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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1943
Page
2
Chicago reports hog prices slumped due to a surge in supply while cattle and lamb sections show mixed to steady gains. Hog weights 200 270 pounds steady around 13.75, light weights and sows weak, cattle trading firmer with steers near 14.50 to 16.50 and heifers up to 16.25, calves and stockers mixed as buyers hold back.
Daily price range for Huron area markets reported to Evening Huronite by telephone. Listings show various poultry and egg prices for Huron Leghorn springs and heavy breeds, butterfat, and egg grades. Also includes Watertown Mitchell and Sioux Falls prices for hens, roosters, turkeys, ducks, geese, and eggs with different weight classes and standards.
South St. Paul livestock market on Wednesday showed cattle steady with cows strong and bulls steady. Prices ranged with yearling steers near 16 dollars, heifers mostly 7.75 to 10.50, calves 11.50 to 13.80, hogs 10 to 13.75 per hundredweight and sows around 12.25, sheep with little early activity.
Sioux Falls livestock sale Wednesday lists hogs about 1,500 head with top 13.60 and bulk 12.35, other bids 13.00, sows at 12.00. Cattle around 300 head offered, steady with unchanged quotes. butcher market not shown, sows steady at 12.00.
Sion City Livestock in Sioux City Iowa reports cattle salable 3,300 and calves 50. Slaughter steers active and firm, heifers little changed, cows strong, stockers and feeders steady. Prices: good and choice fed steers and yearlings $13.00-$15.25, 1,180-1,440 lb beeves $15.90, short fed $12.00, medium and good heifers $12.00-$14.00, 850 lb weights $15.00, cows $8.00-$12.00, canners and cutters $6.00-$7.50, medium to good stock steers $10.25.
Chicago reports profit taking spurring a broad drop in grain prices as wheat, rye, oats, and barley slipped during the session. December futures showed declines of about two to four cents across wheat and rye while oats and barley posted smaller losses. Trading was restrained in anticipation of potential international developments over the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Huron grain market lists Wheat No 1 dark northern at 1.41, No 2 at 1.40, and No 3 at 1.39 with minor scrawl text noting 97-1 05. No further context or entities beyond grain grades and prices are clear.
Basler Nachrichten dispatch from Chiasson says Pope Pius XI has undertaken mediation between Germany and the Allies. No independent confirmation from diplomatic or church sources. Italian Catholic circles quote the pope increasing his diplomatic talks with German, British, French and American envoys to the Holy See.
Chicago dispatch reports an American flier in China stating US air fighters were shooting down ten Japanese planes for every one American loss. Lt. Wayne Aberle wrote of over 125 missions and a B-24 squadron shooting down more than 40 Zeros before dying in action on October 28.
Admitted to hospitals are L. J. Hawkins Plankinton minor surgical Lydia Engel Wolsey minor surgical. Dismissed are George Schroeder Huron Mrs Oscar Dietrich and baby Alpena Mrs Ariel Ochsner and baby son Alpena John L Kohler Iroquois.
A thief broke into J E Kelly's Grocery in Charlotte and stole 29,000 ration stamps all of which had expired last Saturday. Police reported no further details and began an investigation.
All market quotations listed on the page were released Wednesday. All commodity and exchange markets are closed to Ys.
Sioux City Ia Nov 26 Three crew members of a 10 man bomber were killed when the four engined plane crashed in a field five miles east of the air base during an emergency landing at 1145 p m. The other seven crew members escaped. Names withheld pending next of kin notices. An Air Force board investigates the crash cause which remains undetermined.
Funeral services were held at the Reform Church at Willow Lake for Andrew Tellinghuisen 59 who died November 21 at his home. The Rev Schoon of Herman Minn officiated and burial was in Collins Cemetery. Born November 21 1884 in Grandy County Iowa he married Annie Mundhenke in 1907 at Sibley Iowa. He was a member of Emanuel Reform Church and served on the Consistory for 12 years. Survived by wife five sons Wilburn George Harold Duane and Alan all of Willow Lake one daughter Mrs Grace Lundy of Santa Monica California two sons Hiram Augustane and Sylvester preceded him in death, plus his mother two brothers and one sister, all in Sibley Iowa.
Frank W. Hancock the new Farm Security Administration director says farmer owned land will grow the nation’s crops. He urges Senate approval of 6.5 million dollars in supplemental farm funds and 37.5 million dollars in FSA loans via the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He advocates graduated borrower independence and repayment over lavish gifts.
Funeral services were held Wednesday morning at the Community Church in Blunt for Roy L Kneisel 54 manager of the Peevey Elevator who died Saturday night at his home of a heart attack Interment was in the family burial plot in Estelline where his parents are buried Kneisel had 35 years in the elevator business across Montana and the Dakotas He had managed the Blunt Peevey elevator since July 1946 Survived by wife Jennie and three daughters Ruth Juleen Lucille Holcomb and Marcia Mae
Swedish reports say Berlin Zoo elephants and bears escaped during Monday night raids were hunted and shot in Tiergarten Park by guards with machineguns. Travelers arriving from Berlin report widespread destruction with many buildings destroyed in the devastated capital.
Reports from the Berlin air raid recall the city as transformed into a hell of fire yet note limited hysteria and little panic. An eyewitness described four people leaping from a fourth floor near Kurfuerstendamm as their clothes caught fire.
American and British air forces aided the Eighth Army on the Sangro front despite heavy rain that grounded many warplanes. Thick weather did not prevent close air support targeting enemy gun positions dumps and other strongpoints, contributing to the offensive across the lower Sangro River.
On November 25 the Monday Night Ramblers gathered at Clara Eaton's home in Alpena. Players filled two tables with Chinese checkers in a casual social meeting.
Senate military committee blocks promotions of 14 top officers amid Patton incident debate. Patton and Somervell linked to possible chief of staff role as Marshall’s successor looms. Separate items note anti subsidy push for retail price control and a nationwide FBI manhunt for the Throneberry brothers, plus a new inquiry into Canada oil venture costs led by Senator Truman.
London reports from Page One recount a Nazi proclamation broadcast claiming the will to win remains unshaken. Adolf Hitler reportedly sheltered during a raid but left Berlin the next day as city damage and casualties continued.
In Hampton Iowa a restaurant counter case displayed a shotgun shell box with a For Sale sign. Town hunters, facing shell shortages, watched as the proprietor fetched a full box of 12 gauge shells and sold them to an out of town sportsman. Local townsmen were astonished by the sale.
Former French president Albert LeBrun is reported seriously ill in the village of Vizille near Grenoble. The Paris dispatch notes the illness was confirmed by Spanish press sources.
The income tax would rise the normal rate from 6 to 10 percent and the earned income credit is dropped. Excise tax on whisky climbs from 6 to 10 per proof gallon with increases for beer and wine. Pari mutuel betting on horse races would be taxed. Phone service, luggage, coin, pool tables and light bulbs face higher rates. Airmail and in town mail costs would rise. Corporate excess profits tax would rise from 0 to 95 percent.
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