Show PRESIDENT HARDING IS CALLED BY DEATH COOLIDGE TAKES OATH MRS HARDING READING TO HUSBAND WHEN WITHOUT WARNING TIE HE SHUDDERS AND COLLAPSES DEATH JS IS instantaneous INSTANT ANEO US calvin coolidge is sworn in as chief executive by his father who is a notary public signifies intention of asking present cabinet to serve presidential headquarters palace hotel san francisco cal warren G harding president of the united states died instantaneously and without warning thursday evening at a victim of a stroke of apoplexy which struck him down in his weakened condition after an illness of exactly a week death came to the chief executive while whale he was conversing with members of his family and according to an OP official off offis cs statement issued by physicians clans was apparently due to some brain evolvement probably proe prot ably hn apoplexy the end came so BO suddenly that the members of the official party could not be called it came after a day which had been described by brigadier general sawyer the presidents personal physician as the most satisfactory day the president had had since his illness began the physicians in their formal announcement of came out obviously deeply distressed and in a low voice said to newspaper men most of whom did not know of the hurried call almost half an hour previously boys I 1 cannot tell you a thing the president had a most splendid afternoon said lieutenant commander joel T boone assistant to the presidents personal physician when I 1 left the room I 1 commented he look splendid then all at once he just went like that the commanders snapped his fingers just like that he repeated something just snapped all secretary wallace was the second member of the presidents official family to learn of the passing of his chief and he likewise was so overcome r with grief that he be could say nothing the chief executive of the nation and by virtue of his office and personality personal itYs k f UA a 1411 44 5 WIN f I 1 I 1 A G 0 the end said that during the day he had been flee from discomfort and there was every justification for anticipating a prompt recovery the first indication that a change had occurred in mr hardings condition came shortly after 7 when mrs airs harding personally opened the door of the sick room and called to those in the corridors to find dr boone and the others quick at that time mrs harding was understood to have been reading to the president sitting at his bedside with the evening paper and messages of sympathy which had been received during the day dr sawyer was alone of all the doctors in the presidents apartments when the climax came he first was called by mrs harding who then rushed to the door leading into the hotel corridors and commenced an impatient search for the other physicians the death of the nations chief executive was announced in these words the president died instantaneously a and nd without warning and while conversing with members of his family at p in death was apparently due to some brain evolvement probably an apoplexy during the day he had been free from discomfort and there was every justification for anticipating a prompt recovery the story of the presidents tragic end was told officially this way the president died at p in mrs airs harding and the two nurses miss ruth powderly and miss sue daus ser were in the room at the time mrs harding was reading to the president s when utterly without warning a slight shudder passed through his frame he collapsed and all recognized that the end had come A stroke of apoplexy was the cause ot of his death within a few moments all of the presidents official party had bad been summoned secretary hoover was the first of the four members of the presidents cabinet who are in san francisco to learn the sad news he went into the room at once and in a few minutes ont of the worlds leading figures passed away at that time when his physicians his family and his friends thought that medical skill hope and prayers had won the battle against disease dis easa the disease had been conquered the fire was war out but seven days of silent intense suffering had left their mark and a stroke of apoplexy came without an instants warning and before physicians could be called members of his party summoned or remedial measures taken he be passed from lifes stage after having for nearly two and a half years served his nation and for many more years his native state of ohio calvin coolidge who succeeds warren G harding Har dinc as president of the united states has been in public life and before the public eye more than twenty years he was prominently mentioned as a presidential possibility at the republican national convention ti when president harding was nominated in 1920 at chicago when he was elected for second place on the ticket and accepted that nomination republican leaders considered him a valuable asset to the ticket in his capacity as vice president mr coolidge has taken a more active part in the affairs of the nation than has the occupant of that office in any previous administration calvin coolidge Coo lidee took the oath as president of the united states at plymouth vt at a in friday aug 3 the new president was sworn in by his father who is a notary public and at whose home he was visiting the text of the pledge is prescribed by the constitution and was telephoned to him by the white house word of the simple ceremony was telephoned cIe phoned to mr Coolid secretary edward T dark clark who after several hours of unsuccessful efforts had I 1 established wire connection with plymouth and had notified his chief of the death of president hording harding |