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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1943
Page
2
Hog prices slid 10 to 20 cents with overall weakness in Chicago and ARMOURP stockyards noting light and yearling cattle steadier. Sheep moved higher, while sows held firm. calves and stock cattle showed scattered gains and steady to lower trends across 6000 cattle and 800 calves surveyed.
Sioux City and St Paul auctions show mixed cattle demand with limited higher bids and steady to lower quotes. Cattle receipts near 2,700 at Sioux City with top butchers around 13.85 and 14.00 for select cattle. sheep about 4,500 head with late action and lambs trading around 14.0 to 14.75.
Sioux Falls market summary for Thursday shows hogs at 2,000 head with prices 23.75 top, bunk 12.50 to 13.70, butchers 13.00 to 13.75, sows 18.30 to 12.50. Market movement ranged from steady to ten cents lower across classes.
Daily market report from Huron and nearby towns lists prices for poultry eggs and butterfat. Mitchell, Watertown, Sioux Falls and New York shows varied prices for Huron produce items, with hens, leghorn stock, roosters and birds, eggs and butterfat. readers receive regional price ranges and daily summaries.
Chicago market notes live poultry firm on Thursday with two cars and 30 trucks. Hens and leghorn hens priced around 21 to 23 cents, broilers, fryers, springs at 24 cents, roosters 17, chicks 23, geese 24, turkeys 29.035. Butter receipts 374,702. eggs receipts 4,110. markets unchanged.
In Chicago trading, favorable war developments sparked liquidation of grains with heavy selling and wheat leading the downturn by more than a cent. Weak securities and cotton weighed on demand while traders awaited possible early peace in Europe. December, May, and other grain prices declined.
Minneapolis market report shows cash wheat receipts at 382 and 163 year age with trading basis up. quotes mostly lower across grades. No. 1 heavy dark northern 152. dark northern No 1 151, No 2 1503, No 8 148% 150, No 1 hard Montana 1542 15634. South Dakota 1533% 155%4. Minnesota No 3 dark hard winter 14992 150%. hard amber durum 149% 152%. No 1 red durum 149%. corn No 3 yellow 16042 102%4. oats No 3 white 74 78.
Markets at a glance note heavy stock movement with bonds lower and rails in supply. Cotton shows irregular trade with buying hedging and liquidation. Chicago wheat declines on war news and peace rumors, rye down, hogs weak, top 14.30 for weights over 230 pounds. Cattle mostly 10 to 15 cents lower, top 16.35.
Barley 105¢ and rye around 110 to 112 percent terms appear alongside flax No 1 at 80 2 305. Wheat futures show Dec 1879s to May 156 4 and July near 153 4. Oats and barley futures also listed with varied daily highs and lows across Dee and May contracts.
Stocks slumped amid panic selling as former President Hoover warned the Senate that the European war was in its latter stages. Early recoveries faded, prices fell $1 to $2 a share after midday, though turnover topped 1,000,000 shares for the second time since Sept. 20. Near the close, extreme losses moderated in spots while a brisk market remained, with notable corporate names and a late mix of gains and losses across many issues. A separate item notes the birth of Lynda Gayle, daughter of Lt. Keith Doner and his wife, born Nov. 3 at 8:48 am, in a Huron hospital, with the father serving in New Guinea. The page also recalls a 1942 football tie between Cornell and Penn State under Carl Snavely.
Alfred De Marigny testified in Bahamas supreme court that he was at home late on the night Sir Harry Oakes was slain near Westbourne. He said he drove guests, returned by 1:30 a.m., and slept until daylight, countering earlier timelines of the murder.
Republican Simeon S Willis led Democrat J L Donaldson as more precincts reported unofficial results in Kentucky's general election. Willis gained over 1000 votes in 100 precincts, with 208 precincts still unreported. Willis 263,799 Donaldson 257,311.
Funeral services for Mrs. William Wheat who died in a Huron hospital will be held Friday at 2 30 PM in the Weiler Chapel with the Rev Earl Longfellow of the Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. The Huron Chess and Checker Club meets Friday at 7 30 PM in the Odd Fellows Club rooms. The note recalls Igor I Sikorsky receiving the first helicopter pilot license in the United States on May 20 1940.
Allied cruisers and destroyers repelled a Japanese squadron at Empress Augusta Bay. US Navy reports say at least one Japanese cruiser and two destroyers sunk with American losses minimal. Halsey’s task force returned to base after the night battle near Torokina Point.
W. Peterson, a Huron lawyer, was wounded by a shell exploding from a hunting companion’s shotgun. Most shot struck his abdomen with scattered pellets in chest and neck. Witnesses say the automatic gun likely misfired while unloading. the party stopped in Wessington for first aid, then to a hospital.
The White House announced that President Roosevelt will deliver two radio addresses in the next two weeks. The first will be a 10 minute address from the White House around 1:30 a.m. CWT next Tuesday to mark the signing of the United Nations relief and rehabilitation agreement. The second speech, of unknown length, is planned for the night of November 17 on the New York Herald Tribune Forum.
The United States Steel Corporation announced the suspension of two more blast furnaces, bringing the coal strike related shutdowns to a total equivalent of about eleven plants out of operation. A company spokesman cited fuel shortages caused by the strike as the reason for the suspensions.
Allied air and sea assault devastates Japanese shipping at Rabaul, sinking or damaging 26 ships and 50,000 tons. Marines expand Bougainville beachhead at Empress Augusta Bay while Treasury Island forces scatter 200 defenders. General MacArthur calls the operation a flexing springboard for bolder moves toward Tokyo.
Deadwood dispatch reports La Verne Bell of Lead, 32, in serious but improving condition after a heavy calibre bullet struck him while dressing a duck Tuesday in Annie Creek area west of Lead. Keith Wood of Newell admits firing when he saw a duck, Bill was carried a quarter mile to a car and rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital.
In a resumed offensive after bad weather, American 500 plus heavy bombers and escorts attacked Wilhelmshaven, the main German naval base. The raid caused fires and heavy bomb loads, with 19 German fighters shot down and five heavy bombers and two fighters lost. Marauder strikes on French and Dutch bases added losses to the day’s toll.
At the hospitals admitted W C Peterson Huron medical Mrs Karl Clay Bancroft surgical Mrs K V Doner Huron medical dismissed Mrs C L Cameron and baby daughter Huron Mrs Joe Lar een Erwin Gene Hae Huron
The House appropriations committee unveiled a trimmed $215.37 million from a $1.196 billion catch-all bill, slashing 82 percent after overnight scrutiny. Key cuts hit the Navy stock fund, War Manpower, Education, Interior, and Treasury, with some agencies seeing entirely denied requests and others redirected funds. A rare boost favored the House itself, while broader programs including the Farm Security Administration faced significant reductions.
The Office of Price Administration filed suit in federal district court to halt Denver's two cent per quart milk tax seen as a subsidy for producers. Dairymen and rivals named as defendants. Judge J Vin es has not ruled on the temporary restraining order request.
Funeral services for Mrs. Jacob Lipps of Mendey were held at the Tae cock Methodist Church this Thursday at 2 PM. The Rev Mr. Miller officiated and the interment followed in Alwona Cemetery in Hitchcock.
Relatives and friends of farmer John G Gebhardt near Bitehead gathered at Merb idolist Church Thursday afternoon for his funeral service conducted by Reverend Miller. Burial followed at Alrao Cemetery. Tulare man fined 25 for improper plates. Lawrence Tubandt pled guilty and paid 25 plus 10 costs with 15 suspended. Local notices list farm, rental, and sale ads from Huron by various listings and employers.
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