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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1944
Page
3
Chicago trading shows hog prices steady after Wednesday's advance across weights. Fed steers and yearlings rise about 25 cents, with few lamb sales due to high asking prices.
AP report from Salabie shows hog prices around 13.85 to 14.10 for choice 170-190 lb and 300-556 lb sows at 13.35 to 13.90. Steers and yearlings active. cows scarce and strong higher toward 15.50, best heifers 15.85, bulk 13.00 to 15.25. Western fed lambs steady near 16.25 with many loads at 15.50 and up. native lambs and sheep scarce.
Receipts 4 200 cattle and 3 200 sheep with steady bid levels. Slaughter steers and yearlings are active. best demand on top weights while cows and bulls mix, prices range 7.00 to 15.50. Stockers and calves show firm to steady demand. feeder pigs noted. Sheep: red wooled lambs in load and mixed lots adjust to early action.
Hog and cattle buyers show continued activity with top hogs around 5c lower to 13.70 per cwt for very active trade. Cows, sows and calves firm. fed steers and heifers steady to higher. vealers steady. Sheep and lambs mix with bids soft early but overall demand steady as receipts rise.
Combined receipts for 24 hours ending 8 a.m. Wednesday show 26 100 hogs in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota, with 56 909 last week and 27 200 a year ago. Prices listed by weight class include 160 Ibs 12 15, 180 200 Ibs 12 20, 200 330 Ibs 13 66, 330 360 Ibs 12 70 13 45, 360 400 Ibs 11 60, 55 58 sows and 400 456 Ibs 11 50 to 12 10.
Fragmentary list shows prices and items for packing, meat, and supplies with scattered figures and locations like Waterloo and Ottumwa. The readable text presents unit prices such as 12.25 and 13.00, interspersed with incomplete product references.
Chicago market notes show poultry receipts with 3 trucks and firm supplies. Butter at 88 to 92 cents per lb. cases of canned goods and cooking fats listed. Potatoes arrivals 106 on track 251 with assorted U S No 1 and No 2 varieties, prices from 1.65 to 3.50 per 100 lb depending on size and quality.
Wholesale poultry market shows mixed prices for geese ducks and broilers with receipts totaling 378 is 578 072 pounds and 23 912 cases of 3 cents per dozen. Many items priced per dot with white No 1 to 4 stock at 47 pounds and over and 46 pounds at 35 cents. Market retains irregular tones and varied weights across categories.
A spokesman for Communist Socialist and Action parties announced a Naples mass meeting to resist Premier Badoglio and King Victor Emmanuel as leaders of anti fascist Italy. Organizers expect 20 000 to 25 000 attendees to protest Church Gs statement.
Lamson Brothers and Company provide grain quotations with H R Mowrey acting as Cedar Rapids manager from the Merchants National Bank building, 503. The listing notes contact from Chicago for price updates and market figures.
Cedar Rapids market shows no change in hog prices for Wednesday. Top price holds at 13.45 for 200 300 lb hogs. packers quoted across weight ranges from 270 to 360 lbs. Lamb and ewe figures follow, with lambs around 11 to 12.50 and western choice fed lambs at 15.25.
Grain No 8 Rye and seed yellow corn priced at 1. New hay and straw listed with bale prices 14 to 16 dollars. Poultry markets show rates for springs light and heavy stags 19 cents and heavy hens 23 cents. Leghorn hens 21 cents. Hides prices for No 1 cured 12 cents. Various regional market figures included.
Chicago AP reports grains turned easier on Wednesday led by rye which fell sharply at times. Wheat, oats and barley also eased as buying demand failed to materialize, with May wheat around $1.70 and rye near $1.27 per bushel while July barley traded about $1.19.
Prices listed for wheat and barley with feed values and field seed rates. Timothy red top red clover sweet clover and other seeds shown with nominal highs and lows. Units per 100 pounds and per bushel style pricing indicate market rates from Chicago.
Plymouth Wisconsin report for March 6-11 lists twins or cheddars at 234 cents. Mississippi River stages show Oines Ygglees at 5.8 feet, with Dubuque 7.8 feet and La Crosse 4.8 feet rising. Keokuk at 4.5 feet rising.
Pauline Farrell who faced a drunkenness charge in police court Tuesday no longer lives at 515 Fifth Avenue SE, according to residents. Linn county supervisors set field assessors’ pay at 5.75 dollars per day, effective March 1, 1944. Mt Hermon lodge No. 263 A F and A M will conduct first degree work Thursday at 7 p.m. at the hall with refreshments to follow.
The Friday meeting of the service club at Jane Boyd Community House is postponed due to the death of Miss Elizabeth Bender's sister Mrs Paul Hruska.
German diplomats delayed from leaving Buenos Aires for Lisbon to swap with Argentine diplomats in the Reich due to difficulties. A formal announcement said the departure was postponed with no immediate new date.
Montevideo report says La Razon views Argentine actions against US news groups as surprising, noting Nazi news agencies in Buenos Aires appear to operate without hindrance.
New York stocks advanced in brisk trading paced by so called peace shares. Final hour gains spread from fractions to about two points as volume hit roughly 1.7 million shares in the session, the strongest since December. Prices showed broad strength across industries and a number of prominent names advanced in Chicago and New York listings.
Advances of fractions to more than a point were well distributed Wednesday after a late rally in medium priced rails and leaders in other groups. Firms included Chicago and Alton Monon North Western Illinois Central New York Central Pittston Co and Wabash. New Haven loans lost ground.
A Fortress returning from Berlin raid crashed near landing at the U S bomber base in England. Lt. Frederick J. Sommer of Davidsonville Maryland struggled to control the plane as it veered toward the control tower where Maj. Gen. James H. Doolittle stood with senior officers. The bomber rose and narrowly cleared the tower.
Chang Ping-Chun of the executive yuan said wholesale prices in China are 230 times pre-war levels. He noted rice and coal up 60 percent since end 1943, with matches 600 times pre-war cost, oil 176 and coarse cotton homespun 340. Liang Han-Chao criticized the medieval type economy and difficulty in controlling price acceleration.
In Toronto James Follett, chief test pilot for De Havilland Aircraft, flew 377 miles to New York in 55 minutes aboard a Mosquito bomber, averaging 411.34 miles per hour and signaling potential new transcontinental records.
A Sunday 7 30 p m get out the vote meeting will be held at the Memorial coliseum sponsored by Cedar Rapids labor groups the NAACP and the Consumers Non-Partisan league Speakers include Forrest B Spaulding and Edwin Schonfeld The organizers urge turning out voters to boost participation in city school state and national elections Local CIO unions and unions federations back the event with industrial union council publicity chiefs urging turnout.
Harry Kimley 56 died at his home four miles northeast of Coggon Tuesday at 5 p.m. Surviving with his widow Anna Kimley are three children Lucile Leroy and Maxine. Two brothers Ed and Thomas and two sisters Katherine and Mrs Joseph Hennessey. Services at St Johns Catholic church Coggon Friday at 10 a.m. with Rev J Baxter officiating.
Services for Mrs Katharine Hruska wife of Sgt Paul F Hruska will be held in the Turner chapel at 2 p m Thursday in charge of Rev Dr Chas J Bready Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
Local contractor Ralph C. Watterson dies suddenly of a heart attack. Services by Rev. W. C. Porter will be at Moon chapel at 2 p.m. Thursday with burial in Cedar Memorial Park. Friends may call at the chapel.
Clarence M. Bon ham aged 39 of two miles southwest of Solon died in an Iowa City hospital Sunday. Funeral services are set for 4 p.m. Thursday at Brush funeral home Solon with Rev. Marion H. Williams of Cedar Rapids officiating. Burial will be in Linwood Cemetery Cedar Rapids.
Anna Pirks widow of Frank Pirks died Saturday at age 76. Services moved from Tuesday to Saturday at 2 p.m. in Brush chapel. She resided with her daughter near Shueyville.
Miss Hettie Hib ben of 3237 First avenue SE died early Tuesday. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Beatty chapel with Rev. Charles Bridges officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Memorial cemetery. Friends may call at Beatty's.
John Peter Seiler 56 dies Sunday at daughter's home in Shellsburg. Services set for 2 p.m. Friday at Brush Funeral Home conducted by Rev. Paul L. Miller. Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery.
The body of Glenn Chamberlain, victim of a railroad crossing accident near Walford Monday morning, has been taken to Johnson funeral chapel in Otburial.
Mrs Helen Chislett 25 a Marion resident died Wednesday at 9 20 am in a Cedar Rapids hospital. She lived with Mrs Lillian Whittemore at 562 Seventh Avenue and was a member of the Marion Presbyterian church and Grove City Rebekah lodge. A New York native she is survived by a niece Mrs Bessie Jillson of Oldenburg NY who cannot attend services. Body at Yocom funeral home.
Local notice describes a free cooking class at 2 15 p m in the Marion Gas Company Office. The item appears among ads and public notices along with marriage news and civic updates from Central City and surrounding towns.
John F. Coakley, retired Milwaukee passenger conductor, died Monday in Excelsior Springs Missouri. Services are set for Thursday at 9 30 a m at St Josephs Catholic Church with Rev T J McElliott officiating. Burial will follow in Mt Calvary Cemetery.
The Marion Business Girls club held a Tuesday dinner at Mrs Evelyn Howe Blietz home. Barbara Seger read The Moon is Down. the club donated 10 to the Red Cross. Various members announced plans for committees and entertainments while city notices report snow clearing delays and illness updates.
The Wertz family thanks friends neighbors and especially the Women’s Auxiliary Volunteer Auxiliary and Home Rebekah for floral tributes and sympathy during the illness and death of their brother and father. Signed by Mrs Ann Shank Ed Wertz Fremont Wertz and Hermann Wertz.
fragmentary classified items list home repair services Cedar Rapids and nearby ads. mentions waterproofing, insulation, shoe repair, hauling, and job listings. includes names like Walter Ehlers and Noble, various addresses and contact numbers, with scattered business notices and help wanted lines.
The firm will appoint two permanent salesmen to call on business and professional men. One will work in Cedar Rapids and vicinity, the other in northeastern Iowa. Interviews in Cedar Rapids. preferred ages 30 to 50. Apply by telephone to Mr. Jones, Montross, on Thursday March 9 between 2:06 and 10:30 a.m. or after 7:00 p.m.
A jumble of small notices lists lost items like a child’s glasses near Taylor School and a fountain pen, with rewards offered. The page also includes multiple ads for jewelry, tax services, dance lessons, bicycle shop, and various local businesses.
A pilotless P-38 crashed into Camp Haan post hospital in Riverside California, killing four people including two attendants and two patients in the X ray room. The pilot Lt Gene Hickok from Bellingham Washington parachuted to safety. Names of the deceased withheld until survivors are notified.
Modernization projects for the Seventh AAF base on the Marshalls include an electrically refrigerated beverage case and a piano ordered for the squadron. Lt. Hugh McCoy notes difficulty in obtaining equipment and credits luck in securing beer for the crew. A library of over 5,000 volumes and radio-phonograph sets are also listed among items arriving.
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