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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1933
Page
1
The item notes that the publication is issued weekly on Thursdays by J. W. Doxsee and Charles A. Doxsee, serving as editors and proprietors of the newspaper.
The piece argues European nations remain war minded with distrust and conflicting aims over arms limits. France resists Germany while Germany seeks strength for defense. The United States favors disarmament. Britain and Italy show some agreement. France and Germany resist. It notes class-driven governance and a fatalistic creed.
The administration backed bill aims to aid farms but lawmakers show limited understanding. An economist who helped draft it reportedly admires the Russian land system. Secretary Wallace, a young former farm paper writer, presides over a party split as Congress approaches a complex, uncharted farmer relief program. The piece urges cautious experimentation, noting broad promises of relief yet wary of Soviet Russia guidance.
The Stude baker corporation, a long established auto manufacturer, has a receiver appointed amid hard times in the auto market. The piece notes industry distress, large dealer stocks, and ongoing belief that autos remain a necessity despite current weakness. It recalls Woodrow Wilson’s 1906 remark about cars fostering social attitudes and comments on later socialist drivers.
The national bank holiday is credited with easing the financial strain and boosting public trust. It has brought millions of gold into the U S treasury, forming a secure basis for currency. The move prompts stricter bank examinations and compliance with soundness rules, reducing hoarding and stabilizing the monetary system.
The legislature dismisses the radical farm organization led by a figure who urges defiance of law and order. With a history of threats and evasive tactics, the group gains nothing from its pressure. The session continues with extensive new laws shaped to curb such activity.
The text notes a motive to aid farmers and a firm stance against coercive pressure. It highlights support for agricultural interests and opposition to threats, signaling a political or social stance aimed at empowering the farming community.
Sioux City Journal analyzes timeline for 3.2 beer legalization and the likelihood of court challenges. The piece weighs constitutional questions, injunctions, and whether 3.2 percent beer could be intoxicating, noting repeal would end enforcement of the eighteenth amendment and legalize alcohol.
The Des Moines Register questions the farm bill’s impact noting it may not win broad public support. It contrasts the measure with the Economy Bill and recalls Hoover’s farm board as context while highlighting concerns over a sales tax on food and political risks for Roosevelt.
New York Herald Tribune argues the U S banking system shows fundamental weaknesses. It urges every bank to join the federal reserve system and advocates broad scale branch banking to diversify risk and ensure prudent management amid ongoing national debacles.
Cedar Rapids Gazette says the federal government guarantees bank soundness as banks reopen. It notes the administration certifies to the public that banks are sound, well managed, and capable of meeting any demands.
The article argues that all property from 1929 remains and has merely depreciated temporarily. It predicts restored power after adjusting car buretors. It forecasts farmland rising from 75 to 150 dollars per acre and a stock worth ten dollars a share rising to a hundred.
Atlantic News-Telegraph argues the banking system permeates all business and underscores dependence during the current bank holiday, noting how essential banks are to daily operations and financial life.
Poetic tribute highlights poets as life’s true world builders. It contrasts the soldier captain statesman and courtier with poets who rest by the sea and in tombs, praising the poet’s gift of song and enduring influence as the ageless, dreaming force. The piece quotes Thomas Curtis Clark from the Chicago Tribune.
Fred Edgar of Eldora Hardin county recalls a 1870s Peacock company double sided jigsaw puzzle bought in London by his sister. One side shows England the other Wales the pieces larger yet fewer than modern puzzles. There's nothing new under the sun.
Three armed men forced entry to the Walter Stephenson residence in Webster County after posing as buyers. Walter 76 and Elmer 72 were beaten and tortured. the attackers took 76 cents. Walter is in critical condition and Elmer seriously injured at a local hospital.
In Sheldon Iowa a dismantled house reveals a loaded lumber stack containing a mislaid copy of The Standard a Baptist paper from Chicago dated April 27 1876 addressed to Rev. W. C. Pratt an early Sheldon resident. The find occurred as workmen tore the dwelling down.
Wallace Harrison entered the Whitney hotel in Cass county seeking a permanent abode. After the hotel refused, he became unruly and was evicted. He threw two large pliers through two windows, pleaded guilty to destruction of public property, and was sentenced to five years at Fort Madison penitentiary. He then found his permanent abode.
Hal Maxwell an insurance agent in Clarinda Page county was robbed by a stranger who demanded money. Maxwell complied with the demand for a meal price and handed over cash, while the thief departed with the funds.
Louis Leckband a farmer from Osceola County endures seven months of injuries starting with appendicitis. After partial recovery a fall from a corn crib left him hurt and recently a bull attack caused severe bruises to his back and shoulders. Hired man Lyle Anderson intervened with a pitchfork to save him.
C H Phelps found an open Jack knife embedded in a 17 inch diameter white oak along the Little Wapsie near Fairbank in Buchanan County. The knife was stuck about thirty years earlier when the tree was only a few inches in diameter, and has since grown around it. The blades remained intact but were now rusty from sap.
Ben Wildman, a hired man for Walter Audleheim near Osceola, Clarke County, was injured when a tractor’s wheel caught an axe that fell from the seat. The axe struck his knee, cutting through the knee cap. doctors expect recovery of full leg use.
Legislative members confront mandatory state school training and a controversial tax cut plan. The Bead ty Bennett tax reduction bill sails through the senate and house with amendments debated in conference. Rumors say Gov Herring may push for a 45 percent cut for 1934 35 from the 1930 levy while liquor questions loom and a constitutional convention may form.
Thousands of farmers in overalls occupied the Iowa state capitol during a joint house and senate session. They pressed for tax relief, mortgage foreclosures relief, and parity with banks, insurance firms, and big business, warning they could adjourn the legislature next Monday.
Fear of resistance from farm holiday groups and threats to disband the assembly accompanied rapid legislative action this week. The House navigated a long calendar and cleared it for printing while the Senate adopted an unusually large number of measures.
The Iowa General Assembly moves include optional secondary road levies with county choice, removal of bond exemptions, broad salary cuts for officials, consolidations, and mileage fee cuts. A Beatty Bennett measure calls for a further 25 percent levy cut, potentially totaling about 60 million dollars over two years, though overlaps with prior bills pose risk to compliance.
With national approval for 3.5 percent beer and wines, Iowa pro prohibition opponents plan a strong drive to repeal state bans. Senator Matt Cooney of Dubuque sponsors the Senate measure and no action is taken until Washington's results are known. Both parties reportedly favor repeal, and the House is expected to move anti prohibition legislation to regulate licensing and taxation of liquor sales.
The senate refused to concur with the house amendment aimed at completing the Scheel Bes bill, halting its passage as lawmakers clash over final language and policy scope.
The senate bill on pupil transportation was amended by the house to require transport beyond 1 percent miles and optional below that. A conference committee will resolve the differences. The assembly also passed a bill empowering directors to arrange attendance and transport for pupils to neighboring districts when schools close and to advertise transportation bids.
Members vote against creation of a county purchasing agent and wholesale buying for rural schools by the county board of education. They favor keeping buying with local home merchants as taxpayers, noting county boards already hold broad purchasing authority.
The 44th general assembly approved a constitutional amendment to let both houses fill vacancies without special elections but the measure required approval from the 45th assembly before a public vote, which the House did not grant last week.
The passage notes insistence that the right to select their representatives remains with the voters as guaranteed by the constitution, resisting any move to centralize selection authority.
General Assembly votes nearly unanimously to cap rural pupil tuition at 9 instead of 12 dollars. It also approves compensating local districts for revenue loss from state or county exempt property within districts, paid from funds of property owners such as state parks. House rejects Farm Holiday strike resolutions, approves an amended resolution showing sympathy to farmers. Durant bill passes, ends 10 percent cut to county attorneys from liquor fines, directing full fines to county treasury. Don’t say lost, try a Classified Act.
Ice covering wires reaching 114 inches in places breaks more than 500 poles disables 470 long distance circuits and snaps telephone lines in 10 000 locations across the area.
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