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205. TtfCSON, ARIZONA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST, 3, 1923. I PRESIDENT i DEAD WIFE AT BEDSIDE AS DEATH COMES CALM THROUGHOUT Last Picture of Dead President WORLD HAS LOST GREAT, GOOD MAN, SAYS COOLLDGE rvMir II Take No Steps Toward Induction of New President End Comes Suddenly While Engaged Until Desires Expressed; Messenger Breaks News In Conversation With Mrs. Plymouth, Vermont, Aug. 2.

President Coolldjse Issued the following early tudav: "Reports have readied mo which I fear are correct, that President Harding la gone. world has lost -a, great and good man. 1 mourn National, state and party officials came hurrying to the hotel in numbers and gathered for conferences In eighth floor rooms or corridors near the presidential suite to discuss what herst college and graduated with honors In 1895. Immediately upon leaving college he went to Northampton to study law and finally settled there. It was Mr.

Coolidgc's common sense, his Insight 'into legislative tactics and his mentality which first attracted to him the attention or political leaders. The late Senator W. Murray Crane, who was a resi. dent of Coolldge congressional district, was among the first to note should be or must be aone. un or two secret service men who had been out for a few hours of relaxation hur ried iback to aid In handling a situa tion made more difficult by its sud San Francisco, August 2.

"That's good. Good. Read some more." These were the last Words if President Harding to Mrs. IJardlng. Mrs.

Harding was at his bedside, reading aloud, when she paused and looked at the president, according to Alfred' Holman, San Francisco publisher and close personal friend of the president, who visited the sickroom a few moments before the end came. Mr. Holman told interviewers that the president's hand raised as hs asked Mrs. Harding to continue reading. Instantly his expression changed.

He was dead. The body of President Harding denness. his Iob.1, He wan my chief and my friend." "it will be my purpose to carry 'out the policies which he has begun for the service of the American people and for meeting wherever they may arise. For this purpose I shall seek the cooperation of all those who have associated with the president during his term of office. Those who have given their efforts to assist him I Everyone who came from the presidential suite was besieged with these qualities, and he resolved to utilize the first opportunity to pro pllrV I J' questioners, official, newspaper and ject Mr.

into the national merely curious. None could add much to the Information already given out officially. This was large political arena. Rise by Hard Work -wish to retain in office that they ly because the end came with such By hard work and steady progress Mr. Coolldge continued his rise until he could be considered for high state will leave San Francisco on a special office, and then it was that Senator Crane and other- leaders exerted may assist me." "I have faith that God will direct the destinies of our nation." President Coultdge sent the following telegram to Mrs.

Harding: "We offer you Our deepest sympathy. May God bless you and keep you. Signed, their powers to have him nominated for the lieutenant governorship. He was elected in the first campaign Calvin Coolldge, Grace Cool Idgc. won by the Republicans in Massa chusetts for several years, due to asnington, Aug.

2. tijuward 1. train at about 7 o'clock Friday evening, and go direct to Washington, by wa yof Reno, Ogden, Cheyenne. Omaha and Chicago. This anouncement was made tonight after a conference participated In by the four members of the president's offlolal party In San Francisco, and waa aprpoved by Mrs.

Harding. The train will make no stops en route, except those necessary for its operation. The body of the president will he borne. In the rear car. nroba- shocking suddenness, and few of Its details had been noted.

Secretary Work met with several of the other cabinet members In a oom on the seventh floor. Immediately below that on which the presidential suite Is located, to arrange details. Colonel W. W. Shipley, district passenger agent of the Baltimore Ohio and In charge-of the train which carried the president on his ill-fated journey, and Paul Ssoup.

vice president of the Southern Pacific, also met in conference. Wires Keep Up liven after the president was the progressive party split. There after 'it was but logical for him to viarK, secretary to vice fresiaent "Cpolidge, spent, several tonight In an unsuccessful effort to reach Mr. Cool- succeed to the, governorship, an of ldge by telephone' at his father's fice which he held for two terms and home at Plymouth, to advise which he' left for the vice presidency. Famous In Police Strike The dramatic events of the Boston bly the same in which he made the police strike, In which the governoi took a firm and unyielding stand fur trip the capital to the Paclfio him of the death of President Harding.

f- Clark 'was. Informed there was no 'telephone In the home of Mr. Coolldge's father but that a special detail of linemen were engaged in laying a special line. A telephone, lie would coast. law and order, focused him- in the telegrams which have been 1919 national attention and made of The car will be lighted at night.

coming ever since his Illness, ex him almost overnight a national fig ana at all times two soldiers and lire. For a while he was talked of iwo sailors. part of a naval and pressing hope for his recovery or gratification that he had such Jin lie M' ii 111 il In ill few hours. prominently as a presidential possi satisfactory progress, were continu Meanwhile, a mesenger was sent military guard of IS enlisted men, will stand at attention guarding the casket. Ullity.

ing to flow in. i. mites from Itfj It a' 'nknfoirt, to break th Mr. Coolid'ie. news to A minute or two after his death, The train will carry the presiden As vice president he became a regular attendant at the president's cabinet meetings, a custom established for the first time In his case.

a messenger brought in a large bun- tial party as composed during the trip across the country to Alaska. In. the Secretary Hushes, the ranking olf trial of the govern and also General Pershing, Attorney General Daugherty and Mr. and Mrs. fefy if I 5SiM5e555e53i5 ment present in Washington, let it be known that he would take no steps towards induction of the new chief K.

Remsberg and family, Mrs. Remberg being a sister of the executive until he had heard from Mr. Coolldge as to his desires. The body will not be taken from Calvin Coolldge. although by pro the hotel except to go directly to the fession a lawyer, entered the public service almost Immediately upon leaving college.

tram, and there will be only the very simplest private ceremony at the hotel before it Is moved. TTIrBt nWlAd a mniviriAi. 11T tha eltv The news of President Harding's fniinpll nt. irlliinintriti ltfn the' death swept through his hotel and cny wrucii nau iieen mn uuiue miiuv out of San Francisco with almost This is the last photo to be taken of President Warren G. Harding before his death.

It electrical suddenness. Hotel officials, die of them. Several of the state and national figures who hurried to the presidential suite to express their sympathy and condolences, later issued formal statements on the president's death. Among those who did so were Rep. Charles F.

Cury, of California, who said: "President Harding was a patriotic American and a genuine, true Christian. His passing will be not only a national but an international "We mourn his passing and pray God that his successor will carry out his policies. "For his family we have the greatest sympathy, and pray to Qol that He will protect the republic in its hour of need." Only an hour or two before, his death. President Harding was carrying on, though not in person, ono. of the activities to which he had looked forward as one of the most pleasant duties of his western trip.

This was the presentation of the Traveling Beauseant of the Knights Templar lie Meettiue a. vuich lie pi ufii steadily upward through the offices was taken in ban prancisco upon his arrival there about' one week ago. among the first to whom word of the of city solicitor, mayor, membership tragic event was given. Immediately had the great blue presidential flag Condensed Life Story with its gold seal of the United States hauled down and then raised in the house of representatives and of the senate of Massachusetts, serving on president of the latter body, and then as a lieutenant governor until elected governor, and." In SERVICE Twelve minutes after the first flash announcing the death of President Harding reached this paper, 8TAR EXTRAS were on the street and being sold to thousands of people. The first Associated Press flash reached the Star editorial rooms at 8:55 p.

Exactly 12 minutes later Star extra edition "hit the street." The afternoon paper first extra was put on the street at 2:05 a. over five hours after first Star editions were placed on sale and 35 minutes after the Star final edition, giving a. complete and detailed account of the wire news from all over the United States regarding the President' death, were placed on sale. Star readers In all parts of Tucson were reached by the Star Extra within a few minutes after 9 p. m.

These points included all outlying points such as Pastime Park, Nogales, Clearwater and various other sections. Quick, accurate service for the public, I the Star's motto. again to half staff. STATE GETS THOUSAND August 2. The sum of $1,105.72 was received at the stafe treasurer's office today In payment of the Inheritance tax on the estate of the late Belle C.

Corbett of Tucson. A minute, or two later 'an assistant 19211, vice president of tle United States. manager rushed into the Rose-Bowl Of Warren G. Harding room where a dinner dance was- In in the more than 20 years he gave progress, raised a hand and stopped the orchestra, playing Announcement of the death of the executive follow President of the U. S.

to these duties, his time was almost exclusively devoted to the problems of public affairs. Only incidentally did he turn to the law, although he always maintained an office with an associate at Northampton. ed and the dancers, their gay dress a sad contrast to their expressions of to the Hollywood commandery. gravity, gathered into little groups, COAL MEN BAND. August 2.

A national policy committe of bituminous coal operators has been created, it was announced here today, to represent the industry in public matters. John obtained their wraps and departed. In this action the presldont, as the Born in Plymouth He-was born In the village of Ply The news passed from Hps to Up. Some guests, more curious than their Born Near ViUage of Corsica, 2, 1865; Took mouth. on July 4, 1872, of Purl- if fellows, gathered In groups at the tan ancestors who came to this representative of his own commandery, Marlon, was to have delivered the emblem to the California body of his fellow Knights as one step of its journey around the world, passing from commandery to com ends of corridors leading to the presidential rooms and stared down the Over Marion, 0., Star in 1884 From Father country and settled In Watertown, in 1630.

C. Brydon, president of the National Coal association, will act as chair- hallways at the screens which shut He left the farm in 1S91 ior Am off view of the suite where the twen mandery across continents and Warren Gamaliel Harding was born 1 tending the village school and doing ty-ninth president of the United oceans. New President and First Lady States lay silent in death. near the village Corsica, O. chores on the farm which his lather matntalned to round out the slender Nov.

2, 1865. EXPRESS SORROW. Illness Intervenes But his Illness had Intervened, and Income of country physician Cabinet officers, headed by Secre His father, Dr. G. T.

Harding, was tary Hoover of the commerce depart a country physician who added to his At his mother's knee learned many of the principles to which he attributed his later suc ment, hastened up and down the hall, rather than that the presentation should not be made at the appointed time, he nad sent his secreti vry George B. Christian, also a income by conducting a small farm. His mother was formerly Miss Phebe hastening to express their condol ences to Mrs. Harding, or hurrying Elizabeth Dickerson. cess.

His devotion to iler was tin limited and when she became an In back for hasty conferences among Warren, the eldest of eight chil Knight Templar, to perform tlie duty. Secretary, Christian left fvr valid he never failed to have flowers themselves or with other government dren, attended the village school. sent to her every Sunday, even Los Angeles last night, and this af officials. and in his fourteenth year entered the Ohio Central College, In Iberia, ternoon read the address the presi though he happened to b5 travol'ig la distant cities of America, or in Lieut. Commander Joet T.

Boone, assistant physician to the president, dent had prepared for the occasion O. He graduated with a de foreign countries. hurried up from downstairs where a gree in 188Z, taught school for a to his fellow Knights Templar, and delivered the Beauseant to their keeping. Harding grew fast but his ambitions rew master. At the sse of newspaperman had found him, In re sponse to Mrs.

Harding's frantic ap peals. 14 he was six feet tall, but he was Tonight he was on his way back only 12 when he solemnly announced that some day he would be presi Rumors began to fly about, each wilder than its predecessors and. all from Los Angeles at the time the president died, and did not learn, of year, read law for another year and then was siven the ownership of the Marion, (Ohio) by his father. Run a Newspaper Harding conducted the newspaper for some time against great financial odds, but finally was forced to sell it. He took a job as reporter on the Marlon Mirror, but political differences, with the owner, resulted dent of the United States.

denied soon after by official bulle that event for some time afterward. mastered his letters in a single af- when urgent telegram caught Ills train as it aprpoached Central Cali the executive officials could ascertain ternoon when he was still of the the facts and type them on paper to fornia on the runners, i a steadily increasing crowd of news The confusion which reigned for papermen which thronged the corri I a I fjr 1 i wA 7X dors and congested doorways near some time Immediately after the news of the president's death became the death chamber. T- his leaving shortly. He again became owner of tne Star and, with the assistance of his wife, formerly Miss Florence Elisabeth Kling, whom he married in 1891, made it highly successful. Harding first held public office In The shuck, of the president's death, known, died down as the capalle hands of the president's advisors and associates took over the reins, ami struck the city with dumbness.

Newspapers whose entire front page were devoted to half a dosen words "kilt and underpant age," could memorize long poems before he was four, and was always anxious to "speak his piece" at gatherings. Not a "Goody, Goody" He was not of the "goody, goody" type, however. His manly qualities soon established him as the leader of his boy associates. He could swim farther and. dive deeper than any of the othter boys who frequented the "ol' swimmin' hole" In Whetstone creek, and stories are still told of his tobacco chewing prowess.

The boy Harding never sought a the decisions that had to be made began to be considered. telling the news, or which had been Two hours after the end came. 'rushed from the press too fast for the corridors were quieter; the Lmore than a picture and a phrase "Harding Dead." circulated like wild crowds had diminished to little knots; the groups of curious Idlers, In the corridor ends had vanished. fire through the downtown districts nd even far out in the residential streets within a few minutes after official bulletin announcing the Outside, the hotel policemen prevented hundreds of persons from entering the building. Only guests and newspaper men were being admitted.

fight but was always ready battle for a just cause, particularly to protect the weak from aggression. death had teen Issued. crowds SHOCKED. 1900 when he became state senator. He held this office until 1904 when he took offfce as lieutenant governor of Ohio.

In 1910 he ran for governor but was defeated. Senator-President In 1911 Harding was elected U. S. senator from Ohio and was temporary chairman of the Republican convention in 191. He remained in the Senate until he was-nominated for on the Republican ticket in 1920.

He was elected the 29th president of the United States-Nov. 3, 1930, on hH 55th birthday, and took office March 4. 1921. Warren Gamaliel Harding was horn on a farm Just outside the village of Corsica, Morrow county, Ohio, 2, 18C5, In a two-room log house built by the father, Q. T.

Harding. Here he spent his early days, at- III urn 11111 CAT I'llV I.U lAijina I was nicknamed) entered, as of aca- i brought a shock to crowds. demic grade, the Ohio Central Col-Jhlch a few minutes before sure that the city distinguished guest was well on the way to recovery, haa started out to spend the evening at the dances or other amusements. Dotty Thought The Divine mind is as visible In Hs full energy of operation on every lowly bank and tnoldering stone as In the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth. Ruskln.

Even before that, reports of the death had spread far and the telephones lege of llerla, O. Here he received a II. S. degree, though sometimes forced to "itilt temporarily In order to earn sufficient money to continue the course. This he did by doing odd painting and farm Jobs, by driving a team on a railroad construction project, by working in a brickyard, and by work-fCnnttnned on Pi Three I switchboard at the hotel became Jam Ined with outgoing calls and Incom Jng inquiries for Information concern Vice-President Calvin S.

Coolidge and Wife dng the report..