Governor NOSU. SPECIAL service Washington, Dee. 138.
Wearing the famous "thrown derby" chat which -has been the. feature of many a -heated election. campaign, former Governor A. T.. Smith of New York visited Washington to-day and inspected scenes.over which he might now rule supreme had it not been for the prowess of one Herbert Hoover and his Republican party.
The visit of the defeated Presidential candidate was in connection, with a project for erection of a dirigible mast on top of the Empire State building in New York. Ex-Governor Smith conferred witn Navy Department officials who are interested in the idea because of its potential value for the mooring of Navy dirigibles, as well as pos sible passenger and freight—air ships on a trans-Atlantic service.
Several: girl clerks attempted to Kiss the famed "AI" as he strode through the corridors of the Navy Department. He did not rebuff them but laughingly contrived to evade their overtures while camera men of the press, handicapped by or light, vainly strove to get snaps" of the scene.
Ex-Governor Smith did not visit the White House. When queried directly, he "answered with equal directness that he had not been invited.
Following hiss conference and brief inspection tour around Washington, Mr. Smith returned by train to Now York.—United Press.
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