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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1945
Page
8
Chicago and Omaha livestock markets show gains as fed steers and yearlings rise to top $16.60 while hogs hold near ceiling prices. Sheep and calves stay steady with strong feeder demand. Des Moines and Sioux City activity mixed and Iowa hog prices listed across weights and outfits.
Grain futures moved within narrow limits during Tuesday trading in Chicago. Wheat closed down 0.6 to 0.8 cents. May at 1.59 to 1.60. corn steady to down. oats up 0.5 to 3.5 cents. barley firm around 1.0 to 1.5 cents higher. Cash provisions note No. 2 red wheat around 1.37 to 1.39 and various barley and seed values listed.
Chicago market wires show receipts for butter eggs cheese and live poultry with mixed price levels. Butter and eggs steady with varied percentages. cheese values and regional supplies listed. potatoes and other produce notes accompany market guidance and current receipts across states.
Des Moines police say 50 year old Nel le M Foster was robbed of 1136 as a thief grabbed her purse on entering an east side laundry where she works. She described the suspect as a tall Negro who vanished into an alley and a ration bank passbook was found discarded nearby. The money was her life savings intended for deposit.
War stocks moved modestly lower as the Russian drive toward Berlin revived caution. In the final hour rails led the decline with blocks of low quoted issues trading broadly. Volume reached about 1.6 million shares.
Cedar Rapids hog market prices held firm with top prime butchers at 14.45 and packers at 13.70. Readable listings show ranges for good hogs by weight and mixed yearlings, plus cow and bull quotes, as J. E. Bennett & Co. and Merchants National Bank building signatures appear in the market report.
Cedar Rapids wholesale prices list diverse farm goods and produce. Grain and hay rates include corn No 2 yellow at $1.00, soybeans No 2 yellow at $2.04, oats No 1 white 75c, wheat No 1 $1.40, rye No 2 $1.00, with baled straw $14 and clover hay $14 to $19. Poultry prices show heavy springs over 3 lbs at 25c, hens around 21c, ducks 20c, geese 20c, and eggs at 30c. Fruit and vegetables from California celery $4.95, lemons $3.26, lettuce $5.39, onions $1.70, yams $3.55, apples Jonathans $4.60, Russet potatoes $2.05, grapefruit $3.25, among others.
Edward O Connell aged 44 of 1056 Fifth Avenue SE was sentenced by Judge J Heiserman to one year in Linn County jail with all but 90 days suspended after pleading guilty. He must restitution $75.63 within 30 days after release. O Connell was arrested Monday by Deputy Sheriff P J Whittemore for forging Helen C O Connell signature and cashing a $75.63 check at a service station on August 15.
In Plymouth Wisconsin sales included 4 cars of twins and cheddars at 23 1 2 cents per pound and 1 car of square prints at 24 1 4 cents per pound.
Washington AP Soldiers overseas were recorded Tuesday as preferring state ballots to federal forms in last fall’s election. War Secretary Stimson filed with Congress criticizing the soldier vote law, saying the federal ballot saw insignificant use and its administration was excessively complex and burdensome.
Des Moines hosts a weekend meeting of 68 Iowa CAP units to wrap training plans and hear national officers. Speakers include Col. Earl L. Johnson national CAP commander and Col. Harry H. Blee national training and operations officer.
Cedar Rapids police received a telegram from Mrs. Etta Dines of Uniontown Pennsylvania asking to locate John or Dorothy Dines who are believed to be in Cedar Rapids. The note urged either to phone 4346-R at Uniontown and suggested they may be working with a local trucking outfit.
City Treasurer Walter E. Miller stated stall rent for Miller Market is due Feb 1 at the treasurer’s office. Rent is 20 dollars per season and regular renters hold stalls until Feb 1, then spaces go to first come, first served.
In Chicago Patricia Attaway, seven, died of lymphatic leukemia at Aurora on January 9. Her mother Florence Attaway Nokutis, 30, sues her second husband Joseph Nokutis for divorce. She plans to wed Chief Petty Officer M F Attaway, 38, after the war and will enlist in the Waves meanwhile.
Rosemary Cushing Winderburghe of Dubuque pled guilty to forging an endorsement on a money order at Waterloo in May 1944. Federal Judge Henry N. Graven sentenced her to a suspended two years and placed her on three years probation to Charles F. Holly of Sioux City. She is on parole from Alderson Federal Women's Reformatory for a later forgery charge.
Anamosa man George D. Preston pled guilty to charging $185 above the OPA ceiling price for a used 1937 Plymouth sold to Boyd Brandt. He told Judge Henry Graven he did not realize it was a crime and was sentenced to a $600 fine plus $34 costs in federal court.
Marion High School plans to raise about 200 for two war memorials at events Friday night in the school gym. A trophy case honors alumni who served and a bronze wall tablet lists those who died, with a Cedar Rapids orchestra to perform and a box social led by P. C. Lassen.
Washington officials learned of Harry Hopkins European talks only through dispatches as he outlined U S policy in London Paris and Rome. The absence of state department briefing recalled Moscow mission secrecy and hinted at a dress rehearsal for a Big Three meeting with De Gaulle involvement noted.
Mr and Mrs John Andrle of 384 Sixteenth Street SE report their son Staff Sgt Lucian Andrle a machine gunner with the First Army was wounded in action in Belgium on January 3. He is recovering in a Paris hospital from shrapnel wounds to knee and thigh after twenty months overseas in France Holland Belgium and Germany. His brother Sgt Joseph Andrle with a railway battalion has been overseas in France since July 1943. the two brothers had a reunion in England after six months overseas they had not seen each other for two years.
Judge Henry J. Graven presided over naturalization for 16 candidates in Des Moines. Nine hailed from Germany as he stressed individual worth over birth nationality, noting no master race and praising liberties as Iowa and U.S. citizens. The new citizens come from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Austria, Switzerland and various Iowa locales.
City brief identifies Harry Billings of 820 Daniels Street NE as recovering satisfactorily from a recent operation at University Hospital in Iowa City, according to word received by his relatives.
Lucile McGuire sues R Earl McGuire seeking separate maintenance. The couple married in West Union in April 1935. In a second suit Lillian Childs seeks separate maintenance from Herbert Childs. They wed August 4 1937 in Papillion Nebraska.
The Chinese high command says Japanese forces entered Kukong, provisional capital of Kwangtung, from three sides and seized Chenhs n, amid rapid advances in the Chungking theater.
A Navy League council in Cedar Rapids was formed at a Tuesday noon ceremony at the Roosevelt hotel with Optimist club members. Comdr. E. E. Miller of the U S Naval Academy urged a strong future naval manhood through preflight programs and competitive athletics. Carl Madden presented the charter to Mark Anderson, new chapter president, as officers were named and Lt. Comdr. Larry Mullins from the Iowa Preflight school spoke. Special guests included local coaches and college athletic directors.
Federal Judge Henry N. Graven on Tuesday overruled a motion for a bill of particulars by Pickwick Corp and others in a patent litigation brought by Mueller and George R. Hunt. The docketed civil case remains active, with the judge denying the request for more specific pleadings.
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