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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1943
Page
2
Armour Stockyards Huron reports Thursday hog prices steady to weak with top for choose lightweights at 13.50 per hundredweight. Cattle and sheep prices varied across grades with bid ranges cited from Chicago and Sioux City markets.
Market notes from Huron and neighboring cities list price ranges for heavy and leghorn poultry, roosters, ducks, geese, and eggs. Prices show varying weights for heavy hens, stags, and roosters, with butterfat, egg grades, and cream prices noted in several regional markets.
Chicago reports a firm undertone as wheat gains limited support from fair flour business and light overall trade. May wheat at 14654, July 247, corn unchanged at ceiling, rye up 1, cash markets show mixed No 1 commodity quotes while durum prices edge higher.
New York parties show some rally as Gen Saecot improves organization rails. Cotton prices firm. Chicago markets report mixed with light trade, hogs steady to 10 higher, top at 15.50, cattle firm with fed steers around 217.00. Grain quotes include oats 58 4 to 61 1 2, barley 78 1 03, rye 82 86, flax 305 to 311.
New York traders snap three-day slide as turnover tops a million shares. Leaders climb with steel, rubber and specialty shares advancing. midday optimism grows with most groups in a broad rally and closing quotations show gains across many firms including Boeing, General Motors, Chrysler and Radio Corporation of America.
Secretary Wickard says the government recapture clause is unnecessary and will be removed from farm machinery purchase agreements. He told Senator Millikin that farmers must use the machinery fully but will not have to agree to the recapture provision.
The World Day of Prayer will be held Friday at Fa? Bem Baptist Church with Mrs. Joseph Gray leading assisted by church representatives from the area. Georgia Harkness of Garrett Theological Institute and Mrs. Benjamin E. Kays of Morehouse College are noted as contributors. The event is sponsored by the United Council of Church Women and local churches will hear a joint hymn. The public is urged to attend.
President Roosevelt told a lunch audience that United Nations are on the offensive and that lend-lease and reciprocal aid forge unity to win the war and secure a just lasting peace. Litvinoff and Halifax praised lend-lease, while Dr Soong urged more aid to China.
The report says Chiang Kai-shek's forces halt the northern arm of a Japanese pincer at the Yunnan Burma border while countering across the Yangtze between Kiangling and Yochow. Chinese spokesmen note 55 000 Japanese troops on the frontier and the buildup of air bases near Kwangchowan Island for strikes against Allied airfields in southern and eastern China.
Farmers at a Bennett County meeting condemn Congress for backing away from incentive payments in the 1943 farm production plan. They warn reduced bean plantings and pledged crops unless federal policy is clarified and funds are approved. Farmers recount 1942 output and urge action to meet war food goals.
The National Resources Planning Board presented Roosevelt with a postwar plan and a social security program. It calls for war time restrictions to continue after hostilities end, government partnership in key industries, rail consolidation, and expanded labor rights. It envisions work for all, universal education access, social insurance, and essential public services, with administration of unemployment benefits under federal control.
James N Jacobson plans Navy V-5 flight training announced by Lt Cmdr G B Macdonald at the naval aviation cadet selection board in Minneapolis. Ensign Gerald Snedigar transferred to Floyd Bennett Field ferry command. Mrs Snedigar to New York City apartment. Pfc Lloyd W Dezarn Jr promoted to corporal at Ft Snelling. Robert Fuller in Army training Fresno California. Local notices include fire department trucks test and rummage sale at Congregational Church.
Madison Chamber secretary G. HB Dibble testified at length in an NLRB hearing on charges of anti union activity by the chamber and owners of a packing plant. Chamber officials contended union actions were not chamber acts and that no chamber meeting opposed the AFL.
Admitted list shows Donna Mae Schmidt Yale Mrs Thephens San der and Howard medical entries, Mrs Glenn Attwooll Huron medical, Mrs Joe Wipt Huron medical, Gil Gilbert Woonsocket minor surgery, sir George Bartsch Huron meds, Mrs Nevada Nelasa Boron vs MC Stoneking 5 Haar daughter Huron and baby, and unclear outlet Great Salt Lake reference with British cars and British context.
College officials led by Dean C. H. Fisher announced a delay in the air program as a shipment of training equipment arrives late. Negotiations cover four Link blind instruments tied to advancing flying students at Huron College, with expectations that the hold will ease soon.
The RAF reports a relentless bombing campaign in Europe with over 10 000 tons monthly causing ruin to more than 2000 German factories and leaving many Germans jobless. Essen sustains heavy damage likened to Cologne in May raids as US bombers join the effort.
The speaker described regional drive goals, including early and extended service payments, and a special service division to address church, education, and public safety needs. Emphasis shifts to floating and flying more ships and planes, tougher scrap collections, and broader home-front cooperation as war demands evolve. New officers and directors were elected at the meeting chaired by Tom H. Luby with entertainment by student choirs.
Classified notice seeking a Fi2 Farmalt cultivator in Sand Creek township near Alpena South Dakota. Contact Max Royhi in Huron by phone or mail to arrange sale or rental.
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