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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1945
Page
2
Estimated salable livestock Tuesday: hogs 5 000, cattle 3 000, sheep 2 509 in Chicago. Sioux City reports varied cattle and hog receipts with steady to higher bids and strong feeder markets. Des Moines notes 48 hour regional receipts near 26 700 with very active trading and generally steady prices.
Livestock receipts show large runs with steady to strong prices across cattle hogs and sheep. Hogs mostly steady to higher with barrows and gilts around 1445 and sows to 1400 plus. cattle receipts about 12000 calves and 860 steers with top values near 1775 for prime feeders. sheep and lambs approaching better bids with good to choice offerings lifting prices. Markets note open demand and strengths in feeder cattle, heifers, and lambs with varied consignments from Colorado and local loaders.
Prices on the Cedar Rapids hog market stay at ceiling levels with top prime butchers at 14.45 and packers at 13.70. Reports cover hog weights from 189 to 650 pounds, with packers bidding 270 to 600 pounds and notes on steer, calf, sheep, and various commodity quotations including soybeans, oats, wheat, and hay. Also includes Mississippi River movements and Wisconsin grain and livestock updates.
The market opened with many investors cashing in, guiding Dow components and railroads lower. Stocks including Allied Stores and Johns Manville showed declines while some leaders held firm amid a general retreat in prices and a cautious mood in early trading.
The Marion community gathered at the Methodist church for baccalaureate services with Rev. C V R De Jong delivering a Ezekiel themed address about courage and God’s presence. The program featured organ preludes, choir performances, and a benediction by Rev. Charles Moore. Alumni banquet reservations due Tuesday for Thursday 6 30 p m at the Legion hall with tickets from the Gas office or Owen drug store.
Edmund P Connolly of Des Moines is named president of the Iowa Association of the Underwriters, succeeding Charles Stratton of Dubuque. The change announced in Des Moines marks a leadership transition in the state insurance group.
The report lists New York prices for eggs cheese and butter with receipts and quality terms, including mixed colors and standard grades. Chicago figures show butter receipts, egg cases, and cheese varieties with scores, plus live poultry and potataes arrivals and market expectations.
The United States plans a firm but polite request to Russia to apply the Yalta principles in the Russian occupied Balkans. Worries center on Bulgaria where plans for a single slate election were halted after Anglo American pressure. officials say broader reform is needed.
Chicago AP reports May rye and May and September barley surged past the five-cent limit in the last 15 minutes of trading. Across markets, weakness and heavy losses dominated others with May rye hitting 1477 and citrus-like shifts in wheat corn oats and barley.
The item lists Chicago cash prices for corn soybeans oats and barley with No 2 northern spring wheat prices and field seed values for timothy red top clover sweet clover and alsike among others. Prices include corn No 2 yellow 1.75 to 1.34 per unit and soybeans No 1 yellow 2.22 with various barley and oats quotations.
A list of quick family and community updates includes a day furlough in Kingman Arizona with the Barclay Healds in Springville, a May 8 birth to Capt and Mrs Robert Becker in Cedar Falls, Mrs Virginia Howe former Marion PE teacher, Elvie J Peterson's appendectomy at St Luke's, Mr and Mrs Charles Luse moving from Carmichael to live with daughter Mrs Lloyd Klopp, Maj William J Reed of Waco Texas visiting Des Moines, and P A Osborne called to Kellogg for stepbrother T L Birchard’s illness.
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover urged Americans to report suspicious activities to protect national security. He said despite Europe’s end the Japanese may become more desperate and internal threats could rise, urging vigilance nationwide.
The executive committee of the retail merchants bureau will meet at the Roosevelt hotel Tuesday noon. The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. E. Winslow Brown, 1401 Washington Avenue SE, have returned home after spending the winter in St. Petersburg, Florida.
George Laird longtime general manager of the Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids for 33 years retires in 1939 and will discuss the company history at a Canopus club meeting Tuesday noon at the Roosevelt hotel.
John E. May of Rock Island Illinois was arrested at a local hotel on a complaint of disturbance. Police asked to see furlough papers but he had none. A Rock Island check showed he was AWOL and he is held for military authorities.
Curtis L Gearhart aged 42 of 1331 First Avenue SE faced a drunkenness and distur bing the peace charge after police arrested him at the College Inn at 2 30 am Sunday. He allegedly beat a woman in a booth until a waitress intervened. The report, signed by the waitress, states Gearhart will appear in police court Tuesday morning.
Lost cat with white paws and tail tip answers to Mittens with a $5 reward for return or information. Also lost a black sheathette Lifetime fountain pen engraved G. W. DeWald in Marion or Cedar Rapids with reward. Other missing items include a billfold and wristwatch with various rewards and contact numbers.
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