Hogs Prices Jump on Diminished Receipts in Tuesday Reports
Chicago and Omaha markets show hog prices up about $1 with lighter still available. Cattle receipts steady to higher with strong demand for choice steers and vealers, top prices near $25.25 in parts, while sheep and feeder stock see mixed activity across Sioux City and Des Moines regions. Iowa hog receipts total about 14,000 with prices $0.75 to $1.25 higher for various weights. sows and feeder pigs also firming.
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Chicago Produce Prices Mixed as Receipts Surge
Chicago markets show receipts for produce, eggs, butter, and cheese rising over two days. Prices vary by item with eggs at wholesale ranges, butter showing weak demand, and potatoes tracking light sales amid liberal supplies. Wisconsin and New York price notes noted.
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Stock Market Tends Lower in Irregular Trading
New York stock market opened lower with scattered leaders contesting the downturn but real selling pressure remained muted. By mid day many leaders wavered while declines of fractions to a point or so predominated near the close and some recoveries appeared. Transfers ran around 700000 shares.
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Market Quotations and Hog Cattle Prices Reported
Monday's Dow Jones averages and industrials led a broad market wrap with price changes across many sectors. Hog and cattle markets show typical fluctuations with prime hogs and yearlings pulling near peak bids, while livestock futures reflect cautious demand and seasonal shifts at Chicago and Kansas City markets.
Corn Loses Oats Exhibit Strength in Chicago Trade
Corn futures slipped about four cents on Monday while oats held a steady undertone and saw active trading. Shorts turned buyers, lending support to oats as corn finished around 314-314 and oats rose about a half to three quarters of a cent, with barley easing. Prices for wheat, corn, oats and barley are listed by grade and delivery month with modest gains and losses across the Chicago cash and futures market.
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Fine Trucker Fined $25 for Drunkenness Charge
Merle Scobee of Waterloo was fined $25 and costs in police court after being arrested by Patrolmen George Shimek and Harold Mackey for drunkenness Saturday night. Officers report they detained him at 9 20 p m at a filling station at Sixteenth avenue and Sixth street SW where he was about to drive away in a truck.
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Waterloo
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Harold Mackey
Sixteenth Avenue
Sixth Street
Czechoslovakia Seeks Hungarians' Transfer
New York dispatch reports Czechoslovakia aims to repatriate about 200000 Hungarians as a key peace conference objective. Czech ambassador Jura J Slavik announced the goal before leaving for Paris and said Czechoslovakia does not want fifth columns.
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Judges To Pick Sioux City Sue Contest Winner
Sioux City Journal and Journal-Tribune with the Chamber of Commerce host a contest to identify Sioux City Sue. Over 90 women meet the look, 23 groups selected finalists, final judging by Dick Thomas and Ray Freedman. Winner and chaperone receive an all expense trip to Hollywood and a screen test from Republic Studios.
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Dick Thomas
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Sue
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Moving Picture Studios
Republic Studios
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Senators End Ban on Feminine Attaches in Senate
In Washington on Monday, the Senate, by tacit agreement, discarded a long standing unwritten rule barring feminine attaches from the floor. The move marks a notable shift in Senate decorum and gender parity in access to chamber proceedings.
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Mead Group To Look Into Pearl Harbor Probe
Washington AP A Senate war investigation opens anew into pre war delays in fortifying Hawaii amid Pearl Harbor blame. Sen Brewster says May committee blocked witness. Col Theodore Wyman Jr once Hawaiian district engineer linked to defense contractor Hans Rohl faces inquiry.
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Iowa veterans to train for state patrol at Camp Dodge
Forty Iowa World War II veterans including Maurice F. Jacobs of Marion will begin a month long recruit program August 3 at Camp Dodge for positions on the Iowa state highway patrol. Safety Commissioner Fred Wilkins announced. The group from 34 counties averages age 26, weight 1179 pounds and height six feet. Local items note real estate purchases, moves, and visits among Marion residents, and a birthday observance for Davis Reynolds.
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Maurice F. Jacobs
Marion
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Iowa State Highway Patrol
Fred Wilkins
Cedar Rapids approves new street oiling projects
Public Improvements Commissioner David L. Williams announced a fresh batch of street oiling plans in Cedar Rapids. Targeted routes include Fifth Street SE, J Avenue NE, Fourteenth Avenue SW, A Street SW, and more across NW and NE sections. Petitions must reach his office by August 1 for completion this year.
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Sick Boy Rates a Special Air Show over Omaha Home
Russell Gutting an 11 year old from Omaha fell ill with a virus yet witnessed a private air show over his neighborhood. Army pilots, led by Col Dave Schilling, learned of his dream to visit Offutt Field. They gave autographs and a power driven model plane and staged a half hour display at his home.
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Russell Gutting
Offutt Field
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Clarence Gutting
Dave Schilling
56Th Fighter Group
Doll and Pet Parade Planned for Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids will host a doll and pet parade downtown on August 27. George Penrod, chairman for Hanford Post No. 5, American Legion, announced at a city council meeting that local children and others from surrounding towns will parade with their dolls and pets. The council granted permission for the event.
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Cedar Rapids
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American Legion
Million-dollar Sheaffer estate filed in Fort Madison
The late Walter A. Sheaffer founder of the W. A. Sheaffer Pen company at Fort Madison is valued at 1,010,717 dollars. He owned 376 shares of stock valued at 31,490 dollars. The bulk of the estate is in stocks and bonds. He died at 78 on June 19 after a long illness. His son C. R. Sheaffer is president of the firm.
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W. A. Sheaffer Pen Company
Sheaffer
C. R. Sheaffer
Death sentence reduced for Pvt. Leo Christensen
Pvt. Leo Christensen, an Iowa Idaho native, had his death sentence for murder, rape, and assault reduced to life imprisonment by Maj. Gen. James Lester of the U S 24th Division after findings of insufficient evidence for a murder conviction. The case goes to the judge advocate general in Washington for final disposition. Christensen was accused of ramming a motorcycle into a Japanese boy, assaulting a married woman in her home, and attacking a Japanese man on June 30.
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Dubuque Truck Driver Killed in Illinois Bridge Collision
Dubuque truck driver Karl Rickett s 31 and companion Carl Wissing, also of Dubuque, were in a heavy truck that struck a bridge near White Hall Illinois on Monday. Rickett s was killed instantly and Wissing was seriously injured. The men had gone to St Louis to pick up a load of cantaloupe for Hanson Fruit Company of Dubuque. Rickett s is survived by his wife and three children.
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Nine Eastern Iowa Men Enlist in Navy
Nine eastern Iowa men have been accepted for enlistment in the navy and are en route to a training camp. Cedar Rapids officials reported Monday. Two were enlisted under the electronic technician mate program.
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Special Legislative Session Appears Off in Iowa
DES MOINES AP A special session of the Iowa legislature to pass a rent control bill now appears unlikely with early passage of an OPA extension bill indicated in Washington. Gov Robert D Blue has said he would call a special session only if congress had not acted in time to prevent Aug 1 evictions.
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Navy Enlistees Named Across Iowa Cities
Regular navy enlistees listed include Robert M. Muir of Cedar Rapids and Calvin L. Robinson of Marion. Also named are William P. Krebs Richard D. Hunter and Robert L. Kovar of Cedar Rapids Melvin E. Papesh of Vining James Conklin of Oakdale Harold L. Watts of Deep River and Robert L. Smith of Iowa City.
Boy Drowns In Iowa Pond While Wading Near Farm
Kenneth Halvorson aged 7 drowned Sunday while wading in a pond on the Burt Kintz farm near Dunbar. He wandered beyond his depth while picking cat tails and could not be rescued. The tragedy occurred in Taylor County, with local authorities investigating the accident.
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Soybean Industries Incorporated Incorporation Notice
Notice identifies Samuel H. Maslon Roger E. Joseph and FS Sigal as organizers of Soybean Industries Incorporated Cedar Rapids Iowa with principal place of business to be Cedar Rapids. Articles authorize 100 shares at 100 dollars each 10000 capital stock and perpetual existence starting July 3 1946 with three directors Osborn Andreas and others to serve until first stockholders meeting. Directors named Cedar Rapids Illinois Chicago appear in listed details.
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