New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 30, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press BOMB EXPLOSIONS RIP OUT SECTION OF PIPE LINE IN SYDNEY, CENTER OF STRIKE RAGE RIOT OCCURS IN Nova Scotia Steel Walkout "\ Today Assumes Grave Aspect—Shops Forced To Close For Lack' of Water Damage JIs Heavy—One Blast Occurs in Very Heart of City—Suspect Nolticed Fleeing Scene. - Sydney, N. 8., July 30.—A series of mysterious explosions occurred here today. Pipe lines supplying the plant of the British Empire Steel corporation where a strike is in progress were blown up at several points, forcing the works to close. The police were advised that sev- eral men had been seen fleeing from Prince and Inglis streets, where one of the explosions occurred. According to the police, the explo- sions were caused by bombs. One blew up at Prince and Inglis streets, which is in the very heart of the city, The damage was heavy. More damage is expected to result from the sudden cutting off of the large water supply needed for various operations in the steel plant, particularly in the coke ovens section, The city is planning a supply of a smgll quantity of water for vital needs until repairs are made. ADMITS SLAYING WIFE Patrick Coyne of Pittshurgh Confesses Today--He Himself With Both Legs Gone. in Hospital Pittsburgh, July 30.—Patrick Coyne, whose bride of a few weeks was found dead in their home at Port Perry, a suburb, July 17, today confessed to Chief Robert Braun of the county de- tectives that he killed her. ' Coyne's confession was made in the hospita) where he was taken after he had lost his legs in a railroad accident shortly after the crime was committed. Coyne, who has repeatedly denied | he knew anything of the crime today | sent for Chief Braun, and made a statement. Coyne, according to the chief, said he was angry becanse his wife stayed | in bed too long, and they quarrelled. | He had a pistol in his pocket, ana during a “scuffle, it dropped on floor and was discharged.” safd, until she fell dead at his feet. He then washed off.the blood, he said,.| and pulling the body on the bed, covered it with a sheet. Coyne, the chief said, declared he went to work, but was so worried that his mind was not on his work and missing his footirfg on top of the train, father was told of the acclident and it was when he went to'Coynegs house to tell Mrs. Coyne that he found her body Physicians sald Coyne was making rapid prpgress toward recovery. COAL SHORTAGE REPORTED New Haven, July 30.—The coal sit- vatlon in New Haven was sald today to be serious for lack of coal ship- ments, the | He atd| not know his wife had been shot, he | fell between the cars. His wife's | [LLINGIS DANCE HALL Negroes Invade Resort and Wrest White Men’s Wives From Them Chicago, July 30.—One negro was injured and aix arrested as the result of a fight, at Worth, Ill, between 150 construction gang workers, citi- zens, and pollcemen, early yesterday morning, according to the Chicago Herald-Examiner. Fifty of the negroes, who occupy a camp just outside of Worth, at mid- night invaded a dance hall in Worth, where a community dance of white persons was in progress. The ne- groes, armed with knives, razors and revolvers, chose as partners the white women, taking wives from the arms jof their husbands, says the Herald- Examiner. Resistance on the part of the whites was met with oaths and threats of death, says the newspaper. The sereams of the women were heard by officials of the village. ‘When they entered the place the negroes began firing. Additional help was summoned and when they arrived a general fight started. The negroes retreated towards their camp and when they arrived there, were reinforced by one hundred other ne- groes, and the police called for further aid. More than two hun- dred shots were exchanged and there was a hand-to-hand fight before the | negroes were overcome. GIRL DROWNED LEAPING FROM CANOE INTO WATER Two Michigan Men Held in Jail— People Heard Girl Cry Out “Stop Or T'll Jump,” Before Tragedy. Sawgatuek, Mich., July 30.—Frank | 8. Cheschel and Fred Rill, of (‘h|razn( are held at the county jall at Allegan, | pending investigation of the drowning | in Kalamazoo river here last night of | Miss Emma Orta, also of Chicago, who is said to have leaped into the river from a canoe she occupied with the two men and Miss Tessic Croksa, an- | other Chicago girl According to resorters who were nearby they heard one of the young| women exclaim: ‘“Stop or Tl jump in."” This was followed by a splash as| both girls leaped into the water. The| two men are alleged to have paddled| to shore without stopping to aid the| young women, and are sald to have been preparing to leave when arrest- ed. Miss Croksa was rescued. MOONSHINER KILLED Posse Now Seceking Rest of 'Tlicit Liquor Gang After Bloody Fight in ‘West Virginia Mountains, Huntington, W. Va. July unidentified moonshiner was killed and two wounded in a fight with prohibition agents near here early to- | day . After the battle, a posse was| collected and sent in search of four of the gang who got away. Agénts Frank Poe and Clay Wil liams reported that several days ago {they discovered a still In a thicket | They watched for the operators and | ! this morning four men put the still in | | operation and one stood guard. The | agents crept forward but the snap | ping of a twig revealed their pres- | ence and the sentry fired. | | 30.—An THIRTY-FIVE KILLED | Maintains ‘PETER’ 1§ BLAMED |and | paper and books to their NEED ‘HflRSE SENSE JOHNSON DECLARES Senator-Elect From Minn. De- plongs “Cultured Congressmen” B et HE STANDS %&2{ &6 LaFollette and Others . O Able to “ Him—The 1.’ son | With Him, He Says. | Drive By The Assoclated Press. Crookston, Minn,, - July 30.—Sena- tors Brookhart, LaFollette and others will have the reason with him, Mag- nus Johneon, senator-elect from Min- nesota, declared at ‘“ratification jubi- lees” here yesterday. “They will not drive me into any- thing,"” the new senator added. “Horse sense” is what Mr. Johnson thinks congress needs most. The trouble with th¢ men who had been sent to %on- gress in the past, he said, was that| they were ‘“men of too much refine- ment and culture and that they never got anywhere.” Following the suggestion of the sen- ator-elect, the evening meeting adopt- ed a resolutfon unanimously urging President Harding to call a speclal session of Congress to pass emergency measures fo help the farmers. | | | FOR LOSS OF SPOILS Juvenile Gang Thinks That | One “Double Crossed” the Rest 1 Seven New Britain lads, whose ages run from seven to ten years, four of whom have confessed their faults to the police and three whom are still missing, early last week and again on Baturday thought that they would try out some of the many schemes and plots they have seen in the “movies” started on a rampage to rob stores and garages in this city. According to the story of four of | the boys to Policeman Patrick O'Mara of the detective bureau, who conduet- ed the investigation in the case, pa- pers and valuable books were stolen from B8tarke's garage on EIm street early last weel, The boys gave the | sisters and | other girls, they claim. who have used them to play school with. This morning a complaint was re- ceived from the National Paper Co. at 374 East Main street that the store had been entered sometime Saturday night and a quantity of materials | stolen including toys, paper novelties, cigars and playing cards. The four boys also admitted entering this store by breaking a glass in one of the windows and stealing many articles, They denied that cigars were among the articles stolen but said that they had taken playing cards, ice cream plates and spoons, matches and toys. When asked by Policeman O'Mara Wwhat they had done with the goods the boys stated that they had removed them to a barn near the home of Peter, one who Is still at large. The boys claim, however, that all of the things they placed in the barn are not there ngw and expressed the belief that Peter had double-crossed them and stolen their haul. GABINET 1§ TOTTERING Reliable Reports From Berlin Say Cuno Government Is About Ready to Resign Office. | By The Associnted Press. London, July 30.—The News correspondent at Berlin sent the following despatch here: Central has AND TEN ARE HURT IN NINE CROSSING ACCIDEIVTS Sunday’s Fatalities Are Appalling—Nine Lives Snufl"ed‘ | Dr. Gustave Streseman, leader of the Out in One Crash in Pennsylvania Chicago, July 30.—Thirty-five persons were Kkilled and ten | injured 3eqt91dav in nine railro: parts of the country. killed were when: ad crossing accidents in various Those in which the greatest number were | ‘(oal CommlSSlon Ignores | One Pennsylvania train struck two automobiles within a few | hours, four being killed in the first crash and nine in the second: | Five persons were killed when a Long Island passenger train struck an automobile at Rockville Centre, L. I. BANDITS GET 870,126 Killed Four Others One Man and Wounded in Daring Daylight Hold- up Near Pennsylvania Coal Mine, Scranton, Pa., July 30.—One man was killed and four other persons| were wounded in a heldup of a Laurel line car near Moofic today by seven bhandite who escaped with two satchels | containing $76,126. The money was to be used in paying anthracite mine workers at two collleries. FAILURES RECORDED New Haven, July 30.—Failures re- corded today were those of Siering, lamp shade maker of Meri- den, with dehts of $4,000 and assets | of $3,175, and of Herman FEichen- | btaum, doing business at South Nor- valk as the Guarantee Trunk & Um- # :lla company with debts of $4,936 ®'A asscts of $1,30% Henry | Nine Are Killed Terre Haute, Ind., July 80.—Nine|° persons were killed late yesterday when a Pennsylvania eastbound pas- senger train crashed into.an automo. | 1hne on the tracks at Liggett, mgm‘ | miles west of here. The train = was | |traveling about 50 miles an hour and |was two hours late because of an- |other accident near Highland, 111, in which four persons were killed. According to G. C. Gillispie, in| charge of the Liggett telegraph tower, |who witnessed the accident, the trag- |edy was caused by the attempt of the {driver to cross the track ahead of the train. The automobile was struck | directly in the center. the occupants being huried a distance of about 200 ‘f(’l‘t. Train Going At Fast Speed The train sped on for a distance of | {about three-quarters of a mile before | it could be brought to a stop. As soon as it was backed to the scene of the tragedy work was started | (Continued on Tweith Fage) | informed political quarters | Pennsylvania hard coal fields this fall. | |Owner a_nd Driver of Auto [l Truck Before U. S. Justice | “Your correspondent learns in well- that the resignation of the Cuno cabinet is certain, Herr Cuno himself is con- [ vinced that this step must be taken. “It is understood that the leaders | r:f the new cabinet will be paul Loebe ,president of the Reichtag and People’s party. “A definite decision will reached before the meeting | Reichtag before the end | week."” not of of be | the | next | Break in Negotiations | Washington, July 30.— Continuing its policy of disregarding temporarily the threatened break between employ ers and employes in the anthracite in- the coal commission took up o ts today at a session with a special ‘committee of bituminous operators. The special committee took into the | conference the outline of a plan which | bituminous interests have drawn up to furnish soft coal as a substitute for anthracite in case of any strike in the ! reports, she had not obtained a Paris| | the Majestic. | | she had been granted a divorce, i tlons had been restored. | don't give a darn what the IRENE I]ENIES SHE HAS GOT DIVORCE Insists She and Captain Tremauf Do Not Plan Separation | THEN SHE TALKS STYLES A(Ids ‘WM. BULKELEY, BERLIN, DEAD AT AGE OF 94 More Mystery to Her Matrimonial B ‘ Difference—Latest Parislan Styles rand Old Man” Well; Look Like Nightgowns, she Teils| Konwn Politically—Had Interesting Experiences Miss Castle, Famous Dancer. I Reporters. | New York, July 30.—Irene Castle, ! the dancer, today added another| touch of mystery to her matrimenial affairs when returning on the Lafay-| ette she announced that, contrary ""‘t William Bulkeley, aged 94, Berlin's oldest resident, died this afternoon at :30 o'clock at the Grove Hill sani- arium, this city. He has been con- | fined to the sanitarium for some time | with gangrene. Mr. Bulkeley was born July 1§, 829, son of Colonel and Mrs. William the family moving to Bm’-" divorce from Robert E. Treman, a| manufacturer of Ithaca, N. Y. to| whom she was married shortly after| - | (l:):;t(ll:ath of her first husband, Vernon | Bulkeley, ok . | M Ikeley was still a boy. “I have no divorce and T have not|lm When Mr. Bulkeley " [ The family took up its residence in instituted proceedings for one,” de- “h“ white house &t the foot af Gal- clared the dancer, who added that | » " = | pin's hill, Berlin, where Mr. Bulkeley she would meet Mr. Treman when he | taken to the sanitarium lived until returned to New York next week ‘m‘flhout two weeks ago. B the ‘old Berlin The dancer was firm in her denial, | F® Was educated in | Academy, an institution which has d"‘::'e de"’":"h:” rsr"',”"ll'"“" “."m;“ong since passed away, the old build- quoting court records to show "!ling remaining on Berlin street, now a |residence. When a young man he was |cngaged with his father in the manu- facture of tinners' tools, the shop be- ing near the house in those days. In 1865 Mr. Bulkeley was elected to The matrimonial affalrs of Mrs. | Treman recently had been beclouded several times. After it had been reported that she | bad instituted proceedings, despatches ] st representative were recelved stating that she haq|lN® state legislature as representatlv = % from Berlin, serving at the same time spent a week-end at Deauville with | =%t FOe torr B8 B her husband and that friendly rela-| M Then c’\mp\m"" was in the legislature. Mr. Rulkeley was also extremely active in town politics and affairs. For 10 years he was registrar of voters, for 14 years town clerk and treasurer and for three years tax collector. word of the divorce. A group of newspaper men watched | the dancer land this morning, with| one small niece, five trunks, nine bhags, one pet dog and one pet goat. Shaking g L her large fur trimmed Parisian l\nt.ri“::rr":'r":t"’::’:f “:h: ’r’;::’t”r“‘bfigzh:};; Mrs. Treman gald: “I don't see \\'h\'l bank, Mr. Bulkeley was elected presi- the public should be interested In my) ot ")o1ding that office until the time affairs, They should be discouraged | R Ia Aban i b | rather than encouraged about fol-| SECERIN EANINERIeONEaRR nELe: lowing. my. matrimonial mattery, T|°I0Cted July 18, g people | He alwaye showed a great interest| think. They can keep quibbling on|I? tOWN improvements, having been a for & month if they like as to whether | M°mber of the Rerlin Library asso- or not T aen Alvefend” |c1ation, it being mostly through his in- Her Views on Marriage fiuence that the institution becan.- Asked why she did not return to |OPEN to the publle, instead of remain- President Ill in San Fr Cause is Ptomaine PRESIDENT HARDI OTHERS ALREADY PAID, Army Stopped When Britisher Explains By The Associated Press. London, July the agreement’ gcvernments of signed between th the U. 5. NOW ASKING.HERS Quips at America’s Bill for 30.—Particulars of United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Bel- Average Daily Circulation Week Endlng 9 l 86 July 28th . HARDING 10 BE E RUSHED BACK HOME AS SOON AS CONDITIONS WARRANT; DOCTORS HOLDING CONSULTATIONS ancisco Hotel — Primary Poisoning But Complica- tions Result—Nature Not Disclosed, But Heart Specialist Is One of Physicians Called Upon By The Asseciated Press, President Harding will be rushed back to Washington by special train, as soon as he recovers from his pres- ent illness sufficiently to travel, proba~ ‘ bly within two weeks. | The two San Francisco physictans | who were called into consuitation by | Brig. Gen. Sawyer last night, were | again in conference with Dr. Sawyer at 9:20 this morning, The two local | doctors, Ray Lyman Wilbur, president | of Stanford University and Charles M. | Cooper, a heart specialist, had spent | the night in the hotel where the pres- ident is ill. Secretary Work of the Interior De- partment, a former president of the American Medical Association, again | met with the consultants. Prior to the | meeting none of the physiclans would make any statement but it 8 in- dicated that Gen. Sawyer would issue a bulletin upon conclusion of the con« ference, | | Il 20 Years Ago Marion, O., July 80.—Prestdent Harding suffered several attacks of'in- digestion twenty years ago ac- companied by a slight disturbance of the heart, but at no time then was his condition serious, according to the ' chief executive's home-town friends I here, | This is the only illness Mr, Harding | has had, local people declared, in | which there was anything akin to | | heart trouble, Dr. George T. Harding, the presi- dent’s father said he had recelved no | direct word as to the nature of his son's illness and he eagerly scanned press dispatches telling about the president. 9 Is Sick Man | By The Associated Prewe. San Francisco, July 30.—President America with her husband on the |in& & private library, as it had been. | same boat, the dancer sald Mr. Tr-~|H man already had obtained passage on |°V the Majestic and that she had pre- |t ferred the French line becauge, on its ships, her' pets were hurered prop-| erly. When she was asked whether she had any intention to marry Ward B Crane, a voung moving pictura actor | 8Ver a associated iIn|Aat the services of the church prac-| with whom she was making of a recent film, she eaid: “If |t I ever do get a divoree, it will be be- ! cause I want to be single and not be cause I want to get married again.' Later Mrs. Treman qualified this remark by saying that if a person did | remarry, the ‘'nicest person' to re- wed, would be one's own husband. a to in the Ber-n Cangiegational ehurch| | soctety house on Galpin's Hill and took trips| | known by everyone in the town and { glum covering reimbursement of the cost of the Ameriean army of occu-|Harding today is a sick man. How pation to 12 equal annual instaliments|Serious is his iliness, his physicians were given in the House of Commons| have not said beyond the statement today by Sir Willlam Joynson-Hicks, ! losued last night saving that “pew | financial secretary of the treasury., |8vmptoms had arisen” during the Lieut. Col. John Ward asked why|day indicating complications in the | America was the only country to get|case of the president. But it was re- | paid, evoking cheers, Another mem-|g&arded sufficiently serious last night | ber wanted to know why America al-| {0 cause a cancellation of the chief ways got paid although she came in-| €xecutive's entire California program | to the war later than any of her al-|and to bring about a consuitation into lies, | which two leading California physi- ‘William Mather Pringle, member|cians were called. for Yorkshire, asked whether this was Four Doctors Called In not the case—that the aliied army ot| Four physicians participating In occupation already had been paid for|the consultation concluded their meet- up to date whereas the United States|ing early today without issuing any received no payment until the agree-|Statement, although Brig. Gen. Chas. ment under discussion had been|E. Sawyer, personal physician to the e was also active in the Berlin Agri- jutural society, having held the posi- on of president for many years. An earney churchman, his interest the Worthington A'(‘\PFI.NH' al inspired the younger people reatly in religious matters. When- ble he was a steady attendant nd cally through his entire life, Mr. Bulkeley never married and of | te he had not been enjoying the st of health. He lived alone in the New Britain and around the village | vhen his health permitted He “7H’ as liked by all. He Is survived by | of Poughkeepsie, |1lved in that city. After rumors of strife in the Tre-| W man home Mr. Treman had gone to|0ne niece, Mrs. | Hartford. | Mr. Bulkeley’'s stories of old times! in Berlin were interesting, and (hnflfl‘ who heard them received a rflal knowledge of the old days in Yhat town, of the old Berlin hotel and of | | the town as it was in Civil War days | He ®ill be deeply mfssed by hw‘ friends in the town, as Berlin has now lost its “grand old man." | Funeral arrangements are as yet !nA‘ MRS. TRAVER WILL BE 00 YRS. OLD TOMORROW e y Maple Street Woman Is Lastih' L e e vivor ilv | tional church, Rev. Samuel A | Survivor of Famlb of | officiating. The date has not Thirteen Children Fiske | | set. Francis Chambers of | (Continued on Twelfth Page) been | FERRY IS DESTROYED Boat Which Plies Between Green- | I, Burned— | Mrs. M. A. Traver, who has reached the ripe age of 90 vears, will observe her birthday tomorrow at her home, 160 Maple street, hy entertaining as many friends as care to call. The hours from 3 to 8 p. m., will be dm‘ voted to recelving her guests. The nonagenarian resident of the city was born in New DMilford, New | Jersey, July 31st, 1833, the daughter of William and Electa (Riggs) Win ans. She made her home with her parents until the age of 22 years when she married Henry E. Traver, N. Y., and moved to that place where her husband was in the silk business. During the greater | part of her marrled life until the death of her husband in 1883 she | | wich and Bayvilel, L. Was Valued at $50,000. July The | plying between Greenwich, Conn, 30 ferryboat Greenwich, this place and Bayville, I.. 1., was al- [ most totally destroyed by fire which | broke out in one of the cabins short- ly after six o'clock this morning. Capt Benjamin Abell and members of the crew lost their clothing and personal belongings, but escaped. The craft belonged to the Fred A Wesck €o., and was valued at 1060, Following her widowhood Mrs. | Traver has made her home with her | children, Mrs. I". P. Knight and H. A. | Traver of Maple street, this city. She has lived in New Britain for the past | 30 years. Mrs. Traver is the last sur- |[, . C. Gives viving member of a family of 13 children and, although she does not| For 14 Per Cent Reduction From enjoy the best of health is about the | house every day. She spends most of her time reading and keeps remark- ably well posted on the events of the | CAN CUT FREIGHT RATES Permission Qualified New York to Southern Pacific Ports. Washington, July 30.—A qualified permission to reduce freight rates from New York city to the Southern | Pacific coast section by about 14 per [cent on shipments routed via boat to Texas ports and thence by rail over |the Sunset-Gulf route, was given the | Southern Pacific raliroad system today |by the interstate commerce commis- sion. Under today's decision the Southern Pacific is authorized to | make its rail and wate rrates from New York to the southwestern terri- tary and the gouthern Pacific coast HIGH TIDES T July 31 (Standard Time) At New Haven— 1:06 a. m.; At New London— 11:46 a. m.; 1:34 p. m. 11:59 p. m. New Haven, July 30.—Leo C. Laughlin, owner, and William Guilfol, driver of the truck seized by the po- lice after its desertion on Friday, and which was found to be laden with| cases of sixteen ounce botties of aleo- | hol labelled as if the contents were for external us>, were before the Fed- | ral Comniissioner today charged with | transporting alcohol. Laughlin claims he was engaged to transport dena- tured 'Hf'ohnl to Northford. It is equivalent to the rates which now are in effect from Chicago to the same | destinations | The Southern Pacific sought the re- ductions in order to meet the growing competition of the Panama canal wat- er route in intercostal traffic. Prac- tically all of the commodities which normally move from the Atlamtic coast to the Pacific coast are affected by the reductions authorized, which 30.—Forecast for New RBritain and vicinity: Unsettled and slightly warmer tonight; Tuesday, generally cloudy, mot much change in temperature, faimed the alcohol could be used for B@WOrage purposes, will average 30 cents per hundred | pounds. ‘ | | threw | the members of made. Sir William replied: GREAT SHORE SPORT ““That is so. ‘Lnn( Beach People Scramble for the American Choice Cases When More Than 200 ot/ ¢ord university and the Casks of Liquor Wash Ashore, N. Y., July 30.—Mor liquor wer: and seifze: Long Beach, | than 200 cases of real washed ashore yesterday by hotel guests in a frantic catch as|dicated that the effect of catch can contest, It was believed that a rum runner the consignment overhoard at| the appearance of coast guard cutters or that cached liquor rose to the sur- face and broke its mooring. Henr Fmd OAhfl:r‘\—e_s His Sixtieth Birthday Today Detroit June 30, celebrated his sixtieth birthday toda: by remaining away from his Brigat workshop at his Dearborn automobil plant. It was understood that hi plans called for dinner his family Henry of his son Edsel. Mr. Ford succ viewers who desired to question him the concerning the business outlook, international of other subjects. Boom f(; Davis for .1921 Democratic Candidate Now 30.—A boom for | Davis for the democratic presidential nomination was formally launched at a meeting here Saturday leading democrats districts at was Topeka, Kas., July Gov. J. M night attended by from eight congressional which a Kansas organization formed. P po Agam Says He Would Like Another Year Before Dempsey Omaha, July 30.—Luis Angel Firpo of the Argentine would like to have his cham fight with Jack Dempse uled for New York September 14, postponed until some time next year, he told a representa- tive ot the Omaha World Her- ald, following arrival from Chi- cago to prepare for his ten- round decision match here Fri- day night with Homer Smith of Kalamazoo. Ford tonight with and that ssfully dodged inter- }“hich situation and a variety president, previously had announced that a bulletin would be made publie. None of the four physicians would make a personal statement. The con- | sultants were Gen. Sawyer, Dr. Hu« | bert Work, secretary of the interior department and a former president of Medical association; Ray Layman Wilbur, president of present president of the American Medical as- sociation, and Dr. Charles M. Cooper e of Stanford university, a heart spe- e | cialist. The calling in of Dr. Cooper 4 |together with other developments in- possible complications on the president's heart action was being watched carefully. Plans Are Changed. The decision to call off the Call- fornia program and to hold in abey- ance arrangements for the return to [the Atiantic Coast was reached short- |1y before 11 o'clock at a conference |in which Mrs. Harding, Secretary | Work, Gen. Sawyer and Secretary \(‘hrlman participated. Secretary Christlan soon after made the an- |nn|lnr‘4'mPnl of a change of plans say- [ing that the President had approved | ie hecause he “realizes the great in- convenienpe imposed on public au- thorities, 'volunteer committees and | the people in general by reason of the | uncertainty whether the program fn he was to hme participated can be carried out.’ To Stay in "Frisco. An informal statement made fn connection with the formal announce- ment of the cancellation conveyed the information that Mr. Harding would jremain in San Francisco until he completely recovers. This was re- garded by some acquainted with the executive's condition as likely to re- quire ten days or two weeks. No plants for,the return trip to Washington will be made until the President recovers, it was emphasized. Some members of the presidential party today expressed the belief that the water trip would be abandoned and that Mr. Harding would return by train without any stopr for speeches or receptions. Other mem- bers were of the opinion that after he regains his strength, a sea trip will be needed to put him on his feet again. Is Kept In Quiet Room. The President’s sick room is on the eighth floor of the down-town hotel | to which he went upon his arrival here yesterday after abandonment of the trip to the Yosemite. Every ef- fort has been made to give him a8 much quiet as possible, and early this morning orders were given to let no one except members of the presiden- tal party on the eighth floor. Dr, Sawyer was in attendance upon the' President or close at hand all night, assisted by Lieut. Com. Joel T. Boone, a naval surgeon, who since Dr, y e e s e 4 Iu“ | Harding’s illness last fall has been assistant White House physican. (Continued on Twelfth Page),