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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1944
Page
12
Chicago and Des Moines bar markets show hogs under 160 pounds weak to steady with prices around 14 dollars per hundredweight for many classes. Cattle receipts remain light with scattered loads and mixed steer and heifer values. sheep show small gains with varying lamb prices across regions. Market tone uncertain as weekly totals and regional quotes drift.
Wisconsin cheese exchange reports U S No 1 cheddars priced around 21 34 cents with three bids. listed river stage notes show no change at Davenport Portage Pere du Chien and Gordons Ferry amid routine market chatter.
Kansas City. A careful check of the Kansas City Star files found no articles in 1922 linking Sen. Harry S. Truman with the Ku Klux Klan. The Star faced affidavits by Bruce Trimble claiming Truman joined the Klan in June 1922, the same month he sought county judge backing from T. J. Pend ercast, a Missouri political foe of the Klan.
A fire at Farragut Naval Training Center in Idaho killed a Wise servicewoman and injured several others. Navy personnel aided jumping residents using bedsheets as lifelines. The center reported the incident on Friday with name and next of kin pending verification.
Prime butchers on the Cedar Rapids hog market slipped Friday as packers maintained ceiling levels. Top price for prime butchers reached 14.35 with packers at 13.70. Readable weight ranges and price listings appear for hogs from 160 pounds to 500 pounds and cattle prices for steers and heifers across several weight classes.
A firmer tone lifted parts of the stock market in late Friday trading though many leaders remained in negative territory. Turnover approached 800000 shares as Adams Express and Allied Stores showed notable moves among many listed issues in a broad, uneven session.
Local market listings show corn shelled at $1.04 per bushel old price, soybeans at $1.86 to $2.04, oats $0.65, wheat $1.40, rye $1.00. Hay and straw values, poultry prices for various fowls, eggs, and current receipts. Wholesale fruits and vegetables include celery, lemons, Valencia oranges, lettuce, onions, sweet potatoes, apples, and potatoes with regional price details. Hides, calves, horses, kips, and pony glue values listed. full market scope reflects commodity ranges and unit measures.
Grain futures traded quietly with mixed moves as wheat held steady while feeds drifted lower. December futures showed fractional gains early but declined by close with wheat up 14 to 34 cents, corn around 14 lower to 14 higher, and oats little changed. Reports noted nominal prices for wheat, soybeans, and barley with some field seed values listed for Timothy, clover, and alsike.
Chicago prices show steady to mixed readings for eggs butter and cheese with large receipt totals. Potatoes and live poultry weigh on overall market with varied bids for russet and red varieties and differing regional quotes for Wisconsin Iowa and Minnesota origins.
Jack Campbell, 45, of Clarinda, waived to the grand jury after arraignment in Justice H. R. Churchill's court. He is held in Linn county jail on a $1,000 bond. Campbell was arrested by Deputy Sheriff P. J. Whittemore after allegedly cashing two false checks totaling 50 at the Allison hotel drawn on the Page County State Bank in Clarinda.
Kaye Woods sues the C. Penney company in district court seeking 2900 dollars claiming she fell on a slippery floor and struck a display case in the Penney store on October 26, 1942.
Deaths include M W Houser former Cedar Rapids Cornice Works owner in Hollywood aged about 81 with service in Little Church of the Flower and burial at Forest Lawn. Also Olin Francis Hood custodian at McKinley High School death to be observed at Turner chapel Cedar Memorial park. Additionally Mrs J A Ratliff 75 died after long illness with funeral at Yocom chapel Marion and burial in Oak Shade cemetery. she is survived by husband two brothers four stepchildren and 12 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Gov. B. B. Hickenlooper, Republican U.S. Senate nominee, wraps a eastern Iowa campaign tour in Cedar Rapids with an open house and 6:15 to 6:30 p.m. address on WMT. He will vote in Cedar Rapids then head to Cape Girardeau Clinton DeWitt Guttenberg Davenport Iowa City on successive stops.
First Lt. George A. Hallenbeck was slightly wounded Oct. 8 in Germany, as his wife at 520 Sixteenth Street SE reported. He has been overseas since March and served as an infantry officer since May 1942. He worked for Armstrong's before the war and is son of Mrs. F. M. Hallenbeck. The wife and their son Danny live with Mrs. S. G. Courtney.
In Tacloban Leyte a soldier with a bandaged head says a 500 pound bomb struck his helmet, glanced off and exploded 100 yards away. He survived despite scalp injuries while five fellow soldiers were wounded and three killed.
New York. Democratic national chairman Robert E. Hannegan accused the Republican Party of being reconciled to a lost cause and likened it to a licked fighter. He said G O P attacks were a hysterical smear campaign and cited claims about Sen. Harry S. Truman and supposed misused contributions.
A 20 year old Greek demonstrator was shot to death during a partisan parade in Athens. The incident occurred near a building visited by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and opposite the temporary headquarters of the Greek ministry of war.
Washington AP reports the Office of Defense Transportation extends its convention curtailment plan into 1945, urging cancellation of meetings slated before next April. The move targets reducing wartime travel and expenses during the ongoing national emergency.
The American delegation to the international civil aviation conference at Chicago beginning Nov 1 will be headed by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A Berle Jr and will include New York Mayor LaGuardia and Admiral Richard E Byrd. The group also lists ten official delegates and industry advisers from Pan American Airways American Airlines and Chicago and Southern Airlines with CAB officials L Welch Pogue and Edward Warner. Two senators Josiah Bailey and Owen Brewster and two representatives Alfred Bulwinkle and Charles Wolverton also named.
Good steady pay with permanent work. Rapids Chevrolet Co. invites applicants for mechanics, service salesmen, and mechanics helpers at GOL 1st Ave, E. Sanitary Farm Dairies also seeks workers dial 3-204. Public appeal notes a common refrain about home life.
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