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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1945
Page
7
Official Saturday receipts show 300 hogs 500 cattle and no sheep. Cattle overall steady with strictly choice steers at 1232 pounds near 18 dollars, up 15 cents from Thursday. hogs unchanged and sheep fully steady.
London report says Karl Frank, former Nazi secretary for Bohemia Moravia, confessed ordering mass killings of Czechoslovaks in retaliation for Heydrich’s assassination. He claims orders caused 1500 to 2000 deaths with higher estimates exaggerated. Dr B Eeer cites a 70 page signed confession and urges Czech trial as a top war criminal. Frank denies responsibility for Lidice and Prague 1939 killings, though evidence ties him to both events.
Receipts for hogs total 9 560 with good and choice barrows and gilts at 140 lb around 1475 and sows at 1490 while cattle sales show 2 000 receipts with calves 500 and cows dominant. steers around 18.00, best heifers at 16.00, grass steers weaker, cows 9.50 to 12.50, bulls to 15.50. Sheep receipts 5 000 with market fully steady and spring lambs at 16.00 to 16.35 and other sheep grades down to 13.00.
Omahs market notes receipts for hogs and cattle steady at ceiling levels. Hogs steady with salable receipts around 800. cattle calve and veal lines mixed with prices from 8.50 for cutters to 15.00 dealer top. sheep receipts about 400 with spring lambs around 15.50 to 14.75 and shorn ewes at 7.50.
General Stock trends down with smaller losses late in the day. New York prices retreat overall while some recoveries appear. Trading volume runs around 2,000,000 shares as the market ends the session with reduced declines.
Sioux City market reports show cattle receipts around 500 with calves 10 salable. slaughter steers and heifers steady to weak. cows dull. stockers and feeders nominal. Hogs active and steady. majority good and choice barrows and gilts 160 lbs and up around 14.45. Sheep receipts 1,575 with 1,000 salable, fed shorn lambs trucked in, no early auction.
Combined receipts for 48 hours ending Friday 8 am totaled 36 000 head across 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota, up from 29 300 a week earlier and 37 200 a year ago. Demand steady with heavier loadings than last Saturday. Prices listed for various hog weights and classes, including good and choice burrows and gifts and sows in ranges from 1300s to 1400s per head.
Market notes show varied hog prices across Des Moines and area markets. Prices range from 13.65 to 14.40 per hundredweight with several lots and packer quotes noted, including sow values and packing figures.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market remained at ceiling levels Friday. Top prices on prime butchers are $14.45 and packers, $13.70. Descriptions note good hogs in 160 to 170 pounds and 170 to 400 pounds ranges, with good packers listed across 270 to 600 pounds and 600 to 650 pounds. Cattle market section starts.
Friday quotations show complex listings across major stocks including Adams Express Allied Stores and Johns Manville with varied percentages. The report also includes commodity prices, grain and livestock markets, and hides and fiber values reflecting a broad market snapshot.
The New York bond market shows an irregular start in early dealings on Friday with railroad issues drifting fractionally, while industrials and utilities move differently.
Wisconsin dairy firm reports the army purchased 12 cars of cheese. Nine cars of twins and cheddars priced at 23 1/4 cents a pound, two cars of square prints and one of midgets at 24 3/4 cents a pound.
Chicago market notes show butter receipts 10.643 tubes steady extras with 92 score A quality and various firsts at 90 to 96 scores. eggs receipts 12611 cases steady extras. cheese prices listed with various prints. Live poultry including hens and fryers priced around 2 to 28 cents, turkeys 33 cents, potatoes arrivals around 8 on track total shipments 863 new stocks. market notes mention California long whites and Virginia corn cob prices around $38.54 per hundred.
AP market notes show wholesale egg prices for various sizes and grades with fluctuating figures per 45 lb units. Cheese receipts list nominal quotations and no fixed price, reflecting general market movement.
In Chicago after a mid session dip grain prices recovered on rest ing demand. Wheat closed slightly higher with July at 1.6634, corn steady to up 3, oats up to 34, rye up 13.5, barley largely unchanged with July around 1.12.
A murky excerpt lists Chicago cash provisions with various grades of wheat and malting barley. Entries include yellow and mixed grades with prices around 1.15 to 1.39 dollars, samples and nominal feed values, plus references to unspecified grades and percentages.
Barbara Pearson aged eleven of 3111 First avenue SE and Nancy Milburn eleven of 137 Thirtieth street drive SE were reported by St. Luke's hospital to be in good condition. Dr. D S Challed city physician said there were no new cases in the city or at Camp Huaga despite rumors. The two girls became ill June 20 while at the camp.
Donald Mayne 22 of 112% Nine teenth Avenue SW and Louis Dvorsky 18 near Mars were arrested Friday on breaking the seals on freight cars. Bonds set at 1000 each. Mayne in Linn County jail. Seals broken about 1 30 p m on Milwaukee road river tracks. Capt Monahan Tucker Bear FBI agent and Deputy Marshal Petrus led the case.
A Senate military subcommittee heard that German citizens are leaning back in their harness and forcing Allied Military Government officers to do all the work of rehabilitating the German economy. Maj. Gen. John H. Hilldring testified that instances show a German factory head relying on a civil affairs officer to decide coal needs, with the German not acting on his own expertise. Hilldring said the army intends to make Germans do the work themselves rather than rely on Americans.
James Parks a 43 year old city lineman died Friday after falling 30 feet from a light pole in Waverly. Linemen working with him believe he unfastened his safety belt to adjust and lost balance. He left a wife and a two year old daughter.
Walter Ellsworth of Central City filed for appeal in the county clerk’s office Friday to the Iowa Supreme Court over a $1000 judgment. The suit arose from Jake Main of Anamosa claiming Ellsworth assaulted him with a board and fists on February 24. Main sought $25 in medical fees, $500 actual damages, and $500 exemplary damages after a jury ruled for the plaintiff.
Margaret Hall aged 19 was sentenced to one year in jail for desertion of her 22 month old child but Judge Floyd Philbrick suspended the term on condition she care for the child. William A. Kuda her husband in the Navy has filed for divorce. they married in Cedar Rapids in October 1942 and Kuda is stationed in Hawaii. Charles W. and Mabel Williams are named defendants in a suit by Glenn W. Higbee doing business as Higbee’s store seeking 104.25 for an unpaid account. The will of Margaret A. Waite of Cedar Rapids admitted to probate with Cyrus H. Waite named executor without bond. Mrs Waite died December 17 1944.
Community notices report a cemetery association meeting at No 5 schoolhouse Saturday 7 p m and church services with themes What Manner of Man and Celebration of the Ordinances. Also listed are an ice cream social, a Sabbath school update, and a correction on Irma Linch’s employer. Peter Jorgensen fined 25 dollars after drunkenness arrest at Silver Leaf tavern.
Cedar Rapids chapter No 10 Disabled American Veterans will install new officers Monday at 8 PM at the coliseum. Dean Rusley is named commander. Auxiliary members are invited to attend.
An error in yesterday's advertisement from Newman's Basement Shoe Clinic was corrected with proper pricing. Women's heel lifts leather or composition cost 19 cents per pair and rubber heels for men or boys cost 39 cents per pair.
Two spinster sisters claiming kin to Gen Douglas MacArthur offered to aid Boston police in the inquiry into the beating and strangling of Chase MacArthur 60 superintendent of Foxboro schools whose nude body was found on a blood spattered cot in a Turkish bath. Police sought two sailors who registered at the bath with him.
Houston grocers reopen after a Monday protest over ceiling prices. A mass meeting said meat would come from 128 cattle killed under a mistaken belief OPA would grant a larger Houston slaughter quota, which did not occur. Next week five carloads of cattle would be supplied at ceiling prices.
The Bavarian military government ordered all Germans with Gestapo or SS records to report immediately for property registration. The edict aims to confiscate property for war reparations and requires listing all property funds and valuables acquired before and after joining the Gestapo or SS.
Representative Davis said a House military affairs subcommittee will open an investigation into reported soldier beatings at the Lincoln army airfield in Nebraska.
William Wallace of Des Moines, hotel chain general manager, told Eastern Iowa delegates of the Iowa Hotel association at the Roosevelt hotel that patronage will rise for years after the war. He linked optimism to full food production, rising farm income, more road salesmen, industrial growth and increased leisure travel. George Podd of Horwith and Horwith outlined postwar building plans. About 25 eastern Iowa members attended the morning conference.
Milwaukee aP reports Board Chairman J A Krug says the War Production Board seeks to return industries to civilian production and prewar footing. They plan to cut WPA controls and orders by about 50 percent in a couple of months while still controlling critical materials for the remaining war program.
Senator Herman Knudson of Mason City was chosen as chairman of a new panel to study mental hospital care and procedures in Iowa. The group met with Dr. Samuel Hamilton, adviser to the U. S. public service, and includes Rep. John Heffner, Sen. Alden Doud, and Rep. J. R. Gardner.
Two 16 year old Oelwein youths told Davenport Police Chief Reed Phillips they obtained 300 dollars in cash, several cameras and cigarettes in a burglary in Davenport and another in Oelwein a week earlier. They were arrested in Rock Island and returned for questioning. police said they carried 100 dollars at the time of arrest.
President Truman sent a message to General Douglas MacArthur praising the Luzon campaign. He said the defeat of the Japanese on Luzon secures a powerful base in the Philippines to help deliver the final knockout blow in the war against Japan. He praised Americans and Filipinos for minimizing loss of life.
The Reed Park playground drive received an extra 58 dollars as the youth activities committee of the young men's bureau reports. Lloyd Sidwell's team revisited missed homes in the 24 block area around the park and collected the additional funds. Other teams plan to re visit remaining residences. A total of 635.30 dollars was raised in the prior week.
A garbled card thanks friends for sympathy after a father’s death and lists several lost items. Items include a ladies gold wrist watch and bracelet near Newman's store, a reddish brown Chesapeake dog named Mike, a black billfold with papers, a fishing pole and reel, and a company pin. Contact numbers appear after each entry for rewards or returns, with partial addresses and scattered names.
The page lists new summer neckwear patterns and hand tailored ties from K's Store, French Naptha dry cleaning solution at 49c per gallon, and several jewelry, sewing, and beauty service notices. Also includes notices on payments to Carney's Store, sewing lessons, and local shop features with phone numbers and addresses.
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