The election climaxed one of the is in the states of which th most bitter primary campaigns in lowa's history, with leading Administration figures throwing their full influence behind Mr. Wearin in an attempt to carry the state, for the President. Iowa was regarded as a representative mid-west state which would give the first indication of the Administration's present strength in the Mississippi Valley.
Mr. Wearin received the unqualified endorsement of Mr, Harry H. Hopkins, Federal Emergency Relief Administrator, close advisei [of the President and former lowa resident, His defeat was regarded as reflecting the state's opposition ihe President's favourite bills court reform and governmental re-Organization, both of which Senator Gillette opposed natives.
Several Senators, opposed to President's judicial and government reorganization bills and seeking renomination in the current primaries. were responsible for the President's outburst to the press. They alleged
advisers of the President had en-that Mr. Hopkins and other close dorsed candidates opposing. present Democratic Senators who had voted against Roosevelt legislation.
The President's statement followed the renomination of Senator Guy M Gillette in the Iowa primaries, Striking at the newspaper and congressional criticism which said that Mr, Hopkins had sought to "phy politics with human misery," President Roosevelt described the agitation as a great deal of smoke.
President Roosevelt has asked Congress for a special appropriation of $50,000 to be used for tracing the kidnappers of five-year-old "Skeegie" Cash, son pf Mr. James Cash, wealthy Miami oil dealer, The baby was abducted from his cct on May 29. His father subsequently paid the $10,000 demanded as ransom, but the boy was never returned.
A nation-wide search, in which G-men, 400 American Legionaries, 2,000 volunteers, motorboats, divers and private and naval aeroplanes all cooperated, failed to produce any trace of the missing child or his kidnappers.
After a week's intensive hunt, all hope of finding the boy alive was abandoned.—Reuter.
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