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Show V T v y Keep Posted. On the Ilome Happenings By Bead-tag The Daily Journal. ? A Journal . Want ' Ad. Nearly Always Brings Home the Bacon. Try One and See. A . Cl r. i i 4 - ... LOGAN CITY, CACHE COUNTY, UTAH VOLUME XLVL :V A FRIDAY, AUGUST 3,1923 X7ITfRPI Ittft MCtl President Harding Dies With Su d d e nn ess That Shocks American N ation The End Came So Quickly. That Members of His Party Could foot Bem Summoned Mrs. Harding Was Reading to Him When He Collapsed And All Efforts to Restore Him Vice President Calvin Coolidge Takes Oath of Office at Early Hour Today In Little Village Wer Unavailing In Vermont Is ' (By Associated Press) surroundings he struggled upward until the American people awarded him the highest gift within their honor to bestow. The trip across the continent will be through Reno, Ogden, then Cheyenne, Omaha, Chicago, " to Washington. SAN FRANCISCO, Ag. 3. As in life so is Warren G. Harding in the quiet dignity of death, calm .composed and of peaceful mien. In the gray draped room far above San Franciscos busiest street all that is mortal of --Americas twenty ninth president reposed. Death left no mark on his countenance. ' So suddenly, and painlessly the end came, that his face, but for its pallor, might have been that of man asleep H . T - SAN FRANCISCO, August 3. A nation today mourned the passing of its leader. The American people from coast to coast, front lakes to gulf and in the territories beyond seas' .bowed their heads in grief, for , their president was dead. In the early hours of the evening after a day which had brought renewed hope of recovery, death came suddenly and struck do wi). Warren G. Harding with- a stroke of cerebral apoplexy. The end came OOUV1AVO Aug.2rWarren G. Harding, president of the United States, died suddenly and with? out - warning at-- :80 Tonight. He was conversing with memcisco, i s e . a Press) (By A PALACE HOTEL, San Fran- : - 7 bers of his family when ihfLend. same. Death came so suddenly a seconds warning at Seven-thiroclock.- There was no time to that members of his official par ty could not be summoned. Not no time to" call members of the iio time for l many hours before the physi- official family, skill to Exercise its knowcians in their formal statement will' be lighted at night and at said that during the day. the ledge.;' It was all over in the all tirhes two soldiers and two and left of the an eye twinkling been free from president had will Sailors stand at attention- 7 in and shocked and world nation, any discomfort conDr. Sawyer was alone in the grief. Mrs. Harding, the COLUMBUS, Aug. 3. State stant of her distin- officials have telegraphed Secreajlartment when the president guishedcompanion was .faithful husband, died. He was first called by Mrs. Christian tary asking that Presi' until the end. She was retding to dent Harding who then rushed. to the Harding's body lie in state before a seven few ' minutes .. . , , door leading into the corridor... at the papital here. and commanded an immediate the frame of (By Associated Press) search for other physicians. der run through she man the had loved, encourag' 3. King LONDON, Aug. The first indication that a ed in adversity and praised in George has ordered the court in change had come in President success.' Before she could rise for thirty days on acHarding's condition was shortly from her chair Mr. Harding col- mourning count of the death of President after seven oclock .when lapsed in tfye bed. Harding. opened the- door of the sick room and called to those in SAN FRANCISCO. Auguct 3. (By Associated Press) Ihe corridors to "find Dr. Boone, greatly Aug. 3 , While quick. The story of the pres- shocked by the death of her President Coolidge is undecided ident tragic end Was told otfic-all- y husband, arose early this morn- it is understood here he plaris this way : after a short sleep, directing to go west, to meet the The president died at 7:30 ing all affairs and looking to the bearing Harding's body. ' two oclock. Mrs. Harding and welfare of the party. 7 (By Associated Press) nurses. Miss Powderly and Miss room ar the Dauser were in the WASHINGTON,; Aug. 3 Dr MARION, August The country suffered an 'irretime. 'Mrs. Harding had been T. brother Harding Jr., George parable loss in the death of reading to the president, whei of the late president said before President Harding,' Senator a without shgnt warning utterly on his western trip the Johnson of California, said shudder passed (through his starting had his personpresident ' today. frame, he collapsed and all re- al affairs in placed shape,' much as come. had end that the cognized he feared he would never A stroke of apoplexy was the though alive. return HARDINGS PRINTER cause of death. Within a fey moments all the president s offTROY, N. Y. August PALS ARE SAD icial party had been summoned and party ar"The persident had had a rived hereCoolidge twelve forty on splendid afternoon, said Lieut. their way to Washington. (By Associated Press). ; Commander Boone, assistant to MARION, Aug. 3. At the : President Hardings personal SAN FRANCISCO, August 3. Marion Star the news of Presiphysician.; When I left the President Hardings body starts dent Harding's death was reroom I commented, "Doesn't he on the transcontinental journey ceived with sorrow, as it was look splendid. Then all at once at six Harding spent the best thirty tonight, it is offic- there of his life in the profeshe just went like that, the Com- ially announced. years sion he most loved. The boys" mander snapped his fingers. "Just like that, he repeated. WASHINGTON. August 3.-- who had worked with Harding Calvin Coolidge elevated at the type case, or helped fash"Something just snapped, that's colto the presidency, the nation is ion' editorials or perhaps all.' lect bad recounted the accounts, but without a .;vice president, in the life of their J (By Associated Press) law makes provision for the milestones bploved chief.. One in the ediSAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3 secretary of state , taking, the torial department said: .Desthe chief of Geft. the in Brig. Sawyer, duties of vice president staff of physicians; attending event of the death of the execu-- , Jjny alone never reached out for Destiny in his case the president. Who' also .was in tivd. The vice presidency, howhad wife. a woman-i- lia an ally, did the room and two nurses ever, remains vacant. Mrs. Harding made her husall the could but jt availed nothband president. . CHICAGO, AuliC 3. Commising. "When dawn crept over the mountains and lighted . Colder. sioner Landis announced that all Storm at Santaquin v Gate this morning almost all ar major league games today had Washes Out Pipe Line rangements for the trip- - the been called off on account of the saddest trartscontinental ; jour- death of President Harding. SANTAQUIN, Aug. 3.- -A ney in the history of the, nation cloudburst hero Tuesday in the All stock 3. had been made. It will start CHICAGO, Aug. canyon washed out about seven tonight! and should exchanges and boards of trade Santaquin thirty-fiv- e feet of - the Utah end in Washington Tuesday in New York, and Chicago were Power & Light company s pipe morning. It is expected the body closed today on account of Pres- lino Men and teams, are busy the capital ident Harding's death. . will lie in state in repairing it ' 'where sorrowing fteople have Daniel Jerman suffered the often times before paid their SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3.--The loss of five acres of wheat which 7 laab respects to the leaders and body of Harding will leave had just been harvested. The train wheat was washed away in the , heroes they have lost. San Francisco on Burial will be at Marion. about 7 oclock Friday evening flood and left on the road and Ohio, the city which Harding and will qo direct to Washing-- . in othey fields. The city was known around the world ton via Reno, Ogden, Cheyenne, without 'water until this " because there from poor h'rnibleJOmaha and Chicago. The car ty - med-ica- MRS. WARREN G. HARDING - . - -- i .. . I - " - Was a Hard Worker All His Life and a Wonderful Personality Won For Him a Wide Circle of Friends A G ood Newspaperman. Mrs.-Hardin- - ,NEW-YQRKr , OBITUARY Nominated for the presidency , 7 -- . With ; , -- .. -- - . . v : I - - j it - reaction preHar- twenty-nint- h president of the United States, ow'ed his political elevation largely to hi? engaging personal, traits, his ability to work in harmony with ding, ; it a decessor, Warren Gamaliel - " of against the policies of his - 3.-Pr- esident because ity, MRS. WARREN G ING, LOYAL HELPMEET OF fact that he typified in himself8 THE DEAD STATESMAN. the average prosperous Ameri- ' " ican citizen. Although he had been prom-- , inent in Ohio politics for a gen- III! Vprv- - - Wa1' eration, Mr. Harding did not I CLF really become a national figure UjJ iCIjf 7 until 1920, the year of his noni- ,7 illation at Chicago.'-- , He had Associated Press ( By j SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. been mentioned as a possible Mrs. Harding, although bearing compromise candidate in 191 6 : Mr. Harding, then United Ufi well, had the services of a, states senator, was the tempor-nurs- e throughout the night. ary chairman of the 1916 of cabinet officers who ventioU also held at Chicago, had accompanied the president an(j his keynote speech on alternated as her companions, that occasion was expected by One of these said she had. stood many to put him in a position the strain well, butu had - little wfcri-- the nomination might go real rest, Mrs. Harding is far to him, if a deadlock had arisen. from collapse or hysteria and The nomination went to Charles gave no evidence of emotion be- E. Hughes, whom he later pickyond the- - expression of grief ed for secretary of state, and natural under., such circum- who was defeated at the polls ' by Woodrow Wilson. stances. Mr. Hardings opportunity Slaughtering and meat pack- was to come four years later ing is the largest manufactur- when General Leonard Wood ing m dustry in Iowa, measured and Frank 0. ."Bowden, then by production arid- - by value of governor of Illinois, were the materials: consumed. , early leading candidates. When developments in a senatorial The island of Madagascar has committees investigation of al- a belt of forest twenty, 'miles leged improper use of campaign, deep which completely encircles funds . made the party leaders it: deem Governor Iowdens nom- ination inadvisable, most of the . The Jight of the North Star is laters strength was transferred estimated to be . 190 times to Mr Harding; His friends in stronger than that of the sun. the senate who had opiH'sed the - j . - , con-Wiv- es j e ; " " ; j i I ; e, as a compromise candidate and elected by a tremendous major- Hi-ar- - ' (By Associated Press) PLYMOUTH, Vt., Aug. 3. Vice President Calvin Coolidge became president of ,the United States ah two forty seven a. m. today, eastern standard time, when he took the oath of office administered by his father, in the living room of his fathers mounfarm house in the tain village where he was bom. Three hours earlier he had been notified' of the death of 7 President Harding and in brief statement expressied his (grief at the and passing of his 7! chief friend, and his purpose of car- rying out the policies which he began for the sendee of the American peopje. President Coolidge made Immediate preparations to start for Washington and lefifc here for Rutland on his way to Washington at seven thirty a. ra. eastern standard time. A messenger who had hastened here from Bridgewater, the league of nations proposed by nearest telegraph office, brought President Wilson became, active word of the presidents death to and Mra. Hardings nomination Mr. Coolidge in a telegFam froni by the convention :folloWed, George Bi Christian, the presiMr. Harding waa bom on a dents! secretary. : farm in Morrow county, Ohio, Cooiidges. father, John C. near the Village of. Blooming Coolidge,- received the message Grove, op November H,, 1865. It shortly before midnight and was his grandfathers farm, took it where he read where his father then lived. He it to theupstairs, vice president who was was the oldest of eight children. in bed. Mr. His father; Dr, George T. dressed in a Coolidge quickly suit of black and Harding,- a village physician, came down followed a stairs, came of Scotch ancestors, who moment later by, Mrs.' Coolidge. settled in Connecticut, and then ' Shocked by the news but outmoved to the Wyoming valley, showing ctlm, Coolidge Penn,, before going to Ohio. His wardly dictated two statements to bis I mother. Phebe. Dickerson came of Dutch family, the Van Kirks, secretary and distributed copies He had little means and to to the newspapermen who had in the living room at supplement his income as a phy- gathered fann the The first statesician, farmed on a small scale, ment said house. : Reports have reach-mWarren Harming was distinctI fear, are correct, ly a farm boy. He helped fn the that tvhich President Harding is gone. clearing and cultivation of the The world has lost a great and a land, and learned to fell trees, wood chop, split rails and plant Siod man and I mourn his loss. my chief and my friend. and hoe corn. In the winter he had chores to do before and af- It will be my purpose to carry ter school. He grew up strong out the policies which he has beof body and sunny of disposi- gun for the service of American people and for meeting their re tion.' At the age of 14 he entered sensibilities wherever they may Ohio Central college, a school of arise. 'For this purpose I shall the academy grade,, at Iberia, seek the cooperation of all those Ohio. At intervals. he stopped who have been associated with to earn money to continue and the president during his term of all his vacations were devoted office,. Those, who have given to earning money. He cut corn, their efforts to assist him I wish painted a barn, drove a team for to remain in office that they a contractor grading the road- may assist me. I have ftith that : God will direct the destinies of bed of the Toledo & Ohio and taught a rdis-- j our nation. d trict school. One summer vhe To Mrs. Harding, Vice eighteen bushels of dent and Mrs. Coolidge sent the wheat on half an acre of ground fallowing: We offer you our which his father gave him. deepest sympathy. May ; God During this- - period he played bless and keep you. Through an alto horn in the Iberia brass telephone communication the band, but this was for recrea-jvic- e president obtained the' act form of the oath the Const-Morather, than, for pay.; ' the presi-enimportant in its influ- - itution requires on his later career, he dent, to take Upon to set type and acquired suming office. Tn the presence his first contact with newspaper "f Mrs,- - Coolidge, Congressmtn work. When president, Mr, Porter H. Dale and a little party Harding still carried as a luck cf friends Mr, Coolidge quietly piece the printer's rule which went through the simple cere- he used when sticking type. mony which made' him presiAs editor of his college paper, dent. His father . read by the he showed an apituddySyi a lik- light of an oil the impreslamp 7 ' ing for journalism. sive words of the oath; In the meantime. Mr. I larding I do solemnly swear that I had moved his family from the will execute the office fai-to Caledonia, and when, of faithfully the United States J of president Warren was 19, moved to Mar- and I will to the best of my abilion. in the adjoining county, and defend protect preserve, ity then a place of about 4000 pop- the constitution of the United ulation. There Warren got a States. ; job in the office of a small weekMr. Coolidge, calmly, clearly ly, the Marion Mirror. Just before that he had been studying Te;e&ted the words and added "so help me God. law, selling insurance and teachThe ceremony - ended, the ing school, but from the moment he went to Marion he de- - president turned at once to pre-to parations for the journey W astnngroik- (Coatinusa oa Tago Four) , , Presi-raise- J ex-ti- on re ce ed ,J , . .. , a , |