattle receipts 200 calves 150 generally steady scattered sales medium to good steers and heifer yearlings 850 10 00 common steers down to 750 most cows 5 50 6 76 sheep receipts 400 lambs steady following Thursday 5c advance some good medium lambs 9 50 9 75 to Thursday good to choice 92 103 lb fed lambs 9 65 9 90 with up to 10 00 offered for well finished lambs under 97 lbs
Local hog prices advance Friday with light hogs up to 240 pounds rising ten cents and heavier hogs up five to ten cents. Top no fill hogs at 7.45. hog weights from 140 to over 300 pounds show varied bids. Cattle and sheep values listed by weight and grade include steers, yearlings, heifers, and lambs with prices ranging roughly from 4 to 13 dollars per hundredweight.
Grain and poultry prices listed for Cedar Rapids include No 1 and No 2 grains, corn, beans, hay, straw, and assorted poultry prices by weight for broilers hens and roosters. Wholesale fruits vegetables and hides also shown with unit prices and weights.
Receipts and prices for poultry butter eggs cheese potatoes shown. Poultry prices include hens, springs, broilers with several weight classes. butter receipts large and prices listed by butter grade. eggs quoted by case grade. cheese by type and price. potatoes on track with assorted regional varieties and prices.
AP notes weak mixed egg colors with overall receipts at 10 926. Fancy to extra fancy range 22 34 to 24 2 percent. Grades Ursts 19 34c and current receipts 19 percent. Buttercream 92 score prices steady with creamery demand. Cheese receipts 161 250 show irregular prices unchanged.
New York AP The stock market opened with light selling after a creeping advance. Leaders posted fractional gains while weakness was rare. Trading stayed in a narrow range with several major issues retreating from early gains by close. Union Pacific U S Steel Woolworth United Aircraft J C Penney and Western Union fell back. General Motors and Chrysler held slim gains.
Stocks published by J. E. Bennett & Co list Friday quotations for numerous issues including Adams Express International Mining Alaska Juneau Nickel Allied Stores International Paper Lehigh Valley Lincoln LInke Amn Loco Libbey Owens Lockheed General Electric Boeing and more with many prices and par values. The page Labors through broad market movers, naming companies across sectors and highlighting notable entries such as General Electric IBM Motorola Coca Cola and US Steel among others.
Rails extended gains Friday lifting the bond market with one to three point rises. Investor demand in defense industries boosts railroad profits and several investment houses plan bids next Wednesday for 11.9 million dollars in Pennsylvania Railroad equipment trust certificates. Illinois Central 4 3 4s and other issues show activity while U S and foreign issues post small gains.
Chicago prices for wheat rose in late trading with support from local and commission houses. Soybeans recovered much of earlier losses as buyers returned, while corn and oats showed small gains and rye held steady. Receipts were around 205 cars with 10 000 bushels shipped and 60 000 bushels purchased for noon delivery.
A garbled Chicago market bulletin lists prices for corn oats barley soybeans and field seeds with mixed figures. Entries include No 4 mixed corn No 3 white oats No 1 red heavy barley malting and field seed values plus Winnipeg market data and livestock lard bellies and clover quotes.
Wisconsin cheese and dairy notes show weekly prices for Cheddar and Other dairy products and farm calls. Boston wool market notes demand and prices for fine and South American wools with steady quotes while futures, butter and egg standards and Dow Jones averages are listed.
A straw bale trailer box broke loose and overturned on Mount Vernon avenue SE near Fifteenth street at 11 39 am Friday. No injuries. Driver Henry Fielder 23 and John M Park 44 were in vehicles headed west. Police kept traffic moving while straw was cleared.
Four promotions were announced Friday in special orders from the adjutant general's office in Des Moines. Major John DeL. Eason reports Ray R. Murdock has been advanced from second lieutenant to first lieutenant in company C, 133rd infantry, filling a vacancy created by Lieut. Carlton K. Smith moving to captain and commanding the anti tank battery, 185th field artillery. Charles H. Holman was made a second lieutenant in company C and will temporarily command the headquarters detachment, first battalion, as Murdock heads the detachment in the temporary absence.
Lieut Walter Kansky at Fort Benning plans future officer duties. Lieut Holman held a national guard commission not activated until service induction. Fred A. Smith promoted to second lieutenant in anti tank battery, 185th field artillery. Peter L. Topic transferred to national guard as first lieutenant in the same unit.
Officers from multiple air fields conduct on the spot exams for eastern Iowa youths to join the army air corps as flying cadets. Eligible men aged 20 to 27 with two years of college may be sent to Randolph Field Moffett Field or Maxwell Field. Cadets earn 75 dollars monthly plus daily subsistence and upon completion receive commissions as second lieutenants with pay around 240 to 246 dollars monthly. Maj. Earle J. Carpenter heads the examining board with officers from Langley Chanute and Fort Crook. A mobile recruiting unit will operate beside the federal building Friday and Saturday with Examinations in basement rooms and an army recruiting office on the second floor for more information.
Mrs T Dieman returns home from St Luke's hospital after two months illness. President Charles Finley of Town State college to speak at 9 45 am Sunday to First Presbyterian church school adults. Mrs James Green 66 dislocated shoulder treated at St Luke's hospital. Shoe department heads of Montgomery Ward and Co stores 11 Iowa attend merchandising meeting at Roosevelt hotel. Alfred VanDorn 48 in critical condition at Iowa City hospital from blood disorder since July 16. First Lutheran church convenes annual consecrational meeting at 7 30 pm with reports and council elections. Piano classes resume Saturday at city hall and First Presbyterian church. Des Moines E H Curtis met Linn county relief to discuss veterans assistance programs.
WPA construction on Cedar Rapids streets will pause temporarily Monday as 22 workers shift to the county road project. A new city project awaiting WPA approval was expected to be cleared earlier, officials said.
Mt Hermon lodge No. 263 A F and A M held the 1941 installation Thursday at the Masonic hall with Edward E Lowe and Paul N Clark assisting. O L Eckert became worshipful master and formed the 1941 committees. E L Dieman was praised for long service as sick committee chair. Earl B Delzell presented the past master's jewel to retiring master George R Liddle after a dinner.
Judge J E Heiserman approved twenty six quarter reports for Cedar Rapids Savings Bank and Trust Co and American Trust and Savings Bank. Cedar Rapids cash receipts 5307.17 and disbursements 2331.79. Dec 31 cash on hand 8254.78. Cedar Rapids building rental balance 10135.75. American Trust receipts 15184.88 disbursements 3486.84. Dec 31 cash on hand 17665.34. American Trust building rental balance 12382.08. D W Bales is receiver and J R Drake examiner in charge for both banks.
Ed Miller of Route 1 Marion and Nettie Holup of Route 1 Marion were charged after a collision. Miller pled not guilty before Judge H C Ring and posted a $500 bond. witnesses cited a man driving the car at the time. Lorren Hess of Cedar Rapids, facing a desertion charge, posted $1,000 bond via his attorney before Judge J E Heiserman.
State case against Charles T Clark of Des Moines was continued until the March term by Judge Ring on a defense request. Clark, 30, arrested Aug 17 1940, pled not party Aug 19 and posted $500 bond on a charge of driving while intoxicated.
Sam Bernstein 49 of Chicago fined 550 and costs by Justice H. R. Churchill after being detained by Highway Patrolman James Clapp at Walker. Bernstein was taken to justice court by Deputy Sheriff Larry Condon for violating the itinerant merchant law requiring licensing.
Mrs. O. C. Olney of 211 Fifteenth Street SE was chosen president of the board of managers for the Home for Aged Women at the annual meeting held at the Home on Twelfth Street NW. She succeeds Mrs. Metta A Burd. Other officers include Mrs. E. E. Wilcox first vice president Mrs. J. B. Finney second vice president Mrs. L. M. Ford recording secretary Mrs Elmer A. Johnson corresponding secretary Miss Laura Turner treasurer of finances and Mrs George S Josselyn treasurer of supplies. Mrs B F Wolverton was added as a board member filling the vacancy left by Mrs IE Jackson who resigned. The board has 15 members.
Carpenter Jerry Jasa, 38, fell 25 to 30 feet from the second floor during stair work at a Blakecourt SE project. He suffered a dislocated right shoulder and a serious concussion, is not in critical condition, and is confined to Mercy hospital with X-rays pending.
About 100 Marion P T A members met in Lincoln auditorium as Gail Postel read the president's message. Membership reached 320. The meeting announced a Parent Education Study Club gathering February 15 at 2:30 pm at Mrs W E Stimson's home. A Lincoln Grade School program featured songs and folk dancing and Rev Vere non H Carter spoke on The Child and His Church. The attendance prize went to Catherine Cheadle's first grade. In social hour, refreshments were provided by Lester Peck and Mrs Jack Wath at the coffee table with Mrs Howard Caldwell and Stee A V Hayes presiding. Also announced were grocery ads for pork steak 25c lb, pork chops 15c, bananas 15c for 4 lb. Jean Emmons illness noted and Milwaukee Woman's Club officers installed at E V cafe, with sewing for Red Cross afterward.
Milwau kee road officials attended a Milwaukee railroad service club dinner in Monticello with shippers from Marion. A wedding took place Tuesday at a Dubuque Methodist parsonage involving A McKean and Mrs Lloyd Shinker. A Sunday Bible symposium at Marion Christian church will discuss the use of the Bible in public schools.
Members of the Electa Circle plan the founders day tea on January 13 from 2 to 4 PM at the Iowa Electric Power building. Transportation requested via Mrs Ralph Seager. Tad Smith hosted a chicken threshing display at his home 1263 Tenth Street. Basketball games tonight in the high school gym feature Manchester vs Marton with new back boards on display. Weekend specials at Beish Shoe Store include Men’s 3400 boots for 249 and 695, and Ford models for 384.
The Department reports January 1 holdings show corn at 1.81 billion bushels, wheat on farms at 283.9 million, and oats at 792.1 million. Totals exceed last year and are near wartime peaks with wheat stocks the largest since 1932 except for 1932.
James Muecioston convicted of murder in the Mount Sterling case. Jury advances life penalty recommendation after the homicide of Peller Speer during the Mount Stor hog celebration on a date near February.
Investigators probe possible sabotage after burglars looted a Gibson City Canning Company warehouse sheltering thousands of canned goods. Police and officials assess the incident as a potential act of sabotage.
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