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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1944
Page
6
Unofficial Tuesday receipts show hogs 15000 cattle 15000 sheep 8000 across Chicago Sioux City Des Moines and Omaha reports. Hogs and cattle largely steady with limited sales while sheep show weaker spring lambs and steady high grades. mixed cattle youth and calf prices cited across major yards and regions.
Chicago arrivals and shipments for Idaho, Colorado, Nebraska, North Dakota, Wisconsin show varied prices for U S No 1 and washed or unwashed grades. Cheese, butter and egg receipts listed with standard scores, price ranges, and moving totals.
Chicago reports a large trade in grain futures with prices dipping across the board. Wheat fell to 135 lower with September at 1.55, oats down 54 to 1.55, rye down 15 to 1.03, barley off 1 to 1.09, and field seeds like red clover seed around 28.50 per cwt.
Twenty six interned German civilians including Bund Leader Fritz Kuhn ended a nine day hunger strike at Fort Stanton New Mexico. The department of justice announced the development on Friday.
The Cedar Rapids hog market held steady Saturday after a slight rise earlier in the week. Prices ranged with prime butchers up to 14.45 and packers at 13.70, with various weight classes listed for hogs, cattle, lambs, and cows, reflecting steady demand across categories.
Prices for grains and poultry listed with No. 2 yellow corn at 1.04, soybeans at 1.86, oats 0.70, wheat 3.40, rye 1.05, and tied straw bay prices. Poultry values include heavy and leghorn hens, springs and stags. Wholesale fruits vegetables show celery lemons oranges lettuce and onions with varied per unit prices. Hides and calf and horse values listed. final line notes broken phrasing about prices and goods.
New York AP reports Wall Street markets closed for the third consecutive Saturday holiday with trading halted after Friday sessions. Firms note a subdued atmosphere as investors await coming economic indicators and policy signals.
Three Republican governors Schoeppel Martin Thye criticized pressure groups and hailed Dewey as a remedy for name-calling and backbiting in a prelude to Dewey’s Philadelphia address. They attacked CIOPAC and praised Dewey’s political program while targeting Truman and red tape.
London AP reports the Volksender radio, claiming to be the German people's underground station, urged all Germans in the Reich and Czechoslovakia to revolt against Hitler on the fifth anniversary of the war. The ministry of information noted the broadcast Friday.
House leaders released a denial from President Roosevelt's chief of staff that a destroyer was sent to recover the President's dog Fala. Admiral Leahy dismissed the rumor as groundless while Rep. Knutson pressed the tale amid gasoline worries from the Australia trip.
A Des Moines youth driver and a 17 year old passenger died when their gravel road skidded car overturned in a ditch near Des Moines. The dead youth was Robert Airey, and his companion was Robert Kathy, both 17.
Gov Hickenlooper named William T Evans of Waterloo to the Tenth judicial district bench to replace the late A B Lovejoy. The district covers Bremer Delaware Buchanan and Black Hawk counties.
The 35th 18th and 90th infantry divisions and the Seventh and Fourth armored divisions join the U S Third Army in France in the eastward push toward Germany. The move was revealed Friday night.
Copies of an illustrated documentary record of Dr Edward Benes visit to the United States and Canada in 1943 have arrived in Cedar Rapids Published for his 60th birthday May 28 the book was prepared by International Business Machines and issued through the Czechoslovak government information service in New York It features an illustration of Benes greeted by Vera Hilgert in Czech costume at the Lidice Illinois memorial monument with a perpetual flame honoring Lidice villagers.
Services for Perley O. Clark were held at the Yocom chapel with Marion lodge No. 6 A F and A M conducting Masonic rites and burial at Mt. Clark cemetery Central City. Multiple service member updates include Don Parker’s return from Groton to Otumwa report Sept 16, Elvin J Shirley promoted to corporal on Saipan and Jack Ellis awaiting merchant marine sworn in Chicago next week.
Directory of sermons services and church activities listing pastors, service times, and programs for Marion churches including Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Congregational, Free Methodist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran Seventh Day Church of God and Prairie Chapel. Include Bible schools, morning and evening worship, midweek prayers, and special lectures.
Hollywood report says Lt Rudy Vallee and his divorcee actress Bettejane Greer moved back to their hilltop home and will resume their marriage. An interlocutory decree was issued last July 27, and they claim their divorce brought them closer. they plan to be devoted spouses and forego final remarriage.
A collage of service notices lists heating furnace cleaning and repair, chimney work, electric refrigerator service, Mason work, automobile painting, hauling, washing machine repair, fur coat work, and plumbing. Includes various addresses and phone-like dials.
The New Bohemian Band headlines a Labor Day dance running from 8 to 1 at a local venue. Dance lovers are invited for an evening of live music and social mingling.
Multiple ads recruit salesmen to travel Iowa and eastern Nebraska selling to drug hardware grocery and tobacco stores. Also seeks young men to learn business and part time factory and stock room work with wages and opportunities at Cedar Rapids News Agency Kilborn Photo Paper Co Colonial Baking Co and Twin Towers.©
Men can double earnings with experience through a training program that provides capital and instruction. No experience or investment required. Must have a car or panel truck. GEORGE N. JOHNSONMontrose Hotel Cedar Rapids IA.
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