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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1945
Page
14
Cattle prices rose slightly on thin volume with 12,000 hogs and 5,000 cattle and 2,000 sheep reported. Medium to heavy weight steers up 25 cents, top $17. mixed steers and heifers $16.50. most steers and yearlings $14 to $16.25. Stacker and feeder cattle steady at 10 to 12.50, 180 pounds up to 14.75. three loads of good western lambs $15.60. Complete clearance achieved early.
AP notes Salabie livestock receipts totaling 24 500 with cattle and hogs on offer. Prices range from 14 00 to 17 00 for steers and heifers, yearlings steady to strong with best at 16 75, mixed lots around 16 50, cows up to 25 cents higher. Lambs quoted 15 60 with yearling wethers 13 25 and native ewes down to 7 75.
Hog sale shows active demand for bulk barrows and 90 pounders with bids around 14 to 14.45 dollars, mostly 14.25. Cattle receipts near 7,500 cattle and 350 calves with vealers firm and stockers steady. choice medium weight fed steers around 16.40, yearlings at 15.75, and heifers at 15.50. Sheep and lamb offerings around 9,000 receipts with steady slaughter lambs and western wooled lines bid up to 14.85 to 15.10. good to choice fed lambs decked at 14.25 for pelts and 7.00 to 7.25 for slaughter cattle. Feeding lambs scarce with 74 lb deck at 13.25.
Receipts show cattle and hogs with mixed, mostly steady to lower pricing. Slaughter steers and stockers hold around 12.00 to 15.25 per hundredweight, heifers 10.50 to 13.25, cows 6.00 to 11.00, canners 6.00 to 17.00, and bulls weaker. Hogs move with scattered early sales and prices around 14.35 to 14.45 for 2060–300 lb, sow values around 13.70, market not fully established.
Combined receipts at 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants across interior Minnesota towns and southern Minnesota for 24 hours ending 8 am Wednesday totaled 49,200. Compared with 64,300 a week earlier and 50,800 a year ago. Demand was rather active, mostly steady with good to choice barrows and gilts priced around 14.15 to 4.20 per hundred pounds and sows at 13.70 to 14.15 for various weight ranges.
A fragmentary price list shows butcher goods and packers with varied figures across Mason City Waterloo Ottumwa and Austin. The data includes multiple price points for various cuts and animal types, though the OCR yields inconsistent spacing and some garbled entries.
Corn and rye rallied late while wheat led losses as futures closed lower. May wheat fell to 1.64 and May corn rose to 1.1314, oats steady to slightly down, rye up to 1.17, barley down to 1.16. Market mixed with overall grain pressures and weaker wheat.
Chicago cash market quotes show wheat and oats varieties with No 3 yellow at 1.15 and No 4 yellow at 1.08 1/4 per cwt. Sample grades around 85 cents. Timothy listed at 6.00 to 6.25 per cwt. Red top at 15.00 to 16.00, red clover 31.50, sweet clover 10.35, alsike noted.
Market firm at ceiling with russet Bar No 3 at 3.37 and Colorado red at 0.6. Minnesota red Wea Pontiacs U S No 1 at 3.13, Cobbier at 291. March 6 receipts 4,286 tubs with steady standards. Extras, specials and scores noted in fragmented entries.
Fragmentary market record notes firm prices for cheese and eggs with receipts and category codes. Mentions mixed general prices by weight and quality, including No 4 and Weights around forty some pounds, plus unclear year notation. No clear entities or dates reliably extracted.
New York AP report notes a resumed market climb after a brief pause, with gains of fractions to two points led by major stocks. Around 2,000,000 shares traded as investors digested war news from the Pacific and Europe, lifting leaders like General Electric, Coca Cola, IBM, and Boeing while several rail and industrial issues also advanced.
Purchasing agents of the Chamber of Commerce meet Thursday at noon at the Roosevelt hotel. Public library station opens for adults at Community House Thursday 7 to 9 p.m. and every Thursday after. Orie Arntzen reports a hit and run damaged his parked car outside Iowa Manufacturing. Judith Popek 4 and William Popek 222 34th Street Drive SE recover at home after tonsillectomy at Mercy hospital. Raymond Mitchell 1220 Third Avenue SE and Edward Metz Riverside enlist in naval reserve through Cedar Rapids office. Both are 17.
Major John Park a Cedar Rapids physician with the 34th division in North Africa Tunisia Sicily and Italy will address the Liens club luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel Thursday noon. He will discuss medical corps work and treatment for injured men on the front lines and rear areas.
Washington AP war mobilizer James F. Byrnes urged heads of federal agencies to cut travel by officials and staff. He also urged private organizations to cancel large conventions unless essential to the war, aiming to ease wartime strain on personnel and hotels.
Prime hogs advanced a nickel on the local market Wednesday after several days of steady holding. There was no change in the packers. Top price on prime butchers is 14.30 and packers 13.65.
Grain and produce listings show corn and oats prices for No. 2 yellow and No. 1 white, wheat and rye values, straw hay rates, live poultry and eggs quoted, wholesale fruits vegetables prices including California celery and lemons, per-unit hides and calf hides pricing, and assorted market receipts amid a broad commodity snapshot. Names of items and prices indicate a bustling commodity market page in a Cedar Rapids market report.
Rep Sabath accuses Washington cocktail rooms of being crowded with army officers, calling it a damning outrage and urging a House inquiry into the army’s manpower use. He cites about 30,000 excess officers and a push to reassign personnel, while noting War Dept testimony of few fit civilians under 26 at payroll and Wacs expanding to 150,000 as a goal.
The Cedar Rapids Country Club elected three new directors at the annual meeting on Tuesday night. The new directors are E. Pickford, G. H. Cornwell, and H. C. Jensen, succeeding N. P. Craemer, Karl Blaise, and Jon Barnes. A board meeting will occur soon to select a president, vice president, and secretary.
The British crown colony of Gibraltar is described as covering an area of one and seven eighths square miles. This figure appears in a concise reference noting the territory's geographic extent.
President Roosevelt on August 24 sent the Anglo American petroleum treaty back to the Senate to revise perceived misunderstandings. He defended the agreement as a key step in easing international oil trade friction and promoting cooperation, while noting industry fears over its scope and potential unlawful acts.
The U S O Cedar Rapids and the Cartwright corporation filed articles of incorporation with County Recorder Dempsy Jones on Wednesday. U S O officers include J W Albright president H E Schaalman vice president Edwin B Zeller secretary L W Struesky treasurer and others. Cartwright officers are E R Cartwright president Blanche Cartwright vice president Miriam A Seigler secretary treasurer.
Four wills in Linn County probate matters list executors and administrators. A R Neisslie died in Cedar Rapids December 18 with son Lyle R Neisslie named executor. Joseph Ehrenberger died December 14 near Ely with son Joseph Erenberger as administrator with will annexed. Lorena Cooper appointed administratrix for Fannie A Malone who died December 25 in Brown township. W R Hatter named executor for Josephine Lonergan who died December 27 in Cedar Rapids. Ronald C Wilson died December 15 in Cedar Rapids with wife Queen Bess Wilson named executrix.
James E Foitle 39 a Marion baker died Wednesday at 6 15 am in a Cedar Rapids hospital where he had been since a week ago for surgery Born September 7 1905 in Austria he came to the United States at age two The family settled in Marshalltown He opened a bakery in Marion in 1933 Survived by his wife Ann Foitle two sisters Mrs Mathew Heszion of Chicago and three brothers Frank of Marshalltown John of Inglewood California and Rudy Foile serving in the South Pacific Services in St Marys Catholic Church Marshalltown will be announced Friends may call at the Yocom chapel Thursday
A five woman panel from Cornell College explained the Iowa school code commission report to the legislature during a Marion Lions club dinner at the E. V. cafe. They had spoken earlier to the Marion Federation of Women's clubs in the public library auditorium. Guests included S/Sgt Ralph Potter of New River NC Lt Stanely Potter and Coxswain Richard Price.
Harold DeSotel and Betty Shaffer of Central City united in marriage Monday at the Methodist parsonage with Rev. James P. Gable officiating. Miss Kathleen Paul and Robert DeSotel served as attendants.
Mr and Mrs Clifford Barnes of 1513 Sixth Avenue announce the marriage of their son Seaman First Class Ray E Barnes to Helen Gibbs daughter of Mr and Mrs Elmer Gibbs of Burlington. The ceremony occurred December 26 in San Francisco and the groom is stationed at Treasure Island.
Hear From Set Fulton Mr and Mrs Charles Fulton of Springville former Marion residents have received a Dec 23 letter from their son Sgt Earl Fulton wounded in Germany with the 87th infantry who reports satisfactory recovery The Fultons are staying in Marion with their son Bruce Fulton Also Pfe Paul Anderson of Washington DC is visiting his parents the F G Andersons and Mr Vernon and his wife's parents the Oliver Tiltons Marion Mr and Mrs Earl McKeehan returned from a San Francisco visit with their daughters AE D Gritz and MrsTommy Mail valentines now to service men See our display Lost male brown and black fox terrier Reward phone 4221 Mrs Neal De Wees advised her husband a sergeant with an ordnance company has arrived in England Mrs Guy B Berlin installed as recording secretary and Mrs Richard Zimmer as financial secretary of Grove City Rebeka lodge Ashes rubbish and light hauling Phone 407W Advertisement S Sgt Ralph Potter spending a furlough from New River NC with his parents the W D Potters and his brother Lt Stanley Potter on leave after overseas service Miss Laura Brutsman received word from her niece Mrs Marion Montieth that her husband had been killed in an automobile accident at Laguna Beach California
Linn county assessors will hold their annual meeting at the courthouse at 10 a.m. Friday. County Auditor Otto F. Hanzuk will supervise the session where materials and instructions for upcoming county work will be distributed. Officers of the county assessors association will be elected.
A delegation led by H. C. Weideman of Martelle asked Linn county supervisors to grade one and a half miles of Linn township road running east and west four miles north of Mt. Vernon. The board ordered the petition filed. Also, Dorothy Hovey was approved as deputy registrar of vital statistics by Clerk Arthur Axmear.
The state commerce commission postponed consideration of a proposed rate increase by common carrier motor trucking firms. Harry F. Sundberg of the Chamber of Commerce traffic bureau said the change would raise the minimum to 1.05 dollars for single line hauls or transfers, up from 58 cents for single line and 88 cents for double line hauls, with the effective date moved from January 19 to January 20.
Washington AP Adolf Berle Jr former assistant secretary of state was nominated by President Roosevelt to be ambassador to Brazil. He resigns after a department reorganization and will succeed Jefferson Caffery who left Brazil for France. Roosevelt also nominated former Senator Hattie Carayay to the United States Employees Compensation Commission, salary 9000 dollars annually.
Chungking official K C Wu, vice minister of foreign affairs, stated on Wednesday that China would continue to recognize the Polish government in exile based in London. The move maintains diplomatic stance amid ongoing wartime disruptions and reflects aligned Allied positions on Poland’s government-in-exile.
In Belgium, a detachment led by T/4 W. C. Dye of Sikeston Missouri captured six unarmed German women found crouching in front-line foxholes. They appeared to be ambulance drivers or camp followers, wearing regulation uniforms with white snow-bleached cover suits. The capture occurred Tuesday, reflecting near-front activity by American troops.
SCRANTON AP A charge of murder was filed against 13 year old Myron Semunchick Tuesday by District Attorney James F Brady who said the boy admitted the slaying of Mae Barrett aged 9.
Norwegian parachutists dropped into Norway cut the main railway between Trondheim and Oslo used for German troop evacuations. A government official said two German divisions in Norway are now fighting on the western front and eight more divisions are being withdrawn from Norway.
London dispatch: eleven hundred United States Liberators and Fortresses bombarded bridges air fields and road junctions behind the Belgian bulge and along the Rhine in a daylight raid. The mission was supported by 300 fighter escorts and delivered 4,000 tons of bombs despite icy runways and heavy snow storms.
Card expresses gratitude for kindness after death of Alice Pentzkofer. Lost and found notices list coats, a leather area coat, a black billfold, shell rim glasses, a gold locket, a white with black dog, a coal chute, and other items with contact numbers and rewards. Also includes ads and local services.
Cleaning and repairing services offered with moth proofing and insured bugs. Dial numbers 5568 or 2034 for details and pricing. Also notes about farm work, pickups, and various help-wanted ads including experienced farm hands and domestic help.
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