Evening star., 1936-10-07
ROOSEVELT PLANS
KANSAS INVASION
IN CAMPAIGN TRIP
President Leaves Capital
Tomorrow on Revised
itinerary.
SCHEDULE FOR 10 DAYS
WINDS UP IN NEW YORK
First Major Address to Be Made
Saturday Night in Omaha.
In Chicago October IA.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.

President Roosevelt has revised his
campaign plans and now is scheduled
to leave at noon tomorrow for a trip
which will carry him as far west as
Cheyenne, Wyo., and which has been
arranged to include definite in
vasion of Kansas, the home State
of Gov. Alf NJ. Landon, his Repub.
lcan opponent.
According to the itinerary made
public at the White House today, The
President will be travelling for 10 days,
winding up in Western New York and
going to his Hyde PARK home, rather
than coming back to Washington, for
brief rest before going out on the
firing line again.
The White House stated Mr. Roosc.
welt has arranged thus far to make
what he calls major political ad-
dresses, with coast-to-coast radio
hook-ups. in Omaha Saturday night
and in Chicago October IA. 1t is
thought likely one or two additional
major speeches will be added.
Numerous Stops Planned.
Arrangements are being made By
the President TO make numerous brief
stops along the way, and it is TO be
expected that he will make many ex-
temporaneous speeches to the crowds
gathered about his train during these
pauses.
The President will carry his fight
into Gov. Landon's bailiwick on Oc-
tober IS He will arrive at Wichita
about 9 am. and will make talks al
Dodge City and Emporia en- route to
Kansas City, Kans., for set sakSh
about 4:30 that afternoon.
According to this itinerary,
Presidents campaign trip will
vide stops in IL States, and the VI
trip will carry him into IA ST.
His special car, which will be at
end of his long special train, has t
furnished with all of the latest eql
ment used for making speeches II
the rear platform of the car. 1t
carry along a force of stenographd
typists and others from the eXecutl
Office, as well as mimeograph
chimes.
When the Presidents special
pulls out of Union Station at noon to-.
morrow, it will head first for Dubuque,
Iowa, arriving there at GAS am. Fri
day. Mr.. Roosevelt will be there 45
minutes before resuming his Journey
His next stop will be at Oelwin, iowa,
where he will spend about five min.
utes talking to the station crowd.
He will reach st. Paul, Mimi, at
pm. Friday and is to leave five hours
later. He is expected to make g
speech at st. Paul, but this has not
been scheduled as major address
From st. Paul he will go to Lincoln,
Nebr., arriving there Saturday at ]
pm. On the way, he will stop briefly
at Des Moines, Iowa, and at Alton
Iowa.
Norris to Join President.
At Alton, Senator Norris of Me-
braska, who is campaigning for the
President, will join Mr.. Roosevelt.
From Lincoln, the President will go to
Omaha. where he will make his first
major address at pm. Saturday, He
will leave at midnight for Cheyenne,
arriving there early Sunday morning.
The President has planned to 60 to
church at Cheyenne during the FORE
noon and be luncheon guest at the
home of Brig. Gen. Charles F.
Humphrey, jr, commandant of Fort
Francis E. Warren Maj Gen. Her.
bert Brees, commanding that corps
area, will be among the guests at this
luncheon. Mr.. Roosevelt will spend
the night aboard his train in the sta
ton yard at Cheyenne, and early the
following morning will head for Dem
yer, where he is due to arrive at $50
am, Monday, October II.
1t will be from this point that the
President starts for Kansas. 1t is
likely that while stopping off at Kan
saS City, Kans., on October 13, Mr.
Roosevelt will motor across to Kansas
City, Mo. He will then go aboard his
train and start for st. Louis, which
he will reach at $50 am, October IA.
While there, he will take motor trip
around the city, which will include
an inspection of the Jefferson Me-
mortal site, and shortly before noon
will be on his way again, this time
(See TRIP, Page A-2)