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HARDING'S BODY WILL GO EAST Black-Draped Train Speeds Homeward Tonight take: SAN FRANCISCO, dent Hard! ng’s body will be Washingte » Frar nm on Daugherty berg and f ing a siste will leave o'clock Friday evening be no other additions to t than those military of 16 ent representing the army and resentation of the navy will be made en route exce in operation of the will go from Se. Ogdem, Cheye Chicago and thence to Washir The funeral train will be over the Baltimare & Ohio f cago to Was most dire today pt th Dumbart« Pacific on then thru Ogden Ogden the tra < onto the Union Pacific thru Chey enne to Omaha Tt will go into Chicago over the Chicago & Great Western railroad. MARINE SE ANTS STAND AS SENTINELS Four marino corps sergeants were posted in the corridor as orderiies during the morning, and it was an. nounced that smarine corps sergeants James L. Duffy, Yamond T. English, A. P, Marchio and L. 4. Whiting had Deen detailed as the marine corps section of the guard of honor to escort to Washington the president's body. Francis ramento 2 ENGLAND IN DEEP SORROW LONDON, Aug. has commanded that his court shal! wear mourning for President Hard. ing for a week, beginning today. to 34, ’| sleep 8.— King Goorge| r 144 Women’s Khaki 219 Women’s Khaki 500 Pairs Women’s Khaki | Spiral Leggings HERE'S MORE ABOUT END COMES STARTS ON PAGE 1 te of the on by his people who to- death, mourn worked as the chief magistr: day, shocked beyond expres: for him with his wife After the simplest private funeral service the dential suite at the Palace hotel, where he took to his bed on Sunday morning, the president’s remains will be placed aboard a special train, which will le San Francisco at p. m, for W ashington, He will be laid to rest in his ol the country village which he to national prominence. Before the final obsequies which will mark his burial the president's bc will lie in state in Washington, Calvin Coolidge, of Massachusetts, the vice president, today wore upon his shoulders the mantle of authority and tre mendous responsibility which slipped last nigt from Mr. Harding when he passed beyond the ken and po things The president passed with the sunset. The last rays of California’s golden sunshine were pouring into his room, where Mrs. Harding, the wife who has been by his side since he was stricken seriously last Saturday, sat reading to him from a magazine. sat beside, The president was lying ve presi- AVE id home town—Marion, raised from rural obscurity y still, listening to Mrs, Psa ia ing read. He seemed to be resting quite comfortably, To the watchful eyes of his two nurses, Miss Ruth Powderly and Miss Sue Dauszer, he seemed just as he had been all day comfortable and in better physical condition than at any time since he became ill. There was no apprehension of impending tragedy in the minds of any there. Mrs. Harding and the nurses had every reason to feel easier about the condition of the distinguished patient than at any moment since illness overtook him. They were looking forward without fear or anxiety to the night another night, they believed, when the restorative power of would add a little more to the slowly growing strength of the president. It was a scene of peaceful quiet and contentment. Harding read on, paused. She turned to look at her husband. “That sounds good; go ahead,” said Mr. Harding. Mrs. Harding turned again to the magazine and read. Mrs. She had not finished a sentence when, as tho someone had struck} him a sudden and crushing blow, the president threw up one hand over his head convulsi It was as tho he sought to ward off the blow which death, in that peace- ful, unguarded moment, had aimed with unerring directness ata vital spot. ‘Then, like & man struck by 4 belt) ping of the sun bebind the hills, of lightning, the president stiffened) life went out. Hoe, and as suddenly dropped back Itmply. | before had been the p: In that brief second, the drawing of} United States, the obJe a breath, his spirit winged away|tude and symp from the wearied body. There waa] 110,000,000 pec lor a word of farewell to his } clay and the ed wife; no struggie or| days of his {1} fort to cling to life.| his wife and like the drop-|the cycle of alarm. his E STREET 7, Ohio}? er of mortal Dr, Sawyer, his old friend and physician, |; She came to the end of a paragraph and 5 who # moment |f | tt but # and Foone ORY BRINGS SAWYER BACK ‘ ment ried int notin th atlent condition as h Jay Mra. passed towar Harding's but it w e or afte to bring gone wing! bach z into Hoone, the fig nt's life tors Hubert Interior dent's cabinet bur, eminént he Medical a at 1 Stanford unt M Dr in cams in Dr. I ad ¢ * Cooper combined m 1 am not going down marked f fhe looked strongly nume led hor By this time ap of alarm had run thru the corridors president's adjacent to the p Hecret service men, hurried as members of the president's of fictal family and eet in motion the plans which mult be made. wad ity detective preased into like rapidly to and fro. GROUP GATHERS CORRIDORS methir Jor which precincts of the te m ® SIXTH AVENUE were summe has hi ed the word. An ever-growing group o mctwen in the cor 8 THE SEA flung It ope lor, “Bend Dr that in the eam ntinued a his own Foor brought then, fo m late of any that which t the sunset » Baw defenne of thi oe in, The thre ed. The Work, secretar the dead pr tay Lyman Wil Amertoa! dent ¢ ¢ ths ad pr vernity, a heart edical talent « Ag bed 4 now the turned life face of calamit ald: to brea again at ace and then reom or own electric curren’ thelr faces meanengers ¢ and policemer nervice, pan eaidential suite. 4 tr nd in members, » the Pal whisper © fateful wo: FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE —P A Wholesaler’s Surplus of Women’s and Girls’ HIGH-GRADE KHAKI OUTING WEAR To Be Offered Saturday at A REMARKABLY LOW PRICE —Per Garment: z 557 Women’s Khaki Coats (2 styles) sizes 34 to 44, 612 Women’s Khaki Breeches (2 styles), sizes 22 Skirts, sizes 22 to 34. Shirts, sizes 30 to 44. 25 127 Girls’ Khaki Coats, sizes 6 to 16 years. 105 Girls’ Khaki Breeches, sizes 6 to 16 years 34 Girls’ Khaki Knickers, sizes 22 and 24 DOWNSTAIRS STORE UST when August vacation plans are nearing completion comes this timely purchase of a wholesaler’s surplus stock of high-grade, smartly- tailored Khaki Outing Garments—effected by the DOWNSTAIRS STORE at a figure which permits the passing along of UNUSUAL SAVINGS to our custom- ers. AN OUTING WEAR EVENT for SATURDAY. ALL AT | | $1.05 | GARMENT C Pair ALL AT $1.05 GARMENT Every garment new and remarkably low-priced, Saturday, at $1.05. 05 hin and Dr.| ape down.” |, that suite, their pembers of the TTLE STAR City Flags Fly at Half Mast Friday from station atur and all have | hot | estat to f ght i maat army hments bee their flags at half ma ef blended thelr facea ped alle Women gu } ‘Deleph put members of the offical party night for t ing Ban Fr nner invitations, ° for | mi firwt in of whom last te and | disturbing a ltime r "/had accepted oving the president virtua In & fow momenta they be |é riving, thelr faces blanched | Jat the news, ‘The throngs in the oloorridors surrounding the pres |dentinl suite opened silently to let y|them pass, and they went with bow ¥led heads into the ¢ er of death. | In @ few minutes Judson ©, W ver, President Harding's friend n] general chief of White House ang ¢ of | llcity, came out with t sheet of paper, It was snapped up| |by waiting newspaper men and in a] moment th g tol be 1 of the brain ve danger ‘ IMPROVEMENT JOCCURRED TUESDAY “Under treatment marked Improve: ment tn the pneumonia and clrou latory took fy and Tuesday he » two from fever and pain, the mdition was practically mfortably with wyer when he ancously without a word arm! @ short was resting ¢ wires wore carrying shocked country this official an-| | nouncement The prenid Aled and without warning with members of his, fam > m me brain evolvement, | During the dincom- | ery Juntific- | & prompt re-| Sawyer, Ray Cooper, J. T. died instant or gre “We an all believe he died trom oxy or & rupture of blood ves in the axis of the brain near the | aptratory center, His death came Death was appar: | , . 5 oust ani Jently due to » probably lay fort and there was » for anticipatin ering. (Bigned) C. |Lyman Wilbur, C. M §/ Boone, Hubert Work." | A few minutes later a second state waa lasted, tolling tn brief the oifcumstances surroundiig the | deathbed scene, It read | “The president died at 720 p, m Mra, Harding and the two nurses, | Mins Ruth Powderly and Mine Sue | Dausser, were in the room at the} Hime, Mra, Harding was reading to n, [the ¥ dent, when utterly without uy | wa & slight shudder passed jt frame, he collapsed, and od | recognized that.the.end fad come. | A stroke of apoplexy was the cause of his death. Within a few moments Jal of the president's official party |had been summoned.” | MUST TRANSFER "| HIS AUTHORITY In the death chamber there gath Jered quickly Attorney General Daugherty, rummoned from the din table at the 8t, Fran hotel, Secretary of the Interior Work, also 1. | called from dinner; Secretary of Ag:| and Secretary of} They turned] grief they] ¥, a9 members . must at once take y Prices Slashed! t | ment Standard Make Tires 1 a | nor io steps to transfer to another the ma and authority that We.ten g had no quietly laid down, a brief consultation they 1 a telegram to Vice Pres Calvin Coolidge, who was at mouth, Vt The president at 7:20 p. m. a stroke of cerebral apoplexy ¢ end came peaceably and with tout warning. ned) Ply dled tr “DAUGHERTY, “WORK, “WALLACE, “HOOVER. HERTY WIRES PRESIDENT A little later Attorney General Daugherty, the chief law officer of the government, supplemented this with the following meanage to Cool idee | “I respectfully suggest that if you haw a ady done no, that you immediately take the oath of office.” Coolidge at once complied, and within a few hours of Mr. Harding's death took up the bui of the presidency The five doctors, meanwhile stunned at thelr sudden and wholly junexpected defeat just when they deemed victory over death safo in| their grasp, unlted in seeking the jactual cause of death, and at mid. night Issued the following. statement | Jcovering the history of Mr. Hard: | ing’s iliness‘and tireir belief as to |the cause of death “Last spring, following a long period of overwork and great strain, President Harding was confined to his bed with an attack of influenza, | which was followed by a few ne |turnal attacks of labored breath: | jing | His recovery was slow and he ma |not fully reganed his norma jstrength and health when he start. Jed out on the trip to Alaska. | “Ho had also had some attacks | jot abdominal pain and indigestion | Jand at tinms he had some pain associated with a feeling of oppres: |sion in the chest. For some years Jhix systolic blood pressure had |ranged around 160 and there was Jovidenos of somo arterial sclerosis, Jenlargement of the heart and do. |fective action of the kidneys. Ex. | jeept for fatigue and the fact that |his heart and blood vessels were jsomo years older than tho rest of | |his body, he was in reasonably good |} | boalth | | “On the return trip from Alaska }he had an acute gastrodntestinal at tack, associated with abdominal pain and fever. In spite of his illness, he insisted on putting thru his program of speaking in Vancouver and Seat. [tHe had considerable ditticulty | at These Low Prices: cL ab, Shate $7.90 0, ord. $11.50 #5 Cora $17.85 32. 5.5. Cord. $18.50 xt ss. Cora, $18.75 Trade in your old tires, We allow you all theysare worth. 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