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BISMARCK TRIBUNE
ESTABLISHED 1873
HARDING DEATH STUNS NATION
CALVIN COOLIDGE SWORN IN AS NATION’S PRESIDENT
Awakened To
Take The Oath
Vice-President Coolidge Who Succeeds Mr.
\
Harding Was Sleeping in House Across
Street From That of Father in Small Ver
mont Town of His Birth Takes Oath of
Office at 2:47 a. m. and Few Hours Later
LeteVftrior Washington to Take Charge of
Reins of the Government Few Present
At Simple Ceremony
Troy, N. Y., Aug. 3.—(By the A. P) —President Calvin
Coolidge and party arrived here at 12:40 o’clock eastern
standard time en route to Washington *
President Coolidge declined to make a statement as to
his future plans which he said would be held in abeyance
until his arrival in Washington. He let it be known that the
wishes of Mrs. Harding would largely govern his immediate
course.
Plymouth, Vermont, Aug. 3.—(By the Associated Press.)
ln a little living room of his father’s home here, Calvin
Coolidge early today took the oath of office as President of
the United States. The oath was administered by his father,
John C. Coolidge, at 2:47 a. m. Eastern Standard time
A telephone had been installed in the Coolidge farm house
within an hour after word of the death of President Harding
had been received and by communication with Washington
the exact form of the oath was obtained In clear voice the
Vice-President repeated after his father the words prescribed
by the Constitution:
“I clo solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the
office of President of the United States and I will to the
best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitu
tion of the United States.”
Then although the Constitution does not require it he
N added: “Soto Me, God.”, . ...
The witnesses of the dimple ceremony were Mrs. Coolidge,
Congressman Porter H. Dale of Vermont, Efrwin C. Giesser,
Mr. Coolidge’s secretary, Joseph H. Fountain, editor of the
Springfield (Vt.) Reporter, Joseph Mclnerney of Springfield,
a federal officer, L. L. Lane of Chester; president of the New
England Railway Mail Association and Herbert T. Thompson,
commander of the Springfield post of the American Legion.
As soon as the brief swearing in
testimony was over the President and
Mrs. Coolidge retired to gain a little
rest. The swearing in formally was
short and simple.
In Living Room
In the little sitting room of the
• farm house furnished in homely style
the President stood with right hand
up raised at one side of a little
•table with Mrs. Coolidge beside him.
Across the table, his face beaming,
his father read the few words of the
oath/“to preserve, protect and defend
the Constitution of the United
States.”
The father’s voice trembled as he
read. Mr. Coolidge repeated the words
distinctly and calmly and at the end
Ridded the simple affirmation “So
Hblp Mu God.”
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MAY MEET BODY
New York, Aug. 3. —Though his
complete plans have not been known
it is learned that President Coolidge
may prdt’etfiQjfioMittew York or Wnah
/ ington wcßtffto-iMwLthe train bearing
the body of President Harding to
the nation’s capitol.
CABINET CHANGES SEEN
Washington, Aug. 3. —Although
/ work in all government departments
is at a standstill today the death of
President Harding is expected to
bring about few immediate changes
in the administration organization.
President Coolidge has expressed a
wish that all those who Served under
Mr. Harding remain in office.
At in the case, however, when Theo
dore Roosevelt succeeded to the
Presidency after the death of William
McKinley 'gradual changes in the
4 cabinet are expected as a matter of
course. It would cause no surprise
if the first to sever his relations were
Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney-Gen
eral. Mr. Daugherty has been in ill
health and some of his friends Bay
only loyalty to his chief has caused
)»im to remain.
Mr. Daugherty perhaps to a' greater
degree than any of the other men
Mr. Harding called to advise him was
a personal appointee of the late pres
ident. There long had been a close
and intimate friendship between the
two and it was Mr. Daugherty who
t managed Mr. Harding’s campaign for
the presidential nomination.
While the present members of the
cabinet remain in office such is not
the case with the diplomatic missions
abroad. They stand without legal au
thority to conclude in the name of th*
President the business tliey Way have
in hand. , On' arrival of President
Coolidge it is expected confirmation
in his name of the letters issued to
ambassadors and ministers to Pres
ident Hardiog will be sent forward
by cable without delay.
• Ift Hull, Eng., 60,000 people are
dependent Upon the f ishing indus
try. ,
POLITICAL
SITUATION
. NOW_UPSET
President’s Death to Turn G.
O. P. Convention Into
Mighty Party Struggle
RENOMINATION CERTAIN
Leaders of Special Groups in
Party Expected to Make
Bid in 1924 Convention
(By 'the Associated Press)
Washington, Aug. 3.—President
Harding’s death threw new complexi
ties into the political situation with
in the Republican party which un
doubtedly will haye far reaching re
flection in the national convention
next year.
It probably will turn what many
expected to be merely a ratification
meeting into a contest for the Re
publican presidential nomination
with stalwart conservative Republi
can forces aligned on one side pnd
forces represented by special lead
ers such as Senator Johnson of Cali
fornia, Borah of Idaho and LaFol
lette of Wisconsin on the other.
Six months ag6 the nomination of
President Harding without any sub
stantial convention test seemed as
sured. '' ,Y,
One! of the men regarded as his
likely principal opponent for the
nomination had confessed to a col
league that he found himself with
out an issue.
The President’s pronouncement for
entry of the United States into the
World Court, however, altered the sit
uation materially and during the last
few weeks there has been some
nite information that all was not go
.ing to be clear sailing as had been
expected In the Republican National
convention, qnd that there might be
a convention test after all.
LABOR N^EDS
NOT PRESSING
Labor njeeds are not pressing in the
northern part of the state, according
to J. A. Kitchen, lpead of the state
federal employment bureau. Re
turning from a trip during which he
visited Grand Forkfc, Michigan, La
kota and Minot, Mr. Kitchen said that
harvest labor at the present time In
those territories met requirements.
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PRESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE AND MRS. COOLIDGE
* *
KING GEORGE
VENTS GRIEF
' ' . !■
'
Telegram to Mrs. Harding
Conveys Condolence
(By the Associated Press)
j London, Apg, 3.-f King George and
Queen Mary today sent the follow
ing message of condolence to Mrs.
Harding:
“Mrs. Harding,* White House,
Washington:
“The Queen and I are much shock
ed and grieved to hear of the irre
parable loss which has befallen you
and assure you of our heartfelt sym
pathies in your sorrow. The whole
British people will join with those
of their sister nations who mourn
the death of their president at the
culminating point of his distin
guished career.”
r (Signed.) " GEORGE, R. L /
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1923
FALLEN PRESIDENT AND SUCCESSOR
WARREN G. HARDING
MRS. HARDING
BEARS UP WELL
San Francisco, Aug. 3.—Mrs. Har
ding, although greatly shocked by
the death of her husband, rose early
this morning after a short sleep di
recting all affairs and looking after
the welfare of the party.
Mrs. Harding retired at 1 o’clock
this morning and slept fitfully, it
was said by members of the official
party, who added that she this morn
ing as always was considering others
before herself. One member of the
.party said she was facing the fact of
the President’s death with heroism.
WANT BODY TO
LIE IN STATE
Columbus, 0., Aug. 3. —State offic
ials of Ohio, the home of PresidenjL
Harding, today telegraphed George IS.'-
Christian, Jr., the President’s secre
tary, asking that. President Harding’s
body be permitted to lie in state in
the state capitol.
DEPARTMENTS
ARECLOSED
Secretary of State Hushes,
Rankins Official, Issues
Order
Washington, Aug. B.—Shortly be
fore 11 o’clock Secretary Hughes' as
the banking official present in Wash
ington issued an order directing that
all governmental departments and
bureaus be closed during the re
mainder of the day in token of
mourning for President Harding. Ac
tion was taken on the precedent es
tablished by Secretary Hay at the
‘death of President McKinley.
Later an order will be issued clos
ing the government departments in'
Washington, probably for three days,
during the period of the funeral next'
week
LAST WORDS OF
PRESIDENT
TO WIFE
(By Associated Press)
President Harding died without
warning from apoplexy at 7:30
o'clock last night Pacific Coast
time (11:30 Eastern daylight time)
. while Mrs. Harding was reading
to him.
Calvin Coolidge took the oath
as President of the United States
at Plymouth, Vt. at 2:47 a. m. to
day, the new president being Bworn
in by hiß father who is a notary
public.
“That’s good, go on, read some
more.” These are the Inst words
spoken by the President to Mrs.
Harding.
Mrs. Harding, brave and strong,
faithful to the end did not break
down in the hour of her greatest
grief.
Calvin Coolidge declared “the
world has lost a great and good
man. I mourn his loss. It will be
my purpose to carry otit his pol
icies for the service of the Amer
ican people.” 1
Body of President Harding will
leave San Francisco on a special
train about 7 oclock Friday eve
ning and will go direct to Wash
ington by way of Reno, Ogden,
Cheyenne, Omaha, and Chicago.
Secretary Hughes in tribute to
the dead president said “a quiet,
brave, Btrong leader has fallen,
over-borne by the burden he was
carrying.”
One of President Harding’s
special questions on the last dpy
of his life was “how did the Cin
cinnati Reds come out yesterday?”
The car carrying President
Harding’s body will be lighted at
night and at all times two soldiers
and two sailors will stand at at
tention guarding the casket.
President Coolidge further said,
“I have faith that God will direct
the destinies of our Nation.”
PteskVent and Mrs. Coolidge
sent tils message to Mrs. Har
ding: "We offer you 'our deepest
sympathy. May God bless and keep
.you,”
Telegram announcing President
Harding’s death was read to Mr.
£oolidge by his father while the
Vice-President was in bed in a
house just across the street from
the spot where he was born.
Marion, Ohio, stricken by the
news, heard its church bells toll.
The President’s father stood up
solidly and said: “No President
since Lincoln had the interests
of the country at heart like War
ren.”
BODY MOVES
EASTWARD AT
6:30 O’CLOCK
First Religious Services For
President Held Just Be
fore Body Is Moved
(By the Associated Press)
San Francisco, Aug. 3. —The body
of President Harding will start on
its journey across the continent to
the National Capitol at 6:30 o’clock
this evening, according to the latest
official announcement.
Members of the President’s party
will leave the Palace hotel in ad
vance of the remains of the chief
executive at 6:30 p. ni., and will await
the arrival of the bier at the station.
At 6 o’clock the body will be moved
from the hotel to the station and will
reach the railway carriage at 6:30.
With the casket aboard the train will
start on itß way.
The honorary pall-bearers were an
nounced as follows: Attorney-Gen
eral Daugherty, Secretaries Work,
Wallace and Hoover, Speaker Gil
lette, Governor Richardson of Cali
fornia, Mayor Rolph of San Fran
cisco, Admirdl Simpson, commander
of the naval forces of the Twelfth
Navy district; Major General Mor
ton, commander of the Ninth Corps
Area.
The first religious services will be
held at the hotel just before the body
is taken to the railroad station and
will be conducted by the Rev. James
S. West, pastor of the First Baptist
church of San Francisco. President
Harding was a Baptist by faith and
was a worshipper at the Calvary
church at Washington, D. C.
MANILA FLAGS
AT HALF MAST
(By the Associated Press)
Manila, P. 1., Aug. B.—All flags
were at half-mast in the Philippine
Islands today and Governor Leon-'
ard Wood has requested all govern
ment houses and business offices to
remain doled as tribute to fP resident
Harding and token of sorrow at his
death.
Burial Will Be
In Marion, Ohio
Sudden Death of President, Due to Cerebral
Apoplexy, Came While Mrs. Harding was
Reading to Him at Bedside and After Phy
sicians Declared Him Well on Road to Re
covery General Sawyer Only Physician
Present at the Time of Death—Trip to
Washington Begins Tonight
IN WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY
Washington, Aug. 3.—(By the A. P.) —A telegram to
the White House today from San Francisco announced that
the train bearing the body of President Harding would ar
rive in Washington at 1:30 p. m. next Wednesday.
PHYSICIAN’S STATEMENT
San Francisco, Aug. 3. (By the Associated Press.)
The five physicians who attended President Harding in a
statement issued today said they all thought that the chieJ
executive “died from apoplexy or a rupture of a blood vessel
in the axis of the brain near the respiratory center.”
San Francisco, Aug. 3.—(By the Associated Press.) —A
natiory today mourned the passing of its leader.
The American people from coast to coast and from lake
to gulf and in the territories beyond the seas bowed their
heads in grief, for their President was dead.
In the early hours of last evening after a day which had
brought renewed hope of recovery death came suddenly and
struck down Warren G. Harding with a stroke of cerebral,
apoplexy.
The end came instantaneously and without even a sec
ond's warning at 7:30 o’clock. There was no time to sum
mon additional physicians, no time to call the members of
his official family and no time for medical skill to exercise
its knowledge. It was all over in the twinkling of an eye
and it left the nation juidf the* world shocked and in grief.
Mtb. Harding, the. constant companion of her disting
uished husband, was faithful to the end." She was reading
to him a few minutes before 7:30 o'clock when she noticed
a shudder through the frame of the men she had loved
encouraged in adversity add praised in success. Before sh
could arise from her chair Mr. Harding collapsed in his bei
and she rushed to his bed and then to the door calling for
physicians to come quickly.
Sawyer in Room
Brigadier-General Sawyer, chief of the staff of physicians
who had been attending the chief executive who also wa;
in the room and the two nurses present, Miss Ruth Powderly
and Miss Sue Dausser, did all they could but it availed
nothing.
The President had fought and won one victory against
disease but it appeared in a more insiduous form and he los
the battle.
Great as was the shock to all who dwell under the Amer
ican flag and to people in many lands for Mr. Harding b;\
virtue of his office, his kindly and loveable personality ha
become a world figure, the greatest shock came to his wif
reading by his bed side. But she did not collapse.
“She was shocked of course, and at first unable to realize
that she had lost the husband who had made up all the ir
terest in her life for so many proud and happy years,” sai l
General Sawyer later. “But there was no collapse; no hys
teria. Just a brave rally to meet her sorrows and the duties
evolving upon her at this hour.”
Brave Under Shock
Mrs. Harding was standing the shock well early today
but whether she could stand up under the grief that bore
down upon her as the sad journey back to Washington is
made Is 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 arrangements for
this trip -j— the saddest trans-continental in the history of
the nation—had been made. The trip will be started about
7 o'clock this evening and should end in Washington Tues
day morning. From that point the arrangements have net
been definitely made but it is expected that the body will
; lie in state in the rotunda of tjie capitol where a sorrowing
i people have oftentimes before paid their last respects U
their leaders and the heroes they have loved.
Burial in Marion
The burial will be at Marion, Ohio, the small Ohio city
which Warren G. Harding made known around the world
because there from poor and humble surroundings he stray
gled upward until the American people awarded him 4)m
highest gift and paid him the greatest honor within the
! power. >
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News of President’s
Death Stops Dance
When the news of President Hard
ing’s death was received by tf* Mc-
Kenzie hotel authorities, J-.'f-
Gardcn dance was discontinued out
Uf respect for the deceased. With
the announcement of the news the
large crowd of dancers suddenly be
came quiet and departed for their
homes when it was announced the
Roof Garden would he closed as a
mark of respect to the president. The
regular Saturday night dance Will
be held tomorrow evening, however,
as usuaL
Britain’s only diamond cutting
factory was established at Brigh
ton in 1917.
Whales measuring as much as
105 feet in length have been
caught in the Antarctic.
fItUL EMION
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Story of Death
The story of the president’s tra.
end was told in this way:
“The president died at 7:80 p. :n.
Mrs. Harding, Dr. Sawyer and
two nurses, Miss Ruth Powderly and
Miss Sue Dausset were In the .room
at the time. Mrs. Harding was rend
ing to the president when utterly
without warning a slight shudder
passed through his frame, he collat
ed, and all racogntsed that the end
had come. A atroke of apoplexy
the cause of death.
“Within a few minutes all of the
president's official party had bet
summoned." j
The suddenness with which the end
came was shown by the fact that.only
Mia. Harding, Dr. Sawyfcr and the
two -nurses, Ruth. Powderly and Rue
Dausser, were in the room at tjh»
time. MnK Harding, with bar char
acteristic faithfulness ahd constant
tenderness, was reading to the pre
sident at U* time.
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