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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1944
Page
6
Chicago market notes hogs scarce so no sale market behavior nominally steady for hogs cattle and sheep. Prices range with hogs bulk 14 to 14.35 top 14.40 while calves steers and heifers show mixed steady trends. Sheep receipts around 2100 with lambs 14 to 14.50 and ewes 4 to 6.35. feeder steers and stockers also listed with varied values.
Receipts total about 4 600 with cattle and calves weak to largely lower while bulls gain up to 25 cents. Slaughter lambs steady to higher with feeder lambs and yearlings firm to higher. good to choice cattle and calves show varied prices across weight classes. Lamb totals about 3 500 with fed lambs steady to 25 cents higher and wooled lambs trading at 13.75 to 14.50 reflected in No 1 pelts upticks.
Combined receipts at 19 concentration yards and 13 Dack'ne plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for 24 hours ending Saturday at 8 am totaled 55 400. The figure compares with 33 200 a week ago and 45 250 a year ago. Prices for various hog weights and classes are listed with steady to higher trends and mostly good to choice quality.
Chicago market bulletin shows mixed receipts for produce with steady to firm tones. Butter and eggs list varied stock counts and prices. live poultry and potatoes on track with overall moderate to good demand and ceilings firm for northern stock. Premium russets and regional varieties priced with several market quotations across states and classifications.
A brief note from the Wisconsin cheese exchange lists limited stock of cheese varieties. It mentions twins or cheddars not available, a carload of square prints at a 24 percent rate, and smaller midget varieties priced accordingly.
Fragmentary report lists river stage names and locations including Portage Prairie and Gu Chien with likely river-related notes. No clear event details or figures are readable.
The United States and Britain released separate drafts at the international civil aviation conference, showing progress on a joint plan for world air transport regulation. Both proposals endorse the fifth freedom, allowing airlines to carry traffic between member states, along with the four established freedoms, and aim to break the deadlock by publicizing their negotiating results.
Saturday trading showed modest gains and losses as leaders mostly stayed in the red. Volume was light with around 400 000 shares changing hands while index leaders drifted negative and the market tone remained uncertain. Major quotes include Adams Express 11% and Coca Cola 136 137, with notable names such as Gen Motors 61% and U S Steel 56 74 in play.
Active buying continued Saturday in the rail section with sharp moves up fractions to over 2 points. Northwestern 4s rose on heavy trading volume while most Seaboard and Ohio issues gained and Missouri Pacific, Boston and Albany, and Nickel Plate 4s also strengthened.
Chicago grain prices opened easy then firmed with brief gains of fractions to over two cents. Wheat closed mixed to higher, corn up about 43 cents, oats higher, rye mixed, and barley up around a dollar in December contracts amid light trade and short covering.
Market bulletin shows mixed readings with corn and oats lacking sales while barley posts a price of 11541.37 nominal. Red clover and alsike per unit prices listed at 31.50 and 28.50 respectively.
Physicians at Vitor Amaral Matern ity hospital announced four of the quintuplet girls born Wednesday night were dying while the fifth was dead at birth. The mother Felicia Zachesca from San Mateus was reported as doing well. The infants weighed about one pound each.
General Henri Giraud returned to Metz on Friday, the city he once governed, after France fell. He had sworn not to wear his medals again until Metz was liberated, and his return comes with U.S. Third Army in support.
Spokane AP reports Edward J. Reilly, Democratic candidate for Washington’s Fifth Congressional District, conceded Friday that the incumbent Republican has won reelection.
Hogs were down a nickel at the local market Saturday with prime butchers at 12 dollars and packers at 13.50. Good hogs, lambs, and sheep show varied, with culls and buck lambs priced per hundredweight and buyers weighing by weight and quality.
Market list showing corn soybeans oats wheat rye and straw prices, plus wholesale fruits vegetables including celery lemons lettuce onions and potatoes. Also notes on hides calves horses and miscellaneous animal products with unit prices and quality grades.
The U S Eighth Air Force disclosed a 400 ton attack on the V-2 rocket plant near Weimar Germany on August 24. Fifty German fighters and heavy flak met 130 Flying Fortresses which delivered a concentrated bombing pattern. Recon photos show seven of ten large factory buildings struck, three quarters of another demolished, two severely damaged, and a total of 45 buildings destroyed or heavily damaged.
Anna Dutton of 126 Seventh street NE sues Ella Wagley and Frank Wagley of 1512 K avenue NE in district court seeking 4900 for injuries from an October collision on Third street near the Montrose hotel. Dutton says she crossed from the southeast corner toward the Montrose when struck by a car driven by Ella and owned by Frank Wagley traveling north on Third street.
Tradehome Shoe Stores of Muscatine seeks 500 dollars in district court against Mrs Catherine E Sigmund of Cedar Rapids. The suit alleges Mrs Sigmund agreed to indemnify the firm for losses caused by Leonard L Albaugh of Davenport, a store employee who served as sales...
It may take as many as 12 bottle units of dried blood serum to keep a fighting man alive after grave wounds. Medical reports discuss the need for serum in life preserving treatment and the scale of supply required for severe injuries.
Wilfrid Lacroix a Quebec Liberal MP bolts to the opposition charging treachery by Prime Minister Mackenzie King over a cabinet order mandating overseas conscription of 16 000 home defense volunteers. He is joined by Charles E. Parent and Jean F. Pouliot as a French speaking Liberal split looms, threatening the government ahead of a confidence vote likely Monday.
British American and Russian representatives in London outline a postwar occupation plan for Germany under a Supreme Allied council. Russia would control eastern Germany including East Prussia, Britain the northwest, and the United States the southwest with French involvement to follow. The plan covers postwar military occupation and a separate Austria plan, with joint control of Berlin likely.
S/Sgt Vincent S. Foley arrives in Marion for a 21 day furlough after 33 months in Africa Sicily Italy and France. He reunites with his wife and infant daughter Patricia Jean, who was three months old at his last visit, at 657 Eighth Street.
Gilbert Williams of Williams burg and Mary L Holmes of Cedar Rapids married Friday afternoon by Dr C E Drummond justice of the peace. Orville Wie bold and Eva ONeill of Cedar Rapids witnessed. The couple will live at Williamsburg.
Marion Kinkead son of the Amos Kinkeads living at 1395 Ninth Street has been honorably discharged from the Veterans hospital in Des Moines. He is a second class seaman who was moved to the Des Moines hospital six months ago from Farragut Idaho due to rheumatic fever.
In the home of her parents the G. D. Eckharts and a relative is visiting his parents the W. H. Emerlsons in Cedar Rapids, describing weekend family gatherings and travel.
Mrs. C. Biggs of 943 Twelfth Street received word that her son Pfc. Joe Biggs was slightly wounded on November 7 in Germany. Holiday guests at the A. B. Nolisch home included Duane Nolisch, a sophomore engineering student at Iowa University, and Fernando Tapia of Panama City, Costa Rica, a sophomore medical student.
A listing of morning and evening worship times at Marion churches including Baptist Bible and Christian groups with pastors and pulpit guests. Catholic mass schedule. Sunday schools and midweek activities. special meetings and youth programs. Seventh Day Church of God and Prairie Chapel times noted.
Washington officials report the Senate rejected, 42 to 27, a proposal to curb Secretary Ickes authority to build transmission lines for selling public power from flood control dams.
Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of the London Polish government resigns. Deputy Prime Minister Jan Kwapinsky is tasked with forming a new cabinet. The announcement came Friday night.
Eleven Clayton county registrants were sent to Fort Snelling this week including Lynn Oldfather Merle Newcomb Merl Renken Carol Berns Martin Jaster William Thomas Francis Huffman John Kinsley Yallie Chalders Gene Eberhard and Harvey Tomkins. William Chris teleit Volga City town marshal suffered a bullet wound in the leg when the gun he carried discharged while riding a tractor with his son Harold. Blanche White longtime Volga City merchant retired after a Brac ee salooe sale. Hazleton Community club elected officers Leta Corcoran Mary Burke Alta Wells treasurer Anna Kerns.
Soviet land and naval forces completed the liberation of Estonia driving the remaining German garrison from Saare Osel in Riga’s vicinity. Stalin announced the victory as Red armies push to free Latvia while advancing in Hungary and into Czechoslovakia near Cop Csap. The Saare island action opened Riga gulf to the Baltic fleet and freed about 75 000 Russian troops for Latvia Lithuania or East Prussia.
Willard Burkes of 956 Tenth street NE suffered head cuts and a bruised shoulder at 8 30 p m Friday when the motorcycle he rode struck a dog in the 800 block of Center Point road NE. The motorcycle was up set and the dog killed. Burkes was taken to St Luke s hospital for treatment and released.
Sgt Leo F Samek 27 of Cedar Rapids currently serving in a tank destroyer unit in the 34th division was wounded in Germany on November 6. He previously served in England France Belgium and Germany receiving the Purple Heart. He had been in the Cedar Rapids National Guard and reported to Camp Claiborne four years ago.
A chaotic page lists numerous lost items including dogs with licenses 1946 and 1947, eyeglasses, jewelry, and a few reward notices. It also includes advertisements for mens coats, jewelry stores, shampoos, and a job posting seeking a service driver helper, plus a farm hand want ad. Contact details and phone numbers accompany several entries.
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