Guttenberg Press, The (Newspaper) - March 10, 1938, Guttenberg, Iowa PAGE 2 IOWA March Guttenberg Press An Independent FOUNDED 1896 YEAR Publisher Finley Editor Official County and City Paper Published every Thursday Entered at the Post Office at Gut aa Mail MEMBER Iowa Press Association National Editorial Association SUBSCRIPTION RATE In Out Clayton aide 1 Year 6 Months Single centa Payable in Advance ADVERTISING RATES Want Ads Ic a word Minimum 13c Local lOc a line Cards of Thanks 50c Resolutions of to Five Years Five years ago last Franklin Roosevelt stood before Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes and took his oath of As the New Deal passed its fifth the president reassured the country of his ob but announced that the pressure which his administration has put on congress in the past will not be applied Tactics which were necessary to get rapid action in 1933 are not needed he This should in a measure cure the insomnia of those who have been worrying a bout dictatorship and a rubber stamp While Roosevelt made it plain that the screws not be applied to congress he did not neglect to emphasize that his deal still is the new The old Ship of State is still on its same he administration still aims at raising the purchasing power of the he It still intends to put an end to special In he said that the onethird of the nation ill and is the one he worries Time alone will tell whether President Roosevelt and his New Deal have accomplished the ends aimed And upon that decision rests the appraisal of Roosevelt Is he one of aur truly great presidents Or is he merely an adventurer in economics and government Mel rose A year ago this a from the little town or Melrose in Monroe county beat everything in aight to win the state high school basketball Melrose was the underdog in every game it played in the state tournament last But every including the final end ed with the fighting Shamrocks from Melrose on the top of the Things werent to be the same with Melrose this Two of their star players are not in school any They were to be most fortunate if they sur vived the sectional Before every contest the defend ing champions played the experts told one another that This is the That Melrose luck cant last any This Whoosis team is too tough for They still were saying that Sat night when Melrose tangled with Barnes City in the finals of the district When the game was there was a different story to tell Mel rose Barnes City While we never have posed as experts in picking the we have decided to do a little pick ing in the state basketball tourna ment which opens today in Des First Melrose meets Mitchel ville in the first Mitchel ville has won 25 games in a and we pick them to The winner plays either Everly or Ida Grove Ida we and we pick Melrose to lose this con In the Melrose will meet again our guess whom they defeated in the finals last Rolfe is stronger than ever this and we pick Mel rose to lose After winning that they should find either Ames of Dike as their opponent in the and we pick Dike to beat Please remember that this meth od of picking was used last year with great success for Melrose that it in other been tried in actual practice and founa to work out quite Theres no secret to Just pick Melrose to then figure out who it plays after it Thats all there is to What Again Three short years the state was treated to the famous Wood bury county grand jury investiga tion of graft in Sioux The whole watched as the grand jury investigated grafty looking corners of the western metropolis as the alleged grafters howled bloody and as Governor Herring sent in to investigate the in investigators are gating again in This it nobody can very well account for something like of relief suhi which surely cant have bee Officers under County Attorney Maurice who came into office after Max Duckworth had resigned under fire during last investigation have sworn out information against two men And in case they dont find all the guilty Governor Kraschel has ordered one or two of his officers to a little investiga As for we can only that old adage Where theres smoke there must be and What Sioux City smoking a Is Greta Garbo to become Leopold Stokowski Is dish glamour girl to become the mate of the worldfamous ductor and composer For dont recall how has been the silent the the enigmatic ac tress whose name has been linked in romance with one man after We recall that after the coming of the theatres showing Anna Christie were emblazoned with GRETA TALKS all we remember of her saying Eye tank eye go Is she now to this line a much more I TRY PRESS YOULL BE SURPRISED AT THE RESULTS Farm Prices If anyone doubts that the farm er has been the loser under our economic system as it has been let him the record of the year from to In that wholesale prices generally dropped eight per Prices of commodities which the farmer buys fell five per So much is to the farmers On the debit side of his we find an average de cline of nearly 25 per cent in price of the things the farmer sells It is into a situation such as this that the new farm It is designed to bring about a parity between the price of what the farmer sells and the price of what he If it does that it will have performed little short of a so let us not expect it to lish anything The same objections are inade against this that were made to the original TripleA Opponents say that the measure robs the farmer of his That he is naturally and tradition ally an That laws such as this one operate against The in last analysis is Are these opponents making a mountain out of a molehill Is this regimentation the dread mon ster they picture if it is all they is it preferable to economic inequality Or isnt it Fire Drill Seven hundred boys and girls made their way out of the Center ville high school Monday in what they thought was a fire Two hours the was a total des by To most of us who are in school or who have finished our formal fire drills are merely a rather welcome change from school If ever the precaution of the drills was shown in its true it was so displayed at Panic spreads easily in a crowd of 700 And a panic at the time of a fire can very easily bring blockage of the exits and loss of To the boys and girls who kept their to the teachers who directed the anil to whoever wrote into our laws the require ment for monthly fire all They saved many lives at Centerville Review MORGAN ASKS INQUIRY Chairman of TV A Brings to Feud With His Colleagues Corn Acreage Allotments photographed after their arrest in New York are Johanna Her mann of and Guenther former United States army sergeant and a two of the three persons accused of complicity in an international spy the aim of which was the sale of United States military secrets to a foreign The a hairdresser on the German liner was messenger and paymaster for the i SUMMARIZES THE WORLDS WEEK Morgan Berry Claim Cause of Row LONG existing warfare between chairman of the Tennessee Valley and his fellow David Lilien thal and Harcourt has come to a due to the claims of George Berry for be cause his alleged marble quarries were flooded in the Norris dam Doctor Morgan has demanded a show down in the form of a congressional in of the whole TVA set up and its A commission appointed by a fed eral court in Tennessee reported the claims of Berry and his associates were worthless because their prop erties could not be profitably operate ed Chairman Morgan then issued a longi statement revealing that the quarrel in the authority was due not to differences between himself and his colleagues over butto his efforts to obtain decency and fairness in govern He said The Berry mar ble case represents the kind of dif with which as chairman ol the TVA I faced in the effort to stand of public To a ly increasing degree I have con tended with an attitude of conspira and bureaucratic which the proper conduct of TVA business dif The statement declared that Ber ry charged Morgan with blocking a binding when the TVA chairman halted the friendly agreement reached with Lilienthal and Harcourt In rny a friendly agree in the face of what seemed to me to be an obvious intent to ex was not a good public and lacked several degrees of being said the Doctor Morgan intimated that the Berry deal was only a part of the issue of honesty and decency which he had to face and that there was a lot more he would like to tell a con gressional Slaps Little Business OF COMMERCE ROPER told President Roose velt that the little business man appears to be forsaking the policy of self help and is looking more and more to the government to solve his Roper based his conclusion on an analysis of letters from among communications that grew out of the little business conference recently held in Washing The secretary said he was im pressed by the fact that the recom in the letters showed little understanding of the broad as of the problems of govern and he implied that small business men were largely was said of the 100 reso adopted at the little busi ness which demanded that the government cease regula tion and interference with give tax relief to and halt experimentation where it affected Corn Acreage Cut FARMERS of 12 commercial corn producing states were told by the Agricultural Adjustment adminis tration that they might plant this in corn acres in 566 This compares with acres in counties har vested last The complete national goal for including the commercial corn acreage allot Is to The 1938 allotments by states and total acres harvested in the total number of counties in each state follow acres in 102 counties against 000 in 102 counties in t acres for 77 counties against 92 acres in 99 coun ties in 99 acres for 27 counties against in 105 acres for four counties against in 120 acres for five counties against in coun acres kin 45 counties against in 87 coun acres in 6 counties against in 114 acres in 64 counties against in 93 coun South acres in 17 counties against acres in 69 acres in counties against in 71 acres in 57 ties against in 88 Under the new farm program acreage allotments will be set by county committees for individual Tax Battle Starts D OBERT DOUGHTON of North chairman of the and means submitted to the house the revenue formulat ed by a majority of and over this measure began at 1 e a dVr s claim the act will stimulate trade remove hardships on both big lit tle business without lowering the i aggre gate federal Doughton he had a fight but pre the speedy passage of the measure The vulnerable ad was a proposed penalty tax on closely held McCormack of Massachusetts and Lamneck of Ohio filed a separate report attacking Republican members of the com united in a report which blamed New Deal taxes for the Franklin Roosevelt depression and which charged that the tax closely held corporations is a polit ical weapon to be used to purge the nations business structure of cor controlled by New Deal Chairman Pat Demo of the senate fi nance said his group would begin hearings soon on the majority of his com is reported to be opposed to several provisions of the house including the retention of the prin ciples of the undistributed profits Disaster in California espe daily the region about Los An was swept by a destructive flood following extraordinary Nearly 50 persons were drowned or killed in landslides and thousands fled from their It was thought the property damage might reach For a time Los Angeles was cut off from all com except by short wave of soldier and Italian died his villa in Riviera of cerebral Jit would have been seventyfive years old in a few The demise this really great man saddened the whole Italian nation for he had made himself the idol of the people especially by seizure of Fiume after the World war and his aerial exploits in that The world of letters also mourned him WPA Rolls Increased having sent the quar V ter billion dollar emergency re lief appropriation to the White the WPA officials immedi ately authorized the state adminis trations to hire more relief workers this Aubrey acting WPA ad ministrator during cence of Harry estimated that the March increases would pull enrollments from 15 to 25 per depending on state Williams said he expected large industrial centers to furnish est demands for a slice of the new relief but added There is no part of the country that is not affected in some real British Air Program HP HE British government an jounced the greatest air force estimates in the nations history and disclosed that a corps of scientists had been mobilized to aid in secret air defense the fiscal year beginning April 1 the air force estimates Next was announced a 23 per cent in crease in army appropriations for the coming Gets Out of China Fifteenth United States in fantry left Tientsin after a quar ter century of service in North during its officers it has not fired a shot in an The stationed there under the Boxer is being withdrawn to be re placed by marine Soviet Chiefs Face Death WITHIN a short time we may expect to read of the execu tion of 21 prominent citizens of So viet latest victims of Dicta tor Stalins blood They were put on trial before a military and there was little doubt as to their Among the ac against them were conspir ing with foreign powers to ber the Soviet plotting to hate Lenin and inspiring th assassination ol Sergei and putting to death the writer Maxim Gorky and two previously supposed to have died of natural Most prominent of the put on trial were Former Premier Alex is who succeeded Lenin and held office for nearly two years and Nikolai chronicler of tiie red revolution and editor of the government newspaper Izvestia be fore the accused men admitted their but former ambassador to tried to re The others one after another told in court of their alleged conspiracies and trea Three Taken as Spies agents and New York police broke up a ring of spies engaged in selling secrets of the American army and navy to a European nation described as a world power but otherwise not alleged members of the ring were under arrest and held in heavy Two of a for mer sergeant in the United States army and a private in the were said to have The third was a German hairdresser on the German liner The were diligently searching for other members of the Guenther Gustav the who is a said he was engaged in obtaining secrets and information concerning operations of the United States army and was forwarding it through channels to va rious addresses in Erich the had been stationed New the largest army air base on the East coast and key to fortifications of the metropol itan He supplied certain air corps codes to Johanna the woman ar admitted she was the liason officer and paymaster between the ring and its Secret code keys and considerable quantities of were found on her Senate to Probe Reds SENATOR COPELAND of New York successfully put through his resolution for a special investi gation of subversive activities of Communists in the merchant ma It will be conducted by a committee named by About the same time Harry leader on the west arrived in Washington to resist being de period as an undesirable Bridges also demanded a hearing before the senate committees on commerce and Publication Of Clayton County 1938 Tax List Is Continued GUTTENBERG CORPORATION 1437 14136 Adam 150 Lester American Pearl Button Helmuth C Amen Schultz 20 John Jule Mary John Ben 20 Clayton Bank Raymond Ben Adix Peter Minnie and Jacob George Fred Addie Ja cobs Block John 43135 Emma 5L41 Henry Millie and 1189 Ella Eldo 99 20 Elsie Baptist Lucille 50 Beck Butters Grimes Fred Clayton County 38i39 HAAG SP Henry Hilda Cent Light Gustav Jerry Willis Justin Wallis Ray Kate Koch Emmet Matt Gustav Susan Maggie David John Hilda Louise Melvin Francis Fred Melvin Margaret Erie Henry Phil Emma Ed Eugene Millie EsL Edgewood Oil Enderes Son Ernest Bernard Gebhart John Helen Anna Albert Val Rose Kainz Ray John Carolyn Mary Henry Wiley Alois Anna 1203 N Kate Elizabeth 1610 Mathil da Anna Ernest Fred Fellowship Frank Anna John Louis Christ Arthur Clarence Marcelus Finchi Harold Thomas Elmer Richard Arnold Edwin Fred Asa Ernest Louise John 471 Giencke Guttenberg State Bank Ross Dunker Geo f Louis Leonard Ewald Katherine Guttenberg Can ning Grimand Shoe 29 Lorenz Guttenberg macy 53J89 Bessie B Geneva Oil Guttenberg Turner Ed Mike Matt Maggie August Fred Frank Josephine lido Henry Ed Arno Louis 1260 Frank Fred Fred Elsie Ossie Clara Al vina 720 Humphrey MUler George Frank Ben Henry Mary John John 29 Arthur Helmuth Hedda Bakery Nick Marcel Elmer Harold Minnie Ihm Carl Continued next week
