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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1944
Page
8
Chicago and surrounding markets show 10 cent hog gains with strong weights under 180 pounds and steady to higher quotes for select hogs. Cattle and sheep supply are uneven with calves and cows at new lows while Des Moines and Sioux City show mixed price directions across hogs cattle and sheep.
Chicago market notes show receipts and prices for butter eggs cheese and live poultry with varied quotes. New York listings report unsettled dressed poultry and live poultry prices, with extensive figures for geese turkeys ducks and fowl categories across wholesale markets.
Wheat futures climbed in Chicago Friday with July and September contracts leading gains. July wheat quoted around 1.57 a bushel with oats and rye rising while barley held steady. No. 2 red wheat and barley prices shown with quotation details and results rounded in the session.
New York AP reports selective gains in industrial specialties with gains in packing company issues top-grade motors and some utilities and metals. Trading started erratic and finished with around 1.3 million shares changing hands and only fractional price moves in the final hour.
Cedar Rapids hog market Friday showed higher to steady prices with top butchers at 13.45 and packers at 10.30. Hogs 160 to 170 pounds brought about 11.00, while various weight ranges and cattle prices are listed among extensive market quotations and named company references from J. B. Bennett & Co.
Grain and produce values listed for corn oats wheat rye and straw with wholesale fruits vegetables and boxes for lemons naval oranges lettuce onions sweet potatoes apples and pears. Livestock prices include heavy springs leghorn hens and calves with assorted hides and horses noted.
Gen Charles de Gaulle reverses stance and allows French reps to act as liaison officers and governors in freed France areas under supreme headquarters control. The arrangement, said a reliable source, requires no formal agreement or Ike meeting and operates on a day to day basis.
Plymouth reports mixed cheese sale results with nine cars of U S No 1 twins or cheddars at 23% of four bids and 23 4c in another lot. Mississippi River stage readings show Hastings and Keokuk rising fractions while Davenport Dubuque and Prairie du Chien display small changes with no major shifts.
City brief notes a Farnum reunion at the Bever Park pavilion on Sunday with attendees urged to bring sugar. Also listed are a retail merchants bureau exec meeting called by John Beck for 10 1am Saturday in the Chamber of Commerce building, a sermon at Shueville United Brethren church, church school, and teen group events. A tire found on highway 218 is valued over $100. Mr and Mrs Alfred K Falcon travel to Belle Plaine after Mrs C J Housman dies of a heart attack. Martin Knake fined $25 for intoxication in Justice Churchill's court after arrest by deputy sheriff P J Whittemore.
President Roosevelt at a news conference said liberation of French areas should precede setting up civil administration. He cited Gen. de Gaulle's prefectures and stated military operations must come first, noting he could not confirm De Gaulle’s focus on military aspects.
The United States and 17 other American republics recognized Bolivia's government, ending six months of diplomatic isolation. Uruguay would also recognize soon. The move followed the regime's clear support for the United Nations' cause.
Rome dispatch says strong American heavy bombers attacked Romanian oilfields at Ploesti and Giurgiu on Friday. railway yards at Nis in Yugoslavia were also hit.
Instruction urges households to compute how much beyond 10 percent of family income may be allotted to War Bonds each payday. Emphasis on budgeting and personal finance for wartime efficiency.
London AP report cites Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden stating Germany admitted killing 50 Allied officers at a German prison camp near Dresden, not 47. He said Gestapo executed recaptured officers from March 25 onward and pledged pursuit of those responsible for exemplary justice.
Sixty five representatives from 40 states attend the meeting of executive secretaries of the state associations of the United States Brewers Association at the Roosevelt hotel. Cedar Rapids counsel M. J. Donnelly invited the group to Cedar Rapids. Mayor Frank Hahn welcomed them. A social program includes golf and swimming at Cedar Rapids Country Club. They will dine Saturday evening at Mr. Donnelly's home at 315 Nassau Street SE.
London dispatch reports Germany now meets under half of its armed forces liquid fuel needs. The shortage has curtailed air activity and led to the complete elimination of Luftwaffe training, according to a ministry of economic warfare spokesman.
Application for registration or re registration of narcotics, and purchase of the special tax stamp must be made before July 1 by all physicians and pharmacists handling the drugs. Renewal of permits may not be made after the end of June without lapse, deputy collectors of internal revenue warned Friday.
Master Sgt. John J. Wellner, 34, of the Army Engineers, died June 16 in Khurramahan Iran from injuries suffered May 30. Born in Manitowoc Wisconsin he had served since May 27 1942 and been in Iran since December 1942. Survived by his mother two brothers a sister and a Navy brother in Cedar Rapids.
New York AP reports Japanese commander Kurihara calling the Saipan battle critical as U S forces land in a major invasion. Pearl Harbor AP notes 20 000 Japanese trapped or die on Saipan as Task Force 58 supports a fast carrier fleet drive on Magicienne Bay Mt Tapotchau and Nafutan. Tokyo concedes U S ashore assault.
New York AP reports Japan acknowledged Friday loss of an aircraft carrier two oil tankers and 50 planes west of the Marianas in a battle with an American naval task force that began June 19 and ended the next day. The encounter left Tokyo unable to inflict a decisive blow. Admiral Nimitz announced American carrier planes sank a Japanese carrier of the Kayataka class.
Washington AP reports Governor Dewey of New York criticized the national administration as a sprawling bureaucracy and urged a new regime with strengthened congressional cooperation. He called for efficiency, abolished unnecessary agencies, and a new spirit in federal government as platform drafters debated postwar reforms. Senator Vandenberg presented a foreign policy plank advocating peace forces and responsible international participation. Dewey also weighed in on platform ideas amid party talks on tax cuts and postwar finance. He stressed harmony between legislative and executive branches and a modernized federal service.
The report cites Allied air losses with claims of Japanese sinkings and damage including five carriers and one battleship. It also lists a flood of lost pets, ads for jewelry and goods, and local notices from auctions to personal ads across multiple addresses and services.
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