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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 24, 1941

Page

11

Hogs Active Friday in weekend cattle market notes

Chicago market reports show hogs advancing 10 to 25 cents with prices for 180 to 240 pound hogs at 8.25 to 8.40 dollars and top quotes near 8.45 while cattle trade remains dull with scattered loads and some weaker beef prices. Sheep and lambs show varied pricing and steady to lower demand across multiple midwestern yards and regional markets.

Chicago Hholes Fed Western Lambs i Des Moines Minnesota Ram Cnod Choice

Packers and Hogs Market Averages and Prices Report

Peoria Livestock market notes varied hogs with many weight classes trading from 5 to 10 cents higher. Hogs top around 8.30 per cwt with several weight ranges reported. cattle and sheep receipts small, lambs and yearlings noted with prices around 10 dollars, and sows steady to higher on thinner supplies.

Peoria Hisher

Local hog market shows slight gains on Friday

Hog prices strengthened slightly with most grades up five cents. Long haul top at 805 dollars. Prices listed for various hog weights from 140 to 500 pounds, with packers and cattle sections following, including steers and yearlings in several weight ranges and different quality grades. Sheep and lambs also noted with price ranges and adjustments.

Cedar Rapids Miscellaneous Grain and Produce Prices

Cedar Rapids market notes list prices for grains, straw, poultry, hides, and produce. Wheat, oats, rye, barley, corn, soybeans prices shown, plus straw bales and poultry weights and price ranges. Wholesale fruits vegetables include lemons oranges grapefruit celery celery lettuce onions cabbage carrots potatoes cauliflower sweet potatoes and winesap apples with assorted hide and livestock values.

Chicago Produce Market Summary and Prices

Market reports show poultry receipts at 31 ricks with mixed shell and broiler prices. butter receipts near 1.97 million pounds with varied scores. eggs receipts about 9,155 cases with steady market and a broad range of grades. cheese and produce futures listed, including butter and eggs storage standards and future months. New York values list eggs at 12,098 receipts with steady mixed colors and several grade price points. butter at 514,026 receipts with firmness and higher scores. cheese supplies 85,323 with dull, unchanged prices.

Chicago Plymouth Rock White Rock Springs White Rock Idaho Minnesota North Dakota Red River Valley Bliss Nebraska Colorado New York

Wool Market Report Details Mixed Demand and Firm Prices

Boston spot wool demand showed modest activity with firm prices for South American wools. Medium grade South American wools sold sometimes at steady to firming prices. Australian and South African fine merino wools remained moderately active at firm prices. Domestic greasy combing wools drew little interest.

Boston US Agriculture Department

Stocks Follow Irregular Path on Friday

In New York the stock market closed with mild irregularity as leaders edged little and most issues stayed near prior levels. Gains appeared for Bethlehem Steel Chrysler and International Harvester while US Steel United Aircraft and Pennsylvania lagged. overall volume was light with about 400000 shares traded.

New York Bethlehem Steel Chrysler International Harvester US Steel United Aircraft Pennsylvania

Wall Street Quotation Highlights From Friday Trading

The report lists quotes for Adams Express Allied Stores Amn Can Kroser Lockheed Owens Amn Pow Amn Steel Poys Marshall Fidu Natl Gas Amn Woolen Minneapolis Moline and many more stocks with prices across various firms. The page also notes Chicago stock performance and diverse listings including Union Carbide General Electric Boeing Packard and Coca-Cola among others.

J E. Bennett & Co Merchants National Bank Adams Express Allied Chem Allied Stores Allis Chalmers Kresee Baty Amn Kroser G & B Amn Mathiesen Aik Miami Moline Bt Arcade Cope Nash-Kelv Ars Atchison And Aviation Corp Baldwin Laco Ain Ralty Ohio Nor Pac Tin Barnedatti North Amn Co Bendix Ava Aig Ats Heth Steel Qnle Boeing Air Packard Bohn Gelotex Radio Corp Gerisumtead Rem Rand Shell Union Ints Congoleum Simmons Co Cons Edison Agi Shelley Ou Motors Sperry Corn Coty Inc Gilg Grucble Steel Stand Calif Gil Curtiss Stew Warner Stone Webster Ewater Elec Autolite Timken Trans-Amer Fox Film Union Carbide Gen Cables Union Pac Gen Electric Nat Uni Aircraft Gen Foods Uni Air Lines Gen Gas Uni Corp Ia Gen Motors Gillette S Uni el Coal Gimbel Bros Froit Goebel Brew Unf Gas Co Goodyear Tire Graham Paige Wilson and Co Woolworth Zenith Radio Cricago Avl Transpo Mer Midwest Corp Bendix Norwest Bank Borg Warner Quaker O Ruler Bros Swift and Co Swift Comw Edison Walareen Dredze Wondall Ind

Bond markets waver as rail loans falter led by profit-taking

New York bond review shows mixed results with industrial and utility issues attracting buyers while rail loans retreat. Illinois Central 4s and Southern Pacific 4s40 lead losers. Pacific Gas 3s and North Western 4s34 rise modestly. Government bonds dip fractions. foreign issues steady. Daily stock and rail counts appear, with broad market activity indicated.

New York Cartiers Mlinois Central Southern Pacific Pacific Gas North Western Rome U & Governments

Wheat futures rise as market gains on mid-session strength

Wheat futures on the Chicago Board of Trade shifted from little early movement to gains of more than a half cent a bushel as corn oats rye and soybeans also rose. May wheat 86 8575. corn up 3 to 14. oats up 4 to 44. rye up 13 to 45 2. soybeans up 17 to 97 98.

Chicago Board of Trade

Wisconsin Cheese Prices Update From Plymouth Market

Wisconsin cheese exchange reports weekly price quotes for January 2 to 3 5. Daisies sell at 16 cents, brick cheeses and cheddars around 15 to 16 cents, farmers call hoard includes daisies at 16 cents and cheddars at 15 to 16 cents.

Wisconsin Plymouth Wis Wisconsin Cheese Exchange

Bequests to Catholic Orders In Will Of Rev Patrick McNamara

The will of Rev Patrick Joseph McNamara admitted to probate lists bequests totaling 14500 to Catholic groups. Msgr John Molloy is executor. specific gifts include 3000 to Sisters of Mercy Cedar Rapids for Sacred Heart convent use and 2000 for education of candidates for Mercy, 500 for propagation of faith, 1000 for foreign missions, and 3000 for masses for the testator. The will is dated January 9, five days before his death.

Patrick Joseph McNamara Sacred Heart Academy Father McNamara John Molloy Immaculate Conception Parish Sisters of Mercy, Inc Cedar Rapids Sacred Heart Convent Sisters of Mercy Msgr. Molloy

Resistance to Retax Costs In Wapsie Valley Fair Suit

A motion by Linn County Fair Inc to retax costs in a summer civil suit involving members of the old Wapsie Valley Fair Association was filed in district court. Judge Haas will hear the motion February 13 at 9 a.m. The decree last July 9 awarded interests in the Linn County Fair to 51 members but taxed half the costs to each side. The resistance, led by Frank Norris and others, argues witness fees were wrongly taxed as costs. The information portion notes a true information charging Oscar Melchert with driving while intoxicated.

Linn County Fair, Inc Old Wapsie Valley Fair Association C. J. Haas J. E. Heiserman Linn County Fair Wapsie Valley Group Frank Norris W. E Powers S. H. Stevenson Earl H. Goodlove Frank Bedell

Arrest Report Details Alcohol Test After Crash Near Mount Vernon

Thursday afternoon a chemical test showed four milligrams of alcohol per cubic centimeter, twice the legal limit. Judge Haas approved a $500 bond Friday for Melchert, arrested Wednesday near Camp Good Health on the Mount Vernon highway, found asleep in a ditched car by Sheriff Smith.

Torney W. W. Crissman C. J Haas Melchert James Smith Camp Good Health Mount Vernon Smith

Local Man Charged With Contributing to Delinquency

Jake Bowers, 57, of route 3, was jailed in Linn county on charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Deputy Sheriff Harlan Snyder took him into custody Thursday afternoon and he waived to the grand jury before Justice H. R. Churchill. Held on $1,000 bond. Arrest connected to a 16 year old girl.

Jake Bowers Route 3 Linn County Harlan Snyder H. R. Churchill

Zingula will admitted to probate with executrix named

The will of Mike Zingula who died April 27, 1940, was probated Thursday. Anna Zin gula widow and sole heir was confirmed executor without bond. The joint Iowa City will was dated Sept 12, 1938. Kate Dimprich of 710 Sixteenth Street SE was named administratrix for her husband Joseph Dimprich who died Jan 21. Bond $400. estate valued at $200.

Mike Zingula Anna Zingula Iowa City Kate Dimprich Sixteenth Street Joseph Dimprich

Partition action over four Linn and Buchanan county parcels

Plaintiffs K. R. Weeks Mrs. E. R. Weeks Harriet A Houston and Paul Houston seek partition of four Linn and Buchanan county parcels. Defendants Bernice Hutchinson Randolph Hutchinson and F R Weeks as administrator of J M Weeks estate, who died July 25, named in the suit. Petition requests appointment of a referee to sell the property.

K. R. Weeks E. R. Weeks Harriet A Houston Paul Houston Linn Buchanan Bernice Hutchinson Randolph Hutchinson F R Weeks J M Weeks

South Side Variety Store Incorporation Details

Articles of incorporation filed with County Recorder Dempsy Jones for a general merchandise firm named South Side Variety Store. Capitalization set at 10,000 dollars with 100 shares at 100 dollars each. A PDrorak listed as president and treasurer, I A Dverak as vice president and secretary.

Dempsy Jones South Side

District court appoints two estate administrators

Fred M. Gaasch of Walker named administrator for Martha Gaasch who died January seventeenth with bond fifty dollars? The estate valued around fifteen hundred. Mitte B Rodibaugh of 349 Seventh Avenue SW named administrator for Samuel J Rodibaugh who died Sunday with bond one hundred dollars and estate value noted. Milburn Easely of 824 East Avenue NE jailed at ten am Thursday on sheriff request. A telegram from Sheriff Smyth claims a bench parole from a one year suspended desertion sentence was revoked. Florian and John Hae file separate answers in Bessie Hae property recovery suit after she divorced Florian last November.

Fred M. Gaasch Walker Martha Gaasch Bond Mitte B Rodibaugh Seventh Avenue Samuel J Rodinbaugh Milburn Florian Hae John Hae Bessie Hae

Colorado "Sergeant Brown" Suspected As Iowa's O'Leary

Pueblo Colorado Springs and La Junta police hunted a self styled Sergeant Brown alias Buck Allen for alleged recruiting activity. He may be the famed "recruiting officer" who lured Iowa boys into the army, identified as Glenn Taylor of Oelwein by a relative. He faces charges for bad checks, unpaid chauffeur, hotel bills, and disrupting Pueblo recruiting HQ with claimed orders from Washington.

Puebl O. Cole INS Pueblo Colorado Springs la Junta Brown Buck Allen O'Leary Glenn Taylor Oclwein Taylor Colorado Army Reserve Officers Organization Fort Logan Washington

Ice Causes More Mishaps in Local Incidents

Mercy hospital treated two slip fall victims from icy conditions. Mrs. C. B. McClelland dislocated her shoulder tying her dog in the backyard on Second Avenue SE. Robert Patrick Jones, 9, lacerated his eyebrow after slipping on the ice on Fifteenth Street SE. Jones was released. McClelland stayed through Friday afternoon.

Mercy Hospital C. B. McClelland Second Avenue SE Robert Patrick Jones Paul Jones Fifteenth Street SE Robert

Paralysis Campaign Tags On Sale Saturday In Marion

Campaign tags featuring images of crippled children go on sale Saturday at 10 am in Marion, sold by Analig Camp Fire members to fight infantile paralysis. Tags cost ten cents, with unbought tags available at Harte Beauty shop. Funds support Linn county efforts and local braces for a county girl awaiting treatment.

Marion Analig Camp Fire Harte Beauty Shop Ethel Harte Danceland Linn County Anna Lamey Paul Huston Guy McKibben Celia Gatons Hyland Cedar Rapids

War Budget Octave Over High C and Bugs Can't Hit It

A fragmented local column notes John Adams elected president of the Dry Creek Agricultural and Literary club at Memorial Hall with Ernest F. Badham as vice president and Jo W. Frazee as secretary. Mentions Marion high school baseball, Swiss flag demonstration, and ads. Includes oblique commentary on the national war budget and finances.

John Adams Dry Creek Agricultural and Literary Club Memorial Hall Charles Dukek Ernest F. Badham Jo W. Frazee Robert Hagerman Ivan Gillmore Badham Dukek Lydia Gillmore Lynn Fuller Joe Frazee Marion High School Falls High School Roosevelt High School Cedar Rapids Marjonigh

Picnic Dinner Plans For Red Cross Members

A picnic dinner was served to 18 members. The afternoon was spent sewing for the Red Cross. Plans were made to serve lunch at the H F McCalley farm sale next week and to host the REA annual dinner at the high school gym on February 4.

D. Stilkens Red Cross H F McCalley REA

German Demand On France For Use Of Tunisia Reported

Berne dispatches report Germany formally demanded France allow use of Tunisia as an anti naval base for attacks on British forces in North Africa. Berlin planned disembarking units at Bizerte, risking clashes with the British fleet and drawing France into the war. The note also says Laval faced pressure to resign and restore the government immediately to avoid occupation.

Berne Switzerland Ins Germany France Tunisia North Africa Bizerte Britain Vicks Friday Diplomate Marshal Peta Hess Pierre Lasval

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