, By James L. West, Associated Press
i : Staff Writer.)

Washington, D. C-—Continuing
jconferences with Republican cam-
paign managers in the east, Herbert
Hoover today was assembling infor-
mation upon which to bafe a decision
as to the extent he will participate
personally in the presidential fight
"there,

William H. Hill, chairman of the
'New York state Hoover committee,
had an engagement with the Repub-
hean standard“bearer to supplement
the advices given him yesterday by
Charies D. Filles, national commit-
feeman for New York. and Daniei E.
Pomeroy, vice chairman of the New
Jersey committee.

Reports received by Hoover since
his return from the west imdicate
that the eastern Situation 1s one Te-
‘quiring attention and his advisers are
lurging him to go into New York Mas-
sachusetts and New Jersey for at
least oue speech for each state and!
more if time can be found for them

After he has canvassed the eastern |
situation, he will be in a position to
fairly well map out his campaign up
to election tame. It is certam that he
will take advantage of his swing back
to tus hotne in’ California to vote, to
make a series of addresses,

MAY INCLUDE WISCONSIN

Whether he will take the northern
route home, through Wisconsin, Min-
nesota, Montana and Oregon. or the
southern route remains to he deter-
mined.

Before that time he very probably
will fo into the middle west, speaking
at Glicago and some other cities, and
also into the border states.

Shnuid Hoover decide to make a
Labor day address next Monday. it |:
will be in Washington, with a radio|
hookup, it was stated today at his of- |
fice. ;

Revresentatives of the Republican |
candidate still were seeking today to
secure @ building in which to open |‘
his personal headquarters. ‘There has|{
been some delay in obtaining the |.
home of the late Representative |:
frothingham. of Massachusetts, and

some other building nearby may have
ha Senent.
 
Dozen Persons Unaccounted for—Fear Many More
Bodies Will Be Found in Ruins—Believe 17
Negroes Working in Center of Building were
All Killed-——Several of Injured
Eynected tran Me,
  

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SHELBY, N. C., Aug. 28.—(INS) —Collapse of the
First National Bank building here during a rush business
hour this morning claimed an undertermined number of
dead and injured.

At 12:45 this afternoon, when excavation operations
had been under way only three hours, a check-up revealed
six known dead, 15 known injured, and a number of persons
missing.

Police estimated the death toll would mount steadily
ag rescue crews dug deeper into the debris in search of
bodies.

No accurate check-up could be made of the missing
persons, but 1b was known that a dozen or more had not
been accounted for.

Early this afternoon the crews had searched only the
edges of the huge pile of debris, and it was feared many
more bodies would be found toward the center

The known dead:

Miss Ora Ethridge, secretary to the bank president.

Guy, Green, bank clerk.

Alex Boyd, bank clerk.

Deb Blanton, a farmer who was in the bank.

Carl Blanton, his son.

Aw nnidentifiead man
 It was feared that a crew of seven-
teen negroes who were working In the
center of the building were ail Filled
The rescue crews had not heen able
TO get to the place where the negroes
were working at an early hour this
afternoon

It was known that fifteen persons
were injured, several} of whom were
expected to die They were all tak-
en to a hospital here as they were
dragged from the fallen structure

Excavation work at a nearby bulld~
ing was generally assigned as the
cause of the collapse of the bank
puilding It was known that several
persons were in a grocery store and a
tailor's shop which were a part of
the building, but it was expected to
be nours before that part of the
Structure could be searched thorough-
jy

The collapse occurred during a
Tush hour on this little town's main
thoroughfare, and it was beheved
that several persons in the street be-
low were trapped under the ze-
ecunding deluge of stone and timber

The entire fire and police forces
of Shelby, referred to as ‘the sum-
mer capital of North Carolina," were
taaed to the fullest in controlling
the crowds which gathered around
the scene of disaster

Many volunteers aided in the res~
eve onerstions _
 