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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1943
Page
7
For sale baby chicks Prolific White Rock Early maturing White Leghorns Baker's Hatchery 1326 No Marion Phone 6018 on Highway No 1 7416TH Start your calves right with Warne Complete Calf Meal Humble Produce 49te For Sale foot mower Phi.
Local news items recount summer travel for residents and visitors including Mrs. I B Rabenold Mrs Edward Barker and son Jackie W W Schroeder county auditor and Sterling college students. Chicago grain table reports open high low and close for wheat corn oats and rye with June July and September listings.
President Harvey W. Brown of the International Association of Machinists announced that his 565,000 member union will end its 48 year affiliation with the American Federation of Labor on Monday. The move caps a thirty year jurisdictional dispute with the carpenters, operating engineers, and electric railway workers unions. Brown cited lack of satisfaction from AFL leaders as the reason for withdrawal.
Hogs 14,000 with slow demand. top 14.30 and 180 to 860 lb cattle 14.10 to 16.50 for good weights. Calves 700, steers and yearlings weak to steady. heifers 13.75 to 16.50. Sheep 5,000. spring lambs around 16.00 for 80 lb. top 15.50 on strictly choice loads. Tomorrow estimates show 5,000 hogs, 1,000 cattle, 1,000 sheep.
Chicago May 27 market report shows produce receipts at 25 952 with extra firsts 38 percent and current receipts 35 2. Poultry receipts listed as 14 trucks with market unchanged. Prices and categories include dirties and checks with percentage figures. no detailed item names provided.
Chicago cash grain report lists oats at 67 percent special and soybeans at 1634 with no additional context. The brief note from May 27 references UPI coverage of cash grain values in Chicago.
Last night a church banquet and men’s meeting proceeded smoothly beginning with a 6 30 group photo. Men sang soup songs led by evangelist Raymond L Alber with Howard House at the piano. Leslie Dunlap served as toastmaster and Rev Ivan Riess gave the welcome. Harold Jarvis and Fred Bourgeois gave talks. The program closed with colored pictures.
Browning reports a service held in Iceland with American and Icelandic representatives and United Nations flags. The piece details graves at a cemetery, including General Andrews and Bishop Leonard, with Bob's grave identified among nine in a row. Sergeant Bisel recalls the crash and praises Bob as the best pilot in his unit.
A color screen show featured wild animals and a Sequoia National Park journey with redwoods. A patriotic service followed with musical pieces, a rag picture on the Unknown Soldier by Mr House, and a tableau by Mrs Ar cer with servicemen.
Tax policy outlines June 15 payments and post exemption salaries starting July 1. Of 20 percent withheld, 17 percent goes to 1948 income tax cutting September 15 and December 15 installments. Remaining 8 percent becomes victory tax replacing the 5 percent rate.
The note states 1944 and 1945 taxes remain at 12144 percent of the 1942 tax, covering only the 1942 settlement. It recalls Bizerte as an active Allied base in 1940, also attacked by Italian bombers on multiple occasions before France fell.
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