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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1945
Page
3
Chicago and surrounding markets report steadiness and some strength on day one of the $18 price ceiling for live cattle. Hogs steady at ceiling prices. top cattle yearlings and prime steers lead gains, with mixed receipts across Omaha Sioux City and Iowa markets.
Cedar Rapids hog market prices held steady on Monday with top primes at 14.45 for good hogs 160 to 170 pounds and other brackets listed. Cows, bulls, sheep and lambs also shown with several price ranges across weight classes and quality, including packers and butcher categories.
Grain prices for corn soybeans oats wheat rye listed with No 2 yellow corn at 1.03, oats 18c, wheat 1.40, rye 1.00. hay, clover, timothy values. poultry prices for various fowl weights. current receipts and crepe hens egg prices. wholesale fruits and vegetables with California celery 4.95, lemons 37.20, lettuce 5.29, onions 1.70, sweet potatoes 2.50, potatoes 2.95. hides and skins prices. Wisconsin cheese and Plymouth sales at specific prices.
New York buyers showed preference for peacetime issues while shying from arming-linked leaders in Monday trading. The list includes Kennecott, Allied Stores, Libby McNeil, Lockheed, American Smelting, Westinghouse, and many others, with varied bid and ask quotes reflecting cautious sentiment. Bond activity remained mixed as the market softened in late hours, with notable weakness in Baltimore and Ohio and several rail and utility issuers while others held firmer.
Chicago markets show slight early gains in wheat oats and rye with May contracts near Fridays’ closes before fading. Prices, including wheat at 1.60 to 1.63 and corn around 1.11, edged lower or held flat by final hour. Chicago cash provisions list mixed yellow and white grain prices and field seeds with steady to soft bids.
Chicago produce data shows mixed receipts across commodities. Eggs steady with varied quotable prices. butter and cheese hold firm with multiple grades listed. live poultry steady with several bird types priced. potatoes arrivals and on track shipments rise while night demand outstrips offerings. regional Bliss Triumphs and cobblers cited with commercial pricing.
Ralph W Harman, assistant special agent in charge of the FBI, announced his resignation effective Feb 1 to join the Cedar Rapids firm Donnelley Lynch Anderson and Lynch as a new post. The move shifts a senior federal official to private practice in Iowa.
Des Moines AP Senator Leo Elthon drafts bill to require initial treatment at the University of Iowa Psychopathic hospital before commitment to state hospitals. County sanity commissions would not be final authority. a scientific hearing would precede conviction. He estimates added facility costs offset by savings from treating curable patients.
The Cub Pack No. 5 members Billy Barry Dick Miller Peter Burcombe Ronny Kokash John Henry Mackey Ronny Havalick Donny Cassidy Garry Starry David Shean Rowe Zehms Paul Johnstone and Jimmy Pallson received awards at a recent meeting. Earl Wilson 12 of 308 Avenue NW was listed in fair condition after a basal skull fracture a broken ankle and bruises from being struck by a car Saturday. Irene Wiggins route 3 Marion reported her $250 sable-dyed northern muskrat coat stolen from the Moose lodge check room Saturday night and an imitation coat left in its place.
Clellan L. Fuller, 33, of Central City, charged with breaking and entering in the night time, waived to the grand jury after arraignment in Justice A. R. Hoffman s court. He is jailed in Linn county on a 2500 dollar bond. Arrested Sunday by Deputy Sheriff P. J. Whittemore for allegedly breaking a locked front door at 3 15 am to enter the Ed Burlingham home, where the couple woke to a blue jacket left behind as Fuller fled.
Mary Jane Sayers, 19, of Red Lake Minnesota, was sentenced to six months in the women's state reformatory at Rockwell City after pleading guilty to larceny from a building. Her appeal bond was set at 1000 dollars. She was arrested in Marshalltown with Pvt. Robert Coulter and Pvt. Robert L. Phelps, both of Sheppard Field Texas, in the same robbery of Flynn Grocery Store in Des Moines area, where 42 dollars was taken. The two men received up to 10 years in the men's state reformatory at Anamosa.
Washington AP Bridges, a west coast CIO labor leader, won a Supreme Court review aimed at blocking his deportation to Australia. The court denied intervention by the Communist Party association and did not take a stand on Bridges' factual ties to the party. The decision marks a procedural victory as the court handled other unrelated rulings and orders including a perjury evidence rule and a liquidation plan for United Light and Power.
Federal court will be opened in Cedar Rapids Tuesday by U S District Judge Henry N Graven with Assistant United States Attorney Franklin E Gill and Clerk of Court Lee McNeely in attendance. The docket includes naturalization ceremonies at 10 a m and a hearing on a bill of particulars in the case of Conrad B Mueller and George R Hunt vs Pickwick Corp Jerry Srp and Flourney Corey. Defense motion plaintiffs answer and objections will be heard. Local attorneys are Amor Sargent Donald Hines and F O Richey for plaintiffs and Corey and Don Barnes for defendants.
Washington dispatch reports the War Department transferring 55 000 air corps personnel and 25 000 service troops to infantry. Recruits will receive six weeks of special training to fit ground units, with NCOs given extra six weeks as appropriate. Highlighted is the growing role of infantry as victory nears.
The internal revenue office reminds employers that social security returns and withholding reports are due Wednesday January 31. Reports include a year 1944 summary, duplicates of W-2 forms for each employee, and payment of tax withheld.
Four eastern Iowa youths were sworn into the naval reserve in Des Moines on Saturday after enlisting through the Cedar Rapids recruiting station. Armand Dwight Fuller Merlin Ellsworth Barnes and Robert Donald Spellman entered the naval reserve. Frank Thurman Nash of Iowa City was accepted as a seaman first class in the radio technician program.
OPA official Clarence G. Turner says bakeries may not demand that customers supply their own sugar for icings. The Des Moines district rationing representative notes widespread complaints and orders bakeries to discontinue the practice immediately under the sugar rationing order.
Pfc. James O Beerman was killed November 18 in France and his parents Mr and Mrs O A Beerman 975 Seventeenth Street Marion have been notified by the War Department. Born April 16 1925 in Madison Wisconsin he attended Marion High School graduating in 1943 and later enrolled in the Army Specialized Training Program. He served at Fort Benning and Indiantown Gap and was attending Carnegie Tech when ASTP disbanded. He was a member of the Lutheran church and is survived by two sisters C A Rivedal Fort Dodge and H L Fox Brownwood Texas.
Pvt. John Meyer paratrooper listed missing in Belgium since January 4. His wife Mable Grace Rosenstiel of Marion and children Sarah Jane and Jackie stay with her grandfather James French in Wyoming. Meyer is son of Alma Meyer of Monticello.
Card of Thanks from Mrs. Anna Sasek and family for neighbors and friends during bereavement. Numerous loss notices include lost wallet, glasses, purses, watches, a terrier, and other items with rewards or contact numbers. Found and service ads appear for goods, sewing, jewelry, cleaning, and local services, with several phone numbers and business names.
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