Johndro’s Finacial Astrology “WAMPUM” Manuscript – Johndro was working on some exceptionally accurate manual for financial astrology, which, if it was ever published, would have been written by someone else, being based on Johndro's ideas. In the following documents, this manuscript is discussed by Wallace's associate Charles Roos and his wife Juanita. Please note that, as is clear in the letters, Charles Roos ("Chas") is prone to exaggeration, so I generally take what he says as a jumping off-point and try to confirm with correspondence from Johndro, Henry Wallace ("HAW"), and his wife Juanita ("Nita," sometimes referred to as "Kin-Tin"). There is also some correspondence from Charles Roos' brother Alford Roos, a "cloak and dagger man," who I haven't looked into much, nor have I included most of his letters. Creation of a timeline and transcription of handwritten parts of letters will be useful, and is a future project I intend to do.
Working (partial) notes as of 9/21. Please keep in mind these are extremely rough, and are not suitable for anyone's use, to be quite frank. However, collecting the relevant links was very labor-intensive, so I would like to save any curious researchers some of that hassle.
11/27/31 11 0028 “First: Unambiguous documentation of Henry A. Wallace, before he became FDR's Vice President, took astrology seriously, did the calculations himself, and asked Johndro for help. This is a letter from him to Johndro dated February 24, 1932, where he asked for help in acquiring books with the planetary positions, and asks Johndro for help in relocation astrology. He asks for help with "...my diagnosis of the different longitudes which would be best adapted to bringing out the strength of my Uranus-Sun hookup as well as the Jupiter-Neptune conflict and the Venus-Mercury conjunction."”
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11/27/31 11 0028 “Chas "In w/Johndro on this new scheme”
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11/29/31 haw → chas re johndro
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12/1/31 mention of wampum by Chas to HAW https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/259?active_member=710008
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11 0159 12/6 Important letter re: johndro from chas https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/259?active_member=474732
11 0495 johndro performs some sort of 'operation' on haw, and HAW is receptive. Not sure of the details. https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/259?active_member=344535
12 0043 1/15/1932 Chas to haw explaining johndro working on wampum, and his recent letters to haw. “great personal danger to j” - mentions stock trading dope. v. important
12 0087 01 19 1932 haw to j handwritten, need to transcribe this one
12 0088 #2 of above asking re: running for office
12 0123 01 21 1932 Johndro to Haw haw explaining and doing astro re selling paper and politics
12 0124 handwritten “speech” johndro enclosed
12 0153 haw → chas enclosing something from dower
12 0348 02 02 1932 https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/1982?active_member=261007 chas-→ haw detailing wampum system for sttock market
12 0378 02 04 1932 j → haw https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/1982?active_member=250374 mentions political people charts and concentrating on stock market work due to need for “money and lots of it”
12 0379 02 04 1932 https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/1982?active_member=533568 haw → chas - doesnt like politics – handwritten
12 0480 02 09 1932 handwritten chas-→haw https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/1982?active_member=531198
12 0481 beginning of some sort of play on back of above
12 0559 02 16 1932 chas-→ haw saying johndro proved himself “blew me back into the picture”– v. important https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/1982?active_member=309957
12 0568 2/17/32 haw ordering star catalog https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/1982?active_member=432872
12 0585 2/17/32(?) chas-→ haw thanking for consumers research booklets https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/1982?active_member=704980
12 0613 02 18 1932 chas → haw handwritten recommending keeping letters from j in special file
12 0614 back of above
12 0661 02 20 1932 haw-→nita discusses working on calculations from Johndro's books, frustration w/Johndro's personality https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/1982?active_member=132487
12 0703 02 22 1932 chas-→haw Johndro's stock predictions within 1/8 point https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/1982?active_member=598099
13 0034 nita sign rulership discussion 1934 02 24
13 0036 part 2 of above https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3628?active_member=430917
13 0035 charles on above 1934 02 24
13 0029 j to haw
13 0030 “”
13 103 c → haw 1934 02 27 orange paper means uranus and purple ink means jupiter (mimeograph?) and mentions a dr bering of san diego.
13 104 PT 2 OF SAME – is kin-tin nita? Nita and charles = beachcombers, charles often goes by poseyemo
13 0118 haw –> institution carnegie haw frustrated their catalog not detailed enough 1932 03 01
13 0114 john nelson incomplete handwritten to haw– haven’t parsed yet
13 0221 1932 03 05 roos → haw re plays. Nita signs as kintin 1934 03 05
13 0222 1932 03 05 chas → haw mentions johndro interest in haw and 11th hour
13 0359 03 10 1932 haw → j who lives in what is now a marine base – discusses studying his suff
13 0360 continuation. Mentions eclipse on mar 7. warren and pearson are haw’s friends at cornell who made a bulletin he enclosed to j.
13 0370 03 10 1932 haw thaanks pearson for bulletin
13 0426 alford → haw 3/12/32
also 0426,
13 0661 04 07 1932 haw → chas, mentions j looking like “colors flying” (good). Much handwritten astro poss by others. Note on side saying “red pi(???) is johndro). Mentions haw’s saturn in 4h
13 0691 04 11 1932 haw → fdr appears early on - mentioning political views, dem/rep
13 0692 #2 of same
dower saying keep your chin up – dower seems is spiritual leader of a "Temple of the People" https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/6265?active_member=304047
tTemple of The people document https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/6265?active_member=491723
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/6265?active_member=488747 asking us dep of commerce for numbers
alford makign hs case https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/6265?active_member=796209
and again https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/6265?active_member=757206
haw asking for weather data from WI https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/6265?active_member=423584
undaTed chas-→ haw https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/6265?active_member=248872 14 0556
chas 2 dower https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/6265?active_member=447326
14 0564 06011932 chas → haw discussing arrangements for haw visiting https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/6265?active_member=225483
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/6265?active_member=601168 partial – says visiting planned for 6/14-15
14 0589 6/2/32 https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/6265?active_member=616812 haw → charles says falls visiting went well, some chiding.
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/6265?active_member=247788 #2 of above
14 0634 https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/6265?active_member=315988
chas-→haw
15 0047 06/20/1932? chas → haw handwritten mentioning wampum https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=242631
15 0064 6/21/1932 https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=260966
chas -→haw handwritten mentioning Johndro
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=176684 #2 of above
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=817586 Dower's backround
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=845337 p2
15 0157 07/05/32 https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=641652 chas –> haw re j
15 0191 7/10 chas-→haw disturbed by others opening leters. Johndro usng astro to help roosevelt (Yes, I know I may have buried the lede with this one, but there isn't much documentation about it at all.. https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=334101
15 0256 https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=426459
chas –> haw
#2 of above https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=102161
#3 of above https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=735132
15 0260 07 16 1932https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=850654 chas-→ haw
afraid of this book (unrelated to astrology) being published https://archive.org/stream/studyofdelawarei00spec/studyofdelawarei00spec_djvu.txt
07 25 1932
chas → haw https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=289362
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=862967 #2 of above
haw → johndro https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=799030
15 0370 07 28 1932 https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=738825
#2 – much discussion on specific horoscopes
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=504824 7/29/32chas -→haw brief mentioning of pluto
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=797459 CHAS→>has
8/2 #2 of above https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=478442
14 0411 8/2/32 chas-→haw discusses johndro and bering as astrologers https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=706949 #2 https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=696284
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8/8 alford to HAW saying thanks haw thanks https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=391588 8/6
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=346247 #2
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=237750 haw asks alford not to go after guilty people for political reasons
haw → fdr https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=839476
https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/3168?active_member=817250 chas → haw 8/30 johndro w/bering on big business stock market $$$$$
16 0019 09 03 1932 https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/357?active_member=546785 haw –> chas telegram person arriving @studido
16 0034https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/357?active_member=455674
Correspondence from Charles O. Roos to Henry A. Wallace dated September 4, 1932
16 0090 https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/node/357?active_member=6049
mentions john thompson – "dont say anything"
bering and johndro mentioned
9 7 32
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Johndro had a personal letter from FDR?
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nita → haw
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LJ jenson never mentions astro in letters but uses it for stock picks – haw brings up to johndro
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haw 2 fdr
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chas → haw
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alf to haw
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chas to haw handwritten
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Nita to haw handwritten
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chas to haw handwritten
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alf to haw