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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1944
Page
7
Hogs 6,000 head active and fully steady with early clearances. top 14.75 for 160 to 240 lb hogs and 14.00 for large good sow weight. Cattle 2,000 head with calves 500. slaughter steers and yearlings steady. several loads good light steers 16.00 to 16.85. Sheep 1,000 head steady. native springers 14.50 to 15.00. culled and common 6.00 to 10.50. Estimates: hogs 500, cattle 500, sheep 200.
Chicago market update shows eggs receipts at 11 261 cases with firm prices and varied grades. current receipts up 32 percent to 338 and dirties 24 to 28. Poultry receipts include 2 cars and 38 trucks with White Rock and colored spring broilers listed alongside percentage changes.
Chicago cash grain update shows no corn or soybeans sales. Wheat bids stand at 72 for 1 white, 69 for 4 white, 71 for 2 white heavy oats.
Open high low and close ranges for wheat oats and rye listed by month. Wheat contracts for Sep Dec May and July hover around mid to high one fifties. Oats Sep and Dec trade in mid sixties to sixty eight. Rye contracts for Dec and May run around one oh five to one oh six.
Nutritionists urge daily servings of green leafy vegetables rich in vitamin A. Some greens can be eaten raw in salads while others are cooked, noted as spring tonics loved by grandmothers for their healthful qualities.
United States Department of Agriculture tests show willow oak acorns supply vitamin A in chick diets. Feeding 2 percent or more acorns yields yellow flesh, with color deepening as acorn amounts rise. Up to 20 percent appears harmless.
Eye exercises may strengthen weak eye muscles to coordinate both eyes but consensus holds little value for correcting refractive errors.
About 1 000 open hearth furnaces with 10 to 400 ton capacities plus 185 electric arc furnaces and nine crucible furnaces are supplying steel for the war effort. The facility also operates 38 electric furnaces in addition to traditional methods.
Questioned identity of China’s top female leader, a U.S. educated academic figure guiding resistance to Japan. Also queries about Britain’s early air raid targets and a military insignia meaning. True or false on the Panay sinking by Nazis in the Atlantic.
The item lists answers with numbers and phrases about Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, Cologne on May 30 1942, a wounded in action note, and a false claim about Panay sinking by Japanese before the war in China.
Col. Emmett O'Donnell reports USAF teams stationed in the eastern Indian mountains detect approaching Japanese planes and signal the 10th air force. Bombers cripple Rangoon harbor and disrupt Burma supplies while teams live among headhunters with regular air drops of supplies.
Princeton New Jersey RCA laboratories unveil a radio frequency powered sewing machine that welds thin thermoplastics without thread. Two small rollers drive the pieces while heat is generated inside by dielectric losses, fusing raincoats caps and weather balloons used by the armed forces.
In Los Angeles Mrs. Kate Fusco fought thrips and aphis then snails and heavy rains that ruined her Victory garden. She replanted but a heavy truck with faulty brakes rolled into the patch and she decided to buy vegetables at the market.
In Vancouver Washington the senior play cast bound gagged and placed Lloyd Boddy in a coffin as part of a scene. After rehearsal muffled cries were heard from the coffin and Boddy was found inside unharmed.
Injection of penicillin into the spine has proven effective in conquering meningitis. The report notes rapid improvement after treatment and supports spinal administration as a therapeutic approach.
Mrs J John J Miller Linda and John David were dinner guests Monday with Mr and Mrs Leroy VY Miller and family. John Piper sustained a head injury Tuesday morning. Grace Miller left Tuesday morning to attend college at Goshen Indiana. Patty Lou Neia Ann Kern and Mrs Willis Gingerich were in Des Moines visiting Mrs Carl Hall. Stuart Petersen from Fort Madison is in Kalona visiting friends.
A booklet presenting opinions of famous doctors on epilepsy will be sent free to readers who write to the Educational Division at 535 Fifth Ave New York NY Dept J-546. The material offers insights into the causes of epilepsy and its medical understanding.
Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon at L A Jones funeral home for Mrs Davis Durst. Rev Fred K Miller conducted the rites with a solo by Mrs Milo Sorden and piano accompaniment by Edna Klein. Pallbearers were John Rittenhouse Clifford Reeves William Ganon Maurice Crawford Roy Fink and Carl Jarrard. Burial followed in Elm Grove cemetery.
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