Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-25
HOOVER MAPS OUT
TENNESSEE VISIT
Nominee Arranges Strenuous
Program for 0ne-Day
Excursion.

| BY the Associated Press.
A rather strenuous schedule has been
arranged for Herbert Hoover on his one
day excursion into the South early next
month, during which he will visit two
cities and pass through half a dozen
others in the Tennessee and Virginia
mountains by train or automobile.
The Republican presidential candidate
will make two speeches, the principal
one at Elizabethton, Tenn, in mid-after-
noon on october 6, and the other at
Johnson City, Tenn, late in the day just
before he boards his private train for
the overnight return run to Washing
ton.
AS the schedule is now arranged the
party will leave here over the Southern
Railway at IL pm, on the night OF
October with the first stop at Lynch
burg, where the transfer will be made
to the Norfolk & Western. Bristol, which
straddle5 the Virginia Tennessee line, is
to be reached around $50 am, and
there the nominee will make rear
platform appearance.
Parade Is Planned.
Switched back to the Southern the
special train will then proceed to Eliz-
abethton, arriving about 1870 am. The
train will be halted outside the city
limits and the party will motor through
the town the parade ending in time for
luncheon at 1890 o'clock at which Mr.
Hoover will be the honor guest and at
which he may have word or two to say
At 2 pm. the nominee is to review
a pageant in connection with the in
dustrial and battle of Kings Mountain
celebration, which then will be in
progress. From the reviewing stand the
oiY1o will hn fo RI q
door amphitheater, where he will de-
liver the fourth prepared address of
the campaign, but one which will be as
nearly non-political in character as can
be one delivered by a candidate for the
presidency.
Should Hoover run into bad weather
and if he did it would be the first
he has encountered while on the road
campaigning-the speaking will be in
a huge pavilion, which is reputed to
have seating capacity of 1000. If
the exercises are held out of doors
crowd many times that size is ex-
pected to be within the range OF his
voice, as preparations are being made
to run excursion trains into the town
from four States-North Carolina. Ala
bama, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Speech to Go on Air.
The speech is to be carried over
large part of the South by radio, but
there has been no effort at national
hook-up, Because of the hour of the
delivery.
After the address Hoover and his
party will enter automobiles for the
10-mile ride over a mountain highway
to johnson City, which is planning
fine welcome for the Republican nomi-
nee Hoover will 90 to the Soldiers
Home there. one of the largest of the
country. and will make brief address.
Then he will motor through the city to
his train, which will be run over from
Elizabethton early in the afternoon.
The Elizabethton speech now is reach
ing its final form and, as he did yester-
day, the Republican standard bearer
will spend the forenoon at home work.
ing on it. He has only one engagement
for the day and that late in the after
noon with Roy o. West, New Secretary
OF the Interior and for years secretary
of the Republican national committee
Mr.. Hoover laid aside his new role of
presidential candidate last night to fol-
low custom of seven years standing
during his Commerce Secretaryship by
attending the national conference of
business paper editors.
Closing his desk after a day of work.
ing upon his Elizabethton, Tenn,
speech, the nominee spent an evening
with the editors at their regular dinner,
at the National Press Club. He has
been guest at their dinners since the
beginning of his service as head of
the Commerce Department and as such
several times each year has piven them
ms alo IN analyzing economic problems.