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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1943
Page
2
Unofficial Monday receipts show hogs 24 000 cattle 15 000 sheep 5 000 with prices quoted nominally unchanged from Friday. Cattle demand broad with steers 14 50 to 16 50 top 17 45, feeders up to 5 60, cows scarce but steady, beef bulls higher, sheep firmer. hogs 300 on sale with top around 14 20 and gilts sows weaker.
Salable receipts 400 hogs from Omaha market show firm undertone with top hogs at 13.75 to 13.80 per cwt for 220 lb and up. Calves scarce. fed steers up to 16.35 with heifers around 15.75. bulls 13.25 to 13.85. Sheep report notes lambs and ewes mostly higher with top around 15.90 for Idaho spring lambs and various values for fed and clipped lambs and ewes.
Sioux City livestock receipts total 100 cattle and 400 hogs with 1,200 head total week to date. Slaughter steers and yearlings bid higher with best beef around 16.75 per cwt. cows steady to +25 cents. Hogs steady to 10 cents lower. top barrows and gilts about 13.85. sows largely unchanged. Fat lambs mostly 14 to 15.50 per cwt with good and choice at 14.25 to 15.50. Receipts for week and destination week not specified.
U S Department of Agriculture figures show combined hog receipts at 42 200 head for interior Iowa and southern Minnesota in the 24 hours to 8 am Saturday, up from 26 100 a week ago and 39 800 a year ago. Prices range across weight classes with good and choice barrows and gilts and sows in the 12 70 to 14 00 per cwt area.
Prices for various live weight ranges and packing sows are shown in Austin Minnesota with per hundredweights listed in dollars. Rates cover 160 to 500 pounds ranges with multiple tiers and last updated figures for good packing sows.
The Associated Press notes hog price ranges for good butchers and packing sows across weights from 160 to 500 pounds with bids and receipts in Waterloo and Ottumwa. Prices hover around 13.05 to 13.90 per hundredweight with varied quotes for weight brackets and packing sows.
New York reports very strong demand for dressed poultry with limited supply and permissible price markups for orders under 100000 lbs. Live poultry prices rise across categories including turkeys hens toms ducks rabbits fowls and broilers with various regional grade pricing noted. Cheese prices steady with nominal wholesale activity and Swiss cheese at 31 to 39 cents per pound.
Market notes show potatoes arrivals 52 with on track 51 and shipments 999, light supplies and high demand. California long whites washed conventional sizes quoted around 3.95 to 4.12 per unit, U S sizes 4.08, Alabama Bliss Triumphs unwashed 4.10, Texas Triumphs unwashed 4.06 to 4.15. Cheese Twins 25.2 cents, daisies and longhorns 26 cents.
Special Recruiter H. Joseph Dickens interviewed twenty one men for enlistment in Seabees in Cedar Rapids on Friday. Seventeen ratings were assigned across ratings including machinist mate shipfitter and electricians mate.
Lamson Brothers and company provide Chicago grain quotations with H R Mowrey listed as Cedar Rapids office manager at 503 Merchants National Bank building. The item notes contact phone 2 3141 for information.
Hog prices rose ten cents on the Cedar Rapids market with top butchers at 13.80 and long haul no fill at 13.90. Grade by weight shows good hogs from 140 to 360 pounds and packers 13.30 to 13.80, cattle and hogs listed with multiple price points for steers cows yearlings and lambs.
Grain prices show oats at No 2 65 cents and No 3 63. wheat around 1.20 for No 1 and 1.16 for No 2. rye No 75 cents. Shelled corn No 2 yellow 94 1/2 cents. soybeans No 2 yellow 1.66. Hay and straw bids at 12 to 16 dollars. Poultry values list various weights and species with cents per item. vegetables and fruit prices for celery, oranges, lettuce, onions, sweet potatoes, apples Winesaps and box prices. potatoes cobblers 3.15 cwt. Texas grapefruit 3.85 per box. Hide prices No 1 cured hides 12 cents, No 2 11 cents. calf hides No 1 13 1/2 cents, No 2 12 1/2. horses No 1 6.50, No 2 6.00. kip prices 12 or 11 1/2 cents. Manes and full tail included. pony and give half price.
Chicago AP dispatch notes milling demand supports wheat while profit taking limits gains. July oats rise to a fresh seasonal high, the contract reaching its highest since 1920, with rye adding minor advances and corn largely unchanged amid varied trading.
Wheat and oats show no sales. Corn bids for sample grade yellow at 1.03 1/2 and white at 1.03 3/4. Barley quotes list nominal ranges from 1.00 to 1.08 for various grades. Soybeans No 3 yellow bid at 1.68 1/2.
For the week of June 14 to June 19 the Plymouth Wisconsin cheese market highlights twins or cheddars at 23 cents per pound. The brief notices suggest strong cheddar demand and a focus on local dairy products during the mid June period.
Robert Hewitt of 258 Nineteenth Avenue SW pled not guilty at arraignment before Justice of the Peace W A Ball on an assault and battery charge. He was released on 100 dollar bail with trial set for Monday after bartender Herbert M Selby received five stitches for a cut. Selby said Hewitt objected to being ordered out at closing time.
The House passed the anti-strike bill with seven Iowa Republicans voting yes. Reps Case Cunningham Gilchrist Gwynne Hoeven Martin and Talle supported the bill, while Rep Lecompte was not recorded.
New York reports Lieutenant Henry Ford II, son of the Ford founder, Henry Ford, will succeed his father at the helm of the family foundation for infantile needs, marking a notable leadership transition.
AP reports a listless trading day as selected stocks try to recover with only a few advancing while leaders mostly retreat. Sluggish start and afternoon selling dominate in steels motors and rails as the down side crowds the close. About 400000 shares changed hands.
New York bond market was narrowly mixed Saturday with rails showing irregularly lower tendencies. Some carrier loans traded behind at times including St. Paul 5s of 1975 North Western 4 3 4 s Lehighton Valley 4s Frisco 4 4 s of 1978 Wabash 4 2 s and New York Central refunding 5s.
The War Labor Board will withhold action on Collins Radio Company Cedar Rapids wage increase requests until employee elections decide a collective bargaining agency. The May 28 filing followed a June 17 consent election agreement with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.
Cloyd G. Lyman of Victor cited for speeding 38 miles per hour on Sixteenth avenue SW from Sixth Street to Third Street. Fine set at $10 plus costs. Jack.
Funeral services for Private Wesley Choteborsky killed at Camp Chaffee Arkansas when struck by a bus will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in the Polansky chapel with Rev. F. E. Russell of Buffalo officiating. Burial is in Shiloh cemetery and Hanford post American Legion will conduct the graveside rites. The body arrives in Cedar Rapids Sunday at 2 45 p.m. Private Choteborsky’s mother died January 1 1942.
Russell John, 28, pled guilty to armed robbery of a Council Bluffs post office contract station on Sept 23 1942 and was sentenced to 25 years in a federal penitentiary. Accomplice Richard L. King, 24, is serving a five year Minnesota state term and a detainer is filed. The pair confessed to 12 armed robberies across five states between Sept 8 and Oct 15 1942 including two in Minnesota and the second Iowa crime in Sioux City.
About 100 Cedar Rapids residents signed up by noon Saturday for emergency farm work, with 400 more expected. Booths operated by the Young Men's Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce, led by Registration Chairman Lee Winger, were set up on Second Street near Montgomery Ward, Second Avenue near Armstrong's, and First Street near Kresge. The event, postponed from last Saturday due to rain, runs until 9 p.m.
Inspector of Detectives Bill Kudrna warned merchants to watch for a young woman passing counterfeit checks in the western part of the state. He described her as about 5 feet 4 inches, dark and attractive, posing as a defense plant worker and using the name Anne Kessey with checks drawn on the Omaha National Bank. She reportedly carries an industrial plant badge bearing the number 15 and offers her social security number as reference.
Springfield police seized Thomas Jaggers 24 of Galesburg Indiana as the Missouri sheriff moved to extradite him for Linn County uttering a forged $52.84 check on May 15 at the Fourth Avenue cafe owned by Peter Chiafos. Blanche E. Saha named administratrix for the estate of John D. Saha of Palo who died June 7.
The Rev. Paul Andress a Paraguay missionary will be guest speaker Sunday at 10 50 a m at Second Christian church. Wilbur Lewis 27 of Norva hotel address pled innocent to a desertion charge before Justice H R Churchill Saturday afternoon. He was released on $300 bond. Lewis was arrested Friday evening by Constable George Thomas.
A tax lien has been filed against Pla-More Enterprises Inc, at 702 Second Street, for excess profits for the calendar year 1941. The filing lists the amount as to be determined in the record.
More than 200 members and friends attended the Marion Christian church centennial banquet served by the women of the Presbyterian church. Dr. Edward Scribner Ames spoke on the Disciples movement and Christlike loyalty, with introductions by Rev. J. A. Dillinger and prayers from Rev. C. V. R. DeJong. Families tied to Marion church history were acknowledged at the event.
Art Law 55 a former Marion resident died Friday afternoon in a Council Bluffs hospital where he had worked as a roundhouse foreman. Survived by his wife Hazel Liddle and by three brothers and three sisters, his body will be returned to Marion for burial in Cedar Memorial Park with arrangements to be announced later.
Services for William L. Dye were conducted Thursday afternoon in the Yocom chapel by Rev. C. V. R. De Jong. Burial followed in Oak Shade cemetery with pallbearers Fred Nelson Earl Freeman Ernest Jess and Chris Anderson.
Mrs. D. B. Storck was elected president of Electa circle King's Daughters at a Friday special meeting held at Mrs. Willis Jordan's home. New officers include Mrs. Leon R. Blinks as first vice president Mrs. Glenn O. Pyle as second vice president Mrs. Ralph C. Seager as secretary Mrs. L. M. Phelps as treasurer and Mrs. S. O. Stamy Jennie McCowan representative.
The Rev. Vernon H. Carter accompanied John Bunting Tom Thompson Robert Stull Darlene Meggers Lois Erwin Beverly Nedrow Laura Lee Freeman and Norma Fay to Dolliver State Park near Lehigh Saturday for a Pioneer youth conference for the intermediate groups of Christian churches. Mr. Carter will return home Saturday and the others will remain until Tuesday. Lyle R. Kindig of Chicago is spending the weekend with Mrs. Kindig.
William B. Wernecke 36 a former German American Bund leader was sentenced in Chicago to five years in prison and a $10000 fine on each of two counts for false statements on his draft questionnaire and for posing as a minister to evade the draft Judge Barnes ordered the sentences to run concurrently.
Secretary Knox said Pantelleria surrender removes a fortress in a zone to be cleared and compared it to Malta's loss. He indicated several more Axis-held Mediterranean islands would have to be taken before the sea is fully cleared.
Methodist Sunday school pupils meet in class at 9 45 a m on Sunday then assemble at 10 30 in the auditorium for a student day program The Church Victorious A 12 day furlough arrives for Sergt James Chesley at home with his parents Mr and Mrs A F Chesley 420 Sixth Avenue Los Angeles Desert Training Center Camp California
Marjorie Barton daughter of Mr and Mrs Clarence Barton and Calvin Coats seaman second class of the U S S Brooklyn son of Mr and Mrs Fred Coats were married Friday in the Methodist parsonage by Rev Arthur W Henke. Coats to return to the east coast Monday. Lieut Arthur G Henke of Fort Monmouth spends leave with his parents. Linn County Junior Farm Bureau met in Cedar Rapids with 20 members and guests.
A list of Sunday services across Marion churches. Baptist led by Rev. Shaw with Bible school at 9:45 and worship at 10:45. St Joseph’s Catholic mass at 8 and 10. Christian church under Rev. Carter with Centennial sermon by Rev. Trimble at 2:30 pm. Congregational with 11 am worship. Free Methodist with services at 10:45 and 7:30 and Y M S at 7. Methodist with student day service at 10:30 and “The Church Victorious”. Presbyterian with 10:55 worship and 9:45 Sunday school. St Paul Evangelical Lutheran with 10:30 morning service. Seventh Day Church of God Bible school and preaching. Prairie Chapel with worship at 11.
Moscow signals cooperation with the United States and Great Britain for postwar reconstruction. Molotov's telegram to Hull emphasizes unity of action during and after World War II. Hull replies that the alliance will strengthen as victory is achieved and pave the way for peaceful rebuilding.
Allied bombers struck Koepang Timor with forty two tons of explosives wrecking the powerhouse and waterfront facilities. Other raids hit Babo in Dutch New Guinea and Rabaul New Britain as lifting weather allowed a major operation. A UP correspondent reported the town a mass of flames.
Rates listed per line with six to seven words per line. Minimum two lines, eight words total, then five to six words per additional line. Ads payable to Gazette. Accepts telephone, mail, or in person submissions. Daily hours 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
A wartime communique reports a major air raid over Timor 575 air miles northwest of Darwin. Liberator bombers faced heavy anti air fire and claimed three of six to eight interceptors shot down, a fourth Zero destroyed, with all planes returning safely.
A new quota opens five openings in the marine reserve for 11 year olds with parental consent. Boys are enlisted into the marine corps with an inactive status until needed. Sergeants Helen Skero and
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