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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1944
Page
2
In Chicago and AP notes, hog trading moved slowly on Friday with a steady undertone across weights. Livestock receipts Saturday showed 500 hogs and cattle with no sheep, while high grade steers and yearlings were scarce and spring lambs held steady to weak.
AP Chicago livestock prices show slow trading across hogs cattle and calves with stays and declines. Hogs mix of weights mostly steady to firm for some sow categories while heavy numbers hold near $11.75 to $12.10 for certain weights. Cattle steer and heifer runs weak with limited beef, vealers lower to $15.60, cows steady to weak and canners/ cutters around $6.00 to $10.50. Overall receipts around 1,500 with many classes showing softer demand on the week.
Livestock buyers report steady to weaker conditions in cattle killing classes with slow demand for short fed grassy steers and common to medium stockers. Slaughter ewes and California lambs show varied pricing, with new crop feeding lambs around 11 dollars and native spring lambs in the mid-teens.
Des Moines and surrounding markets report mixed cattle and hog values with steady to firm trends. Receipts near 700 cattle and 37,100 hogs in Des Moines area, withchers noting steady demand for medium to good steers and heifers and hogs steady to higher for select weights and sows. Prices listed include hogs 180-270 lbs around 11.80 to 12.00, 300-330 lbs near 13.40, and sows up to about 10.75. Cattle average bids show choice beef around 16.00 for steers. vealers 12.50 to 15.00. canners 6.75. Descriptions reflect a generally cautious pace with some weakness for common grades.
Chicago produce trades show steady receipts across butter eggs and poultry with mixed price tones. Butter receipts 9.788 tubs extras and firsts ranged mid to high, eggs 13.068 cases steady with several categories, turkeys broilers and ducks noted, arrivals 163 on track 243 shipments 1 004 Californias.
The bulletin lists varied wholesale weights from No 1 to No 4 and extra lots, with 40 to 46 lb ranges and prices around 27% to 34 cents. It notes steady checks and specific poultry figures including geese turkeys and squabs, plus pigeons and other fowl.
Prices on all hogs were mostly steady at Cedar Rapids with top butchers at 13.45 and packers 10.50. Listings include Good hogs 190 170 pounds, Good 1a, lambs and ewes with various weights and prices, plus cull and canner categories.
Cedar Rapids market page lists soybeans at 1.04 per bushel with various grades, hay and straw prices, current receipts 26 cents, wholesale fruits and vegetables pricing, California naval oranges at 5.75 a crate, potatoes at 5.10, and a note on Texas grapefruit and specialty fruit boxes. The text shows miscellaneous commodity quotes and rough retail figures with multiple typographical errors.
Chicago AP reports mill buying and conge factor buoyed a bullish market early in the week, but late dealings Friday saw wheat futures slumping from earlier highs. Rye also fell. oats held steady to higher. July wheat around 1.58 lower, other details incomplete due to damaged text.
In Chicago a chaotic cash provisions note appears with garbled figures and stray quotes. The fragment hints at a monetary value around 1.15 with a decimal sequence, suggesting pricing or rates, but the scant readable text provides no clear names, dates, or institutions. The item reads like a partial financial snippet from a broader market brief.
London based AP report via Daily Mail says trucks have been delivering supplies for days to Adolf Hitler's Berchtesgaden retreat. The article suggests Hitler is turning the eagle's nest into a last stand fortress with enough provisions to endure for years. Berchtesgaden sits high in Bavarian mountains, reachable only by elevator, and houses key Nazi records and political documents.
President Roosevelt received congratulations from Joseph Stalin for the brilliant Allied liberation of Cherbourg. Stalin’s message praises the liberation and greets the troops as they celebrate their success in the Cherbourg area.
In Chicago burglars broke into the Decca Distributing office early Thursday and stole several recordings including a Crosby song titled L Amor Toujours L Amor. Police investigated the break in as a crime against the company and its property.
New York stock market activity showed gains from low priced utilities and specialty issues along with standard rails led by pivotals showing selective strength. Fractions to multiple point gains appeared near the close as turnover neared 1,800,000 shares.
A dense list of corporate quotes and percent changes from multiple firms such as Lockheed, Boeing, Procter Gamble, Coca Cola, General Electric, and Union Carbide appears alongside notes on New York bond activity. The mixed page combines stock prices, industry abbreviations, and a brief market commentary noting steadier demand for reorganizations and other issues, with marginal advances in investment-rated industrials and utilities.
President Roosevelt signed the price control extension act for one year while warning that congressional changes could weaken enforcement. He opposed relaxing penalties for non wilful violators except to protect good faith actors. If enforcement proves difficult against cheaters he would ask Congress to fix the issue.
SAN FRANCISCO AP The director of the chaplains division USN says war’s horrors will not harden most American servicemen. A minority may return hard, but the essential American spirit will rise above the war’s hardship, stated Julian Abericon, an Ohio-born Marine veteran and naval chaplain for 29 years.
City briefs report an ice cream social and a program planned for tonight at Central Park. Miss Grace Hersom of 1817 C Avenue NW is recovering after an appendectomy at St Luke’s hospital. Mrs. Albert Tatro, 905 B Avenue, is ill at University hospital in Iowa City. Miss Helen Hutton, daughter of Mr and Mrs Sam Hutton of 1115 Twenty second Avenue SW, is recovering after an appendectomy at Mercy hospital. Six Cedar Rapids area youths entered the navy on Thursday from the Cedar Rapids recruiting office: Raymond Andrew Butler, Y.M.C.A.. William Elbridge Jasper, Pullman hotel. George Hollis Segriff, 1317 D Avenue NE. Robert Eugene Swick, Blairstown. John DeLoss Johnston, Iowa City. DeVere DeWayne Slife, Central City.
City Assessor J F Scolaro reminded homeowners remaining eligible for the homestead tax credit that the city hall fifth floor office will stay open Saturday until 5 p m for last minute applications. The deadline for submissions is Saturday.
Judge Henry Gravin sustained the motion of Thomas Liken Dorothy Brauer and Grace L. Nystrom to amend the complaint in the suit against Van Vechten Shaffer et al The plaintiffs sought to add Irene Larue Fred W Mueller Carrie Mueller and Mrs W E Godso as plaintiffs and to change Shores company to The Shores Company in records Defendants have until Aug 1 to plead to the amended complaint The hearing was not deemed determinate of the law points argued earlier.
Concrete workers at the Cedar Rapids airport are finishing the stub end on lane two of the east west runway and paving two remaining strips on the west half of the same runway. Grading and drainage contracts are nearly done and the port is expected to be completed by mid August barring heavy rain.
STOCKHOLM AP reports the Free Danish press service says a general strike began in Copenhagen. All traffic from main stations halted, street car service suspended, and shops and banks shut down citywide. Unions lead action impacting transport commerce and daily life.
San Francisco reporting that Donald Phoenix 46 of St Paul Minnesota a former Karpis Barker gang member dropped dead Thursday at Alcatraz prison where he was serving a life sentence.
Pattern 4841 offers a dirndl sundress and matching jacket for girls in sizes 6 8 10 12 and 14. Back buttons on dress, use remnants for straps and bows, bolero included with dress in size 10 needing about 2 3/4 yards of 35 inch fabric and a small contrast yardage. Send 20 cents in coins with size name address and pattern number to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Dept at 130 N Clinton St Chicago Ill.
Webb Dock, manager of Eddy Paper, Cedar Rapids, named by Des Moines meeting to lead an Iowa waste paper salvage group. H. C. Plagman of the War Production board announced the organization aims to boost county waste paper collections with industry salesmen aiding local chairmen. A July 15 completion target and an Iowa per person five pound quota were noted, with Gillick of Chicago to lead food distributors and others named in Des Moines, Dubuque, and Cedar Rapids appointments.
Linn county war bond drive reports Friday show E bond sales of 84,066, nearly doubling Thursday’s figure but still 1.6 million shy of the 10,025,000 quota. Total all bonds reach 8,483,203 with Cedar Rapids at 7,844,495, while Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts claim 240,000 in pledges as Linn County’s drive nears its end. Virginia Dunahugh leads the bond queen race with 26,850 votes, followed by Helen Sykora and Arlene Rose, among many candidates.
London reports heavy German attacks with robot aerial torpedoes striking a children's hostel, hotels and shops, killing many and leaving charred wreckage. Allied raids by about a thousand US Fortresses and Liberators plus escorts targeted Reich aircraft and oil centers, with 15 heavy bombers and two fighters lost, 33 Nazi interceptors destroyed, and 16 planes on the ground.
Rome reports that the German airfield at Feuerbrunn in Austria, 30 miles northwest of Vienna, was hit Thursday night by RAF bombers from Italy. A Mediterranean air force raid on Thursday totaled about 1,400 sorties.
In Boston, the minesweeper Cuttyhunk sank Thursday night. Navy reports seven men missing, comprising two officers and five crew members, with search operations ongoing Friday.
Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard departed Washington for Mexico City to join the first formal meeting of a U S Mexican commission. He will discuss an agenda for the third inter American agriculture conference planned for Venezuela next year with Mexican officials.
Ossining New York three youths were executed in Sing Sing prison for the May 16 1942 poolroom slaying of Frank Servido during a $60 holdup.
A jumble of lost items and personal notes fills a local section. Lost billfolds and jewelry rewards compete with ads for jewelry stores and services. The page also carries wedding and memorial acknowledgments, plus business notices and classified-style offers.
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