Nominee Shows Knack for Making Crowds Smile
G. O. P. candidate recalls working in the state as a mining engineer 30 years ago. The speech highlights an initiative minded approach and full scope for leadership to win support.
20 Aug 1928
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1928
Page
1
G. O. P. candidate recalls working in the state as a mining engineer 30 years ago. The speech highlights an initiative minded approach and full scope for leadership to win support.
Herbert Hoover, touring New Mexico, lauds the state’s atmosphere of economic freedom and its blend of English Spanish and Indian civilizations. He recalls his mining engineer days here and notes a close, personality driven 1932 campaign battle ahead with wet and dry issues.
On the FIOOVER train Herbert Hoover adapts to rear platform campaigning across New Mexico. He and Mrs. Hoover mingle with crowds of diverse backgrounds, exchanging smiles and brief talks as supporters press close at stops.
An early morning blast in Brooklyn injured Joseph Hasenfranz 41 his wife Dora 30 and Abraham Hirscher 20. Police found wire fragments and suspect an electric detonation linked to a poultry trade war. Hasenfranz is identified as a poultry dealer.
Cornelius Nye, 50, of the Bronx, died of a heart attack as he tried to stop his car near the Atlantic avenue grade crossing in Woodside Queens. His wife was with him in the auto when the Long Island electric express sped past. The car stopped ten feet from the crossing after the fatal collapse.
A 35 year old World War I veteran, Lucien E. Moore of 1023 Foplar Street, killed himself after leaving a note to a former lover, Marguerite Neal. He tied his faithful collie to a leash, posed with the dog, and killed himself after an initial attempt to shoot the animal failed. officers later secured the scene.
Two prisoners escaped near Parkersburg while en route to the State Prison. Frank Hall, 35, and Frank Vannetter, 33, were handcuffed and chained with twenty-six other inmates. Officials dispatch guards into Ohio as one may have crossed the Ohio River at Parkersburg and the other toward Athens.
Roy C. Toombs a Chicago and St Louis financier sought federal protection from a suspected kidnapping by a mysterious gang. He blamed the gang for $3,500,000 missing from the International Insurance Company while denying any solvency issues. Officials in Missouri pushed extradition papers as Illinois authorities consider action. State Auditor Nelson assured Downers Grove bank investors and depositors of the bank’s sound condition after Toombs resigned as president last week.
At Third and Smith streets a crash involving Robert Doyle Sr and his family injured six members, including six year old Fred Doyle who broke his collarbone. The family, eight and five year old twins George and Robert Jr as well as James Peggy, three months Ruby, and parents Grace and Rubert were attended at West Street Emergency Hospital. Miss May Harris, 19, of Battle Creek Michigan was charged with reckless driving.
A gasoline explosion at an underground tank in Pittsburgh caused a spectacular blaze that injured one attendant, Abraham Morgan, and burned for hours. Two other tanks ignited but did not explode, 18,000 gallons threatened, and burning fuel flowed through sewers into a creek a half mile downstream before firemen contained the fire. Loss estimated at 10,000 dollars.
Los Angeles reports a party dispute in Playa Del Rey ended with Will Morrissey and his wife Midgie Miller filing police charges after a scuffle with Tom Mix. Morrissey and Miller describe a back and forth with injuries. Mix offers a different blow by blow version.
Viscount Haldane of Cloan former War Minister and philosopher died today at 72 after a long illness in Perthshire Scotland. He helped reorganize the British army 1905 to 1914 and backed a revised general staff and territorial initiative despite party opposition. He was born in 1856 in Scotland and educated at Edinburgh University and Goettingen.
Cleveland welcomes thousands as Knights of Columbus hold the fortieth six annual supreme assembly. Seven hundred delegates attend a banquet for supreme officers with Martin Carmody and Francis Mathews addressing. Tuesday features pontifical high mass at Public Hall and a Euclid Avenue parade.
Day to day murders and sudden death at Dayton Kentucky trigger autopsy orders. Two women died under unclear circumstances prompting investigation by Detectives Ecker McGurn and Seebohm. Carrie Hauck 24 died at St Marys Hospital after a hospitalization and prior tour with John Trail John Russell and their sisters.
Early returns in the Grecian Parliament elections show large Venizelos majorities in Athens Piraeus Salonika Patra and Jannina. A pre election clash at Pangalos HQ left four Venizelos supporters wounded as Royalist and Republican factions clash amid fraud allegations and talk of indelible ink to mark voters.
A small Illinois town collapses financially after bets on horse Reigh Count crash the cash supply. Cary residents, led by John D Hertz interests, lose fortunes as all money vanishes except in the bank. Local officials and townsfolk, including Mayor Ralph Powers, reveal widespread ruin and pride turned to shock.
Special Dispatch to The Commercial Tribune reports two Illinois aviators are missing on a Canada to Greenland flight. The piece notes long overdue status and ongoing search efforts as authorities trace the missing pilots and aircraft across polar routes.
Evanston Illinois August 19 The United States is best equipped to fight chemical war says H Edmund Bullis executive secretary of the National Association for Chemical Defense at Northwestern University Institute He argues gas will be used in future wars despite treaties and that public exaggeration about gas dangers harms preparedness
North Atlantic monoplane Greater Rockford with Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer has not sent a radio signal for over sixteen hours after departing Rockford Illinois for Stockholm in two hops. The flight from Cochrane Ontario started Saturday noon with earlier signals fading and no word since last night. radio efforts by Canadien stations found the conditions favorable but yielded nothing.
Reports in Los Angeles indicate Adolfo de la Huerta, former Provisional President and exiled in LA, may become Provisional President again when Calles’ term ends in December. Friends from both factions are said to seek reconciliation. de la Huerta cites enmity with Obregon and says he has had no talks with Calles or Platt. Juan Platt was seen in LA as Calles adviser.
One man was killed almost instantly and a second robber died later in hospital after a gunfight during an attempted hold up of a residential drug store in Omaha Nebraska. R L Tinkhamp 53 a pioneer druggist was shot and killed by masked robbers. The dying robber is Sam Swartz 32 of Philadelphia Pa Dave Smith captured Swartz wounded by a policeman during escape in a stolen automobile.
In Ronal, Washington, a $100,000 blaze last night left nearly 200 homeless as deputies seek members of a moonshine operation blamed for the explosion. Owner Bert Pellegrino died in the cave still blast at Falcon Hall, with a tunnel to a garage where bootleg liquor was cached and trucks loaded for Seattle. Investigators pursue associates connected to Pellegrino’s illicit enterprise.
Reports that Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt would direct Broadway night club investigations were denied by Major Maurice Campbell. Subpoenas targeted about 126 social figures, with many abroad or scattered, and witnesses were not guaranteed to appear tomorrow.
Art Goebel started from Los Angeles at 12 06 p m in the Lockheed Vesaplane Yankee Doodle aiming for New York. Harry Tucker backed the flight as financial sponsor. He seeks to beat the 26 hour 50 minute cross country record by following a southern route and hopes to finish under twenty hours if weather cooperates.
A Daily Mail dispatch from Hankow says Monsignor Freewis Prefect Apostolic of the Catholic Mission at Sin Yang Chow in Southeast Henan Province died after torture by brigands who captured him about a fort night ago. The Austrian, aged 64, was believed dead in the incident near Sin Yang Chow.
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