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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1942
Page
15
Chicago and Peoria livestock markets report stricter beef ceilings cause uneven selling. Hogs meaty 16 000 total, bids fall 10-25 cents, top at 15.25. Cattle and sheep slow with many unsold. receipts show mixed demand and price dips across classes. Poultry and dairy items also noted as market unsettled.
Market notes show eggs firm in New York with various grades and pullets, butter prices higher on Creamery scales, and potatoes with moderate supplies. Idaho Russets slightly weaker while northern stocks stay near steady. Dressed poultry steady with spring hens and toms varied by size. overall produce futures provided.
Cedar Rapids hog market reports a ten cent drop in prices across all grades on Wednesday. Top butcher price 14.60, long haul no fill 14.70, packers 14.50 to 14.60 with several weight and quality categories noted from fancy to common including lambs and ewes with varied values.
Grain and produce prices listed for Cedar Rapids include wheat No. 1 at 1.03, No. 2 at 0.55, rye No. 2 at 0.60, oats, barley, beans and straw values. Poultry and eggs priced by weight or count, with leghorn springs at 16 cents, heavy hens 18 cents, ducks and pigeons per dozen, and wholesale fruits and vegetables with Michigan celery at 75 cents per dozen and lemons 7 dollars per crate. Hides and livestock prices show No. 1 cured hides 12 cents, No. 2 11 cents, calf hides 13 and 12 cents, kip 12 cents, horses at 6.23 and 5.7 dollars.
Wisconsin cheese quotations for the week ending October 3 show U S No 1 cheddars at 23% bid and junior trade cheddars at 22% bid with other varieties bid. In Boston a quiet midweek slowdown sees manufacturers reviewing large recent purchases and inquiries into fine foreign wools, with Buenos Aires sales of graded wine clothing wools at 1.08 per 110 clean basis.
Losses of a point or more appeared in several rail loans on Wednesday while other bond prices stayed mostly steady. Some carrier issues edged higher at the close, but trading was muted overall with government bonds hardly active on the big board. A road issue in Australia traded 4145 on light turnover, and nonrail activity featured a brief rise above three points in a few merged gas bonds amid talks of revised restructuring terms.
New York stocks opened with buying interest soft and major names slipping fractionally. Trading volume dipped to about 350000 shares as investors await developments on farm bloc administration debates and the anti inflation bill. Laclede Gas preferred drew bids and rose about five points while common fell. United States Steel Bethlehem Chrysler Goodrich and others retraced most of the day.
Readable stock list showing Abbott Labs and many others with prices and tickers across Wall Street and Chicago exchanges. Includes Abbott Laboratories, Adams Express, Kennecott Copper, General Electric, Ford, IBM, U S Steel, Westinghouse, Zenith, and more. Notes manager W H Jump and Bennett & Co. listings and brief price figures.
Senate adopts farm amendment paving the way for anti inflation bill. Wheat futures rise over one cent per bushel with gains across corn soybeans and related grain markets in Chicago trading.
A fragmented listing of grain and feed prices including oats soybeans barley and various No grades. Entries show mixed colors and weights with price figures such as 61.21 for cash and oats at 0.34 to 0.75 per unit, plus miscellaneous notes like loose bellies and nominal figures.
Rear Admiral Ben Moreell warned labor leaders that without union participation the nation risks losing the war effort and urged workers to push in now. Brig. Gen. Philip Fleming projected a large postwar building boom with preplanned projects to absorb returning workers.
Obituaries report Wesley Joseph Kadera 78 of Lisbon died at home after a long illness. Survivors include wife Annie and many children. funeral at St. John’s Lisbon and burial in Catholic cemetery. Also listed are deaths of Catherine Ryan 76, Anna Kolar former Cedar Rapids resident, and Laura Hess. services planned in Cedar Rapids and Muscatine areas with Rosaries and private burials.
The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Teahen chapel. Friends may call there prior to services and burial arrangements remain to be announced.
New York AP reports Iron Age says united scrap metal drive could dominate this winter for war production. Observers shift from lukewarm to optimistic as newspapers back the drive. Labor shortages at scrap yards may slow processing, while mills lack scrap in quantity, risking a serious shortage.
Courthouse Irving Fox, charged in district court with larceny in a building in the daytime, will have an extradition hearing before Gov. Harold Stassen in St. Paul at 3 p.m. Thursday. Linn County Attorney William W. Crissman and Detective L. B. Marshall will attend. Fox allegedly aided Dorothy Myers who also faces a daytime larceny charge for a February attempt to steal a four coat from Armstrong Clothing. Myers was later brought to trial but fled on the second day and remains at large.
Judge J. E. Heiserman dissolved a temporary injunction restraining Iowa Utility Co and Utilities Holding Corp from disposing of the outstanding common stock. The prior injunction followed P. W. Markham's claim of a contract to buy the stock and its sale to Grundy Electric Corp, Inc a transaction Missouri Public Service Commission approved at 37 750.
Clyde Perrego pled guilty to operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent. Judge John T. Moffit sentenced him to an indeterminate term not to exceed one year at Fort Madison. Perrego allegedly took a car belonging to Robert Porter of 1513 Fourth Street NW and was arrested after a Cedar Rapids crash Tuesday night.
Gerald Butts, 32, of 140 Thirty-third Street NE, pled innocent in district court on a charge of driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was arrested Saturday by Highway Patrolman M. G. Swords on Highway 218, two miles south of Cedar Rapids.
Mrs George Koster 54 died after a year's illness. Funeral services will be held Thursday at the Lutheran church in Williamsburg after a home service in Vinton. She is survived by her husband four daughters Dorothy Wilma Arlo Meyer Mrs Evan Fischer and Willard of Cedar Rapids and a son from the Cedar Rapids area.
A jumble of lost and found notices and small ads lists items and services such as lost car seat cushion near Belle Plaine Cedar Rapids reward for owners Raleigh Johnson and Virginia Woolcott. sold watches at times theater. coins purses and a registration card lost. various shop ads for watch cleaning, jewelry, laundry, clothing and sewing services. several help wanted and real estate notices sprinkled with local business promotions.
Two wills were admitted to probate. Mrs. Josie Salek of Fairfax was appointed executrix without bond for the will of her husband Frank Salek who died September 16. The will of Augustus S. Berger who died September 22 was admitted to probate and his widow Mabel W. Berger was appointed executrix without bond of the joint will.
Ethel Rebecca Hamor seeks a divorce from Charles Richard Hamor in district court. The couple married in Dubuque on April 8, 1940, with the petition alleging cruel and inhuman treatment.
Stephen Lorain McLain 64 died Sunday at home in North English. Funeral services were Tuesday at the Methodist church conducted by Rev. John Alexander and the I O O F lodge. Burial followed at North English cemetery. Born in Keokuk County he married Jennie Richardson. Survived by two sons Loraine of Cedar Rapids and Harry of North English and two daughters Marie Abernathy and others not named.
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