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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1944
Page
2
Steady hog prices reported in Armours and Watertown yards with cattle and sheep holding even. Hogs at Armours and Watertown show mid range for butchers and fed cattle. Chicago futures also edge up with grain futures mixed amid Bankhead bill talks.
Aug. 24 reports show Sioux City and Sioux Falls handling cattle, calves, hogs, and sheep with steady to mostly steady prices. Cattle demand favored quality steers and feeders. hogs and sheep remained active with good demand and stable quotes across several weights and classes.
Market brief covering Huron produce with 10:00 a.m. stats on heavy hens over 4 lb light hens leghorn hens roosters and butterfat grades. Chicago egg futures dairy and poultry quotes for Aug 24 including live poultry, fowl roosters ducks and eggs with price ranges and receipts. New York wholesale poultry and dairy prices list dressed poultry crates and standard egg prices reflect regional variations and quality grades.
Watertown market notes list items including leghorn hens 48, leghorn roosters 13, ducks 10, eggs No 1 29, No 2 24, butterfat No 2 50, No 2 48, and miscellaneous entries for heavy breeds and Reese across Aug 24.
The report notes action by the Senate banking committee on grain futures moratorium and deferred contracts. Wheat prices rise on new seasonal laws while rye rallies after a brief market setback and ongoing policy uncertainty.
New York markets opened soft with most issues easing into lower territory as bids remained timid and few stocks could mount a strong push. Rail and steel names showed modest declines while several big capitalized issues traded lower by fractions to a point or more amid a light overall turnover of around 866000 shares.
Secretary Stimson said the first five days of the Southern France invasion cost the army 2975 casualties. The August 15 landings began the period, with 2214 killed and missing 4221, and 1754 hospitalised. Overall armed services casualties to date total 317846 with army 261589 and navy 56357 including 23135 killed 79063 wounded 9593 missing and 4466 prisoners.
Washington August 24 The White House announced the resignation of Clarles E Wilson executive vice chairman of the War Production Board Wilson cited subordinates protests and unfair attacks as the cause He noted opposition to reconversion and said Donald M Nelson and WPB staff shared responsibility President Roosevelt accepted the resignation with reluctance praising Wilsons war production work.
Senate approves a war goods disposal bill banning domestic sales of surplus farm products below parity or market prices. Sen LaFollette praises the amendment to shield farm price structures while Bankhead proposes the cotton amendment. The measure also allows contractors to stockpile inventories of war materials to resume civilian production, amid earlier bipartisan clashes over this provision.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars 45th national encampment voted to continue excluding women from membership and to seek peacetime compulsory military training. They rejected a proposed amendment by 2 848 to 1 946 to include Women WACs and nurses, settling a long‑debated issue.
Bergs Style Shoppers meet Clinic Red Sox at 7 p m tonight at Ninth Street Diamond. The brief report appears in Wednesdays Evening Huronite.
Allied air and naval strikes hit Japan and occupied territories with new blows in the Philippines and Bonin Islands. MacArthur reported six enemy vessels sunk or damaged near Mindanao and Palau, plus large fires at Davao. Nimitz cited a Liberator raid on a five-ship convoy off Chichi Jima with two cargo ships sunk and another set afire. One Liberator was lost.
Representative Mundt urges a system to grant Indians a share of tribal claims, suggesting certificates showing each individual's allotment. He cites a potential total of up to 1 billion dollars and notes that ownership claims arise from treaty rights and historic removals. The House subcommittee has toured reservations and sees need for Indian affairs reforms.
Stockholm reports Finnish minister to Sweden G A Gripenberg flew to Helsinki in what sources call a bid to end Finland's war, though no direct contact with Moscow had occurred by Thursday. The trip marks his second to Helsinki in two weeks and observers link Romania’s exit to possible Finnish action led by Baron Mannerheim.
Fifteen more Huron autoists forfeit $1 bonds this week for appearance in municipal court on traffic charges. Ten were cited for failing to stop at arterial highway signs. Names include Even W. Noyes Jr and others. Four were fined for parking between 2 and 6 pm on paved streets. Joe C. Hofer forfeited a bond for a U turn at street intersections.
Two Benton Minn businessmen were taken ill with food poisoning at the Sioux Empire Fair in Sioux Falls after midday lunch at a local restaurant. They were hospitalized in serious condition. one is a restaurant operator and the other a theater manager from Lake Benton.
Allied troops of the Eighth Army pushed near the Arno in Thaly capturing Mount Foresto and other points as Polish and Italian forces held the Metauro estuary about 12 miles from the Adriatic coast. Florence faced indiscriminate shelling with unknown damage and casualties.
Chinese reports say progress against Japanese forces in Hunan with Japanese reinforcements preparing a larger Canton Hankan railway offensive. US 10th Air Force sorties over Tengchung in western Yunnan marked first action from bases in India. Chinese bulletin notes Lungling town old section captured two days earlier.
A U S Employment Service rep visits Hastings and nearby depots to recruit skilled men for war industry and shipyards along the West Coast. The drive offers four year vacation and sick leave, with postings at Pearl Harbor, Mare Island, San Diego, and other naval stations. Applications accepted at USES offices for wartime labor needs.
The AP report details Japanese Prime Minister’s warning of a national crisis as Bonin Islands endure intensified U S air strikes from Saipan. General Keiso calls for increased defense and fighting power amid ongoing wartime bombings on home islands.
A car crashed into a gasoline pump at a Mike Gibbs station injuring a few bystanders but sparking a small fire that was quickly suppressed by attendants and a bystander with an extinguisher. Miss Hazel Kludt, formerly of Alpena, praised the quick action as flames were kept from spreading.
Open for a new term in Kingsbury County with 79 schools expected to be ready. Rural and high schools face teacher shortages while elementary positions are being filled to support the start of the school year.
Los Angeles reports Gernon K Barbee 51 owner of a bottling company divorced yesterday by actress Ronnie Edwards 24 the fifth wife of asbestos heir Tommy Manville. She said she was angry after declining to drink champagne for breakfast.
Admitted: Louis Sebi Barbara Hebe J Hathaway Merle Gastinlaw Willis Hall and others. Dismissed: Mrs Yale Owen McDowell Howard Fritzsche Mrs J and baby daughter Barbara Habel Miedema Nelson Louis. Location mentions Huron Wessington Springs Broadland with patient names.
A fragmentary classified section lists items for sale including Remington and Browning firearms, a checker of household goods, clothing sizes 26 and 18, and furniture like a Sunflame dinette set. Also notes a living room suit, bedroom suite, and a Majestic cabinet radio. Warnings: several entries include rental and help-wire items with addresses in Ohio.
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