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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1943
Page
12
War Food Administration notes hogs and cattle seeing higher prices with top hogs at 13.85 and good weights up. Kansas City reports steady to higher sows and yearlings with strong demand and limited spring lambs. Chicago notes hogs 10-15 higher under 250 lbs and cattle generally 25-40 higher with top steers around 17.40 and lots 16.75-17.15.
Favorable crop weather and larger winter wheat harvest forecasts in the southwest spurred selling in Chicago grain pits. Wheat oats and rye declined with oats and rye dropping near 2 cents at times. July wheat traded around 1.41 to 1.42 dollars, with September similar. Corn steady at about 1.05. Oats fell about 1 1/4 cents, rye down 14 to 1 49 cents.
Foreign exchange rates show the Canadian dollar at 90.12 U S cents in New York, down 1/16 cent. British pound at 4.02 to buy and 4.04 to sell, Argentina official 29.77, free 25.20, Brazil official 6.05N, free 5.20N, Mexico 20.65N. Rates are spot cables unless noted N nominal.
Wholesale prices listed for Grade A jumbo at .W. B, Grade A large at 46, and Grade A medium at 42. No other details provided.
New York stock averages slid to their lowest levels since mid May as trading slowed and declines edged from fractions to over a point. Transfers totaled about 750000 shares with few standout gains as traders awaited coal mining turmoil labor disputes and European war developments. Major decliners included U S Steel Bethlehem Chrysler General Motors Santa Fe Southern Pacific Southern Railway Great Northern U S Rubber Montgomery Ward and Radio Corp among others. Some gainers were American Telephone Allied Chemical International Nickel and American Smelting. Bonds moved irregularly.
A dense OCR of municipal and corporate bond quotes shows prices and yields for Am T and T 3s several variants, Arm Del 4s, AT SF 4s, AC Line first 4s, and multiple rail and utility issues. Yields range roughly from 5% to 12% with prices quoted as percentages and fractions across numerous issuers and maturities.
New York June 21 cotton trading shifts to later positions as first notice day approaches Friday. The market shows easy sentiment on liquidation hedging amid concerns over declining demand. Prices end unchanged to 20 cents lower, with July at 20.24, October 19.83, December 19.64.
Live poultry prices listed for broilers and fryers at .29 per pound live and 35.5 dressed cents. Light live poultry at .29 with dressed price not specified. Hens of all weights quoted at 25.5 live and 31.5 dressed cents per pound.
Hair pins and bobby pins used during 1941 supplied enough steel to forge 133 three inch anti aircraft guns.
Cattle salable 2 000 with fair activity on medium to good steers and cheaper on common cattle. Prices steady to firm with medium to good steers 13 75 to 15 40 and calves 14 00 to 15 75. Hogs numbered 1 700 and fairly active with good to choice weights 180 to 250 pounds at 15 00 to 25 top 15 25. Sows 13 50 to 65 for 260 to 300 pounds.
Denver cattle show mixed lists with salable 2 000 calves 175 total led by fed steers at 15.25 top. hogs 5 500 total with most 180-300 lb at 13.40-13.60 and early highs 13.60. sheep salable 3 300 with Idaho spring lambs and later good spring lambs 15.00-15.40.
The senate will hear a bill Wednesday to expand Commodity Credit Corporation borrowing. Senator Taft proposes cutting a $500 million subsidy fund to $250 million, a cap that would bar new subsidy fields. The outcome could influence a house move to curb $130 million of a $2.898 billion war agency appropriation for OPA subsidies, as the House also cut $30 million from prior OPA funding.
British bombers attacked southwestern Germany and northern targets in a sharp night raid. Swiss observers reported fires at Friedrichshafen and air-raid alerts across Zurich Basel and other towns. A Blom and Voss flying boat was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by Mosquitoes. three other boats burned. Paris said Le Creusot bombs caused large fires with over 100 dead and 250 injured. additional raids hit Ruhr Rhineland with mines laid and three bombers lost.
Supreme Court heard arguments over curfew and exclusion orders affecting about 70 000 citizens of Japanese ancestry. Defendants Harabayashi and Yasui faced prison terms for curfew violations and reporting failures amid wartime fears of sabotage and espionage. Government argued military necessity post Pearl Harbor.
The federal registration of automobile tire numbers has dramatically reduced tire theft. Officials report theft almost vanished as registrants deter criminals and enable quicker recovery of stolen tires.
A London dispatch reports tension in Algiers over a proposed purge of Vichy officers and moves to name De Gaulle as national defense minister over Giraud. De Gaulle favors a united French front and suggests he may resign if his plans harm Giraud’s wartime role.
Gossip across the French civil population mentions attacks on Vittorio Emanuele while Axis troops and air forces concentrate in Sardinia and Sicily to defend island outposts in a final defensive push.
A synthetic substitute for mica is produced by an eastern manufacturer, representing a new material in the local industrial market. The item is noted as a product of regional production and hints at potential applications in optics and electronics.
The strike committee states miners will continue producing coal for the government under custody of mines, despite opposing terms from coal operators and the war labor board. They condemn political interference in bargaining while pledging sacrifices for the nation and war effort.
George Yeardley deputy governor of Jamestown, Virginia, established the first windmill in the American settlement. The invention aimed to grind grain for the colonists, marking an early technological milestone in colonial industry.
A dense jumble of notices includes furniture for sale, used goods, job wants and offers, services from watch repair to roofing, and small ads for plants and cut flowers. Various phone numbers and street addresses appear for Thrifty Furn Exchange, WarSkow Nursery, Reed & Bell shop, Hall Electric, and Johnson Jewelers among others.
A committee on longstanding wartime camps toured Poston and discussed cramped quarters and privacy issues described as a condition needing immediate remedy. They noted 15 000 Japanese housed for 15 months, with 300 desert acres slated for tillage and 50 000 acres awaiting preparation for irrigation and cultivation.
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