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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1944
Page
4
Hog receipts 22 000 to 31 000 with prices 15 cents higher in Chicago Sioux City and Omaha markets. Cattle and sheep trade mixed. feeders and calves steady to higher. slaughter lambs not fully established. Iowa Minnesota yards report 63 900 receipts with per hundred weight ranges for several classes and steady demand.
Des Moines caps peak price points for hogs with quotes across Otumwa Ottumwa markets and Chicago livestock reports. Strong demand for good butcher hogs shares highs for weights 160 to 500 pounds, while packing sows show steady pricing.
Receipts show four cars and nine trucks with markets steady on poultry and eggs. Prices listed for hens, fryers, rocks, turkeys, cheese, butter, and eggs alongside potatoes and various regional vegetable stock and dairy quotes reflected in a typical wholesale market bulletin.
Hog prices held steady with top at 13.45 on 200 to 300 pound good to choice hogs. Cattle ranged with choice to prime steers at 14.00 to 15.00, medium to good 11.50 to 13.00, common 10.00 down. Calf, sheep, and lamb values listed by weight and grade.
The Cedar Rapids market lists No 2 yellow corn 1.04 a bushel and No 2 wheat 1.40. Oats and rye values, straw hay and poultry prices, and fresh produce such as Florida celery lemons and naval oranges are noted with varying crate and box prices. Several misread items and typos appear in the record.
Chicago AP reports a weak undertone in grains as forecasts call for light rains across the midwestern and southwestern belt. At close, wheat slipped to 1.70% May, oats fell 0.25, rye steady, barley mixed with May near 1.624 and other futures showing fractional moves.
Chicago market update lists cash prices for grains and seeds. Wheat and corn show none, oats sample grade white at 80 percent, barley around 1.25 and 1.44 per unit, soybeans No. 1 yellow at 1.02, and seed prices per 100 pounds for timothy red top red clover sweet clover with various nominals.
An Atlanta woman wrote President Roosevelt to save her son Lt. Jack Roberts's dog Roy Roy, mascot of a Fortress crew, from possible destruction. A Croydon quarantine vet said Roy Roy is healthy and to comply with six months of quarantine. no threat of destruction. Roy Roy was purchased in Sioux City and flew to England with Roberts and navigator Lt. Howard Raiford.
Washington AP Wayne L Morse a public member of the War Labor Board indicated on Monday that he plans to resign as a member this week. The note signals a leadership change at the board during wartime labor disputes and policy work.
New York traders saw uneven early gains across rails and other issues with profit taking reducing gains. Transfers ran around 700000 shares as prices wavered and near closing trends remained foggy with several issues moving to minus values.
Pearl Harbor report describes the Mars flying boat joining the U S Navy Pacific fleet to bolster long range air operations against Japan. The 141800 pound craft carried 13860 pounds of war materiel on a San Francisco to Pearl Harbor flight with 15 crew and 20 passengers.
Washington AP report notes James Farley remains a potent influence as Robert E. Hannegan assumes the Democratic national chair. A nationwide poll shows Sam Rayburn leading for VP while Farley garners support in New York, signaling factional tension affecting the party ahead of the Chicago convention.
New York dispatch reports Wendell Willkie will not contest California’s preferential primary. He says Californians urged him to run, but Governor Earl Warren assured him Warren will not seek the presidency or join a stop Willkie movement in the state.
Cham ber of Commerce purchasing agents plan Tuesday noon meeting at the Montrose hotel. Cedar Rapids hosts no gas company cooking school until further notice. Cedar Rebekah lodge No. 494 to meet Thursday at 8 pm in K P hall. Cub Pack 24 meets at Garfield school Wednesday at 7 30 pm. Awards and graduation to be featured and parents urged to accompany small children. B B class of First Lutheran to hold pot luck luncheon Tuesday at 1 15 pm at the home of Mrs. Clara K Brink. Karl Edwards of Davenport WPB to attend Chamber conferences on priorities Tuesday from 9 30 am to 2 30 pm. Chester A Barth of New York was weekend visitor at the home of his parents at 336 Fifteenth street E. Women of the Moose to meet Monday at 8 30 pm in Sokol hall. War relief committee works Tuesday from 9 am to 3 pm in Red Cross rooms. co workers invited. R A Dick Preston has returned from Des Moines where he was a patient at Veterans hospital for five weeks. he is senior bailiff in Linn county district court. Enlistment of Sarah Lee Lyon and Theresa Ruth Snyder announced by Cedar Rapids navy recruiting office. A house guest of Dr David I Berger is Dean William Jesse Baird of Berea College. KY, honored at informal gathering with Coe College students and faculty during Spiritual Emphasis week planning for February. Also guests included Religious Life council members of oe.
Harry L Wenger 50 died Sunday at his Alburnett home. Born Monticello Sept 16 1893 he lived in Alburnett since 1916 except for five years in Cedar Rapids and Clinton while employed on the North Western railroad. He was a member of the Alburnett Christian church and Central City lodge No 22 Knights of Pythias. Survived by wife Mary Jane Lyon two daughters Mrs Genevieve Woodward Cedar Rapids and Laureen Wenger Alburnett a son Paul D Wenger Central City and a granddaughter Susan Marie Wenger. Services Wednesday at 2 pm at Alburnett Christian church with Rev Frank Andrews and Rev Lloyd Patton officiating burial in Lafayette cemetery.
Lt Kenneth W Wehrhan, son of Mrs Louis Dengler, reported missing since Jan 5 after a mission over France. A 1938 Traer high school graduate and former basketball and track star, he joined the army air force in 1941, earned wings in Las Vegas, sent overseas in 1942 and stationed in England. He married Irene Duffy on May 8 1943 in California. his father Ford Wehrman of Albert Lee Minnesota once ran a Traer lumber yard.
A Swedish housemaid who spent months in Vienna told Allehanda that Baldur von Schirach planned an escape to Switzerland in the style of Rudolf Hess but the plot collapsed when the SS learned of it. Von Schirach remained as gauleiter amid German anxiety over visible dissent. She also noted Vienna’s dire food situation with locals losing weight and a thriving black market with cigarettes up to 20 cents each.
Eight killed and ten in critical condition after a bus on its first day pulls in front of the Detroit to St. Louis Flier at a double track crossing. Henry Hoerath of St. Louis among the critically injured as the bus is split by the train and erupts in fire. Bystanders help victims until firefighters control the blaze.
A true information was filed in district court by County Attorney Carl Hendrickson against Due Millsaps 55 of 216 Fifth Street SW charged with lewd and lascivious acts with a child. Police said Millsaps would be arraigned Monday afternoon. Millsaps was arrested by Detectives George Connell L F Stusak and H R Simon Saturday.
The Marion Christian church approved a weekly to quarterly contributing plan for a building fund at a Sunday meeting led by finance chair E C Hamm. A basket dinner followed with 70 members and friends, featuring remarks by Petty Officer Robert Stull and a reading by Helen Frazier.
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