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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1944
Page
3
Hog prices fell up to 25 cents on surplus supplies in early Chicago sales. Cattle and sheep showed mixed results with steers steady to higher, vealers unchanged, and lambs weak after slow demand. Receipts totaled around 32 000 hogs and 13 500 sheep with activity uneven across weight classes.
Iowa hog price quotes from Des Moines show packing point prices for various weight ranges and packer locations including Waterloo Ottumwa and Austin with bids ranging roughly from 10.60 to 13.50 per hundredweight. Receipts at several Iowa and Minnesota yards for 48 hours ending Monday totaled about 55 600 head, with mixed changes by weight and class across hogs sows and butchers. Sioux City Omaha and Chicago market reports follow with price movements and slaughter cattle and sheep notes.
CHICAGO AP May rye contract rose over a cent after General Foods announced it had not sold any of its rye stocks. Wheat held steady. July at 1.69 to 1.70. oats up to 0.79 and rye up 3 1/4 to 1.29 3/4. Barley saw no trading. cash provisions listed for wheat, barley, and field seeds with typical price ranges.
Chicago markets show steady butter and cheese quotes with high grade whisky and egg receipts. Prices for butter rise to 92 score levels while eggs offer mixed cases and dirtles at 25 to 34 cents per dozen, with potato and live poultry movements steady.
Dressed poultry prices and live poultry wholesale limits shown with firm maximum selling prices. Geese at 29.7, turkeys various ages, ducks 28.7 to 31.7, guineas pair 1.60, fowls 28.7 to 31.7, capons 32.2 to 38.7, broilers 32.2 to 35.3.
Prices on all grades of prime hogs were steady while packers dropped ten cents on the Cedar Rapids market Monday. Top price on butchers is 13.45, packers 10.90. Cattle and sheep sections follow with varied bids and weight ranges for steers cows and lambs.
The notice lists cash prices for grains and commodities including oats, wheat, rye, corn, soybeans, hay, straw, and eggs. It covers heavy poultry, dairy and fruit prices, potatoes, hides, and Wisconsin cheese, with regional market figures from Davenport and surrounding towns for the week of May 8-13.
Tokyo radio reports the Japanese government will dispatch a vessel to Vladivostok to collect relief supplies sent from the United States for American war prisoners and civilian internees. The plan follows a May 3 Swiss-drafted reply to U.S. charges on mistreatment and requests rectification of alleged injustices toward Japanese nationals.
Pvt. Henry McLemore, former newspaper columnist, arrived on Bougainville Thursday with the First Army combat correspondent unit attached to the Thirty-seventh Ohio Division, a development revealed Monday.
New York traders showed a selective stance as profit taking dampened enthusiasm. Light volume around 600000 shares and scattered gains from a mix of leaders and specialties marked the session amid mixed quotations and cautious buying.
The Supreme Court agreed to review a New York federal district court ruling finding the Associated Press in violation of antitrust laws. AP argued the judgment would place it under DOJ and federal courts, infringing on press freedom.
The Supreme Court declined Grover Selles's petition for a rehearing in the case ruling Texas primary voting rights for Negroes unconstitutional under current law. The decision was 8-1 with no explanation. The same day a lower court blocked Western Union from using 16 year old messengers under wage hour child labor provisions.
The Russian and Czech governments signed an agreement for administration of areas of Czechoslovakia liberated by the Red Army. Communiques were issued simultaneously in London and Moscow.
The message urges increasing savings on the next payday and measuring progress by the resulting higher income. It frames saving as a strategic move to bolster financial capacity.
Obituary notices report the death of George William Wood 91 a retired railroad employee in Marion born Feb 20 1853 at Augusta New York and died Sunday. Other items cover Lucius R Olney World War I veteran services at Yocom chapel and cemetery details with Legion and VFW involvement. Social events include dinners visits club meetings scout activities and PTA plans with dates and local addresses.
An attack bomber piloted by Capt Hiram F Conant at an American base in England carried an extra bomb that became fused and rolled on the wing after a raid over France. The bomb slipped loose and fell to earth, ending the peril as Conant headed home. Conant resides in Cambridge Massachusetts.
OPA officials from Washington opened an inquiry into the Chicago regional office. James G. Rogers and James G. Derieux arrived after Regional Director Rae E. Walters briefed Administrator Chester Bowles in Washington on a dispute involving a Chicago investigator and a Washington woman attorney.
Mrs Gilbert Voorhies visits Albuquerque son-in-law and daughter. Pic. Gene Starks and wife on furlough at Marion and Cedar Rapids. Berlin family attend funeral in Walker. Garden lot for rent Orchard Heights. Club meetings and hospital notes. Lost items including glasses, jewelry, and ration books. Ads for jewelry, graduates, repairs, flowers, and services.
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