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Show GhiGf Executive Uill Be Rushed Bacla to Capital President to Return as Soon as Possible; 1 Conference of Four Physicians at San i Francisco Gives Hint of Heart Trouble 4 SAN FRANCISCO, July 80 (By A. P.) President Hard- tag .will b . ruahad baclt-to XVaaiiuigtOB by -special train, as soon as he recovers from hi prcient illness sufficiently to travel, probably within two weeks. ' '. . ' The two San Francisco physicians, who were called into consultation by Brigadier General Sawyer last night, were again in conference with Dr.' Sawyer at 920 o'clock ' thia . morning. The two local doctors, Ray Lyman Wilbur, president presi-dent of Stanford university, and Charles M. Cooper, a heart specialist, had spent the night in the hotel where the president a 111. " Secretary Work of tho Interior department, a former president of tho Americas Medical association, again met with tho consultants. Prior to tho moating Bono of tho physicians would -matte any statement, state-ment, but it waa'- Indicated that General Sawyer would Issue s. bulletin bul-letin upon conclusion ot tho conference.' con-ference.' SAW FRANCISCO. Cel., faly SS 'By A. P. President Harding today to-day la a sick man. How serious Is Harding's fllneea . hla physicians have not aald beyond the atatamant Issued late laat night ' laying that "new aymptoma1 had arisen during tba day "Indicating -' complications tn tha case of the president." But It was regarded sufficiently oerloua laat night to f aauso a cancellation ot tho chief f executlre'e entire California program, pro-gram, and to bring about a consultation consul-tation Into which two leading California Cali-fornia physicians were called. Four pnyalelana, participating In tha eoneultatlon, concluded their meeting early today without Issuing Issu-ing any statement, although Brigadier Brig-adier General Charles K. Sawyar. personal physician to the preeldent, had previously announced that a bulletin would bo made pubHo, None eg-ebo roue fjhyaldans would malts a personal etatement. - 0he con-stiltante con-stiltante were General Sawyer, Ir. . Hubert Work, Dr, Wilbur aad Dr. Cooper. HEART TROUBLf INDICATED.' The calling la of Dr. Cooper, to- anther with other devolopraente. Indicated In-dicated that tba affect of poeelble complications oa . the greeldent'a heart action was being watched carefully. Tha decision to call -eft tha California Cali-fornia program and - ta bold In abeyance arrangementa for tho return re-turn to the Atlantla ooaat by way of the Panama canal waa reached ehortly before 11 o'clock at a conference con-ference la Which Mrs. Harding. Secretary Work, Oeneral Sawyer and Secretary Christian participated. partici-pated. 'Secretary Christian soon after made the announcement ot tho change In plana, aaylng that tba prealdent had approved It because be-cause ho "realises the groat Inconvenience Incon-venience Imposed upon publlo eu- j thorltlea, volunteer committees and the people in general by reaaon of unoertalnty whether - tho program, la which he waa to hare participated, partici-pated, can bo carried out." An Informal statement made la connection with the formal . announcement an-nouncement of tho cancellation conveyed tha Information that Mr. Harding would remain In Baa Franciaco until bo completely recovered. re-covered. Thla waa - regarded by some acquainted with tho execu-- execu-- tlve'a condition as likely to require ten days or two weeks. . . RETURN NOT PLANNED. f No plana for tho return trip to Washington, either by tho planned water route through the- Panama canal and by way ot Porto Rloo r and tho Virgin Islands ar by train overland, will be made uatH toe president recovers, it waa emphasised. empha-sised. Some members ot tho preel- dentin! party today expressed the ' belief that the water trip would be abandoned and that Mr. Harding . would return by trala without any otopa - for speeches or receptloaa Other members were of the eplntoa tbat attar he regain, hla" strength a aea trip will be needed "to put h;m en his feet again." The preeldent'a aleHooia la aa the eighth floor ot the downtown hotel to which ha went upon hla arrival hero early yesterday after abandoamenr eC the trip to T Semite, i Every effort haa been made to give him aa much quiet aa poeelble and early thla morning orders or-ders were gtvoa to let so one except ex-cept members of the presidential party aa the eighth floor.. Dr. Saw. yer waa In attendance upon the prealdent or close at band all laat night, aanlsted by Lieutenant Commander Com-mander Joel T. Boone, a naval aur-geoa aur-geoa who since Mra. Harding'a III-nees III-nees laat tall baa beea assistant White Homes phystelaa. General Sawyer promised laat night that bulletlna giving tba . president's condition would bo Issued Is-sued regularly tor the Information - ot the public, and some time today, poeslbly after another meeting ot the pcyalciana, a bulletin la expected ex-pected containing a diagnosis . ot the president's eaee. CRAB MEAT BLAMED. Tha real cause af the executive's lllnesa aa explained yesterday- by Dr. Sawyer, ilea In sons erebe he ate aboard the naval transport Henderson hist before reaching Vancouver, B. C. These crabe. la the opinion of Dr. Sawyer, were "copper tainted," or like eea food taken from several email arena ot Alaskan war era had become Impregnated Im-pregnated wfth copper from the deposits de-posits of tbat mineral along the coast Unea Eating tbeea era he gave the preeldent a touch of pto-(Continued pto-(Continued oa page I.) CHIEFOT1E ' (Continued from pas 1.)" main poisoning from which ha seemed to be recovering until his visit to Seattle last Friday. The exertion caused by th strenuous program be followed there assr.-vated assr.-vated the poisoning, and tha die-order die-order became more serious than before. be-fore. Th heat "Saturday aa th presidential presi-dential train traveled . through southern Oregon and northern California Cali-fornia also worked to hinder recovery. re-covery. He (ot a fair nlght'e sleep Saturday night aboard tha train, and -on . arriving . her yesterday morning walksd from the train to aa automobile looking; remarkably improved, although noticeably weak and pale. For ssvsral hour after arrival at tha hotel alt seemed to go vrell,. but lata la tha afternoon th new symptoms. Indicating complications, com-plications, apoken of by Dr. Sawyer la hla bulletin, became noticeable. Although Mr. Harding' Illness at the present stag la not comparable at all with that of President Wilson Wil-son during his leatros of nation tour In 11. there la somewhat at a coincidence between the two, Preep dent Wilson continued with his trip to Wichita, Kan, before abandoning U. but the first evidence of the imminent im-minent breakdown became slightly noticeable to those closest ta Dim hers In Saa rraiMlsoo. San Francisco demonstrated yes terday and continued today to show that a a city she la equally wllllna to act either aa a host or aa a nurss. The alty had been preparing prepar-ing ts act aa host beginning- tomorrow, to-morrow, but with the abandonment of the Toeemlte trip and tha arrival ar-rival of th president her she became be-came a aura. Filling that part her ritlasns have remained away from th hotel where th president I and have shown their sollcUade by numerous telephoae calla lo fna hotel Inquiring aa to his condition. Their inquiries today were augmented aug-mented by numerous telegrams from an aver tha ewuirtry ex pre Being Be-ing th hop that th preeldent may soon recover. |