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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1939
Page
3
The Iowa Legislature faces a choice on capital punishment with House proposals to replace gallows with the electric chair or substitute a double life sentence rendering pardons and suspensions impossible. Proponents cite deterrence and cost savings, noting England's executions and Chicago’s escapes as lessons.
The American Red Cross dispatched 20000 to aid the Chilean Red Cross for the Chile earthquake disaster. Airplanes delivered serums for gangrene tetanus and typhoid along with glucose serum dried milk and other foods. Large numbers are homeless and deaths are likely 25000 to 30000 with mass burials planned due to collapse of burial capacity.
A city of 40 000 suffered its worst disaster with many bodies awaiting disposal. The town lies in ruins and nearby regions are asked to send doctors nurses medical supplies and basic sustenance to aid relief efforts and reconstruction.
The council calls for placing safety education in every school where children can study traffic safety and bicycle safety. It requests cooperation from police, sheriffs, county attorneys, and other law enforcement to raise public interest and save lives, even if one life is spared.
Tragedy strikes Frederick William Goudy of New York City when a blaze consumes his workshop destroying four decades of type designs. The renowned artist, eighty in December, had spent 16 years in a mill-turned-workshop crafting dies and patterns for American newspaper typefaces.
J Joseph George of Philadelphia a will and deed specialist died leaving a $50 000 estate without a will his relatives learned. The piece urges living persons to secure a will through a reputable attorney to ensure proper disposal of property after death.
Four old friends meet in a provincial town and visit an inn. After several drinks they go to the railway station. Three board the departing train, leaving the fourth on the platform and laughing at the mix up. The station master questions his laughter as the fourth man explains he was to be seen off.
A salesman stops at a house and asks to interest the husband in an electric razor. The wife quips that he shaves only once a year, noting recent changes with lodgers and past twice yearly shaves. The exchange highlights a humorous domestic moment.
Atlantic News Telegraph argues Senate support for the Frankfurter Supreme Court nomination shows faith in liberalism. The piece claims the public does not fear true liberals but rejects crackpots and radicals posing as liberals.
Roosevelt renews demand that the Florida canal and the Quoddy tide harnessing experiment proceed. He will not get it, but revival faces defeat amid election results, economy pressures, and Congress evolving a new attitude.
Iowa must ensure the state receives full revenue from a 6 percent tax on a 15 cent article or snack. Critics argue some firms keep the difference between collected taxes and state settlements to cover rent.
A Sioux City Journal report argues Representative Thomas of New Jersey seeks impeachment of Secretary Perkins over the Bridges deportation case. The piece suggests Perkins delays action citing Strecker, questions her stance on Bridges, and notes party unity pressures.
Doris Ferguson questions Eileen about her gloomy mood in a domestic scene. Eileen responds with a terse, morose denial as the conversation hints at strain within the household. The excerpt captures a tense, intimate exchange between two women.
Two girls discuss how their parents handle finances and the stress of mortgage payments. Doris explains her father reassures children while his own worries stay with adults, and Eileen learns that some families shield kids from money troubles to avoid neurotic anxiety.
Dr. Walter L. Bierring Iowa health commissioner backs bills for thorough syphilis testing before marriage and prenatal blood tests at first prenatal exam. Law aims to detect infection early to protect spouses and children with Sen J P Berg and Rep H E Morrow supporting the measures.
Dr Bierring argues premarital screening reduces mental hospital admissions caused by syphilis of the nervous system. He praises a prenatal bill requiring early blood testing to protect unborn children from congenital syphilis and notes treatment before month five yields healthy births in most cases.
A long digest of local Amber happenings includes birthday gatherings for Marvin Zimmerman and Julia Toenjes, creamery meeting leadership and attendance, eighth grade tests in Anamosa, multiple family visits, 4-H club planning, and numerous social calls. Army enlistment tests underway for two area youths.
Mary Jo Daly of Iowa City visits her parents as Mr and Mrs Phil Daly host Leeana May's birthday. Olin residents C W Eden Henry Eden and families attend. Five hundred is played at five tables. Schoon family guests in Oelwein. George H Schoon visits Will Craig in Mercy Hospital Anamosa.
Scotch Grove residents share visits and family updates from Clinton to Cascade. Mr and Mrs Ragnar Lundquist attended a gathering for Mrs Lundquist formerly Helena Ladehoff. Community events include farm bureau plans and a trip report by Miss Wilma Kuhns to Des Moines.
Cast le Grove resident Hesford John Hiller, a state university student in Iowa City, returns Friday for weekend. Mrs L Gaylord visits Clarence Eberhart home then heads to Ames to stay with sister Mrs Ben Budge. Clarence Hosford, a Cornell College freshman, comes home for break.
Weekly News Letter notes faster pace in the Iowa Legislature with more bills, early calendars, and committees reviewing state institutions for next two years. Contested election outcomes favor Mrs. Elliott and Rep. Broderson with one remaining contest on Rep. Eckerman’s seat in Scott County.
On Jan 26 the Iowa Senate passed the first bill of the session, sponsored by Senator Whitehill to let cities and towns issue revenue bonds directly. It marks a move toward independence from federal financing for public works. Also approved were Doran's bus flagger requirement for storms and Beardsley's allowing textbook exchanges between districts.
Up to Monday the Iowa house discussed the Bowers bill to replace hanging with electrocution in first degree murder cases. Rep. Phil Roan objected to wording about defendants versus the condemned and sent the bill to judiciary for amendment. Senator Breen announced plans to abolish the death penalty, with a companion measure in the house.
The process of enacting a law in the legislature is slow and tedious with steps including introduction, readings, committee study, calendar placement, action on the bill, third reading, engrossing, messaging to the other house, enrollment, signing by presiding officers, gubernatorial approval, and publication. If no publication clause exists the law takes effect July 1 after passage. Delays occur if amendments arise in committee or on the floor.
A report notes various ways a bill can die from a vote to tabling or failing to report out. It references the second legislative seat contest in the House of the last session, with support for Woodbury.
The 48th Town General Assembly rushes a reform agenda to cut costs and merge agencies. Social security and unemployment codes may be revised. libraries and memorial institutions realigned under a single governance. the state library commission to be eliminated. and several departments including geology to be eliminated.
Senators Breen and Bekman propose moving constitutionally elected secretary of state treasurer of state and auditor of state to appointive posts under governor. Similar changes target agriculture, public instruction and commerce with new qualifications. Other measures include nonpartisan ballots and rescheduling primaries and conventions as examples. European press reports German pressure on several nations with threats to press freedom and media alignment.
The district court of Jones county Iowa opens probate for the alleged last will of Agnes L Hall deceased filed January 14 1939 and set for February 7 1939 at 10 00 a m for final proof and probate all interested may appear to show cause why the will should not be admitted to probate
L Pearson clerk of the Jones County Iowa court records the estate filing with Locher and Rehan serving as attorneys for the estate. Case reference 81 1.
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