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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1938
Page
6
The piece notes intra Washington faction splits over the Iowa primary with anti and pro New Deal camps. It cites Tom Corcoran and the elimination committee urging Roosevelt to back favored allies. Dickinson looms as anti New Deal GOP choice.
In Iowa the parties express satisfaction with the primary results. Democratic leaders note Otha Wearin’s exit and expect Guy Gillette to win the fall vote, easing contention without relying on Roosevelt’s influence. Republicans applaud Gillette’s 52 percent showing to consolidate support.
The piece criticizes George Brown of the Iowa High School Athletic Association and notes election counts showing Brown at 35.3 percent as Democratic nominee for superintendent. It details how Thompson wins in Muscatine and Miller in Des Moines, with parties endorsing candidates and calls for changing Iowa’s 1907 primary law to allow convention nominations for most state officers.
Announcement states Beatrice Baird of Washington and George Van Gundy will wed in Monmouth Indiana. The notice confirms the couple’s names and the wedding location.
Making and publicity of the issues gives voters material to base opinions on the candidates. The text emphasizes how issue exposure shapes electoral choices and public discourse.
Louis E. Roddewig of the state board reallocated sales and income levies and found the average Iowa home owner’s taxes reduced by 36 dollars. The plan benefits 317,498 property owners with a total tax refund of 317,498 dollars.
Chester C. Davis a member of the federal reserve board and former AAA administrator spoke in Des Moines last week criticizing market forces that push prices up and production down. He emphasized the critique targets current forces rather than the triple-A program theories.
Kraschel forces back Bar ney Bunkers of Remsen against critic Gustave Alesch of Marcus in Plymouth county for state rep. Alesch wins 3 to 1. Next in Davis county Russell Allen of Bloomfield faces Dewey Goode of Bloomfield seeking another term.
Iowa bankers meeting at the capital city passed a resolution opposing the pump priming method of boosting business by increasing the national debt and spending borrowed money on government projects.
Reports say Representative Otha Wearin would accept nomination to retain his seat in the seventh district. Six candidates split votes as Lloyd Thurston loses a bid. Karl M. LeCompte is nominated in the fifth district. In the third district J R Bahne of Eldora loses to W F Hayes of Waverly as Waterloo factions contend.
James Roosevelt sent congratulations to Gillette after his Iowa senatorial win. Leo Wegman praised the result as proof of New Deal strength, noting Gillette said he was not an anti New Dealer. Wegman had previously called Wearin the only option.
President Roosevelt backs the Wealin endorsement from WPA director Harry Hopkins while noting odd Iowa primary sentiments. Otto Muntz pushes for a probe into IBM installations in state departments and ties the firm's president to funding Jim Farley’s Democratic war chest. He spoke to the legislative Interim committee.
C I O agent Shaeffer pressed for a formal investigation into charges of patient beatings at the Cherokee insane hospital. The board of control and the state health department were conducting inquiries into the matter.
The state bar association convened last week with speeches and plans to extend influence across the State Supreme Court, all state offices and major government positions as lawyers emerge among the most successful office seekers.
A London produced program aims to supply every British islander with a gas mask within eight hours. Blackburn factory staff of 800 produce over 1,000,000 masks weekly, mostly female workers.
The governor proposes ending the state property tax levy of 6 million dollars annually. The state board of education asks 2.246 million for building and improvement programs at state schools. Debate postponed to the January 1939 legislative session.
Washington reports the government will soon designate certain warehouses as approved for receiving wheat from farmers in payment of wheat insurance. The action aims to facilitate settlement of wheat claims and streamline the insurance process for growers.
Des Moines June 14. Fred Everett of Albia, Republican candidate for attorney general, was chosen by the state central committee to deliver the keynote at the State judicial convention in Des Moines on July 15. The regular convention keynote was still under consideration at lunch. Former Senator Lester Dickinson, who spoke at the 1932 GOP national convention, was not expected to be selected.
A Santa Fe passenger train traveling at high speed derailed three coaches near Turner Kansas on June 1. Fifty five passengers and four crew members escaped serious injuries with four women reported to have only minor injuries and taken for medical checks in Kansas City.
Iowa highway patrolmen warned to be alert for William W and Joe Lucas alias Lewis Sullivan, accused of a Burlington store robbery on June 8 and linked to a drug store heist in Island on June 5 and a Wyoming Illinois garage burglary around June 8. The alert came via central police radio.
The term doughboy is traced to American soldiers whose globular buttons on uniforms inspired the nickname. Cavalrymen attributed the origin to these distinctive buttons and the broader infantry image formed during early U S participation in war.
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