The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-10
Stanford Bowl Is Prepared
b for 100000 to Attend
! 81 Acceptance Rite.
ARRANGE RADIO HooKUP
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' Candidates Declaration
of Principles.
BY PAUL r. MALLON
Tinted Press Staff Correspondent

PALO ALTO. Cal, Aug. 1o.-The
great Stanford bowl rearranged to
accommodate 100000 persons, will
vawn on the plains of Santa Clara
valley Saturday for the ceremony
which will place Herbert Hoover,
the Republican presidential nominee
officially in the fined as a candl-
date. 1t may be the largest poIlV-
ical rally in history.
Here in the shadows Of Stanford
University buildings he haunted as
freshman Hoover is to be notltled
of his nomination, and in his &C
ceptance speech lay down the prln-
ciples upon which his campaign VIII
Ceremonies have been set to as
sure completion of the program by
o. M, Pacific coast time.
The opening speech by Governor
G. G. Young of California will begin
at $3.50 D. m. Most Of the ninety
four radio stations broadcasting the
program will start operating from
Stanford at $3.50 p. m. =,
Arrangements, which vie win
those made by Tex Richards agents
for his big prize fight crowds, have
been provided by the faculty ana
students. who themselves have han
died as many as $1,000 at their Dig
football games.
Students to Aid
STUDENTS in the guise of traffic
oflcers will be dropped as lar as
Ave miles out of Palo Alto on all
J roads to see that the vast NUMBER
of automobile visitors keeps NOV
ing.
Others will be stationed at points
within this f1ve-rnile area to see
that cars ar parked in fields near
nv which have been reserved LOT
them. Some cars will have to be
marked three miles from the sta
diurn.
Buses and special automobiles
manned by students almost VIII
hide the little railroad station,
awaiting the first of the special
trains which will bring crowds from
San Francisco, Los Angeles ana
lesser California points. They will
carry the train arrivals from Une
town a mile out to the stadium.
Many to Listen In
Those in charge do not know how
MANY people will come. They nave
ooinfed out that many who mgnt
have attended such a rally In Tor
mer years may now prefer TO AsUen
in on the radio whose magic tongue
is expected to describe the cere-
mony to 100000 listeners from
cost to coast and even beyond the
seas.
Only a few of the choicest sec
tions will be reserved, and the rest
of the stadium which seated 67,OOO
before an additional $4,000 seats
we're placed upon the football Held
will be filled on a flrst-come first
serve basis.
The speakers platform was built
at the south end Of the field. 1t is
covered with American flags and
embler1s. At the speakers rostrum
are a row of microphones for radio
and modification purposes.
Moses to Notify
The arrangements will permit
every one in the crowd both to see
and hear the nominee.
The Hoover personal party is ex-
pected to enter the stadium through
the chute beside the speakers stand
at 8 p. M, and will circle the field
+. In automobiles before the nominee
is escorted to the stand.
Then Senator George H. Moses
of New Hampshire, permanent
chairman of the Kansas City con-
vention which nominated Hoover,
will make an address Of notiflca-
ton, which will be followed by Hoo
ver's acceptance speech.