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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1944
Page
11
Chicago AP reports slack absorption of hogs with an estimated 22,000 held over, while fed steers and yearlings advance about 15 cents. Hog receipts around 16,000 to 24,000, with top hog prices near 137.5. Sheep bidding soft to steady, cattle and calves showing mixed gains across sources in Chicago Omaha and Des Moines markets.
Miscellaneous notes show cheese price ranges with percentages and river stage readings for several cities. Des Moines La Crosse and Dubuque are listed with stationary levels, while Keokuk and Davenport show falling readings.
Chicago and New York markets show steady to soft demand across butter eggs cheese and live poultry. Receipts, prices, and pack details for tubs, cases, and various classifications reflect slight weakness in some items amid overall stable trade activity.
Unsettled selling prices for geese turkeys ducks and other fowl with weights and per pound figures. Roosters old rabbits and squabs listed with various cents per pound and pair prices. Capons broilers stags and guineas shown with unit quotes and ranges.
Cedar Rapids market quotations show prices steady with top hogs at 13.45 for 200 to 300 pound good to choice hogs and varied values for cattle and sheep. The report lists hogs, cattle, and sheep with multiple weight ranges and quality grades, noting steady overall trends and specific price points for different classes.
New York stocks closed with minor losses then improved toward the finish as steel, rail, and rubber shares fell fractionally while other sectors showed mixed prices above intraday lows. About 700000 shares changed hands in transfers.
Grain and feed prices listed for oats wheat rye corn and soybeans with new crop bids and bale prices. Poultry and eggs offer springs leghorns hens and processed eggs with current receipts. Wholesale fruits vegetables and hides show regional figures for celery lemons oranges lettuce onions and other staples.
Grain prices gained on favorable legislative talk but corn movement rose to about 600000 bushels on an arrive basis, a large increase. Wheat finished mixed, oats rose, rye up, and barley higher. field seed prices listed for timothy, red top, red clover, and sweet clover.
Illness cancels the Friday meeting of circle 10 at St Pauls Methodist Church with Mrs W L Capron. Townsend Club No 7 plans a 6 30 p m gathering at 117 F Avenue NW with a business meeting and supper to follow. Mrs Bud Gruhn reports nine bantam chickens stolen from a chicken house valued at 13 50. Linn County Republican Women hear Rev William A Jacobs on Womens Place in Politics at the Roosevelt hotel in Marion.
Pvt. Arthur W Nelson of Teaneck serving on the Italian front pulled two cubes of sugar from his ration pack marked Sig rid's restaurant Teaneck. He sent the wrappers home with the note Good old home town.
The Cedar Rapids navy recruiting station hosts a traveling board offering interviews for men interested in the navy ship repair units SRU. O P Sampson cites high demand for blacksmiths boilermakers diesel mechanics electricians refrigerator repairmen radio technicians and sheet metal workers.
Women urged to call at the Cedar Rapids army recruiting station in the post office building on the last day of the Air-WAC visit. Recruits will learn their specific WAC job in advance. Women seeking Army Service Forces work should also interview the Air-WAC team for training and assignment in a preferred state and service command.
Yugoslav Partisans trap a German motorized division of 400 vehicles near Lipovac in western Bosnia. Fierce fighting continues in rugged hills as a second Nazi relief force advances to Jajce. Tito reports Partisans hold 125000 German troops tied down. a Croatian drive began late last December and is deemed a failure.
The Social Security Board urges protection for self employed workers including farm operators and small business people in its eighth annual report to Congress. Donnelly reports 10 to 11.7 million self employed nationwide, about half farm operators and half professionals and small firms. He says many are excluded from social insurance despite low earnings and illusory independence.
Arthur Deamer Cedar Rapids superintendent urged the Business and Professional Women to protect the school budget and maintain education during wartime. He emphasized early schooling, juvenile delinquency prevention through education, nursery schools, after school recreation, parental involvement, and treating teaching as a profession.
Beardsley Ruml, author of the pay-as-you-go tax plan, submitted his nine point postwar fiscal policy to the House committee on public buildings and grounds. The plan calls for reduced taxes, a balanced budget, and a public works program. Ruml said the plan could be adopted now if it makes sense and would generate demand during the wartime transition.
Boy Scouts of Cedar Rapids troop No. 25 at Arthur school launch a one week paper salvage drive. The covered area spans northeast and southeast Arthur city from Sixteenth to Twenty-ninth streets, First Avenue north to the tracks and south to the Country club. Residents are asked to bundle newspapers and magazines separately and place them for pickup by calling Scoutmaster Ray Stanton at 2-7125 or 3-0261.
Two indictments including a Jewdness charge were returned by the Linn County grand jury led by foreman Earl Brockman after a 1.5 day session in Judge Heiser mans court. Clifford Campbell and Ione Anderson waived preliminary hearing in January. The jury also inspected jails and home, urging a new well at the Linn County home. Members listed include George Barnes Harry Smith William Durow Harold Johnson Ernst Listebarger and Louis Eye.
Grant L. Saylor, 24, of 212 Second Avenue SE, pleads innocent in Judge J E Heiserman's court to larceny from a building. He is jailed in Linn County with a $2500 bond. Saylor, under a suspended five year sentence for carrying a concealed weapon, is accused of stealing Evelyn Smith's suit from the Paramount theater cleaning room Monday night. detectives Harley Simon and L F Stusak made the arrest.
Frank Ehrenberger 41 of route 2 Cedar Rapids was sentenced to 30 days in Linn county jail with all but 10 suspended after pleading guilty to assault and battery in Justice H R Churchill's court. Ehrenberger was arrested by Deputies Whittemore and Snyder after he allegedly struck his wife Tuesday evening.
Minnard P. Olson, 31, of Newhall, was fined 100 dollars after being found asleep in his car on highway 149 south of White Lodge. Officers Harlan Snyder and deputy P. J. Whittemore arrested him Tuesday morning in a case heard by Justice H. R. Churchill.
M. T. Brockman of United Air Lines spoke to Kiwanis on postwar air cargo trends using slides of goods moved by air. He traced aviation growth from Wright brothers to 1943, noted rapid aircraft production, and envisioned four postwar services including feeder two engine planes, a four engine DC-4 with stops, a two stop ultra service from New York to San Francisco, and solid cargo airplanes.
Newton district court denied a bid to appoint a receiver for the $20 million Iowa Southern Utilities Co of Centerville. The judge invalidated 39,460 shares of stock held by Martha Bechtel of Davenport.
Secretary of War Stimson testified before the Senate Military Affairs Committee that industrial unrest at home harms morale at the front and urged passage of the Austin-Wadsworth national service bill to equalize wartime obligations. He contrasted conscripted soldiers with civilians able to avoid war duties, warning discontent festers when some men can leave key war jobs.
Washington AP Chairman Charles E. Wilson of the Aircraft Production Board said the United States will produce more than 100000 planes in 1944 with a 50 percent output increase in combat aircraft. The program prioritizes B-29 Superfortresses and other new high performance planes with fewer trainers.
In Providence Rhode Island AP report Judge John P Hartigan imposed the maximum $10000 fine on Anaconda Wire and Cable of Pawtucket after a war fraud conspiracy finding. Four defendants received prison terms and a fifth probation for producing sub standard army field wire for the signal corps during 1940 to 1942.
Loren Schmitt 22 gave a hotel address and was arrested by Patrolman Stanley Davis on Wednesday charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Police said Schmitt had been living with a 15 year old girl who was earlier arrested for shoplifting. Clothing she allegedly stole was found in Schmitts room. A juvenile boy who stole a watch and ring and tried to pawn them was also arrested Wednesday morning and is held by juvenile authorities.
A bulletin from Mrs. Joseph Smallan and family thanks friends for floral tributes and sympathy. The page also lists lost items including a brown female collie named Trixie, car keys, gas ration coupons, a black skirt, and naval pilot’s wings. Found items include a pinstripe dog and other odds and ends. Additional entries promote services from Richards' Laboratory and local jewelers and printers.
Male baker wanted with good wages at Naxera Pastry Shop. Also dishwasher and general help needed at Butterfy Cafe with food salary. A janitor position is available at 518 Guaranty Building.
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