WASHINGTON, auy.  2%.—Con- |
tinuings converences with Republi- |

j
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can campaign managers in the east, |
Herbert Hoover today was assem- |
hling information upen whieh toj|
base a decision as to the extent he!
Will participate personally in the:
presidential f'grht there. i
William H. Hill, cnairman of the
New York State Hoover eormmittee,
had an engagement with the te |
publican standard hear to suple- |
ment the advices giveua him vester- |
Gay by Charles D. Filles, national;
committeeman from New York, and!
Daniel E. Pomeroy, vice’ chairman
of the New Jersey committee.
Reports received by Hoover since
his return from the west Indicate
thet the eastern situation is one
requiring attention and his advisers
are urging him to go into New
York, Massachusetts and New Jer-!
sey for at least one speech. in each |

state. i

It is certain that he will take |
advantage of his swing back to nis |
home in Califérnia for making a
series of addresses.

Befere that time he very probably
will go into the middle west, speak-
ing at Chicago and some other j
cities, and also inte the border
states, but these eddresses3 rare
likely to follow those in the east. |

Representatives of the Republi. |
ean candidate still were seeking
today to secure a buiJding in which
to open his personal headquarters.

The delay is causing: the norninee
some inconvenience as he has no
place to carts on his office work. |
He also wants a suitable assembly- ;
ing place for delegations that will
come here tu see him and’ for the
accommodation of the newspaper
corregpondents assigned to his
headquarters.
 
WASHINGTON (UPL) — President
Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid I.
Brezhnev, already planning another
summit meeting next year, formally
pledged Friday to avoid military con-
frontations and threats of force that
might trigger nuclear war.

The vows were contained in a policy dec-
laration which also said the leaders of the
two superpowers would “immediately en-
ter into urgent consultations with each oth-
er’ if a nuclear conflict threatened.

Shorily before Nixon and Brezhnev
signed the agreement in the East Room of
the White House, Treasury Secretary
 George P. Shultz and Soviet Trade Min-
ister Nikolai §. Patolichey met across
Pennsylvania Avenue in Blair House to in-
itial another pact intended to strengthen
commerce between the United Stales and
the Soviet Union. About 50 captains of
American industry were present at the sig-
ning.

The two latest accords brought to eight
the number reached since the start of the
summit talks Monday. They were signed a
few hours before Nixon and Brezhnev were
to depart aboard the President’s jetliner
for San Clemente, Calif., where they

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