Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-19
HOOVER MAY GIVE
INSIDE FACTS ON
NAVAL LIMITATION
Expected to Make Armistice
Day Occasion for Full Ex-
PLANTATION to Country.
TO BE AT AUDITORIUM
AND ON VAST H00K-UP
Gen. Pershing Also Will Be Invited
to Speak if He Is Back
/ From Paris.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.


President Hoover is expected to take
the Nation fully into his confidence re-
garding his plans and aspirations for
naval limitation on Armistice day, No
yember II. On the tenth anniversary
of the day the World War ended Mr..
Hoover will address a monster COM
memoration meeting of the American
Legion in the Washington Auditorium.
Almost eight years previous to the day
the Washington armament conference
Of 1922 was opened under auspices
Of President Harding. Although the
forthcoming f1ve-power conference a.
London is not to be convened until
January, 1880, there is every indication,
this writer learns, that President Hoover
will seize the Armistice day celebration
as highly suitable occasion for dis
cussing what now impends in the field
Of naval disarmament.
Because of the wholly extraordi-
nary timelineSs of his remarks, 1t has
been arranged that Mr.. Hoover's ad-
dress will be heard practically in every
and probably in remote overseas regions
as we'll. Both of the country'S big radio
cf1ains-the Columbia and National
Broadcasting syStemS-will extend them
selves to give the widest possible air
publicity to the Presidents speech.
Other radio concerns or stations, large
or small, will be invited to link up their
facilities with the Washington Audito-
rum, too, If they can and If they care
to. The freedom of the air" will exist
that day, prospectively, as it has never
existed before. The American Legion
has invited the famous Roxy" maj.
RothafeD, himself World War Serv-
ice man, to take supreme charge Of the
broadcasting arrangements for the
evening.
Pershing May Speak.
II Gen. John j. Pershing, comman-
der In chief of the American Expedi-
tionary Force, is back from Paris by
that time, he, too, will be invited to
speak on the Arnistice day program.
The master of ceremonies will be Col.
Paul ". McNutt, past commander
the American Legion, and another
Legionnaire on the speaking program
viii be Maj. o. L. Bodenhamer, recently
elected national commander at the
Legion's Louisville convention.
To emphasize the Legion's special in
terest in the Washington program and
in President Hoover's address, 10000
individual Legion posts comprising
service men) and 5000 individual Le-
gion Auxiliary posts comprising service
women) have arranged to hold post
meetings at the same hour. Each and
every one of the meetings viii be equip
ped with radio facilities, so that the
President and other speakers will talk
directly to the ex-Service men and
women. Lieut.. Col. John Thomas Tay-
lor, vice chairman of the national legis-
lative committee of the American
Legion and who is in charge OF the
ArmiStice day celebration, estimates
that at least 900 900 men and women
who wore Army, Navy and Marine
Corps uniforms during the war will
be taking personal part in the Wash
ington program, though as invisible par
ticipantS Through the public address
system of amplifers tens of thousands
81 persons standing outside of the
Washington Auditorium will also be able
70 listen in.
Subjects to Be Discussed.
It had been thought that President
Hoover might take advantage of his
three speeches in the Middle West next
week-at Detroit, Cincinnati and Louis
ville-to discuss some phase of the
naval limitation project But it is now
altogether probable that he will con-
fine his utterances in those cities to
the special objects which are responsible
for the trip. At Detroit Mr.. Hoover
will talk about the Edison light"
golden jubilee. At Cincinnati his theme
will be concerned with the Ohio River
Monument dedication. At Louisville the
Presidents address will be attuned to
the dedication of the new" Ohio River
as the commercial gateway to the Mis-
sissippi River. Mr.. Hoover's well known
views on the importance of interior
waterway development will be his gen.
eral topic, but he will not fail to deal
with it along new and up-to-date lines.
Barring the broad observations on
naval limitation and peace, which were
contained in the joint statement issued
by Prime Minister Macdonald and
President Hoover on the eve of the
British statesman's departure from
washington, nothing definite about
their conversations" has been forth
coming. The country and the world at
large may depend upon some concrete
revelations in the Presidents Armistice
day speech Mr.. Hoover is thoroughly
conscious that the public opinion OF
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