Las Vegas Age

HOOVER SILENT ON RUNNING MATE
WASHINGTON, June 15. (U.P.) -

President Hoover intends to maintain a "hands off" policy in the controversy at Chicago over the selection of a running mate for him in the coming campaign.

Persons close to Mr. Hoover said he has no intention of influencing the delegates at the Republican national convention "in any way whatsoever."

DOUBLE PLEDGE
It was pointed out, however, in administration quarters that most of the delegates pledged to Mr. Hoover also are pledged to support Vice-President Charles Curtis' candidacy for re-election.

The storm against Curtis in the past ten days which has made his renomination one of the convention's major problems, has not been without its embarrassing features to the President. He has been represented as seeking to swing the recalcitrants around into line.

This was vehemently denied at the White House.

The rising tide against the Vice-President has surprised the capital, where the Hoover-Curtis ticket had been regarded as harmoniously settled. Administration leaders fear the swing against him may prove a boomerang on the party.

DEMO BAIT
The split, it was felt, might be used by the Democrats as political capital during the coming bitter campaign. It could be pointed to as indicating lack of unity and confidence within the G. O. P., two points the administration desires in the coming months to be invulnerable.