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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1945
Page
6
Chicago AP reports unofficial Monday livestock receipts with cattle around 17,000 hogs about 10,000 and sheep near 10,000. Saturday hog receipts were 6,000, many not salable, with prices nominally steady. Cattle and sheep offerings cleared quickly with prices also nominally steady.
In Omaha the hog market shows salable receipts at 200 total 2 800 with barrows and gilts at 14.45 and sows 13.70, steady at ceiling levels versus Friday. Cattle and calves show mixed changes with fed steers and yearlings weak to 25 cents lower, cows mostly steady, bulls steady to 2 cents higher, and weaners up to 50 cents. Week top fed steer at 17.30 for 1 142 lb, 972 lb heifers at 16.85, good beef cows 14 00, feeder steers at 15.00, 16.75 for best, and other ranges 13.00 to 15.50. Sheep receipts none to 1 000, spring lambs 50 cents lower, old crop shorn lambs steady, feeding lambs scarce, with top early 16.00 and shorn lambs 14.25 to 14.75, ewes 7 50 to 8 00. California feeding lambs around 13.00.
Chicago market report shows hogs receipts around 6 000 with top price 14 75 per unit and average bids near 14 50 to 14 75 while cattle receipts near 100 offer beef steers around 16 50 for select and 13 00 to 17 50 for others. sheep receipts about 3 500 with lambs 14 50 to 15 35 and ewes 6 00 to 8 00.
Des Moines AP report lists quotation ranges for hog classes from Mason City Waterloo Ottumwa and Austin with good packing sows and various weights. Prices span about 13.50 to 14.45 per hundredweight across multiple plants and sizes reflecting steady to mixed demand.
Salable receipts hogs 500, total 950, steady. Barrows and gilts 160 lbs and up 14.45, odd sows 1370. Cattle receipts 300, total 325. Calves and stockers steady to varied. slaughter steers 15.25 to 17.00, several loads 17.25, heifers steady to weak 800-830 lbs around 16.00, cows 25c lower to 13.50, feeders 14.25 for 900 lb. Sheep receipts 400, total 1000. Good and choice fed shorn lambs steady to weak, No. 1 and 2 pelts fed lambs 14.25 to 15.25, top 15.35, spring lambs 15.00 to 16.00, slaughter ewes steady 7.50 to 8.00.
Combined receipts at 19 yards and 11 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ending 8 am Saturday totaled 30,000, up from 23,000 a week prior and 32,300 a year ago. Demand remained very active and steady with barrows and gilts in the 160-180 lb range at 13.50 to 14.45, 180-360 lb at 14.20 to 14.45, sow categories described with prices in the 13.30 to 13.70 range for various weights.
Chicago market data shows butter receipts 16 160 tubs steady with extras, egg receipts 14 789 cases steady with various grades, cheese at 25.2 cents for twins and 26 cents for other varieties, potatoes arrivals 68 on track with total US shipments 950 and strong demand. California 100 pound sacks long white US No 1 priced around 379 429 dollars and US commercials 41744 19.
Prices at the Cedar Rapids hog market stay at ceiling levels with top hog prices for prime butchers at 14.45 and packers at 13.70. Detailed quotes cover hogs, cattle, sheep, calves, soybeans, oats, wheat, rye, and hay, with unit prices and weight ranges. Includes poultry, eggs, fruit, vegetables, hides, and byproducts.
New York trading saw gains across aviation, rails, industrials and utilities with many laggards. Fractional advances to about two points prevailed near the close as around 600000 shares changed hands.
The market was irregularly higher Saturday with railroad issues generally up. Little activity was seen in industrials and utilities.
Chicago AP reports grains firm to strong in abbreviated session with wheat and rye leading gains. Wheat finishes up 34 to 133 cents, July futures around 167. Corn mostly steady to up 1, oats and barley also rise, rye gains about 3, with July contracts reflecting similar advances.
Chicago AP notes wheat prices with No 1 red old at 179 nominal No 1 hard 1.73 nominal No 2 yellow hard 117 1.73 nominal Corn no sales No 1 special red 72 15 or 7215 cents Arley nominal at 1.15 1.3908 feed 90 cents to 1.20.
In Plymouth Wisconsin the army purchased nine cars of twins and cheddars at 23 3/4 cents a pound along with one car of square prints and one car of midgets at 249 1/2 cents a pound.
Justice of the Peace William Schweiker continued until July 6 a hearing on liquor and gambling violation charges against Pete A. Randi and Robert Knote of the Mainliner nightclub and Al de Carlo of the Pastime club. The defendants were arrested in raids led by Constable Basil Grossnickle. The continuation followed a denied motion to change venue to Des Moines municipal court. Defense planned additional motions to be filed Monday morning with potential afternoon arguments. Grossnickle testified at the hearing.
DES MOINES AP reports every state highway patrolman is ordered to duty from July 1 to July 5 to help prevent accidents during the Fourth of July traffic rush, Patrol Chief C A Knee announced Friday.
Augusta Maine AP reports a flash fire engulfed a flame dwelling early Saturday killing six people including four children. Fire crews battled the blaze as neighbors described the rapid, deadly blaze and the loss to the family.
Annapolis Md UP three backfield stars from last season Robert Hoernschmeyer Indiana Tony Minisi Pennsylvania and Robert Kelly Notre Dame officially joined navy Friday. The addition boosts a navy squad expected to be one of the strongest in the east.
Four year old Sandra Hood becomes sole representative of a family fractured by wartime separation as Judge E J Fisher grants a divorce by default. Sandra’s mother reveals an extramarital relationship and the birth of a child, while Sandra moves to live with her aunt and uncle in Butler, Missouri, amid the upheaval.
A cockroach sheds its skin seven times as it grows from nymph to adult, revealing new exoskeletons with each molt. The process governs development and plays a key role in camouflage and protection.
Wiesbaden Germany AP Count Ruediger von der Goltz a former Reichstag member and top German lawyer says Adolf Hitler used unfounded morals charges in 1938 to drive a wedge in the German army. The case cost the army its politically independent leadership and left it weakened. Goltz cites Goering and Rundstedt in a frameup to remove Col. Gen. Werner von Fritsch who opposed the SS. Fritsch denied guilt but Hitler ordered an investigation. The two‑way probe involved the justice minister and the Gestapo with Schmidt the blackmailer testifying. Hitler insisted the suspicion remained and resumed the inquiry. Fritsch was not promoted and was forced to command a single artillery regiment. Lochner’s 1938 dispatch notes Fritsch’s rehabilitation as honorary chief of the 12th artillery regiment. Fritsch later wrote to Goltz that no rehabilitation occurred and that he would be a target, a fate realized when he died near Warsaw.
City brief notes Mrs. Lillian Hart of 630 Ninth Avenue SH has returned home from the hospital. Also listed are church services at Full Gospel Church 1012 Eleventh Street NE with Sunday school at 10 a.m. Worship at 11 a.m. Beatrice Kramer speaks on What Is True Worship. Christ Ambassadors hold evangelistic service at 7 p.m. and an 8 p.m. service.
The Rev H K Galloway of Grande Avenue United Presbyterian will serve as pastor of First United Presbyterian and his own church during July and August. Sunday services at 11 a.m. will be held at Grande Avenue in July and at First Church in August. Tomorrow the guest speaker is Miss Frances E Brown, a missionary supported by Cedar Rapids Women's Presbyterian who just returned from India.
Arcadia Calif AP Thumbs Up with Johnny Longden to ride leads Louis B Mayer s Thumbs Up in the Santa Anita handicap. The mile and a quarter race features thirteen top turf performers with a winning purse near 83 100 and attendance expected to rise above 40 000 to 50 000.
Marion News reports officers and church women’s groups including the Christian church Women’s Missionary Society Grace H. Sarr Missionary circle and Companions Missionary group were installed Friday night by Mrs. W. E. Grassfield. A playlet Mothers was presented by the Mines with several piano selections by listed performers. Refreshments served to 45.
A listing of numerous Marion area church schedules and pastors. Includes Baptist Charles Moore Catholic St Joseph T J McElfiott Christian Vernon H Carter and others with service times for morning worship Sunday school and midweek prayers. Also notes Union services with Presbyterian and St. Pauls Lutheran timing and Holy Communion details.
UITEL FIELD New York AP Maj Walter V Radovich thrice decorated aviator was convicted by court martial of accepting seven thousand dollars to prevent four enlisted men from being sent overseas He received dismissal and three years in prison The Los Angeles flyer who shot down four Japanese planes showed no emotion at the verdict after three days of deliberation His defense counsel declined to call witnesses citing access to secret records Prosecutor said Washington granted permission to use records but defense sought to examine others Judge Advocate General Ben Angu said key evidence was withheld and Radovich admitted only after confinement in a crazy ward at Mitchell Field
The United States Mediterranean headquarters announced Friday that 357 686 American soldiers in the theater will be redeployed to the Pacific within nine months, with 87 percent traveling by way of the United States.
Washington AP report by J A Krug outlines a shift in U S war production with bombs bullets rockets ranking just behind aircraft in overall output. Bombers and fighters remain the largest single segment and aircraft are projected to account for 27 percent of the armor program in twelve months as shipbuilding declines.
Two crewmen on a freight train were killed and at least 25 people injured when a New York Central passenger train collided head on with a freight train near Eaton Rapids, 20 miles northwest of Jackson, Michigan. The dead were engineer David Greer and brakeman R. O. Rhoades, both from Grand Rapids. fireman L. J. Hotchkiss escaped unharmed. The passenger train, running from Jackson to Grand Rapids, had departed Jackson a few minutes late.
J. L. Ropes, 74, father of Secretary of State Wayne M. Ropes, was found dead shortly after noon Friday at his home in Onawa Iowa. Telegram delivery failure prompted the investigation. He also leaves a son Newell Ropes of Jefferson City Missouri.
Apparent local notice lists several lost items and animals with contact numbers. A pale green and white dress is missing near 16th Street, a reddish brown Chesapeake pup named Jiggs is missing in the Steerngory area, a white and tan hound with collar and chain answers to Me is also lost, and a lost fishing pole and reel located between 1st and 2nd avenues near 14th and 16th Streets. A brown billfold with a company pin is listed as lost. Floyd Freeman from the YMCA is noted as the contact.
A collage of local ads lists neckwear patterns and sales at ACE'S STORE and Probasco tewary plus sewing classes at SINGER SEWING CENTER. Beauty and perm services appear from PARIS ACADEMY, Helene Curtis, Ruth Thompson, and others. Home services include refrigeration repair, lawnmower service, tree trimming, and hauling with contact numbers. Several requests seek rides, storage, and cleaning services.
A barn on Charles Hawkins farm was struck by lightning during a severe electrical storm. The blaze destroyed 250 bales of hay and some straw, with losses estimated at 2000 dollars, covered by insurance.
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