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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1943
Page
2
Hog market steady to 10c lower with top butcher prices around 14.15 in Armour Stockyards Huron. Chicago and St Paul reports show continued large hog receipts pushing down early highs, with under 180 lb hogs weak, and cattle and sheep mixed with varying steady and weak trends across the midwest market reports.
Sioux City cattle market notes for Wednesday show 3 700 calves salable and various categories with steers yearlings and cows. Fed steers and yearlings range around 18.75 to 16.00 dollars with choice to medium prices from 13.50 to 12.25 for heifers. demand described as steady to easy for different classes.
Markets report Huron produce prices and hours for price reporting by telephone. Also listed are Chicago New York Mitchell and Sioux Falls price levels for poultry eggs butterfat and live poultry with quantities and per unit figures for various weights and categories.
Watertown market report lists produce and poultry prices for October 20. includes weights from 214 lbs for heavy springs to 47 for shewer ry eggs, with no. 1 eggs at 39 and butterfat at 50.
Wheat fell about a cent as demand faded and selling grew after President Roosevelt voiced support for subsidies to control food prices. Rye weakened more than a cent while oats were mostly firm then eased. Corn movement pressured grains. oats bucked trend briefly. December wheat settled around 1544 153 153, rye 1154, oats 4 to 6 higher. Barley down about 56 TM%.
Minneapolis market notes list wheat receipts at 357 today versus 260 a year ago. Cash grain quotes show minor changes with No 1 heavy dark northern at 148% 149% and No 2 147% 148% while No 3 sits around 1484 147. Mentana No 1 hard quoted at 152%.
Markets at a glance show steady stocks and gains in specialities while bonds appear robust. Wheat declined with east coast selling, corn movement unchanged, hogs strong with weights over 180 pounds topping 14.75. Cattle steady to strong with active trading. grain prices and durum and rye values listed for various states and grades.
New York stocks edged higher with communications shares and several industrials posting notable gains as the market held a steady undertone. Eastern utilities and oils led minor advances, while some high priced groups fell back. volume ran about 550,000 shares with Western Union and postal stocks among the movers.
Hollywood reports Tarzan actor Weissmuller faces a third divorce as his wife Mrs Johnny Weissmuller reveals they separated two weeks ago and will sue next week for incompatibility. The couple married four years ago and have three children John Scott Wendy and Heidi. Mrs Weissmuller is the former Beryl Scott.
Sprague Hospital Association submitted a 12500 bid for the vacated Washington school building in Huron en route to hospital facility expansion plans. Dr. J C Shirley announced the Huron Board of Education accepted the bid. The school, closed August 1939 for low attendance and upkeep costs, had been eyed for a hospital conversion previously.
United States heavy bombers supported by Thunderbolts and Spitfires struck targets in western Germany today. A small force of German raiders dropped bombs in eastern England last night triggering London’s fourth straight night alert. Four killed in a London suburb and 12 more buried by debris were rescued alive.
Huron Lodge No. 444 Elks reports 118 of 630 members in the armed forces. Madison district Deputy grand exalted ruler H. H. Holdridge led a visit, with Roy Doherty of Rapid City and several initiates named. Tom H. Luby presided over the initiation and lunch followed.
The attorney general's investigation division assists Jackson County officials in probing an apparent attack on an 18 year old Washabaugh County Indian girl. State's Attorney Harold E. Colby reports she was found semi conscious at an oil station in Kadoka at 2 30 a m Sunday and could not relate the circumstances as the case remains under investigation before she returned home.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Peterson will be at 2 pm Thursday at the American Lutheran Church with Rev. Sander Tollefson officiating and burial in Riverside Cemetery. Friends may view the body tonight at Welter Chapel from 7 to 9. Pallbearers include Fred Erlandson, Art Swanson, Henry Lembke, Huron Pacorre Walking ton, De Smet, and T. J. Horine Sioux Falls.
Polish telegraph agency said German soldiers killed 40 people in Warsaw last weekend claiming retaliation for fatal injuries to German troops. The report notes a woman among those held and mentions other regions including Burma Thailand and the Andaman Islands in the broader dispatch.
Wendell L. Willkie outlined foreign and domestic policy while facing a sharp question session with freshmen Republicans. He signaled continued interest in the 1940 nomination, stressing strong postwar international cooperation and straightforward stances, with future stops in Syracuse Boston and New Jersey for campaign events.
CHUNGKING October 20 Japanese troops are halted at the Salween River on the Yunnan Burma front. They push along the west bank in bombardment and close combat as Chinese forces repulse a crossing attempt. A Japanese column split into north and south lines from Luku. Stilwell’s command noted American air strikes near Luku.
U S Weather Bureau meteorologist B R Laskowski reports Tuesday night’s gale in Huron peaked at 52 miles an hour, a mild breeze compared with a 100 mph tornado. He notes winds are not unusual, with May winds fringing 54 mph last year and over 60 mph in the past decade. a gust reached 64 mph briefly.
SALT LAKE CITY Oct 20 A posse entered snow covered mountains at daybreak to retrieve the frozen bodies of Utah s ninth and tenth fatalities in the four day old deer hunting season. Nine other hunters were wounded and two are missing. One missing hunter William Hunter 25 of Pleasant Grove was found late yesterday with both arms frozen around a tree and rushed to a hospital at American Fork.
Major Austin F. Lytle of Redfield reports a transfer back to the South Pacific area. He has served as operations manager at Fairfield Suisun Airbase in San Francisco since returning to the United States last spring. His wife, employed by Northwest Airlines in St Paul, is with him in San Francisco this summer before her return. He received a September promotion in the Army Air Corps.
Mrs Margaret Carato killed in a car crash near Torrington Wyoming. She will be returned to Cavour for funeral and burial. Born August 20 1914 in Perkins Iowa she is survived by her parents James and Mrs Maguire of Cavour and her husband George Carato. Also reports Yukon crash Kills 11 Alberta. U S Army Air Force said eleven officers and men died in bomber crash in Yukon Territories the following day two more died in rescue plane crash. Names withheld until relatives notified.
Russian dispatches report continued Soviet advances south of Gomel with encirclement claims of a major German defense line in White Russia. Russians say they swept Germans from the Dnieper Sozh triangle and extended bridgeheads west of the Dnieper near Rechitsa, with alleged mass German casualties and warnings of brutal population deportations and executions in Ukraine ahead of potential extermination.
Samuel Blue lived in Iroquois died at home last Saturday. Funeral held Tuesday at Methodist Church with Rev. W. J. Stevenson. interment in Iroquois Cemetery. Born Morrison January 6, 1885. lived in Sioux Rapids Parker Iroquois. Survived by two sons William and Delbert, wife Anna Marie Zeller died 1932, brother Wilford, sister Mrs Lester Brookens, two granddaughters.
Allied forces report stronger German resistance along the Eighth Army front with fresh troops. British divisions advance up to seven miles, while Fifth Army air and ground units support renewed drives from Capua toward Castiglione and Formicola. Germans retreat by mined routes, minimizing prisoner captures.
Washington March 26. The House faces a drawn out fight over a bill to admit Chinese to citizenship with born rights limited, while wartime diplomacy and lend lease issues stir opinion. President Roosevelt backs the measure amid broader debates on federal subsidies and economy versus taxes. The election law reform and soldiers vote rights spark clashes between state and federal roles. The Senate plans a probe into communications and foreign restrictions affecting American companies.
The Senate approved by 30 to 4 a measure aimed at preventing racial discrimination in use of school funds amid opposition from Southern senators who favored amending the bill. The amendment, sponsored by Senator Langer, would withhold $300 million yearly school aid if discrimination occurred. In hospitals, Grace Wessels and others were admitted or dismissed for various surgeries and conditions.
Short but busy classified column listing WANTED and FOR SALE items, plus LOST notices and a rental offer. Entries include WANTED TO RENT modern homes, FOR SALE refrigerators and cars, LOST wedding ring and ration book, a ride offer to Portland, and small household goods. Several phone numbers and addresses appear throughout.
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