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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1944
Page
4
Chicago hog prices show general steadiness amid slow trade with receipts near 27 000 head. Cattle and sheep values drift, with feeders and vealers mixed and regional markets in Des Moines Sioux City and Omaha showing slow or steady trends.
UPI reports in Plymouth Wisconsin nine cars of US No 1 cheese with bids around 23 possible 24 cents per pound. Mississippi River stages list Hastings La Crosse Prairie du Chien Dubuque and McGregor with rises and lows across several stations.
Chicago markets show steady receipts for butter eggs and cheese with varied price movements. California and New York supplies dominate tuna and poultry items while potatoes and other produce track totals and regional arrivals.
Hog prices hold steady with top butchers at 13.45 and packers at 10.15. Cattle ranges show choice to prime steers around 15 dollars, cows from 7.50 to 11.50, calves up to 14.80, and sheep market with lambs around 14 to 15 dollars.
Grain prices list No 2 yellow corn 104, No 2 yellow soybeans 186, oats 76 and 75, wheat 140, rye 295. Hay straw prices 10 to 16, poultry delivered: heavy springs over 3 lb 26, heavy hens 20, leghorn 168, stags 15, current receipts 27, exrs hennerles 20, No 1 errs 23, No 2 eyes current receipts 20. Wholesale fruits vegetables: Florida celery 6.00 6.50 per crate, lemons 7.45, California naval oranges 5.75, lettuce 36.99, onions 2.84, sweet potatoes 5.10, Winesaps apples 4.25 box, 3.35 school boys, potatoes cobblers 3.15 cwt, Texas grapefruit 3.85 per box. Dried hides prices 12e No 2 11 1 per unit, calf hides 19 42c, No 2 calf 12 4c, horse No 1 9 50, No 2 6.00, kip 12, means and manes tall and pony glue half price.
Chicago reports that senate and house conferees reached no decision on the pace parity amendment, dulling demand for wheat and rye futures. July wheat closed higher while oats and rye showed mixed moves, with barley edges up. Cash wheat No 3 red traded around 1.658, oats sample grade white 80 percent, soybeans No 2 yellow 1.92, barley making 1.25 to 1.44.
Washington AP The OPA tightened eligibility for new 1942 cars as supply dwindles. Applicants must show a car will be used mainly for essential war work and public health and safety. Certificates for four or more students drivers are banned. Service members may sell used cars to family only without a certificate. USO clubs may receive certificates.
A lightning strike at the Standard Oil Bayway refinery in Linden New Jersey destroyed between three and four million gallons of gasoline. Fire crews battled the blaze as tanks burned, causing extensive damage and prompting investigations into the incident.
Des Moines reports the state executive council accepted the resignation of Gray Anderson a Knoxville custodian at the state house since January 1938. Anderson will leave July 1 to become a contact representative in the Veterans' administration at Knoxville.
New York stocks rose on Monday in the second week of post invasion gains with gains from fractions to four points. Steel, rail, rubber, utilities and machinery shares attracted buyers as speculation eyed an early end to the war. Total volume around 2,400,000 shares. The list includes Adams, Johns Manville, Libby, Kellogg, Boeing, Coca Cola, Procter Gamble, Du Pont, Studebaker, Union Carbide, Goodyear, Homestake, and many others. New York bond market shows profit taking alongside selective rail loan buying and a largely unsettled tone ahead of the close.
French colonial battalions captured Portoferraio the Elba capital and hold the greater part of the island while Allied forces push along the Italian front taking Assisi and pressing toward Perugia. Eighth army advances meet renewed German resistance as villages fall and air operations resume.
Public welfare bureau meets monthly Tuesday at noon at the Roosevelt hotel. Free cooking class Tuesday at 2 15 p.m. Glow room at the Gas Company. Parlor City lodge No 58 meets Wednesday at 2 p.m. in K of P hall. War appeals coordinating committee to meet Tuesday at p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce. Retail merchants bureau of the Chamber of Commerce meets Tuesday at 12 noon at the Roosevelt hotel. The Schrimper Stirm family reunion Sunday in Bever park from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Lost and Found ads urged in The Gazette. United Service Aides to meet Wednesday 8 p.m. at the Memorial building for bond rally program. Mrs Catherine Kuhn arrives to visit relatives in Mechanicsville. Ice cream social Tuesday 7 to 10 p.m. at 2235 Mt. Vernon avenue ISE to aid Camp Conservation funds. Ella M Johnston named administratrix for estate of George C Johnston who died in Cedar Rapids June 10. Idell Shank appointed executrix for W B Shank who died May 31 in Marion. Mrs George Nichols and Mrs Frank Jakoubek attend Nichols family reunion at West Liberty fairgrounds. Ninety-one present from Alaska and Florida. Godfrey and John Quass descendants hold 27th reunion Sunday in Bever park with Willie Quass re-elected president. Leo Hejda reports loss of $6 billfold downtown Saturday night. Police also noted a downtown traffic accident.
The Chamber of Commerce bureau hosts its annual stag and smoker at Marion Country Club with golf and entertainment planned. Central Park Presbyterian Church will sponsor Boy Scout Troop Five, with charter work to be completed by a committee meeting led by Bert Foote and Keith Benner. Scout parade details set for Wednesday at Coe College and house-to-house war bond canvass instruction at Cedar Rapids armory Thursday night. Separately, two vehicle collisions were reported. James Benda and W L Cutting occupants were involved on Second and K Streets SW, and Wesley Zach and Art Bliovenes damaged cars at Beverly and Rockford roads after a 4:15 pm crash on Sunday southwest of Cedar Rapids.
Chinese high command says troops pulled back from Lungling after recapturing it on June 10. In a separate report, the Mogung river line reached by Chinese forces places them opposite Japanese held Mogaung as Allied units report local gains around besieged Myitkyina in northern Burma.
Three German prisoners of war who escaped from Indianola Nebraska were captured near St. Joseph Missouri by Missouri state highway patrol with FBI confirmation. Special Agent Duane L Traynor announced the capture following the escape Friday from the Indianola camp.
Marion city and township chairman Reuben Smith calls a ward and township meeting for Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the Light company office. George Hearn Linn County chair will give final drive instructions as the drive begins Thursday. Burial services for Fred W Knapp were held at Yocom chapel with pallbearers James H Stanaway H A Culbert George H Clark and Claude Luck. Swiss windmill forecaster advertises weather up to 24 hours ahead. Seaman Robert Whalen nephew of Miss Kathryn Whalen has returned to the South Pacific. Various social notices and marriages announced including Margaret Elizabeth Schrubbe to Philip Weamer and Miriam Rebecca Jackson to Lee Reynolds McKee. News notes on travels and local events.
Executors of James R. Rhodes estate announce sale of the majority stake in the Perry Daily Chief to G. E. Whitehead. District Judge Frank Bechly approves. possession set for July 10. Sale price undisclosed. Whitehead, Iowa Press Association president and Dallas County state representative, has held substantial Chief stock as resident publisher. Rhodes died January 9.
Edward Smith aged 29 gave a local hotel as his address and pled innocent in Judge Ia K Thompson's court to larceny of a motor vehicle after allegedly breaking a window at Thorpe Top and Body Service and stealing a 1941 Chevrolet coupe from Iowa Electric Light and Power Co. The car, at Thorpe's for repairs, was recovered by Linn County jail officers after his arrest Sunday by patrolmen Peter Funcke Frank ONeill Gerald Carroll and George Davis.
A jumble of lost and found notices includes items such as a folded billfold with Gollina pass and other valuables found near Times theater, a Shertic canoe and camping gear on the Wapale river above Paris, a black female cocker spaniel with license 5505, and multiple rewards offered. Also listed are misc. mislaid items, a Woolworths billfold, stray dollar bills, mislaid children’s shoes, and shop ads for jackets and raincoats plus pest control services.
The listing compiles sodding and fertilizer, lawn mower services, fur storage, welding, plumbing, papering, hauling, and general repairs. It notes new business locations, telephone numbers, and advertising lines for Morris Fur Shop, Novak Heating, J. Pigman Masonry, and others with offers on ash hauling, trash removal, and housework help.
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