Washington, July 24, Mr, Claudius Huston, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, announced to-day that he will xesign his committee chairmanship on August 7.
This move set at yest rumours which have been circulating for many weeks, to the considerable embarvassment of the Administration. Because of apparently _well-substantiated stories of irregularities in handling campaign funds, Mr. Huston's resignation was expected some time ago, and it was felt that if it. did not come before long, President Hoover would be compelled, to ask for it.
'No intimation has been given out' og yet concerning a successor in the chairmanship.
When Mr, Huston's activities were aired! before a Senatorial committee during the regular session of Congress, an effort was made by certain elements to daub Mr. John J. Raskob, Democratic chairman, with the same brand of tar through allegations that he had contributed of his personal fortune to defeat "dry" Democrats because of his own "wet" sympathies, The general result of the scandalmongering, however was to implant 8 firm conviction in the mind of the public that Mr. Huston had outlived usefulness in his capacity of chairman.
Since that time the chief. uncertainty was the date of his resignation,
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