Hogs Hit 22-Year High in Chicago Market News
Chicago hog prices rose to a top of 15.90 per cwt in active trading as hogs gained 15 to 25 cents. Cattle and sheep also showed gains with fat lambs at 16.50 and steady to higher cattle at several loads, amid widespread gains across other regional livestock markets including Omaha and Sioux City.
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Chicago
U S. Dept Agericulture
Omaha
Sioux City Livestock
Sioux City
UPI
U. S. Dept. Agriculture
Cedar Rapids
Snes
Chicago Chicago Produce Market and New York Dressed Poultry Report
Chicago market shows steady prices on cheese butter eggs and potatoes with firm demand and light supplies. New York dressed poultry and live poultry show strong demand with varied grade pricing and OPA adjusted limits. bacon roasters and quail prices listed alongside dairy cheese and egg figures.
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Chicago
North Dakota
Bliss
Florida
Bliss Triumphs
U. S
Florida Bliss
New York
UPI
Wisconsin
OPA
Wisconsin cheese and wool market reports brief
Plymouth Wisconsin reports March 18 prices with twins and cheddars at 23 in small print. Boston U S staple wool market notes light shrinkage and cleared lambs and wools sold in the Midwest. Idaho lots sold at 43 to 45 cents delivered in a brief market round.
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Wisconsin
Plymouth
Wis
Boston
U. S
Agricultern
Midwest
Idaho
U S Reads to Join In Assisting Jews
Acting Secretary of State Welles said the United States sent a note to Great Britain indicating willingness to cooperate in any measures to alleviate the plight of European Jews threatened with extermination under enemy domination. The move signals U S intent to join international efforts to aid Jewish victims amid rising Nazi aggression.
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Washington (Ap
Welles
United States
Great Britain
Cedar Rapids Market Review of Grain and Produce
Grain prices for oats wheat rye and corn listed with No 2 yellow and No 3 descriptions. Hay and straw prices shown new tame hay 900 old 1100 bale stacked. Poultry prices for springers stags leghorn hens heavy hens ducks young geese pullets and sizes given. Wholesale fruits vegetables prices for celery lemons oranges lettuce onions sweet potatoes apples cranberries Tokay grapes potatoes hides and furs with various grade prices and horse and pony values.
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Leshorn Springs
Colorado
Strong Undertone In Grain Market Chicago AP
Resting orders supported wheat as prices hovered near seasonal highs. Wheat closed higher with May around 1.477 to 1.48 and July at 1.48, corn unchanged, May near ceiling, oats gained 4 1/4 to 5 1/4 cents.
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Chicago
Chicago market cash provisions brief
Chicago cash market shows no sales. corn prices No. 3 yellow 1.015, No. 4 at 0.95 to 1.01 per bushel with samples 0.90 to 1.00. oats No. 1 mixed 62 to 74 cents, barley malting 88 to 90 cents, feed 72 to 86 cents.
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Chicago
Her Lawyers in War Work So No Divorce
Mrs. Emerson Peet seeks divorce from Peet, citing ruined social life and isolation from relatives. Judge Palmer delays decree for three weeks as lawyers are in war work. settlement signed while attorney away and partner in Washington on war business.
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Los Angeles
Llp
Emerson Peet
William Palmer
Peet
Palmer
Milan Medigovich
Washington
Prices Set for Pork and Beef Ceilings
Washington AP Price Administrator Prentiss Brown announced uniform ceiling prices on pork and beef will be set soon to curb black markets in meat. He said pork ceilings should come in days and beef shortly after, with a drive to reduce uninspected meat purchases. If margins remain too high, ceilings on live hogs may follow.
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Washington
Prentiss M. Brown
Brown
Stock Mart on Upgrade Again
Rails and steels led a strong stock market advance as lower priced shares surged in volume. Carriers rallied late, many gaining over a point and reaching new yearly highs. Volume totaled about 1,800,000 shares for the session, topping Tuesday’s tally.
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New York
Rails and Steels
New York Bond Review Sees Broad Market Advance
The New York market Wednesday advanced to the highest levels in years with widespread gains across groups. Final hour activity was heavy, rail stocks led the surge and overall trading was robust.
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NEW York Bond Review
New York
Hit Absentees in Pocketbooks K N Knox Testimony
Secretary of the Navy Knox told the House naval committee that wartime absenteeism in plants was far higher than strike losses and had risen over the past year. He suggested penalizing absentees financially, noting only a portion could be reached by threats of military service.
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Washington
Navy
Knox
House Naval Committee
Iowa Sees Continued Low Draft Call For April
Iowa's draft call for April remains reduced and roughly equal to February and March totals. Col. Ralph Lancaster notes the first cut in February cut the quota by 50 percent, with later additions for Navy Coast Guard Marine and Army needs.
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Iowa
Des Moines
State
Selective Service
Ralph Lancaster
National Selective Service
Navy
Army
Lancaster
Allied general at Kasserine passes mine field
The Allied commander in southern Tunisia approached the mine field at Kasserine pass in his jeep and asked a sentry where the front was. The sentry replied that the front was where he sat.
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Tunisia
Kasserine Pass
Allied Conferees Discuss Postwar Currency Setup
London reports a conference on postwar currency arrangements with representatives from the United States, Russia, China, British dominions, the Fighting French national committee, and other Allied finance ministers. Ralph Assheton chaired the meeting. The communiqué noted continued discussions to be held soon.
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London
United Nations
British Treasury
Ralph Assheton
The
Treasury
United States
Russia
China
French National Committee
Barbour on 1942 Election and War Effort Cooperation
Sen. Warren Barbour says the November 1942 results mandate congressional independence but not universal obstruction. He urges Republicans to work with administration on the war program while defending dissent as a constitutional right. He warns against New Deal attack politics and calls for restored congressional powers.
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Washington
Warren Barbour
R-N. J
Congress
Roosevelt
Administration
House
Senate
Boost Oil Coupons Value in East and Midwest
The Office of Price Administration raised No. 5 householder fuel oil coupons by one to two gallons in 17 eastern states and D C. It also moved up by one week the use date in zone A and by five days in zone B. In 13 Midwestern states the coupon values remain unchanged for the fifth heating period from early March to Sept. 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
District of Columbia
OPA
Midwestern
War Time Clock Change Defended by War and Navy Aides
Washington AP report says undersecretaries Robert P Patterson and James V Forrestal joined other officials in opposing any change to the law establishing war time. They argued shifting clocks up one hour would harm production and harm the national war effort.
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Washington
War and Navy
Robert P Patterson
James V. Forrestal
Office of War Information
Patterson
Forrestal
Gasoline Confusion Highlights Rationing Mix Up
AP reports in Salt Lake City a motorist mixed up liquor and gasoline ration tickets, leaving him with gas but no liquor. In Denver a doctor’s sulfa capsule for pneumonia led Shirley Widgery to swallow nine capsules, prompting emergency care with a cautious outlook for recovery.
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Salt Lake City
Denver
Shirley Jean Widgery
Spellman Flies to Spain from Vatican
Arch bishop Francis J. Spellman of New York arrives in Seville aboard an Italian airliner from Rome after saying Mass at 8 am in the private chapel at the U S legation residence inside Vatican City.
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Seville
Spain
Francis J. Spellman
New York
Rome
United States Legation
Vatican City
Kansas City Car Tragedy Claims Howard Oots
Howard Oots was killed when his own car ran over him after a collision between his vehicle and another driven by Andrew Stewart in Kansas City. Oots was thrown from the car and crushed as it swung around.
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Kansas City
Howard Oots
Andrew Stewart
Oots
Ed Derby improving at home with no visitors
City briefs report Ed Derby a musician at 321 Fourth Avenue SW seriously ill for two months is improving at his home with no visitors. Other items note moves and local notices including hospital updates and small theft reports.
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Ed Derby
Fourth Avenue
William H. Lohr
Gazette Justice Court
Eighteenth Avenue
Paul Lohr
Hand Injury From Fan Sends Marion Man To Hospital
Harry Parker 41 of Marion was hospitalized after his hand was caught in a car fan. Amputations occurred at the first joints of the thumb, ring, and middle fingers. Also reported: gasoline thefts from K. H. Kainz on two occasions, and local community notices on education talks, Masonic lodge meeting, Cub pack activities, a birth in Cedar Rapids, and military family connections.
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Harry Parker
Marion
St. Luke's Hospital
K. H. Kainz
Wildwood Drive
Cedar Rapids
Calvin P. Titus III
Calvin P. Titus, Jr
Shreveport
Titus
Africa
Egypt
C. P. Titus
Coe College
R.O.T.C
New Zealand Pilot Downed Four Italian Bombers in 20 Minutes
Allied reports Flying Officer Raddy Chambers aged 28 of New Zealand shot down four Italian Savoia 79 bombers in twenty minutes during an attack on an Allied convoy in North Africa. He closed from the rear in a Spitfire and accounted for all but one, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross.
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Allied Headquarters
North Africa
RAF
New Zealand
Raddy Chambers
Chambers
Swastika Sign Hangs From Damaged Line Mocking Roosevelt
In southern Tunisia American soldiers traced a broken telephone wire to a swastika decorated sign that swung from the line. The German inscription proclaimed you can no longer talk to General Roosevelt, reflecting wartime propaganda.
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Tunisia
Roosevelt
It Takes a Lot To Bother These Wet Army Flyers
Major Joseph R. Delaune a 31 year old Beaumont Texas flyer survived a fiery crash near Bowman Field Louisville after his right engine caught fire on takeoff. He landed in a vacant lot within 50 feet of two houses and walked to a nearby home for tea, then returned to the plane to retrieve his cup, as officers investigated the cause of the fire.
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Louisville
Elfin Avenue
Bowmanfield
Joseph R. Delaune
Beaumont
Texas
Josephine Hamrick
Bowman Field
Nelson Chooses Three New WPB Vice-Chairmen
In Washington three new vice-chairmen of the War Production Board were named by Chairman Donald M Nelson. Ralph J Cordiner of Stamford Connecticut former Shick Inc president becomes a special assistant to Wilson and Krug. Donald D Davis of Minneapolis former General Mills president heads WPB operations.
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Washington
War Production Board
Donald M Nelson
Ralph J Cordiner
Stamford
WPB
Ferdinand Eberstadt
Wilson
Donald D Davis
Minneapolis
General Mills, Inc
Rickenbacker Criticism Sparks Labor Response
President R. J. Thomas of the CIO United Automobile Workers says Ed Rickenbacker has the right to criticize labor but labor must refute his charges. Thomas notes he has publicly challenged Rickenbacker’s attacks on absenteeism and other industrial issues, while affirming the right to speak.
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Columbus, Ohio
R. J. Thomas
United Automobile Workers
CIO
Eddis Rickenbacker
Labor
Rickenbacker
Judge Shankland Dies at Des Moines
Des Moines AP report: Judge Frank S Shankland, 73, Polk county district judge for 16 years, died of a heart ailment at his home. Funeral services set for 3:30 p.m. Friday. Survived by his widow and daughter Kathleen Shankland Davison. In 1934 armed guards were assigned to the judge after threats linked to a grand jury probe of the Des Moines underworld and major crimes.
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Des Moines
Frank S Shankland
Polk
Shankland
Kathleen Shankland Davison
Cadets Slated to Get First Liberty
Air force reserves in training at Coe college since their occupancy of the campus will likely receive their first open post liberty from the station Saturday night. After this first week, the men probably will have liberty at least two nights a week, Wednesdays and Saturdays, officers said Wednesday.
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Air Force
Coe College
Bonuses Approved For Des Moines Steel Workers
Des Moines Steel Co won regional approval to pay 1942 bonuses. About 120 employees will receive roughly $75 each, with the United Steel Workers of America CIO union joining in the application.
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DES Moines
Des Moines Steel Company
United Steel Workers of America
CIO
Reds Execute Former Polish Labor Officers
The Soviet embassy in Washington reports two former Polish labor leaders Henry Erlich and Victor Alter were executed in Russia for allegedly dissuading Soviet troops from fighting Germany and urging a Polish separate peace. The case drew protests from U S figures and a Times ad defending the men as anti fascists.
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Washington
Henry Erlich
Victor Alter
Russia
Erlich
Labor and Socialist International
Alter
Trade Union Congress
Maxim Litvinov
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Green
V. M. Molotov
State Department
New York Times
General Jewish Workers Union of Poland
Erlich and Alter
Poland
Hitler
Germany
Emanuel Nowogradsky
Phillip Murray
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Albert Einstein
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
Wladislaw Sikorski
Hold North African Diplomats of Enemy At Hotel in Virginia
Former German and Italian consuls general at Algiers with their staffs and families have arrived in the United States and are guarded at the Ingleside hotel near Staunton Virginia. The State Department says negotiations are under way for their exchange for U.S. and other American diplomats seized by the Germans. Axis internees in Virginia are not allowed contact with the public.
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Washington
Algiers
United States
North Africa
Ingleside
Staunton
State Department
France
Germany
Virginia
Link-Belt Hearing Postponed One Week
Charles W. Hobbie district director of the United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers CIO chapter says the representation hearing with Link-Belt Speeder Corp was postponed by the NLRB to March 11 at 10 a.m. after a motion by the company. The CIO petition alleges a question of representation. notice was served to the union and to the International Association of Machinists Harmony Lodge No. 831 AFL.
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Charles W. Hobbie
United Farm Equipment and Metal Workers of America
CIO
National Labor Relations Board
Link-Belt Speeder Corporation
Robert Rissman
NLRB
International Association of Machinists
Harmony Lodge No
AFL
Alvino Rey and Band To Build Bombers At Vega
Los Angeles AP reports Alvino Rey and his 21 piece band will quit music to build bombers on the graveyard shift at Vega Aircraft corporation. The move comes as defense needs rise and the group seeks steady work during wartime.
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Los Angeles
Alvino Rey
Vega Aircraft Corporation
Marines Interview 17 Year Olds for Officer Candidates
Seventeen-year-olds from Cedar Rapids Anamosa Marengo and Iowa City were interviewed at the marine corps recruiting station in the Cedar Rapids federal building for enlistment in the marine officer candidate class reserve. Capt J T Norris of the Des Moines office conducted the interviews and said more eastern Iowa youths will be invited to call through Saturday. Enlistees in this reserve unit would return to school until called to active duty.
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Cedar Rapids
Anamosa
Marengo
Iowa City
Marine Corps
Cedar Rapids Federal Building
J. T. Norris
Des Moines
Marine Corps Officer Procurement Office
Iowa
Nebraska
Wyoming
Norris
Cesing
Saturay
Coffee lovers bend one cup rule in Great Falls eateries
In Great Falls Montana patrons skim around the two cup limit by ordering coffee and hot water to fill bowls. They tell waitresses not to add cream or sugar and argue to gain a mental escape. The note ends by mentioning British India’s size relative to the subcontinent.
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Great Falls
Mont
Local Shoppers Guide Listing Various Shops and Deals
A compact ad montage lists Ginsberres closing out rooms of musical instruments at 205 2nd St and time service at Lower's 208 So 2nd St. Other entries include Vincent's Jewelry, Fisher Drug three price drugs, Lee's Tonax for chicks, Sands Printing Co, H K Schaefer watch repair, State licensed Day Nursery, machine quilting services, reflectors and ephemera from Hall's, and Griffith Feather Mattress Co offering feather mattresses and pillows.
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Ginsbere’s
Ginsbere's
2Nd St
Lower's
Vincent's Jewelry
Fisher Drug
LEE
K&m Pharmacy
Post
Sands Printing CO
H. K Schaefer
Kresge Eide
2Nd Ave
Hall's
Griffith Feather Mattress Co
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Stock Mart
J &. Bennett & Cow
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Mepacker Telephone
Wica Merchants National Bank
Allied Chem
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Inti
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Johns Manville
Amn For Power
Kennecott Capraz
Kresger
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Rad Kroger G & B
Ibbey Owens
Atlantic
Mone Ward
Atl Coast L Aviation Corp
Murray Corp
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Baldwin Loco
Bulto
Ohio
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Barnsdall
Natl Dairy
Bendix
Natl Distirs
Best Foods
Central
Beth Steel Nor Pac
Boeing Atro
North Amn Co
Bohn Alum
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Borden
Pacas
Borg Warner
Packard Matts
Paramount
Ford
Budd Bucyrus
Eric Mats
Penna
Reyn
Schenley
Southern
Sears Roebuck
Crve Inc
Cons Edison
Shell Simmons Union
Skelly
Tey
Socony
Vac
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Tex Gulf
Eastman Kolk
Tidewater
Elec Autoilte
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Elec
Timken
End & S
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Zenith Radio
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Sen. Barbour
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Spellman
Vatican
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James S. Peet
Rochester
Minn
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Ella Ayers
Top Hat
Arline Hanson
Seventh Avenue SW
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F Avenue NW
Roosevelt Hotel
Robert Burns
Mercy Hospital
First Street
First Avenue NW
Cub Pack No. 24
TV. Cook Woman’s Relief Corps
Beatty Chapel
Nettie Welsh
Memorial Building
Miss Brown
Sara Ann Brown
Roosevelt Hi-Y-Ettes
Sagamore Hall
A. T. Hodges
Mt. Hermon
A.F
A.M
Masonic Hall
Den
Central Park Presbyterian Church
Frank Richardson
D Avenue NE
David Bulachek
Denner Frank Richardson, Jr
Richard Steele
Teddy Suchomel
Danny Molumby
Carleton Zache
Bill Saunders
Tituses
Nelson
Thomas
Rick
Liberty
Reds
Thame
Frank Infante
Mervin
Eddie
Marines
India
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Gazette
Edna Mac Forsythe
H. M. Forsythe
le Ene
Palo
Howard Kahler
Edward Kosina
First Ave
Glen H Moore
42Nd St
di _Reilly
Probasco Jeweler
Palace Theater
Katz Jewelry
Jess Manes
O’meara
Lyman Shell Service
Jack’s
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