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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1943
Page
10
Chicago and Sioux City livestock briefs report hog prices holding nominally steady after a small sale run, with only about 500 head on offer. Cattle and sheep receipts vary, market tones mixed as feeders, cows, and steers test levels. yearling and fat steers near record highs for the period, with wide price spreads across regions.
Grain futures rallied to strong gains led by oats and rye with early prices easing later. Wheat finished up 4 to 7 cents, corn steady, oats up 1 to 2 cents, and rye up about 1 3/4 cents. Chicago cash provisions show varied prices for wheat corn oats barley beans and field seeds amid activity and price ranges.
A garbled New York produce listing shows prices for potatoes by grade and pack, markets in New York and New Jersey, Florida and southern baskets, and related crate and bag costs. Chicago market notes report firm butter receipts, with various price points and car movements, reflecting a steady, unchanged market tone.
Readable lines report graded firsts for cars and vessels, including 3744 cars and 374ac fresh graded firsts with quoted prices. Arrivals show 51 on track and 64 total shipments, Idaho arrivals none. Old stock supplies and weak trading account noted, with no track sales reported and mixed regional prices for Bliss Triumphs and cheese.
Hog price levels held steady across all grades on the Cedar Rapids market this Saturday. Top butchers reached 14.90 while long haul no-fill stood at 15.00 and packers at 14.55, with various weight classes for good hogs and packers listed between 13.40 and 14.90 depending on weight. Cattle and calf sections show mixed values for steers, yearlings, cows, and bulls, with lambs and sheep offering multiple price points by weight and quality.
Grain and feed prices listed for oats wheat rye corn and soybeans with new and old hay and straw values. Poultry and livestock rates include springers leghorn varieties ducks geese pigeons and hides with No 1 and No 2 classifications and horse values.
Los Angeles report on psychologist Dr. Vitali Negri and his eight year pursuit to mold a wife as in Pygmalion ends with a divorce suit. Ethel Negri, 22, claims he hypnotized her into relationships beginning from age 14, recounting coercive lessons and enticements, while he laments a Faustus complex and failed psychoanalysis.
New York stock action shows aircraft leaders pushing gains on Saturday while many issues were flat due to profit taking and accounts balancing. Volume around 700 000 shares with several leaders adding to gains or hitting new year highs though some slips occurred. Bond market mixed with rail issues stronger late, Colorado and Southern 43s at year high, Severn Rock Island up sharply, government issues steady, some South American bonds up in the foreign market.
U S Department of Agriculture reports timely wool activity for March 8 to 13. Wyoming prices range 38 to 40 cents grease basis for eight months wools, Idaho 42½ to 44½, northern California 45 cents. Early shorn Idaho wools sold in Boston at 43 to 46 cents grease.
William Richardson, a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot officer from Church Hill Tennessee, leapt from a disabled patrol plane with an unpacked parachute under one arm. After five days on an ice floe in Northumberland Strait, he and three Canadian officers were rescued when a plane spotted them and guided a ferry to the scene.
Community notes from Marion list a surprise party for Mr and Mrs John M Howe who moved from a farm to north Tenth Street after 28 years. Guests numbered 54 and gifts were presented. Other items report visits, transfers, hospital stays, and births, including Nancy Sue Moore born March 5 at Mercy hospital.
George Sylvester Viereck, German-born New York publicist, was freed on bail Friday amid a conspiracy to undermine armed forces morale case and a retrial on foreign agents registration act violations. Judge F Dickinson Letts set $1000 bail on the foreign agents charge and $2500 on the morale charge. There are 33 co-defendants in the morale case. Letts previously presided over Viereck’s conviction for improper registration, a conviction the supreme court reversed and sent back to district court.
Federal Judge Jesse C Adkins dismissed the first count of a two count conspiracy indictment charging 33 persons and one newspaper with attempting to undermine national morale. The acts dated 1933 to 1940 predate the anti sedition act which became effective in June 1940.
A list of local church activities outlines times for Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Seventh Day Church of God and Prairie Chapel. It details Bible schools, morning worship, sermons, sacraments, youth groups, social events, potlucks, and midweek prayer services across Marion churches led by pastors including Rev. Benjamin H Shaw Rev. T J McElliott Rev Vernon II Carter Rev Frederick N Nelson Rev C D Patrick Rev Arthur W Henke Rev C V R De Jong Rev Carl Elrog and Rev A B Curran with noted sermon titles and special services.
Bill Stern's NBC and WMAQ program features a radio war bond auction at 9 pm with a Rickenbacker life dramatization and his guest Susan Hayward calling bids by telephone. Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker speaks briefly about his 21 days on an open Pacific raft.
Marion Claire and Mario Berini star in Leo Fall operetta Madame Pompadour on Saturdays WGN 8 p.m. feature. Dinah Shore headlines her In Person program and Eddie Cantor Time to Smile, with Franchot Tone joining Soldiers with Wings guests on WMT at 9:15 p.m.
A detailed hour by hour listing of radio programs for March 6 1943 and March 7 1953 across WMT WGN WHO KXEL and other stations. It shows news, music, theater and sports features with times and host names, including CBS Blue network listings and varied local broadcasts.
Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, rejected a CIO union business agent’s accusation of a spinal meningitis epidemic at the Catalina Island maritime training school. The denial, issued Friday, defends the school’s health conditions and counters union charges.
ALBERT LEA Minn AP Sheriff H B Wulff said taunts from playmates drove Della True 34 to poison two of her six children Ardit h 6 and Merle 9. She confessed the Oct 15 poisoning of Ardit h and a Wednesday poisoning of Merle. Poverty and taunts over their clothing were cited. The family’s husband died five years ago leaving four children ages 10 to 15.
Frank Husted, 43, of 1714 Johnson Avenue NW, suffered a badly lacerated right wrist when his hand caught in a conveyor belt at the Iowa Electric Light and Power Company plant Friday. He was taken to St. Luke's Hospital for treatment.
Warren S. Smith formerly supervised the Cedar Rapids branch for Quaker Oats has become general superintendent of the Grand Island Nebraska munitions plant opened in May 1942. He assumed duties after moving to Grand Island this year.
Paul Nolan aged 32 of 706 Fifth Avenue Southeast pleaded guilty in Judge G Thompson's court Saturday to operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was fined $300 or 90 days in Linn County jail and allowed to pay the fine in monthly installments.
Jack Young was charged with keeping a gambling house at Second Avenue and Third Street SE and received a $50 suspended fine in Judge G. K. Thompson's court Saturday. His appeal bond was set at $300. The will of Mrs. Clara Floyd of Center Point, who died February 17, was admitted to probate. Charles G. Floyd named executor.
Winnipeg traders were mystified by a flood of orders on Friday as prices rose generally by 1.48 cents. About 6,000,000 bushels of cash grain changed hands, marking the heaviest buying since 1941.
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