Evening Star Newspaper, August 10, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Mostly cloudy tonight and Satur- day; no change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 80, at 12 m. today: lowest, 68, at 5 a.m. to- da New York Stock Market Closed Toda No. 28,955. Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. ch WASHINGTON, D. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION MARION HUSHED AS HOUR HARDING NEARS Home Folks Line Up for 15 Blecks for Last View of Their Beloved Son. THOUSANDS POURING INTO CITY | FOR FINAL TRIBUTE TO LEADER “Boys” From Newspaper He Edited Pass' TO BURY Beside Casket—Sleepless Hundreds Walk Streets All Night. BY the Associated Press MARION, Ohio. August 10.—The day when human eyes would look their last on the fac twenty-ninth President of the U who loved him still waiting to pass slowly beside the bier, rest- ing in his father’s home. Before the shadows of evening steal across the wide peaceful fields o the gates of his tomb will have closed behind him, and the long, | long way of his funeral ended. The gracious kindness, the sc the end of the public ordeal that has stretched into more than a week of ceremonial and pageant that the people of the nation, the state and the two that claimed him as its son might tes to their grief, set aside her own at the last. Throughout hours of darkness last night the casket which} held him lay open in the humble home, and all were freely wel-| again. Today the face of the dead chief ble for the last time to the “boys” who knew him come to pass beside i was made vis as “the boss” in the offices of there as editor. A few others ¢ cause of their close associations dead. In the depths of her great sorrow, Mrs. Harding had not failed of the thoughtful kindne action before and since death Francisco. e of Warren Gamaliel Harding, nited States, dawned with many f the valley where he was born, orrowful woman who longed for wish to be alone with her dead the Marion Star when he sat ame privately to the casket be- of their by-gone years with the ss that has marked her every came to her husband in San ABBEY THRONGED AS ENGLAND JOINS INHARDING TRBUTE Stately Ceremonial Marked by Impressive Address of Canon Carnegie. By tie Associated Press. LOXDON, August 10.—While Amer- ica today paid her last tributes to Warren G. Harding, England mourned him as if he had been her own. Her chief expression of sympathetic grief was in a stately ceremonial service in Westminster Abbey—an official func- tion at which high officers of state in their regalia and American officials abroad in formal attire sat side by {border to border every . ] Y. Ss. 2R Rp iy ey DAY OF SILENCE MARKS NATION’S LAST TRIBUTE Industry and Varied Activities to Halt While Mr. Harding Is Laid at Rest. By the Associated Press The nation will pay the tribute of stlence to Warren (. Harding as his | body is entombed today at Marion From coast to coast and from wheel of the federal government and practically every one of industry and of com- merce will stand still. Theaters and other amusement places will be blosed; base ball games postponed land other events of sport deferred. As recommended by President Coolidge in his proclamation offictally announcing the death of the late President. the day will be one of mourning and of praver. Thousan: ¢ Foening Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes T as fast as th The Star’s carrier system -covers ' | e papers are printed. Yesterday’s Net Circulation, 88,794 FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1923—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. TWO CENTS. |concern the choice of the method by i which it would pay a last tribute to [the dead. Tn many states, however, a state holiday has been proclaimed, | |and in these all banks. national and | | state. will be closed. In those states | Where national banks may not be {closed under the law the transaction | |of only urgent business will be en- couraged. In many sections mines. factories ship vards and places of business generally will be closed throughout the day. Tn others there will be a | cessation of work at the burial hour. . Trafle to Malt. | Traffic on all the railroads will come to a halt at the hour of en- tombment, trains grinding to a stop CODLDGE TRAN ISNEARNG HARON FORHARDING RTES President Orders Speed Re- duced to Arrive Just Be- fore Funeral. SOMBERNESS MARKS NIGHT TRIP TO WEST Departure From Washington With- out Ceremony—Special Bears New Political Faces. By the Assoclated Press. AKRON, Ohio, August 10.—Presi- dent Coolldge's special train, en route to President Harding's funeral, in Marion, stopped for five minutes in Akron this morning at 10:31 o'clock. The President and Mrs, Coolidge ap- peared on the rear platform of thelr car and were greeted by applause from a delegation of approximately 1,000 persons, headed by Mayor D. C. Rybolt, They also posed for photog- rapher. The President and his entourage ex- pected to reach their destination at 1:30 p.m, Party Retires w. At Martinsburg, Va, the first stop, only a small group of section hands | and station employes gathered at mid- night to greet their President, who had retired shortly before the station was reached. Cumberland, the next stop, was passed in the dead of night. The train was as sombre as the train that pore the remains of Mr. Harding back 1o his native state. Not only Mr. Coolidge, but th rest of his party Chief Justice Taft, Gen. Pershing, mem- bers of congress, governors and rank- ing officers of the three arms of the service—retired soon alter ihe capiial had been left behind. ¥ The train moved quickly out of Wash- ington on a dash to fon, but before Martinsburg had been reached it was decided to cut speed so that the train would not arrive until one hour and a half before the final servic leaving to Mariop its own dead as sible. Recelves Senators in Car. Before retiring Mr. Coolidge re- ceived in his private car a few sena- | tors, including Spencer of Missourt, who dropped in to pay their respect John T. Adams, chairman of the re- publican national committee, boarded the train at the last minute. Mrs. Coolidg, ong as pos- | | s efficient a houee- | | | President’s Flag From Mayflower To Go to Grave By the Associated Press. MARION, Ohio, August 10.—A great blue flag with four white stars that has waved proudly from the masthead when the guns of saluting battle craft roared their tributes to President Hardigg in the past will wave bravely before the hearse that carries him today to his tomb. It is the President's flag from the presidential yacht Mayflower, sent to Marion in the custody of a proud member of the Mayflower's crew that the little y from the ship which marched in Washington as special guard of honor for the dead shall Le represented also at the last service for the Commander-in- Chief who will sail with them no more. The flag is no silken banner, but is knit of the heavy stuff neces- for the hard service on blue ter. It is larger and heavier than the banners carried by troops ashore and was not made to ride on i but to swing from the rolling head of a deep-water ship in the breezes that might blow et it will be carried through the streets of Marion today by Howard son, chief radio man of the May r, specially designated to bring it here that the men of the Mayflower, who personally knew the dead chief, might have a share in his last honors. OFREVILT, IS VEW OF MATION'SCHEFS Unrest Among Workers In- creases Alarmingly and Fu- ture Is Greatly Feared. STRIKE GROWS AS WAGES BECOME NON-EXISTENT Printers Making Currency for Reichsbank Walk Out—Ruhr Nears Crisis. Br the Assoclated Press. LONDON, August 10.—A dispatch from Berlin Central ews today | sald: “Reports to hand from all parts of | Germany today show that unrest among the workers is increasing GERMANY ON VERGE CAPITAL SUSPENDS ACTIVITY TO HONOR HARDING MEMORY Final Farewell Paid at Solemn Services in Majority of District Churches. cITY MOURNS AS BODY IS LAID TO REST IN OHIO All Work Stops at 4 P.M. in Silent Tribute—Theaters Darkened Until Night. Under the canopy of a dull, lcaden sky, Washington, in mourning, toda gave itself over to pr for th soul of the man whose hody will be lald to eternal rest in Marion at 4 o'clock Business city-wide was suspended in the tribute of honor to the memory of Warren Harding. Pleasure s foregone to give time to more cred rites. Prayer was paramount. Government erted, th ave pay departments are employes being given tribute in their own to the deceased chieftain. Banks open only because s it. but that only be transacted Theaters Darkened. Amusement The Potomac to a national officials necessary den equested ne have busi- houses are darkened Park golf course, the tidal basin bathing beach, the mu- nicipal pools and the tennis courts are closed for the day. On all gov- ernment concesslons operated for tha recreation of the public the order has been given to stop activities. At 4 o'clock trumpeters will sound “taps” in six sections of the city calling Washingtonians to silent rev- erence at the time when the remains »f the late President are being con- signed to the soil of his native state. At that hour, Washington will be still in all its walks. Traction com- panics will cease opera for five minutes. Wires that nessages into the city will be silent. At sev- eral points memorial ervices will start. And the city, enveloped in the Sabbatical stillness, will bow in i lent tribute to the memory of Pres ident Warren Harding. Since early this morning, however, various memorial services have been conducted in various place Catholic Services. | catholic priests, saying their carly alarmingly, so much g0 that In DO- 7 orning masses, offered pravers for litical clrcles morning fears | he repose of the soul of the departed were not concealed that a revolution | prao ) G SRR € wherever they may be and remaining motionless for from two to five min- utes. Work in the railroad shops wife as New England has produced, visited the diner with her husband before going to bed and inspected with interest the pots and pans. The THOUSANDS PASS INTO ROOM. |side with American tourists in ex- upon thousands will gather in their! Last night it seemed that every man, woman and child in Marion | pressing the common sorrow for the | places of worship for services as myriad church bells toll their mourn- | stood long on the shaded, quict strects to pay this last honor to the dead. No man knew with exactness how m the modest room where the casket lay and gazed a moment on the peace- ful face under the glass. There was a hush of mourning about the dark streets, despite the hun- nd the other hundreds streaming slowly away, tal of the neighbor and friend whose greatness they d seen him in death as they had known him in life. The calm, kindly dignity that marked him in his hours as President remained with him even when life had ceased. He was the same Warren Harding some of them had known for ¥y dreds waiting to enter. a ing with hushed voices had acclaimed. They ha; he lay there. It was hard for them to The last day before the tomb hegan peacefully, but they walked, for the most part, peace and quiet of the sleeper was nof would not go with him to his tomb. CITY OF Again today the stir of moveme honor of the dead. The great mills that surround it were stilent and de- ing traffic of commerce broke the quiet of the shady serted. No rat strects. On the railroads ong trains distant places to the throng already the clanging of the bells was stilled. Except for the multitude that grew hourly to fill the sidewalks with mov- ing humanity, Marfon was a city of silence in her sorrow, a silence that| would not be broken until the simple funeral train gathered late in the day to bear the dead President to the tomb that awalted him. Then there must come an_added stir and move- ment that could not be avoided: then would voices be ralsed in prayer or sacred melodies as the last rites were sald. But the morning hours were peaceful and calm and as untroubled as the sleep of the man thus honored. The Harding home < opened agaln to the public at 8 o'clock this morning, two hours before the time set for the public review to begin again, and the long, silent 1ine began to move. A detachment of artillery troaps was on duty at the house di- recting the line. By the time the line had started to move it had lengthened to more than fifteen blocks. Stand Before House. Thousands, despairing of opportun- ity to see their dead President and friend, made a solemn pllgrimage to the home where his body lay. They went on the opposite side of the street and finally, reaching the spot, would stand uncovered in silence for a few minutes before being forced to move on that others might take their places to pay their respect and a last farewell, The long lne, six to eight abreast 8nd extending down Center street into the very heart of the business dis- trict, where every door was locked, was most orderly. It was broken for a few minutes at 8:30 to permit em- ployes of the Marion Star, with whom the late President labored in getting out his newspaper for years, to take a farewell look at their old employer, at special request of Mrs. Harding. Now and then it also would be broken to permit distant relatives of Mr. Hnnmm to view the body. Throngs Pour Into City. All during the night and inocreasing the day drew on, thousands of peo; ple from all over the country kept pouring into the city from all com- ass points in one continuous stream. ousands of automobiles parked along the roadsldes outside of the city, their occupants catching what anatches of sleep they might until morning. Special trains bearing other thou- sands began arriving during the njght and continued to coms in today on &ll roads entering the city, The city streets were packed with people early and the task of feeding the vis- itors was taxing Marfon's wating places. Hundreds of peopls walked the streets all night unable or unwilling to go to bed. Many slept on bench¢s Coatinued on Page 3, Column 3.) . and no stir of marching legions to join in last honors. Here and there on the streets walked men of the Ohio National Guard, unarmed, and merely to sec that the t disturbed in thoughtlessness. They nany thousands had walked through ars, and scemed only to sleep as | realize that this old friend was dead. | shall claim these “hallowed relics” SILENCE. nt of life in Marion was hushed in came in to add new thousands from gathered, but no whistle blew and MRS HARDING STIL EEPS UP COURAGE No Mark of Respect for Dead President Has Escaped Her Notice. By the Assoctated Pres MARION, Ohlo, August 10.—After the last night of vigil near her hus- band's casket, which rested in the little frame home of Dr. George T. Harding, Mrs. Harding continued to- day the watchful attention there, still brave and calm. No mark of respect to the memory of the late President escaped her during the early hours. No offer of sympathy from her friends was received with. out a returned act of graclousness. Mrs. Harding reiterated her thanks whenever a plea that some one be allowed to help was heard, but stead- fastly kept her grief in quietude, ap- parently preferring to suffer alone without glving cause for worry to others, willing though they were to share her burden. Mrs, Harding Sces Crowds, The orowds awalting & last oppor- tunity to gaze again on the face of the dead before the casket was finally closed for movement to the cemetery were viewed by Mrs, Hard. ing from the windows of the house where she epent the night. The column fllled the pavements frem the point where the pathway led across the lawn to the doorway to an ever-increasing distance in" the downtown streets, caused by the growing number of persons who took thelr places at the line's end, In the line were hundreds of faces familiar to Mrs. Harding and in them she recognized many old and warm friends of the late President and herself. It was typical of the woman, concealed from the sight of those in the streets by the drawn shades, that orders were given those in charge of arrangements that nene “(Continued on Tags I Column &Y L4 departed President. Hundreds of American and British applicants who had to be refused tickets to the service because of the limited space went to the abbey and remained outside in a sllent throng until the ceremonial was over, and then attended a special memorial service held at St. Margaret's Church for those who could not be accom- modated in the cathedral. In the abbey services, after the con- gregation had joined in the singing of “Lead, Kindiy Light,” Canon Car- negle delivered a brief and impressive address. Kinship of Nations. “Two great natinos, connected by intimate ties of kinship and feliow- ship,” he sald, “stand in spirit by his graveside today. It is fitting that in this church, which is the central shrine of our parent lineage, Amer- fcans and Britons sbould unite in glving religious expression to the sentiments of good will, sympathy and solicitude which are aroused.” President Harding's life work, sald Canon Carnegie, could not fail to satisfy the people of this realm. “His intellectual ability, his oratorical skill, his foresight as a statesman, his success as an administrator — these are mattens about which dif- ferent estimates will be formed, vary- ing with the predilections or preju- dices of those who form them. But as to his personal character and his qualities of sincerity, straightfor- wardness, honesty, inflexible recti- tude, generosity and kindly sympathy —all who knew him are agreed. “A great Englishman once asked that over his grave these words should be inscribed: ‘Here lies a man who tried to_do his duty.’ “President Harding was such a man, and Britons and Americans alike rec- ognized him as such and by honoring him revealed themselves in funda- mental unity with each other.” Represents King George. The Duke of York, representing King George, had the Dlace of honor in the sanctuary with Post Wheeler, counselor of the American embassy, nearby, and, with British, American and forelgn persons of note seated in the cholr stalls, Here and there a bright uniform gave color to an oth- erwise somber scene, The congregation included the Arch- bishop_of Canterbury, Lord Robert Cecil, Lord Desborougfi, Lady Lee of Fareham, the high commissioners of the British dominions and colonies, in- cluding Luclen Pacaud, representing Peter C. Larkin, the Canadian high commissioner. Sir John Henry, accompanied by Lady Geddes, represented the rBitis! ambassador to the United Btates, Sir Auckland Geddes, who {s ill, 'The prime minister, the members of the cabinet, the Anglo-American organ- izatlons in London and the American clubs and societies throughout lkng- land also were represented, These services were not England's only tributes to the memory of Presi- dent Harding, King George's racing yacht Brittanla did not take part in the Cowes regatta events today, and the ensign of the royal yacht squad- ron was half-masted, as Were the col- ors of the other craft in the Solent, many of which flew the American }tu1 message of a beloved laid to his last rest, Services Abroad. These services will not be confined to land or to America. At sea on great passenger liners flylng the American and other flags prayers will be sald and memorial cere- monies will be held in a number of foreign ster Abbey, in in South America and elsewhere. President Coolldge did not proclaim this burial day a national hollday, as | it was not his purpose to recomniend a stoppage of industry, preferring rather to leave to each individual KEPNER 10 BARE HIS STORY MONDAY Grill Expected When Frede- rick Murder Defendant Takes Stand. By a Staft Correspondent, FREDERICK, Md, August 10.—B. Evard Kepner, the prominent archi- tect and church leader, who has been on trial in the county clircult court here charged with the murder of his wealthy wife, Mrs. Grace Simmons Kepner, will take the stand in his own defense when the court recon- venes at 10 o'clock Monday morning. That decision was announced today by Leo Weinberg, chief of counsel for the defense, after a long confer- ence with Mr, Kepner, In a little county Jall, and was the direct result of damaging testimony sprung with sensational suddenness on at least three occaslons by the state yester- day, Fully realizing that the state has been burning for an oppertunity to grill Mr, Kepner before the court, Mr, Weinberg said he saw no chance of his client escaping the grueling er- deal, and was prepared to devote at least one entire day to the testimony of the defendant. He probably wiil be called again Tuesday, and, if the state's cross-examination Proves as se- vers as it is expected to be, he will also testify part of Wednesday. Defense Asks Delay. The request for adjournment of court until Monday morning came from Mr, Weinberg himself, osten- ~(Continued on Page J, Column b.) {Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) Pictures of the Harding Funeral In the Graphic Section of Next Sunday’s Star A page of dignity and beauty which Americans distant from the Capital will be glad to receive; one which all citizens will deem worthy to be cherished and preserved. The Sunday Shee w—will be mailed to points in Maryland and Virginia for § pentss all other states, 10 cents—postage prepaid, il » chieftain | lands—in historic Westmin- | France, in Switzerland, | will cease for similar periods. The Postal Telegraph Company wil] sllence all of its telegraph and cable wires for two minutes, while the Western Union will suspend actlvities for three minues. At 4 o'clock, east- ern standard time. “taps’ will be | flashed on all Associated Press wires over the country, and every telegraph Instrument in the service will be still- |ed for two minutes, while all em- ployes will maintain absolute si- lence. In New York, Boston, Chicago and other places afternoon newspapers will suspend publication. Exchanges in New York, Chicago and other big market centers will be closed all day. Post offices everywhere will be closed for two hours, with curtalled ! deliveries of mall during the day. D.C. AUTOISTS WAR ON GASOLINE RATES Associations Demand Reduc- tion, With California Paying 14 Cents a Gallon. | A war on gasoline prices was de- clared today by the American Auto- moblle Assoclation and the National Motorists' Association. Representatives of both organiza- tions announced that steps would be taken toward obtaining a reduction in what they claimed to be exorbitant prices of gasoline, Today Washington moterists are paying 21 cents a gallon wholesale and 23 cents retall. Other Atlantic seaboard states are paying even more. The middle west, however, sells the same gasoline for a considerably lower price and California only pays 14 cents a gallon wholesale, The vast differences in the price scals in the various states form con- vincing evidence in the minds of leading motor organisation heads that somewhere large and unfair profits are being made and the recent in- vestigation by Gov, MoMaster of South Dakota and its result has brought them much encouragement, Meeting Being Planned, An executive meeting of the three “A’s” will be held here in the near future to determine how to get to the rock bottom of the matter and to push legislation that will protect the motoring public. Announcement to this_effect was made today by V, D. L. Robinson, natiorial director’ of roads. He stated that whers it could be found that exhorbitant prices were being charsed the A, A, A, weuld be first lady of the land, who, it is ex- pected, personally will supervise the menu when ghe moves {nto the White House and perhaps prepare a few of the President’s favorite dishes, ex- pressed herself amazed at the com- pact cooking quarters Maj. James F. Coupal, a member of the Army Medical Corps, who has served ‘as Mr. Coolidge's physician since the Chief Executive first came to Washington as Vice President, uar- ticipated in the inspection. diner's crew pointed with pride to thelr larder and the mafor, after looking at the foodstuffs, pronounced | them excellent. NEW POLITICAL FACES ON PRESIDENT’S SPECIAL | BY ROBERT T. SMALL. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. ABOARD THE PRESIDENT'S TRAIN, AKRON, Ohio, August 10.— Calvin Coolidge is making his first trip out of Washington as President of the United States. He is accompanied by some of the men who will bulk large in the new administration. Most of them are strangers to Washington, strangers to the people of the coun- try, but they are destined to take their places in history, just as the man from Massachusetts was destined to become the occupant of the White House. Mr. Coolldge wlill visit Marion to- day as a private citizen, The funeral coremonies are for Warren Harding, not for the departed President of the United States, The ceremonies of of.- flelaldom were dropped in Washing- ton. But Marion, bereft of her own first citisen, will take a particularly keen interest in the new President. ‘They will find him silent and solemn ‘where the President they had glven to the nation was free-spoken and smiling of countenance, No Official Visitors, The party on the way to Marfon with the new President is largely a volunteer one. Thera are many sen- ators, the governors of severa] states and various other dignitaries, But inasmuch as Mrs, Harding had expressed the wish that the services (Continued on” Page », Column b.) U. S. TANKER MISSING WITH CREW OF 30 Damaged Lifeboats and Body in Ice Chest Only Clues to Swift Star's Fate. By the Assciated Press, PANAMA, August 10.—Shipping cir- cles here fear that the American tanker Bwift Star, bound from San Pedro, Calif., te Fall River, Mass, with a eargo of crude oil, has been lost at sea with her crew of thirty ready to get after the cause with every available effort, Raymond Beck, manager of th National Motorist Asseciation, de- clared today that he was convinced that eriormous profits were being made at the expenses of the publio and that it was high-time the motering bilo, "“hm‘? lts organizations, 'oug e unjust prices to a finish, He stated that the association terday had sent wires to ever: tion of the country to ascertain the price of gas’during the past week, Would Go to Congress, “We will force the matter to Con- gress, where we will compel them to show up the companies that are LIR! atiol vercl and pas; O h et T fer T el oclared, 7ontinued on Fage 0 P sec- men, Drifting wreckage marked with the wvessel's name was found by mariners off Ban Andres Island, 250 miles north of Colon, while flshing boats from that island report that damaged life- boats were seen drifting off the coast on July 23, The fishermen also found a floating lce chest marked ‘“Swift Star,” The chest contained the body of a man. The sea for some dis- tance around was ofl-stained. ‘The BSwift Star passed through the Panama canal July 13, Shipping records show that the tanker Swift SBtar has not been heard from since she left the canal, The vessel, commanded by Capt. Richard Hull, left San Pedro fer Fall River on June 30. Sha carried 100,000 bar- Fels of crude oll, » The | may break out as suddenly as that in | November, 1918, did.” STRIKE WAVE GROWS. Millions of Marks Pay Not Enough | to Assure Food. | BY HIRAM K. MODERWELL. Br Cable to The Ktar and Chicago Dally News. Copyright, 1923, 10.—Unexpected | BERLIN, August ald has been brought to Chancellor | Cuno of Germany in his efforts toward | {a cessation of inflation. Printers in Berlin last night de- | clded to strike beginning today. This | includes numerous printing &hops | {making money for the Reichsbank, al- | though the authorities this morning | still hope to persuade the men to make an exception regarding money production. This s one of the wave of strikes, mostly unauthorized, which Thursday afternoon began to sweep over Berlin. | The latest reports show that the movement is epreading. Some sub- urban lines this morning are not | | working and_also many factories. | The strikes are entirely spontaneous and moderate. Socialist and trade union leaders are helpless. In some | cases the men do not strike but sim- ply slt down and refuse.to work, say- ing: “We can't work. sry.” We're too hun- ‘Wages Cease to Exist. ‘Wages have virtually ceased to exist. Men occaslonally receive hand- outs of money sufficlent for a day's food supply practically without rela- tion to the established wage scale. At present a metal worker's weekly wage is two and a quarter million marks, or 50 cents. A pound of mar- garine costs a third of the weekly wage. The cheapest shoes cost three week's wages. Many prices have doubled over night. Fats are almost unpurchasable. Workmen make sudden demands on employers for five or ten million marks bonus—whatever occurs to them—or demand that the manage- ment of the factory undertake the regular supply of food. Some em- ployers oftered margarine if the men would not strike. The communists are calling a gen- eral meeting of all shop council rep- resentatives, whioch, in tho general mood of desperation, may have serious consequerices, FUTURE HOLDS MENACE. Passive Resistance Policy Fate Soon to Be Determined. By the Associated Press, BERLIN, August 10.—Passive re- gistance in the Ruhr and the Rhine- land, which Chancellor Cuno yester- day informed the reichstag would be continued until France decided to cre. |a member of the congregation | tween of all de- nominations throughout the morning other services were being conducted At 11 o'clack, at Calvary Baptist Church, where the late Presiden worshiped, impressive cercmonies me- morfalizd his name. Throughout the day this continued and this afternoon other exercises are scheduled. At 4 o'clock &pecial | services will be held at the First Con- | gregational Church, at 10th and G streets, where the new President is At the Washington Cathedral, in Cathe- dral close, in front of the Peace Cross, at 4:30 o'clock, services will be con- ducted simultaneously with those in Marfon, and Bishop-elect James E. Freeman of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Washington will preach the sermon. Services Tonight. Tonight at 7:30 the congregation of Ohev Sholom Temple will congregate at 5th and I streets for prayer and a memorial service. The principal public ceremontal in memory of President Harding will start at Kelth's Theater at 8 o'clock, under the direction of the American Legion. All Washingtoniane desirous of paying a last tribute to the mem- ory of the late President will be wel- come there. Pure democracy is the order of the ceremonies. No tickets, no discrimination in religlous, fra- ternal or other lines is the by-word. Invitations have been sent to all re- ligious, fraternal, patriotic and vet- erans’ organizations to participate. Senator Watson Speaks. The address will be delivered by Senator Watson of Indiana, close friend and adviser of the departed President. Bishop-elect James E. Freeman of the local Protestant Episcopal diocese will participate. Mgr. P. C. Gavan, pastor of the Shrinc of the Sacred Heart, will offer the invocation, while benediction will be pronounced by Rev. Dr. Harry A. Merfeld, acting_head of the congre- gation of the Eighth Street Templs during the absence of Rabbl Abram Stmon. Col. Thomas W. Miller, alien property custodian, will preside and members of U. S. S. Jacob Jones Post will act as ushe The Marine Band will render spe- cial musio, Maj. G. T. Tittmann will sing several solos, accompanied by Edward Droop, and Jan Rubini, violinist, will play. Phone to Be Stlent. The Chesapeake and Potomac Tele- phone Company will have silent wires between 4 and 4:02 o'clock this after- noon, it was announced. The Postal Telegraph Company will handle no messages botween 4 o'clock and 4:02. The Western Unlon Company will have no wire service between 4 and 4:03 o'clock. Cable communication will stop for stmilar periode. The doors of the Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce and Merchants and Manufacturers’ Assoclation are closed until tomorrow morning. Postal service operated only be- 8 and 11 o'clock this morn- ing. From 5 o'clock tonight until 8 o'clock, however, the main registry office will be open, In the downtown section there will be only three col- lections of mail. Throughout the city there will be but one mail de- lvery. ate an atmosphera eonducive to nego- tiations on an equality basis, 18 ap- proaching the state where its further maintenance along peaceful lines will depend wholly on the government's SORIEY 1o keep the resisting popula- tion well fed. ; The falling mark, curtailment of lo- oal food supplies, due to natural ghort- age and the interrupted rail facilities, and also the punitive measures which increasingly are being imposed by the French, now rapidly are contributing to the growing irritation and restless- ness among the miners, steel workers and civil service employes. The government's apprehensions in this direction are liberally shared by A silent period of five minutes h been ordered to start at 4 o'clock for the Capitol Traction Company, the Washington Rallway and Eleotr! Company, the Washington and Vi ginia Electric Rallway Company and the Washington Rapld Transit Company. At 4 o'clock, at slx places throu out the city, “taps” will be sounded by buglers under the direction of W. F. Franklin, past commander of the Costello Post of the American Legion. The buglers will be statloned at the District bullding, on the Capital steps, at Lincoln Park, at 1st and T streets, at the Mount Alto Hospital and at Columbia road and 16th street, At the peace cross at the Natlonal Cathedral close at 4:30 a great opens< Hugo Stinnes, the Thyssens and other Ruhr industrialists who equally are alarmed over the prospects of an era air service will be held. This serv- jce will be conducted while at the same time at Marion the last sad " (Continue © 8, Column 7.5 A