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Show IHARDin HAND FOR CEREMONY Huge Throng Greets President-Elect and Party; James J. Davis Named Labor Sec'y WASHINGTON, Maryh 3. President-elect Warren G. Harding and Mrs. Ilarding arrived ar-rived here today. Greeted at the station by a huge throng, they stepped Into a motorcar mo-torcar and were hurried to the new Wlllard hotel, where they will remain unUl they leava for the capitol tomorrow. tomor-row. . Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge met the i Harding party at the station. I A short time after his arrival, Itard-:lng Itard-:lng went into conference with riena-Itors riena-Itors Lodge and Knox regarding plans for the inauguration tomorrow. DAVIS FOR LABOR. On the way here Mr. Harding definitely defi-nitely announced that James J. Davis of Pittsburg and Indiana would be sec-reary sec-reary of labor. At the same time he named George i B. Christian his private secretary. The announcement today of Davis appointment as secretary of labor com- . pletes the Harding cabinet. 1 B. hejs ttM n. whose appointment ss J Harding's secretary jpaa announced. I went In vnrb um cnh h iui.I.. nn ' Harding's newspaper thirty years ago. He was a Democrat until a few years Accompanying the president-elect on his special train were his father. Dr. George T. Harding; Dr. nd Mrs. C. K. Sawyer, (ieorae B. Christian Jr., Harding's Hard-ing's secretary; several members of the secretarial staff and a dozen or I more newspaper correspondents. Hev-( Hev-( eral hundred Marion residents will leave Marion today on another special train and will arrive In Washington tomorrow. BOTH CALM. The eve of Inauguration found the president -elect and Mm. Harding both calm, at least outwardly, i "There will be no attempt to act ! over the head of anybody," he said. "We propose to call In leaders of both house and members of committees interested In particular measures, find out what is acceptable to them and then try to reach some common ground. That. 1 believe, is the best way to get things done." The weather man promised clear and colder weather for tomorrow, despite de-spite a fine drizzle today. Ksacre Jrvlfa triattl lirlu m ,4 I last and thorough seareh of tbe capitol. cap-itol. Washington police In squads I toured the city looking for known 'characters" who have flocked here. Nu one will be admitted to tha capitol cap-itol tomorrow without a card. |