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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 05, 1943

Page

6

Hog Market Steady Amid Mixed Livestock Receipts

Unofficial Monday receipts show hogs 25 000, cattle 14 000, sheep 14 909 in Chicago AP notes a limited hog supply sold at nominally steady quotes with top at 14 40 for good to choice medium weights. Omaha markets report steady to weak changes with hogs 13 75 to 13 90 for various weights and sows up to 13 60. cattle and sheep also show mixed, with week totals and top prices listed.

Chicago Omaha Generel Kansas Spring

Sioux City Livestock Report Cattle Sheep and Hogs Prices

Receipts for the week include 100 calves slaughter data and 480 sheep with fat lambs and ewes showing declines and steadier feeder lambs. Hog receipts total 900 with steady 200-300 lb trades around 13.75 and sow prices near 12.60 for the week. Iowa hog receipts from Des Moines ins show varied barrow and gilt prices across weight classes with sows quoted up to 13.75.

Sioux City Idahos

Chicago Livestock Market Report Delivers Varied Cattle and Hogs

Cattle receipts around 100 with steady to higher fed steers and yearlings, rare loads at top prices. Vealers and cows show volatility with prices up to 14.00 for heavy beef cows and hogs steady near Friday’s average. lambs and ewes also traded mixed with top lambs near 16.00. Eastern buyers active, packers competitive, light calf supply.

Chicago Eastern P Cer GETEP

Austin Minn Hog Market Prices Report

The Austin Minnesota hog market lists varying prices by weight ranges with good butchers quality. Price spreads include 160-170 lb pigs at 12.85 to 13.15 per cwt and 270-360 lb ranges around 13.45 to 12.75, with higher brackets near 13.60 to 13.90 for larger hogs.

Austin Austin. Minn Towa Associated Good Butchers Mason C Waterloo Ottumwa Cedar Rapids Cattie James J Jump Beesnen Adams Express Intipene Allied Chem T & Allied Stores Johns Manville Allis Chalmers Kennecott Amn Kroger G & B. Resge Ibby McNeil Amn Co Ie Owens Amn Rad Atlantic Big Murray Corp Nash-Kelv Aviation Corp Natl Biscuit Baldwin Loco Nat Cash Ree Balto Ohio Natl Dairy Barnsdall Bendix Borden Coat Pac Warner Packard Murs Paramount Bucyra Erie Penna RR Penney J Co Burroughs Serve Inc Comw South Shell Union Copper ES Simmons Co Sinclair Oil Cons Edison Elly Oil Conti and Motors Sou Railway Conti Oil Dei ‘Orn Products Sverry Corp Cible Steel Brands I Cub Amn Sug Sta Calif Curtiss Wr Ind Deere & Co En Warner Douglas Air Stude Ares Eric Tidewater Tex Gult Eastman Kdlk Aiimken Timken Reb Elec Oal Fox Film Union Carbide Union Pac Gen Electric Ae Uni Aircraft Gen Motors Gillette SR Goodyear Tire Graham Paige Nor Ry Zuts Walworth Greyhound Warner Bros Houston Homestake Oil & Wes Union Hudson Mtrs Ahs Wheeeem Tils Central Willys Ovi Wilson & Co Indus Rayon Woolworth Youngston Zenith Radio Chicago Butler Es Chicago Corp Wits Edison Walgreen

New York Produce Dressed Poultry Prices Firm

New York notes dressed poultry sales remain under supply with prices holding firm though stock levels are well below needs. Live poultry wholesale activity is weak with limited domestic business and only nominal movement across grades. Chicago potato markets show arrivals light and prices firm with U S 1 size A at 3.75 and other varieties around 3.85 as stock remains tight.

New York Chicago California U. S Mississippi Bliss

Chicago Grain Quotations Update From Lamson Brothers

Market brief listing grain quotations furnished by Lamson Brothers and Company. H. R. Mowrey manages Cesar Rapids office at 503 Merchants National Bank building. Contact via phone 2-3141 for price quotes and trading details.

Chicago Lamson Brothers and Company H. R. Mowrey Cesar Rapids Merchants National Bank

Cedar Rapids Grain and Market Prices Report

Grain prices for oats wheat corn and rye listed with No 2 No 1 figures. Poultry and eggs pricing given for broilers fryers hens ducks geese and pigeons. Wholesale fruits vegetables and hides prices noted with assorted crates and box values.

Rye Loses Ground In Grain Trading

Chicago AP reports close of trading for rye down 0.12 to 0.01 compared with Saturday. Wheat held steady with July at 1.4544 and September at 1.455. Corn steady at 1.05 and oats unchanged to 0.12 lower.

Chicago

Chicago cash provisions report

Chicago market notes show no wheat or corn sales. No 3 yellow priced at 1.06, sample grade yellow 1.032 to 1.05, No 2 white 1.23, sample grade white 1.01. Oats No 1 Pa white 0.6814, No 2 white extra heavy 0.68. Soybeans sample grade yellow 1.57.

Chicago INU

Iowa Faces Unannounced Statewide Blackout Plans

Des Moines officials were told by Rodney Q. Selby executive secretary of the Iowa industrial and defense commission that an unannounced statewide blackout is expected in Iowa during the last week of June or first week of July. Officials in the Seventh Service Defense Region based at Omaha advised Iowa civilian defense authorities to be prepared for the blackout within that period.

DES Moines Rodney Q. Selby Iowa Industrial and Defense Commission Iowa Selby Seventh Service Defense Region Omaha

Body of Oelwein Flyer Is Located

Coast guardsmen located the body of Ensign Robert Elmer Frisch a 28 year old naval flier from Oelwein Iowa who died in a crash in the Industrial Canal after his plane collided with another naval training aircraft. The other plane made a forced landing and its two crew escaped injury.

New Orleans Robert Elmer Frisch O6celwein Frisch

Ceiling Put on Corn Products for Feed

Washington AP reports corn products used for livestock feed placed under OPA price ceilings. Ground corn cracked corn corn chops and ear corn chops will be priced by formula based on corn ceilings.

Washington Office of Price Administration

Hog Killing Resume At Morrell Plant After Holiday Stoppage

An Ottumwa dispatch reports the hog killing department employee at John Morrell and Company returned to work Saturday following a three day stoppage over overtime hours and the Memorial Day holiday. The halt affected production at the plant and workers cited overtime disputes as the cause.

Ottumwa (Ap John Morrell and Company

3 Year Crests In Wall Street

New York AP reports motors and steels led a stock market recovery on Saturday with favorites up fractions to more than a point. Several issues hit their best levels since January 1940 as coal labor tension, the Argentine coup as an Axis strike, reduced selling, and persistent investment fund demand buoyed prices.

New York Motors and Steels Axis

New York Bond Market Mixed as Some Segments Rise

A large market section traded within fractional ranges on Saturday while several rail, utility, and industrial loans advanced a point or more. Argentina bonds saw moderate gains amid a favorable reaction to Castillo government overturn.

NEW York Bond Review New York Argentina Castillo

Brotherhood meeting at Roosevelt hotel Sunday morning

The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen will meet at 10 am Sunday at the Roosevelt hotel. The Peoples Savings bank named administrator with will annexed for the will of Joseph T. Ziskovsky who died May 20 in Cedar Rapids. R L Whelan state commander of the Disabled American Veterans left for Marshalltown for a state executive committee meeting to be held Saturday and Sunday. Mrs Charles Pitlik hospitalized at Mercy hospital after surgery with no visitors allowed though condition satisfactory. Daniels Park Presbyterian church will hold three services Sunday with sermon on Jesus anderson. Irwin L. Oxley civil service rep from Des Moines will visit Cedar Rapids Tuesday to interview for work at Puget Sound navy yard Bremerton WA Mare Island Vallejo CA Hunters Point San Francisco

The Peoples Savings Bank Joseph T. Ziskovsky Cedar Rapids R. L. Whelan Disabled American Veterans Marshalltown Daniels Park Presbyterian Church Jean P. Hayter Jesus Anders Irwin L. Oxley Civil Service Des Moines U. S. Employment Service Office Puget Sound Navy Yard Bremerton Wash Mare Island Yard Vallejo Calif Hunters Point Dry Dock San Francisco

Enlistment of Five 17-Year-Olds in Naval Reserve

Five 17 year olds were announced by the navy recruiting office as enlisted in the naval reserve. The youths named are William John Wright of Vinton George Henry Solon Charles E Burlingame of Center Point and George L Elliott of Solon.

Naval Reserve Navy Recruiting Office William John Wright Vinton George Henry Solon Charles E. Burlingame Center Point George L. Elliott

Trustees Approve Army Contract At Coe College meeting

Coe College trustees approved a war department contract for housing and training Aircrew men on campus. They also advanced four teaching staff, granted leaves, appointed a director of admissions, and honored Beardsley Rump with a doctor of laws. Messages of sympathy were sent to Cedar Rapids native and colleagues.

War Department Coe College Apj.u Mately Stewart Memorial Library Boyd G. Carter Warren N. Keck Kent Andrews Edith L. Barber William Fisher Chicago Florence Adams Fisher University of Nebraska Miss Adams University of Illinois Vernon E. Lichtenstein John

May Dairy Inspector Reports Milk Tests For City

City Dairy Inspector A. R. Menary filed the May report with the city council. The ordinance sets minimum butterfat tests of 3 percent for milk and 16 percent for cream, plus an official plate count under 50,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter. The tabulation shows multiple dairies and their fat, cream, and bacteria readings, with several marked very low or low in bacteria counts, and others at varying fat percentages.

A. R. Menary Roy Cedar Heights Farm Omar Heights Farm Heights Farm Cedar Valley Dairy Davis Dairy Merece Forest Grove Highland Dairy Krebs Leacox Northwood Wonitere Whiting Aries Ares Sant. Ae Stark's Sunny Dale Otto Vondracek Aines Guer Krebs Dutch Girl McRaith Northwood Dairy Wey Synkary Beniters Dairy

Easterner Held in Cedar Rapids Draft Charge

John A. Hardiman 19 of Boston Massachusetts appeared before U S Commissioner R L Whelan in Cedar Rapids on a charge of failure to register with his selective service board Bond set at 2500 and the case continued to June 18 He has been in the Navy two years and was discharged recently on the west coast and is held in Linn county jail.

John A. Hardiman Boston Mass U. S R. L. Whelan Cedar Rapids Selective Service Board Hardiman Linn County

Dean Kay Reported As Losing Ground

Iowa City AP report says Dean Emeritus George F. Kay, 69, longtime educator and geologist at the State University of Iowa is losing ground in health. Details on his condition were not available.

Dean Kay Iowa City George F. Kay The State University of Iowa Liberal

Hanford Post to Elect New Officers Tuesday

Hanford Post No. 5 of the American Legion will elect new officers Tuesday at its meeting. The event involves members selecting successors to lead the post in upcoming activities and community duties.

Hanford Post Hanford Post No. 5

Mitchell guest near Lisbon for anniversary dinner

Mrs Louis Boyle of Mitchell S D visits sister in law Mrs Elizabeth Smeltzer. They plan to travel to Lisbon for a Sunday dinner marking the twenty second wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Henry Teidemann. Lieut Catherine Peckosh A N C of Schick General Hospital Clinton is visiting her parents.

Louis Boyle Mitchell, S. D Elizabeth Smeltzer Lisbon Henry Teidemann Lieut Catherine Peckosh A.N.C the Schick General Hospital Clinton Mrs Louis E. Peckosh

Pasadena couple visits Atlanta relatives

Capt and Mrs H W Norman of Pasadena arrived Saturday to visit Mrs Hazel Snell and grandmother Mrs A H Kirkwood in Atlanta. They seek to rent immediately a 5 or 6 room modern house. See Jack McArtor advertisement.

H. W. Norman Pasadena Capt. Norman Atlanta, Ga Jack McArtor

Gordons Called to Anamosa for Ill Brother in Law

C E Gordon and daughter Edyth Gordon travel to Anamosa on Friday due to the critical illness of Simeon Ballou, the brother in law of Mr Gordon. The Dry Creek Ladies Progressive club met with Mrs Ed Boyanov near Springville. sixteen members attended and responded to roll call with Dishes I like to prepare best.

C. E. Gordon Edyth Gordon Anamosa Mr. Gordon Simeon Ballou Ladies Progressive Club Dry Creek Ed Boyanovsky Springville

Local and Personal Notices Roundup

Mrs Myrtle Everett aunt of Mrs J B Gerrans is visiting at the Gerrans home. Private Jerry Gerrans has been moved from Camp Dodge to Camp Roberts Calif. Mrs Floyd C Ozburn travels to Oxford Junction for her cousin Joseph Benischek’s funeral. A daughter named Carol Louise born June 2 at St Luke's hospital to Mr and Mrs Richard Stevens. Several locals leave for Des Moines for induction. Donald and Jean Ann Dunt spend weekend with Mrs Clara Dunt. Mrs Donald Parsons from Auburn Ala visits her mother Mrs Pauline Nase. George Newlin moves to 3095 Tenth Avenue. Mrs Ethel Rose Hanson seriously ill at St Luke's. James Crandall critically ill at Titus home. Rev C J Biddle Guthrie Center attends Hamm Wulfsberg wedding.

Jerry Gerrans J. B. Gerrans Camp Dodge Camp Roberts Calif St. Luke's Hospital Richard Stevens Fourteenth Street Carol Louise Stevens Mildred Wooldridge

Children of Methodist Sunday School Prepare for Day Program

The primary department will gather Sunday at 9 30 a m to rehearse for the Children s Day program on June 13.

Methodist Sunday School

Farm Barn Fire Causes $5000 Loss Near Waterloo

A Friday blaze of unknown origin destroyed a 60 by 100 foot frame barn on Harold Barron’s Waterloo farm one mile north of Allen Memorial Hospital. The barn belonged to Mrs. Lucy Dean of Sioux City and contained farm machinery, 200 bushels oats, 100 bushels soybeans and 12 bushels soybean seed. Insurance covers the $5,000 loss.

Waterloo Harold Barron Allen Memorial Hospital Lucy Dean Sioux City

Anderson to Give Coe Baccalaureate Sermon and Services

Dr Charles A Anderson president of Coe college will deliver The Urge of Responsibility at the Coe baccalaureate service 11 am Sunday in Sinclair Memorial chapel The sermon is based on John 17 1s Dr David I Berger Bible department head reads Matthew 13 1-8 19-23 Dr Eric L Clitheroe associate professor Bible gives the invocation and leads the Lord s prayer Rev James B Hodgson assistant professor philosophy offers the benediction The commencement choir performs Alleluia with Leatta Jorgensen soloist and Harold Reeves 28 singing In Native Worth from The Creation by Haydn.

Charles A. Anderson Coe College Coe Sinclair Memorial Chapel David I. Berger Eric L. Clitheroe James B. Hodgson Anderson Wilson Leatta Jorgensen Lost Nation Harold Reeves Haydn

Marion Area Church Services and Schedules

Local churches list Sunday services and events across denominations including Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist and Presbyterian with sermon titles, worship times, Sunday schools and youth meetings. Noted pastors include Rev. Benjamin H. Shaw Rev. T J McElliott Rev. Vernon H Carter and Rev. C V R De Jong among others. Sermons titled They Were Expendable Three Fold Faith Thinking Up The Will of God and Your Sanctification are mentioned with Holy Communion at St Paul Evangelical Lutheran.

Benjamin H. Shaw St. Joseph’s Catholic T. J. McElliott Vernon H. Carter Frederick N. Nelson Pilgrim Fellowship Free Methodist C. B. Patrick Arthur W. Henke Rose Wilcox Church Board of Education P.m. Presbyterian C. V. R. de Jong 155Th General Assembly of Presbyterian Churches Detroit Mich St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Carl E. Krog Seventh Day Church of God Sixth Street Ninth Avenue Prairie Chapel A. B. Curran Epworth League

State Guard Unit to Camp Dodge on Sunday

Cedar Rapids Company L of the Iowa state guard will train at Camp Dodge for two weeks ending June 20. The group departs Sunday at 7:35 a.m. from Union Station after a 6:15 a.m. meeting and breakfast. The Clinton company joins them and other units from Dubuque Cedar Falls Waterloo and Marshalltown ride together.

Cedar Rapids Iowa State Guard Camp Dodge North Western Railroad Union Station Clinton Company Dubuque Cedar Falls Waterloo Marshalltown

Stolen Purses Ladders and Gas Ration Book Reported

Two purses and a gasoline ration book were listed as stolen on police records Saturday. Missing items include a pair of six foot ladders and a cutting torch. John M. Ford reported a pocket book with $23 and a gold watch chain gone from a First Avenue tavern. Irene Lybarger reported her purse missing from Newman’s on Friday afternoon. James E. Bettle’s ration book was missing from his car since May 30. Ladders were stolen from John Wenner’s home between Friday 7 and 10 p.m. and the cutting torch from Concrete Materials and Construction on Pleas oases road SW.

John M. Ford Linn Junction First Avenue Tavern Irene Lybarger Sixth Street Newmans James E. Bettle Seventh Avenue John Wenner Second Avenue Pleasoases Road

Traffic Court Notes With Speeding and Parking Fines

De Uo Sixth Street SW speeding 38 mph on Sixteenth Avenue SW between Third Street and Sixth Street. Felix Saldina fined $10 and costs. Milo Simanek double parking $1 and costs. William E Corbett plus others entering arterial highway without stopping $2 and costs. Mrs Thomas McInough and Helen Nassif overtime parkers each $1 and costs.

Sixth Street Sixteenth Avenue Third Street Felix Saldina C Avenue NE Milo Simanek Mallory Street William E. Corbett First Avenue Thomas McInough Fifth Avenue Helen Nassif B Avenue Parkers

WSUI Plans 15 Minute Kinick Tribute Monday

WSUI at the University of Iowa will air a 15 minute tribute to Nile Kinnick on Monday at 12 45 p m The program includes a transcript of an interview with Kinnick from January 30 1940 broadcast by the station.

Iowa City WSUI University of Iowa Nile Kinnick Kinnick

War bonds memorial by Tune Grads of 43 to Coe College

More than $200 in war bonds were presented to Coe College as the memorial of the June class of 1943 at class day exercises. Dorothy Forsyth of Nashville Tennessee chaired the memorial committee and delivered the bonds to President Charles A. Anderson. The exercises opened graduation activities on the knoll in front of Veerhees quadrangle. Commencement will be held Monday at 9:30 a.m. in Sinclair Memorial chapel.

Coe College Dorothy Forsyth Nashville, Tenn Charles A. Anderson Veerhees Quadrangle Sinclair Memorial Chapel

Drug Firm Fined For Violation of Child Labor Law

The Ford Hopkins Drug company pled guilty in Justice Howard R. Churchill's court to violating child labor laws. City attendance officer A. I. Bailey filed the charge on behalf of a girl under 16. An agreement allowed work until 6 p.m., but she worked until 10 p.m., resulting in a $25 fine and costs.

Ford Hopkins Drug Company Howard R. Churchill A. I. Bailey E. Riguette

Ambulance Drive Aims to Gift 12 to U S Army

Special to The Gazette from Omaha reports the Western Bohemian Fraternal association plans to present an ambulance to the U S Army on Saturday June 26 at Wilber Nebraska. Col A S Bowen Fort Leavenworth will represent the army. Local arrangements are led by J J Novak. The group targets at least 12 ambulances with nine already acquired and ceremonies planned or held.

Omaha Neb Western Bohemian Fraternal Association Cedar Rapids Medical Department United States Army Wilber Seventh Service Command Sokol Col A. S. Bowen Fort Leavenworth Kan Army J. J

Varna Population Doubles After Bulgaria Gains Independence

In the Black Sea port Varna the population more than doubled over the 25 years following Bulgaria's 19th century independence, reflecting rapid urban growth and economic expansion in the new state.

Black Sea Varna Bulgaria

Lost ads column from The Cedar Rapids Gazette

Local paper lists want ads rates and submission details with numerous lost items. Phone or mail ads accepted for same day, deadlines 11:15 a.m. weekday, 6 p.m. Saturday. Entries include lost ration books keys watches pets and valuables, with rewards and contact numbers.

Cedar Rapids Gazette He Gazette Want Ad Department

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