Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 45, DeMotte, Jasper County, 8 October 1948 — GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO MAKE APPEARANCE AT ST. JOSEPH'S FIELDHOUSE [ARTICLE]

GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO MAKE APPEARANCE AT ST. JOSEPH'S FIELDHOUSE

To Arrive Here At 11:45 A.M.; Will Speak, Leave City At 1 P.M.

Thomas E. Dewey, GOP candidate for President, will make a campaign speech in Rensselaer on Saturday, Oct. 16. it was announced today by Herbert Brownell, jr., the presidential nominee’s campaign manager. According to a schedule released by Ira Dixon of Kentland, 2nd district Republican chairman, Mr. Dewey will arrive in Rensselaer on his special train at 11:45 a.m., and will speak at St. Joseph’s Fieldhouse shortly thereafter. He will leave Rensselaer at 1 p.m. More specific plans on the meeting here will be released later. Dewey comes to Rensselaer through the efforts of Charles A. Halleek of Rensselaer, Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. In the GOP convention held in Philadelphia in June of this year, Halleek threw the Indiana delegation behind Dewey for the Presidential nomination, paving the way for Dewey’s early nomination. Governor Dewey will start a nine-state campaign swing Sunday night which will take him through the Middle West and as fa»- south as Kentucky and Oklahoma. He will speak at Evansville, Indiana Tuesday, and will swing hack across, northern Indiana on Saturday, Oct. 16, stopping at Rensselaer. The Republican presidential candidate will make at least 38 campaign appearances d'uring the eight-day trip, including major speeches at Pittsburgh, Kansas City and St. Paul. Not only will the Governor make an intensive campaign in President Truman’s home state of Missouri, but he will go as his Democratic opponent recently did into the coal mining and farm country of southern Illinois. The Illinois phase of his trip may represent an effort to woo the vote of the United Mine Workers of John L. Lewis who yesterday assailed Mr. Truman as unfit for the presidency. Lewis, in his blast at the President, a 1 o criticised the Republican 80th Congress, hut he refrained from a stand on Dewey. Dewey’s next trip will take him into Pennsylvania, Kentucky. Oklaloma, Missouri, Minnese - Indiana Michigan, Illinois and New Y irk. These are the states in which he will make appearances, ’though his train will toi h other states in moving do.vn tin gh the nation’s l cad basket. _ Sunday (' guests at. the Claude Ch Jr. home re Mr. and V <). H. Huber and Miss Do j Ann Huber, M*. and Mi K r LaChappell, U end \ls I i LaChappel and Sue, m of Cl t: to, Mr - and Mrs. ( t r Huber u ‘ m** , Mrs. Dob- LaClvippel’ and Mrs. Lh ,d Str? . ugh ter, Sue of ire(l ih., ai.d Mr. and ' C. I . Chappell Sr., of De ,tte The dinner was ir honor oi Mr. a d Mrs. O. 1.. Tuber’s 40th wed. mg anniversary. Miss Carolyn Bas 3 was a Gary shipper Saturday.