Walker to quit chairmanship
Announcement due Jan. 22 at Chicago conclave
Chicago, Illinois (UP) –
Postmaster General Frank C. Walker, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is expected to resign that post at the committee’s meeting in Washington, Jan. 22.
Sources within the committee said it was understood Mr. Walker would submit his resignation at the same time the group meets to choose the 1944 presidential nomination site.
Robert E. Hannegan, Commissioner of Internal Revenue and formerly of St. Louis, has been mentioned prominently as his successor.
Mr. Walker and the executive vice chairman of the committee, Ambrose O’Connell, arrived from New York yesterday to confer with Mayor Edward J. Kelly regarding Chicago as the site for the 1944 convention.
He said he had “no comment” on reports that he would announce his resignation as committee chairman during his stay in Chicago.
He did not know, he said, what Mr. Roosevelt intended to do regarding the approaching election, adding:
I doubt that anyone knows what the President’s political plans for the future are.
With Chicago practically assured as the Democratic convention city, Mr. Walker indicated the date would be during the latter part of July or early August.
He said:
The Democrats are going to conduct a short, snappy campaign and the date makes little difference.