Show ED LATE REPORT SAYS HARDING MUCH Pneumonia Broncho De- De Develops De During During Night Doctors Give Out TENSION LESSENED Heart Action Definitely 1 Improved Bulletin States HEADQUARTERS PRESIDENTIAL PALACE HOTEL HOTL SAN CISCO FRACISCo July Sl 31 31 Gen 4 P Gen General Gen General era eral Sawyer gave the Associated Press tho the following Informal state state- statement statement statement ment at 1235 p m In today I I am glad to report to YOU you that the president s a condition as In the morning morning- bulletin is stilt still holding favorably PRESIDENTIAL TEns PALACE HOTEL SLl SARI n July CP 31 M pre I I Ident appeared today t to have won the first preliminary bronI skirmish in his Lis fIght tight against bron bron- bron- bron bronchopneumonia I I cho pneumonia and attending attending- com corn complications complications An official bulletin Issued by the tho five physicians attending him said there had bad been no extension dur- dur durIng during dur during ing the night and earlier part ot of I otI I the day of ot the pneumonic areas and the heart action was definite definite- definitely definitely definitely ly Improved It added that he be alo aIo I had been by a fairly comfortable night with consider consider- considerable considerable considerable able restful sleep LESS EXHAUSTED The Tho presIdent the bulletin said had expressed himself a as tee feeling ling better and less ICS exhausted His tern tem temperature tem temperature at 3 ii a a m in was given gien as about a degree less than that of yesterday pulse a drop of five from yesterday and Ills his res- res respiration res respiration 40 and regular as eon eon- con contrasted treated with Hand 44 and Irregular as given In reports of esterday Equally as os assuring as us tho the offic official Ia ial lal bulletin was the statement by byI Charles rles Saw Saw- Sawyer Sawyer Sawyer I Brigadier General E E yer Mr Hardings Harding's personal ph- ph I phI made informally at S 8 a a m in mas inas inas as follo follows follos s The president has had tho the best night comparatively that he has had since his Illness began That augurs well The conditions seem to warrant the statement that ap- ap apparently apparently ap apparently he has gotten Into clear sailing Approximately six sit h hours of sleep were obtained by the chief executive tie the during the night and when hen he hea a about G C 0 o clock his first request was as for tor the morning news s news news- newspapers newspapers papers Unofficial word from the president pros pros- president dent s chamber made known to tone ne spa per men shortly before noon said the tho next consultation of o at- at attending attending at attending tending ph would be called for 4 o'clock this afternoon and fol- fol followed followed fol followed lowed by a statement by the doctori about 5 p m Confidence was expressed bythe by the spokesman that the hopeful tone of the morning statement would b reiterated In la the afternoon bulletin as the president continued to ret faIrly well a el-a a sign that he Was gaining strength In the combat still being waged against his ailments PR PRESIDENTIAL HEADQUARTERS Ut R f- f fERS r ERS PALACE CE HOTEL SAN t CISCO July Sl Si Sl AJ W alto Indications of the In the condition of President Hard HarJ- lug Hard ling lug were contained In to an official bulletin Issued at 10 a m today by the tho attending ph The president had a fairly corn com comfortable night with considerable I sleep HIs His temperature at 9 a m U i pulse respiration 40 and regular There his has been no e ea- ea e of ot the pneumonic areas and the heart action Is definitely In lot pro ed pros ed Nourishment and fluids a arc be- be belog br bring ing log taken regularly Is i satisfactory He He tIe expresses himself is ns feeling better and less les Signed C 0 E t Sawyer Ray Ray Lyman Iyman Wilbur Wllbur Ml lJ C c 11 M U Cooper Nd 1 J J T Boone Md Nd Hubert Work Work- Md J U n S n iS 5 PRESIDENTIAL L IA HEADQUARTERS PALACE HOTEL San ban Francisco July 31 31 R W character Is tie allY calm and determined Is fighting the tha greatest battle of ot Ws 1111 career U career struggle In which his lifo Is la the stake Arranged t him was woe broncho pneumonia symptoms ot of which were discovered by the tho at- at attending attending at attending tending physicians late last night nigh and also the danger daner of other corn com com complications Arrayed In his favor a sub sub- subsidence sub subsidence determination IUS ae Ilia bl l calm of 01 the earlier abdominal trouble and the thc h hopes and nd or of a j nation His handicap was an- an a on rage rase TWO w LATE REPORT SAYS HARDING MUCH MITCH BETTER j Continued from Page Pago One admittedly physical re- re re resistance s None Nona of the five lve attending physicians clans would predict the outcome I although all were optimistic No I word came from the sick room dur dur- durIng dur- dur during ing log the early hours today It having been agreed after aCter a bulletin bu was I I sued at o'clock last night that no additional formal statement would be bo made until about 8 S o'clock this morning unless there occurred IL a decided change chango one way or the tho theother theother other othor So to those who waited no news was considered good news RAY OF ROPE HOPE I The o'clock bulletin bu Issued after a consultation of the five larter physicians attending the President I contaIned the first announcement that pneumonia o had d de- de de developed in the right lung although a statement given out four tour hours I prevIously had spoken of evidence I of some congestion In one ono lung It also conveyed the first th the e Information that hi his condItion had turned from serious to grai gra c e Tho The bulletin also contained rays of hope for It said that nourish ment moot Is bel being belag taken regularly and the tho abdominal symptoms are aro less noticeable and that the chief exo- exo exe executive was temperamentally well adapted to make mako a strong fight against the Infection Another fas- fas tai statement was that his tern tem temperature tem temperature was waa remaining about con con- constant constant con constant stant at degrees even though his pulse continued at about as compared with a normal 80 and his respiration was about 44 H The broncho pneumonia symptoms symptoms symptoms toms described In the bulletin ad a definite central patches Were discovered both clinically and by the tho X-ray X which was used yester yester- yesterday yesterday day day afternoon and to be used during the night All of the tho physicians who have been called In spent the tho night with with- withIn within in easy reach of the executives executive's bed bod- bedside side bod-side side and Brigadier General Charles Chari CharlesE E B Sawyer his personal physician and Lieutenant Commander Joel T Boone assistant to General Sawyer were In the sick flick room nearly all n the time |