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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1944
Page
2
Market notes show yearlings at 13.00 to 15.00 and medium weights around 12.75. Hogs 200 to 359 pounds mostly 12.50 to 13.45. cows 8.00 to 22.00 with sows strong. Sheep salable 5,200 with fat lambs around 14.75 and 13.75 for good to choice fed. no activity on ewes or feeders.
Armour & Company imposes written permits for hogs with no permits before Jan 18. Cattle and sheep prices steady. hogs reported steady, market not established in Sioux Falls Wednesday. Prices listed: cattle from 8.50 to 15.75, hogs 400 head, others noted for grades and veal calves.
The record compiles daily market ranges from Huron, Chicago, New York and Mitchell produce markets dated January 5 1944. It lists butter eggs poultry and dairy prices with receipts and notes variations in firmness and unchanged trends across regions. It also includes Chicago grain futures and closing quotations for numerous industrial and commodity stocks.
Minneapolis cash close reports mixed wheat and grain quotes with No 1 dark northern at 16434 to 167, durums at 158 to 168, corn and oats hovering near flat, while New York stocks, bonds, and commodities show an overall upturn with cattle hogs and egg butter prices listed. Watertown and Huron region grains record varied No 1 to No 3 grades with dark northern wheat noted.
Chicago reports 18 000 fresh hog receipts with hogs 200 300 pounds at 13 75 top 310 340 pounds at 13 15 150 170 pounds 11 25 12 45 and sows 300 550 pounds 12 4 12 25 with an estimated 20 000 unsold. Cattle 12 000 calves steady to strong with best steers 13 75 16 50 and top 17 paid for heavy loads. stock cattle scarce and cows 10 115 lower. Sheep and lambs steady with lambs 14 25 40 50 and yearlings 13 25 with alfalfa offers mixed.
Hogs steady to mixed with prices around 11 to 13 dollars for sows and barrows. Cattle and calves show varied effects with steers mostly 9 to 15 dollars, cows and bulls in the lower to mid ranges, and calves steady to higher. Sioux City notes active trade for slaughter steers and yearlings with good and choice lines holding firmness despite thinner quality.
Heavy hens four pounds and over 21 cents. leghorn hens 19 cents. heavy hens under four pounds 19 cents. leghorn springs 24 cents. leghorn rings two pounds and over 20 cents. heavy cocks 15 cents. leghorn cocks 14 cents, all number two poultry four cents less. Number one young hen turkeys 33 cents and young tom turkeys 81 cents delivered at Sioux Falls.
Washington January 5 A new mustering out pay plan seeks to guarantee discharged servicemen an average minimum of 85 dollars a month for at least 12 months after release Rep Ploeser R Mo outlined details as the House military committee prepared to meet Tuesday to take final action on the plan Several proposals exist with a leading option offering a top payout of 360 dollars upon discharge
Miss Eleanor Keck is expected to arrive Thursday morning from San Francisco for a two day visit at the home of Dr. and Mrs. W. Keck. She is enroute to Washington D.C. to receive training as a Red Cross staff aide.
Lawrence Dennis a 59 year old war veteran and author pleaded innocent to a federal indictment charging conspiracy in a suspected sedition plot. He was released on 2500 bail for a hearing. Dennis born in Atlanta Georgia on December 25 1893 is a Harvard graduate and author of Company American Fascism. He said the indictments were a curtain raiser for Roosevelt's fourth term campaign and a move to end the two party system. He denied any fascist or Nazi group membership and said he is an isolationist.
Charles H Burke former commissioner of Indian Affairs and former South Dakota congressman is critically ill in Washington. At 92 he faces imminent death after a long battle with rheumatism and ulcers. His son Walter Burke of Pierre Iowa D Burke served as Indian Affairs commissioner 1921 to 1929 and chaired the House Indian Affairs committee. Burke's wife and daughter Josephine are at his bedside as son Walter travels from Pierre to be with him.
Danish author of anti Nazi books van Munck was found slain near Silkeborg in Jutland. Four now believed Gestapo agents visited his Vedersø home and abducted him before his body was found in woods near Silkeborg, headquarters of Nazi chief General von Hanneken.
An RAF commentator says Germany holds about 3 000 more frontline aircraft than a year ago, with most forces in western Europe. He notes no large Britain raids now due to strategic risk, but warns a possible forceful raid for political reasons could occur one night.
Ensign Merle W. Marshall and his wife arrived Friday night from Harvard where he attended school to visit his parents in Beadle County. Ensign Marshall later left for San Francisco to report overseas. County Treasurer plans noted, location SW NW% 7-109-64.
Washington reports the congressional farm bloc claims a partial victory over price controls on wheat and corn. The Office of Price Administration set hard wheat ceiling prices at parity while maintaining ceilings on flour and bread. Subsidies shift from farmers to millers, keeping consumer prices for flour and bread steady but risking higher costs if subsidies end. House bills to end subsidies move to Senate after recess.
Mary Crecelius, a Hitchcock resident aged 78, died at 2:30 Tuesday night in a Huron convalescent home after a short illness. Survived by two sons Herold of Redfield and Earl of Huron, a daughter Mrs. John Miller of Hitchcock, and three grandchildren. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
A Moscow broadcast quoted a Soviet commentator saying the Schweinfurt raid disrupted Germany's war effort and caused a catastrophic retreat on the eastern front. The report notes sixty U.S. bombers were lost in the October 14 Schweinfurt attack.
Jeannine Marie, daughter of Marion and Mary Kalahar of 430 Ohio Avenue Southwest, was born at 3:25 PM Tuesday in a Huron hospital weighing eight pounds four ounces. The second newborn, Gary John Meyers, son of Howard and Meyers of route 2, Huron, arrived at 6:55 PM Tuesday weighing eight pounds twelve ounces.
Dr. Howard Saylor Jr and Mrs Saylor of Minneapolis visited relatives here then left at noon for Camp Barclay Abilene Texas where he will report for service in the army medical corps with a first lieutenant commission.
The German press claimed that a large portion of factories bombed in western Germany have been rebuilt in Poland and are back in production. Pictures published by the German controlled Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau show plants built in Poland by the Modt organization.
Mrs. A. L. Owens of Missouri Avenue Southwest returns home after a six week visit with daughter Marieane in Richmond California and sister Mrs H E Crees and family in Oakland California.
In Washington a pro prohibition Representative condemns anti liquor aims as a tactic exploiting soldiers. Meanwhile Allied air forces press the Pacific war, with raids on Japanese bases from Paramushiro to Lam Pang and Pingka. Marines push at Cape Gloucester and Saidor as operations widen across the New Guinea and Marshall islands theaters.
Mrs. Emerson Hageman Ebba Elizabeth Berquist born February 25 1913 in Huron died at home 1126 Nebraska Ave SW after a two month illness. She married Emerson Hageman November 6 1939 and taught in Lutheran Sunday School. Survivors include husband two daughters aged three and ten months her parents four sisters and one brother. Funeral arrangements pending.
Funeral held December 29 in New Bloomfield Pennsylvania for Mrs Alice Mathilda Adams Rhoads age 59 who died Christmas night while visiting her mother Mrs Mary E Adams. She taught school in Pennsylvania before marriage to Simon Rhoads in 1920 and they later farmed near Cavour South Dakota and north of Huron. She was active in Presbyterian Church Willing Workers Good Will Veterans Auxiliary and survived by husband mother a Philadelphia sister and four Adams brothers. Burial in New Bloomfield Cemetery.
The Wednesday radio guide lists NBC programming including Fred Waring at 6:30 and Eddie Cantor at 8, with NBC offers Rep Peckwell, Mr and Mrs North, Beat the Band and Kay Kyser Hour among others. CBS provides Harry Jones Band, Monty Woolley with Sammy Kaye, Frank Sinatra Show, Jack Carson and Morton Gould Carnival. BLU and MBS sections note Melody in the Night and Battle of Sexes plus Xavier Cugat Orchestra and Arch Ward sports updates.
William Mellravey 78 bachelor died Tuesday at St Marys Hospital Pierre after long illness. He celebrated his 50th Mason anniversary and served as sentinel of Rising Sun Chapter and ruler of the local Masonic Lodge for over 30 years. He came from Nebraska in 1908. Funeral arrangements are pending.
Funeral services were conducted at Holy Family Catholic Church in Mitchell for Mrs. Mary J. Hilligoss 76 mother of L F Hilligoss of Huron. Rt Rev Msgr J M Brady officiated and burial followed at Calvary Cemetery. She died early Monday at home in Mitchell.
Funeral services for William James McMillan 74 were held with Rev Tschetter officiating. He died December 17 in Andover after being born October 16 1869 at Tabor Town and married November 24 1888 in Barlett Neb. His wife preceded him in death and he is survived by three sons and five daughters.
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