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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1944
Page
2
Chicago Omaha Sioux City and Iowa markets show higher hog prices with steady to firm cattle and lamb values. Buyers push weights 180 to 360 pounds, with hogs 14.25 to 14.75 and sows around 13.25 to 13.65. cattle steady to higher on select steers and yearlings.
Chicago and New York markets show varied receipts and steady prices across produce lines. Cattle, poultry, eggs, and butter receipts are reported with current prices, including eggs at mixed lots and butter prices posted by OPA, while poultry values remain firm with turkeys, broilers, and ducks listed along with regional dairy and produce quotes.
Plymouth Wisconsin weekly price notes show miscellaneous cheeses for sale during the week ending July 31. Twins or cheddars priced at 23 and 14 cents per pound respectively, reflecting local dairy market activity.
Prime butchers up 20 cents and packers 15 cents on the Cedar Rapids hog market Monday. Top hog prices reach 14.40 for butchers and 13.50 for packers. Cattle and sheep prices listed by weight and quality, including steers from 14.00 to 15.00 and lambs from 11.00 to 13.75.
A Cedar Rapids market report lists grain prices for corn oats and wheat along with hay straw poultry and eggs. Wholesale fruits vegetables citrus and apples are priced, with hides and horses noted and a line on ponies and glue pricing.
Chicago markets showed dull grain with small shifts in wheat and oats. No. 1 red cash wheat near 1.57 and No. 2 red around 1.56. oats, rye, and various mixed grades declined modestly as traders faced a stagnant session.
In Italy with the Fifth Army, Gen Sosnkowski's visit to Gen Clark caused a scramble as no one knew the Polish anthem. Houston Pa. native Mary Ann Kosisrwski called the Rome Polish liaison and prompted a hummed version by Worchester MA bandleader Wilmont Trumbull. Sosnkowski approved the rendition.
Fourteen inmates at the Tule Lake Japanese relocation center remained in the isolation stockade after a 13 day hunger strike the War Relocation Authority calling the protest a fraud. Evidence suggests the detainees lived on cached food that vanished from the isolation kitchen just before the strike.
Arthur Haycraft of Cedar Rapids, an ordnanceman third class, was singled out by the pilot and co-pilot of a navy Ventura bomber that fought Japanese ground fire and enemy fighters to reach its Aleutians base. Haycraft had worked for Bulk Qi! company before enlisting about two years ago.
New York AP report notes the stock market attempted to rally on Monday but failed to sustain gains with many stocks slipping. Combined transfers reached about 600000 shares as declines dominated in late trading and several key issues showed weaker prices.
Miss Marguerite Lehand, longtime assistant and personal secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt, died at a Chelsea Massachusetts hospital from a cerebral embolism. Though ill since 1940 and retired in 1942, she had recently improved and left home for a social visit when stricken. She was affectionately called Missie by the Roosevelts and close aides.
The collapse of the two center spans of the $1,385,000 bridge across the Mississippi between Chester Illinois and Clar yville Missouri was attributed Monday to winds of tornadic force and not lightning as first believed.
Five squad cars of police and all available military and naval police broke up a melee between merchant seamen and persons described by police as Zoot-Suiters at a downtown Vancouver intersection Sunday night.
Edward A. Prochaska at 1026 Twenty-sixth Street SH is appointed superintendent of transportation for Cedar Rapids City Lines, succeeding O. B. Lindemann who moves to National City Lines. Prochaska joined City Lines in 1937, was a driver until 1942, and has served as assistant superintendent since then.
The City Plan commission will meet Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the superior courtroom of city hall. Union barber shops close to attend Geo P Hardy funeral Tuesday at 4 p m. Swimmers meet Ellis park pool Tuesday at 6 p m for water show. Mr and Mrs James Hamer smith move to Vallejo California. Keith Benner spoke at Roosevelt hotel Optimist club meeting. Cedar Rapids navy recruiting office announced enlistment of Joseph Russell Chody and Ray Edward Overman Jr in navy reserve. Durin home ransacked. police error corrected. Rev James H Blackstone Jr resignation accepted Westminster church. Bankruptcy petitions file in federal court by Mullinex couple. Personal injury suit noted in district court.
Capt Horace K. Vasey of Des Moines and Mrs Vasey, former Cedar Rapids residents, visit the city this week. He recently returned to the United States after six months with Brig Gen Claire Chennaults Fourteenth Air Force in China. He earlier spent 18 months in the Middle East and is a World War I veteran now on extended leave, assigned to an air force redistribution pool at Atlantic City. They are staying at the Commonwealth.
Elmer C Newkirk of 935 Nineteenth street SE was fined 300 dollars in Judge G K Thompson's court after pleading guilty to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Deputy Harlan Snyder arrested him near Fairfax on Highway 149 following a report of being forced off the road by Newkirk's car. Harry Lyons sues Russell Robinson in district court for 94 dollars over alleged property damage from a collision on April 13 1944 at First avenue and Twenty third street E. Margaret A Imig named administratrix for the estate of her husband Louis H Imig who died July 14 1942 in Cedar Rapids.
The Navy on Monday cut back submarine construction due to fewer subs than expected and a need for eight other weapon types. The plan preserves present submarine output for seven to eight months while shifting workers to other ship programs amid a broader ramp in total Navy production.
H C Bernbrook of Waterloo Rotary district governor urged teaching Spanish to children in the lower grades to make it a second tongue. He spoke at a Rotary luncheon at the Roosevelt hotel as South American business attendees showed strong English. He said U S youth learning Spanish would aid international relations and business with Central and South America. The program included songs by Miss Janette Sullivan with Mrs. Paul Clark at the piano.
Ration point values for July on meats fats and processed foods stay in effect until Aug 13. Butter remains at 16 red points per pound. OPA announces red stamps A5 to C5 valid as of July 30 and blue stamps B5 to F5 valid Aug 1.
Cedar Rapids city council aired a letter from the Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor opposing dismantling the Greene Square fountain. The federation asked restoration to original form and usefulness, noting it was a gift from the federation in the early 1900s. council also pledged aid for Cedar Rapids City Lines tire needs.
Pfc Everett E Burk son of Mr and Mrs Everett G Burk 618 Eighth Ave SW was seriously wounded in France on July 10 according to a telegram from the war department. A medical corps member over seas since February he took part in the Normandy invasion after Roosevelt high school graduation and prior Civil service at Western Weighing Inspection Cedar Rapids. He is hospitalized in England.
Defendants filed a motion in federal Cedar Rapids court to dismiss the amended complaint by plaintiffs Thomas Liken Dorothy Brauer Grace L Nystrom Irene LaRue Fred W Mueller Carrie Mueller and Mrs W E Godso versus The Shores Company and The Shores Minshee Company. They request a hearing in Cedar Rapids on August 29. Plaintiffs seek production inspection and copying of Shores Mueller records and depositions in the federal clerk’s office for safekeeping and inspection.
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