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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1944
Page
2
Hog prices jumped five to fifteen cents on Thursdays market at the Armour & Company plant in Huron amid permit suspensions for marketing. Cattle and sheep held steady. Watertown reports hogs ten to twenty higher with butchers at 11.00 to 12.50 and sows 12.00 to 12.50. sheep and cattle also show mixed gains and steadiness across grades and weights.
Chicago reports a firm to higher tone in hogs steers yearlings and cattle with gains of 10 to 15 cents on good and choice yearlings. Hogs up 10 to 15 cents across weights, with 200 to 270 lbs around 14.40. Cattle trade steady to strong, best steer runs near 16.60 to 16.75 with cows softer but good shipper cows steady around 12.60 to 13.50. Lambs and sheep show strong openings with western lambs and good to choice decks lifting bids.
Slaughter and feeder classes generally steady with steady to good quality. Cattle includes steers and heifers around 1200 to 1350 pounds, various weights and prices. hogs higher in many categories with top near 13.90, sows up around 19, lambs mixed with reported ranges and a 180 to 330 pound band noted.
Sioux Falls and St Paul livestock markets show higher prices for certain cattle and steady activity overall. Top hogs reach 13.85 to 23.05 per hundredweight, with sows around 12.50 and choices for fat lambs at 15.50 to 16.00, while heifers and cows largely hold steady and buyers remain cautious on lower grades.
Daily price report for Huron produce markets lists heavy breed stags leghorn stags and heavy hens with prices around 40 cents per pound. Butterfat eggs and extra eggs quoted in separate lines. Minneapolis grain futures and closing quotations echo broad market movements with numerous company names and tickers across the commodity and stock sections.
A wartime record shows about 20 000 passenger cars moved through one Montreal station on Canadian railways during August 1942. Timber wolves of North America, unlike European wolves, typically avoid humans. Canada leads export partners to the United States, with Japan ranking second before the war.
News roundup of regional commodity prices with New York Chicago Watertown Mitchell and Huron market quotes dated March. Includes butter prices around 463 875 and 293 789 receipts, eggs and poultry steadiness, and grain rates for wheat barley oats with No 1 to No 3 dark northern ranges.
Fifth Army troops press into Cassino amid heavy German resistance. Engineers report finding mined, hollowed buildings amid sea of rubble. Observers tally German casualties and massed mortars as the battle spills through the town and surrounding approaches toward Rome.
Roosevelt urges Finland to break from Nazi Germany in war, calling their alliance a hateful partnership. Britain joins in urging disassociation as Russia offers peace terms. Also reports a civil suit accusing 13 U.S. alkali manufacturers of cartel activity and a New York judge urging limits on fascist propaganda in the mails. A North Carolina Republican convention backs Dewey for the presidential nomination and Miss Bilbo abandons a plan to require all soldiers to swim.
London reports a BBC broadcast warned Finland of a pivotal choice in Moscow terms. Helsinki indicated parliament backed returning to the day’s order, signaling support for peace or war decisions amid Soviet terms. Stockholm dispatches expect Finland to forward a final reply to Moscow by weekend.
Chicago grain futures show May wheat around 171/2 with highs and lows near 16 and 17, oats around 61/2 to 81/2, and barley near 125 with Sept bids around 116. Minneapolis cash close notes wheat receipts 351 today vs 85 last year, with No. 1 dark northern near 1.64 and 1.63 for other grades, corn 1.09 to 1.11, oats 78 to 79.
Webster won the debate and Sisseton the extemporaneous speaking at the divisional speech tournament in Milbank. Webster debaters John Kildahl John Bailey and Joy Levy along with Sisseton’s Wayne Knutson will compete in the state tournament this weekend.
Allied advance HQ reported a new Japanese assault on Cannon Ridge at Empress Augusta Bay repulsed. Casualties exceeded 1,175 enemy dead since the March offensive, with US 87th Division using heavy guns tanks flame-throwers and bazookas to stop the sixth attempt over four days.
Rochester reports Harry Hopkins, close associate of President Roosevelt, will remain at Mayo Clinic for some time after arriving from Florida for a physical checkup following influenza. The clinic spokesman noted remaining tests and examinations beyond the planned completion date. A separate patient at St Marys Hospital is reported able to move about in his room.
Captain Robert S. Johnson of Lawton Oklahoma, America’s new ace of aces in Europe, shot down three enemy planes in a Brunswick raid yesterday to leap to 22 victories. A 24 year old former carpenter, Johnson earned his first German kill nine months ago and has since posted double scores on October 10 December 31 and February 20. His triple today surpasses Major Aiken Mahurin as the theater’s second highest scorer.
South Dakota Farmers Union officials will meet in Mitchell on March 23 to craft an postwar agriculture program for presentation to the Republican party. State president John Skage said James Patton will urge after-war farm policy before the GOP agriculture committee in Chicago on April 3. Conference leaders aim to combine proposals from Mitchell and Chicago meetings. speakers include Governor Sharpe and M W Thatcher. About 50 county leaders and state officers will attend.
Pierre March 16 purchase for 5000 dollars of Hartford Beach on Big Stone Lake for use as a game refuge will be presented to the game and fish commission March 22. Game Director Elmer Petersen said the department acted on a commission recommendation at a partition sale to settle an estate. The 40 acre tract is heavily wooded and includes nearly half a mile of shoreline with a creek draining into the lake and several buildings on the property.
Gordon Anderson of 431 Wisconsin Avenue Southwest was elected commander of Forrest McMullen Post No. 1776 Veterans of Foreign Wars at a Wednesday night meeting. Anderson is a World War II veteran. Other officers elected include Simon Rhoads senior vice commander A M Fuller junior vice commander AE Harrell quartermaster George Longstaff post advocate Dr. T J Wood surgeon C C Taylor trustees. Wayne Wilson, president of the building corporation, said the post home would be ready for occupancy in late April.
Major James Stewart, former Hollywood actor, led all Liberator bombers in yesterday's Brunswick raid from a U S bomber base in Britain. His 10th mission earned an oak leaf cluster for his air medal and he described the operation as it was all right.
Mrs. Anton Sprenger, 71, died Tuesday at her Redfield home. Funeral at St Bernard's Catholic Church Friday March 47 at 10:00 am. Burial in St Bernard's Cemetery. Rosary this evening at Coleman's Funeral parlors. Surviving are husband and seven children.
Medical and surgical admissions listed for several patients in Huron and nearby towns including Hur on James Westberg Mrs. James Westberg, Huron surgical, and others such as Harry A. Dewitte, Mrs. Robert DuBois Wolsey, Mrs. Lowell Van Pelt Lake Preston, Helen Tendayke Huron, Darlene Reimers Wessington Springs, Albert Volz Huron. Dismissals include Mrs. Ralph Jenson Heron, Cecil Hauck Wolsey, Lyle Freeman Alpena.
Rapid City reports snowburied ranches and towers across several counties. Army and private equipment mobilized under Seventh Service Command to clear highways. Livestock losses feared with three feet of snow and isolation lasting weeks. Trucks and plows opened routes toward Sturgis and Newell, while feed delivery and improvised sleds aided feeding grounds.
Mrs Ruth Gosgins Roosevelt filed suit in district court for divorce custody and one half of their community property. The petition says the pair separated around October 1 1943 while Elliott Roosevelt is with the army air forces in Europe. They have three children Chandler 9 Tony 7 and David Boynton 2. The couple met at a Dallas party after a rodeo and Roosevelt began divorce proceedings against Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt in 1933 at Miningen Nev. but she obtained a decree on a cross complaint. He and his current wife married five days later.
Oswald Jol Job, a London-born 53 year old of German parentage, was executed at Pentonville Prison for espionage. He planned to correspond with Nazis and have letters intercepted by German agents via invisible ink. He was the 14th spy executed this war, among four G ermans, three Dutch, two Finns and a Swiss.
Mrs Hugh Morris of Pierre former Huron resident died after a stroke Funeral services set for Saturday at 2 30 oclock in Fedua She is survived by several children including son John Morris a junior resident engineer of the State Highway Commission Funeral notices and small ads follow.
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