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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1943
Page
2
Hog salable 6 000 with steady to 10 higher bids. Butchers over 200 lbs advance noted. Good choice barrows and gilts 200-250 lbs at 14.75 or 31. Light sows around 14.25. Sheep salable 6 500 with market not established yet. Fat lambs Washington area 14.40 to 14.65, feeding lambs around 13.00.
Armour Stockyard in Huron reports hog market up 10 cents with top high weight butchers at 14.50. Cattle mostly steady, sheep up 25 cents. Chicago and Watertown livestock scenes show hogs strong to 10 higher, sows up 10 to 16 cents, cattle and sheep variably active with mixed gains and steady to weak beef prices. Trade notes receipts and pricing across regions.
Huron produce markets report mixed price ranges for heavy breed and light hens and roosters with Butterfat and eggs listed. New York prices show butter steady at 621,293 with cheese nominal and egg prices detailed by weight and size, poultry firm with no change in prices.
Sioux City market notes show cattle salable 2 500 and calves 75 with steers and heifers largely steady, hog prices up to 14 75 for top 200 330 lb, sheep at 14 00 for choice native lambs. Sioux Falls reports hogs 3 500 with top 14 80 and cattle 400 steady. quotations unchanged.
Cattle 3100 head active and steady. Top 16.00 for choice steers 1158-1385 lb. Steers 13.00 15.00. Montana grass heifers 14.50. Canners 6.75 8.75. Bulls 12.85 top. Stockers 12.50 14.00. Dairy cows unchanged. Calves 1000 head sold. Dealers steady.
Chicago and Watertown markets report unchanged prices for Leghorn chickens and hens, eggs, and butterfat as of September 16, with receipts showing varied totals. Sioux Falls lists a range of heavy and Leghorn poultry prices, roosters, and egg butterfat quotes, noting No 1 and No 2 categories with No 2 at lower levels.
Mitchell notes for Thursday listing poultry weights and egg data: hens over 4 lbs 19, Leghorn hens 17, heavy cocks 15, Leghorn cocks 13, heavy springs 23, Leghorn springs 21, hen turkeys 25, tom turkeys 23, Not. 1 eggs 39, case run eggs 34. Butterfat 49.
Grains showed early weakness but recovered with strength lifting September wheat and oats to new seasonal highs. Rye eased slightly after War Production Board news on whisky distillation. Millfeed tightness noted by the War Food Administration added support as cash markets stayed firm.
Markets across sectors show steady stocks and higher bonds while rails gain and cotton remains quiet. Wheat holds near unchanged as mill buying supports prices. hogs stay strong with top at 15.00. cattle stay mostly steady with steer top at 16.50 amid slow trade and firm cash quotes for grain and oilseed varieties.
Chicago reports opening highs and lows for wheat oats rye with Sep Dec and May futures at values around 140 to 108. Prices show fractional changes and as of Thursday reflect minor moves. The Huron grain market notes Wheat No 1 dark northern at 1.24 and No 3 dark northern at 1.23 to 1.28 per unit.
New York stock market opened with a mix of fairly strong industrials helping sentiment though many groups showed lackluster action. Investors await Saferna battle news and Congress tax attitudes. Rails rose late while overall gains remained small and trading volume hovered around 560000 shares.
A compact list appears to compile stock percentages and ticker-like fragments for numerous companies across industries. It resembles a market clipping noting percentage values beside many corporate names, with no clear narrative or date. The readable portion centers on industrial firms and their reported figures.
Nottingham reports ongoing coal miner walkout day as 18 year old Sidney Pathé notes 15,600 miners idle. new work threatens to prolong the strike with Friday seen as likely to extend the stoppage for at least another day.
A nine year old boy, Allen Olmsted, son of Mr and Mrs Wayne Olmsted, died from burns after gasoline and water mixed and splashed on his clothes. He had been at McKinley School in Huron with siblings Marjorie Myron Donna Jean and grandparents Mrs Michel of Artesian and Mrs Olmsted of Huron. Funeral arrangements were pending today.
Japanese agency reports four Allied raids on Bougainville last night with 13 bombers involved. Dispatch says two bombers shot down and the attack suffered little damage, repulsed by anti air fire as monitored by U S authorities.
Allied forces led by Montgomery press north along the western Italian coast toward a unified front with Eisenhower's Fifth Army. They report little opposition as they advance beyond Scelea toward Agropoli, while operations at Bari and Brindisi sever the heel on the peninsula's east flank.
Washington reports that Navy officials warn ships and aircraft under construction need timely personnel. Jacobs cites Aug 1 figures showing 27 percent of Navy personnel married and 35 percent of them fathers, with discussion on draft age and broader implications for wartime manpower. Democratic leaders debate delaying induction of fathers while military chiefs stress risks to production and operations.
Washington dispatch reports the House Ways and Means Committee postponed the opening of hearings on the 1944 general tax measure. Chairman Coughton and Senate Chair George said staff would study simplification, with aims to file a simpler return by March 15 and consider consolidating the 5 percent victory levy with the income tax as a major step.
Artesian reports farmer A. R. Hollander, living 133% miles northwest, suffered sprains, cuts, and a dislocated knee after his clothes were torn from him by a belt power take-off while boarding the tractor. His right leg ligaments tore loose and left ankle sprained. he drove home before hospital transfer to Mitchell for care.
Moscow says Nezhin capture cuts rail links between central and southern Ukraine and threatens a larger German retreat toward the Dnieper. In 40 days the Soviet advance covered about 200 miles, with 6,000 German dead and 200+ towns captured. Bryansk fighting and stalled high command reports accompany the push toward Melitopol and the Crimean front.
Federal grand jury charges Representative James M. Curley and five others with 21 counts of mail fraud related to an alleged government war contract brokerage racket. Defendants, officers of Engineers Group Inc., allegedly posed as qualified consulting engineers and collected up to $9,000 in retainers and eight percent commissions between 1941 and 1942.
Washington reports the War Food Administration will soon announce a civilian apple sale limit due to a short crop. The plan aims to divert apples to processing for military and other war needs. The commercial apple crop is about 92 million bushels, roughly 28 percent smaller than last year.
In Woomington September 16 1944 both the White House and Congress review the nations food output. Marvin Jones head of the food administration outlined for the House agriculture committee next Monday his ideas on next years farm program production distribution and price fixing. Chairman Fulmer of North Carolina says clarity is needed on who will hold the power over food output and contemplated plans. The topic also drew attention from President Roosevelt and advisers meeting farm leaders to discuss price incentives to boost crop production.
War Production Board rejected a planned two week furlough to pause whisky production amid war needs. Distillers and WPB officials were surprised as the move would have revived hard liquor stocks. A 20 percent rise in synthetic rubber alcohol demand and WPB food-psychology concerns pressured the decision.
Reports from the Yugoslav Information Bureau describe Nazi advances toward Salonika and the Vardar valley while divisions move north of the Danube Doubrudja. Guerrilla action cites Gorazde on the Drin River and the Belgrade Sarajevo railroad cut, a critical route for southbound troop movements toward the Adriatic. The dispatch notes Isanforc occupying more of Dalmatia.
Sergeant Paul R. Cama arrived Monday on furlough from the Hawaiian Islands to visit his mother, Mrs. Frank Cameron, staying until September 30.
Pierre merchants Frank Olusky of Pierre Fruit Co and Hy Thomas of Thomas Crow Co face hearings before C K W Philip as charges allege they bought and attempted to register for rationed meat sales. The case details Oleisky buying 1 728 pounds from rancher Danzer and Mrs Tobyler without permits while Thomas sought information to register with the OPA but failed to comply. 60 day suspensions with stay for one week advised. effective date to be set by Chicago chief heating commissioner after review. Danzer’s death by gunshot was ruled related to a safety incident.
John Flammang Schrank, who failed to kill Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee in 1912, died at Central State Hospital in Waupun, Wisconsin. He had been found insane by a Milwaukee sanity commission, pleaded guilty to assault with intent to kill and murder, and was committed to a state hospital in 1912 before being transferred here two years later. Roosevelt was shot in the chest before a rally. a spectacle case deflected the bullet, yet he delivered his address, revealing his bloodstained shirt.
SIOUX FALLS Sept 16 Detectives reported themselves balked at least temporarily to day in search for 70 to 80 cases of whisky that disappeared from a small frame warehouse in a residential section. The whisky was stolen between Saturday night and Wednesday night valued at 48 a case. The liquor was stored by Clarence Barnes and by Henry Owen operator of three downtown bars.
Admitted names include Audrey Cooley Hitch peck medical Charles Mapes hu ron medical Levi Anderson Car penter medical Mrs Ed Boldt Hu ron Minor surgical Mrs Ben Whior ton Huron minor surgical William Skarin Hitchcock minor surgical Mrs Charles Foge Huron medical Mrs D C Smith De Smet Imedical Mrs Warren Hannah De Smet medical Dismissed Roland Sparks Mankato Minn Mrs Elizabeth Kempt Woonsocket Sam Van Voorhis Hu ron Lee Cranston Huron John Klemm Woonsocket
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