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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1941
Page
9
A downtown collection of small ads offers job seeks farm work and waitressing posts, sales and rentals, auto parts, locksmith and upholstery services, office space search, and a notice for the Lawrence National Bank stockholders meeting with date and voting window.
Stocks steady with selective strength and industrials improving. bonds lower. cotton and wool mixed. sugar steady. metals quiet. livestock steady with hogs up to 11.15 and cattle 25 cents higher. Grain mixed as wheat, corn, oats, and soybeans show small moves before close. futures near prior levels amid holiday caution and price legislation concerns.
grain futures show 3.675 million bushels of wheat traded yesterday with open interests around 40.0 million for wheat 43.9 million corn and 6.84 million soybeans. Kansas City livestock: hogs 1,800 traded firm to higher 10-25 cents. cattle and calves mixed with skimmed gains in steers and feeders. slaughter lambs steady to higher.
Kansas City report dated December 23 lists egg at 30 14 21 percent, hens and broilers price ranges, turkeys and ducks values, geese and roosters noted. Butterfat creamery butter price per pound shown as 3 44 dollars.
Grain prices show wheat 1.10 and new yellow corn 64 with oats at 44. Butterfat reports No 13 percent and No 230. Poultry items list hens up to 11 with 4 pounds 14 and 5 pounds 16. cocks and stage S710. Hog price at 10.75.
Wall Street closed mixed after a volatile day with leaders wavering and many issues stuck near long term levels. War news eased slightly but British selling still weighed, turnover about 1.5 million shares and cotton selling rose late, 20 to 50 cents per bale.
The agriculture department estimated the 1941 fall pig crop at 35,580,000 head, the largest on record, up 18 percent from 1940 and 6 percent above the 1939 record. The combined spring and fall crops totaled about 5,0350,000 head, about 6.5 percent larger than 1940 and near the 1939 peak. Kansas fall crop placed at 1,189,000 head, with 1940 at 823,000.
London reports Adolf Hitler consulted German Doctor Schuster about severe nervous exhaustion and eye inflammation. The condition traces to gas exposure in World War I. report notes the eyes have troubled him since. Also reported is the death of Tom McNearney, 18, in Pittsburg Kansas, the eighth victim of a Crawford county railroad grade crossing crash involving a Missouri Pacific train.
Maj. H. M. Smith, Kansas selective service occupational advisor, says draft officials will be stricter about deferments. Only war industry work and trained replacements keep deferrals. physically fit men and many women must enter service or be replaced by trained staff. Farm youths may be deferred only if local boards decide replacements are not possible.
Mike Getto line coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers pro football team returned to Lawrence this morning to resume duties as manager of the Hotel Eldridge. He arrived from Chicago where he and Jock Sutherland’s Brooklyn staff attended the draft of college players into the NP ranks. Ralph Miller, Kansas senior quarterback, was drafted by the Dodgers. Bill Hargiss, Kansas track coach, accompanied Getto home.
Prof James C Malin of the University of Kansas history department will publish John Brown and the Legend of Fifty-Six through the American Philosophical Society Philadelphia. The 800 to 900 page volume uses manuscript materials unseen by historians and includes new maps in the Memoira series. The Philosophical Society, founded in 1727 by Benjamin Franklin, sponsors this significant scholarly honor for Malin.
George Hedrick secretary of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce spoke at the weekly real estate board luncheon about progress toward locating a defense plant in the area. He noted many midwesterners writing home and urged ads and letters highlighting Douglas County as a desirable location with good schools. Nine board members attended.
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