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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1943
Page
10
AP market summary reports cattle hogs and sheep trading across Chicago Los Angeles Denver and other centers. Prices vary by weight and grade with steady to slightly weaker trend on hogs and brisk gains for beef cattle and vealers in active trade.
In Chicago on June 16 grains faded toward the close after earlier gains driven by commission house buying and Army flour demand. Wheat held steady to fractionally lower while corn and oats showed small moves and rye slipped from intraday highs.
New York June 16. Uncertainty from the congressional fight over administration subsidies and weak mill demand limit futures trade. Covering and price fixing lend a steady tone after early weakness from a favorable weather report. July to later months shift heavily with late afternon values mostly unchanged to 10 cents higher.
A list of bond issues from AmT T to West Un, with prices and yields. The quotes include corporate and railroad issues, with percentages ranging from 10% to 117% and notes on odd decimals and misprints.
Live broilers and fryers listed at .29 per pound for both live and light live. Dressed poultry at 35.5 per grade. Hens of all weights priced live at 255 and dressed at 31.5.
New York action sees modest gains with a cautious mood after loan concerns and tax delay hints for 1944. Rail and industrials flicker, most names trend flat or down. turnover around 900,000 shares. Key movers include Santa Fe New York Central Southern Pacific Southern Railway Goodrich U S Rubber Montgomery Ward J I Case Oliver Farm United Aircraft Westinghouse Allied Chemical Johns Manville Eastman Texas Co American Telephone Kennecott International Nickel.
Foreign exchange rates show the Canadian dollar at a 9 percent discount or 90.12 U. S. cents in New York open market. Europe lists British rates, while Latin America quotes Argentina and Brazil official and free values, with Mexico at 20.65N. Spot cables prevail unless noted.
California faces a mountain lion surplus due to wartime manpower shortages. The state fish and game commission notes 41 lions were killed in the first four months, far below the 106 average from the prior 30 years. The board warns that continued hunting restrictions may undo 35 years of control progress if armed hunters are diverted to war duties.
The congressional committee trimmed agency requests for 1944 while praising the Office of Price Administration and the Office of War Information for essential wartime work. BEW received strong support, and the War Shipping Administration faced the largest cut amid plans to double the fleet by mid-1944. Other cuts affected OSS, Inter-American affairs, censorship, and civilians defense.
RAF bomber commands struck targets along the Brugesghent and Lys canals and damaged a freight train. A Mosquito crossed the North Sea to Denmark and claimed a fighter and later shot down an enemy bomber near Aalborg. In France and Brittany Beaufighters and Boston bombers damaged locomotives and a factory, and a Typhoon hit a torpedo boat off Ostend. British heavies rested after four nights of operations over Germany amid sparse night raids on southeast England.
Richardson called the riot politics while claiming the mob hindered the Negro cause by last night’s fighting giving the Negro a 15 hour start. He said peace officers’ time was diverted. About 750 white men were arrested by Texas Rangers and held at police HQ and the county jail as state guards surrounded the area with bayonets and sub machines guns.
Allied air units attacked from Sicily to Naples fronts as sixteen enemy planes were shot down and seven Allied planes were lost. A naval party landed on Lampione island near Lampedusa and found it uninhabited. Rome radio said Italian torpedo planes sank a 15,000 ton ship and damaged a 5,000 ton vessel off the Algerian coast.
The piece argues a Japanese attack on eastern Siberia could aid Axis partners by diverting Soviet forces, offering uncertain but potential material aid to Germany and Italy. A successful push would bolster Japan’s northern defense ahead of anticipated reckoning.
A collage of small ads lists Hubbards Greenhouses and War ski Nursery offering cut flowers and plants. Other notices seek car polishing services, room rentals, selling radios, and various wanted ads including a yard man, a maid, and a student to learn washing. Also appears bids notice for Rodeo Grounds roof work and a Tucson ordinance vacating Warehouse Avenue and sale of vacated land.
Boys aged 16 to 17 who will not return to school this fall and have some mechanical training are urged to apply at 101 South Stone for vital work preparing B 24 Liberators for delivery to the fighting fronts at the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation Tucson Division.
2nd Lieutenant Bruce G Ellis, 22, of Tucson, enlisted in the Army air corps in 1942. His mother Mrs Emma G Ellis of 703 N First Ave Tucson and father Bruce Ellis at Phelps Dodge Co Safford Arizona. He graduated Tucson High and attended the University of Arizona before joining Southern Pacific in 1939.
More than six million people derive their livelihoods directly from the forest products industry in a statement highlighting the sector's economic importance and employment reach.
The notice explains that classified adverts are published in both the Arizona Daily Star and Tucson Daily Citizen on weekdays, with Sunday papers carrying ads only in the Star. Minimum rate charges apply, with ads appearing in the evening and then in both papers the next day.
Directory style notice listing businesses in Tucson area. Includes Little Caledonia Antiques closed summer and many service providers such as Willard Battery, Vogue Beauty, Priser's Book Store, Frank Ganz Plumbing, Exterminator, beauty instructors, colleges, jewelers, mattress service, mulch supplier, Desert Garden Nursery, Muzzy landscape contractor, painting and decor services, piano rebuilding, tuning, and optometrist at Field's Credit.
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