Evening star., 1940-08-20
Senator Bankhead
To Direct Campaign
In Southeast States
House Leader Royburn
Consents to Head
Southwestern Office

Alabama said today he had accepted
. proposal from Democratic ns-
tional headquarters to take charge
Of the Roosevelt Wallace campaign
in the Southeastern States, with
headquarters at Birmingham, Ala.
Edward J. Flynn the new national
chairman, said at his first press
conference in New York yesterday
that Senator Bankhead is the logical
man to have charge of the regional
Office in the Southeast. 1t was orig
inally planned that the Office would
be located at Atlanta, but Senator
Bankhead preferred Birmingham
and it was only on condition that
the headquarters be placed there
that he accepted the JOB.
House Leader Rayburn is expected
to take charge of the regional head
quarters for the Southwest, which
probably will be located at Dallas
Tex. At New York headquarters,
Mr.. Flynn said official announce
ment would be made as soon as &C
ceptance is received from all of
those who had been invited TO head
regional Offices.
Representative Rayburn said to-
day he had consented to take
charge of the campaign in the
Southwest unless some other change
had been made by Mr.. Flynn.
Mr.. Flynn will personally direct
the campaign along the Eastern
vi
ters.
Wayne Johnson. New York lawyer.
Was appointed chairman of the DEM
ocratlc National Committees Fin
ance Committee today, the Associ-
ated Press reported.
Also Representative Mccormack of
Massachusetts was named director
OF the Campaign Speakers Bureau.
Mr.. Flynn is holding conferences
with party workers from all the
States regarding organization of
campaign clubs in thousands of
communities. He reiterated today
that he has no present plans for
any important change in the Or
ganization of the national head
quarters, which occupy the fifth
and sixth floors of the Bilt-
more Hotel. His own Offices are on
the fifth floor and Oliver Quayle
with the business force has taken
over the sixth floor
James A. Farley who has Just
retired after more than eight years
OF management OF the Roosevelt
campaigns, has stepped down
floor. He is operating the New York
State headquarters on the fourth
ioor.
Mr.. Flynn will hold his second
regional luncheon conference to-
morrow with men and women cam
palgn workers. It will be a four
State conference-New York. Penn
sylvania, Maryland and West Vir-
ginia.
Farley Split Cloaked.
National Party Treasurer Quayle
and his force were busy today pre-
pairing to start the free distribution
OF $4,000 Democratic Campaign
Souvenir Books to party workers,
and is preparing to acknowledge
receipt OF the contributions from
81, S. and $40 clubs which Mr..
Flynn asked for last night in his
Nationwide radio talk to campaign
workers to offset the slush fund
OF the opposition
Every effort is being made to keep
jim Farley tied in closely with the
national headquarters work, to cloak
over split in the campaign lead
ership when he resigned in protest
against the third-term drive. Flvnn
ana Farley appeared together ves-
terday at the meeting of the State
Democratic Committee. which decid-
ed the State convention will be held
in New York City on September 30.
Farley was made chairman of the
committee to designate temporary
officers. 1t was consensus of the
State leaders that Senator Mead
most likely will be nominated for re-
election as will the two members of
Congress at large, Matt Merritt and
Mrs. Caroline ODay.
simultaneously. Kenneth F. Slmp-
son, New York County Republican
chairman. who has just returned
to New York from a conference with
Wendell L. Willkie practically set
tied it that Representative Barton
will be selected to run against SEN
ator Mead
Pleased by State Reports.
The Republican State convention
Is to be held on September 25. 26 or
27, just before the Democratic State
convention, and Mr.. Willkie is ex-
pected to attend 1t is forecast
that the convention will be turned
into a Statewide Willkie rally.
Mr.. Flynn expressed himself as
greatly pleased and encouraged
by his first luncheon conference
with New England party leaders
yesterday. He intimated reports
from Maine were particularly en-
couraging. Those attending this
conference included Mr.. Flynn and
Mr.. Quayle. Frank C. Walker,
Charles Nicholson. publicity direc-
tor; and Mrs. Dorothy McAllister,
director of the women's division
from Massachusetts,; former Gov.
James M. Curley, natlonal commit
teeman; Mrs. Margaret ORlordan,
national committeewoman, and Will
liam H. Burke. jr., State chairman;
from Connecticut. National Com
mitteeman David E. Fitzgerald, Ma
tional Committeewoman Miss Mary
Couglin, John Mccarthy, Democrat
ic State chairman and Mrs. Nora
Harris; from Rhode Island. Mrs.
Margaret M. Sullivan. national COM
mitteewoman; Dennis J. Roberts.
State chairman, and Mrs. Margaret
w. Perry; from New Hampshire,
National Committeeman Edward
Gallagher; from Vermont, National
Committeeman Frank H. Duffy, and
from Maine, National Committee
man F. Harold Dubord, F. Davis
Clark, treasurer of the State COM
mittee, and Fred H. Lancaster,