Monday, Sep. 03, 1928

Votes

Additions to Hooverism included:

The Chattanooga, Tenn., News, Democratic daily. Reason: Prohibition.

Mortimer L. Schiff, Manhattan financier. Reason: "The best interest of the country."

Jennie M. Callfas, Nebraska Democrat, three-time National Committeewoman. Reason: Prohibition.

James Schermerhorn and Alva M. Cummins. Detroit Democrats. Reason: Prohibition.

Senator Gerald Prentice Nye, North Dakota insurgent. Reason: "A great friend and benefactor of agriculture."

Joseph Little Bristow, insurgent predecessor of Nominee Curtis as Senator from Kansas (1909-15), now a Washington, D. C., realtor and country gentleman. Reason: Hoover's sympathetic knowledge of the West.

Bert Martin of Denver, secretary-treasurer (resigned) of the Farmer-Labor party. Reason: Agriculture.

Miss Helen Wills, California tennis girl, as head of the sports division of the Women's Committee. Reason: "Youth's earnest desire to be of service."

Governor Adam McMullen, Nebraska Republican, announcer of last spring's abortive "farm crusade." Reason: "Economic welfare of the farming industry."

Major-General James Guthrie Harbord, president of Radio Corporation of America, on leave of absence to help collect campaign funds.