The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-11
ENTIRE COUNTRY WILL LISTEN IN
 ON PRESIDENT
Radio To Give Coolidge Greatest Audience In
 History Thursday

5 WASHINGTON, Aug. 1O.-When President Coolidge rises on the platform of the Memorial Continental hall here Thursday night to make his acceptance speech, he will address the greatest audience in history. Radio has made it possible.
 The auditorium is small; only afew hundred can be packed into it for the ceremonies. But while only com rarative handful will actually be pres ent at the notification, radio apparatus will carry the Presidents voice to thou sands of auditors in every corner of the nntion.
 Preparations for broadcasting are row completed and they make possible for Mir. Coolidge the Largest crowd ever addressed by any man in this country . or any other country" Chairman Will liam M. Butler said in Sunday night statement.
 Long distance telephone lines will transmit his words to fifteen high powered broadcasting stations, which is guarantee that they will be heard from the Atlantaic to the Pacific and on ships at sea.
 Whole Nation To Listen.
 Butler prefaeed his announcement with the statement that letters reach ing republican headquarters are q cer- tain indication that practically every radio fan in the country expects to tune in on the notification formalities
 Among the stations that will pick up the speech from the Chesapeake and Potomac station here are WEAF, New York; WAR, Providence, R. I.; KDKA, Pittsburg; WGN, Chicago i; KSD, St. Louis; WDAF, Kansas City i; WGR, Buffalo; WNAC, Boston and WIG, Schenectady.
 Other details of preparation for the Thursday night affair are now practi- cally completed. The ceremony will be- gin at s pm.
 Open To Public.
 There has been no attempt to make the notification an exclusive" affair, Butler said. Memorial Continental hall, home of the Daughters of the American Revolution and scene of the Arms Con ference deliberations, will be thrown open to the public at an appointed time.
 As many as can be accommodated will be seated, but q large overflow is cer- tain. Places have been reserved for prominent republican men and wom- en and newspapermen, but the rest of the floor space will be open to the first corners.
 In order that those unable to find places will hear the notification ad- dress of former representative Frank W Mondell, chairman of the Cleve- land convention, and the President him self, amplifiers will be placed outside the hall to carry their voices to the crowds on the lawn and in the streets. Chairman Butler will preside at the ceremonies and call the meeting to order. [ Independents To Mobilize. i Wh19 thy -ePubiicans are coneen- T. I -ss-..s;S,v1 SAaaiT i& ,ntion on the Thursday night proceedings, the independents this week will mobilize forces in prepa- ration of their own campaign.
 Senator Wheeler, vice presidential nominee, has sent word that he will re- turn to Washington, August 20, from u vacation spent on Cape Cod. He ex- poets to make his first address in Bos- ton about September 1.
 No decision of the speech-making itinerary will be made definitely until Wheeler has conferred with Senator La Toilette and Representative John N. Nelson, monager of the La Toilette western headquarters.>
 Requests that La Toilette make sev- elal speeches upon the Pacific coast, however, are being considered. It was the original plan that the senior mem- Der of the La Toilette Wheeler ticket should confine himself to the east and middle west, while the Montana sena- tor used his powers of persuasion in the far west