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Show ' HEIR CALL Oil l DAILY STROLL Chief Executive Has to Leap Swiftly to Escape Street Car ! WASHINGTON Feb 18. President Harding's alertness tonight saved him I from being run down by a street car. I The president was returning from a half-hour walk down Pennsylvania avenue and as within sight of the While House when the near accident occurred. At Fifteenth street, one of the most congested traffic points in the city, j tho president started briskly across the Street Ahead of his bodyguards He had reached tho car tracks before be-fore lie realised that a street car wa coming toward him at fairly good I d Tic president dashed forward quickly unci fulrly to tho curb on the opposite side. The secret service men who jumped in behind him. missed being grazed 'by the car only by Inches. ; The president was confused by the traffic which enters at the crossing 'at five different points, j The president enjoyed the walk and kept the secret service men on their toes to keep up with him. oo |