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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1943
Page
2
Hog quotations show steady to unchanged figures across Armour's Stockyard in Huron with 23,500 hogs traded and volumes for cattle and sheep also steady. Prices cited include boasted ranges for butchers and sows, plus Western lambs and various weight classes, while Watertown Sioux Falls markets record mixed hogs and cattle results for December 28.
Sioux City market reports on cattle sales with prices for bees steers yearlings and cows and heifers. Ubiquitous figures show various lots and weight ranges with per hundredweight pricing in dollars and cents.
New York markets close with minor declines in leaders while bonds show mixed results. Cotton quiets after covering by recent sellers. Wheat up percent, rye down, hogs slow. Cattle steady with tops for fed steers and prime yearlings. Poultry and eggs hold varied prices delivered at Sioux Falls with butterfat at 49 or 47 cents.
Tuesday market summary from Chicago shows poultry firm with two cars and 15 trucks. leghorn chickens 24.3 cents, roosters 20 cents. Butter receipts 505,063 and prices unchanged. Eggs receipts 10,238 with unsettled totals and egg price at 22 cents. other markets unchanged.
Grain market ends mixed then recovers as rye leads a late rally. Wheat futures swing with May at 1.66 and July at 1.64, oats down about 14 percent, rye mixed, barley around 1.21. Prices quoted: wheat No 1 dark northern 1.46, No 2 dark northern 1.45, rye 1.06, barley 1.07.
Chicago reports hogs down except government weights, 27,000 hogs moved, tops at $23.75 with weights varied. Cattle and calves mixed, top $17 for four loads of choice yearling type. steady to weak overall. Sheep and lambs show steadier to higher tones, western and native ewes and lambs within $6.50 to $15.
Cattle sale Tuesday December 28 with 3000 head including slaughter steers and heifers fairly active and strong. Cows and bulls strong to 25 cents higher with stockers and feeders steady. Calves 2300 dealers fully active with high demand for good and choice feeder steers at 12 dollars. common and medium stockers 7 to 9.50. dairy cows unbanned.
Huron produce market price ranges reported to Evening Huronite show heavy breed and leghorn poultry with hens, roosters, and eggs listed. Butterfat prices vary by grade. New York prices for butter, cheese, eggs, poultry, and refrigerated goods are given for Tuesday December 28 with bid ranges and receipts noted. live and dressed poultry remain firm.
Watertown price list dated Tuesday December 28 shows varying figures for colored springs at 23, leghorn springs at 23, hens over 44 percent pounds at 21, hens under 4 percent at 18, leghorn hens at 18, heavy breed roosters at 14, leghorn roosters at 12, ducks at 16, geese at 17, henery eggs at 32, eggs No 1 at 28, No 2 at 23, butterfat No 4 at 50, butter fat No 2 at 48.
Mitchell Produce Tuesday quotation lists hens over four pounds at 20 cents Leghorn hens 18 cents Old roosters 15 cents Heavy cocks 14 cents Leghorn cocks 13 cents Heavy springs 23 cents Leg horn springs 21 cents Number one young turkeys 30 cents Number one old turkeys 26 cents Dux 17 cents Cheese 17 cents Number one eggs 34 cents Case run eggs 30 cents Butterfat 49 cents Sioux Falls Produce Tuesday Dec 38 Heavy hens four pounds and over 21 cents.
Wheat receipts today 364, year to date 261, cash market quotes show gains. Chicago futures closed higher with May wheat at 166 per bushel, July 164 and September around 163 to 164 . Oats and barley posted modest gains, rye held near 123 to 128, flax around 305. Closing prices for a wide list of stocks and commodities accompany the futures report.
Rome journalist for Dagens Nyheter reports 200 U S British and Canadian prisoners of war were hosted at a Christmas party by German commander Agne Hamlin in a Rome hotel. Prisoners, including Carl Johnson of Louisville Kentucky, received a meal of potatoes meat and white bread and a package with cigars and cakes.
J H Kiel 80 father of My D and G J Wiel of Huron died around noon today in a Huron hospital. He had suffered heart trouble and dropsy since last summer and had been a court bailiff in Sioux Falls for many years before moving to be with his sons. Surviving are two sons and two granddaughters Dorothy Kiel and Kathryn Ana Kiel.
A Chicago report cites a Republican poll ranking Thomas Dewey Verwert Hoover and Wendell Wilkie first to third in foreign policy popularity among GOP leaders. Others named include John Bricker Harold Stassen and Wendell Willkie as survey subjects. Corporal Glen Van Winkle arrives on convalescent leave from Guadalcanal and hospital stays. Fort Crook officer Cleo Treadwell returns briefly to visit family before resuming duty. Hospital adms and dismissals listed for local residents. Market figures for stocks and commodities noted.
In a South Africa broadcast Smuts urged an expanded United Nations led by a Big Four as a temporary postwar framework for peace and security. Neutrals could join. defeated powers would be cautious under guardianship until cured of dangerous obsessions. He warned against entanglements and sought sovereignty intact under an international authority.
Des Moines reports Gov. B. B. Hickenlooper called a special session of the legislature for January 26 to provide means for Jawans in the armed forces to vote in the 1944 elections. He fixed January 17 for special elections in non senatorial districts and six counties to fill vacancies in the legislature. Iowa absent voter law allows ballot applications no earlier than 20 days before an election.
Washington reports 750000 cases of canned peaches will be released from government stocks to augment civilian supplies. The War Food Administration said the cases will reach retail markets within weeks after an earlier November release of 800000 cases. The agency also indicated civilian supplies of dry beans and peas will be larger in 1944.
New York reports Time Magazine, owned by Henry Luce, has purchased a substantial part of a national radio system. Discussions suggest foreign news staffs from Time Life and Fortune could be made available to the broadcasting chain to expand new programs. The deal is expected to involve several million dollars.
The Daily Mail reports Prime Minister Churchill, possibly recovering from pneumonia in the Middle East, will address his views on the invasion command under General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Churchill has been active for over a week, shaping arrangements for the invasion and announcing Christmas Eve appointments.
Washington dispatch reports Representative Smith proposes revising the Smith Connally Act to add teeth and suspend union bargaining rights for a year if strikes occur without 3 day notice. The plan targets enforcement via the War Labor Board and reflects ongoing clashes over executive agency actions.
London reports Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder is appointed deputy to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, reinforcing air power for the European invasion. The lineup includes Montgomery Spaatz Wilson Alexander Paget, with no British naval commanders named yet.
MUNSEVIDEO Uruguay dispatch reports Brazilian expeditionary force of two divisions will depart for Europe in January. Brazilian ambassador Joao Baptista Luzardo says several Uruguayan farming officers will accompany as special observers.
Ruth Norby died yesterday at the sanatorium where she had lived for ten years. Formerly of Huron, she worked at Harms Music Store in Aberdeen and later in the sanitarium offices. Surviving sisters are Mrs Florence Coop Carlyle Ia Connie Talcott and Mrs Esther Kelly Sioux City and Mrs Alice Burger Mitchell. brothers Harold Norby Devils Tower Wy and Edwin Norby Huron. Funeral arrangements had not been completed.
Associated Press reports Japanese newspapers insist Rabaul must be held. Berlin radio says papers stress New Britain’s critical situation and fear Japan lacks enough aircraft to defend the island. Mainichi warns against deeming Rabaul too distant to matter, saying its loss would influence fighting on all fronts.
Rosary will be said at 8 o clock tonight at Kinyons Chapel for Mrs J A Kretchmer longtime Beadle County resident who died unexpectedly Christmas Eve shortly after 7 o clock. Funeral services will be held at St Martins Catholic Church in Huon on Wednesday morning at 10 o clock and burial will be in Riverside Cemetery.
Do Tand High School selects Edna Holmes as the DAR candidate for the national contest. Holmes, president of the senior class, was chosen for patriotism leadership dependability and service in the faculty judged selection.
The British navy reported the battleship Scharnhorst was sunk off Norway after a running duel with Duke of York and supporting cruisers and destroyers. Survivors were taken prisoner as the ship went down, with about 1400 aboard.
Boise Idaho Dee 22 Convicts in the Idaho penitentiary laundry struck for a day and a half last week over management concerns. The Idaho prison board recessed after laundry superintendent Howard Johnston said the men returned to work and would keep operating the plant which services two army air bases.
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