Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-18
HOOVER TO LEAVE
CAPITAL SUNDAY
President viii Visit Detroit,
Cincinnati and Louisville
in Five-Day Trip.


President Hoover win leave washing
ton Sunday afternoon for a visit &c
Detroit, Cincinnati and Louisville, which
will necessitate his being away from the
White House five days and four nights.
This will be the first time since be-
coming President that Mr.. Hoover has
been away from Washington overnight
with the exception of his week end
outings during the past Summer at his
camp in the Virginia mountains.
The Presidents contemplated trip
might be described as speaking expe-
dition, inasmuch as he is scheduled to
make an address in each one Of the
places he is to visit.
viii See Ford's Village.
His purpose in going to Detroit is to
participate in the celebration near Dear
born, Just outside of Detroit to COM
memorate the fiftieth anniversary of
the discovery by Thomas A. Edison Of
the electric light. He also will visit the
early American village established by
Henry Ford and will inspect the Ford
motor plant.
The Presidents next stop will be Gin
cinnati, wlsere he will participate in the
dedication of the memorial to the COM
pletion of the waterway locks on the
Ohio River. His next step will be at
Louisville, where he will attend a dinner
in his honor and where he will make
what is expected to be the most i'm
portant of the three speeches he will
make on this trip.
At Louisville, he will devote his re-
marks principally to his ideas regarding
the future development of the Nations
inland waterways system. He will make
a stop for a brief period at Madison,
Ind, but will not make an address
or leave the boat on which he win
journey down the Ohio River from Gin
cinnati to Louisville.
Mrs. Hoover to Go.
With the President throughout this
trip will be Mrs. Hoover, Secretary of
War Good, George Akerson, one of the
Presidents secretaries; Lieut.. Comdr. j.
r. Boone, the Presidents private physi-
clan; Col. Campbell Hodges, chief mill
tary aide, and Capt. Allan Buchanan,
chief naval aide; IS newspaper cor
respondents, about a score of news
photographers and motion and sound
film picture men, as well as number
of secret service guards.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Heath. a native of Michigan, and Rep
resentative Charles Eaton Of New Jer-
Sey. in whose district Thomas A. Edison
resides, will accompany the party from
Washington to Detroit. Nicholas Long
worth, Speaker of the House, whose
home Is in Cincinnati, viii join the
party at that place and accompany it
to Louisville.
The President will leave Washington
on special train of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad early Sunday afternoon
breakfast. The party will be met and
welcomed by Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ford
and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, the wife
Of the inventor.
At this point the party viii board a
Ford train, reproduction of the. 3Old
Iron Horse" Of the Grand Trunk Rail-
road, for trip to Smiths Greek Sta
ton, at the entrance to Mr.. Ford's early
American village. SIS
President to Speak In Evening.
The President win visit the original
frame building used by Mr. Edison for
his first experiments in his invention of
the incandescent light, where he viii
see the noted inventor re-enact the
circumstances incident to the invention
OF the first electric lamp. half cen-
fury ago.
The Presidents speech win be made
in the evening after which the party
will return to the special train and pro.
coed to Cincinnati, which will be reach
ed early the following morning. The
President win deliver his Cincinnati
speech in Eden Park at 1890 O'Clock
that morning, where the monument
concentrating the reopening of the
river. has been erected.
After luncheon the party viii go
aboard a steamer for the Journey down
the Ohio to Louisville The craft will
tie UP at some point about half way
between the two cities for the night
and the journey viii be resumed at
daybreak Wednesday morning. The din
ner in the Presidents honor will be
given in the Brown Hotel in Louisville.
The party will return to Washington
Thursday afternoon