Diana of Iowa

If Harry Lloyd Hopkins ever becomes Iowa's favorite son, Iowa can thank his daughter. He announced last week that he would presently re-establish himself as a resident of Grinnell, la., which he left 27 years ago after graduating from the college there. A Hopkins from Iowa would be much more available politically in 1940 than a Hopkins from the District of Columbia or New York, but his friends swore that his stated reason for replanting his roots in corn country was the true one: to give his daughter Diana, aged 6, a permanent home, permanent friends. If Mr. Hopkins goes on working in Washington, transplanted Diana will be fatherless most of the time as well as motherless.

> John Nance Garner's Presidential boom was advanced last week by friends who made much of a letter he wrote his partners in the cheap-house business at Uvalde, Tex. Emphasized excerpt: "I suggest that you consider the amount of indebtedness you are accumulating. . . . 'It is not wise to bite off too much in the beginning.' "

> Thomas Edmund Dewey made headlines with vote-appeal for Labor last week by arresting 14 bullyboys employed by private detective agencies as guards and strikebreakers in contravention of a year-old State law prohibiting such agencies from hiring help with police records.

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