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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1940
Page
4
Livestock reports from Chicago and surrounding markets show hog receipts around 16 000 with steadier prices versus Friday. Cattle and sheep also quote steady to modestly lower business as buyers shift to feeders and calves amid mixed demand across Omaha and Peoria markets.
Hogs steady on the local market with no changes in any grade. Top no fill remains at $6.2. Prices listed for various hog weights range from about $4 to $6.15, with multiple weight ranges and packers quoted. Cattle and calf market notes show prime to choice steers, yearlings, and cows with varied price ranges, plus calves and lambs with weight-based values.
A Cedar Rapids market page lists grain prices, poultry and livestock rates, wholesale fruits and vegetables, hides, glue, and rail stock figures. It notes detectors for hens, horses, and various cuts with per unit prices and standard measurements. Scientists say the earth’s interior is solid with steel-like rigidity.
New York markets opened with irregularly higher prices despite skepticism on international affairs. Aircrafts and speculations led most of the session to gains though some leaders failed to advance. Major issues such as General Steel Castings American Woolen CertainTeed and Budd Manufacturing posted wide advances on light turnover with volume around 400 000 shares. Strong support came from Douglas Aircraft United Aircraft US Steel Union Carbide Du Pont Chrysler Great Northern and Kennecott as stocks steadied by close.
The page lists stock quotes from Adams Express to Zenith Radio, with numerous companies and prices including Alaska Juneau, Allied Chemicals, Am Can, Kennecott, Pullman, Coca Cola, General Electric, and Western Union among others. It shows a broad market snapshot with bid and price data across multiple sectors and major players.
Demand for rail stocks lifted several carrier bonds by over a point as traffic and revenue indicators improve. Gainers included Great Northern 3 1/2s Erie 5s, Santa Fe 4s, Northern Pacific 4s, Southern Railway 4s, and Southern Pacific 4 1/4s. Foreign issues like Australian 4 3/8s and 5s rose about two points, with German and Japanese town issues easing. U S treasury notes gained modestly amid sparse trading.
Chicago wheat edged around prior close on Monday, with December at 82 34 75 cents, corn up 14 to 4, oats down a cent, and rye down 14 to 12 cents. Cash wheat firmer. futures saw buying near peak, then eased. May oats hit a seasonal high before fading.
Minneapolis and Chicago cash market quotes show mixed gains and basis changes. Wheat bids No 1 hard and No 1 northern spring firm, corn No 2 and No 1 yellow quotes steady, oats firm on white grades, while field seeds and timothy clover prices listed for farm use.
Wool prices showed strong demand in Boston on Monday. Medium grades sold well with combing bright leece wools at 42-43 cents grease for three eighths and one quarter broad grades. Country packed bright fleeces of these grades brought 41-42 cents grease delivered. Graded territory wools of these grades sold 8-82 cents scoured for combing, while three eighths blood and 75-77 cents scoured for combing quarterblood.
Live poultry receipts include hens, broilers, turkeys with per pound prices across Leghorn, Plymouth Rock, White Rock and other breeds. Potatoes, butter, and eggs show steady demand with U S No 1 quality, Idaho Russets, Colorado Reds, and Wisconsin cobblers noted. New York egg quotes firm with various grades and fresher month figures.
IOWA NEWS IN BRIEF reports a Rock Island and Cedar Rapids couple wed at a Presbyterian church with the Rev. Ben Talman officiating. In Solon a dinner honors a bride elect and a California guest. 26 guests attended with prizes awarded to several. Alburnett funeral services were held for former operator Mrs. William Kee at the Methodist church with pallbearers among sons-in-law and local musicians providing music.
Seventh Day Adventists presented a list of proposed sites to Cedar Rapids officials and asked clearance to build a temporary tabernacle for eight months of Bible institute meetings. The city council favored a Second Avenue SE location but deferred final action while fire and traffic reviews proceed.
Cedar Rapids soldiers station reports no orders yet for one year enlistments in the regular army. Lieut L F Buchanan states enlistments remain for three years until further notice. War department wires say one year enlistments pending selective service, may require travel via Omaha and Des Moines.
Youths caused extensive damage at Wisconsin Lumber Co. and Diamond Block Coal Co. on Sunday evening. A truck rammed a garage door at the lumber yard. at the coal yard, the office was broken into, a clock and bulbs broken, ink smeared, air let from truck tires. Police link to a prior gang tied to earlier city incidents and a possible Ellis Park incident.
A dawn-to-dusk drive is planned for Oct 25 to fund Linn and Jones county Boy Scout districts in the Cedar Rapids area council. The Cedar Rapids district is excluded. The $9,000 budget expects 236 workers. Linn chair P. W. Peterson and Jones chair C. A. Coxsee lead committees. a campaign manager will be named. Roads covered include Mount Vernon Marion Lisbon Central City Springville Walker in Linn county and Anamosa Monticello Oxford Junction Martelle in Jones county.
The request specifies light but warm materials for children's beds and 39 by 30 inch pieces for hot packs applied to patients' legs or arms.
Sen Charles L. McNary of Oregon will address Northwood on October 7 at 2 pm at the fairgrounds. The event marks ties to his farm relief work with Rep Gilbert N. Haugen, the McNary-Haugen plan's congressional advocates.
A dense readable fragment lists lost items including a white fold wristwatch near 1st Ave W and a linoleum rug between 6th Ave and Cottage Grove Ave with reward offers. It also advertises beauty shops, jewelers, moving firms, auto parts, and services with various phone numbers and locations.
Rome reports Italian air attacks on British naval squadrons off the Egyptian coast and says a torpedo boat sank a British submarine in the eastern Mediterranean.
Miss Lena Vogt county probation officer issued an appeal for old all wool blankets or blanket parts to aid infantile paralysis patients returning from hospitals. The appeal requests usable wool coverings to help provide warmth and comfort to affected individuals.
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