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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1943
Page
8
Chicago AP reports Saturday livestock receipts estimated at hogs 500 cattle 500 sheep 2 000. Hog prices 5 to 10 cents higher in active late trading with top at 14.40 per hundredweight versus 14.30 Thursday. Cattle kIls steady to weak with no strictly choice steers or heifers. most fed steers 14.25 to 16. fat lambs steady. western wooled lambs 15.75 to 16.25. sheep steady.
Hog receipts 7 000 to 14 000 opened steady with Thursday average, later trade up 5 to 10 cents with tops to 14 40. Good and choice 180 360 lb hogs 14 15 to 14 40, 150 180 lb hogs mostly 13 50 to 14 25. Sows 13 90 to 14 15. Cattle receipts 1 500 calved 400 pre holiday trade steady to weak, best fed steers 14 25 to 16 00, short load 16 50, heifers 13 75 to 15 10. Beef cows 11 00 to 13 00. Bulls in narrow demand. Stock cattle active 700 850 lb at 13 50 to 14 50. Sheep receipts 4 000 to 7 000, fat lambs fair, all classes steady. Fat western lambs 15 75 to 16 25, clipped lambs 14 60 to 15 25, 76 lb spring lambs 16 00, ewes 8 00 to 8 50.
Hogs sold steady to weak with top at 14.20 for select 215 to 265 lb pigs, bulk around 14.10, various weights from 160 to 240 lb at 13.75 to 14.15, sows 13.90 to 14.00, medium sows down to 13.40. Cattle steady to weak with calves 25 head, feeders steady, steers 13.50 to 15.00, heifers 12.50 to 14.25, cows 10.00 to 11.50, bulls 11.50 to 12.50, dealers 13.50 to 15.50. Sheep active with 1900 head, lambs weaker overall, four loads 15.66 for good fed wooled lambs, pelts 14.75 to 15.00, ewes up to 8.00.
U S Department of Agriculture reports combined hog receipts at 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 24 hours ending 8 am Friday at 31 900 head, down from 34 300 last week. Prices vary by weight and category with good to choice barrows sows in the 13 50 to 14 25 per cwt range.
Local market notes list price ranges for cattle by weight and type. Good butchers offer several brackets from 160 to 500 pounds with varying dollars per hundredweight and packing sow categories.
Hog receipts 2 500 total 2 600 steady to 10 cents lower top $14.15 for 275 lb hogs, other weights $14.00-$14.10. sows $13.85-$14.00, wet sows to $13.35, feeders dull. Cattle receipts 500 mix by truck, most medium to good, fed steers $13.75-$15.25, heifers $13.00, cows $8.50-$12.00, bulls around $12.75. Sheep receipts 800, wooled lambs $15.25, No 1 pelts $48.00, ewes $6.50-$28.00.
Chicago market receipts and prices for poultry cheese butter eggs potatoes and related goods. Highlights include poultry receipts no cars and market unchanged, cheese prices for twins daisies lanehorns and other grades, butter prices by grade, eggs contracts and current receipts, potato arrivals on track with light supplies and steady ceiling, Bliss Triumphs varieties priced across unwashed and washed categories.
New York produce prices show eggs and cheese firming margins with overall receipts listed. Poultry sales note marked ceilings and modest gains with live poultry values given for turkeys and various fowl types under OPA base ceilings.
Grain price quotations provided by Lamson Brothers and Company. Managed by H. R. Mowrey with Cedar Rapids office located at 503 Merchants National Bank building.
Hog prices across grades held steady with top butchers at 1.05, long haul 14.15, packers 13.80. Cattle ranges include choice to prime steers at 15.00 and good to choice 14.00, yearling steers 13.50 to 13.90, and various calf and sheep figures amid a wind‑swept market report from Cedar Rapids.
Local market prices list oats wheat rye soybeans and hay with categories No 1 No 2 and other grades. Poultry and eggs cattle hides and draft horses are priced alongside fruit vegetables and potatoes reflecting a typical 1920s wholesale market snapshot.
CHICAGO AP rye recovered from intraday lows yet failed to erase earlier losses as a lighter trade developed. Wheat closed about 14% lower with July at 1.4334, September at 1.44, corn unchanged around 1.05, oats down 34, and rye 4% lower to around 4% higher.
The Chicago market reports cash grain quotes with prices for wheat oats and barley. Wheat and oats prices are given as No 2 figures while barley malting and feed values are listed with fractions indicating bid levels.
Chicago AP reports that since Pearl Harbor the U S traffic fatalities total 38,300 with 22,590 workers among them. wartime restrictions not a cure-all. Memorial Day marks start of a summer campaign to cut accidents. First four months of 1943 show 6680 deaths, 35 percent below 1942 and 39 percent below 1941.
Mrs Stella Merriman lay in her cabin with a bullet wound to the head for 21 hours. Sheriff Sam Deal said she refused to let her 11 year old adopted son summon help. She was moved to Colorado Springs hospital in critical condition. The sheriff believed she shot herself, distressed by a long illness.
New York AP reports short covering eased market sting on profit taking Friday as declines remained widespread but several favorites hit their best levels in three years. Trading volume neared one million shares for the day.
The market showed an irregular pattern Friday with small adjustments on the main list before a holiday. Central of New Jersey loans available after an adverse court ruling affecting tax obligations, Central of Georgias firm and Burlington group bonds drawn buyers at higher prices, and energy issues turned active and higher in late dealings.
Brig. Gen. Brady at an army bomber base in England ordered a cordon and a search after reports of German paratroopers near headquarters. A capture followed after a brief pursuit. later it was learned the units were British soldiers on exercise with English accents.
Chinese forces struggle Friday to check a westward Japanese advance through Hupeh province and threaten Yangtze river forts. Tokyo dispatches claim 30,000 Chinese troops trapped south of Ichang as the offensive began Monday. Chinese air force raids near Yangtze front lines report heavy damage to Japanese positions.
Washington reports Prentiss Brown told reporters the Office of Price Administration will regain ground on the home front after admitting costs have risen since 1942. He defended OPA against aides who claimed the agency was breaking apart and ordered staff to follow his directives or face dismissal.
The Linn County war price and rationing board received humorous and serious canning sugar requests. A 23 year old Central City woman asked for unlimited canning sugar without a proper declaration form. A dieter asked a doctor to verify need but the doctor declined citing unclear justification. One sugar application included a social security card and another a money order receipt.
Memorial day observances note banks closed in Cedar Rapids. Mrs. Norman Homsey ill at home. Dows Camp veterans plan parade and services at 1 30 p.m. Sunday. Mrs. William Klepach recovering after appendectomy in Provo Utah. YMCA YWCA free swim for girls enters third session with 70 enrolled. Eugene D Irwin graduates from Illinois Institute of Technology and visits Cedar Rapids. Shueyville United Brethren services Sunday at 9 30 a.m. sermon by Dr Wendell Henline. Sunday school at 10 30 a.m. Christian Endeavor memorial at 8 p.m. with Leo Fordice, featuring Shueyville high school band and mixed double trio.
Tallman receives iron badge to Rex Story. gold and silver arrows awarded to Terry Williams Douglas Battin John Merriam Jimmy Sandercock Gus Gatto and Tom Tallman. Denner stripes go to Cecil McFatridge Peter Widmer John Merriam Sammy Taylor and Richard Livingston. David Clark earns Den Chief card. Shirley Clark elected cabmaster for next year. Weekend camp for the boys and their cads planned with Irwin Wasta in charge.
Clara M Stubbs 87 of 1335 E avenue NE died at home after a 10 day illness. Born April 5 1856 in Bangor Iowa she lived in Cedar Rapids 25 years with her husband Robert E Stubbs. Surviving a daughter two grandsons and a great grandson. Funeral to be announced.
Mrs Price McPeak dies in a Cedar Rapids hospital. Rev D M Cassidy to conduct services in Moon chapel at 1 30 p m Saturday. Burial will be in Cedar Memorial park. Friends may call at the chapel.
Charles R. Bohac son of Mrs. Mary Bohac of 1914 Bever avenue SE died Friday in the Veterans hospital at San Fernando California. The body will be returned to Cedar Rapids for services and burial at a time to be announced.
President Roosevelt creates a new Fair Employment Practice agency to end discrimination in war work. Msgr. Francis J. Haas will head the group, which will review contracts to ensure no race creed color or national origin exclusion. The agency can hear complaints and order corrective action. Six more members will be named.
Cedar Rapids public schools will close Monday in observance of Memorial Day. Superintendent Arthur Deamer announced the day off for students and staff.
Mrs J L Wright reports a brown alligator purse containing about 35 dollars missing Thursday afternoon. She believes she lost it on the Thirteenth Street NE bus near Oakland Road NE while returning from a shopping trip in the loop.
Arthur Buckner, chairman of aviation cadet testing for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, is a patient at Mercy hospital recovering from an emergency appendectomy. The cadet testing program continues at the VFW club on Second Avenue.
Cub Pack No. 30 of St Pauls church wrapped up the year with a program of stunts and music by five dens. Cubmaster H. H. Morse awarded badges to Wayne Wasta and Jimmy Sander cock for Wolf, and Terry Williams John Merriam and Tommy for Bear.
Deputy sheriff P J Whittemore continued the investigation into the arsenic poisoning of five cattle belonging to Ed Burlingham a farmer and real estate broker living near Central City. Ten cattle were affected May 15 after eating arsenic mixed with salt in Burlingham pasture. five recovered after treatment.
Twelve men from Hartley Sanborn and Spencer pleaded guilty to theft or possession of liquor taken from a Chicago to Sioux Falls bound truck on January 20. Federal Judge George C. Scott sentenced each to 18 months in prison with fines of 500 or 250 dollars, all suspended. More than 206 cases were stolen, with Harold Reiderman and Lawrence J. Clausen selling some liquor for several hundred dollars.
At an English bomber base King George VI and Queen Elizabeth meet American flying officers and view raids over Wilhelmshaven Paris and Emden. Col Stanley Wray discusses tougher daylight raids by the Flying Fortresses and the Thunderbolt fighter joining the visit.
Publication guidance for want ads in Cedar Rapids Gazette outlines 2.25 per line with a 45 minimum on two lines and six words for each additional line. Ads payable in person or by phone. same day papers accepted until 9 a.m. Sundry ads accepted until 6 p.m. Saturdays. The Gazette disclaims responsibility for more than one incorrect insertion.
The excerpt records a casual exchange between the king and Wray with Queen Elizabeth commenting on future military strength. It notes Wisconsin's nickname the Badger State and its miners as early settlers who burrowed into the ground.
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