Show I MUN J i End Comes omes as a Harding I Reads to Him 1 President Dies Instantly and Without J Warning With Wife and Nurses By His Side Sie Si e SAN FRANCISCO Aug By 3 The Press Press-A Press A nation today mourned the passing of its I leader The American people from coast to coast and from fromi i lakes to the Gulf and in the territories beyond the seas I bowed their heads in grief for their president was dead In the early hours of last evening after a day which h had d brought renewed hope of recovery death came sud sud- suddenly suddenly denly and struck down Warren G Harding with a stroke f of c apoplexy f t i iThe r The end end came instantaneously and without even a aIt at It t of warning at nt o'clock There was no time timeto timeto I to summon additional physicians no time to call the I members of his official official family and no time for medical skill to exercise its knowledge It was allover all over in the twinkling cf of an eye and it left a nation and fie le world shocked and nd in grief COLLAPSES SUDDENLY Mrs Harding the constant companion of her distinguished dis- dis dis distinguished husband was faithful until the end She was leading to Lo him a few minutes before o'clock when she he noticed a shudder run through the frame of the man she he hd Ed h d loved encouraged in adversity and praised in success Before she could arise from her chair Mr Harding collapsed in his bed and she rushed to the door calling for the physicians to come quickly Brig General Sawyer chief of the staff of Physic Physic- Physicians Physicians ians fans who have b been ben en attending the chief executive who also was in the sickroom sick room and the two nurses present Miss Ruth Powderly and Miss Sue Dauser did all they cOl could d but it availed nothing Th The president fought and won one one victory against disease sease but it appeared in a more insidious form and he lost the battle baule Great as was the shock check to Lo ell all who dwell under the American flag and to peoples in many lands for Mr Harding by virtue of his office his kindly and his lov lov- lovable lovable able personality had become a world figure the great shock came cams to wife reading by his hb side But shedid she shedid shedid did not collapse I II I MAKES BRAVE RALLY She was shocked of cours course ande and e first unable to realize that sh shy she had lost the the- husband who had made up Ui all the interest in her life for w co many proud and happy years said General Sawyer later But But there was no collapse no hysteria Just a brave rally to face her sor sor- sorrows sorrows sorrows rows and the duties devolving i upon pon her at this timet time Mrs Harding was standing the shock well early today but whether she could standup stand up under the toe grief that bore down upon her as the sad journey to Washington is made was another question Those who know her best say that she will When dawn crept over the mountains and lighted up the golden gate this morning almost all of the arrange arrange- arrangements arrangements arrangements ments for the trip the trip the saddest transcontinental journey in the history of the nation had nation had been made The trip will be started about 7 o'clock this thi evening and should end in Washington Tuesday morning From that the arrangements have not been definitely made but itis it itis itis is expected that the body will lay in state in the rotunda of the capital where a sorrowing people have oftentimes before paid their last respects to eke e leaders and the heroes they have lost lo t IThe i The burial will be made at Marion Ohio the small Ohio city which Warren G Harding made known around the world because there from poor and humble surroundings he struggled upward until the people awarded the highest gift and paid him the greatest greatt est honor within their power to bestow President Hard Hard- Continued on Page Two 1 t I III II Calvin Coolidge i Warren Gamaliel Harding I 6 q MV kc V 4 fr L w t E r I v K 1 l as g I l R p 14 N a I It Ir t r r t C Crr rr It I lEND END COMES TO pRESIDENT PRESIDENT AS WIFE READS TO HIM Continued from Page One Onel Ing was as a man who loved the and If it ho he had hid hed time timeto timeto timeto to I lea leave a ae e a parting partin word last Jast night It undoubtedly would have hao contain contain- contained contained contained ed Instructions that he be burled buried In Inthe inthe Inthe the town that knew know him as ass War War- Warren Warren ren and where hero ho he called most 1 er one by their first names CO II G THROUGH OGDEN I The trip across continent will be made on the same train that car car- carried car carried ried the chief executive a a oil happy and hopeful man to the Pacific coast Its route will take I It through Reno Ogden Cheyenne Omaha Chicago and thence to V Washington It will make no stops I except to change engines and fori for other operating purposes The body of ot the president will willbe willbe willbe be borne inthe in the same car as IlS car car- carried car carried ried ned him to the a west est eat It will be ac accompanied by the same party I that accompanied the executive I when he raft leCt Washington June 20 nith Ith the addition of at Attorney Gen Gen- Gen Gen- General General eral Daugherty General Pershing I and Mr and Mrs E E B Rem bergand and family of ot Santa Ana Call Calif Mrs being a Rem Rem-bergl sister of Mr Harding Naval Kaval and m military tar honors will ill willbe bythe be paid the dead commander b byl the army and nav naY navy throughout the I sailors whole trip Two soldiers and two I sailors members of ot guard of ot hon honor or of oC 16 enlisted men and two of- of officers of officers I will at attention be- be Kide be-Kide II Ride aide the casket The car bearing the body nih will Ill be bo lighted at night willbe and the tho whole train probably null I be In black The body of ot the president lay today suffered sut In the room In which lie ho suC suf- suf rind died tiled It will remain there before being taken to thel I train and just before that Is done the very ery simplest private service will bo be held The fhe five physicians who isbn ho attend attend- attended attended ed cd the president were nero united In mi I their decisions as to the cause ot of death In a statement Issued late I last night and by all of ot them they declared It was duo due to ap or a rupture of ot blood ves-I ves ves- ves ves vessel sel ReI in the axis of oC the brain near th the respiratory center I The statement that I death from such a cause might haie hae occurred at any time timo and crime me after atter reco recovery cry from the acute Illness he had suffered tor for a 0 week wa was In progress ON Oi ROAD TO I The statement showed conclusively shely that the tho as ns well liS as everyone else up to the minute tho executive e was nas subjected to the tho apoplectic attack that he was wag on the roid roud to recovery Three Throe hours before the end came the tho most op- op op optimistic bulletin was ns as Issued since the president was taken ill It said that ho he had spent tho the most comfortable day since his illness began The was timed p m in The Tho evidence of ot Infection are Ina but he hi has ben hen left lett In a very ery weakened condition b by the hard battle he has l made Ildr the bulletin added This afternoon the Is remaining nor nor- nor normal mal inal with aith tho the pulse rate around end and the respiration averaging about 30 Other factors remain the tho same The bulletin isa was as so 50 optimistic that there was nas a II general letting do donut n In the that has attended the Illness Members of ot the cabinet and titter r wh wies es th the tho personnel of ot the executive th the tive e staff and many ot of the news news- newspapermen newspapermen newspapermen went wont out to ainner there here most of ot the talk was waa when tIre the trip back to Washington would be started At no time since the president was brought to San Sin Fran Iran Francisco I deco cisco Sunday morning was the vi vicinity I- I i of ot the presidential suite IlS as as It was nas as about ceven I o'clock last night 1 Out side Ide the suite the usual se-I se Se- Se Secret se secret lOut cret service serico men stood they guard guard also discussing when hen they would ret back baek to and Washington Washington and down I I the corridor a little handful ot of ne were gathered Mrs Harding General Sa er I and the two nurses ho hoe however e eer er had hadnot hadnot hadnot not relinquished their watchful a watchfulness ness fleas and it is truly tru typical of ot Mrs Irs I I Harding thit she should has ha have hae e been there for no first lady of ot the land landI nas as faithful ever more de devoted and arid faith faith- I ful to her husband than was liFts Harding I Rn REIDING TO ro imi nT I Mrs Harding was nas reading to the an article entitled A I Re lew of a Calm Mad 1 written by y Samuel G BI the a noted 10 po I political rile and published In a aI I current theman magazine It described tile the man to whom she was nas reading and ho was nas Interested In it She paused In her hr reading and glancing up lie he raised his hand and said hits hit's good Go on Read some more Isome President Those os ere nere c tho last words norde Pres Pres- Pres- Pres ident Harding spoke In an In- In stant I In lila the shudder shook his frame hand dropped and collapsed he col- col col lapsed I Mrs liFts was as at nt the door instantly and called Find Boone and the tho others quick luick quick One of the secret menI men I rushed down do n th the corridor search search- ing searching for tor f Dr Boone while General Genral I Sa the tho room Dr eighth could floor not and 1 01 be found on the t loone messengers were sen Bent out Ha Ho was found and came camel almost at o'clock Se others had gone Into the I room In the meantime and those that came out a ore ere Plainly greatly distressed s One of ot these thee wis ws Secretary Hoo Hoor r hose taco face Vi S waa nas as blanched and nn i his e eves ees es dim All he ho could say Bay to ne i was that there would be he a soon At 7 45 o'clock o It was as announced that there would be Il a formal statement I within a af few w minutes minutes and at clock It was issued It said said- I IDID DID DIES LiST The The president died Instantaneously and without warning and while othis conversing with members ot of his family at 7 30 Death was as ap- ap ap apparently due to some Borne brain c olve- olve I mont probably an apoplexy During the day he lie had be been on treo freo from discomfort there thero nas as every justification tor for anticipating a prompt reco recovery cry I C C E B Sawyer Md I Ray Lyman Lymon Wilbur Wllbur liEd C M H Cooper Ed J j T Boone Md liEd I Work I Hubert Work Vork Md This was ass followed by a second I I bulletin which made mado the flat an- an an 1 I I I I that death was due duo to I apoplexy and that Mrs Irs Harding General Sawyer and two nurses were wera in the room at nt the tho time One Ona of ot the tile Associated Press Pres who have been on watch ever over since the president was brought to San Francisco last Sun Bun Sun Sunday Bunday day morning heard Mrs Hardings Harding's appeal for tor the doctors saw the se- se secret Secret se secret cret service men hurry down the hall In search of ot Dr Boone and at o'clock sent a bulletin traveling over the wires to all parts ot of the country telling of ot the call for tor the ph physicians and then thea tol- tol fol followed loss lowed ed cd with bulletins giving bulletins giving more details of ot what was occurring In InI Inthe intire Inthe tire the vicinity of the presidential I suite Thus newspaper editors were aware anare of at something Impend Impend- ing Impending full tull 22 minutes before the an- an announcement an announcement ling of ot death was made IL IIO TO S When the death announcement wa was made It was nas as flashed to all parts of the tile nation by the Associated Press by telegraph and telephone and ta tp the tho most distant parts partIJ of oC the a world orid by and radio Thus Thua It was that newspapers wore were on the streets in New York with an- an announcement anI an announcement I of the passing of ot the I I a in chief before It became at atall atall atall II all generally known n about the II I j hotel I j the Iho announcement was Coil followed owed I momentarily by contusion confusion In the vicinity ot of o the presidential suite but soon the tho trained members ot of the executive staff took charge charee the ph conferred and later lator is- is issued Is Issued sued their detailed statement as to the cause of ot death and the cabinet members meeting together decided upon And nd submitted to Mrs Irs Hard Hard- HardIng Harding Harding ing for Cor approval tho the plans for tor the trip to Washington Messages were telling of oC the sad news to George B Chris Chris- Christim Christian tim tian Jr the presIdent presidents s secretary who had gone gono to Los Angeles to speak for tor the president at aI a aI j I I Knights Templar meeting to tho other cabinet members and to Cal I Calyin Cal Calvin I yin vin C Coolidge the tho vice tice Ico president ho tarry any today took look the tho oath ot of office at nt his home homo In Plymouth Vermont and became the head ot of the nation MOKE NOItE SERIOUS THAN X n EDThe The Tue detailed statement by the physicians described the tIre changes In the presidents president's physical condi condi- condition tion dating from Cram last spring when tire the president following a long period of ot overwork and great I Ithe strain was con confined tined to his bed with an nn attack of ot Influenza attack was nas ns more serious than the general public ever eHr realized and Its effects nad not been entirely dissipated putted when the present trip v ass 01 started In June despite the tire Cl the Cle e necks eek's vacation spent in and Georgia in March and early April The rhe president It was revealed had been subject to somo attack of at abdominal pains and Indigestion and there had for some time ol ot arterial enlargement of ot the tho heart and de- de de defective e action of ot tho The statement then recited that the executive had bad suffered an acute acuto gastro intestinal attack associated I with abdominal pain and fever Cever on the return from from Alaska and told how he ho had bad insisted on going through with hi his program at Van Van- Vancouver couver couter B C a week neck ago Thurs Thurs- Thursday Thursday day and at Seattle a II week ago l I es- es es The statement then told of ot the cancellation of at the tho proposed trip Into the Yosemite of oC his arrival hero here Sunday morning and traced his hi varying condition during the week weel Most Most disturbing of ot au all it bald was the rapid and breathing suggestive of arterial brain vessels tassels in the of oC the region of oC the tho respiratory center canter Tho rho physicians reviewed the tho ta v- v conditions existing just juat prior and con con- concluded concluded con concluded to the tho apoplectic attack by saying He lIe was resting comfortably In bed and conversing with Ith Harding and General Sawyer Instantaneously with with- without without without when he died out a word nord ord or a groan 10 LAST T J i President Harding s 5 mind was clear to the last Never for a moment according I Ito to Secretary Hoover of ot the corn como commerce merce department deportment who had been extremely close to him did his mind wander nander ander even under the burn burn- burning ing tug of ot the fever from Crom which ho Suffered and his demeanor through through- throughout throughout out his Illness was composed and collected even verging on the humorous Almost e even en er one who went vent Into the tho room was WIlS greeted a with Ith ith a joke said Mr Hoover Ho to was cheerful al always aye and remained In- In Interested Interested In Interested to the last in his surround 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