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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1937
Page
19
Chicago buyers faced softer livestock prices as floods and a motor strike disrupted distribution. Estimates show Thursday receipts of cattle 5 000 hogs 15 000 sheep 10 000 with wholesale meat prices easing in spots and a 12 cent lower pork price on Wednesday.
Hog receipts reach 21 000 with direct sales around steady to slightly lower. top hogs near 10.30 and bulk 180-300 lb at 10.10 to 10.20. Cattle receipts total 11 000 with steer and heifer prices softening 15 to 25 cents, yearlings steady to 25 cents lower. vealers uneven, bulls weak to 15 cents. Sheep receipts 11 000. lambs steady to higher bids around 10.35 to 10.50, weights and western lambs bidding higher. At St Paul receipts show slow cattle trade with most fed steers 9.50 to 11.00, cows 4.75 to 6.50, calves 5.00 to 7.00. Hogs weigh 7 500 reflecting mixed demand midweek.
Prices firm for 240 lb hogs with top near 10.00 while 200 to 300 lb hogs trade 9.80 to 10.10 and 300 to 375 lb hogs at 9.80 to 10.00. Sows steady at 9.50 to 9.55 and lamb fat lambs bid around 10.25 to 10.40 with ewes from 4.00 to 6.00 amid 9,000 receipts and fed ewes mixed in the run.
Hogs unchanged in Waterloo Ottumwa and Mason City while Austin Minnesota shows steady prices for multiple weight classes. 180-200 lbs fetch 9.30 to 9.60, 200-290 lbs 9.50 to 9.80, 290-325 lbs 9.40 to 9.70, 325-350 lbs 9.30 to 9.60, packing sows 8.80 to 9.50.
Combined hog receipts at 22 yards and 9 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ended Wednesday 8 a.m. totaled 16 400, down from 20 600 a week ago and 30 600 a year ago. Opened steady to lower than average with weak undertone and slow loadings. Quotations list prices across weight classes from 140 to 550 pounds, with ranges and averages for each category.
Sioux City cattle receipts reached 3500 with calves 200 as slaughter cattle and yearlings were slow and uneven. Hog intake 8500 mostly 10 to 25 cents lower with top lights near 9.80 to 9.90 and packer tops around 9.75. Sheep receipts 4000 with early fat lamb activity weak and prices about 25 cents lower on some ewes and lambs topping around 10.50.
Hogs receipts 6 000 steady to 25 cents off top 9 90 for 190 200 lb hogs. Cattle receipts 5 000 calves 500 steady to 25 cents lower with steers 14 00 down heifers 7 00 11 00 cows 5 75 6 75 cutters 3 50 4 50 bulls 5 75 6 50 top dealers 11 00. Sheep receipts 8 500 lambs 25 cents lower with best above 10 35.
Hog prices on the local market slip with all grades down 5 cents and the top at 9.70 dollars. Other nearby markets stay steady as buyers adjust to softer demand and supply conditions.
Market listing shows lambs for 70-80 lb range with top near 9 dollars. Choice steers 1000-1100 lbs bring 11.50 to 12.50, lighter trials 1100+ lbs 11.00-12.00. Heifer and cow figures include medium to good cows 4.25-5.00, choice dry cows 5.00-6.00, canners and cutters 4.25 and down, bulls 4.25 and down.
A Cedar Rapids miscellaneous price list shows grain and produce values including wheat at 1.21 to 1.26 per bushel, oats 49 to 53 cents, rye 80 to 90 cents, barley 90 cents to 1.10, corn ears 97 cents per 70 lb, shelled yellow corn 1.04, No 2 yellow 1.12, new No 4 yellow 1.06, soybeans yellow 1.30 to 1.45, hay and straw prices, poultry prices by weight, wholesale fruits and vegetables with assorted per-unit costs, and hides including No 1 cured beef hides at 10 cents, No 2 at 9 cents, No 1 calf 12 4 cents, No 2 calf 11 cents, green hides 1 cent less, and horse hides at 4 and 3.50 dollars respectively, with manes and full tails.
The AP reports mixed currency values with Great Britain at 490 1-16, France 4.66, Italy 5.26, Belgium 16.8542, Germany 40.23 for free, 18.80 registered, travel 20.15, Holland 54.76, Norway 24.63, Sweden 127.27, Denmark 21.88, Finland 2.17, Switzerland 22.86, Spain unquoted, Portugal 4.47, Greece 0.902, Poland 18.96, Czechoslovakia 3.49, Jugoslavia 2.34, Austria 18.73, Hungary 9.30, Roumania 0.75, Argentina 32.67, Brazil 8.8014, Tokio 28.58, Hong Kong 30.65, Mexico City 27.80, Montreal in Nevada 99.9334, New York in Montreal 100.06 nominal.
Persistent liquidation of wheat futures pushed prices down by more than a cent a bushel on the Chicago board of trade. Local traders led the selling, mirroring declines in Liverpool and Winnipeg, with light buying power through the session. May wheat at 1.2634, May corn 1.0814, old corn 1.0612, May oats 0.493.
Chicago AP notes cash wheat no sales. No. 4 mixed 1.12, No. 3 yellow 1.12–1.14, No. 4 yellow 1.09–1.13, No. 5 yellow 1.07–1.09, No. 4 white 1.13–1.14, No. 5 white 1.07. Oats No. 1 white 31 33–34c, No. 2 white 52 34c, No. 3 white 52 ½c, No. 4 white 51–52c, rye no sales. Soybeans No. 2 yellow 1.60–3, No. 3 yellow 1.49–2, sample 1.57. Barley feed 80c–1.00, nominal to 1.43. Timothy seed 5.75–6.25 per cwt, Clover seed 27.00–34.00 per cwt. Lard tierce 22, loose 12.40. Bellies 16.5.
Minneapolis market report lists prices for various grain grades including No 2 dark northern spring 60 Ibs at around 1.46 to 1.55 dollars, No 1 dark northern spring 59 Ibs about 1.45 to 1.54 dollars, and No 1 red durum and amber durum figures. Other items include No 3 yellow corn and oats with quoted bid ranges.
Live poultry receipts 39 trucks with varied hen and roaster prices across sizes. Butter and eggs receipts steady or unsettled with current local prices. Potatoes show liberal western stocks and mixed regional values. Futures for butter eggs and potatoes close with specified January to March levels.
New York market notes show egg receipts 1 006 and 35 cases with mixed colors firsts and seconds. butter receipts 8 226 with creamed higher, firsts 88 to 91 scores and seconds 84 to 87 scores. live poultry steady to firm by freight with chickens Rocks 19c and colored fowls 20 22c.
Scattered sales closed on territory wool in Boston with graded French combing fine territory wool at 1.07 to 1.12 scoured. Original bags sold 1.054 to 1.08 secured for French combing and 1.08 to 1.10 for lots averaging to good French combing. Sugar prices edged higher with raw unchanged at 3.75 cents and refined at 5.08.
Stocks steadied in a selective rally with steel and specialty issues rising about a point while a Midwest washout and softer labor data kept many traders sidelined. Transfers neared 1.9 million shares as bonds improved and commodities varied, with U S Steel Bethlehem Vanadium Nash Kelvinator Yellow Truck Santa Fe and several others among gainers.
Wednesday's quotations list prices for numerous industrials and utilities led by Alaska Juneau, Allegheny Corp, International Nickel, Ford and General Motors. The sheet shows mixed gains and losses across sectors with notable figures including American Tel and Tel, Boeing, Chrysler, Du Pont, Union Carbide, General Electric, and IBM amid broad market activity.
U S government obligations firmed mid day while banks bought after the Federal Reserve Board postponed action on excess reserves. Treasuries 2 1 2s and 3s showed moves with mixed results as corporate loans advanced and select issues gained. Foreign sector stayed quiet with limited rises in South American bonds.
Mr and Mrs Charles E Roberts learn at 2 15 p m Wednesday their daughter Mrs Dwight Mound and her family are safe in Huntington West Virginia They say water is receding and should return to normal in about twelve days Roads out of town are blocked but they have food and milk supplies uninterrupted They boiled 50 quarts of water for drinking as downtown Huntington remains flooded
Miss Eutena Blayney of 1210 Fourth avenue SE suffered a fractured neck in a Dec. 20 automobile crash near Waterloo. She was moved from Waterloo hospital to her sister Mrs Verne E Henton’s home at 1739 Davenue NE where her condition slowly improves and visitors are not yet admitted. Earlier she was paralyzed from head to toe and had limited hope for recovery. she has since shown signs of movement including her hands arms and right leg.
Townsend No 3 will meet Friday at 8 p.m. instead of Thursday. Kamera Klique gathers at 7 30 tonight in the playground office city hall with Jack Steele and Nevin Nichols leading. Monsignor Molloy speaks to Waltonians at Thursday noon luncheon. Raymond Coward to speak at 9 45 tonight over a local station with Red Cross flood relief fund appeal 8 15 to 8 30. Boedeker and Bisek arrested by Milwaukee railroad agent Monahan on a coal car in Milwaukee yards. held pending charges.
The case against Ruth Gibson, 36, of Anamosa for false uttering of a check was continued in Justice H. R. Churchill's court to February 5. She was arrested in January after Star Jewelry accused her of buying a $12.50 clock, giving a $15 check, taking change, and not producing the clock or a good check.
Ellsworth Palmer, manager of the local American Automobile Association office, spoke on the association’s development and services at the Kiwanis club luncheon in the Montrose hotel. Immediate past president A. T. Pleune also summarized club activities.
Mrs Alexandra Kreutzberger acting for Carl von Ossietzky collected the 37000 dollar Nobel peace prize in Oslo. The entire sum was transferred to a German bank account after her credentials were checked by the Norwegian embassy in Berlin.
The general council of the fur workers union of the United States and Canada announced on Wednesday that every new agreement with manufacturers will require placing union labels on all skins.
AP report from Minneapolis shows carload flour prices per barrel in 98 pound sacks with deviations by patent and standard grades. FamI patents hold at $7.30 to $7.50, standard patents lower at $7.10 to $7.30, shipments total 18,339. Bran and middlings price ranges listed at $33.50 to $34.00.
At 10 30 a m on Wednesday the Marion branch reported 363 dollars 40 cents of its 500 dollar flood relief quota raised. Donors include teachers fire department water company and many individuals giving five dollars three dollars two dollars and smaller gifts.
The W C T U met at Mrs George Whitney's home with devotion led by Mrs A E Blinks and a talk on Lillian Stevens fund. Emma Kline spoke on Women in Congress and Minnie Whitcomb on Izora Scott. Plans discussed for February state drive for the Frances Willard centenary fund. Mary Shook returns home after five weeks at St Luke's. Trojan lodge meets Friday for first degree work. Mrs C C Beall hosts Friendly Neighbors Thursday. Elmer Cherry to Iowa City for treatment.
I A Knyazeff testified that Japan organized 3500 railway wrecks in 1934 and 1935 killing hundreds, saying a Japanese director codenamed Mister X later named Hiroshima directed the sabotage. Another defendant, Tarek, described payments totaling 35000 rubles. Knyazeff, former head of Russia’s southern railways, said he was well paid for railway secrets and wrecking work.
TOKIO reports that Japanese officials may protest Moscow trial efforts to tie Japan to confessed sabotage and assassination plots. Government spokesman M Gaimushu said Wednesday the moves prompt diplomatic sensitivity and potential protest.
Funeral services for Mrs Eliza beth Troxel Kline were held in the Yocom chapel with Rev. Irving Wade officiating. Burial was in Oak Shade cemetery. Pallbearers were J. B. Emmons Earl Beiber Ray McCalley and H. R. Livingston. Out of town relatives included Mrs Dora Marchant of Los Angeles and several Marchants from Perry Iowa City Cedar Rapids Vinton and Atk ins.
About 100 residents from Prairie Chapel and Marion hosted a farewell surprise for Mr and Mrs Gene Isham retiring superintendent and matron at the county home. A picnic supper followed with an accordion recital Marguerite Michel readings by Mrs Irvin Scott music by the Skunk Hollow Hillbillies Neil DeWees Albert Schenken Frank Travis Earl Fulton a hunting trip talk by Mrs H N Strader Wayne Carpenter Carl Michel readings Clyde Scott presented a radio to the couple. The Ishams plan a February departure for a southward trip.
The Red Cross branch invites volunteers for a first aid course at the federal building Cedar Rapids Feb 1 to 12 with lessons 7 to 10 nightly except weekends. Instructors are needed in Marion. It covers training to teach Boy Scouts school children and public groups after completion. A. R. McElwain is local chairman. expenses paid by the Red Cross chapter.
The St. Josephs parish committee sponsoring a benefit card party on February 9 will meet at Mrs. J. J. Reards home Thursday at 2 p.m. to finish plans. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Akers Jr of near Central City attended the Akers family reunion held Sunday in Central City.
Mrs. G L Martin entertained Tuesday for her son Harold with guests including E W Richardson Lois Richardson Mildred Heald and Bill Campbell. Ed M Taylor returned from Hanover New Mexico after the death of his son in law Dr P E Kylle. The Progressive A L and club donated a flood relief quilt for Red Cross. Chapter C S P E O voted $10 to flood relief at Mrs Lee Fitzgeralds home. Mrs W S Campbell spoke on P E O educational and loan fund and Cottey College.
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