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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1939
Page
14
In Chicago market news hogs opened 10 to 15 cents lower on Tuesday and firmed to about 10 cents under Monday’s average in later trading. Cattle trading showed more activity and overall gains with fat lambs remaining near steady. Official Wednesday live stock receipts were cattle 10 000 hogs 8 000 sheep 4 000. Furnished by Lamson Brothers and Co.
AP noted hogs with total receipts 17 000 and prices mostly steady after a drop. top $7.15 and common ranges $6.90 to $7.15 for 200-270 lb hogs. Cattle showed 6 000 receipts with stronger demand, best steers around $10.75 to $11.00, heifers scarce, and cows weaker. Sheep receipts 4 000 with fat lambs steady to slightly higher, natives about $9.50 to $9.65, feeder lambs $8.75 to $8.90, throwouts $6.50 to $7.50.
Salable cattle receipts 2,100 calves 125 fed yearlings under 1000 lbs and feeder grade heifers active steady to strong. cows steady. stockers little changed. Load lots: choice 990 lb at 10.50. good 850 lb down 9.25–10.00. common to medium cows 5.00–5.75. stock steers 8.65. hogs receipts 1,800 bids steady to 10c lower. best offerings 6.75. sows 5.00–5.90. Sheep receipts 1,300 with undertone weak. natives around 9.25. ewes 2.59–3.50. feeder lambs 8.00. Iowa-Minnesota yards combined 28,400. barrows 160–360 lb ranges 5.30–6.80 with various split prices per weight.
Iowa Minn hog market report from Austin Minnesota lists barrow and gilt prices across weight breaks from 140 to 500 pounds. Prices span about 4.95 to 6.50 per hundredweight with sow values noted in several ranges.
Hog receipts 3000 with barrows and gilts steady to 5 cents lower. sows mostly steady. Top hog price $6.75 for 180 to 260 pounds. Cattle receipts 4200 with fed cattle and yearlings steady. top steers and yearlings $9.00 to $10.75. cows and bulls weaker. Sheep receipts 4300 fat lambs slow but steady. range lambs $9.25. fed shorn lambs above $8.25. early bids native lambs $9.00 down.
Federal market news notes cattle receipts 2 900 steers scarce steady good to choice yearlings around 95047 10 50 grassy steers weak stockers common to medium steers 6 90 7 58 calves 1 900 hogs receipts 7 800 bids 15 cents lower market not fully established 6 75 bid for 220 250 lb cattle sheep receipts 5 800 early supply native lambs no early action sellers
Market notes show steady to strong demand for slaughter lambs and ewes with prices ranged. Hog quotes across Ottumwa Waterloo and Mason City reflect mixed to lower trades for various weights and packers demand. Cattle steady with unchanged tone across listings despite regional fluctuations in weight brackets.
Fall took hold of Cedar Rapids hog and cattle markets on Tuesday with price drops from 10 to 20 cents on hogs, 25 cents on cattle, and 10 cents on packers. Top hog price reached 6.65 for 220 250 pound animals, packer weights 275 330 pounds at 5.85, and cattle peak stayed 10.25 for choice to prime yearling steers.
Grain and produce rates list for Cedar Rapids including wheat at 68c No. 1 and 66c No. 2, oats 26 2c, rye 39c, barley 27 35c, corn 39c, soybeans, hay and straw prices, dairy fat rates, poultry prices with various weights, wholesale fruits vegetables listings for lemons oranges grapefruit celery lettuce onions cabbage tomatoes carrots cauliflower potatoes apples grapes and berries, hide market prices for beef hides calves kip and horse prices.
Markets show firm hens and steady butter while eggs remain unchanged. Potatoes show heavy supplies with slow demand. Idaho Russet Burbanks trade near $1.60 per cwt, Bliss Triumphs around $1.35, and other regional prices vary with limited sales.
New York AP reports eggs receipts 17 271 steady, butter 897 753 about steady. Creamery prices higher than extra 29 14 30c, firsts 88 91 24 2 7 16c, seconds 84 87 22 47 24c. Cheese receipts 430 365 quiet. Prices unchanged.
Pike county Arkansas is noted as the only place in North America where diamonds are found in any quantity.
New York stocks surged into rallying territory with notable gains among U S Steel Bethlehem Douglas Aircraft U S Rubber Westinghouse Du Pont Allied Chemical Santa Fe Great Northern N Y Central Anaconda American Smelting Glenn Martin J I Case Western Union and Safeway Stores. Profit taking narrowed or erased many advances as transfers reached about 900000 shares. Utilities oils and mail orders lagged with most groups unable to join the rise.
Wheat rose two cents on light Chicago board offerings with December at 214 1/4 cents. Corn gained about a penny with December near 50 3/4 cents and oats up around 31 1/2 to 32 1/2 cents. Shipper sales totaled 45 000 bushels while purchases arriving reached 74 000 as Winnipeg Minneapolis and Kansas City futures also firmed.
The report lists cash wheat and corn prices with various grades and bases for No. 2 hard and yellow hard wheat, mixed, No. 1 yellow corn, oats, barley, rye, and soybeans. Seed prices include timothy, red clover, red top, and alsike with ranges for tonnage, making, and nominal values.
Wisconsin cheese quotas for Oct 9 to Oct 14 listed by the Wisconsin cheese exchange. Daisies priced at 15.2 cents, brick at 14.4 cents, horns 15.2 cents, cheddars 15 cents. Farmers' call board quotes Daisies 15.2 cents, commodores 16 cents, horns 15.2 cents, cheddars 11 cents.
The New York bond market showed uncertain swings Tuesday with some carriers advancing by fractions to over a point by midday while rails utilities and other sectors posted small losses. Government bonds mostly fell as the 3 percent issue of 1952-49 rose over two points, and foreign dollar loans trended downward with limited overseas crossovers.
Paul High 19 and Francis Comley 16 were linked to barn fires at the Carl Rawson and Dan Voehl farms near Cedar Rapids on May 13 and 16. High received a four month jail sentence retroactive to his arrest date after pleading not guilty, while Comley drew an indeterminate 10 year term at Anamosa for the Voehl case before age-related adjustments. Comley was later sent to Eldora for probation violation.
John Alfred Snyder a 16 year old from Peoria was arraigned before Judge John T. Moffit on a motor theft charge. The information filed by County Attorney G K Thompson cites Snyder for taking Verne Schall s car from a parking lot Sept 29. Bond set at 500 with Willis Glassgow appointed as his attorney. Snyder said he had 11 cents. He told officials he had been shunted among three homes while hitchhiking.
London reports Air Minister Sir Kingsley Wood told the House of Commons that British airplanes are definitely superior to German craft. He said RAF pilots and planes have proven their edge in daily clashes and patrols, with successful submarine hunts, reconnaissance from the Saar to the North Sea, and bombing over Berlin. The RAF also mapped the German Siegfried line. In four weeks of war, British aircraft located submarines 72 times and attacked 34 times, with some successes.
Dispatches from neutral sources say Adolf Hitler will arrive on the western front this week to assume supreme command of the German armies and air force and then place Field Marshal Goering in active command outranking Walther von Brauchitsch. Goering would replace the general staff plan with a blitzkrieg style operation.
Want ads show lost items including a zebra pin with brilliants and a lady's billfold with a reward offered. Also various personal notices including jewelry ads, pawn shop offers, and a lengthy supply of services from jewelry repair to moving and beauty services. The Gazette warns against misrepresentation in help wanted and outlines ad submission details.
Robert L. Slade of Cedar Rapids, indicted by Linn County grand jury on September 20 for cheating by false pretense, pled not guilty before Judge John T. Moffitt and posted a $500 bond. Indictment cites collection of insurance premiums after losing company authority. Testimony from three Cedar Rapids policyholders and an insurance district superintendent is in the minutes.
After a defense offer to confess judgment for 300 dollars was accepted, a 1009 dollar personal injury suit brought by Rinda Wall against Tri States Theater Corporation was dismissed Monday before Judge John T. Moffit. Wall alleged she was struck on the head by an opening door in the theater lobby January 17, 1937.
Funeral services for Mrs Celia Hayes wife of Sylvanius Hayes and resident of Palo for 33 years will be held at Palo Methodists church at 2 p m Wednesday. The Rev Frank H Ward will officiate burial will be in Palo cemetery. Friends may call at the Turner chapel until 10 a m Wednesday.
Funeral services for George W. Grove age 88 of 721 Seventh Avenue SE will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Neff Funeral Home Mount Vernon following his death in Marion on Monday.
Funeral services for Frank Coats, killed in a Sunday auto crash near Hopkins Missouri, will be held at 3 30 p.m. Wednesday in the Moon chapel conducted by Rev Marion H Williams Burial will be beside his wife in Linwood Cemetery Friends may call at the chapel
Judge John T. Moffit announced a new district court term assignment on Monday. The schedule for starting Oct 16 was prepared by his office. Defendants listed include Louis McNamara charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, Robert L. Slade for cheating by false pretenses, Peter Ludwick for operating a vehicle while intoxicated, Harry Phalen for uttering a forged instrument, and D R Brubaker for illegal possession of intoxicating liquor.
Tuesday testimony before Judge J E Heiserman and a jury addressed alleged services in a $124.90 action brought by Gert rude Merklin Gossett. The suit claims advances for Wilma Mead formerly Wilma James.
Funeral services for Mrs. Rose Harper 228 Fifth Street NE will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Moen chapel with Rev. Frank H. Ward officiating. Burial will be in Moen crematorium. Surviving are her father Alonzo Fullington a son B. Hugh Harper of Rochester New York and sisters Mrs Bessie Mastrick Fremont Nebraska and Mrs Helen Pray Wichita Kansas. Friends may call at the chapel.
By agreement a 254.87 services claim suit of Grimm Elliott Shut tleworth and Ingersoll against Stanley Reid, filed May 5 1938, was dismissed Tuesday at defendant's costs per Judge J E Heiserman entry.
Berlin reports German bombing raids near Norway claim six heavy bombs hit British cruisers. The Nazi release says two German bombers were damaged, likely by British anti aircraft fire, and forced to land in Denmark.
Judge John T. Moffit finds for Norma Doupnik in divorce suit against Joseph Doupnik Jr on cruel and inhuman treatment grounds. The couple wed in Galena Illinois on April 3 1937. A 400 pound Hampshire sow reported stolen near Springville Farm was found alive near the Wolfe place. Final report of executor T G Sinclair for the estate of Fannie Soutter, who died October 29 1984, approved by Judge Moffit.
Estimates put the global motorcycle total at 2,750,000 with about 85 percent located in Europe. The figures reflect a concentration of motorized two wheelers on the continent.
Martin Sukle a 35 year old janitor confessed to killing his wife Marie 28 and Jack Russell 37 a Pueblo carpenter claiming an illicit relationship led to the murders Sheriff Sam Deal said Tuesday.
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