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, AUGUST 3, 1923

NATION MOURNS PRESIDENT'S DEAl

-PLYMOUTH, Vt, Aug. 3.At 2:47 o'clock this
naming (eastern standard time) Calvin Collidge beiame president of the United States.
In a dimly lamplighted room in the old Goolidge
lomestead in the midst of the Vermont hills and in the
xresence of only a few witnesses ,the oath was adminstered by John C. Coolidge, the new president's father,
rhe elder Coolidge is a notary public which qualified
lim to officiate at the momentous event.
The proper form of oath was not at hand and an
irgentjtelegram was sent to Washington, D. C.. to obainit.
With no other visible form of emotion ^save the
paleness of countenance, Mr. Coolidge stood'beside a
ittle table with his right hand upraised as his aged
ather read the oath:
"I do aolmenly swear that I will faithfully execute
he office of President of the United States and will,
o the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend
he constitution of the United States."
. In the deep silence which followed, Mr. Coolidge
aid:---. ' ,
,
.
"I will, so help me, God."
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To Jjeare Dor Washington.
Mr. Coolidge immediately began are astounded by the tragedy."
The eldest of the Mr. and Mrs
reparations to leave for WashlngCalvin Coolidge's sons, John, had
in.
Wednesday lor. the miliWord-had been received of Presl* departed
tary training camp at Camp, Deeat Harding's death at midnight vens.
He did not have &n oppor|d in the interval until the oath tunity until
today'to learn that his
E office was administered, there

1865-Preside* Warren Gamaliel Harding-1923

Despaired of Her Own Life
a Year Ago, Husband Instead, Dies

WIFE BE

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. Her

own life despaired of but a year ago,
Mrs Warren G". Harding today bore
up bravely the blow which, took
from her "a beloved husband of
thirty-two years, and from the nation its chief executivewith tragic
suddenness.
After a night of sorrow, she today was retaining that composure
which she promised those at the
bedside would be hera when she
released her husband of over three
decades had gone.
An official statement from Dr.
C. E. Sawyer early today set at
rest "rumors of collapse on the part
of Mrs. Harding and told of her
brave rajiy.
,
"I regret that the~statement has
been printed in early editions of
the papers that Mrs. Harding collapsed after the death of the president," said Dr. Sawyer's statement.
"Mrs. Harding is a very brave
woman. From the begidning she
has known of the serious and the
threatening phases of her husband's illness and she prepared
herself for any emergency. She
has been?irith him constantly, ministering to big wants and watching
over bini.
"Death came suddenly, without
warning; as she was reading to him
at the end of a day o* aparent
improvement. She was shocked,
of course, and at : first unable to
realize 'that she had^ 'lost-'-the bus
band who had made Up all the interest in her life for so many, proud
and happy years. But there was
no collapse, no hysteria. Just a
brave rally to face her sorrows and
duties devolving upon her at this
Hour. I give this' statement in order
thatrher many friends may <*iot be
j*imTned a* to her ' condl-

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 3.While &

nation bowed reverently in its grief today, the b
Warren G-. Harding, 29th president of the United
lay in stately simplicity on the topmost floor of. a
hotel, 3,000 miles away from the capital
The president died, quietly, easily and with a
denness that Ivas shocking at 7:30 o'clock last
only a few hours after the physicians who had been l
ering over him for clays had issued the most far
news yet of his brief illness.
Leave For East Tonight
,At about the same hour tonight, 7:30 p. HL,
will start from this far western city a funeral
sion across the continent such as the nation has*
before witnesseda funeral train bearing the body
president of the United States across the 3,000
of deserts, plains and mountains.

The immediate cause of the president's *h

death, was, officially announced today to be ceie
apoplexya rupture of a blood vessel in the axis o$j(
brain near the respiratory center.
"
He was half reclining in his bed at the time.
feet from him was Mrs. Harding, reading to
magazine article. In the room were two nurses, iio
else.
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Dies of Apoplexy /

Suddenly and totally without warning the*e

slumpuis the halfi-reclining figure on the beet A
fr audible noise, something of a moan, yet~not a;
There was a startled exclanration f$6i&
iny, a sudden rush of the nurses to the TfctMi^, t
of thein dashed the few feet into the hallway.
"Doctor Boone, Doctor Boone," she screamed,i_^
iny the name of the naval doctor who has been col
stantly
on night duty since the president first I
n

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Calvin, Jr,
As President Coolidge took the was not awakenedson,until
"I can't realfee ,it 1 cai;t
after
the
ath. his wife stood nearby. Mr'. oath had been administered to his alize itstin/rre^giot noni
oolidge was dressed in a black father.
to do," she cried, as -Vt Sawyer
wordlessly
imparted 'the informalit and black necktie in token of
TTphoId Harding Policy :
lourning for the late Mr. Harding.
tion that the nation's '-.-beloved exPresident
Coolidge
issued
the
ecutive had departed.
Ir?. Coolidge wore black, also, following statement:
thers present were Congressman
"I am not going "to" collapse,"
"The
world
has
lost
a
great
and
orter-H.-Dale, L. L. Lane, presi- good man. I mourn his loss. He Mrs.. Harding said, setting her lips
snt of the Railway Mail associa- was my chief and my friend. R in a determined line, the tears
on of New England; Joseph H. will be my purpose to carry out the streaming down her cheeks.
Wives of cabinet officials wh o had
contain, editor of a Springfield, policies which he has begun for
t., newspaper, and E. G. Geisser, the service of the American people been (hurriedly summoned, led her
tsistant secretary to Mr. Coolidge. and for meeting their responsibili- from the -room.
"G-et all the doctors quickly, for God's sake,"
The new president hastily pack- ties wherever they may arise. For
The scene which culminated in
said
in a voice that was not a scream but which
1 and at 7:30 departed.by auto- this purpose I shall seek tpe co- the broadcasting to the world -of
oblle for Rutland to take a 9:35 operation of all those who have President Harding's death began
trated
every corner of the quiet eighth floor of the*
while Mrs. Harding was reading a
clftck train, for Washington. *
been
associated
with
the
President
ace
hotel.
By the time he departed from during his term of office."
current magazine article to her husle Coolidge home news of the
band .
The
new
President
showed
his
Doctors Dash to Aid.
agic event had spread over the thoughtfulness by having a speAcross
the corridor was Dr. ing room to the accompllah
mntryside and many persons had cial room prepared for newspaper
SAN FRANC3OO, Aug. 3.-FacCharles
E.
Sawyer who has been an orchestra. Into this
ithered at Plymouth.
while awaiting the ing her ordeal with a courage and
the president's family physician there suddenly dashed
Immediately after news of Presi- correspondents
fortitude
that
wer
truly
remarke
form of Presidential oath from
for many years and who was acting boys, a paging members of "tae
>nt Harding'a death was received Washington.
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as chief; of the president's medical inet, the members of the 0
Hon. Warren G. Harding.
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on
Page
2)
; Washington, secret service
The elder Coolidge, deeply
staff.- He- heard the commotion party, but loudest of all "the
rents were detailed to protect the grieved over the news of President
and
leaped across the few feet into tors.
;
rw national executive. They, were Harding's death, remained upon
the president's bed chamber. .
Dr.
Boone.
the naval offldj
meet the Coolidge party and, in the veranda of his home during
"Warren, Warren." said Mrs. whose name had
leaped first to H
icordance. with law, and custom, the interval, chatting in low tones
Harding,
It
was
the
name
she
lips of a frantic and terrified
ke him under their guard.
neighbors
who
had
gathered.
-frequently-used in addressing i was dlni
with General Jot
Appraised of Death.
Warren Gamaliel Harding was lief from taxes -needed to. construct most
the president.
> _Perching.
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"It is all, so sudden one hardly
He
was out of the 4tl
Mr. Coolidge received the first knows what to think," said the
President
of
the
a
huge
navy,
and
to
bring
to
busitwenty-eighth
Dr.. Sawyer grabbed the limp ing room and-across
the lobby iU
ws of "President Harding's death President's father. "We are all so
"United States.
ness a long period of security from hand bending over the *xbed, T- 4. A tne elevators while the boys we!
om a'telegram sent from San deeply shocked by the sad intelliFrom the great war his admin- war, looking years ahead to peaceThe
president
of
'
tne united i still running between the tables..
rancisco by George B. Christian, gence."
istration inherited the most stub- ful, expansion, prosperity and States
....-was dead.
...
! Then commotion broke loose!
e late president's secretary. Imborn and perplexing problems in steady employment of labor.
The
actual
scene
of
the
swearWithout a groan, without a cry, j the hote] _ Eve?yone kne ,Tflsj
ediately afterward newspaper ing in was the more impressive by
the history ot the Nation. AmerWhen Harding went to the without a struggle, he had passed j sometiin* was wrong. No Mf
irresptndents began arriving at its simplicity. The deep silence of
ica had repudiated the League of "White House in March, 1921, he away in that Instant.
j j-new- ^jjat
e Coolidge home with the infor- a midsummer night brooded over
Nations, yet Europe and even bit- found governmental, 'social and inNo word had passed his lips to! shortly the word came do*|
ation.
ter opponents of the League in the dustrial life in utter confusion. give the peopla m the room a warn- , The p residen t was dead.
the countryside as John C. CoolThe information from Mr. Curta- idge,
United States were lool-nns to this 'Business of the war had multiplied
in a low but distinct voice
Tfle deatl1 of tne
in read:
a
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president
dft
country to play a leading part in Federal details manyfold; the
read the oath of office. The scene
Something had snapped in his! annou!lce(j exaactly the same~W$
"Palace Hotel, San Francsico, was
world reconstruction.
made
the
more
picturesque
by
Shipping Board and the Bureau of brain. The doctors say it was j as the bulletins oa his
illfornia.
National morale was at a low War Risk Insurance, .both torn of probably the instantaneous nip- j have been Issued every day
with the usual presidenSAN FRANCISCO, Ausr. 3.A
President Coolidge becomes the
"Mr. Calvin Coolidge, Plymouth, contrast
tial surroundings in Washington political turmoil of almost unpre- titular leader of his party, of eWj, due perhaps to ihe fact that the war. demanded revision to ture of a. blood vessel, flooding the his illness.
sraont.1
Europe was torn with strife, couvast crowds gathered from
standards. Then, too, brain with a sudden gush of enJudson C. Welliver, chief
"The president died instantly amidst
cedented proportions has been pre- course. It' remains to be seen valescing slowly and was constant- < peace-time
all
parts
of
the
nation.
be
'had
pledged
himself to the in- gulfing- blood. Death, they be- of the White House, went to
id. without warning and while
cipitated
in
the
republican
party
by
lieve,
was
instantaneous.
whether
he
will
become
the
actual
ly on the brink of a new major j ,j ec tion of business methods into
The Coolidge home ia a plain
-r,, .
..
,
" I president's
l/i coiuejit. ^3 avai
apartment.
tu
to find
nverslng with members of his two-story
conflict.. Business was bad, labor i government control arud the liftframe, nestling in the the sudden and dramatic death of leader.
This is the story of the presl- Tv-hat was "wrong.
As a
mily at 7:30 p. m. Hig physi- foothills
President
Harding.
This
was
the
IT1 *'c> flCta f n
1C C"S t nftrCtA
f-r-r\*n
t^f\ i
_ _.
..
es menaced, moral standards j j ng 0 too uj ucn government rccu- ! Ident's
ddeath, as gathered from the j O F tne
A number of men who -would not troubles
of the Green Mountains
House staff, he
ew wf>
ins report that his death was ap- Not since
Theodore Roosevelt, opinion of the board on every side announce tlu" condidacies =o long had b roken down under the faise j i a t j O n out O f business. The rsil- ' " ' - are in a position
permitted
to
beyond Uie
.rently dn& to some brain embol- while on a hunting
j roads
as Mr. Hard.ug desired, a renomi- stimulus of war-time thrills.
trip, received among politicians here today. .
established
DQ, probably an apoplexy.
President
Harding
was
virtually
Harding,
assuming
the
reiss
of
j
natlon
are'now
expected
to
become
me
news of the death of President
and beyond
"George B. Christian, Jr."
assured
of
renomination
nest
year
office,
pledged
himself
and
his
A
d
j
p
]
_
_
_
''available'' and to energetical!}'
the information of
na
e
correspondent*
At once the following message McKinley, hasdeath
ministration to "the restoration of ! problems to tax "the mosV capable i an d Jti'ss Sue Bauesser, were in the i n^
(been carried to if he wanted it. And there exist- start to point their political
is sent to Mrs. Harding at San ahisPresident's
Bjtnnto
ed
no
doubt
at
all
in
the
minds
of
successor under such
tuneg toward next year's tiorainat-j normal, helpful and natural r e l a - j f executives, yet the new adrninisa, the time."
,
There will be a bulletin
p
ancisco: '
! Mr. Harding's personal and politi- ing conventionnow only tea tions between nations and between Otratioa. along Harding's plan of "a room
La.cr a correction was issued on jfew milmte3," he said to the
"Mrs. Warren G. Harding, San or rugged surroundings.
cal intimates that he would be a I mo nths away.
individuals after the abnormal ex- government 'by a party through this bulletin, stating that General j inj? reporters. He went -tno'
ancisco. California:
candidate to succeed himself.
periences c-f the war."
Herein
California
it
is
regarded
parliamentary discussions ana con- Sawyer also was present.
I stenographer's room and tner*
"We offer you our deepest symNow Mr. Harding is gone. An as certain that Senator Hiram JohnHistory Must .T:iclge.
No sudden climax ever conceiv- j.a c]jcking. of typewriters.
ferences," began to cleave its way
thy. May God bless and keep
actual and titular leader of his son will become an active candiHow \vell -he succeeded will b2 ' through ths morasses.
by the brain of a dramatist i When he emerged he
u.
party, strong entrenched by virtue date. Johnson was blocked at Chi- written in the history of genera- j
PRAYS AT GRAVES
Peace With vifmiany.
i could have equalled that of
-- the
- .| handed out this:
"Calvin Coolidge.
of his great office, he held in check cago three years ago in the fa- tions, to come. Only then will h-:? | One of the
of the acl- ! parsing of the prceidcnt. Only a
'August 2, 1B23, 7:35
"Grace Coolidge."
the many divergent elements of the mous three-way deadlock between true iplace among the Presidents of j ministration was th
PLYMOUTH, Vt, Aug. 3.
brineine
i *sw hoars- before the doctors h a d ) The President
o o
Canto An a Surprise.
party. "He held the whip hand his forces, those of Governor Frank the United States be determined.
The last act of President Calabout of __ a formal __^peace with the i _ reported
him**. gaining
rapidly
and i eotvsly and
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There is no railway line runover the progressives and conserva- O. L/owden and General Leonard
vin Coolidge before he left his
Perhaps
ivhile converslajf with
it into Notch, the seat of the
tives alike and while they chafed Wood.
birthplace today for WashingCrete action
bcrs of his {badly at
otldfe home, and soon the roads
over it, they nevertheless staid
ton to assume his official duistration
Coolidgc Probable.
m. Death was
re choked with motor cars.
in line on major matters of party
ties, was to kneel at ths
t trip ever undertaken by a president
ference for tho limitation of arm- j jdent July ;, 1921.
Of
these
three
Johnson
is
regardto some brain
rhe elder Coolidge met the first
graves of his mother and sispolicy.
which six treaties were j on tha r commendation of Pres- j of the United States, and which
ed a certain candidate, and the for- araonts,
prtnKiMy all a|fedOJNMilcy<
ttchment of newspaper correSee Many Candidates.
ter in the Old Plymouth cemmer Illinois governor a potential negotiated between the United -dent Hardins. Congress approved | was more than half concluded at ing the day be him ec
>ndenU at the door ot his home.
Who will succeed Mr. Harding one. . . . . - . etery her. The President was
States and the principal nations of ia budget system of government, the time
of his breakdown. ,
from dlMontfort iM
>:
"We wen in' bed when the tele'
as party leader is a question trembaccompanied by Mrs. Cool-Much Excitement.
*n cry jnMinratBDft
In the cabinet there are Secre- the world. These treaties were I He had the" dist;nction"of appoint- |
on* manager at Bridgewater
ling today^ on the lips of all politi- tary of State Charles E. Hughes, ratifiea by the Senate and by the : ; ng t n e fi rsl budget officer. Hard-I
idge.
There were few about the eighth
ihed in her* and told as he had
cal leaders.
*->-- j j n g- s recommendation that Con-' floor of the hotel at the time,
of _ Great Britain,
whose defeat-by a paper-thin mar- Pariiamcnts of
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it caught m flash that President
'Opinions are many and divergent gin in 1916 afforded one of the Japan, Italy and France.
^
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_. _
It was signed y
gross enact legislation
for
a re-1 The corridors, which have been
rdlag WAS dead," said John C.
upon this score, but upon one phase most spectacular chapter? in AmerBy the principal treaty Britain, vision" of The War Risk Burea"u re- ! jammed with the coining and going physicians who nave
9lidf. "I awakened my ion
of it there is general unanimity ican political history.
France, Japan. Italy and the suited in the bill which created the j of constant crowds for davs. were stantly'In atttnda
1 daughter."
HAS TWO FINGERS
the death of President Harding
United States agreed to a limita- Veterans' Bureau. Another impor- almost deserted. It was the dinner j Dr. Boons, Dr. Work. ll
There
is
Secretary
of
Commerce
Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge hastily
MASKED AT FACTORY throws the republican nomination Hoover ---- another candidate of tion of uaval armaments, in ac- tant accomplishment was the final hour. -The members of the cabinet . snpton. and Dr. Ray. .
need and rushed downstairs,
In 1924 'wide open, even as it was
cordance with the famous 3-5-3 ra- settlement by which the British and personal friends of the presi- ; bur. President ot tni
r* visitor*
already had bgean
Stanley Groska of 160 Bath in 1920, with no less than a dozen 1920.
tio. XHher treaties consummated Government aggreed to the pay- dent. v,-ho have been his constant i Medical Asaoctetie*,
;
And
there
is
President
Coolidge
gataw.

street caught his left hand in a candidates certain to be in the himself. Whether he will be ~ a i related' to the use of submarines ment of its war de>l>t of ?4,600,- companions on the Alaskan toar j Cooper, u eminent
Xn. Coolldg* wept as he ex- punch press at 7:3<5 this morning field.
were down stairs, dining. Only jt of San fr*i
candidate to succeed ,hlmself is a *d poison gases in war, matters 000,000 to the United States.
toed to the International Newt while working for the Troiel
Instead of being the placid, cut question that Is going to be of great concerning insular possessions in
The
Domestically, -Harding was faced the usual secret sen-Ice guard and
"rle* correspondent:
Manufacturing Company. He was nd dried meeting to renotninate concern to the politicians in coming the Pacific and policies affecting soon after his inauguration by a i a few casual newspaper correspon- retariot ,W*rk,
'Poor Mrs. Herding! I do feel taken to Memorial Hospital im- Mr. Harding, next year's republican weeks.
wave of unemployment, following! dents, their vigilance relaxed be- lace, and At
China.
wry (or her. She has been M mediately, where U was found nec- convention has become overnight a
Time tlone will reveal the influ- an industrial let-down. Under Sec-; cause of tile elnttaued optimistic j ertr.
Progressive
friends
of
former
*tml aad brare. W are both essary to amputate the first ao4 free for all. One great leash that senator, and now Judge William S. ence of the Washington Confer- retary of Commerce Herbert bulletin's on the president's convii-; room
ked by ta news We could teeond fingers to the middle joint has held In check tne political am- Kenron of Iowa, have had a quiet ence on International relations.
d&nt'
Hoover a Federal Employment lescence, were * boat the h*lU.
dly blir H. We had id and the third finger to the first bitions of a score of men lu the movement under way for month?,
Eight floors below there was the!,
Sought Tax Reduction.
Agency was established. After two
Out tht Pmldemt Joint Hit condition this noon was party h*s been dramatically broken
customary dinner throng, (ry. !
Harding sought by this method
toad.
(Continued on Pag* 14)
aappy, f sthertnf in ike great
to rec*TT7. We reperted
or 0*0 Men )ntef al tltnut.
to guarantee the United States re(Continued on Pay* 14.)

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PRESIDENT'S DEATH
CAUSES POLITICAL
ANXIETY IN G. 0. P.

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