Show PRESIDENT HARDING 15 CALLED BY DEATH COOLIDGE TAKES OATH MRS AIRS HARDING READING TO HUSBAND WHEN 1 N WITHOUT IWAI WARN N ING HE SHUDDERS AND COLLAPSES DEATH IS instantaneous calvin coolidge la in sworn in as chief executive by ills ilia rather who Is a notary public signifies intention of 0 Pro sent cabinet to serve presidential headquarters faltico hotel san Franc franciaco lacok cal warren G harding president of tho the united states died instantaneously and without warning thursday evening at 0 clock a victim or of a stroke of apoplexy which struck him down in ills his weakened condition after an illness of exactly a week i death came to the chief executive while ho he was conversing with members of his family and recording according to an official statement issued by physicians was apparently duo due to some brain evolvement ton hn apoplexy the end camo came so ao suddenly that tho the members of the official party could n not at bo be called it came after a day which had been described by brigadier general sawyer the pre presidents identa personal rooi ial physician agthe as the most satisfactory factor day the president had had since his dar I 1 illness iness began the physicians in their formal announcement of the end said that li during tho the dai ho he had been bebra free from discomfort and there was wag every justification for anticipating a prompt recovery the first indication indication thit that a change had occurred in mr Ilar hardinge Hardin dingi gt condition came shortly after 7 when mrs harding personally opened the joor of tho iho sick room and called to those inthe in the corri corridors dois to find dr boone oaid matthe tha others others quick at tha tAlmo mrs hard harddng zig was tobago to have been reading tot to the prest dent nitting ak his beasi bedside e with tho the eyen evening I 1 paper nd messages of sym sympathy 4 which na I 1 gaper had been received dur during the a day dr sawyer wai was alono alone of all tho the doctors in tho presidents Vs apartments when the climax came he first fiTs was called by mrs hirs harding who then rushed to the door leading into the hotel corri corridors dois and commenced an impatient search for the other ians the death of the nations chief exec active was announced in these words tho the president died instantaneously an and d without warning and while conversing vers with members of his family at 7 30 p m death was apparently itte due to some brain evolvement ably an apo apoplexy tva during the in day y he had bad been free from discomfort and there was every justification for anticipating a prompt recovery the story of the presidents tragic ond end was told officially this way the president died at p m mrs harding and the two nurses nurse miss ruth powderly and miss sue baus daus ger fir were in tho the room at the tirrie time mrs harding was reading to the president when utterly without warning a slight plight shudder passed through his frame he collapsed and all recognized that the end had come A stroke of apoplexy was the cause of his death within a few moments all of the presidents official party had been lummon summoned ed secretary hoover er was the first of the four members of the presidents abinet who are in san francisco franciaco to team leam the sad news he went into the room at once and in it a few minu came amno out obviously deeply distressed and in a low voice arld to ne newspaper ws a p or men most moat of whom did not kno know Y of the hurried call almost half an all hour previously boys s I 1 cannot to toll 11 you a thing thu the president had a 0 most splendid afternoon said bald lieutenant commander joel T boone assistant to the pros proa identa personal Thys physician ician when 1 I 1 left the room I 1 commented ho he look splendid then athin all alonco aj ild ho hlaic sl wont went like that tho the comman command cra a ana snapped aped hla his fingers angora just like that tant ho repeated something just snapped all secretary wallace was tho the second member of tho iho president denti official family to learn of tho the 13 assIng of hla his chief and ho he likewise wits so BO overcome with grbac that he be could say nothing the chi chief of executive 0 of the nat nation folland and by virtue of his hia office and one of tho the worlds loading leading ti gores passed away at that time when his physicians it I 1 fans hafl family and his friends thought h 0 U g tt that hope and prayers had won tho the battle against drayers the disease haid had been beon conquered the fire was out but aegon days daya of chent silent intense suffering lad had loft left their mark and a stroke of bf apoplexy camo without sin an instants warning and before ghys chya iljana could be called alicd mT Obera of his hia party summoned b or remedial tit meus measures taken ho he passed froma life stage 1 utter having for nearly two and a julf fiala years served his hia nation ond and for many moro more yearn his native slate of ohio calvin coolidge who succeeds warren G harding as president of the united states lias has been in public life and before tho the public eye move more than twenty years he was waa prominently mentioned as a presidential ty at the republican national convention when president hording harding was wa nominated in 1920 at chicago when he was elected for second place potice on antho the t ticket wid and accepted that nomination republican Republica 4 leaders considered onside red him a valuable ablo asset to the ticket in his capacity as vice president mr coolidge has taken a more active part in the affairs of the nation than has the occupant of that office in any previous administration calvin coolidge took the oath as president of the united states at plymouth vt at 2 47 a m 11 aug 8 3 the new president was sworn in by his hia father who is a notary public aud and at whose home ho was wag vi visiting alting the text tea of the pledge Is prescribed t bythe the constitution and wai was telephoned houed to him by the white house word of the simple ceremony was telephoned to mr Coolid dees secretary edward T dark clark who after several hours of unsuccessful efforts had established wire connection with plymouth and had notified his chief of the death of 0 president harding hardings Har dingi |