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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1944
Page
4
Chicago and Des Moines market notes show hogs trading down about ten cents across weights with steady to slower demand for cattle and mixed movement for sheep. Receipts reach around twenty thousand hogs and six thousand cattle as buyers show cautious activity across regions.
Chicago and New York listings show dairy and produce activity. Butter receipts 1 065 186 lbs firm. cheese and eggs mixed prices and volume. Poultry and eggs traded with varied weights and regional shipping quotes. wholesale prices reported for geese ducks roosters and pigeons alongside chicken and fowl categories.
Cedar Rapids market reports show hog prices up ten to fifty cents with top butcher hogs at 13.55 and packers at 11.50. Cattle and sheep values follow varied classes with steers, heifers, cows, bulls, calves, and lambs listed by weight and quality bands.
The market showed a partial recovery with leaders slipping only minimally as late buying trimmed losses. Turnover totaled about 1.4 million shares, with a wide list of stocks including Adams Express Johns Manville Allied Chemical Kennecott and many others showing varied moves.
Grain prices for corn soybeans oats wheat and rye headline a dense market report from Cedar Rapids. Livestock poultry and eggs follow with delivered feed and price ranges including heavy springs light springs hens leghorns current receipts and egg grades. Wholesale fruits vegetables citrus and apples are listed with crate and box prices, along with hide values for various grades and livestock options.
Chicago reports a government crop forecast predicts a potential all time wheat harvest as grain prices rally on short covering. Wheat closes steady to down with July at 1.58. oats and rye show modest gains and barley up. Cash prices list varying No 1 red and No 2 red values with barley around 1.25 to 1.44 per bushel.
Wisconsin cheese market listings from Plymouth note weekly prices with July 10 to 15 range, mentioning cheddar variety at 23 percent. Mississippi River stage reports from Davenport list several towns with fall levels, including Hastings, La Crosse, Prairie du Chien, Dubuque, McGregor, Gordons, and Keokuk with fall readings and small changes.
City brief notes include a South Side Red Cross unit postponing its meeting from Wednesday to Friday July 14, a bungalow canning school with a two oclock afternoon start, a deputy collector appointment for Henry E Mahony to the Cedar Rapids division, and a Davenport ODT rep at the Chamber of Commerce Wednesday.
Linn county highway safety commission will devote its October quarterly meeting to a round-table session with mayors judges justices and law enforcement officials of Linn county. The plan follows a 300 percent rise in traffic fatalities in the first half of 1944 versus 1943 with 29 deaths across six counties Jan 1 to July 7 1944 compared to 8 in the same period 1943.
Springfield Illinois police say Roberta Steiger 25 confessed to poisoning her roommate Helen Hovey 24 by sandwiching rat poison with peanut butter over jealousy of a serviceman's attention. Hovey died in a hospital. Steiger held on murder charges.
Articles of incorporation for the Cedar Rapids Homes corporation with capital stock of 25000 are filed in Linn county recorder's office. Officers are John J. Wagner president E J Nelson vice president J R Brooks secretary and E H H Gundling treasurer. Directors are Wagner Nelson Brooks Gundling with William C. Crawford. The firm is authorized to deal in homes and real estate and construction and appliances for real estate business. Articles also filed for the Eastern Iowa Artificial Breeding association with Dr James W Pirie president and vice president Frances M Pirie secretary treasurer.
London AP reports General Montgomery praised Allied forces in Normandy after the invasion. He cited 54 000 prisoners taken, progress on Cherbourg Caen and surrounding areas, and pledged continued offensive action. He urged troops to persevere and quoted Sir Francis Drake praying for steadfast finish.
Lt. Col. Jeff Hollis of the U S Army recounts a patrol near Les Mesnil Angot during which German SS troops opened fire on wounded Americans. Hollis describes silencing an officer and units with burp guns, then regrouping after casualties on both sides.
The city council and YMCA representatives debated granting a quitclaim deed to riverfront property behind the old YMCA building on First Street NE. They proposed reserving a perpetual 25 foot easement for river wall construction to avoid future costs, as the Hetherington Letter Co. seeks clear title.
Funeral services are planned for Charles Turechek 1140 C Street SW at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Janeba Funeral Home with burial at Bohemian National Cemetery. Daisy O Green 605 Third Avenue SE dies and services are set at Beatty chapel 2 p.m. Wednesday. Milton Mason Des Moines 86 dies after lifelong Iowa residence. Edward G Mitvalsky funeral at Barta chapel 2 p.m. Wednesday. Additional notices for A Halleck sister of Mrs Anangst and Mrs Border Cedar Rapids resident who died in Los Angeles.
Johnson county won the award for bond and stamp sales at the Iowa 4 H club girls convention. The Johnson county group sold 507139.33 dollars worth of bonds and stamps. Lost and found notices include keys with name and address, a yellow gold locket, and a black and white cat near Johnson Avenue with contact numbers.
A large shipment of non rationed shoe skates arrived at Ce Mar Roller Rink for private party use. Hammond Electric Organ advertised for private parties with phone number 9334.
A collage of 1930s era classified items and notices includes new management and hours for venues such as Hurdle & Halter Inn and Lee's Bar-B-Que, several service ads for painting heating and hauling, and extensive help wanted and job listings. Also listed are maintenance services, sewer cleaning, and laundry and dry cleaning offerings from multiple vendors along with farm labor and factory positions.
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