Biography
The September 14, 1939 AP dispatch printed in the Daily Iowan September 15, page 6, names Joe Phillips, age 27, of Sioux City among six people arrested on accusations described as inciting government hostilities. Iowa Communist Party officials denied advocating overthrow of the government. The report supplies no individual custody institution, completed duration, sentence or release. He is associated with the named Sioux City political prosecution; the differing arrest and release dates in other cohort accounts are not assigned as his personal custody endpoints. Source: https://dailyiowan.lib.uiowa.edu/DI/1939/di1939-09-15.pdf
Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 844. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.