New Britain herald., 1928-09-15
SIX FOUND DEAD FOLLOWING
 TORNADO WHICH LEAVES FIVE
 MILLION LOSS IN ROCKFORD
HOOVER ID REST ,,;;:.; ;s'';'''c g WEEKEND
 "1o Prepares for vlenuous Trip to
 New Jersey SEES SENATOR CURTIS

Coolidge Will Make No speeches on Ills Forthcoming Trip to Yer mont When He Will Make An ln-
 sIsection Tour.
 Washington, Sept. 15 R-Herbert Hoover today approached week. end of rest and quiet in preparation for his trip to New Jersey on Mon day and the strenuous program which he has mapped out for his stay in that state.
 l His only major engagement was with Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, with whom he has consulted frequently in planning his trip to Newark, where on Monday evening he will deliver prepared address devoted largely to an exposition of his views on labor. Today's con- feIence was arranged for the pur- pose of reviewing once more the nominees plans for the trip and adding whatever finishing touches might be deemed necessary.
 Farewell Conference
 A farewell conference with Sena- tor Curtis, Hoover's running mate on the national party ticket, brought 8 busy day to close yesterday. A short while later, Curtis entrained for a speaking tour that will carry him through the heart of the corn and wheat producing areas of the middlewest and northwest.
 | Meanwhile it became known that President Coolidge. who is expected to participate actively in some way in Hoover's campaign, will make no speeches in the course of his forth coming visit to Vermont. It de- veloped that the president, since l.e returned to Washington from his vacation in Wisconsin, had received a message from Governor Weeks. re- iterating its previous requests that the chief executive make an inspec- tion tour of his native state. and that the president intends to confine his visit to this-
 At a conference with Senator Edge. Hoover included in the itinerary of from Newark to Trenton on Tuesday afternoon. At the conclusion Of a luncheon to be given by the senator at which he will meet the state and county party chieftains the journey from Newark to Trenton will carry the nominee through Elizab beth, New Brunswick and Princeton as well as a number of smaller places.
 Last Address in East
 It was made known. too, that un- der Hoover's present plans. his Bos- ton address will be the last that he will make in the east and that it will precede by short time his depar- ture for California. where he will cast his vote on November 6. As yet no date has been assigned for the Boston speech.
 Hoover now plans to confine his speaking program before starting westward strictly to the four ad- dresses already announced-at Newark. New York. Elizabethton, Tenn., and Boston. He has found it necessary to decline an invitation to speak at the Massachusetts state fair in Springfield, but may be able, while in the Bay state. to visit by motor a number of towns in the vicinity of Boston.
 Issues Statement
 George Akerson, Hoover's secre- tary. has issued a statement in con- nection with two open letters sent to the nominee by Henry c. Hans- hrough. former republican senator from North Dakota. Hansbrough in his first letter called upon Mir. Hoover to denounce the whispering campaign" and in his second asked why the candidate had not made a reply to this communication.
 ''Mr. Hansbrough's first letter and his second were given to the press before Mir. Hoover even had a chance to read them," Akerson said. That is discourteous practice which Mir. Hoover himself never indulges in. He refuses to pay at- tentlon to such communications when they are handled in that way. That is not the way gentlemen do things"