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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1941
Page
2
Hog prices advance to a new wartime high amid light supply in Chicago and St. Paul markets. Cattle and sheep also show mixed moves with some classes steady or higher, while hogs remain strong across multiple livestock exchanges.
Huron market price ranges reported daily by telephone from 10 a m to noon show heavy springs and hens by weight class, Butterfat quotes, and hennery eggs. Similar listings from Watertown Mitchell Sioux City and Sioux Falls note prices for springs hens roosters ducks geese eggs and butterfat across several towns.
Chicago reports live poultry demand steady with young tom turkeys over 14 pounds weak while overall prices stay firm. butter receipts high and markets steady with butter around 26 to 28 cents. eggs in New York quoted weak with mixed colors and grades varying from 29 to 36 cents, cheese firm at 25 cents and up.
Chicago futures show butter at 32.25 for January with unsettled storage figures. New York market reports irregular poultry and unquoted dressings as fresh and frozen prices remain unchanged. live poultry remains firm.
A brief item from Boston on domestic wool markets. The report notes demand and prices, with focus on supply conditions and trading activity in the textiles sector.
Stocks mixed on selective issues in demand. Bonds irregular with narrow ranges. Foreign exchange quiet. Cotton quiet with buying for Laundation and sugar unchanged. Metals dull as civilian tin use to be cut. Wool tops steady. Chicago wheat and corn higher on short covering and strong demand. Hog futures active up 25 to 50 cents with top at 11.80. cattle steady to weak with yearlings strong.
Chicago market notes show wheat and soybeans posting modest early gains before closing mixed in a thin pre holiday session. Prices edged up briefly with wheat around a cent a bushel and soybeans up to two cents, but gains were pared by session end. Minneapolis reports separate futures, cash bids steady with slight increases and varied basis across wheat and corn bids.
New York stocks opened weak but later showed gains from earlier declines as traders bid up shares despite Japan’s advance in the Philippines and prudent holiday caution. Initial losses narrowed with some market sectors turning higher and broader indices improving modestly.
Governor Bushfield urged continued vigilance by South Dakota home guards over the holiday period. A War Department letter warned of Axis fifth columns during Christmas and New Year celebrations. The governor announced Guy Harding as state administrator and said rationing would pass through county defense boards upon OPA guidance. Harding runs an auto and accessories business.
Dutch bombers attacked a concentration of Japanese ships off Kuching Sarawak today and left one transport in sinking condition the Dutch official report states the action occurred in the Netherlands Indies area near Batavia on December 24
Ninety survivors reached Spreckelsville Maui after a 20 foot lifeboat voyage of nine and a half days from the Lahaina sunk by a Japanese submarine. Two crewmen died aboard the lifeboat and two more leaped overboard with one dying later. The 5646 ton Matson freighter was shelled near Kauai. Employes of Council Oak store in Huron received a Christmas bonus.
Admitted notes include Harry Anderson Ca vour medical Mrs Harold Wistrand Huron medical Gene Knickrehm Hitchcock minor surgical Mrs Nor ris Erickson Huron medical Mrs William Doland Huron medical and dismissals list L C Kemp Huron Joan Boston Wolsey Mrs Fred Davenhill Carpenter Mrs Rema Laughlin Lake Preston Mrs Cecil Abel and baby son Lake Preston Mrs C G Atkinson and baby daughter Harari. The rest shows closing quotations and dense stock listings for many companies and brands.
Civic representatives in Huron will gather Friday at 7 30 p m in the American Legion clubrooms to organize resident registration for the city defense program. City defense coordinator C H Christianson urges all organization heads to attend and notes some may not have been notified. Registration day Tuesday December 30 runs 9 a m to 9 p m with precinct sites listed for each ward.
Huron insurer operator H. Ward says he represents the Aetna Casualty & Surety Co and the Aetna Insurance Co not the Standard Insurance Co or the Actual fire Insurance Co. The AP dispatch notes the Standard name was used under Japanese control before being bought by Aetna last summer. Ward denies any connection to those companies.
The Huron Defense Council operating without funds seeks desks filing cabinets index files and other office fixtures for its City Hall office. In charge Harry S. Gifford says donations or loans are welcome and asks anyone with such items to call 2485.
Churchill and Roosevelt confer with Allied high commands in Washington on naval and air dominance in the Atlantic. The wartime council discusses strategic focus apart from supply issues as they anticipate a protracted conflict despite Nazi reverses in Russia.
Two Brookings County youths aged 14 and 15 face commitment to the State Training School at Plankinton after Christmas for car theft. Nine other juveniles were apprehended, and three more minors were arrested for stealing three cars. Six rural boys aged 6 to 13 were linked to placing 15 kegs of railroad spikes on tracks near Aurora. a train struck the spikes but no damage occurred. No charges yet filed.
San Francisco dispatch reports Captain Olaf Eckstrom of the Montebello praising his crew after the ship was sunk by a Japanese submarine off the California coast. He hopes the Navy will strike back, while other oil tankers nearby report submarine attacks and evasive maneuvers.
Services were conducted at the Kinyon Chapel at 2 pm for Clifford Anderson who died Sunday from accidental shotgun wounds. Burial followed in Wolsey cemetery. He is survived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Carl Anderson of near Wolsey, two sisters and three brothers living in Wolsey Huron Deer Lodge and Wolsey.
An intercollegiate dance to honor homecoming students, local business youth, and furloughed military personnel will be at Grace Episcopal Church parish house Friday evening from 8:30 to midnight. College students from other churches and soldiers are invited.
Reports from Hongkong claim British forces repulsed Japanese assaults in the southern island area while civilians and officers fortify isolated positions. Marines reportedly spearhead a counter thrust reclaiming ground near the center amidst heavy artillery exchanges and mountain terrain challenges.
A citizenship council organized under state director Ames E. Rogers with a five member committee chaired by P Glanter and including George Olson and A J Lang. Attendees included Olive Crawford Bert Wall and Jess Osmansen. The group aims to contact and assist aliens and those pursuing Americanization work.
Christmas scenes differ worldwide as fighting fronts limit celebrations. Jerusalem sees calls to prayer while troops buy olive wood mementos. Berlin lacks candles and markets. Germany’s packets are scarce. Manila enjoys provisions despite air alarms. Berlin’s markets fade as propaganda dominates. Mrs Julia I Howers arrives from Alhambra to visit daughter and son-in-law at 1180 Iowa South.
Classified notice seeking passengers in Seattle and driving east to Buffalo and Minneapolis. Notes two trips with space for three and two to three riders, contact methods, and partial pet descriptions. incomplete text includes names, phone references, and addresses in Huron Ohio and J. Box 205.
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