Evening star., 1940-07-31
Group Named 10 Pick
ar|ey Successor
To See Roosevelt
Session at White House
Tomorrow; Byrnes and
Mccormack Visitors

The subcommittee appointed by
the Democratic National Committee
in Chicago to confer with President
Roosevelt on the selection of new
chairman to succeed James A. Far
ley and map other details of the
campaign setup will come to the
White House at noon tomorrow, it
was announced today by Stephen
Early, the Presidents press secre-
tary, as Mr.. Roosevelt met with two
of his principal congressional third
term supporters.
Senator Byrnes of South Caro-
lima, who was seeing the President
for the first time since the Chicago
convention. was a luncheon guest
at the White House, and Repre-
sentative Mccormick of Massa-
chusetts had morning engage
ment.
Mr.. Early said that while he was
lust guessing he thought it
more than likely" that Senator
Byrnes and the President would talk
over tomorrows meeting and he
thought it probable that the Bay
State political situation prompted
Mr.. McCormack's visit. The Mas
sachusetts Representative had an
active part in : swinging to Mr..
Roosevelt's support in Chicago
majority of the Bay State oelega-
ton, which had been expected to
support the candidacy Of Mr.. FARLEY.
Senator Byrnes has been promi-
nently mentioned as a likely sue
cessor to Chairman Farley, who is
scheduled to step out on August II,
but the South Carolinian has in
sisted he does not want the post.
Flynn Heads Subcommittee.
Heading the subcommittee which
is empowered to name a new ma
tional chairman is Edward j. Flynn,
Democratic national committeeman
from New York Other members are
David Fitzgerald of Connecticut. w.
w. Howes of South Dakota. Mrs.
Mildred Jasper of Ohio and Miss
Beatrice Cobb of North Carolina.
Mr.. Farley also is scheduled to sit
in at the meeting.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Roosevelt has no
more to say-at least for the present
ON boilers.
Several days ago the President
paid his respects to former asso-
ciates who had gone over to the
camp of Wendell L. Willkie, but
at his semi-weekly press conference
yesterday, questions about new de-
fections from Democratic ranks met
with silence.
The Democratic National Com
mittee, however, was not so reticent,
taking rap at John B. Jameson,
former New Hampshire Democratic
chairman, whose pledge of support
to Mr.. Willkie had been made public
earlier by the Republican National
Committee.
A statement from Democratic
headquarters said that Mr.. Jameson
lis a banker who joined the Re-
publican party before the 1896 pres
idential election, so he antedates
Mr.. Willkie as Republican by at
least two years"
Toland to Back Willkie.
At the same time Edmund M.
Toland, a Boston lawyer, who said
he had been a lifelong Democrat"
announced his resignation as gen.
eral counsel for the Smith Com
mittee in charge of the House Labor
Board investigation, explaining that
he would re-enter private practice
and support Mr. Willkie.
Mr.. Toland-who admitted sup
porting Herbert Hoover in 1928 and
said he could neither vote for
Roosevelt or Landon in 1936'-called
"the third-term tradition sacred"
and said Mr.. Roosevelt stands for
the reprehensible practices of which
the Oabor) board was convicted"
In the Senate Candidate Willkie
came under fire from Senator Guf-
fey of Pennsylvania, ardent New
Dealer, who said he was challenging
the former utilities magnate to ex-
plain who killed the paper that
fought Willkie'
Senator Guffey placed in the Con-
gressional Record an editorial from
the Philadelphia Record of July %
which asked the question and then
stated the newspaper was the Chat
tanooga (Tenn) News.