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Show iLii::sfji;j;-' o;i;:xes!1il sdts south Executive Relaxes Aboard Train Following Strenuous Strenu-ous Day of Accident and Dig' Crowd at Seattle j HENDERSON SKIFm.l i PRAISED FOal ACTS ' . , - ' President Formulates Deft- nite Policy as Result ofj His - Alaskan - Visit;' Headed for Statehood ON SOaftO PftES'OtNT HARD-! INQ S SPECIAL TRAIN, July 2 l (By A. P.) Sufferinf from eo et took of ptomaine poieening, Preai- . dent Hardin remeined In bed to- j dey, by order, .f hi. phyeieten. aa I hia apeeial train traversed the etata of Oreaen en route te Yeeemite na tienal park from Bea( ON BOARD PRK8IDKNT HARD-INO'B HARD-INO'B tiVVsCUX, TRAIN. July H (By A. P ) After a rati and water trip of more than five - thousand mile, to Alaska. Canada and return to Seattle, President Hardin was US-sin on board the train whl h left I Waahln.ton. I). C. June l. travel-j In with hia official parly alone; the Pacific ooaat ran, aouth to th, Toaemlta National park. 'California. He and Mra. Hardlnf apent the dsr In relaxation from the hurried and etrenuoua pro.ram of ester'tay In , (teat tie occasioned By the delayed j arrival at lhal port of the navy transport Henderenn, In tura caused by Impenetrable fof hanke on the waters north and In the vicinity of Port Townaend. Wash. There wae an evident feelln of reret amon membere of the presidential presi-dential party that the collision between be-tween the Henderson and the destroyed de-stroyed ?.elhn, which occurred tn the fo( near Port Townaend had marred to even a elisht deeree what had been a thoro.i '!v enmy-aMo enmy-aMo e-w vo-e to si"1 t' A -ks At the preS'vn nf 1 J len rii-nnnflti. r't'" '' ; ' ' Henderson, were .rtief. ) . -n. It boln acknowtenyed by ah ni.-n-hera of the party mat he rrevrnied by prompt action and escenent seamanship sea-manship whst mlsht have been a more serious affair reeultln. probably proba-bly tn Woo of life and deatructlon of the Z'llln. INQUIRY TO IE MADE. j It also waa made known thxt ordere had been lven st the pr"l-dent'e pr"l-dent'e direction that tapraln liu-chan.n liu-chan.n anouid not be detMined at fteettiO or delaed In any manner from pireedinte Imme-I.stely wlih the rlwnoereon to even 1'irfj. where the presidential parly v 1 I embark Au.tiat for Panama. 1 ne routine board of Inquiry, ruelomarlly created creat-ed to Investigate and report to the navy department on euch event, aa tha Henderaon-ellln eolliatnn, will be compelled te function In thia Instance In-stance without direct eaamlnailon or teetlmony of Captain Buchanan. The reret of the president and Mra. Hardin over the aocldeni was greatly Increased by reoo.nlllon of the disappointment to the thousands In Heat do who. Ilnln. the route of the presidential parade, had walled several hours, many of them from end eclock In tha mornlnf. antll the proreealon finally passed by at I o'clock In the afternoon. Borne of theee had aome anlou. momenta A Beattl. newepaper Thuredey evening eve-ning had announced that event of any bit new. during th. preeldentlal visit a siren would be sounded. SIREN 0IVES SIGNAL. When 10 o'clock and the hour of the pared, paaeed and there waa no sign of the preeldent a arrival, thoee waiting were myetiried and thia feeling grew aa noon approached. ap-proached. ,Th,n about II :M o'clock the siren's call waa heard over the city. It waa several minute, before newspaper extra telling of the collision were on the streets and during, the Intervening period there waa aa almost panicky feeling In the kearte of thoee walling. But when tha preeldentlal party did arrive, thoee who- had been waiting for hour, forgo their fatigue fa-tigue and joined In giving iba chief executive and Mra. Hardin what the preeldent deaeribed a. on. of th. most cordial reception, received ea th trip. Twenty thousand or jsiore boye from various parte of the ataie of Washington, ejaihered In Woodland park for the annual boye picnic given by Seattle F.Ike Ukewlee showed few signs of their long wait and greeted the preeldent sun roaiinc cheer when he appeared ap-peared before them, admlnlatered the pledge of allegiance to the flag and country, and made a brief ad-(Coatlaued ad-(Coatlaued oa paga - . HARDiNGAGAIN - (Continued from page I.J dress, declaring "every consecration to the flag and every new pledge of devotion I a renewed promise of greater aad a better republic." '-. ' HAROINU PORMULATIS ALASKAN PROGRAM, . , SEATTLE. Jury II (Br A. Pf The Alaakaa program of President Harding, evolved from his firsthand first-hand study of conditions In the territory, ter-ritory, embrace In th main meaa-ura meaa-ura to conserve th salmon fisheries, fisher-ies, removal of som of the restriction restric-tion on utilisation of the foreeta. grant ef more liberal appropriations for read building, encouragement In agricultural experiment and retention reten-tion of tha Alaska railroad by th government. Tha chief executive presented hla program and a report n his two weeks' vi.lt to th territory Hi aa address delivered here late y eater-day. eater-day. Ha declared emphatically that be had found So "Alaskan problem" prob-lem" but that "Alaska ks all right and la doing well." Mr. Harding emphasised throughout through-out that much of the dereiopment ef Alaska waa dependent n th people of the territory although the federal government, ha said, might aid. "Alaska le destined for ultimate statehood." he aaeerted at another point. "In a few year we can wail set off the panhandle and a large block of the connecting southeaster southeast-er part as a state. This region now contains easily H per cent of the whit population and of the developed de-veloped resource, it would-be -the r reelect elngK Impetus we could possibly give to the light kind of development. As to the remainder cf the territory. I would leave tha Alith"- si ta future la decide." - . |