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Show HOOVER III L I HCOLH'S HUH Presidential Tarty Arrives At Springfield T o Dedicate T o m b Of Emancipator; JUisy Schedule Faces Chief SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 17. (U.R) President H o o v er arrived here today to worship at the shrine of Abraham Lincoln, a leader whose courageous cour-ageous fight to hold the union together through a political po-litical crisis appropriately serves as an inspiration in this day of economic crisis. The presidential party arrived shortly after 9 a. m. This is the last major stop in a midwest tour of nearly 2,500 miles which has taken Mr. Hoover into West Virginia, Vir-ginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, all states in which recent Democratic gains forecast hard battling when the administration conies up for re-election next year. Mr. Hoover himself, however, has sought to avoid partisan politics on the whole, and at Marion, as here, he appeared in his official role as head of the nation to dedicate dedi-cate a national monument. A huge crowd met the President and Mrs. Hoover at the Wabash station only a stone's throw from the spot where Lincoln boarded the train which carried him to Washington for his inauguration. Governor and Mrs. L. L. Emmer-son, Emmer-son, Mayor John W. Knapp, lead-j lead-j ers of the legislature and others I were on the reception committee. The president was taken immediately imme-diately to the governor's mansion, to begin a busy schedule culminating culminat-ing in the dedication of the remodelled re-modelled Lincoln tomb at 2:45 p. m. |
