, 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.
 
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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