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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1942
Page
2
Hog prices held at 10.85 top while hogs 100-320 lbs sold mostly 10.50 to 11.20. Hogs salable 8,500 with market slow to steady, good sows 9.85 to 10.25. Sheep and cattle steady with good lambs above 12.10, feeder and stock calves around 12.25, cull grades 3.00 to 9.00.
Daily price range for Huron and Sioux City markets as reported to the Evening Huronite and Mitchell Produce. Poultry and eggs include hens over 5 pounds at 16 and 14 for 4-5 pounds, Leghorn roosters 7, butterfat grades up to 39, eggs graded henneries 32 and firsts 28, pullet eggs 19, and butter prices. Also listings for turkeys, ducks, geese, and current egg receipts.
Chicago market reports show hog prices steady to firm in moderate activity. Fed steers and yearlings weak to 25 cents lower. salable hogs 180 to 300 pounds mostly 11.25 to 11.55 with some up to 11.60. Cattle and calf offerings 4,000 head, general market slow and dragging, vealers steady, mixed bids on steers and cows. lighter weight lambs steady with several high quality lots.
Cattle trade on Thursday at St Paul Livestock shows price drops with slaughter steers 9.75 to 11.50, heifers slow, cows weak, stockers slow, dairy cows steady. hogs opening moderately active and steady with loads around 11.15 to 15 per hundredweight. sheep with limited lamb sales and fat ewes steady around 6.25, middling types about 4.50.
Sioux Falls livestock market Thursday shows 3 006 head across cattle with demand mostly slow, lower by about 11 00 per cwt on bulk cattle. Butchers listings hold steady with quotcs unchanged, Cade SN notes slow steady activity amid mixed demand.
Sioux City Iowa cattle sales show calf and yearling demand uneven. Slaughter cows and bulls weaken 10 to 15 cents per pound. Heifers and cows lower, feeders steadier but stockers less active. Most medium to good killing steers around 13.00 per cwt, light weights about 9.50 to 11.25, bulk common entries.
Watertown column lists January prices for poultry and eggs including white rock and Leghorn springs, heavy stags and hens by weight, roosters, ducks and geese. Hennery PRES 32 eggs No 1 30 No 2 22 pullet eggs 10 butterfat No 1 35 No 2 33.
NY and Chicago report mixed grocery prices with butter around 2 per pound, eggs firm, and cheese and mixed colors values fluctuating. Poultry in Chicago shows hens steady to firm, broilers and turkeys varied by weight. Sutter receipts strong and dressed poultry unchanged. regional notes cover Sioux Falls egg and butterfat prices.
In Boston today demand for domestic wools remained moderate. Fine combing Ohio denes were being removed in small quantities at auction or sale, with prices and totals not yet fully disclosed. This brief market note reflects a steady but restrained trading scene among buyers and sellers.
Markets overview shows stronger corn on good shipping demand and price gains. Hogs steady to strong with top around 11.55 as receipts run below last Thursday. Cattle weaken with large weights pushing prices down about 25, with steers in yard noted.
Soybeans strengthened by demand for oils amid wartime fears, posting a three-cent gain to reach the best level in about four months and within four cents of the all-time fall peaks. Rye rose to new highs since 1937, corn gained about a cent, and wheat and oats moved fractionally higher or unchanged as May contracts closed higher and June/July futures fluctuated across grains. Minneaplis cash close noted No 1 heavy dark northern wheat around 1.22 to 1.25 per bushel with various No 2 and No 3 lot prices and barley, oats, and rye quotations reflected in futures and cash markets.
Detroit defense plant workers threaten a 2 15 percent wage increase strike after city council rejected their demand. Leaders say a walkout could idle thousands of workers and disrupt transit. The union plans to meet tonight to frame an answer as the clock ticks toward a 4 a m deadline.
At the Pan American Conference in Brazil on January 22, Argentina's Enrique Ruiz Guinazu objected to a key phrase in the draft resolution on relations with the Axis. He approved breaking relations in principle but urged awaiting Buenos Aires word. The change from cannot continue to perhaps will not be able would soften the language defining a diplomatic break with Japan Germany and Italy.
AP broadcasts from Bangkok report Japanese forces in Burma are using elephants from Thailand for transport, aiding advances through dense forests and rugged terrain toward Moulmein. In Washington, Roosevelt signs laws boosting defense housing authorizations to 600 million and community facilities to 300 million.
Chinese air force launched an attack on an unidentified Japanese base in French Indochina, expanding the war into the occupied colony, according to official dispatches. The report notes the strike as the first such action into the area.
Related cauliflower, domestic cabbage, and kohl rabi are descendants of wild cabbage. They are modifications of the flowers, leaves, and stems, respectively.
Description notes the Royal Albert Hall organ as the world’s largest and finest, weighing 175 tons and housing 10,491 pipes. The text also lists a jumble of corporate names and percentages, seemingly OCR remnants from a separate chart.
Early uplift in rail stocks faded as trading opened, leaving mild irregularity. Carriers and industrials held modest gains into the close, but most advances narrowed and several issues finished lower. Volume ran around 400000 shares.
A list of company and corporate names with percentages follows, showing closing quotations or performance figures for firms such as Johns-Mann Allredcorp Kennecott Alls-ChMig LockhdAir ATAT NatDisthil and others. Percentages range broadly, with several entries in the single digits and dozens in the twenties and thirties.
South Dakota FSA outlines war time aims to mobilize resources of low income farmers for year round food production. New loans will reach previously ineligible families and funds will back Food for Freedom clubs. Group farming on machinery use and co op purchases will ease shortages while boosting dairy pork poultry and gardens for self sufficiency and wartime needs.
Mrs. Frank Bakeman announced that all knitted garments for the Red Cross should be turned in by January 30. Mrs. O. R. Whitney stated that completed layettes must be retired to the sewing room by January 25, with shipment planned for the latter part of the month.
A Pan American accord faces shifts as nations like Mexico Colombia and Venezuela join the talks. Argentina accepts a compromise while Chile seeks exceptions based on geography. The plan calls for mutual protection with a later step for approval by allied congresses and governments.
Washington January 22 three way compromise offered by senators to end the wartime price controls deadlock involves House Senate and President Roosevelt. Senate plans licensing of business a single price administrator and broad government power to buy and sell commodities to influence prices. Roosevelt expected to back Wickard veto power over farm price ceilings set by Henderson.
George E. Longstaff was installed as chancellor commander of Sure ruse Lodge Number 16 of the Knights of Pythias at the January meeting in the Labor Temple. Arnold officiated with Carl H. Weir W. vice chancellor and other officers installed. An active program for 1942 was outlined, with several membership applications to be considered at the February meeting.
Simple Glendale funeral for Carole Lombard follows chaste service with brief eulogy and organ music. Husband Clark Gable, Lombard’s mother Elizabeth Peters, and close friends attended, as in Las Vegas crash investigations unfold for 15 air corps ferry pilots and an army board to conduct inquiries.
The scrambled OCR text hints at defensive postures along the American coast during a wartime emergency. It references the west coast, anti aircraft systems, and mobilization of forces, suggesting a period of heightened alert and production strain. Details are unclear due to text garbling.
Surviving crewmen from the City of Atlantis and the Latvian ship City carried by torpedoes near the North Carolina coast recount a seven hour ordeal in the cold sea off North Carolina. Three Savannah men survived the wrecks, while Hubert Fennell Jr and George Tavelle, both from Georgia, were hospitalized.
British radio reported significant clashes between Albanian patriots and Italian troops in Albanian towns under occupation. The broadcast claimed hundreds killed and wounded, with about 200 arrests, as Italians maintained control of streets amid ongoing resistance.
A Singapore broadcast relayed by CBS reported an American flying fortress attacked several locations in the Archipelago with bombs and machine guns causing line damage. The tally of Japanese ships sunk since the war began was updated in the broadcast. Parachute drills at Chanute Field noted first lieut James C Reed's parachute failed to open during a jump while Chester R Smith completed a successful parachute jump.
Classified snippet lists multiple short ads including FOR RENT a newly decorated house with garage near Ohio SW, a ride to Los Angeles for three with February contact, FOR SALE a Small building suitable for a broader house, and various business names such as Jack's Mobile Station.
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