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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1945
Page
16
Chicago market reports official Thursday receipts at 5 000 hogs 5 000 cattle and 1 000 sheep. Fed steers and yearlings held steady to a quarter lower while choice lots hit 17 90 per cwt. Hogs stayed active and fully steady with sheep fairly active.
AP summary reports salable hogs 10 500 total 13 000 calves, steers and yearlings steady to 25 cents lower, top steer price around 17 90 with several loads, heifers and cows mixed, beef bulls steady, stock cattle slow. Sheep receipts 509, market fairly active and mostly steady with lambs 16 6 25, bucks down, lighter weights down to 13 00, special note on 103 lb shorn lambs at 15 10.
In Omaha hog receipts around 4 000 with total 6 500 and mixed steady ceiling bids for barrows gilts sows and stays at 13 70. Calves salable about 8 000 total 8 405 with fed steers yearlings slow to weak some bids 25 cents lower. Feeders and cows uneven bulls and vealers unchanged. Fed steers about 17 25 with early sales good and choice fed steers and yearlings 15. Con 16 75. Scattering good to choice heifers and mixed yearlings 15 00 to 16 35. Sheep salable 2 500 total 5 0 %, moderately active spring lambs 25c lower shorn lambs steady to strong good and choice shorn lambs No 1 skin 14 65 to 14 75. Cows steady at 750 84 0 0 for good and choice shorn offerings.
Cattle receipts 4 600 with steadier tone than Tuesday. Steers mostly 15.25 to 16.50 with load lots 1 250 to 1 440 pounds at 17.16, heifers scarce 12.00 to 15.25, stock steers 11.25 to 13.00, canners 7.25 to 8.75. Hogs receipts 4 000, market active and fully steady with 160 pound plus at 14.45, sows 13.70, light weights 15.00. Sheep and lambs receipts 1 000, few loads mixed western ewes and spring lambs, fed lambs and ewes steady, No 1 pelt lambs 14.90, shorn ewes 7.50 to 8.00, other grades 6.00 to 7.00.
Des Moines market summary shows combined receipts across interior Iowa and Minnesota for 48 hours ending Wednesday at am. Receipts total 27 300 with 21 700 a week earlier and 37 400 year ago. Demand steady to active with heavier loadings. Prices quoted for barrows and gilts 160-180 lbs at 13.50 to 14.45, 180-360 lbs at 14.00 to 14.45. sows 270-400 lbs 13.45 to 13.70, 400-450 lbs 13.45 to 13.76, 450-580 lbs 13.30 to 13.70.
Butchers and packers quote hog prices in pounds and ranges for Mason Waterloo Ottumwa and Austin. Prices shown include good butchers at 14.00 to 14.45 per pound and good packing sows around 13.50 to 13.70, with various weight ranges listed.
Cedar Rapids hog market holds ceiling levels with top primes at 14.45 and packers at 13.70. Cattle quotations include various dressings and grades ranging from utility to prime, with per hundred weight pricing and notes on yields. Also listed are lambs, sheep, hay, poultry, eggs, and wholesale fruits and vegetables with current receipts and regional prices.
Plymouth Wisconsin dispatch says the army moved twelve cars of cheese in a transport operation centered in the state. Nine cars were mentioned in transit details with follow up information pending on remainder.
Uneven session on the New York market saw steels aviation and certain industrials post modest gains while overall the trend remained irregular. Near the close losers outnumbered gainers as about 1.5 million shares changed hands.
API reports irregular bond trends Wednesday with small moves in railroad issues. Foreign government debt was tight and U.S. Treasuries were quiet and steady.
Chicago markets show steady receipts across produce sections with mixed quality indicators. Butter eggs cheese and live poultry hold firm with demand robust. pota to arrivals on track show light offerings and prices for U S No 1 long whites and related items.
AP summary shows wholesale egg receipts at 23.420, firm in general prices across graded lots. Mixed colors Extras No 1 to No 6 39.7 to 41.3 cents per dozen for 45 pounds and over. Medium 38.3 cents. Dirties 35.2 to 35.2 cents. Butter receipts total 1,115,098 with ceilings unchanged. Cheese receipts 567,185 with nominal values and no quotations.
Washington reports that able bodied prisoners of war will be retained in the United States for work on military and naval installations and for civilian duties through the year. Maj. Gen. Archer Lerch says 224,700 will stay for installations and 155,000 for agricultural season peak work. after Jan 1 return to Europe will depend on labor needs, accommodations, and shipping.
CHICAGO AP Wheat and rye were firm to strong with coarse grains mixed in quiet futures markets. Wheat rose about 4 to 1 1/2 cents, July at 1.665 34, corn steady to up 4, December at 1.1644, eating to 5 1/2 cents higher, rye up 1 to 1 1/2 cents, July 1.53 to 1.54, barley mixed as July 1.1344.
The Society for the Hard of Hearing will have a picnic Thursday evening at 6 in Bever Park’s large pavilion. Families and friends are invited. Also reported is Harry Strovy of 1507 First Street SW who broke two ribs and a finger when he fell from a house at 45 Fourteenth Avenue SW Tuesday noon. he was taken to Mercy Hospital by ambulance.
Wayne Richard Larson of Viola departed Tuesday on orders from the Linn county board to report for induction in the armed forces at Fort Snelling Minnesota.
Volunteers are asked to report to the Linn County ration board office in the American building at 7 p.m. Thursday to help process gasoline applications for trucks.
No trace had been found of Mrs. Kate Steskal aged 75 who disappeared from her home at 921 Twenty first street SE at 7 am Tuesday. Family members report she had ill health.
Pvt. Sterling F. Harmon, 22, AWOL from Fort Meade Maryland since June 18, was arrested at 857 Fifth Avenue SE early Wednesday and held for military authorities. Local police reported the detention followed his absence from his base.
Lorene Stone 26 and Verle Marie Pauley 33 were charged Wednesday with intoxication. Stone was arrested at the Piccadilly tavern after reporting a theft of a Wac battle jacket. Pauley was arrested at 11412 First Street NE where police found the jacket. both were drunk at arrest per officers.
The Cedar Rapids chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants will hold a stag July 17 at Linger-Longer pavilion. Arrangements are by the social committee led by F. J. McCarthy with Frank Stastny and H. M. Murdock. Associate directors cover meetings attendance employment membership programming publications and publicity.
The Maritime War Emergency board orders a 3312 percent cut in seamen bonuses for Atlantic service effective July 15. About 180,000 seamen are affected, per NMU representative Arthur E. Phillips, with the move likely to reduce maritime manpower amid peak troop and supply movements from Atlantic to Pacific theaters.
Bruce Allen Lundberg aged 16 months drowned in a stock watering tank on the Lundberg farm northeast of Marshalltown shortly before noon Wednesday. Parents are Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lundberg.
Chicago readers learn Emiel Sol dan's victory garden hides a civic message. Soldan, who is blind, arranged vegetables to spell the phrase Buy bonds.
A House appropriations subcommittee accused the War Food Administration of tax mismanagement poor record keeping and false information leading to waste of food and money. The report faulted Col Ralph Olmstead and urged periodic reports from the incoming agriculture secretary while outlining specific deficiencies in warehousing records fraud risk and personnel policy.
In Gary Indiana a dispute between two undertakers over who could bury a war worker's body led to a fatal shot and multiple injuries. J D Smith was killed after refusing to release the body to Bruce Howers, who then shot Smith and wounded others including Howers' brother Victor and Smith's wife Claudia and nephew Clyde. Howers was arrested on an open charge as police prepared a coroner's inquest.
George Prizier, held in Linn county jail on a third offense of driving while intoxicated, received until Friday to enter a plea. He was arraigned Monday before Judge Floyd Philbrick with Assistant County Attorney W. Howard Smith, and time was extended to allow a Johnson county official to appear. His first DWI arrest occurred in February 1942 in Johnson county with a 45 day sentence. he owes Linn county 275 dollars plus costs of a 300 dollar fine from the second offense on August 27, 1943. Bond was set at 1500 dollars. he resides at 636 Seventh avenue SE.
A lien of 155.32 was filed in the county recorder’s office on Wednesday against Dan Christensen doing business as Dan Christensen Construction Co. The delinquent tax covers withholding tax for the period ending March 31, 1945. Christensen had previously discharged two liens totaling 5,479 for withholding tax for five months in 1943 and 1944.
Effective July 2 the auditor treasurer county attorney sheriff recorder and clerk offices will be open 8 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. Saturday hours end at noon through July and August the county attorney and sheriff offices close 12 to 1 p.m. Katharine S Zody of 846 Fifth Avenue SE has been appointed administrator of the will of her husband Forrest C Zody who died in Cedar Rapids May 3 Bond set at $2000.
Milo J. Gabriel of Clinton, chairman of the board of trustees, announced Wednesday a subscription of $750,000 to the seventh warian for the grand charity fund of the Grand Lodge A F and M Davenport AP report notes the presentation by the Grand Lodge charity system.
Charles Moore pastor of Marion Baptist church will be ordained Friday at 7 30 p m The Rev Rodney C Gould pastor of Calvary Baptist Cedar Rapids will preach the ordination sermon The Rev Ira Edwards of Jordan's Grove church will deliver the prayer The Rev Frank H Ward of the Sunshine Mission will give the charge to the candidate and the Rev Ada Hillis of Tama will give the charge to the church
Technician Paul Daniels has received an honorable discharge from service and is at home with his mother Mrs. T. A. Daniels and sister Mrs. Albert Flickinger. He served with a medical corps at a station hospital in Italy.
Gilbert Rathman reports 846 tickets given out Tuesday night at the Marion theater box office all to bond purchasers. Lions district meeting attendees include Hugh Gordon P A Osborne Harold Nilsson Lee Voorhies and B T Severson at Oskaloosa. Mrs George Stafford of Webster visiting relatives in Marion.
Moscow AP reports Soviet journalist I Yermashev charged Turkey with pursuing a fascism-favorable policy during the war. He warned Turkish groups and media to curb provocative writings by Yalchin and said a Turkish plan to pit powers Britain and Russia could lead to war and loss of perspective.
Governor Rob ert D Blue cancels his planned Mackinac Island governors meeting trip due to a doctor advised illness described as a mild tonsillitis. The office also announces Dr W S Edmund of Red Oak to a three year term on the state board of osteopath examiners and Carl E Johnson of Ottumwa to a three year term on the state board of embalmer examiners.
Frances Perkins, the first woman cabinet member, said goodbye in Washington to the Labor Department she helped shape since 1933. A reception featured 1800 staffers, sentimental music, and anecdotes about the department’s early architecture and her simple coffee needs.
A jumble of lost items and local ads lists several notices including a LOST lapel watch near downtown, a LOST loose leaf route book, a LOST small brown coin purse with money, a LOST black purse near Me Too Store, a LOST billfold with leave papers, and a FOUND wrist watch on June 17. Also various ads for services and sales plus a call to applicants for a milk delivery job at Bindler's Dairy.
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