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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1942
Page
2
Market report from Armour Stockyards and Siou x City area shows hog prices lifting 10 to 15 cents with top bids near 14.65 per hundredweight. Cattle and lambs firming, with mixed quotes across weights. hogs, cattle, and sheep traded higher in Sioux City, Sioux Falls, and St Paul, as buyers focus on steady demand and higher slaughter rates.
Markets amende BBR ARAMA HURON PRODUCE MARKET reports daily prices to the Evening Huronite by phone between 20 am and noon. Prices cover heavy and light hens, springs, roosters, butterfat and leaf no 7 cues. Chicago futures show butter at 44.60 to 87.90 for Dec 17.
Boston wool sales were spotty with strong demand for domestic quarter-bloods and some South American lots selling at ceiling or near parity. New York and Chicago prices showed firm butter and dairy values with varied grades in creamery butter, cheese, and dressed poultry influenced by quality and market conditions.
Chicago markets saw limited buying with corn showing strength due to weather aiding farm feeds and slowing country movements. Wheat drifted lower amid profit-taking. soybeans rose slightly while Minneapolis cash quotes reflected mixed grain receipts and bid levels.
Stocks gain on strong volume led by bonds and rails while cotton remains quiet. Wheat holds near steady with profit taking offsetting mill buying. corn rises helped by weather. hogs advance to top 14.25 with meat price talk. cattle and yearlings steady to firm amid light run. Grain quotes include Corn No 3 yellow around 75 percent to 55, Oats No 3 white around 47 to 50, Flax No 1 at 259 to 263. Wheat No 1 dark northern at 1.10 in Huron market, with No 2 dark northern at 1.09 and No 3 dark northern at a similar level.
New York stock market recovered strongly with leaders up 1 to about 4 points and many hitting new highs for the year. Industrials led as steels, tires, motors, rubber and blue chips rallied while low priced issues boosted volume. Trading totaled around 1,300,000 shares with General gains maintained into the close. notable names include Boeing Air, Chrysler, DuPont, Eastman Kodak and Westinghouse among others.
Orville A. Cramer of Del Rapids South Dakota died in a hospital here from injuries after a fuel oil truck he drove for a Sioux Falls company was cut in two one mile west of Sibley. The eastbound passenger train was held three hours until a locomotive arrived from Estherville. Cramer leaves a widow and four children.
The Institute of Life Insurance and Huron underwriters group announce a standard life insurance inventory card for service members. It speeds up securing government allotments or relief under the Soldiers and Sailors Civil Relief Act, enabling up to 10000 in loans and government help to keep policies in force. The card lists data like policy number, issuing company, face amount, beneficiary, premium due dates, and loan status to ensure rapid handling by Army Navy or Marine Corps. Cards are available from any life underwriter in Fyran.
The Office of Price Administration says it will adjust fuel oil coupons in cold waves based on weather records for a 30 state area. Prime Administrator Henderson notes changes apply to entire heating period, not single cold spells, to compensate households when rations are insufficient.
Three Huron youths aged 13 14 and 15 were found in an Aberdeen hotel after running away from home. Held for Beadle County Sheriff John Boyle, they had been seen hitchhiking the night before and were suspected to be headed toward Seattle.
Washington dispatch reports Navy dive bombers attacked ships and installations at Munda on New Georgia Island in the Solomons, damaging one enemy destroyer or cruiser while Flying Fortresses destroyed 12 Japanese Zero fighters nearby. Also notes local club meetings for CO-OPERETTES and Huron Chess and Checker Club with arrangements for Friday evening.
Berk, a 59-year-old veteran theatre man and co-producer of Wine Women and Song, received six months in the penitentiary for involvement in an indecent revue. Judge Gwen W. Boban rebuked producers. Font and Shapira, both 44, were granted suspended sentences.
The Justice Department filed a criminal information in Newark New Jersey charging Proctor and Gamble Colgate Palmolive and Lever Brothers with fixing prices and other terms of sale. Each company and president pleaded not contest and were fined $10 000. The firms produced four-fifths of about 275 million dollars in U S soap products annually.
Funeral services will be held Friday at the Reformed Church for Mrs. Henman Tiggelaar sr 75 who died after a three week illness in Willow Lake. Survivors include husband one daughter Mrs Andy Mundhenker of Willow Lake four sons Casper Waubay Else Ipswich and Bert and Herman Jr of Willow Lake one sister Mrs B Busse Bartel ND and a brother H De Lang Hurles Burin will be made in Collins cemetery.
Despite bad weather, RAF bombers attacked targets in northwest Germany last night, with mines laid in enemy waters. One British aircraft was lost and one German Messerschmitt shot down. This marked the first raid on Germany since December.
A London source says Italian Premier Mussolini has stomach cancer. The diagnosis reportedly came from Adolf Hitler’s specialists who traveled to Italy by order of the Fuehrer after rumors of Mussolini’s illness. The informant notes the ailment began about four years ago.
Miss Dorothea Dunbar of Huron, daughter of Mr and Mrs O D Dunbar, advanced to the ping-pong tournament semifinals at MacMurray College after previously winning the badminton title. A sophomore majoring in physical education, she represented her school in Jacksonville on December 1.
Mrs Framstead, an old time Vienna settler, died at her home Tuesday evening. Funeral arrangements have not yet been announced.
With six days remaining in the Salvation Army Christmas drive, street kettles have cost 160.79 and Major Samsel reports 90 families have been checked for free food baskets. The campaign needs 500 to fund the aid, with schools collecting canned goods and boxes placed in schools while kettles stay out until 9 p.m. daily during shopping days.
A B 25 bomber carrying three crew members crashed into a power line eight minutes after leaving St. Paul airport. The accident occurred four miles east of Cottage Grove and fourteen miles southeast of St. Paul. The ferrying division of the air transport command at Long Beach California identified the first victims: Captain Percival R. Davidson, 23, of Louisiana. Staff Sgt Emil C. Leone, whose parents live in Thermopolis, Wyoming. Sgt John N. Lene, 23, of Duluth Minnesota.
Chicago writers describe Commissioner Layden saying semi pro players can fill wartime manpower gaps in professional football. He argues baseball uses its talent pool, and pro football could similarly recruit diamonds in the rough from the semi pro ranks to bolster rosters.
The Ware Manpower Commission outlines a drafted program for college training, with uniformed men under regular army, navy, marine corps, or coast guard discipline. The Navy phase allows 17 to 19 year olds to be inducted as apprentice seamen or Marines, while provisions cover transitions for enlisted reservists and continued education through ROTC units. Selective Service deferments may be issued for students pursuing critical occupations such as medicine, dentistry, veterinary science, and engineering.
Washington December 17 A Senate agricultural subcommittee criticized the American rubber mission sent to Russia. The group headed by Ernest W. Paitmanian includes Irving Murray and Willis Gibbons among others, described as inexpert in synthetic rubber. Dewey defended Murray as a great expert while Norris pressed for broader expertise and questioned dependence on Russia for knowledge of butadiene from alcohol.
Walter J. Matson of Huron announces candidacy for chief clerk of the South Dakota legislature. He previously served as chief clerk in 1931 and held senate and house staff posts in multiple sessions.
A jumble of brief classified items shows items for sale including head of horses two hundred heads of home goods and furniture with contact notes. Wording is fragmented but includes buyers seekers and rental offers with partial addresses and phone numbers. Continuous garbled text lists various wants and rents such as a two room apartment furnished and a girl for general work with few legible details.
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