Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 3, 1923, Page 1

Weather Forecast ‘WYOMING—Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday, probably showers ex- treme southeast portion. urday in south portion, Cooler Sat- Che Casper Daily Cribune FINAL i EDITION|:! ENTIRE NATION PLUNGED INTO DEEP SORROW IN PASSING OF Oo Np eee HARDING TH CASPER, WYO., FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1923. NUMBER 254 ; Ti OATH TAKEN BY COOLIDGE “LITTLE VERMONT VILLAGE I SCENE OF CEREMONY Sorrow Is Expressed by _ Vice President Upon t Taking Oath. PLYMOUTH, Vermont, {'Aug. 8.—(By The Associated } Pregs).—Vice President Cal- vin» Coolidge became presi- \aent of the United States at 2:47 a. m. today, eastern \ stahfara time, when he took the oath ef @fficein the living room of his * father’s farmhouse in this little moun- tain village where has was born. Three hours eartier he had been notified of the death of President Harding and in a@ brief statement had expressed his grief at the passing of his ee and friends,"} and his purpose carry: ing. out the policies “which cs ga pF the service of the peo ple" _ President Coolidge made immediate [ig goed to start for Washington. here for Rutland on his way time. At Rutland a special ready to take the party to Now President MRS. CALVIN COOLIDGE Now “First Lady of the Land,” wife of President Coolidge. nearest telegraph office, brought word of the president's death to Mr. \q Coole in the form of the follow- “ng telegram from George B. Chris- tlan, the president.s secretary. “The president died instantly while conversing with members of his family at 7:30 p. m. The physicians report that death was due apparently (Continued on Page Two.) CALVIN COOLIDGE™ ‘Who became president of the Unit- ef States, succeeding the late Warren G. Harding, when he took the oath of office at 2:17 o’clock this morning in| his father’s farmhouse in a small Ver- mont village. President Coolidge ar- rived in New York this afternoon en route to Washington to assume tbe responsibilities of office, the first of which will involve the nation’s offi- cial tribute to the Inte president. SIX ACCIDENTS Harding in Life Warren G. Harding brought to the presidency an inifinite patience and kindness in dealing with public questions and men which enabled him to handle the problems of gov ernment without the stress and worry which had handicapped many of his predecessors. Whatever else historians may say of him there probably will be little dispute that few executives came to office in peace time facing problems more complex in their na- ture or greater in number. All in- ternational affairs were unbalanced as never before, with many princi- pal settlements of the great war still to be effectuated. At home the work of reconstruction had only just begun, with business de- pressed, agriculture prostrate and unemployment general. How Mr. Harding measured up to the task before him must be left to the historians, but his friends said that coming to the presidency as he id with an open mind, a desire for counsel and an intimate knowledge of the processes of government ac- quired in his service in the senate, he was the type of man needed for the job as such a time, Preaching ARE CHALKED AT RODEO FETE Thousands Thrilled by Daring Perform- ance of Cow Men as Contests ‘Are Launched Tuesday ‘Afternoon Six accidents, two of which to the hospital to patch up the necessitated ambulance trips riders, fast time in the steer and calf roping, beautiful rides on the bucking broncs and exciting races on the flat, all contributed to a highly thrill- ing afternoon Thursday at the Casper rodeo. It was the bloodiest afternoon in many a rodeo in this part of the country. Slim Caskey, the announcer, was kept busy calling doo- tors out of the grandstand and the} spectators were given a sight of wild) ‘west sports at thetr roughest. Happily none of the accidents proved particu- larly serious. Harry Robbms, riding “Dynamite,” tm the rough riding, was the first calus- ualty of the day. The big grey came straight at the grandstand and after half a dozen bucks fell on his knees and rolled over. Mr. Robbins had all the small bones in his right foot broken and his left foot and ehkle sprained. The foot is in a plaster cast this morning. Jack Kirsig or Cheyenne was knock-) ed cold with the blood spurting from | cuts around his head and face when | the steer he was bull-dogging turned al somersault and fell on him. He was | (Continued on Page Ten.) NIGHT SHOW CALLED OFF Because of the death of Presi- dent Warren G. Harding, the night show of the Casper Rodeo will not be held tonight as had been planned. The other features of the five-day rodeo were 60 ex- tensively advertised that the man- agement has found it impossible to curtafl the show to a greater extent than the suspension of the program this evening. BODY STARTS EAST TONIGHT Arrangements Completed Today for Bearing Remains of Late President to Washington on SAN FRANCISCO, +—The body of President made today. Members of the presidential party will leave the Palace Hotel in advance of the remains of the chief executive about #:30 p. m, and will await the arrival of the bier at the station. Sharply at 6 o'clock the body will start from the hotel to the station through strests, it Is ex- pected which will be densely lined Aug. 8.—(By The Associated Press). Harding will start on its journey across the continent to the national epee at. 6:80 o’clock this evening, according to the latest o: Special Train ficial announcement with mourners and will reach the rail- way carriage at 6:30. With the casket aboard the train will immediately pull retarles Work, Wallace and Hoover, General Governor Richardson of Callfornia; Mayor Rolph of San Francisco; Ad- miral Simpson, commander of naval forces of the twelfth naval district; Major General Morton, commander of the ninth corps area. Pershing, Speaker Gillett, ‘Tho first religious exercises will be held at the hotel just before the body is taken to the raflroad station and will be conducted by Mev. Jaines 8. West, pastor of the church of Ban Francisco, fet ee cra b veer First ‘Baptist LIQUOR CASE DROPPED out on its trans-cont!nental journey. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Tho Mon- ‘The honorary pall bearers were an-|tana liquor prescription case will not nounced as follo be appealed to the supreme court, it ‘A¢varney General Daugherty, Sec was announced today, upon occasion the doctrine of Amer- icanism, he set his face resolutely against ‘entangling alliances,’ While thus adhering to what he was pleased to term the principles of the founding fathers, he neverthe- leas lent the moral assistance of the government in the efforts to bind up the wounds of the wor!d. That influence was once declared by him to be not inconsiderable, and so America, under his guidance, had a part, silent though it was, in the main, in effecting the settle- ments of many vexing world ques- tions, Its chief contribution was the Washington arms conference, at which the principal powers cov- enanted to limit the burden of main- taining the race for naval suprem- acy. Along with the proffer of counsel in effecting world settlement went an insistence that American rights be recognized. In polished phrase but with @ directness of expression that was not to be misconstrued the world was given to understand from the very first of the Harding administration that the United States, freely respecting the rights of the other nations, asked for her- self only that to which she w: titled in Justice and that she could accept nothing less. While in his dealings with con- gress. Mr, Harding preferred the ole of counsellor rather than dicta- tor, he speedily removed any doubt that his gift of patience denoted any lack of purpose once he had chart- ed a course. Thus he told congress that soldiers’ bonus legislation either should carry the means of financing or be postponed, and when the leg- is’ators put aside his advice, he promptly vetoed the bill they sent him His tenacity of purpose was fur- ther exemplified in his continual pounding for an economy in public expenditures and again in his in- sistence that congress pass the mer- chant marine aid bill with a view to (Continued on Page Iwo.) LAST PHOTO OF LATE PRESIDENT | President Harding as he arrived in San Francisco and just before he was ordered to! bed by Brig. Gen. Sawyer, in charge of the staff of physicians and specialists attending the | Note the lines in the president’s face indicating that he is a sick man. president. OEATH STRIKES DOWN GHIEF AG HOPE (3 BRIGHT FORREGOVERY Family and Friends Have No Waming of Im- pending Tragedy En- acted in San Francisco Hotel. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 8.—(By The Associated Press) —A nation today mourned the passing of its leader. The American people from coast to coast and from lakes to gulf and In the territories beyond the seas bowed their heads m grief, for thelr 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 second of warning, at 7:80 o'clock. There was no time to summon additional physicians, no time to call the members of his offi- cial family, and no time for medical skill to ¢ its knowledge. It was all over in the twinkling of an eye, and it left a nation and the world shocked and in grief, Mrs. Harding, the constant eom- THE PRESIDENT IS NO MORE Warren G. Harding, president of the United States, is dead No greater shock could have come to the hundred and twenty millions of American people than this statement. Coming as it did, so quickly followin, condition, the people of receive the tidings. the report of improvement in his 6 country were totally unprepared to Elected president in 1920 by upwards of seven million plu- re) rality of the popular vote showed the confidence the people in him to undertake the most tremendous task any American president ever faced—the restoration of the country, its government and its business from a war footing to the basis of peace, His unswerving determination, his wonderful patience, his broad knowledge of men and affairs; his masterful diplomacy and conciliation have brought affairs wel wer of on the way to a permanent re-established order and a high state of prosperity. This in less than three years time. And since time is a prime factor in a task of such magnitude it is a record but few men would be able to leave as a monument to their memory. The people were just awakening to the real value of their president, the many qualities they had. not discovered in him asa follo residential candidate and the storm center of politics his triumphant election. They found rising to the surface in every test put upon him those lain, homely, sturdy and dependable, qualities of American citizenship that make for honor and inspire a feeling of security. The people have admiration and respect for the plain and ordinary virtues and they found them in Warren Harding and they were more and more coming to trust in him. He was perhaps not the most brilliant of American presi. dents, and in no sense spectacular, but had he been permitted to continue and complete the work he was performing, so hon- estly and so conscientiously he would have been the most loved and trusted president since McKinley. The citizens of the great republic, Irrespective of creed, faith or affiliation, bow their heads in sorrow at the passing of their resident. His going is a personal loss to every acquaintance e ever had because that acquaintance became his friend. And when the funeral cortege proceeds on the solemn Jour. mey from far away California to the last resting lace of the atesagtaben dead in the old Ohio home, the way wil! be strewn ber iy ith will mark all expression. Band Concert Set For Park Tonight The following program will be played at the city park this eve- ning by the American Logion band at 8 o'clock: March’—‘American Legion” sem Bugtigne the Leaves grant tokens of love and words of sympathy and regret Come p , Rumatng, Down". -=.George D. Barnard Walts—"My Buddy" (by request) -Donaldson H. Gibbs enzant”._ Von Suppe Days” CASPER tition as a fuel for home consu this morning on all intra-state | charge of discriminatory or exce who agreed that on the present rate the local coal dealers, to be much URCE SLASH IN RATES ON COAL Freight Reductions to Place It On Compe- titive Basis With Natural Gas ‘Asked of State Commission That coal at present prices cannot offer general compe- to be the main point brought out in the public hearing here basis alone there was not cause for; complaint. In stating their~case Com-| misslo aude L. Draper of tho Wyoming Public’ Service Commission, Casper coal’ dealers de hat in the face of the widespread use of gas in this city the market for coal has| rapidly fallen off, until comp at this time fs of incons!derable cern to the gas he largest dealers all the coal sold by him pr 75 per cent went to the ofl and oa line companies. In order to put coal on a compett-| yer with natural gas a3 made that th ratlroads reduce the standing rate on coal fifty cent to a dollar a ton, and that the coal operate ed to cut the mine price. 4 what re tail price would serve to accomplish | an Increase in the local marketing of | coal, a reply was made that it must | be under ten dollars a ton, and pre ferably between eight and nine dol lars. The suggestion of lowering freight rates waa countered by. the railroads with the question of wheth er or not other points equally distant from the mines would consider them- selves unjustly discriminated against in the matter In the heating of large houses by means of furnaces coal was nald by the dealers to be considerably ! pensive than gas. W were warmed t DEALERS MRS. WARREN G. HARDING Whose grief is overwhelming. panion of her distinguished husband, was faithful until the end. She was reading to him a few minutes before 7:80 o'clock when she noticed a shud. mption to natural gas seemed | der run through the frame of the man she had loved, encouraged in Bete , gut: i adversity and praised tn success. Be- freight rates on coal. The | tore she could arise from her chalr ive rates was not made by | mr. Harding collapsed in his bed. and she rushed o the door calling it was 1, coal 1s distinctly at a.| for the physic to come quickly. | disadvantage, since jn the first in Brigadier General Sawyer, chiet of stance gas 1s fave regardiess of | the staff of phy ns who haye been its higher cost, because it 1s much | attending the chief executive, who cleaner and more convenient, and in| also was {n the rqom, and the two |the second instance because gas is | nurses present, Miss Ruth Powderly both cheaper and more convenient. and Miss Sue Dausser, did all they The hearing revolved about .these | could but {t availed nothing. points and the case seemed to be} The president fought and won ong Continued on Continued on Page Two) "= LAST CALL FOR . PLANE TICKET SHOWER TONICHT Tribune, Yes, that, There are thousands of persons yone will be at 6 o’clock) who have never seen Casper by air. 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