Detroit Grows Dynamic Amid War Boom and Woes
Detroit faces housing shortages with vacancies under 1 percent as war plants draw 375,000 newcomers. crime rises partly from manpower shortages. juvenile delinquency upticks 37 to 48.7 percent. Yet city firms ramp production and nightlife expands as residents flock to swing shifts and new theater and cinema outings.
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Detroit
Detroit Housing Commission
Sherwood L. Reader
Detroit Area
Federal Public Housing Authority
Willow Run
ODB Boosts Army Dependents Payments Nationwide
The Office of Dependency Benefits under Col Gilbert drives a rapid dependence allowance program. Seven million dependents now receive checks as new applications flood in at 12,000 daily, with 10,000 staff handling 80,000 letters daily and 82,000 daily correspondences. The operation, staffed largely by women, issues about two thirds of monthly checks for family allowances and faces challenges from address changes and deaths. Fraud controls and field investigators guard against misuse while the program expands to meet full army strength.
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Jewark
Cherokee City
Six Mile Run
U.S.A
Army
ODB
Johnny Doughboy
War Department
Col
Gilbert
Local Hog Prices Five Cents Higher On Cedar Rapids Market
Prices on all hog grades rose five cents on the Cedar Rapids market Saturday. Top hogs ranged to 14.05 for butchers, 14.15 for long haul no-fill, and 13.80 for packers. Cattle and sheep values shown for various weights and qualities.
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Cedar Rapids
San
Avecen
Pancy
Livestock Prices Mixed as Market Tests Open in Omaha
hogs receipts 100 total 1600 few small lots Mehtchers 14.00, sows 319.00, barrows average cost 14.02 at 275 lbs. cattle receipts 150 total 200 calves none week top fed steers 16.80, heifers 15.75, bulls 13.50 to 15.00. sheep receipts 850 best 65 lb California lambs 14.50, top wooled lambs 15.75, shorn lambs steady 14.75 to 15.00 with various weights and regional lots listed.
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Omaha
INS
California
Kansas
Calfornia
Sharp Rise in Damage Claims on Rail Lines
Wartime demands on the U S railroad system and equipment shortages caused a 42 percent rise in loss and damage claims in 1942 over 1941. Total claims reached 33,336,656 with carload losses up 34.6 percent and smaller consignments up 61.9 percent. Unlocated damage hit 13,194,833, up 53.1 percent, while total lost packages surged 116 percent to 1,973,991.
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United States
Traffic Bureau
Cedar Rapids
Harry F. Sundberg
Lsted
Goodyear Retread Plant Changes Hands in Cedar Rapids
Paul Beatty of Des Moines assumes ownership and manages the Goodyear Retread plant at 207 Second Avenue SW Cedar Rapids. The facility retreads all tire makes and sizes up to 1000.20. Beatty took over on April 15 after running the Des Moines shop, with a formal opening planned in coming weeks.
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Cedar Rapids
Goodyear
Second Avenue SW
Master
Paul Beatty
Des Moines
Beatty
Linn County Real Estate Conveyances and Mortgages
Record of Linn county filings May 7 to May 13 shows 46 conveyances and 15 mortgages totaling 50000 dollars. Last year in the same week 22 mortgages and 51100 dollars in value were recorded.
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Linn County
Linn County Abstract Company
Beals Elected to Cedar Rapids Chamber Board
Herbert Beals of Welch Cook Beals company is named to the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce board to fill the unexpired term of Russell Kirn who moved from the Cedar Rapids Quaker Oats plant to the Quaker Oats Chemical company in Memphis Tennessee.
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Welch-Cook- Beals Company
Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Russell Kirn
Cedar Rapids
Quaker Oats Company
Quaker Oats Chemical Company
Memphis
Tenn
Sioux City Livestock Market Report
US Department of Agriculture market notes from Sioux City show hog receipts totaling 800 with steady prices for most, slaughter hogs and feeders varying. Cattle receipts around 100 with mixed changes, top hogs around 14.10, steers and yearlings near 14.50 to 15.75, cows 11.25 to 13.50, stockers barely steady. Sheep receipts 100 with lambs and ewes offering up to 15.85 for fed wooled lambs and feeder lambs weaker.
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Sioux City
U. S. Dept. Agriculture
How You Can Help Speed Checks
The Army Office of Dependency Benefits outlines steps for soldiers dependents to speed monthly checks. Include documentary proofs with applications, note payments start the month after the authorization is in force, notify ODB of address changes, and include the soldier’s name serial number and authorization number in all correspondence.
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Office of Dependency Benefits
ODB
Washington Street
Newark
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Soldier dependency rules and family allowance confusion
Officers note the oddity of Class B allowances requiring direct dependency proof and the soldier’s support contribution. Col Gilbert cites a case where relatives requested to be mailed the government checks to parents, revealing the ODB handles about one fifth of all checks.
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ODB
Col Gilbert
Cedar Rapids Chamber Adds Twelve New Members
The Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce announced a bulletin listing twelve new members including Dr Charles A Anderson president of Coe College Arthur Axmear district court clerk Clarence Beeson of Beeson Cigar Z A Salit of Farmers Supply Clarence R Hall Globe Machinery Gordon Fennell Donald M Ross C E Loomis R S Prewitt Wade H Nelson L H Sidwell and a Wolf’s Ladies Ready-to-Wear representative.
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Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Charles A. Anderson
Coe College
Arthur Axmear
Clarence Beeson
Beeson
Cigar Store
Z A
Salit
Farmers Supply Company
Clarence R Hall
Globe Machinery and Supply Company
Gordon Fennell
Gordon Fennell Company
Donald M. Ross
The
Hut and Waffle Shop
C. E. Loomis
Loomis Brothers
R. S
New York Produce Firms Report Tight Dressed Poultry Market
Dressed poultry prices remain nominally strong with tight supply and little relief likely. Live poultry wholesale prices show firm levels for turkeys ducks and fowls while cheese and butter quotes ease between Chicago and national bases as potato stocks stay light and market firm at ceilings.
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New York
Saturday's Chicago Grain Quotations
Grain quotations for Saturday from Lamson Brothers and Company are provided with contact details for H. R. Mowrey in Cedar Rapids at Merchants National Bank building.
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Chicago
Lamson Brothers and Company
H. R. Mowrey
Cedar Rapids
Merchants National Bank
Cedar Rapids Market Prices for Grains and Farm Commodities
Market list from Cedar Rapids shows pricing for grains oats and wheat with No. 1 and No. 2 categories, hay straw poultry and eggs prices, fruits vegetables and dairy items, and animal hides and horses. Notable items include wheat No. 1 at $1.20, no. 2 $1.16, eggs hens and duck prices, lemons at $7.45 per crate, Texas grapefruit $3.85 per box, horse prices $6.58 and $6.06, and various shell and cured hides prices.
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California Naval
Lee
Texas
Ray Allen Named Iowa Director of U.S. Auto Dealers
Ray H Allen of Cedar Rapids, manager of Allen Motor, elected as Iowa state director for the National Automobile Dealers Association. He will serve three years, succeeding C A Morris of Morris Motor in Waterloo, following a Des Moines convention with about 400 dealers.
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Ray H Allen
Allen Motor Company
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
National Automobile Dealers Association
Washington
Ile
National Association
United States
Allen
Towa
Des Moines
C A Morris
Morris Motor Car Company
Waterloo
Bank Clearings Show Slight Decline From Preceding Week
Bank clearings in Cedar Rapids extended their year over year lead but dipped from the prior week. The Clearing House reported $1,759,440.43 in the week ended May 15, compared with $1,577,574.85 for May 16, 1942, while the May 8 total was $2,113,871.45.
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Cedar Rapids
Rail bond reorganization shows uneven market gains
New York bond review reports improvements in a fluctuating market led by advances for St. Paul Frisco Missouri Pacific and other carriers in the defaulted group. Bands of Baltimore and Ohio and Southern Pacific also posted gains.
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St. Paul
Frisco
Missouri Pacific
Baltimore and Ohio
Southern Pacific
Meat market quotes and labor unrest in brief
Austin Minnesota reports live cattle price ranges by weight with Chicago cash prices noted. A separate Michigan refinery labor dispute describes a deception pay incident and a counterfeit warning sign directed at workers.
Building Permits Lead Cedar Rapids April Activity Gains
April figures show a surge in Cedar Rapids permits rising from 61 in March 1943 to 187, with value at $33,166 and outbound loadings surpassing March and April 1942. Clearing house clearings totaled $8,369,949.52, telephones installed reached 21,266, and employment held at 8,854 for 20 firms, while gas consumption and other metrics varied month to month.
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Cedar
Business Week predicts labor gains and tax promises
Business Week forecasts in its current issue that labor will win wage hikes and that no anti-strike laws will pass. It envisions broad postwar tax changes including 100 percent forgiveness of 1942 taxes with windfall taxes, modest income tax rate increases, no general sales tax, and continued war spending nearing eight to nine billion annually. Aircraft and merchant ship output rise while construction and machine tools decline.
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Business Week
Washington Bureau
Sctvess
Congress
Washington
Iowa Hog Receipts Show Decline From Last Week
Combined receipts at 19 concentration yards and packing plants in interior towns and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ending 8 a.m. Saturday totaled 20 700, down from 37 800 a week ago and 27 000 a year ago. Prices for barrows and gilts ranged from 12.95 to 15.90 per cwt across weight classes, with sows and boars also listed.
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Iowa
Des Moines
U. S
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