Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 26, DeMotte, Jasper County, 28 May 1948 — HALLECK WILL MAKESTATEGOP KEYNOTE TALK [ARTICLE]

HALLECK WILL MAKESTATEGOP KEYNOTE TALK

R e n s s e 1 a er’s Congressman Honored By State Group As Convention Ke yhoter Representative Charles A. Halleck, majority leader of the House of Representatives, will be keynote speaker at the Republican state convention June 11. Permanent chairman will be Judge James A. Emmert of the Indiana Supreme Court. The selections, which must be formally ratified by the convention delegates, were made yesterday by a convention committee and approved by the GOP state committee. Ratification is a formality. Reportedly United State* Senator Homer E. Capehart had sought the permanent chairmanship, but, politicians said, he was sidetracked because three candidates for the Governor nomination objected to his selection. The objection was said to arise from Capehart’s public indorsement of the fourth candidate, United States Senator William E. Jenner, for the nominaton. Selection of a slate of candidates for seven delegates-at-large to the G.O.P. national convention was placed yesterday in the hands of a sub-committee by G.O.P. Chairman H. C. Springer. The slate will be submitted to the state convention for approval. Subcommittee members are Herman C. Wolff, 11th District G.O.P. chairman; Rue J. Alexander, Lieutehant Governor and Sixth District chairman, and Mrs. Martha Whitehead of Shelbyville, 10th District vice-chairman. According to observers at least six places on the delegate slate are practically foregone conclusions: United States Senator Capehart and Jenner; Representative Halleck, Governor Ralph F. Gates, who also is national committeeman from Indiana, Mrs. Cecil Harden, national committeewoman, and Springer. Observers said former United States Senator Raymond E. Willis of Angola might get the seventh place. The state committee voted to elect a national committeeman at 10 a.m,' June 12. Delegates to the national convention will meet at 9 a.m. to elect a chairman of the 29-member Hoosier delegation. The slate to be offered is purely a recommendation and could be rejected by the state convention and different persons elected. Recommendations from the state convention arrangements committee, also accepted by the state committee, . included Ruel Steele, secretary to Governor Gates, for chief sergeant at arms, and Mrs. Minttie Quinley of Lebanon, secretary of the convention. Members of the arrengements committee include Ira Dixon, Second District chairman; Mrs. Arthur R. Robinson, 11th District vicechairman; Leona Aikin of Dugger,' Seventh District vice-chairman; George Edick, secretary of the state committee; Tom Potter of Terre Haute, head of the Young Republicans’ Organization. and Springer.