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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1942
Page
10
U S Dept. of Agriculture notes salable hogs 16 000 total 23 000 with hog prices mainly 13.75 to 14.30 for 160 to 180 pound text. Sheep and cattle figures show lambs steady to strong and cattle mostly steady with steers 12.00 to 14.00 and fat cows around 9.25 while sausage bulls hold to 11.85.
Trading in New York equities showed a balanced session with gains for steels and several specialties though many leaders failed to sustain early strength. Transfers totaled about 275000 shares as air transport and gold mining lagged. some rails oils and distillers rose while major names like U S Steel Bethlehem Pepsi-Cola Santa Fe and Dow Chemical fluctuated before pulling back.
LOS ANGELES June 16 butter receipts total 199.344 pounds cheese 7080 pounds eggs 2050 cases. Butter in bulk 358. Candied large eggs 35 and medium eggs 3214 and small eggs 25.
More than twenty thousand conventions were scheduled and held in the United States and Canada during 1941, setting an all time record.
On June 16 Boston wool market showed unchanged prices with some fine territory wools selling at 1.18 dollars clean basis and quantities moving directly from country to mills. Half blood and medium wools were quiet while some medium country graded wools offered at 46 to 8 cents delivered to mills. Buyers were intermittently out of the market due to bud car.
Chicago grain prices rose as soybeans led gains on strong demand and a possible program to grant parity loans on major crops while letting the CCC sell government wheat for feeding. Wheat, corn, oats and rye followed with higher closes as traders priced in new policy and rising output. New manganese plants plan to exceed 600000 tons annually, vastly above 1939 and 1940 domestic output.
Kansas City market update shows hogs 3300 salable and 3300 total with moderate activity and steady to down 5. Cattle and calves with 5500 salable and 900 calves. feeders firm and steers 11.25 to 13.25 for medium to near choice, cows 7.25 to 10.00, vealers 12.00 to 14.00. Sheep 8000 salable with lambs 15.00 to 15.50, scattered openings and higher bids.
United States Department of Agriculture notes cattle sales total 2 000 with calves 100 and steers steady, top at 13 50 per hundredweight. Hogs 2 000 head, prices mostly 13 65 to 13 90 with latest tops. sows 13 00 to 13 35. Sheep 900 head, native spring lambs steady near 14 90 to 15 25, native shorn ewes 5 00 to 6 00.
The Los Angeles market report shows cattle steady to slow with weak undertone, few fed steers at 12.50 to 13.25, calves 175 slow at 12.00 to 14.50, hogs steady to 10 lower with good to choice 185 to 235 pounds at 15.00 to 25, sows 12.75, sheep with no sales and lambs 13.25 to 13.75.
New York June 16 Cotton prices rose up to a dollar a bale as hopes for progress on the agricultural supply bill limited aggressive selling. Hedge selling and New Orleans offerings supported prices with late gains of 65 to 75 cents. Futures closed higher across multiple contracts. Middling spot quoted at 19.55 cents.
Exchange rates list for June 16 shows the Canadian dollar trading at 90,000 U. S. cents in the open market with a 10 percent discount. Great Britain rates are $4.02 buy and $4.04 sell in official and open markets, cables at $4.04. Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico rates are given for official and free markets, with spot cables noted.
Iceland’s government records all radio set imports and the buyers by name, the commerce department reports. The policy aims to monitor shipments and identify recipients for regulatory and taxation purposes.
James Marlow and William Pinkerton report a pivotal week when the United States and Britain became the UN war suppliers and bread basket, amid new lend-lease ties with the Soviet Union. Roosevelt ordered production data released, noting aircraft output up 85 percent since Pearl Harbor, and WPB budgets push war expenditures toward 200 billion.
County Assessor Crowell D. Eddy rules owners who build steel and concrete bomb shelters on their property must pay taxes on them. The ruling expands local tax bases as wartime needs grow.
The analysis notes carrier numbers, evolving roles of air and sea forces in WWII. It highlights air power dominating Pacific battles from Pearl Harbor onward, with coordinated Army Navy Marine air forces and long range bombers expanding reach. It predicts carriers, subs, and fast craft forming future fleet backbone.
President Alfred Atkinson announced the appointment of Miss Elizabeth Cameron as instructor in home economics to replace Miss Helen Forney who is on sick leave and has resigned. Cameron studied at Oregon State College and has four years as assistant professor at San Jose State College. She will direct the home management house and teach food courses.
Pima county reports over 200000 in war bond sales for June announced by Fred A. Dragonette war bond committee chairman. He cautions a hard row remains to meet the 352000 quota as daily sales were forecast to top 206000 and many view bonds as a fitting Father's Day gift.
Soviet dispatches report resumed fighting on the Kalinin front northwest of Moscow and continued German assaults at Kharkov Sevastopol with 1950 German deaths. Russian forces claim tank, artillery and fortifications destruction on several fronts including Bryansk Leningrad and Sevastopol with significant German losses.
The dean's list of high honor students in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Arizona was released by the president's office. Local honorees include seniors H. C. Weed Bisbee Freida D Kalil Ajo Mack Clayton Tucson Roland B Bibolet Nogales juniors Laura M Altman Tucson Harry Lowe Nogales D Keith Miller Mesa sophomores Halka Pattison Tucson Georgiana Pierce Tucson Katherine Thompson Tucson freshmen Margaret Bohannon Benson Milton Wiggins Tucson Robert Abernathy Tucson Suzanne Lesher Tucson Louis E Young Tucson and Bernard Soto Douglas.
Libya sweep across the desert in 1940 41 with British forces concentrating on defense of El Adem and the 13 mile zone between Acroma and Tobruk. No new reports from Knightsbridge area 28 miles southwest of Tobruk where tank battles have raged for three weeks.
Army Air Chief Lieut. Gen Henry H Arnold said B 26 bombers sank a cruiser in the Aleutians and dropped a torpedo on a carrier deck in a telegram to Glenn L Martin Baltimore. Army bombers were used as torpedo planes for the first time in the Midway battle.
Posch Ormsby Jane a registered Holstein at the University of Arizona farm completed a 10 month period with two milkings daily and produced 470 pounds of butterfat securing second place in senior three year olds. Dr. W H Riddell notes Jane already produced 363 pounds butterfat in five months and could beat the four year old record.
The high command said a destroyer and eight merchant ships were torpedoed and may be lost while six warships and six merchant vessels were damaged. Twenty-three enemy planes were shot down and ten German planes were lost. The report cites Italian successes and a shattered convoy coming from Alexandria as westbound losses.
The Navy resumes enlistments in the Seabees construction regiments after a closure since April. Local recruiter R J Combs announces relaxed physical requirements for eyes and teeth and urges former applicants to recheck at the recruiting station.
Three Phoenix lawyers including Darrell Parker and Maricopa county attorney chief assistant were appointed to aid the state office of price administration. W H Waggoner announced Henry Allen as chief legal adviser with Parker to advise enforcement and Henry Stevens to advise price control. All appointments are effective immediately. Parker plans to resign as county attorney candidate.
El Tiempo reports three United States ships torpedoed near St. Andrew and Providence islands in the western Caribbean. One sinking confirmed after a lifeboat was found. islands lie about 300 miles north of the Panama Canal.
A scanned page lists multiple local businesses with services from awnings and Venetian blinds to auto repairs, beauty salons, book stores, builders, and dressmaking. The entries name business names, addresses, and phone numbers, including Pima Paint and Top Shop, Nita's Beauty Salon, Vogue Beauty, Josephine's Beauty, Long’s Building, and Milgrim's Santa Rita Clo.
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