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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1944
Page
2
Market report from Armour Stockyards Huron and Chicago including Sioux City Sioux Falls lists hogs steady and active, cattle and sheep mostly steady. Reports show hogs 14 75 to 15 00 per cwt, top steers near 18 00 with wide ranges, lambs at 14 00 to 14 85, and varied prices across Sioux City and Sioux Falls markets.
At St Paul market September 13 buyers see 4 109 cattle with general steadiness for slaughter stock. Medium grade steers 15.00-17.25 with loads to 17.65. heifers 11.00-13.09. cows 10.50-12.00. vealers 23.00-15.00. Hogs 4 800 fully steady with barrows 14.45 and sows 13.70. feeder pigs 106-140. Sheep 6 606 trend higher later in day. three loads 90 lb from Washington City death to market.
Markets from Huron show price ranges for heavy hens over 4 1/2 lb light and leghorn breeds. Chicago Dairy and Poultry data list butter eggs and fresh poultry prices, while New York reports wholesale poultry and dairy quotes and cereal futures with receipts and standard grades.
Chicago Sept 13 report shows grain futures with declines in wheat values for No.1 No.2 and No.3 dark northern grades. Prices for rye oats and other listed grains appear unsettled as traders scan market movements.
EMICAGO September 13 unsettled trading with wheat firm on broad short covering and limited offerings. Oats and rye weak as trading volume lagged. government support influence noted. Minneapolis cash grain shows mixed results with No 1 dark northern wheat around 1.51-1.52 and various red durum prices.
The market dipped with many leaders down by fractional amounts while a few industrials held gains. Around 700000 shares traded as closing quotations showed mixed results among major players including AmTelTel, Boeing, Chrysler, GM, IBM, and US Steel with several posting fractional declines.
Dr. C. Betts received 20 years of Lions International service with five two chevrons while Thomas Brien and Dr. Jay Spink earned 10 year pins and William C. Welter got a lifetime key pin for outstanding service. District Governor Crawford introduced three deputies including Ernie Jacobsen of Huron. Rev L R Ferguson of Grace Episcopal offered remarks and the group planned Christmas packages for servicemen.
The committee announced at the Country Club house that drawings for the Ladies Gagnon Cup golf tournament are complete. Matches will be nine holes with the first round to be played and scores submitted by Sunday September 17.
A Berlin broadcast reports German forces evacuated Lomza while Stalin announces victory salutes. The Red Army advances in Transylvania toward Serbia and around Deva as heavy fighting continues near Budapest. Moscow warns of a major east Prussia push while withholding details from Warsaw.
At a Youth Recreation Council meeting on Tuesday night changes to center hours were approved. On school nights the center closes at 10 pm, Friday nights with a school dance or games may stay until 12 am, and Saturday nights until 11 pm. Youth under 16 must follow the curfew law. Community groups pledged to supply furnishings and volunteers will work at the Baseball Festival on October 8 at the State Fair Grounds. Gertrude Flyte from the Office of Price Administration attended and offered organizational suggestions.
Beadle County rationing office announces a new schedule effective September 15. Hours will be 1 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays as well. Office located on the first floor of the courthouse.
American First Army forces along with the Ninth Air Force bombers clear paths through Siegfried defenses as the Third Army crosses the Moselle in a 15 mile front. German counterattacks are repelled near Eupen and Limberg amid a growing Allied buildup for Saarbrucken and Strasbourg. Vereuil supplies Paris with water.
Berlin radio and German newspapers push a hard line against surrender predicting a Quebec meeting could yield a new ultimatum from the Allies. Propaganda divides the Nazi ranks into destruction and peace factions while urging Rhineland defense and portraying the Russians as bloodthirsty liberators.
The Senate postponed until Friday a vote on a 3.375 billion postwar highway program allowing the roads committee to consider amendments. House leaders said the bill would not be taken up until after the November election. The measure envisions 650 million annually from the federal government for three years with 60 percent state funding.
One year ago today high 73 and low 51 with record high 102 and low 25. Month to date 63 inches? year to date 23.44 and normal 17.49. Sunrise 7 10 am sunset 7 48 pm. South Dakota forecast clear to partly cloudy through Thursday with warmer conditions in west. Huron and vicinity expect partly cloudy to clear today tonight and Thursday with no major temperature changes.
Allied forces drive through Luxembourg and into German border areas as First Army advances past Bastogne toward Clervaux and Malmedy while a Third Army column reaches the Our River frontier. The Ninth Army joins French operations under General Simpson, amid continued German counterattacks and striving to breach the Siegfried Line.
London dispatch reports United States war planning chiefs set October 31 as the tentative outside date for the collapse of organized resistance in Germany. The War Production Board pinpointed the date after consultations, with plans for partial industrial conversion from war to civilian production. No sacrifice of Pacific war requirements is expected.
Lewis A Meyers leaves Huron branch after 17 years with Northwest Sezum National Bank to become calister at Farmers State Bank in Winner. Carl J Oderard cites Meyers as honest, conscientious, and amiable following his climb from clerk to assistant manager.
Allied air forces from England Italy and other regions struck central southern and western Germany targeting oil plants at Merseburg and Lutzkendorf near Leipzig Ludwigshafen Ulm and other strategic facilities. Thousands of aircraft faced and engaged German defenses with heavy bombers fighters and Mosquitos in a sweeping air offensive across the Reich.
Pro Roosevelt Democrats in Texas win the right to seats at the state convention with a pledge to support the Roosevelt ticket in November. The move aims to bind electors to a firm pro Roosevelt slate, despite some delegates resisting.
Obituary note records the death of Reverend Father Fitz George Dinneen J in Chicago. Born July 10 1866 in Burke he joined the Jesuit Order in 1893 and served at Loyola University and St Ignatius Church Chicago before his death.
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