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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1944
Page
1
Chicago AP reports hog trade mostly steady on Saturday with some 180 to 240 pound hogs selling from 14.25 to 14.50 and 200 to 220 pound hogs quoted to 14.75. Cattle and sheep also steady with receipts around 000.
Goers report cattle fat stock prices up to 25 cents higher with several lots at 17 100 17 25 choice. Sheep receipts 1 900 for the week with lambs and yearlings 25 50 higher and good native spring lambs 13 75 to 14 00. Hogs active with total receipts 500. barrows and gilts 14 or 14 19 top, heavier weights 13 45 to 13 70. Sows 5 to 6 cents lower for the week.
Cattle receipts total about 160 cattle calves with prices dropping across common, medium and average good steers and yearlings. Top steers reached around 17.75 with beef cows and cutters mainly down, while fat bulls and sows showed softer quotes. sheep receipts around 260 with lambs steady to higher and yearling wethers steady.
Ontario style livestock prices show receipts light with moderate activity. Hogs steady to 1 cent lower on 180 to 249 pound pigs selling around 1400 dollars per hundredweight, heavier butchers finding 613.25 average, cows mostly steady, vealers and bulls mixed with gains for spring lambs and yearlings. Week's totals show strong demand for fed steers, yearlings, and feeding lambs while shippers see limited loads and overall market clarity remains uncertain.
Iowa price listings report mixed cattle and hog values across Des Moines and southern Minnesota for a 24 hour period ending Saturday. Values include good and choice barrows and sows with various weight ranges, prices around 12.75 to 14.25 per hundred pounds, and regional price quotes for Ottumwa and Mason City buyers.
New York producers report live poultry prices fluctuating with wholesalers listing various cuts and consignments. Figures show hens toms jeunes and squabs with assorted per pound figures and local market notes for wholesalers and retailers in the district.
Chicago butter receipts show 8.120 steady with extras and 92 score A quality. Eggs receipts at 11.166 cases steady with specials 40646 on, current receipts 32e33c, dirties 264. 28 checks 264 29¢. Potatoes arrivals 53 on track, Idaho arrivals 7 total 70, Oregon washed and jobbed prices listed. California and Missouri items noted with washed jobbed prices and deliveries.
Professional traders limited activity as mills covered flour sales and hedged cash interests. Volume was light and the undertone was easy. At the close September wheat futures were around 1.5554-5, oats about 7.154%, with other grains showing small declines or little change.
Fragmentary OCR shows references to cash provisions, sites, grades, and pricing terms including a $600 per cote mention. The legible items are scattered and do not form a coherent report or named entities to anchor a fuller summary.
Saturday hog market was quiet after a busy week. Top price for butchers reached 14.20 dollars, with prices around 13.35 dollars for common hogs. Local buyers reported subdued demand as buyers watched markets closely.
Market listings show corn prices at various grades around 75 to 76 cents per bushel, oats and barley noted, with ledgers for baled hay, poultry, eggs, and wholesale fruits and vegetables. Prices for apples, lemons, sweet potatoes, onions, and Texas grapefruit are listed, along with hides, calves, horses, and glue by weight or unit.
Market brief from Plymouth Wisconsin notes cheese brands and prices for the week. Twins or cheddars feature in regional listings with mention of Wisconsin dairy products and midweek sales patterns.
Anamosa Arthur McCullough post American Legion bought a two story brick building on North Ford street to remodel as clubrooms. Funds came from 40 members via one year loans at three percent. Ground floor leased to E W Gordon for five years.
The Treasury announced a plan to designate commercial banks as cashing agents for war bonds while preserving the 60 day holding rule. Older bondholders can cash immediately, and banks will be paid per transaction to ensure bondholders receive full value. The move, set to take effect within 60 days, aims to speed redeeming procedures and provide quick cash to holders.
Joseph Armata, 15, Milwaukee youth, was sentenced to 10 years in the Anamosa state reformatory for car theft. He was arrested in Cedar Rapids after taking Grace Numbers' car in Clinton on July 12. Alfred Jensen, involved, broke jail at Clinton but was later arrested in Milwaukee.
New York stock action on Saturday moved cautiously with a few favorites recording small gains while many leaders stayed in the red. Sparse buying and selling incentives kept volume light as trends near close showed a mixed finish and pivotals largely unchanged.
The New York market showed an irregularly lower drift with consumer groups most active in trading. Most changes were fractional, some issues moved wider, but the overall trend stayed indecisive as demand supported certain investment type industrials and utilities on the advancing side.
Mrs Grace Hucdle Lookhoff resigns from Coe college music department to teach voice at Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware Ohio She pursues a master's degree at the University of Michigan The soprano soloist has opera radio and concert experience and has directed music at the Second Christian church
Andy Andrews reports a wheel and tire stolen from his car last night while parked in front of his home at 116 Thirty-fifth Street SE. The wheel valued at 20 dollars. A carton of welding rods worth 30 dollars was lost from a truck Wednesday afternoon. Detective Albert Wilson returned Edna Kahn and Mildred Waterman of Waterloo to Cedar Rapids Friday in connection with the theft of a 100 dollar bill from Max Smithson at 307 Seventh Avenue SE on Thursday. Misse terman, 25, was arraigned in Judge G. K. Thompson's court Saturday on a larceny charge and given until 9 a.m. Tuesday to enter her plea.
AMES Iowa AP Capt A F Duernberger who led the Iowa State college naval training school since February 1942 is being moved to another post. Lt Comdr C W Myers, formerly at Notre Dame, will assume command and take over Saturday.
The Marion Business Girls club will host a dinner and business meeting Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the O K Drive In. Reservations should be made with Arminta Davidson. Miss Dorothy Vogt of Homestead visits her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Arnold WilFancy boxed candy 98c and 1 48 at Owens Cut Rate Drug Mrs John Knapp Jr her son Gail and her brother Gerald Stark visited Des Moines over the weekend with their father A W Stark and sister Mrs John Shipman Rev Arthur Baxter of Cedar Rapids will lead Marion Baptist church services Sunday morning and evening.
Des Moines based agricultural advisory committee accuses the War Food Administration of failing to stabilize hog prices or ensure orderly marketing. They urge price based on quality, federal grading, sufficient processing space, extended floor prices, and consumer pork pricing aligned with purchase cost, while noting subsidy shifts planned for Oct 1.
John Shade Chandler 50 warehouse manager for Chandler company died suddenly at 3:30 am Saturday at his brother Philip Chandler s home. Born Oct 26 1893 in Cedar Rapids he was a World War I veteran and Peoples church member. He leaves wife Marie a daughter Jeanne his mother Estella M Chandler two brothers Philip and C R Chandler and three sisters. Services Monday at 4 pm in Turner chapel with burial at Linwood cemetery.
Carl W. Sprowls died at his son Robert W. Sprowls home in Cedar Rapids at 10 30 p m Friday after lingering illness. Born February 11 1873 in Lebanon Ohio he married Helen Ward May 31 1900 in Lawrenceburg Indiana. He lived largely in Cincinnati and moved to Cedar Rapids from Cedar Falls two years ago. Survived by wife two sons Robert W Cedar Rapids and Carl W Sioux City a brother H L Sprowls Bloomfield a granddaughter and a grandson. Body to be moved to Sioux City Saturday. services Monday at Anderson chapel City with burial there.
Jay Grady Workman of Cedar Rapids died at 6:20 p.m. Friday after a long illness. Born March 24, 1891 in Stanwood, he lived in Cedar Rapids 27 years and married Anna Marie Hamer on December 4, 1912 in Marion. Survived by wife Anna, daughter Mrs. Oliver Cox, son Orlie Workman, another daughter Mrs. Roy Kaester of Rock Island, twin brother Ray, sisters Mrs. Harold Ellison and Mrs. Agnes Reynolds, brothers Reed and Clark, two grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. A member of First Lutheran church, services set for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Turner chapel with Rev. Paul Luther Miller. burial Cedar Memorial Park. Friends may call at the chapel.
A public meeting set for Wednesday will discuss price ceilings on used cars. Organized by the OPA, the session targets automobile dealers in four counties but is open to all interested residents.
Gazette carrier salesman John Snell is convalescing at 1291 Twelfth Street after a tonsillectomy performed on Wednesday. Charles Grandle, who has been seriously ill for ten days, is recovering at the home of his brother in law and sister, the Harry J. Murpheys.
Mr and Mrs Warren Johnson and Miss Ramona Johnson are spending the weekend with relatives at Lost Nation.
Capt Garth Hunter of the U S Army is spending a 15 day leave with his parents Mr and Mrs J F Hunter in Canada during a tour of duty.
The Wednesday Study club invites families to a 6 p.m. picnic on Sunday at Thomas park. Members urge attendees to bring dishes to share and enjoy a casual outdoor gathering with games for children and adults alike.
Pvt Bernard J Mullaley, son of Mr and Mrs Edward Mullaley, transfers from Camp Phillips Kansas to Camp Claiborne Louisiana. Mr and Mrs Donald Hoff and their son Daryl visited St Louis Friday to see Mrs Hoffs brother Sgt Everett Edwards formerly of Marion on a furlough from a Tennessee camp with his parents.
Mrs Emmett Hickey has returned from a visit in Chicago and Downers Grove Illinois where she formerly taught in the public schools.
Dan G. Hickey traveled to Des Moines on Saturday for the funeral of his nephew Frank Hickey fifty a World War I veteran and native of Van Horne. Mrs. T A Barkwill and sister Mrs. Floyd Etzel of Alburnett have returned from visiting their parents Mr. and Mrs. C H Miles at Philip South Dakota.
Fire Chief Edward Card has completed painting two city trucks and a grader. The truck bodies are finished in orange with black trim.
Mrs Hulda Johnson of Rockford Illinois has arrived to visit her son John Johnson and her brothers Alfred and August Johnson in Cedar Rapids.
Keith Branson of Casper is the guest of his cousin Mrs. Warren Hoff. Mrs. Jack Ratliff is advised that her brother Ship's Cook 1/c John D. Sidlinger has been assigned to the Great Lakes naval training center for limited service due to his physical condition.
Mrs. Dale Conklin of Kanawha and her son David are guests of her brother in law Archie Conklin. Mrs. Mary McKean is confined to her home at 776 Twelfth street with a sprained ankle from a fall.
Returning Friday from a week's camping at the Lower Palisades were the L. B. Lacocks and Joyce Ann, Mrs. George Allman and Vivian, Rosalyn and James of Marion, and Mr. and Mrs. James B. Nash and Juanita of Cedar Rapids.
Mrs Kenneth H Freeman of Rockford Illinois formerly Hilda Jane Edaburn of Marion is advised that her husband Corporal Freeman is serving with the army in France.
Multiple local churches list their pastors and service times. Marion churches include Baptist with Rev. Benjamin H. Shaw and Bible school at 9 45 a m, morning worship 10 45, Torch Bearers 6 30 p m, evening worship 8, midweek prayer and Bible study 8 p m. Catholic mass at 8 and 10 a m, Christian with Rev. Vernon H Carter at 9 45 and 10 45, sermon Gods and God, Congregational with Rev James M Lower 10 a m school and 11, Free Methodist with Rev C B Patrick and services 9 45 Sunday school, 11 a m and 7 45 p m, Y M C A 7 15 p m, midweek prayer Wednesday 7 30 p m. Methodist with Rev James P Gable 9 45 and 11, sermon by Rev C V R De Jong of Presbyterian church Gods and Substitutions, last Sunday morning service until Sept 3 with August at Presbyterian church. Presbyterian with Rev C V R De Jong 9 45 Sunday School, unite with Methodist in services. St Pauls Lutheran with Rev Carl E Krog 9 30 am, 8 15 and 10 30 am worship, sermon Decisive Difference Among Various Hearers. Seventh Day Church of God Seventh Street at Ninth Avenue Sabbath school Sat 7:30 a m preaching 11 30. Prairie Chapel Rev A B Curran Sunday school Epworth league 7 30 p m.
Two new members were elected to Iowa Democratic state central committee in district caucuses. Frank Beymer of Avoca was chosen Seventh district chairman, replacing Bert Jeck of Atlantic, who did not seek re election. Alberta Kelly of Nichols became First district vice chairman, and Florence Lynch of LeMars was re elected Eighth district vice chairman. Presidential electors and committee members were also chosen in each district, with Frank Comfort named Fifth district presidential elector after being ousted as national committeeman.
Desert-hardened New Zealand troops cracked Nazi defenses south of Florence and entered the last mountain line five miles from the historic city. German counter-attacks and Tiger tanks drove a leading NZ company back 600 yards before the positions held. South African troops crossed the Greve river near Impruneta, five and a half miles from Florence, while fighting continued along the Fifth army front with artillery exchanges across the Arno. The Pope urged consideration of Pisa’s sacred status amid no new shelling reports.
Louise Flack was found guilty of manslaughter in the starvation death of her eight year old daughter Dolores. Superior Judge Alfred J. Fritz sentenced her to one year in county jail and five years probation, citing no malicious intent and a chance for rehabilitation. The defense and probation officer requested leniency, and the jury had urged leniency as well.
Pittsboro Indiana Franklin Schenck found himself pinned beneath his car after a crash. The ordeal worsened as he lay in a dense poison ivy patch. He reported the experience to AP, noting the double danger of injury and plant irritation.
Yellow Cab association officials said all 48 taxicabs stayed in garages as drivers walked out to protest a mileage reduction tied to a gasoline shortage.
Card of Thanks extends appreciation from Mrs Gertrude Lavina Andre and family for support after death. Lost items include a gold expansion bracelet between a t's and 7 Pilate net, a black and tan female Airedale, a springer spaniel black and white, a navy service pin downtown Friday evening, No 3 ration book, a keys set in the loop, and other small items with contact numbers for recovery.
DES MOINES Iowa May 2 1942 Joseph Dunne a Maquoketa farmer was sentenced five years for assault with intent to commit murder during an attempted holdup. State reversed the conviction on Friday bringing new legal action in this case.
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