The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-08-11
ThrongS Flock to PaIo Alto
for Notification by Rail,
Auto and Air.
CANDIDATE UNRUFFLED
viii Read Speech of 8,100
Words; SO Stations to
Broadcast Address.
BY PAUL r. MALLON,
United Press STAFF Cnrresnnndeni


. STANFORD UNIVERS RSITY,
PALO ALTO, Cal, Aug. 1l.-Air-
planes, special trains and motor cars
descended upon this little college
town today with bewildering swift
ness, bringing tens'of thousands for
the notification of Herbert Hoover
as Republican presidential candi-
date.
Distinguished politicians in high
silk hats, ward bosses with gold
watch chains, women with a new
found interest in politics, college
boys and sightseers trooped in to
witness the ceremony to be held at
4 p. m. in the big football stadium.
officially opening the national po-
htical campaign. w
Delegates from nearby towns.
motoring and marching together.
began arriving long before the gates
OF the stadium were to be thrown
open at noon. They paraded through
streets lined with palm eucalyptus
trees bearing American flags. politi.
cal pennants and pictures Of the
candidates.
Room for 100000
1t was the first notification cere.
mony California has witnessed ana
the same party leaders who rolled
up 100000 votes for GFIoover in a
United States primary went through
an extensive advertising campaign
IN an effort to fill every one of the
places which have been arranged
IN the stadium for 100000 persons.
The early arrivals found college
boy traffic cops at every corner
Places for parked cars had been
marked off on parched grass about
the stadium. All stores In town
were ordered closed at / D. m.
Alrplanes Of many kinds started
landing soon after dawn at the
university aviation field, adjoining
the stadium. Business men of con-
sequence on the Pacific coast have
their own planes and use them on
occasions like this.
There were also many commercial
planes. The railroads, too. put a
reduced fare III effect and ioined
the Statewide advertising CAM
paign.
Hoover Not Fretting
The least disturbed man in town
was the nominee. He remained at
home and announced he would see
no one until time for him to leave
by motor for the half mile ride To
the stadium.
He will read his speech Of s.1o0
words from a special rostrum which
was constructed at the south end
OF the field. A radio network Of
nlnety-nine stations has been ar
ranged, his office has announced.
Ihe ceremony is to start at 2:30
p m. when the Stanford band will
enter the stadium and give the sig
nal Tor setting off a salvo of aerial
oomos, then will follow four other
bands.
While the massed bands plav
patriotic tunes, Governor c. g.
Young of California and Senator
George Il. Moses, chairman of the
notification committee, are to enter
the rostrum at 3:45 D. M. followed
few minutes later by the candi-
date, who will arrive in his private
automobile with Mrs. Hoover.
Young to Give Address
Young will deliver an address OF
welcome and Moses then will give a
snort speech of notification.
Hoover's speech is expected to
start at 4:10 Pacific time. In his
address he is to set forth the issues
ne had selected for his presidential
campaign.
1t will marke his first public NJ
terance regarding issues since he
sent his telegram to the Kansas Citv
convention which nominated him in
June.
Next Thursday night he is to
start back to Washington to begin
actual work of stump campaigning.