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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1946
Page
10
New York AP report shows select stocks in a tepid recovery with small gains and dotted losses. Turnover around 1,000,000 shares as Dow averages hover near prior levels. detailed quotations list many major issues and corporate names across industries.
Cedar Rapids hog market quotes ceiling prices with prime butchers at 14.45 and packers at 13.70. Includes detailed weight ranges for hogs and cattle prices across grades, calves, sheep, grain, hay, poultry, hides, eggs, and wholesale fruits and vegetables with assorted regional figures and per unit costs.
Friday salable receipts included 5,500 hogs and 5,000 sheep as packers pressed prices down from 18.00. Top cattle price reached 17.35 with widespread selling, bulls, cows and calves showing steady to weak demand across Chicago and Omaha markets.
Receipts at Sioux City and Des Moines fair to strong with mixed tone. Cattle markets show steady to slow demand. hogs firm with active trading. sheep and lambs varied as buyers price down. Regional totals: Sioux City 3,200 cattle and calves, 5,000 hogs, 3,300 sheep. Des Moines 21,300 combined for 24 hours. Kansas City cattle about 1,000 to 1,100 with slaughter class softness and gentle upswing for select lots. Prices highlight steers up to 15.75, hogs around 14.50, sows 13.75, cows 7.25–11.75, lambs 13.76–14.45.
Prices for cattle and calves listed in mixed lots and weights. Good and choice heifers and yearlings ranged from 15.00 to 16.50, with odd heads up to 17.00. Cows, canners, and cutters quoted from 6.50 to 13.85, stockers and feeders from 11.50 to 19.90, and various sausage ball types noted.
Chicago price action shows oats and May rye under moderate pressure while wheat futures sit near ceiling, closing unchanged to fractional gains. Corn stays around 1.21 ceiling, oats range with mixed moves, rye near unchanged, barley steady, cash grain quotes list No. 2 red and No. 2 hard wheat near 1.82, corn 1.19, malting and feed barley values, and forage prices for clover and timothy.
AP dispatch details wholesale produce prices in New York and Chicago. Mixed colors onions lead with 37 to 38 cents per pound, various No 1 to No 4 grades, butter markets steady around 48 cents for 92 score, 45 to 45-1/2 cents for 90 and 89 scores. Eggs and cheese quoted, potatoes arrivals and on track sales noted amid quiet demand. Idaho burbank and Tama? species listed with per 100 pounds pricing.
A fragmented price listing covers several commodities including U S 1 size A unwashed beans at 3.25, 2.80 for size A, and red river cobblers at 2.20 to 1.75 in various forms. Washed stocks show decay in places with mixed quality signals and notes moderate supplies, slow demand, and dull street trading.
A six month old girl, Jane Ann Marvel, died aboard a United Airlines transport while en route from Seattle to Baltimore. Her mother, Mrs. W. W. R. Marvel, and stewardess Kay Spitler aided with oxygen but rescue efforts at Denver airport failed. Fire officials attributed possible pneumonia from high altitude over the Rockies.
Hollywood reports the death of British born actor Philip Merivale at 59 from a heart ailment. Funeral arrangements were underway as his wife Gladys Cooper, at his bedside, mourns his passing. Merivale rose from Coronet Theatre mob scenes in London to Shakespearean roles with Ellen Terry and appeared in many films. He was slated for The Razor's Edge.
Des Moines AP Chief R W Nebergall says confessions indicate four men in custody in Illinois were involved in at least 47 breakins in 27 Iowa towns across 19 counties. Three are in Chicago. Jimmy O’Brien serves 20 to 35 years in Illinois for burglary and attempted murder. Names and roles of suspects outlined with time frame from June 3 to Nov 28, 1945.
Nebergall described a loosely organized group that struck as many as four towns in a single night. They could not estimate loot from recent post office and elevator break-ins, taking bonds money stamps tools cigarets and two public address systems. An October 15 attempt targeted the White State Bank at South English Keokuk County.
Margaret Singer aged 26 of Herts England wife of E Singer of Winthrop is listed by the Associated Press as a passenger aboard the Cristobal due in New York about March 26. The article notes both gold and iron rings were worn in early Persian and Hindu times.
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