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Show the afternoon in surprising his old friends and neighbors by calling them I on the telephone ami wishing them a happy new year, later wandering out to the press shack for a talk with the correspondent.". Henatnr Harding recalled re-called that the Interior of the press house, with Its big coal stove, reminded him of the small town atore. wnere In his younger days the village anions held forth and settled the arrnirs of the nation. "All tlmt Is mls.sing Is the sawdust and the cracker boxes," he commented. ALSO FALLS VICTIM. ! YANK TENNIS STARS ; CONGRATULATED BY HARDING President-Elect Busy All Day Reading Hundreds of Polite Messages BY W. B. MscNAMEE Universal Service Staff Correspondent. MARION, O., Jan. 1 Early morning of New Year's day found Presidentelect President-elect Warren O. Harding at his office desk answering the hundreds of greet -Inns from all over the country and mifhy parts of the world felicitating him on the arrual of the new year, which will see him Inducted Into the highest office of the land. Among the first messages dictated by Senator Harding today was a cablegram cable-gram of congratulation to William Til-den Til-den II of Philadelphia and William Johnston of California, the victorious American tennis stars competing In the Davis cup matches at Auckland, New Zealand. I "American congratulations. Warren' Q. Herding." the cable read. I The president-elect spent most of ' I "Uncle" Charlie Patten, majordomi of the Harding grouniis and official sinker of the press shack atove, hat fallen victim to the epidemic of cabinet cabi-net picking. His sad plight was re. venled today when Senator Harding noticed a small sheet Ar yellow paper lacked up on the wall near the stove, laboriously written out In pencil waa "Uncle Charlie's" cabinet. It consisted of Charles K. Hughes, ss secretary of state; Harry liaughcrty, attorney gen-eral; gen-eral; Will Havs. postmaster general, and Colonel Theodore "Rosefelt" as secreturv of war. with several othera. The president-elect ran his eyes down the list and laughed. "Well, Charlie, I congratulate you. for you have gotten further with It than I have." said Senator Harding. Mrs. Harding seised the .first day of the new year to begin her house cleaning. Kitted out wfth an old ialr of gloves, the "Duchess" went up Into the attic and began picking out the articles of furniture she wants tu take to the White House with her, and beginning be-ginning the task of laying away others that for the next four yeara will gather Marion dust. (FEW CONFERENCES. j I Senator Harding ha.l a few brief (conferencea today, the first with I Colonel Maurice Connolly, former con-j con-j gressman from Iowa, and during the war a pilot in the army air service. After his Interview with Senator Hard- I'lng. Colonel Connolly said: "1 found the president-elect not onlv thoroughly Interested and Informed In aeronautical matters, but sympathctic to real development of this branch of I th service, both from Its Importance as a factor In national defense as well iss the encoursgement of its economic. I commercial and transportation potential poten-tial I ilea, .with the resultant establishment establish-ment of the American aircraft industry indus-try on a sound and enduring basis. I ' feel distinctly confident that the air problems and regulations will receive every reasons Lie consideration under ( hi administration." Dr. l'hilip Jaisohn. a lecturer. rr icently returned from the Kar Kast. told the president-elect of conditions I In Kwrea ar affected hy the Japanese military auxerainly there following i ! which Senator Harding walked out to l (the residence of Colonel (leorge Chris-I I lisn. father of his secretary, for an oldfashluncd country dinner. ' |