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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1941
Page
13
Market notes show slow hog trading with prices about steady after a drop. Iowa and Chicago receipts list heavy hogs and sows down slightly while fed steers and yearlings rise modestly. mixed moves across regions and markets include Des Moines and St Paul reports on cattle and sheep activity.
Hogs steady in Waterloo Ottumwa Mason City and Peoria with varied weights from 120 to 360 pounds showing steady to slight declines. Cattle and sheep markets mixed with best fed yearlings around 69.00, slaughter steers 9.25 to 10.00, lambs around 10.75. Multiple regional quotes include Idaho range lambs 10.80 and 10.50 to 11.00 for native spring lambs.
Agricultural prices show wheat and oats with various grades, corn and beans priced per bushel, hay and straw values listed, poultry market rates include hens and cock prices, fruits and vegetables listed with multiple items, hides and livestock prices, plus Jones average and stock figures. Mississippi River stages from Davenport to Memphis indicate varying rises and falls with recent measurements.
In New York on Tuesday stocks showed timid tendencies with uneven leadership. The market closed with mixed results as investors hesitated due to Nazi war claims tax concerns and potential industrial restrictions. Bonds were mixed and commodity setbacks weighed on sentiment. Notable declines included General Motors American Telephone Montgomery Ward General Electric Allied Chemical Boeing while Standard Oil New Jersey hit a yearly high and American Can United Aircraft rose or fell in varied fashion.
In Plymouth Wisconsin, cheese prices for the week June 30 to July 6 show quot a tion with bricks cheddar and other varieties listed. In Boston, wool sales were scattered with delicate fleece types bringing 42 to 44 cents in the crease and brighter blood fleeces at 44 to 48 cents, with slow but steady demand and scoured wool at 1.00 to 1.03 dollars.
Wheat futures fell 34 to 144 cent a bushel after an initial rise on hedging and firmer soybeans. July wheat closed at 1.0314, with corn up to 0.34 and oats and soybeans also mixed. Scattered rains and cooler weather were noted across the grain belt.
Aliced list of Corn Soybeans Oats Barley Rye and meat items with varied prices including No 2 yellow corn at 74% and No 2 white oats around 40c to 38c per unit. lard prices listed as 9.5N and leaf and bellies at 0.62N and 12.62N.
Bond prices were mixed in a narrow noon range with many long term U.S. government issues down 1/32 to 2/22 of a point. Rail and other issues fluctuated with some gains and several losses on frail foreign obligations and several notable issues listed with prices.
New York markets show eggs receipts at 40.740, mixed colors and grades, butter totals at 1,652,655 pounds with higher creamery scores, cheese firm with fresh and grass varieties, Chicago delays in poultry and dairy, and notable potato arrivals with Idaho Russets and California Longwhites pricing. Produce futures listed by Lamson Bros including butter storage standards and egg refrigerator standards for October and November.
In Bangor Maine two 13 year olds stole 1295 dollars from a 67 year old retired railroad man while he swam and distributed the money among ten friends. Police traced the tale after worried parents brought home cash from their children. All but 2970 dollars was recovered. The victim kept the money in his clothes because he does not trust banks.
Washington policy report shows Senator Josiah Bailey of North Carolina, chair of the senate commerce committee, asking the state department to provide legal proof that the proposed St Lawrence seaway agreement is not a treaty under national law.
Miss Dorothy Quaas daughter of Mr and Mrs W E Quaas of Alburnett wed Myron S Berry son of Mrs Susie Berry of Marion on Tuesday in the bride’s home officiated by Rev Charles Fuller. Attendants were Ruth Marie Hense and Albert Berry. Both graduates of Iowa State college they will reside in Fresno California where Berry works for the U S Bureau of Reclamation.
Donald Stone 56 a Marion resident for 12 years died Monday at 6 15 p m at Dr C A Bradley’s farm near Maquoketa where he had gone to work from Springville born Sept 21 1884 he was the son of Lemon and Cora Stone survived by wife Jennie Lathrop Stone four daughters and a son two Marion daughters and a son at home a sister Mrs Florence Doudna of Spirit Lake funeral at Springville Methodist church Wednesday at 2 30 p m burial in Springville cemetery services led by Rev L W Inman Friends may call Tuesday evening at the family residence 2180 Eighth avenue
The CIO Packers edged the Allen Motor Company 5 to 3 to secure second place in the Marion Softball Association standings. Prohaska hit the lone homer for CIO Packers. Rainout halted Alburnett-Whittier after a partial inning. upcoming games feature Milwaukee against Alburnett Oilers and CIO Packers versus Springville Merchants.
Eighty members of the Methodist W S C S from Cedar Rapids, Marion, Alburnett and Prairie Chapel attended the Prairie Chapel church luncheon and program. Guests included Miss Faith Clark, returned Delhi missionary, and note of various local visits, family gatherings, and an upcoming troop camping trip canceled due to rain.
George H. Clark of the Linn County road maintenance crew sustained injuries to his side Monday while lifting water onto a tractor. He was hospitalized following the incident.
Crew worked on Cottage Grove Avenue and took a man to St Luke s hospital where Mrs Clark is critically ill and to undergo a second transfusion Tuesday. The Keystone division W S C S meeting and Prairie Union club meeting are postponed a week. Multiple local club activities, hospital births, and library board meeting scheduled.
Eleanor Cookie Young Newport society’s top glamour girl of 1936 37 and Nicholas Embiricos Brazilian flyer died when their cabin plane crashed into the sea off Matunuck Rhode Island after an unsuccessful landing in dense fog. Young had secretly married Robert Bacon in April 1939 and later divorced.
In Rhode Island a plane carrying Embiricos and a female companion limped back from Newport due to fog. They were fatally injured when the craft crashed off Matunuck near Point Judith after circling the shore in heavy pea soup fog. Coastguard and lifeguards reported the final loss of control as a wing dipped into a wave.
Fifty United States marines in civilian clothes and steel helmets landed at a northwestern British port to take up duties at the London embassy. They are the second American marine group to reach Europe since World War I, with about a dozen previously at the 1929 naval conference in London. They offered no comment and declined to speak.
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