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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1943
Page
8
Chicago markets show hogs steady near crest 14.35 as prices drift down to week’s lows. Cattle 14,000, sheep 12,900, with a very small Saturday sale and nominal quotes reflecting the soft finish.
Sioux City reports indicate hog receipts 800 with steady to lower prices and strong demand for good barrows and gilts. Cattle receipts 100 with varied shifts. steer and yearling values mostly steady to down slightly, heifers modestly weaker. cows firm. Sheep receipts 100 with fed lambs steady to higher, wooled lambs up to 16.15, ewes and feeder lambs mixed. Chicago market shows similar patterns with steers and yearlings steady to weak and sheep firm to weak.
Combined hog receipts for 24 hours ending 2 am Saturday at 19 Iowa center and 11 Minnesota plants totaled 20 700 head down from 37 800 a week ago and 27 000 a year prior. Markets show fairly active steady to mostly higher, with spots weaker. Prices listed for barrows sows by weight range, with ranges from about 12 95 to 15 90 for various classes.
Receipts and prices mixed across hogs cattle and sheep with nominal gains and declines. Hogs offer few large lots with top butcher prices near 14.20. sows around 13.90 to 13.94. average costs and weights noted. Cattle show steady to higher fed steers and good cows with top around 16.50 for select long fed stockers and 15.75 for choice heifers. Sheep and lambs remain steady with strong week-wide prices for top shorn lambs and California fed ranges around 15.50 to 15.75 for various classes.
AP notes good butchers quotations with price ranges for hogs by weight. Listings show 160 170 lb at 12.85 to 13.15, 176 180 lb at 13.15 to 13.45, 180 200 lb around 13.60 to 13.90, 200 320 lb about 13.89, 330 360 lb around 13.70, 1400 packing sows 13.56 to 13.85, 360 400 lb near 13.75, 400 500 lb about 13.34 to 13.65.
Listings show dressed poultry nominally strong with limited relief expected. Live poultry prices hold steady for wholesalers with turkeys hens and young toms around 38 2 cents per pound and other cuts and products listed at nominal marks.
Butter receipts steady with various quality grades and prices listed for extras firsts and standards. Potatoes arrivals and shipments noted with demand described as light and prices given for Bliss Triumphs and Louisiana sacks in market rounds.
Directors of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad announce a dividend of 1.00 a share on class A stock payable June 15 to holders of record May 29. A 0.59 a share dividend was paid last December.
Grain quotations in Chicago provided by Lamson Brothers and Company. HB R Mowrey is the Cedar Rapids office manager at 503 Merchants National Bank building.
Prices on all hog grades rose five cents on the Cedar Rapids market Saturday. Top butcher price reached 14.05, long haul no-fill 14.15, and packers 13.80. Entry includes various lamb and ewe ranges with mixed quality notes.
Market notes from Cedar Rapids list prices for grains oats wheat rye shelled corn and yellow corn plus hay straw and poultry products. Wholesale fruits vegetables citrus and potatoes show current receipts with items such as lemons oranges lettuce onions sweet potatoes apples and grapefruits. Hide prices include No 1 cured hides at 12 cents and No 2 at 11 cents with horse hide values and other byproducts noted.
Chicago market closes firm as grains move in narrow range. Wheat prices rise up to a cent a bushel while corn holds steady. Oats gain about 4 percent and rye climbs around 5 cents per bushel.
AP summary lists Chicago grain prices with no sales for wheat and corn. It shows CN 2 yellow at 1.07, sample grade White at 1.21, oats No 1 mixed at 64 cents. Barley machine 8 cents and nominal 107, feed 834,85 cents.
Plymouth Wisconsin notes an APS week May 17 22 with twins or cheddars 23 percent. The wool market remains very quiet as consignments from Colorado Arizona Utah and New Mexico arrive in fair volume at the Boston S Dept of Agriculture report.
Guido L. DeQuattro of Allison pled guilty to bigamy after an arrest by Cedar Rapids detectives, receiving a suspended jail sentence and a $100 fine. He had married Anna Dys in 1935 in New Hampshire. they lived together until 1942 when she left for Massachusetts with their three children. DeQuattro claimed to seek a divorce in the East and said he later remarried.
Many who sold stocks Friday on the short war theory reversed themselves Saturday and recoveries were general throughout the list. Close shows a few advances of one to five points with most gains in minor fractions. Losses were fairly well distributed as dealings remained slow with around 660000 shares traded.
Reorganization of rail bonds showed general improvement with uneven market movement. Gains varied from fractions to a point or more for St. Paul Frisco Missouri Pacific and other carriers in the defaulted group. Baltimore and Ohio and Southern Pacific bonds also advanced.
The Turner company and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers AFL reach a contract establishing a 75 cent minimum wage for most female workers, with machinists at 1.25 and die makers at 1.50. The pact designates IBEW as bargaining agent and creates a union shop with seniority rights and night-shift premiums. A local Turner factory union will elect officers including Leo G. Stickley as president. The agreement covers a 48-hour week with overtime rules and daily rest periods.
A Radio France broadcast reported that the French cruiser Georges Leygues sank a German merchantman in the Atlantic as it tried to run the Allied naval blockade.
Services for Mrs Mary Mentzer Hollingsworth Marion postmaster will be held Sunday at 4 30 p m in the Congregational church conducted by Rev Frederick N Nelson Burial is in Oak Shade Cemetery Friends may call at the Yocom chapel until 1 p m Sunday
Harley F McCalley will be conducted Sunday at 2 p m in the Yocom chapel by Rev Arthur W Henke and Rev Vernon H Carter Burial will be in Oak Shade cemetery Friends may call at the chapel Mrs E B Smith of Springfield Mo is the guest of her son R Smith and his family Mothers club officers were elected at a meeting at Mrs E R Smith s home Bridge was played at four tables L M Phelps and wife visited Conesville Townsend club No 2 meets at Memorial hall with refreshments Tech Sgt L V Freeman arrived from Fort Riley for furlough Co J Haas returned from business trip Townsend club No 2 will meet tonight at 7 30 in Memorial hall Refreshments will be served
Petroleum Administrator Ickes ordered all Midwest refineries to operate on a quota to curb crude shortages. The plan aims to maintain at least 80 percent of normal output for July 1941 to December 1942, ensuring supplies for war products including 100 octane aviation gasoline.
Corrections to the OPA point value charts issued May 2 list changes for meat items. Veal plucks drop to 4.5 points, lamb and mutton plucks to 3, mutton melts to 1, Vienna sausage to 6, beefhead added at 1.5, and edible mutton bones at 1. The OPA notes no bulk reduction for margarine oils and shortening despite trade table discrepancies.
Linn county war price and rationing board says housewives can obtain part of their sugar ration directly from retailers without board certification. Up to 25 pounds per person may be allowed, with the first 10 pounds from retailers and the rest via rationing board certification.
Services for James A. Barnett who died Thursday will be held at St. Gy Ty church at 9 a.m. Monday with burial in Mt. Calvary cemetery. The Rosary will be recited by Father Kearn and the Woman's Catholic Order of Foresters at Tea Hen chapel Sunday night. Friends may call at the chapel Sunday afternoon and evening.
Augustine Glover aged 89 died Friday at 10 45 p m in the Linn County Home where she had resided ten years. Authorities seek word of relatives and ask that the Yocom funeral home be notified.
At the Lincoln auditorium program, the junior high announced honor roll ribbons for seventh graders Rosalie Hess Rita Biddick Marilyn Bristol Mary Ellen Dumbalton John Ross Betty Foley Carol King and Erwin Evenson and eighth graders Jean Mullaley Jack Gallagher Diane Biddick Charles Lyons Darlene Meggers Peter Kepros Norma Parks Bessie Pishney and Frances Ford. Perfect attendance awards went to seventh graders Kenneth Bailey George Carsner Billy McConnaughy Kenneth Ozburn Richard Jeffrey David Lyons Patricia Welter and eighth graders Richard Fontaine Betty Goodrow Phyllis Beach and Stanley Oakley. The program opened with selections by the junior band and a play The Lost Princess was performed by 23 pupils.
Albert Etzel received the annual Bausch and Lomb science award at a high school assembly. Dale Lary and Richard Schrimper tied for first in the Marion Linn chapter D A R history prize, each earning $2.50, presented by Effie M. Miller.
Friday gathering of Linn County O E S past matrons and patrons at the Masonic temple featured a luncheon for 40. Tables formed a V with lilac and tulip bouquets and violet boutonnieres. Marion chapter officers served. Reports noted Iowa O E S bought six ambulances and a canteen wagon for the Far East. Evelyn Howe to wed Pfc Vernon L Blietz May 21 at Camp McCain Mississippi.
Corp. Neal DeWees has left Camp McCoy Wisconsin for a three months tour of 17 army camps to inspect guns. Improvement is reported in the condition of Philip DeWees son of Mr and Mrs L B DeWees who is ill of pneumonia in St Lukes hospital.
A list of local churches with service times and pastors. Marion Baptist Bible school 9 45 worship 10 45. St Joseph Catholic mass 8 and 10. Union and Episcopalian notes. Methodist and Presbyterian schedules included. Seventh Day Church of God location at Sixth Street Ninth Avenue.
In the Mediterranean Captain George Tucker reports the end of the African campaign with Axis escape attempts near Cap Bon thwarted by a tight Allied naval blockade. Small boats and dinghies yielded scattered, exhausted prisoners as British destroyers and torpedo boats patrolled the coast.
James Nye of 1117 Sixth Street NW is confined at the State hospital in Iowa City for two more months. Mrs. H. F. Kiemme of 1826 Third Avenue SE has been confined 12 weeks at St. Luke's hospital for a fractured hip and may receive visitors. Cedar Rapids federal district clerk's office lists a tax action against C. E. Plamador of 1114 First Avenue NE for unpaid 1941 individual income tax totaling $317.24. A tax lien has been filed.
Everett Fulmer reports eight pigeons missing from a coop behind his home on Seventh Street SE between 9 30 and 10 p m Thursday. Helen Kolar reports a wristwatch stolen from a shelf at the Second Avenue Virginia cafe after leaving it Thursday night and finding it gone Friday.
Patrick O'Brien, 42, of Pentwater, Michigan, charged with vag rancy, received a suspended six months in Linn county jail on Saturday in Judge G. K. Thompson's court. Appeal bond set at 1600 dollars. Irene E. Bowers dismissed divorce action against Henry J. Bowers without prejudice in Judge G. P. Linville's court on Saturday.
Edwin Edler, 16, of Tipton, was treated at St. Luke's hospital after a tractor accident near Tipton Friday afternoon. He suffered stomach injuries and a possible pelvic fracture. His condition was listed as fair.
Three new men join the Coe college aircrew dispensary staff. Corp. James G. Marsh from New York City and Privates Travis Brents of Ralls Texas and Thomas R. Stephens of Littlefield Texas arrived Saturday at Bryant hall. They were assigned to Cedar Rapids from the army airfield at Lubbock, Texas.
The Duramold method using bonded plywood has already reduced aluminum consumption by thousands of tons, showcasing material-saving efficiency and innovative manufacturing.
London reported Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler hurried to Sofia at King Boris's urgent request to keep Bulgaria loyal as German defenses in the Balkans faced possible Allied attacks. Dispatches said Turkey would maintain its policy while Rommel directed defenses, with unrest spreading in France and among Dutch and Belgian patriots.
Lost items and pets can be found quickly through Gazette LOST ads. Call 2- Vian to place or recover your ad. A Sheaffer pen engraved Lillian TS. Kerr Iowa City is listed. Re ar LOST large black chow dog Pet of children Reward. Dial 2- LOST wire haired terrier clipped face harness 2-6423.
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