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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1943
Page
8
Unofficial Monday estimates show 13 000 cattle 20 000 hogs and 12 000 sheep in Chicago trading. Hog prices held steady with tops at 15.50 while fed steers fell to 17.40 and cows and bulls advanced 25 to 50 cents. Wool lambs reached a new March high of 16 85 per hundred.
Good grade yearlings and light steers softened while heavy weight steers hit 1740 top. Heifers rise up to 16.25 with top cows and bulls at new crop highs. cutter cows down to 10.50. Hog receipts steady with few high end hogs, Iowa totals 26 200. Undertone firm. weekend loadouts small.
Receipts show salable hogs steady to firm with several loads at 14.75 to 14.80. Cattle and calves mix steady to firm with run stock to dealers and light gains for slaughter steers cows and heifers. hogs at Austin Market weakened slightly for some weights while Sioux City reports mixed results across cattle and sheep.
A jumble of numbers and city names appears to reflect financial quotes for Waterloo and Ottumwa. The data shows bid and ask values around mid fourteen dollars with fluctuating percentages and volumes, suggesting crude market price reporting without clear context.
The wool market during the week showed spotty activity with purchases in Sheridan at 43 cents and southeastern Wyoming at 40 cents. Early shorn wools ranged around 35 to 37 cents with mohair selling for about 66 cents. Texas eight months of work appeared in small lots at 43 cents.
Disjointed OCR notes show rationed poultry supplies arriving in New York with delivery limits and pricing scattered. Chicago produce reports include butter and egg receipts with varied pricing and packing details, reflecting unsettled market conditions.
Furnished by Lamson Brothers and Company. Phone 2 3141. H R Mowrey, manager, Cedar Rapids office, 503 Merchants National Bank building.
Fresh graded firsts and car loads dominate the potato and cheese arrivals. Idaho total shipments and Florida Bliss figures appear alongside U S No 1 pricing and miscellaneous stock tallies for 1942 grass stocks.
Prices on all hog grades were five cents higher on Saturday in Cedar Rapids. Top hog prices reached 14.90 for butchers, 15.00 for long haul no fill, and 14.55 for packers, with various weight classes listed from 140 to 330 pounds and more. Cattle prices show ranges for steers, yearlings, and cows, while lambs and other meats are noted with quality-based price bands.
The notice lists oat and corn grades with prices and quality terms, such as No 3 Sic Wheat No 1 at 1.18 and No 2 at 1.15. It also shows rye, shelled corn, soybeans, hay, straw, poultry prices for springers leghorns hens heavy hens ducks and geese, pigeons and hides with unit prices and unit terms.
The OPA announcement of permanent price ceilings on corn caused opening trading confusion. Prices dropped across futures except corn, which rose to new ceiling levels. Wheat finished down, corn rose, oats and rye edged higher as short covering and buying supported the market.
AP dispatch notes Chicago grain prices with no sales for wheat and corn. No. 2 yellow corn listed at 1.02 and No. 3 at 9. c Si. Gl. No. 4 at 86.98 sc. Oats and field seeds priced per cent nominal. Timothy hay cited at 4.75 to 5.00. fancy red top 7.25 to 7.75. clover 7.00. sweet hay 32.50 to 39.08.
United States bombers attacked Munda and other Japanese bases in the central Solomons. Navy says no casualties or damage reported from the raids conducted Friday.
Moscow radio claimed in a recorded broadcast that Nazis shot or poisoned between 15000 and 18000 women and children during their occupation of Rostov.
Stocks moved quickly with some two year highs but leadership lagged and quotes finished irregularly. Heavy trading in low and mid price issues boosted volume to about 800 000 shares, the largest Saturday total since 1941.
Iowa led the United States in cash income from farm marketing in 1942. The state posted $1,237,590,000 in cash income, plus $60,382,000 in government payments, totaling $1,297,972,000. Livestock and livestock products contributed $1,020,388,000, with other income at $217, multiple figures noted for nationwide totals and government payments across the sector.
Allied heavy bombers scored a direct hit on a 7,000 ton Japanese cargo ship at Ambon in the Banda Sea, near New Guinea. Eight Japanese fighters tried to intercept. four were shot down. High level groups under MacArthur announced the raid on Saturday.
The Fighting French delegation in New York asked immigration officials to release 12 sailors held on Ellis Island. They said the sailors were enlisted in Fighting French forces and were arrested for being aboard ships from France.
The Senate passed a $6.28 billion deficiency bill with funds for the National Resources Planning Board omitted. A special postwar planning committee was formed, with Senator George D. of Iowa named chair by Vice President Wallace. The measure also drops support for a high school victory corps and for care of children of working mothers, while authorizing $1.2 million for care of infants born to enlisted men wives.
Mrs. C A Garlock of Ft. Dodge was elected vice regent of the Iowa D A R at the 44th annual conference. Mrs. Throckmorton remains regent. other officers elected include Mrs. Gibson, Yonkers, Henely, and Gross. The group approved up to 2000 for the state blood plasma quota. a $100 check from the Sons of American Revolution supported this goal. Delegates urged participation in bond drives, defense work, and labor arbitration while seeking protections and restrained strikes.
Spokesmen from United Mine Workers districts warned of a work stoppage starting April 1 if a contract raising wages by two dollars a day for about 450 000 miners in northern and southern bituminous regions is not signed by March 31. The threat came at the joint northern Appalachian wage conference meeting.
Local church notices detail morning services Bible schools and worship times at Marion churches including Baptist St Josephs Catholic Christian Congregational Free Methodist and more. Various pastors and event specifics are given such as sermon titles youth programs and Lent services.
A NBC WHO program marks the 141st anniversary of the Association of Graduates of the West Point Military Academy. Gen Marshall Eisenhower Emmons Andrews Bee Danfor Stillwell Chennault Eichelberger and other officers speak from various locations. The event includes a West Point cadet choir and enlisted men’s band.
Ted Husing and Jimmy Dolan will describe Greg Rice attempting to break his own two mile record at the Knights of Columbus track meet in Madison Square Garden Saturday at 9 45 p.m. over CBS. People’s Platform on WBBM rebroadcast at 10 30 p.m. Saturday features Gov Harold E Stassen of Minnesota discussing America’s Future.
A fragmented hour by hour listing shows WGN WMT and EXEL programming from 6:15 p.m. through 9:15 p.m. with sports news dramas musicals and variety acts featuring names like Bob Hawk Crumit Sand Warden Hickenboom and Parades by WGN WHO and WMT stations. The text spans into March 14 1942 and includes morning Sunday schedules with church services religious programs and news segments.
Theft of a fourth fur coat from Newmans at 117 Second Street SE in Cedar Rapids was reported by Chief Detective William J. Kudina. Earlier losses of three coats were reported by the Killian company. The coat taken was a $295 black natural skunk. No suspects or timing could be established.
In Parliament Reginald Purbrick pressed Air Minister Archibald Sinclair to order a raid dropping a blockbuster into Vesuvius crater to provoke an eruption. Critics, including Father Joseph Lynch, warned the plan would fail and risk earthquakes and wider war effects.
Mrs. Raymond Eckhart was elected president of the Women's Missionary Union at World Day of Prayer services at Marion Christian church. Officers include Cecil Seger second vice president, Charles Crosley third vice president, H E Hanson fourth vice president, D B Storck secretary, and David Hindman treasurer. The group was installed by Vernon H. Carter with a World-Wide Missions talk by Mrs. C S Williams of Iowa City. A high school sextet sang and a picnic lunch followed.
Mrs Donald Hoff left Friday for St Louis to visit her parents Mr and Mrs William Edwards.
Advisory nurse Mrs J Franklin Parsons of district health service No 8 traveled to Marion and Rapids for work on Friday and Saturday, returning with routine reports and duties in the health program.
President Roosevelt told reporters he had no views to express on two White House conferences where the fourth term question was raised. He urged moving on to the war, noting it was the first time the issue had arisen even indirectly at a press event.
Harry Valandingham an 18 year old resident of 317 I avenue NW was fined 10 dollars and costs in Cedar Rapids police court for leaving the scene of an accident after his car struck a parked vehicle on Sixth street SW March 7. He admitted blaming another and said he was out on parole from the Iowa training school for boys at Eldora and had purchased a car licensed in his sister name in violation of parole terms. Valandingham faces an army examination Tuesday.
Capt. William A. Whiting of New York has been transferred to Lincoln Nebraska to command a similar air force detachment at the University of Nebraska. The announcement came Saturday from Major J S Lorr the commanding officer of air force reserves at Coe College Cedar Rapids.
Mrs B W Schenken entertained Thursday for the birthdays of A B Black and Mrs Schenken. Mrs Black attended and in the evening relatives held a surprise party. Refreshments were served to 18.
Mrs John Battin executive secretary of the Cedar Rapids Camp Fire office Mrs W Warren and Mrs W C Fernow first vice president of Camp Fire and youth chairman for the PTA were guest speakers Thursday at a Marion PTA meeting.
Dc J Culver, formerly stationed with the coast guard at New Orleans, has received an honorable discharge and returned to his home here.
Seven-year-old Harry D. Oakley, son of Mr and Mrs Harry Oakley, received treatment in a Marion doctor's office Friday for a knee wound requiring twelve stitches. Ivan Bowen returned from Des Moines for a one week furlough after induction into the service. Mrs Bowen is former Catherine Hogan.
Mary Frederick of Mt Vernon is the guest of Miss Emma Jean Nolisch, staying at her home for a social visit.
Mrs James E Clapp and her daughters Jeanne and Shirley of Humboldt visit former Marion residents Mr and Mrs Fern Anthes The Cheerful Companions class of the Christian church holds a picnic supper Sunday at 1 pm in the church dining room Members should bring a covered dish sandwiches and sugar Coffee and cream provided A business meeting will follow
Mrs E B Ringland will leave tonight for Jackson Mississippi to visit son Private Bernard Ringland at the ordnance base. Ringland soon to wed Miss Winifred Walker of New York City. Mrs Roy King injured fell at home and hospitalized at Mercy hospital with a fractured left hip. Mr and Mrs Kenneth Ditto move to Marion 289 Fourteenth street. Mrs Ivan Mann hosted W S A club at her mother Mrs Sarah Hutton’s home.
Classified notice shows a lost wrist watch near Elgin with reward offered. It mentions initials EMS and a license percent, and a contact phone 3-2987. Also references a machine quilting shop at 428 1 St SW and convalescents notes.
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