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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1940
Page
5
AP reports cooler demand and steady receipts for hogs, cattle, and sheep across Chicago and Iowa towns. Hogs trade mostly 6.00 to 6.50 per cwt with varied weights, cattle show slight gains on grain fed types, and lambs and ewes noted with mixed price moves as cooler weather influences demand.
OMANNA LIVESTOCK OMAHA API USDA hogs receipts 3200 total 3600 barrows and gilts unevenly steady to 0c higher sows active 15 to 25c higher bulk 170-260 lb top 6.10 270-330 lbs 5.40-5.75 medium 140-160 lbs 5.00-5.75 most under 360 lbs 4.90-5.10 few to 4.25 bulk 360-500 lb sows 4.50-4.85. cattle receipts 3500 calves 300 trade steady to higher fed steers 9.50-10.50 yearlings 9.25-10.25 heifers 9.25-10.25 beef cows 5.00-6.25 bulls 5.50-6.25 stockers and feeders strong. vealers 7.00. sheep 7000 fat lambs slow higher asking prices steady. feeding lambs 7.50-8.00 native spring lambs 7.75-8.00 ewes 1.00-3.25 range 7.75-8.00.
U S Department reports salable receipts for cattle hogs and sheep. Cattle and feeder stock steady with bids up to 11.25 for choice 1,140 lb beeves and cows around 5.00 to 5.75. Hogs active with top quotes near 6.25 and 180-230 lb pigs around 6.00 to 6.25. Sheep 2,600 receipts with Idaho Spring lambs at 8.00 and natives higher, slaughter demand steady.
Iowa hog receipts for 24 hours ending Wednesday at 16 yards and 10 packing plants in Interior Town and southern Minnesota totaled 10 500, down from 31 309 a week prior and 15 000 a year ago. prices ranged for various weight classes with good and choice barrows and gilts between 5.25 and 6.20 dollars per hundredweight, while sows showed 4.75 to 5.18 dollars in several weight bands. Paul Livestock at South St. Paul reported cattle receipts light with mostly steady trend. yearling sales around 965 pounds at 10.65 dollars, with a few good steers at 10.00 dollars and short fed values for other ranges.
Hogs and cattle prices trend mixed across Peoria and Austin markets with receipts around 4 000 hogs in Peoria and 1 000 in Austin. Cattle and calves show varied gains and declines with top hog prices near 8.50 to 9.50 per hundredweight and calves strong in spots while sheep see steady demand for lambs and ewes.
The notice lists light hogs and lambs with price ranges per weight. It cites a nickel advance in the market tones and specifies prices such as 8.00 for light goods, 2.50 for down bucks, and 1 for others, with weight bands 70-90 and 100-120 pounds.
A Cedar Rapids market page lists grain prices for Wheat No 1 at 64 cents No 2 aged oats 30 cents No 3 28 cents Rye No 2 3 percent cents Barley 38 64 245 cents Corn shelled No 2 yellow 7 cents No 3 5 cents Soybeans No 2 yellow 65 cents plus hay straw prices Rated tame hay 7.30 rated straw 5.00 Wholesale fruits and vegetables display lemons oranges grand fruit Michigan celery lettuce onions cabbage tomatoes carrots new potatoes apricots watermelons and more Fresh poultry prices include hens over 5 lbs 11 cents 4 to 5 lbs 16 cents and other items hens and roosters eggs listed as well as hides calf and horse prices in varying ranges.
Wisconsin cheese exchange quotes for July 29 to August 3 show Daisica 14 percent and Cheddars 13 1/2 cents. Farmers call board lists Daisies 14 1/2 cents and Americas 14 1/2 cents. Boston wool market reports quieter activity with limited graded fine territory wools at 24 85 cents scoured basis and half blood at 36 6 1/2 cents. medium grades weak amid foreign wool concerns.
New York trading saw irregular price moves as leaders blocked any sustained rise. Gains and losses balanced at close with about 550000 shares traded. Steels led declines while aircrafts gained on a committee recommendation, and United Aircraft Eastman Du Pont Westinghouse and AT&T lagged.
In Wednesday trading Ralls edged higher while most groups drifted in a narrow unsteady pattern after early gains. Central and South American loans cooled after Tuesday’s surge from Havana conference cues, Argentine and Brazilian issues showing small advances. Domestic issues inched forward with Michigan Central and Studebaker notes among the movers while Bethlehem Steel and Commonwealth Edison held. U.S. government bonds rose modestly in light volume with Treasury issues quoted around 46 to 52 for various maturities.
Loretta Young, 27, wed Tom Lewis in a cathedral ceremony at St. Pauls church Hollywood. The advertising executive from New York was the groom as the couple began their life together.
Wheat futures closed fractionally lower after a mostly firm session on the Chicago board of trade. Corn weakened while oats edged down slightly and rye slipped modestly. soybeans also declined. Weather in the corn belt improved, and shipping demand rose with noon sales of 191 000 bushels and 101 000 bushels to arrive.
Chicago cash grain prices list wheat corn oats barley soybeans rye lard bellies and related market quotes with No 1 hard and No 2 hard wheat prices and corn and oats values. Minneapolis receipts show market comparisons, basis levels, and grindable varieties with protein notes and durum classifications.
Receipts 30 trucks steady live poultry with broilers down, ducks up, colored and white varieties mixed. Butter firm with creamery grades higher. eggs unsettled with mixed colors and storage packed prices steady or unchanged. Potatoes and other commodities show varied quotes across Idaho and Washington origins.
Dr W M Evans longtime Iowa Presbyterian moderator returns from his forty fifth consecutive summer stay at Hayward's Bay on West Okoboji lake. He spends four weeks at his cabin bought in 1896 with daughters Hazel Evans and Lulu Peterson and family members attending. Anamo8sa Rosary will be recited for Charles Lazio at Garnavilla street home before funeral prayers at St Patrick's church and burial at Holy Cross cemetery.
Trials to determine war guilt of prominent French military and political figures were set for the second half of August. A new supreme court of justice will hear cases formerly handled by the senate since 1876, with jurisdiction over these charges.
Seven girls performed a home version of Cinderella in the Morse residence yard at 3413 First Avenue West to raise funds for the Red Cross. They collected $1 at the end, turning it over to the local chapter. performers included Helenka Bartunck Jean Rogers Janet Brown Shirley Alderman Lois Turner Mary Ann Brown and Alcta Bartunck.
Judge Haas partly grants and partly denies motions in an Iowa fair trade suit brought by the Iowa Pharmaceutical Association on behalf of 23 Cedar Rapids and Marion retailers. The ruling dismisses the petition against the association but lets stand claims against the individual retailers. The plaintiffs seek to block Mays from selling branded products below minimum retail prices under manufacturers and wholesalers contracts.
Milo Buresh, 39, of Fairfax, was stopped in Cedar Rapids by the state highway patrol Saturday evening. He pleaded guilty before Judge C. J. Illans on operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and was fined 300 dollars and costs. The fine was paid. Baresh had withdrawn a not guilty plea entered Monday.
Richard Emery seeks a 102.69 judgment in a two car damage suit against W R Bump and Bessie Bump of Kansas City. The action stems from an automobile accident involving Emery and Bump on Highway 30, 18 miles west of Cedar Rapids, on April 12.
Linn County supervisors voted Tuesday to sell vacant Central City lots with tax deeds held by the county. Purchasers named include Mary Elizabeth Palmer for 75 dollars, Collins Fleming and Sarah Fleming for 50 dollars, and William C. Mote and Doris Mote for 20 dollars.
Linn county supervisors voted to vacate a road crossing the Emmons farm between highways 94 and 30 west of Mount Vernon. The 1902-established segment had been unused and the vacation clears an abstract of title per county officials.
Linn County supervisors on Tuesday settled a $386 claim for maintenance of a Cedar Rapids man at Independence state hospital. The award halves the claim to $193 and releases a lien on Cedar Rapids real estate as part of the deal.
Linn county supervisors approved construction of two wooden pile bridges by the county bridge crew with WPA labor. Lumber will be supplied by the WPA and the bridges will be flanked by stone rip-rap. One measures 48 by 20 feet and the other 20 by 20 feet.
Lelah Butts files a divorce suit against Leon Butts on grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. She seeks custody of their two children. The couple married in Cedar Rapids on August 11, 1931.
H R Hickey doing business as Hickey Motor Service filed a 2122.55 labor materials and storage claim in the Melrose Dairy receivership. Wage claims of Fevers employees were also filed.
Mrs Joseph Besta age 71 died at home at 12 40 p m Wednesday after a short illness. Born November 3 1868 in Bohemia she came to the United States in 1874 living in Detroit before moving here. She married Joseph Besta November 3 1886 and is survived by a daughter Mrs George Skver and three sons Joseph Louis and William all of this city, plus 14 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. She was active in Rosary society of St Ludmilla church and St Anne lodge. Funeral plans to be announced later.
British authorities press a drastic blockade extension announced in the House of Commons to choke Germany and Italy. The plan would curtail coal bunkering oil fuel and dock facilities worldwide for ships refusing to avoid German or Italian cargoes.
The Townsend club No 60 will convene in the superior court room of City Hall Thursday at 7 30 p.m. The Red Cross sewing classes are suspended until Tuesday Aug 6 at the Y W C A due to redecorating. Ceded details of local notices included in brief.
Miss Ardelle Espe resigns as clerk in Sheriff James H. Smith’s office in Linn County effective August 1. She has accepted a position with a Cedar Rapids firm.
A Ford sedan stolen in Waterloo on July 26 was found abandoned on a lane running north from 1st Avenue NE around 4 pm Tuesday by Patrolmen Duncan and Ahring. The battery was gone and a connecting rod ran through the crankcase, according to the officers.
Jesse Jacoby reports a burglary at a boathouse south of Ellis park pavilion. Five gallons of gasoline a battery a case of pop bottles and several wrenches were stolen. Entry gained by breaking a screen and sliding door bolts. Jacoby's employer Gilbert Doubrasky at 1703 First Avenue E.
Michael H Hahn of 1871 Ennis Boulevard NW was taken to University Hospital in Iowa City after falling ill Sunday. His condition is described as serious, prompting the postponement of the Summer Theater Players rehearsal for Soldiers Four in which his son Max Hahn stars. the show is rescheduled for the second week of August.
Work on the Marion high school addition to house the new steam plant is nearly done. Two 110 horsepower boilers with stokers have been installed along with a coal bin and platform for loading. A 29 by 16 kitchen is being built above the boiler room to serve 120 rural pupils, with a serving window to the gymnasium and cupboards around the room.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 pm in Oak Shade cemetery for Donald I. White four 3 year old son of Donald A and Vera Adams White of St Cloud Minnesota who died Monday after a brief illness. The Rev Vernon L S Jones will officiate. He is survived by his parents a sister Mary Alice White and his maternal grandmother Mrs Adams of Grand Island Nebraska and his paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs Louis White of Marion. Friends may call at the Yocum chapel Thursday morning.
Compliments to Mr and Mrs DeVere Fehr marked a wedding while a shower and picnic entertained sixty guests at Thomas Park pavilion. Out of town guests included the Dyes from Cedar Rapids and others from Mount Vernon Anamosa and more. A eighth birthday party for Jo Ann Failor gathered friends at 945 Sixth Avenue with favors and refreshments. Laura Bailey Auxiliary picnicked at the Emerson home as letters from India were read. Prolonged visits included Rev Mr Irving Seager and family. The Daniel B Klopp family reunion drew seventy six at the Seeks home. Mrs Garrie Fornow is ill in Cedar Rapids.
The Marion school band directed by Glenn L Lyman performs Thursday in the city park. The program includes Depot Band march Rosenkrans Overture Morning Noon and Night Fancy Free trombone solo Evelyn Roundquist Don Quixote Yankee Rhythm Skaters Waltz Boy and the Birds The Stars and Stripes Forever by Sousa.
Mayor John He Pazour and city leaders traveled to Ames to meet the town highways commission about widening the Indian Creek bridge. The item appears in a community notes column listing local travel, visits, and small ads along with social updates from Spirit Lake, Toaddsille, Marion, and surrounding areas.
German spokesmen said 1,270,000 tons of British shipping have been sunk in the English Channel and other seas since June 25, by German sailors and flyers, a part of Germanys armed forces.
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