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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1941
Page
11
Chicago hog prices weakened Friday with top hogs at 11.85, down 14 cents from Thursday. Cattle markets stayed fully steady in cleanup trading, and lambs rose 10 to 15 cents. Reports cover representatives sales, byproducts from Chicago and St. Paul yards, with figures for various weight ranges and regional prices.
OMAMA LIVESTOCK Omaha AP reports hogs steady to 10c lower for barrows and gilts with sows down up to 15c. Good and choice 100-240 lbs fetch 11.25 to 11.40, 240-300 lbs 10.90 to 11.25, 300-360 lbs 10.50 to 10.80, 400+ lbs around 9.75 to 10.25. Cattle receipts about 1,000 with calves fair activity, slaughter steers market details incomplete.
Cattle receipts 125 with slaughter steers and heifers steady to higher, bulls lower. Vealers to 13.00, top 13.00. yearling steers around 10.50. butcher cows 7.00 to 8.75. Sheep receipts 125, spring lambs 10.75 to 11.25, ewes 3.00 to 4.00. Austin hog market shows steady to higher bids by weight class, top around 10.20 to 10.60 for 170–360 lb hogs, sows 9.40 to 9.70.
Local hog market shows steady to weak movement. Light and heavy hogs 5 to 10 cents lower while medium grades hold. Top long-haul no fill at 11.15. Record lists price ranges for various weights from good hogs to packers and spring lambs at 10.50 for 75-90 lb bucks and other quality-adjusted figures.
Market notices list prices for grains including No 2 onuts fresh white No 2 ages No 3 30 cents Rye No 2 45 cents Barley No 3 35 cents corn shelled New No 2 yellow 63 cents Soybeans New No 2 1 32 dollars. Straw baled tame 10 dollars straw baled 7 dollars. Poultry prices feature Sprites layers 5 pounds 17 cents four to five pounds 16 cents under four pounds 15 cents Leghorns 14 cents hens 16 cents Leghorn hens 12 cents cocks 10 cents. Eggs eggs No 1 20 cents No 2 18 cents. Wholesale fruits and vegetables list lemons 6 50 oranges 3 25 4 25 grapefruit 3 25 Michigan celery 5 cents apricots 87 12 cents watermelons 2 cents per pound lettuce 5 dollars 00 onions 2 25 cabbage 2 50 carrots 3 00 tomatoes 1 60 lug old Idaho russets 2 50 potatoes New California whites 1 75 cantaloupes 3 25 4 cents winesap apples 2 75 box. Hide market prices No 1 cured hides 10 cents No 2 cured hides 6 cents calf hides 12 cents regular one 1 lic No 2 kip 10 cents No 2 horse 5 06 No 2 horse 4 50 pony and glue half price mane and full tall included.
Market notes from CHICAGO and NEW YORK detail poultry butter cheese eggs and potatoes with receipts varied, prices unsettled to firmer in Chicago. Poultry and butter show gains in some grades, while potatoes face weak demand. New York butter and cheese hold steady with eggs mixed by grade across several markets.
New York stock market showed a mild and spotty recovery led by farm implements and related shares. Despite some advances, many leaders traded little or flat while declines remained common on a cautious preweekend session. Key movers included J I Case International Harvester Caterpillar General Motors Bethlehem Steel and Allied Chemical with U S Steel Chrysler Montgomery Ward Anaconda United Aircraft and Westinghouse also showing mixed positions.
Fred Parris aged 65 a Rock Island railroad conductor died of a heart attack at about 2 30 am while at work in the caboose of his train near Faribault Minnesota The report says he collapsed at his desk on the job and was pronounced dead at railroad offices.
Shores Company of Cedar Rapids paid a midyear bonus equal to two weeks wages to all its employees. Arthur Barlow, the company president, announced the award which benefited about 50 persons.
Wheat edged up about a cent in early Chicago trading then closed unchanged to 44 cents lower. July futures at 1.004 a bushel. corn and oats largely steady with minor shifts. Wheat cash and futures in Winnipeg and Chicago cash provisions show mixed levels across several grades.
In New York, bond prices moved little on Friday as Tokyo’s government change earlier unsettled markets briefly. Japanese issues faded after a brief flurry, while U.S. government bonds held steady to modestly lower in outside trading. Rail securities showed minor gains or losses, with Missouri Illinois 5s nudging a point and few other issues showing activity.
scattered sales of fair volume closed in the Boston wool market on a fine day with demand not as active as earlier in the week. Prices held steady with little business in combing three elecths and quarter blood bright wools, quoted around 46a to hie grease. Lamson Bros. and Co. supplied futures data on butter storage standards and egg standards for October through November.
John Mokrejs of the China United Lamp company at Shanghai told High Twelve club members at Hotel Roosevelt that China faces harsh living and economic conditions but interior development spurred by Japanese pressure is advancing. He warned against allowing Japan to dominate the Far East and urged maintaining U S groundwork in China while anticipating a future market for imports once peace returns.
An accident Thursday night on Highway 11 just south of Center Point involved five passenger cars and a truck. No injuries were reported. At 9:40 pm John B. Emery 49 of Center Point began a left turn, a gravel road entry. W C Hutchins of Waterloo approached, Emery slowed, as did Mrs Ray Taken Castlewood S D towing a second car. Taken pulled out to pass, struck the Hutchins truck, then was pushed into Emery's car.
LaPlant Choate defeated Ping's Score Board 12 to 8 on Thursday in the opening game of the second night of the Mid-eastern Softball tournament at Marion Athletic Field. Wind and rain halted the second game between D-L Grill and Coast to Coast at 12-4 with a replay scheduled Sunday at 1 pm.
Thirty five members of the Ladies Missionary society and General Aid of the Presbyterian church met Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs A J Taube east of Marion. Mrs F E Stimson led a book review on Christian Roots of Democracy in America and gifts for the white cross summer Christmas tree were exchanged around a blue spruce on the lawn.
A mixed local notices column reports travel visitors, new business openings, house guests, and family updates. Blanchard Stoufer visits Colorado kin after 52 years while Gail Storck and son Kenneth stay with Carl and Gail Fernow in Marion. Mr Storck plans permanent Kansas City residence with Marion as temporary HQ, and Murray's announces new location at 1180 7th Avenue. Shively and Mrs. Bet vy of Milwaukee, Visited Walford. Marjorie Cox and daughters from Anamosa visited Lindd and Muller households. Frager family from Buffalo hosted by Mrs Courtney. July clearance sale advertised by Bentsh Shoe Store. Nancy Hall and daughter Mary Patricia from Tucson visit Stitzel. Leta Cornelius Marchant ill with pneumonia at St Luke’s Hospital and reportedly unimproved. Donald Grags, Navy band member now in Corpus Christi, visits his parents after Hawaii assignment.
Three embassy officers and four clerks moved from Moscow to Kazan, four hundred forty miles east, as a precautionary measure to relieve congestion in Moscow offices. Ambassador Laurence A Stein hardt said the rest of the staff would remain.
New York report states Nathaniel Miaranz, 22, an American Eagle squadron pilot in the royal air force, is held as a prisoner of war in Germany. He is believed to be the first American airman captured by the Germans.
Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson said the blacklist against axis dominated firms will be extended to all countries where these companies trade. He noted the list would include branches in Spain Portugal Switzerland Sweden China and Japan and that the action in Latin America may not secure broader commerce but aims to curtail trade with listed firms.
President Roosevelt on Friday questioned any profit by Great Britain from the lend-lease program. He told a reporter that operations with food or other commodities to gain profit would not be cricket, a phrase he used to dismiss the possibility.
MINNEAPOLIS INS Mayor Marvin Kine said Edward Bo Hansen, appointed police chief nine days ago, vanished after resigning and was hospitalized in Duluth with a nervous disorder. He reportedly grew ill on the road between Duluth and Minneapolis and was taken to St Mary’s hospital. rumors of underworld battles surrounded his sudden departure.
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