, 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.
 
BAP TNA LEE OEE

JERSEY CITY. N. J.. March 6—
Climbing through cold blue skies more
‘than five and one-half miles over Jer-
sey and Manhattan, Miss Ruth Nichols.
New York society aviatrix who holds
coast-to-coast speed marks, set an an-
official altitude record for women today.

The altimeter on her speedy mono-
plane showed neariy 30.054 feet. ‘Tne
sealed barozraph placed in the plane
by the National Aeronautic associa-
‘lion was immediately shipped to Wash-
ington for examination. Uf it shows
BATS WC Of more Miss Nichols will
@ awarded the record now hald by
‘inor Smith, young Long Island flies,
Miss Nichols was informed that. to
ALAIN Tecognition as the record holder

   

 

  
 

 

   

 
 ishe must beat Miss Smith's mark of
127,418 feet by more than 600 feet,

| She took off from Jersey City airport
‘at 12:33 p.m. and was aloft 90 min-
utes. There was g 30-mile wind blow-
ng when she circled the city, swung
over Manhattan and started the long
climb. =

| vEverything Went Fine.” she said.
| “The engine warked perfectly, 1 did not
isuffer any discomfort,”

She wore a flying suit Hned with
‘reindeer skin and the cockpit of her
‘plane was heated from the motor ex-
naust. She used oxygen apparatus and
(Na HO CiMmer, brealuing even in
ithe thin, cold air of high altitudes. The
temperature at the top of her climb
wes estimated 2t 50 degrees below zero
by Clarence Chamberlain, who coached
Miss Nichols for the aztempt,

 

 

   

 
 