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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1942
Page
2
Chicago wholesale report shows hogs fell up to 15 cents while lighter hogs drop 10 cents and top hog price hits 14.60. Cattle shipments cut by 3 500, boosting steers and yearlings 10 to 25 higher as activity remains strong in killing classes. Lamb bids sit 25 cents lower. meat production in June hits record high.
The report details cattle and lamb trading with mixed results. Prices show steadiness for heifers and steady to firm quotes for other classes amid lighter supplies and strong demand. Calves, yearlings, and fat cows appear at varied levels with top calves around 14.50 and spring lambs trading near 15.90 in recent sessions.
Receipts total about 12 800 with hogs cattle calves and lambs. Hogs show light to moderate activity with weights under 230 pounds mostly steady to slightly lower and sows 15 cents lower. top hogs around 14.50 to 14.25. Cattle and calves offer mixed values with good steers near 13 50 and cows around 10 25 or better, vealers up to 14 50, stockers scarce. Lambs steady to higher with fat lambs around 15 and feeder lambs 12 75 to 12 90.
Sioux City livestock report shows cattle receipts 4 000 calves 50 salable stockers and feeders scarce cattle prices range from 11 75 to 13 25 for fed steers and yearlings to 10 75 12 50 for heifers. Hogs receipts 5 700 with prices mostly 14 10 to 14 25. sheep receipts 2 900 with fed wool sheep at 15 30.
U S Department of Agriculture combined hog market data for interior Iowa and southern Minnesota shows 24 hour totals ending 8 am Wednesday at 22 800 head, down from 30 300 a week earlier and up from 19 600 a year ago. Prices listed by weight class: 160–180 lb 13.00–13.95, 180–200 lb 13.70–14.10, 200–300 lb 13.80–14.10, 300–330 lb 13.70–14.00, 330–360 lb 13.60–13.90, 360–400 lb 13.30–13.70, 400–450 lb 13.20–13.60, 450–550 lb 13.10–13.55.
AustinMinnesota meat market figures show tiered prices per hundredweight for hogs and pigs with ranges from 170 to 500 pounds. Quotes include 170-186 pounds at 13.15 and 400-450 pounds around 13.45, reflecting varied market rates for live hogs.
Auction notes show steer bids around 12.85 per hundredweight with bulk receipts at 13.50 and good vealers selling to 15.00. Calves and good grade cattle earned solid receipts, while total revenue figures hovered around 2.5 thousand dollars in the sale.
Local price guide lists Wisconsin cheese varieties with several types including cheddar and Swiss. The itemized list notes typical per pound costs and supplier names appear, reflecting midyear market adjustments.
The United States Department of Agriculture released Wednesday price indicators showing higher values for wool. Early sales occurred at prices above prior levels, reflecting a strengthening market as activity continued.
Grain quotations furnished by Lamson Brothers and Company with contact details for H R Mowrey Cedar Rapids manager at 503 Merchants National Bank building. The note lists phone contact 2 3141 for the Cedar Rapids office.
A Cedar Rapids market listing shows prices for tea Wheat No 1 at 98 cents per unit No 3 42 cents Common beans 2 selee Ste pew No 3 78 cents Soybeans No 2 yellow 1 58 Hay and straw prices listed as 80049.00 Poultry market prices include broilers up to 2 pounds at 2 cents per pound and heavier birds with varied pricing. hides top at No 1 cured 12 cents No 2 cured 6 cents.
Chicago dispatch reports receipts of 48 poultry trucks with varied prices for chickens ducks and white rocks. Egg market firm with firsts around 31 to 34 cents and pack extras at 33 cents. dairy items show Rex and other cheese prices mixed, butter steady near 90.62 to 93.37 cents per pound with car lots and deliveries noted.
The clipping notes eggs receipts at 29.067 with mixed colors and fancy to extra fancy grades, beef up to 335044 36 0c, firsts and mediums within varied counts. Cheese receipts 02.540 steady, poultry prices barely steady with a northern trend.
Fragmentary OCR yields mixed items from a November standards event and October race notes. The readable bits mention serene races and a bogs retriceater standards line. No clear dates or entities available.
New York stocks faced a cautious session as wary buyers absorbed Egypt related reports. Major declines were limited but several industrials slipped, with transfers around 200,000 shares. US Steel Bethlehem Steel Chrysler GM Goodyear Goodrich Sears United Aircraft Kennecott GE Johns-Manville and Texas Co fell late. Kodak slid up to 2 percent before small recoveries. Owens-Illinois and American Can dropped over one percent, Allied Chemical rose early then faded, while American Telephone firmed after morning weakness.
A garbled list of stock names and prices appears, including Allied Chemical, Amn Mills, Tel & Tel, Boeing, Coca Cola, General Electric, Ford, Du Pont, and several others. The OCR reads like a market update with varied percentages and numbers, referencing multiple companies and sectors without cohesive narrative.
The report notes limited interest in bonds with corporates adding issues such as Standard Gill NJ Telephone 5s and Pacific 4s. Treasuries show little change while government bonds and foreign listings are uneven. market pricing remains cautious with modest shifts across categories.
During the 1935 1936 cold snap observers reported vast shoals of dead fish covering about 20 square miles off the North Carolina coast. Scientists attributed the die off to unusually cold water conditions and low oxygen levels affecting marine life.
CHICAGO AP reports a wave of buying lifts grain prices by more than a cent per bushel on Wednesday. Mills and professional dealers covered hedges and contracts, pushing wheat, oats, soybeans and corn higher. July and September wheat gains range from 1% to 1.34 cents, with soybeans up 4 to 1/2 cent.
The list shows cash bids for grains and fats with Wheat Corn and Oats prices including No 1 and No 2 grades. Prices given for yellow corn, white corn, oats, and lard reflect market rates and sample grades across different lots and forms.
The Vichy radio quoted Budapest reports that Prague and Bruenn courts martial sentenced 115 people to death on Tuesday for alleged contact with enemy agents, approving Heydrich’s attack, failure to report to police, or illegal arms possession. Among the condemned were two parachute agents who planned sabotage from a British plane, one of whom shot two German customs officials.
Lieut Wayne Hockett Jr left Fort Des Moines for active duty at Fort McClellan Alabama after receiving his commission from Coe College in 1940. He was previously employed at Hubbard Cold Storage. Mrs Hackett resides at 2410 Grande Ave SE. Private Wendl Koblasse of the quartermaster corps on furlough visits his parents at 1027 Eighth St NW. Roger C Hawley of Hettinger North Dakota, a Coe College graduate, leaves for the ordnance unit training center at Camp Perry Ohio and is commissioned a second lieutenant in the ordnance service.
A notice states the courthouse will be closed all day Saturday for Independence Day observance. No other activities are listed in the readable fragment.
Mt. Herman lodge No 263 A F and A M will hold a regular business session Thursday at 7 30 p m in the Masonic hall. A reception for Westminster Presbyterian Church new members will follow the mid week prayer service at 7 30 p m Wednesday. Blanche Kubec leaves for a two month vacation with relatives in Oregon Washington and California. Mrs Elting Ottley underwent an operation Tuesday morning at St Luke's hospital. City Briefs note market data for July 4.
Blanche Paula of 118 E avenue NW filed a bankruptcy petition Tuesday listing liabilities of 903.97 and assets of 20 with exemption claimed. Schulze couples in multiple addresses were notified of a niece's death in Charles City, Mrs. Ann Lucian. John Moehlenhof, once with the Council Bluffs U S employment service, has moved to Cedar Rapids as an interviewer.
The public library will be closed all day Saturday July 4. The Sixteenth Avenue library station will be open Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. instead of Saturday.
A joint mass meeting of workers from the LaPlant Choate, Hall Manufacturing and Lefebvre companies is set for 7 30 p m July 5 at the Farm Equipment Workers CIO headquarters 529 Fourth Avenue SE Cedar Rapids Speakers will include international union officers.
Calder Van and Storage reported no damage estimate after a 1 44 PM fire on Louisa street and Center Point road NE. A small load of household goods for Charles E. Martin of Cedar Rapids burned with the truck. cause undetermined. Cedar Rapids fire company No 2 answered the alarm.
Corp James Ferguson son of Mr and Mrs C A Ferguson of 712 Tenth Street NW is promoted to sergeant and stationed at Camp Williams Wis with the army air corps. Sergt Robert E Hart of Camp Polk La son of Mrs Anna Hart 11284 Third Street SE is home on a 15 day furlough. Reuben Tucker of Cedar Rapids promoted from private to fifth grade technician in an ordnance regiment at Camp Sutton S C.
Two Gazette carriers report losing ten cent stamps while serving as war effort volunteers. Tom Meis of 1833 Fifth avenue SE lost 40 stamps in a glassine envelope on Fifth avenue SE between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets. James Threlkeld of 2426 Fourth avenue SE lost 35 stamps on June 23 near Mt. Vernon and Fourth avenues SE. They request finders notify The Gazette. Tom’s phone 7283 James’ 23481.
Jennie E. Yeigh died at her Cedar Rapids home 1414 E avenue NE at 7 30 p m Tuesday after a long illness born Independence 1872 she lived in Cedar Rapids 23 years survived by three children Edith Stone Lena Fox Irena Marquette 13 grandchildren four great grandchildren two brothers Clint Place Waterloo William Place Plummer Idaho funeral 3 30 p m Thursday Beatty chapel Rev F H Ward burial Linwood cemetery friends may call at chapel
A $15,000 lawsuit against Jesse Porter was dismissed after a compromise between P Leusen as administrator of Betty Leusen estate and Porter. The accident on March 12, 1940, on highway 11 near Walker Center Point, killed Betty Elaine Leusen when a Newland car collided with Porter’s truck. The case had been in court since May 3, 1940.
Wendl B. Gatto will get 450 dollars from the Iowa Highway Commission in full settlement of condemnation claims. He had dismissed a 2774 dollar damage suit and conveyed land on Marion boulevard and Blair's Ferry road by warranty deed for highways 51 and 64. The commission dismissed condemnation proceedings in return.
Mrs Josephine Svanda widow of Frank Svanda died at her Otis road SE home at 3 30 am Wednesday after a long illness. Born in Sadek Bohemia Aug 29 1861 she came to Cedar Rapids in 1909. Surviving are two daughters Mrs Rudolph F Stary and Mrs Mary Jedlicka four sons Vincent Jerry Joseph Stanley all of Cedar Rapids five grandsons one of whom Joseph Kadlec is missing in action in the Pacific and four great grandchildren. Funeral arrangements with Slovan Homestead.
Sixty nine licenses were issued last month in June, a small figure for the period. A clerk said the marriage license business is falling off while Missouri sees rising marriages where no waiting period is required.
Former Cedar Rapids resident Electa M Dysart died at St Catherine's Hospital Omaha after a long illness. She had been confined to a local hospital for two months with a heart ailment before leaving Cedar Rapids in April. She lived at 1314 First Avenue SE and worked for the Postal Telegraph company. Survived by her son Jack and her mother Mrs Etta.
Judge Charles J. Haas signs off on the thirtieth and final report filed by M. W. Ellis as receiver for the Iowa property, closing the legal proceedings and authorizing final distributions as outlined in the court filing.
Jack Sprat fell 4-3 to the Elks as Killian's rallied for four runs in the last inning. Janos allowed two hits and nine strikeouts in relief of Hinkins for the Elks. Van Cleve Sedlacek and L Pickart sparked Killian's with three baggers and two singles respectively. Billy Brown allowed four hits and fanned five for Killian's. Line scores follow.
Major General Hale, head of U S air forces in the mid Pacific, lauds long range bombing crews for the Wake Island raid 2000 nautical miles from Pearl Harbor. He credits Col. Roger M. Ramey with leading the over water mission and notes Japanese women piloted warplanes in a Southwest Pacific action.
Manpower needs lead the army to raise enlistment limits to ages 20 to 44 at the Cedar Rapids recruiting office. Eight new recruits listed include Dale D. Hughes of Cedar Rapids and Joseph E. Loecke of Dyersville along with six others from Dubuque Manchester Iowa City Keystone Waterloo and Oxford Junction.
Lieut. Gov. B. B. Hickenlooper of Cedar Rapids reported a $1 975.50 receipt and $2 740.00 in spending while winning the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Thornburg listed $2 922.68 spent in the June primary and $2 640.00 in contributions. The Thornburg for Senator club provided $2 140 of the contributions with 214 named donors listed for Hickenlooper.
House accepts Senate amendment sending to the White House a bill authorizing construction of 1,200,000 tons of auxiliary naval vessels. The measure adds 700,000 tons to the House’s original 500,000 ton authorizing limit after Senate approval and after funding for the larger tonnage was approved.
A southbound Atlantic Coast Line train the Southwind and another train collided near Whigham Georgia on Wednesday. One engineer died and several passengers were injured none seriously.
Vice chairman Howard J. Vickery announced American shipyards delivered 66 ships in June, totaling 731 900 tons, a new world record for steel ship construction. The gains come as the U S merchant fleet expands post Pearl Harbor with 51 liberty ships and several cargo carriers and tankers.
War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson announced a nationwide salvage campaign starting July 13 to collect scrap iron and steel plus metals fats and some tin cans. He said furnaces were idle due to scrap shortages and urged Americans to reclaim every piece from farms, homes, and businesses to sustain wartime production.
The Linn county Rubber for War campaign ends its first 15 day phase with 276 tons collected toward a 600 ton goal. A 10 day extension begins as the petroleum industry committee pushes to reach the target, with collection efforts already in high gear for the home stretch.
A compact vintage-style page lists multiple services and products. Watches cleaned for $1.50 at Probascs Jewelry near Palace Theater. car carburetor service and lounge items advertised. roof estimates, furniture repairs, and dressmaking offered by local shops. Several business names and addresses appear with promotional lines and contact numbers.
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