Evening star., 1945-01-23
BrowneII 10 Spend
S75O,OOO This Year
To Strengthen COP
BY GOULD LINCOLN,
Star Staff Correspondent.

1NDAhNhI oLlfo, Jan. "zo.-CTdlr-
man Herbert Brownell, jr., OF the
Republican National Committee to.
day has authority to go full speed
ahead in building up the Republican
National organizations for the 1916
and 1948 elections.
His budget for this year is $780,
600. ~
This authority was given him
when the committee adopted with.
out dissenting vote the eight-point
program he proposed for full.
time, year-round working organiza.
tion, with greatly strengthened re-
search and publicity divisions.
The action of the national COM
naittee is the answer to the chal-
lenge contained in the pronounce
ment of the CLOS Political Action
Committee, regarded as an adjunct
of the Democratic party, which COM
mitted that organization to perma-
nent full-time political activity.
Salaried Assistant.
Mr. Brownell interpreted the reso-
tion adopted by the committee as
empowering him to appoint a
salaried executive assistant
The name of youthful William E
Jenner of Indiana, former short
term Senator. was mentioned promi-
nently as a possible selection.
Before the committee adjourned
yesterday kilograms were received
from Gov. Dewey and from his rum
ming mate in the 1914 campaign,
former Gov. Bricker of Ohio, con-
graduating the committee on its
action.
Gov. Deweys telegram said:
will you please convey to the
members of the Republican National
Committee my hearty congratula-
tions on the comprehensive and for
ward-looking program they have
today adopted for the future Of the
Republican party.
Called Vital Step.
Placing the national organization
on a basis of active, continuous,
every day service, as the national
committee has done, is the most
vital step possible in maintaining
national unity and effectiveness for
the winning of the war and the
building of great peace, for pre-
venting a repetition of the tragic
failures of the present administra-
ton which have become public in
recent months, and of building
soundly for the preservation of free
dom and liberty in America"
Mr.. Bricker said that "this pro-
gram will make possible the main-
tanning of permanent, active and
militant party organization and is a
great step toward Republican vic
tories in our municipalities In 1945
and in State and congressional elec-
tions in 1916. All Republicans should
and I know will unite with the ma
tional committee in carrying out
this program.
An attempt was made by Clar-
ence Buddington Kelland, national
committeeman from Arizona, to
have the committee adopt a reso-
luton which would have had the
effect of giving the Executive Com
mittee grip on the proposed or
ganizational plans, along with the
chairman. His resolution was de-
bated and an amendment proposed
which would have considerably null
lifted its intended effect.
Withdraws Resolution.
Realizing that he had not suffi-
cient votes in the committee to win,
Mr.. Kelland finally withdrew it
Mrs. Dudley c. Hay of Michigan
was elected secretary of the ma
tional committee to fill a vacancy
caused by the death of the late
Harold w. Mason of Vermont. This
is the first time this Office in the
Republican National Committee has
been given to a woman.
Mrs. Cooper B. Rhodes, national
committeewoman for the District of
Columbia, was contestant for the
job and also Ernest M. Morris of In
diana and Harvey Jewett, jr., of
South Dakota.
1t required two ballots to elect. ON
the first Mrs. Hay had 43 votes, Mr.
Morris 25, Mrs. Rhodes 13 and Mr.
Jewett 10. Mr.. Jewett withdrew.
The second ballot gave Mrs. Hay So,
Mr.. Morris "a and Mrs Rhodes 16.
Edward F. Colladay, national COM
mitteeman for the District of Co.
lumbia and the dean of the COM
mittee in length of service, placed
Mrs. Rhodes in nomination for Sec
retary.
Mrs. Rhodes candidacy, it was
learned, was largely at the sugges-
ton of Mr.. Brownell and Mr.. Sprague,
intended as compromise between
Mrs Hay and Mr.. Morris. She was
an eleventh. entry or she might
well have Jared better
The national committee before ad-
journing adopted resolutions of re-
gret upon the deaths of Wendell L.
Willkie, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCor-
mick SimmS and Harold w Mason