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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1944
Page
2
Hog quotations were steady to 25 cents higher on Thursday’s market. cattle lowered. sheep firm to strong. Chicago market notes slow hay trading, cattle slow, lambs steady. hogs mixed with lighter weights active near $13.75, most above holdovers. Sioux Falls and other western quotes show hogs steady to higher, cattle steady, sheep active.
Cattle and hog prices mixed across St Paul and Watertown sales on January 27. Steers top around 18.00, cows 11.50 to 16.50, hogs mainly 12.50 to 13.50 for various weights, lambs trading 14.00 to 14.50, yearlings and feeders steady, and calves showing solid demand in the day’s transactions.
Market reports from Huron show heavy breed and leghorn chickens priced from 14 to 22 cents, roosters 14 cents, and eggs and butterfat values listed. Mitchell notes hens over four pounds at 20 cents, roosters 15, leghorn 13, springs 23, young turkeys 30, old turkeys 26, ducks and geese 15, case run eggs 30, butterfat 49.
Watertown listing from January 27 reports varied poultry categories with counts for colored garings leghorn springs hens and roosters, plus egg and butterfat numbers. The fragment notes weights and categories like hennery eggs and eggs numbers, indicating a fresh market pricing snapshot.
Dress ed poultry firm and unchanged prices in New York as live poultry stays easy. Chicago market shows poultry firm with no car shipments and 25 trucks, market unchanged.
Chicago futures show wheat May at 170% to 1714 with entries across months and oats barleys with varied percentages. Minneapolis cash close lists wheat receipts 281 to 282, No 1 heavy dark values around 1.63 to 1.66, corn No 3 yellow at 1.09 to 1.11, oats No 3 white 79, flax No 1 around 3.05, with Sioux Falls and other produce unchanged.
New Haven January report quotes Mrs. Law wife of Walter W Law confessing he told her he committed the Rose Brancato slaying. She described his drunken outburst and urged her to see the body. Prosecution said no action planned as she had no legal obligation to reveal the information.
Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia told the New Jersey Taxpayers Association that inefficiency and disorganization in many government departments have made war costs at least twice as high as needed. He projected a $428 billion war budget under Roosevelt's request, contrasting it with World War I costs of about $40 billion, including Allied loans.
A compiled list shows trading quotes and percentage changes for many firms including AlleghCorp LockhdAir AlChDye Loewsine AllisChM MackTruck AmAirlines MarshField AmInternat MartelCo AmTelTel MiamiCop AmWoolpf MoontWard Anaconda NatDskyPro AviaCorp NYCentral BendixAvia NorAmAvia BethSteel NorPue BoeingAir OhiaGill BuddMfetie ButlerBros CalumierHee JCaseCo Celotax CerroDePas Chrysler ColgatPalmP ComSouth ComWthEd ConsCopper ComProd Curtiss Wrt CurtissWrA Deere& Co DouglasAir DupDeNem EastKodak GenElec GenFoods GenMotors GNitrOreCt GNRY pi GtWestSug Greyhound Homestake TntBusMach OliverFarm OtisEley ParamPic JCPenney PepsiCola PhelpDodge PhillipsPet Proc&Gam Pillsbury RadioCorp RepMotor's RepSteal ReyTebB SearsRoc Server StanBrand StanOilCal StanOilInd StanOmny StewWarn StoneWeb TruaxTracr Uaited Air UsGypsum USSteel UsSteel at WestUnion WestE Mig
War Secretary Henry L. Stimson announced that the two thirds of America's army will be overseas by year’s end, with many domestic camps closed and combat units reassigned. The plan doubles overseas forces as of 1943 and shifts from defense to offense, returning civilian installations to civilian use and placing more facilities on caretaker status. Enlisted men under 30 will be reassigned first to overseas service, followed by those over 40, with exceptions for prior overseas service and highly specialized skills.
Senator Millikan of Colorado denounced Congress overriding states rights to elections as revolutionary usurpation. He warned a war ballot plan could depose the president and abolish elections, while debate continued on a federal service vote allowing armed forces to vote for president and other offices.
Nine month old baby dies of malnutrition prompting investigation near Buffalo. Autopsy reports not an ounce of fat. Cottage home houses the baby and two other children with minimal food and no beds. Mother Alice Cook 21 sister Catherine Magyar and Magyar’s three children present. Authorities notify Children’s Aid Society and plan mayoral inquiry into local conditions.
AU United Kingdom base January 27 Captain Jimmy Stewart once of Hollywood and head of a liberator bomber squadron rejected a promotion to major saying he would not advance until his junior officers are promoted. His refusal follows a quiet arrival and a press conference two months earlier. Stewart piloted three raids as squadron commander and is praised by fellow fliers for his performance though he avoids headlines.
Firemen entertained over 125 attendees at a Wednesday banquet in the IOOF Hall. Toastmaster Carl Gibbs introduced Sioux Falls Fire Underwriters Inspection Bureau manager E. McLaughlin plus guests Sanford Herberg and George Burt from Pierre, Fire Marshal Henry Waller, district marshal John Wooley, Mayor J S Tschetter, and City Commissioner A Chamberlain. Fire Chief Goethe and Beadle County War Loan chair George Chitty spoke on bonds and defense efforts as three films on Alaska training and the Sctlian attack were shown. Dinner was provided by the Rebekah Lodge.
Otto Haag of Tulare died Wednesday in a Huron hospital after treatment. He was 64 and ran a Tulare drug business for years, served as constable, and belonged to the Modern Woodman Lodge. Survivors include his widow, three sons Harold Milton Robert of Tulare, three daughters Mrs Willis Boyd of Tulare, Mrs Victor Hameson and Mrs Delbert Otto of Omaha, with one infant daughter. Funeral plans are tentatively set for Friday.
Wayne Louis Goheen two month old son of Mrs May Goheen of Morningside Addition died at 5 yesterday morning from a flu pneumonia illness. He will be buried at Fr Thompson either today or tomorrow.
Mrs Hattie Satterlee died last Friday night at her daughter Mrs HL Mahler's home in Hot Springs. Mahler, the former Grace Land, and her mother had lived in Huron until a few years ago.
The Office of Price Administration posted two point boosts for most beef lamb and veal cuts effective Jan. 30 with higher prices on many pork and cheese items. Butter remains at current levels while lard rises to three points a pound.
Washington January 27 Granted a new appropriation of seventy five thousand dollars. Chairman Dies of the House committee on un American activities today opened a program of investigations into the CIO the Peace Now organization the United States Civil Service Commission and the Japanese. Since its beginning six years ago the committee has investigated activities of Communists Bundists Nazis Fascists Falangists and other groups.
William Coffey of Cottage Grove Wisconsin, formerly of this area, died Sunday after an operation. Survived by widow and four children, mother Mrs Kate Coffey of Cottage Grove, three brothers, four sisters including nurse Marisa in foreign service. Funeral held there Wednesday. Local relatives attended.
At area hospitals George Diekhoff Wes sington minor surgical Peter Gross Huron medical Gale Wicks Day Renter medical Harlowe Bartha Alpena minor surgical Mrs Paul Bittner Huron medical Lola Edel znan Huron surgical Mrs William Eykamp Lake Preston minor surgical A H Wessel Huron surgical Mrs John Davis Alpena medical Jeannette Burgeson Huron minor surgical Dismissed Marvin Burger Cavour Wootrow Jones Kuron Huron Mrs Don Zerfess Wes sington Earl Fisher Cavour Mrs Harry Baseley Huron A marriage license issued for Donaven L Burke 22 Aber deen and Hazel Howell 38 Aber deen Parents Mr and Mrs John Van Camp 378 Utah Avenue Southeast are the parents of a daughter born at 7 05 Wednesday evening Jan 26 in a Huron hospital The baby weighed six pounds 13 ounces and was named Linda Kay.
Multiple sale notices listed for Gulbranson piano White Rock spring pullets Bruemmer home 628 Oregon S E and farm properties near Huron Orla Jacobsen advertises 160 acres $22 per acre and 160 adjacent at $11 per acre plus several houses and a used typewriter repair service in Huron Samuel Birks also featured plus phone contacts listing bargains and terms
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