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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 24, 1943

Page

6

Hogs Cattle and Sheep Market Report from Chicago and Midwest

The Chicago AP market summary shows hog receipts 12 000 Wednesday, 23 500 total, prices down 5 to 15 cents with top near 15.75. Cattle receipts 11 000, steady to higher on fed steers, with calves and cows active. sheep supply 4 500, fat lambs mixed with steady to higher bids. Iowa Sioux City Des Moines and Omaha reports detail similar shifts with mixed demand, lower hog quotes, and variable cattle and sheep prices across major yards.

Chicago S Dept Agricul+ture Fed Western Iowa Des Moines INS Dept. Agriculture Sioux City Dept. Agriculturer Omaha

Market notes on wool Prices in Boston market

Government orders stirred activity on Wednesday in Boston. Double A scoured pulled wools sold at 129 dollars, 56's pampas wools at 34 dollars 10 cents, and Buenos Aires scoured wools for overcoats at 80 cents, ex dock.

Yool Markee Boston API A Dept Agriculture Buenos Aires Ind

Chicago Produce Market Report Shows Firm Receipts

Chicago produce prices and receipts remain firm with mixed but steady movement. Cabbage and cheese quotes trend as Butter and Eggs hold near steady levels. potatoes show arrivals and prices across regions including Idaho and Wisconsin. seed stock and farm livestock values listed with quality notes and steady demand in a tight market.

Chicago C. S Idahos North Dakota Red River Valley Minnesota U. S Wisconsin Nebraska LCL Florida

New York Produce Market Shows Higher Price Ceilings for Poultry

New York markets report strong but scarce poultry with hints of higher ceilings for certain qualities. Prices vary by weight and grade, with live poultry priced by weight and deliveries under 10,000 lbs. OPA maximums reference 1941 42 cheese and dairy receipts, reflecting tight supply and Hassover season pressures.

New York Wisconsin OPA

Local Hog Prices Dip Five Cents on Cedar Rapids Market

Hog prices across all grade ranges fell five cents on the Cedar Rapids market Wednesday. Top butcher price reached 15.00, long haul 15.10, packers 14.70, with various weight classes showing declines and specific per hundredweight ranges listed for good, cool, and utility hogs. Cattle and calf sections show mixed price bands for steers, yearlings, cows, and bulls, while sheep and lamb markets reflect modest gains in select categories.

Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids Market Report Listings in Mixed Prices

Market notes show oats and wheat pricing for No 2 and No 3 grades, soybeans at $1.66, hay and straw values, poultry prices for springers leghorns and hens, ducks, geese, pullets, and hens. Wholesale fruits and vegetables list Florida celery, lemons, naval oranges, lettuce, onions, sweet potatoes, apples, and potatoes with assorted crates and box prices.

Florida Colorado Naval Winesops

Grain Quotations Rise On Strong Undertone In Chicago

A firm grain market showed a steady undertone with moderate trading. Wheat rose about a cent at times, rye gained, and May oats hit a seasonal high. Wheat closed 2 to 4-1/2 cents higher, corn mixed near ceilings, oats up 54 to 9/10 cent, rye up fractions. Cash grain prices varied with No 2 yellow corn around 102, No 1 white oats about 67, and other sample grades listed for wheat, oats, and beans.

Chicago J. £. Bennett & Co. Wump Marchants National Bank Allied Chem Hupp Mtrs Central Lita Aled Chalmers Indus Rayon Amn Hide Nickel Ntl Ll Cv O& T Oat Mills Johns Manville Ennecott AMR Smelting Kresze Amn Steel Fdys Krocer G & B Libbey Owens Lin Myers Lockheed Wat Works 1Ocws, Inc Amn Woolrn Lorillard McKessen Nat Gay Marshall Fidytt Armour Cox Martin Armstrong Cork Maytag Mix Mols Moline Atchison SF Mont Ward Motor Wheel Uste Ad Coast Murray Corp Aviation Corp Nash-Kelv Baldwin Love Biscuit Bulto Ohio Og Cash Rog Ath Dairy Barnsdall Payt Barber Asphalt Gryosum Airs Bendix Aviant Beth Steel Boeing Nor Pac RR Bohn Borden Alum Co Nor Amn Borg Warner Packard Mtrs Bridgeport Paramount Pen & Ford Penney JC Camp Wyant Phillips Pet Canada Dry Pillsbury Caternillar Colotex Pullman Co Cerro de Pasco Ohio Chrysler Mtrsa Rend Steel Coca Cola Reyn Safeway Credit Schenley Dil Shell Union Sears Roebuck Comw Southern Simmons Co Congoleum Skelly Oil Edison Sacony Erle Fox Film Earte Picher Union Carbide Eastman Rod Union Pac Elec Autolite Uni Air Lines Uni Uni Corp Druc Gen Foods Motors S Steel Gillette SR Walworth Goebel Brew Houston Youngstown Zenith Radio Chicago Corp Swift & Co Swift Walgreen

Justice Dept Probes Steel Plate Defects at Carnegie plant

The war frauds unit of the Justice Department has begun examining reports of defective steel plates produced by Carnegie-Ilinois Steel at the Irvin plant in Pennsylvania, an official said Wednesday.

Washington Justice Department Carnegie-linois Steel Corporation Irvin

OPA Bans Retail Sale of Seed Potatoes for Food

The OPA bans retail sales of seed potatoes for food use effective Thursday. Stores must sell only seed potatoes for planting, must tag them as seed, and cannot sell in quantities under 50 pounds. This expands prior limits set at shipper and distributor levels as part of a broader war on the seed potato black market.

Washington OPA

Canadian rail head Beatty dies after long illness

Montreal reporting Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty 65 chairman of Canadian Pacific railway died Tuesday night after a long illness. The obituary notes his leadership of the railway and his prominent role in Canadian transport. Two long mols and a harbor area are described in a separate geographic note about Casablanca.

Montreal Edward Wentworth Beatty The Canadian Pacific Railway

Stocks Edge Higher Amid Broad Rally On Wednesday

New York trading saw steels, copper, golds and specialties advance with a few gains near a point toward close. Volume in low priced utilities ran around 1.1 million shares as profits appeared in scattered pockets across multiple sectors.

New York

Nazis Claim Subs Link 15 Vessels On Gibraltar Run

German radio reports a war communique claiming submarines sank 15 ships totaling 73 000 tons and torpedoed two more in attacks on supply convoys to the North African front. Claims lack Allied confirmation and mention vessels from America and the Mediterranean. A Tokio broadcast also commented.

Associated Press Gibraltar America Mediterranean Tokio

Japanese Merchant Ship Sunk Off Formosa by Allied Sub March 19

A Japanese merchant ship was sunk by an Allied submarine off Formosa on March 19. The blaze from the attack hindered rescue efforts, but up to the present 245 persons have been rescued.

Formosa

Court assigns ten criminal cases for Monday

Courthouse Judge J E Heiserman schedules ten criminal cases for Monday. Defendants include Jerome Gearhart and Ed Vanous for embezzlement, Luella Flenniken for embezzlement, Edward Dennis and Donald Staab for DWI, Thomas Dawson for liquor possession or transport, Floyd Hall for DWI, Betty Chambers and Frieda Joss for illegal beer sales, and Bernita Anderson for vagrancy.

J E. Heiserman Jerome L. Gearhart Ed Vanous Edward Dennis Luella Flenniken Donald F Staab Thomas B Dawson Floyd F Hall Betty Chambers Frieda Joss Bernita Anderson

Linn County Moves to Take Tax Deed on Cedar Rapids Block

Linn county will take over the tax deed for block 16 in Young's third addition Cedar Rapids known as the old Prospect Place hospital area at Sixteenth avenue and Ninth street SW. The property once owned by Mrs Robert Pilcher was sold for taxes and purchased by the county at a public sale on Jan 66 1936. total due to date amounts to 8302.85.

Linn County Young Cedar Rapids Old Prospect Place Hospital Sixteenth Avenue Ninth Street Robert Pilcher

Iowa Governor Proclaims Cancer Control Month and Army Day

DES MOINES AP Gov Bourke B Hickenlooper issued two proclamations on Wednesday designating April as cancer control month and April 6 as Army day in Iowa.

Des Moines Bourke B. Hickenlooper Iowa

Army Life Too Tough for Them War Workers Admit

About 250 CIO war workers at Camp Atterbury Indiana said they would sweat to produce war materiel after their three day Army hitch. Walter P. Reuther pledged to raise 10000 for recreational gear for overseas doughboys, as workers gained respect for the rigors of military life.

Camp Atterbury Ind CIO War Department Michigan Ohio Ilinois Indiana Ernest Weis Dayton

Nicholas Michel Dies at His Home in Marion

Nicholas Michel 82 retired farmer died Tuesday at his home 855 Central Avenue Marion after a long illness. Born Zwingle August 26 1860 he came to Marion at age five and lived here since. Surviving son Elmer Ray Michel Marion daughter Loretta Belle Mitchell Churdan three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral Thursday 3 p.m. Yocom chapel with Rev Arthur W Henke. Burial Oak Shade Cemetery.

Nicholas Michel Central Avenue Zwingle Marion Clementine Levasseur Michel Elmer Ray Michel Loretta Belle Mitchell Churdan Lester le Roy Michel Cedar Rapids Marie Michel James Iowa City John Robbins Mitchell Yocom Chapel Arthur W. Henke Oak Shade

Community blood fund donations and local notices

Donations to the blood plasma fund total varied gifts led by Mrs Pauline Nase with contributions from Mrs E J Esgate of St Petersburg Florida and others. Local birth reports include Lynne Elizabeth Nelson born March 18 to Major and Mrs Elmer H Nelson of Miami Beach Florida. Community events feature talks by James L Cosgrove on pension issues and Red Cross drives, lodge meetings, club announcements, and service member transfers and injuries.

Pauline Nase E. J. Esgate St. Petersburg Fla George W Price Walter Ellsworth Tuckabache Club Electa_ circle King’s Daughters Major Elmer H Nelson Miami Beach Lynne Elizabeth Nelson Willma Jackson W T Jackson

Used refrigerators to be released under new OPA rules

The Office of Price Administration outlined a flood of used refrigerators entering the market after an OPA order on revisions. The guarantee is cut from one year to 90 days, with existing ceiling prices unchanged and a $5 bump for one year guarantees plus $10 for models 1938 and earlier.

Washington Office of Price Administration OPA

City Briefs Highlight Local Meetings And Health News

Miss Gladys Izer at Mercy hospital and Miss Helen Ruby at Mercy hospital undergo procedures. Ronald Sandler has emergency appendectomy at St Luke's hospital and recovers. Alumni of Iowa State College plan a YMCA reunion Friday evening. Knights Templar degree work Friday at Masonic hall. Council of Social Agencies to discuss a day care project at the YMCA Friday noon. Lions Club lunch Friday noon features James W Brown discussing Gestapo tactics in Romania.

Ronald Lew Sandler Phylliss Sandler Seventeenth Street SE St. Luke's Hospital Iowa State College YMCA H E Kensinger Apollo Commandery Knights Templar Order of the Temple Masonic Hall Council of Social Agencies Lena Vogt C. J. Neufeldt Elizabeth Bender James W Brown Rumania Lions Club Roosevelt Hotel Mr. Brown United States Vincent Richards Richards Laboratory K St Lee’s K & M Pharmacy K. Schaefer Kresge Griffith Feather Mattress Co Younker Bros 4Th Ave 2Nd Ave St. SW Sands Printing 2Nd St. NE

Bankruptcy Petition Filed in Cedar Rapids by Mary McMann Posschl

A voluntary bankruptcy petition was filed in the U S district clerk's office in Cedar Rapids by Mary McMann Posschl of Marengo. The filing lists unsecured promissory notes totaling 3365.81 and household goods as assets.

U. S. District Clerk’s Office Cedar Rapids Mary McMann Posschl Marengo

Kiwanians Hear Berger Review of Education for Death

Dr David I. Berger of Coe College reviews the book Education for Death by Gregor or Ziemer for the Kiwanis club. The discussion centers on the motion picture Hitler's Children that the book inspired.

Berger Gregor Ziemer David I. Berger Coe College Kiwanis Club

Tax lien filed against Iowa Iron and Coal Co in Cedar Rapids

A tax lien is recorded in the U.S district clerk's office in Cedar Rapids against the Iowa Iron and Coal company at 110 B avenue NE for non payment of employment tax for October through December 1942 amounting to $43.70 plus 18 cents penalty.

U.S District Clerk’s Cedar Rapids Iowa Iron and Coal Company B Avenue NE

Thefts Reported to Cedar Rapids Police

The Cedar Rapids Police logged thefts including two bicycles belonging to Burrel Frazier and Ronnie Oldham and a lost billfold from Lester Dostal of the Cedar Rapids Hide and Fur Company. The billfold held $60 to $65, a gasoline ration book, and a driver’s license. A.O. Teckemeyer will speak on the WPB controlled materials plan to Cedar Rapids manufacturers at 730 p.m. Thursday in the Chamber of Commerce.

Cedar Rapids Burrel Frazier Eighth Street Ronnie Oldham A_avenue NW Lester Dostal A. O. Teckemeyer Chicago WPB Chamber of Commerce

Ely man injured as car wheel runs over leg

John Trpkosh, 68, of Ely Indiana, suffered a right leg injury when a car wheel passed over his leg while he helped remove the vehicle from a ditch. He was taken by ambulance to St. Luke's hospital and remained a patient at noon on Wednesday.

John Trpkosh Ely St. Luke's Hospital Trpkosh

First Lutheran Vesper Tonight On The Mystery Of Judas

A lenten vesper service will be held tonight at 7 30 at First Lutheran Church. The Rev Paul Luther Miller will speak on The Mystery of Judas and the second part of the history of the passion will be read. Luther leagues will then hold their monthly business meeting.

First Lutheran Paul Luther Miller Luther Leagues

Want Ad Rates and Instructions for Cedar Rapids Gazette

Rates list costs per line including minimum two lines and five average words per line. Out of town ads require advance payment. Ads accepted until 6 pm Saturday for Sunday issue. department open 8 00 am to 10 00 pm daily. Dial 2 1121 for submissions.

Cedar Rapids Gazette Gill A.m Gazette Ad Department

Lost and Found notices clutter local ads window

A chaotic jumble of lost items appears with names and contact numbers. Objects include a red rear wheel fender pan a coin purse with key and cash a gas ration book a leather zipper key case with two keys and an ID a female conch and h dor a bilfold and gas rationing documents and other personal effects. Reward calls telephone numbers appear throughout for recovery.

Joseph Stark V_KELLER Alburnett Towa Binet Everett _ Thompson DeSoto Ting

Loans on Diamonds and Household Goods Ad Offerings

Multiple classified notices advertise loans on diamonds watches radios and tools with low rates and pledges. Also listings for second hand diamonds watches guns clothing and more from Cedar Falls area stores and loans outfits. Various services include watch cleaning furniture repairs lawn care junk hauling and plumbing with contact numbers and addresses.

ATZ Jewelry & Loan 1St St Ciber AG Cedar Baiess Egel's 2Nd Ave Save Mons Ok Sale AV Probasco Jeweler Palace Jess Manes O'Mecara

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