The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 4, 1923, Page 1

Entered as Se lass Matter May at the Postott eattle, Wa he Seattle Star ,W ASH., ‘SEATTL SATURDAY, ES WEATHER ( ight and Saturday, thwest winds. | FORECAST | President’s Proclamation The proclamation sald: “By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation “To the People of the United States: “In the inscrutable wisdom of 3 Divine Providence, Warren 4 Gamaliel Harding, 29th presl- i y man do-ing? | $ is a kind of | ¢ | e-ture em-| d f | y child, y soon will de, | | nd destruction tn } ANNUAL ADVICE Cynthia Grey has left on her Let your conscience be at makes a person madder than ot golf balls out | then discovering; oth balls? ENTRY FOR THE PROLD FATHER CLUB LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ VAMP, SEZ: Love your neighbor, but don’t marry her OFFIC E} has dent of the United States, been taken from us. The nation has lost a wise and enlightened statesman and the péople a true friend and coun whose whole public life ired with the desire to promote the best interests of the United States and the wel all its citizens. His life was marked by and brotherly sym pathy and by the charm of his he mado friends of vontact with American sellor was fare of private gentleness personality all whe came in him “It is meet that tho deep grief which fills the hearts of the American propic should find fitting “Now, therefore, 1, Calvin Qoo- lidge, president of the United States of America do appoint Friday, next, August 10th, the day on which th: body of the dead president be laid in last earthly a day of prayer thruout States. expression, will resting place, as mo and ing United i carnestly recommend the people to assemble on that day in their respective places of divine worship, there te bow down in submission to the wil) of Almighty God and to pay out of full hearts the homage and love and reverence to them worthy of the great and good president whose death has so sorely smitten the na tion. “In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. “Dated the city of Washing- ton, the fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-three, and of the inde pendence of the United States the one hundred and forty- eighth. (Signed) “CALVIN COOLIDGE.” y the president “Charlies EF. Hughes, Secretary of State. “The White House, Washing fon, August 4, 1923.” CAST IRED AT PAGEANT MOVE |Protest Wayfarer Production} As the presidential fur in Los Angeles religious pageant d : of the produciton a prot in L beginning uyneb, producer of re recenti su taging of T neh is now in Los sed for xing 2. L. Webster r of the pageant cor 1 whom a storm of ment raged in 1921, when he proposed to commercialize the play and stage it in other cities. DECLARE IT A VIOLATION 1 n of The Waytarer n Lo Il be in direct vio lation of the ment's pledge, iven in 1921, the play would ttle in. each regarded ution, produced in this cit and in no other, according to members of the cast ner und costumes for The er have been shipped South, cording to Darwin Meisnest, of The Wayfarer society. In return he society, which {s a non-profit organization, will ree ear's torage charges on the equipment, according ASK WILSON TO FUNERAL Meisnest, i Wayfarer, | Saturday th | the repose that she should have. Aug. 10 Set | for Tribute | fo Harding! Coolidge’s First Proclamation Is Is-| sued; New President Tells News- papermen He Will Retain the Same Official Family WASHINGTON, Aug. —Prestdent Coolidge, in his first proclamation today, declared Friday, August 10, a day of national mourning for the late president, Warren | G. Harding. On that day, he said, the people are | invited to gather in their respective places of worship | and hold ceremonies befitting the occasion. It was ordered that all executive offices of the gov- ernment would be closed at 1 p. m. next Tuesday and remain closed over Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. * & # INLAY, Ney., Aug. 4.—The train bearing the body of President Harding to Washington stopped 10 minutes here today. The train arrived at 9:33 and left at 9:43, Practically all of the citizens of the vicinity of Inlay were standing bareheaded on the station platform. * HAZEN, Nev., Aug. 4 The special train bearing the casket of Warren G. Harding, late, president of the United States, passed thru Hazen at 7:35 a. m. today. Practically the entire population of the little city turned out and lined the tracks as the special sped thru, pre- ceded by the pilot engine and coach. The train was running exactly on schedule, * *% * RENO, Nev., Aug. 4.—The funeral train of the late President Harding passed thru here today at 6:35 a. m. The Pacific schedule which places the>train-an hour behind the Pacific Limited as a second section is being closely adhered to. eee SPARKS, Ney., Aug. 4.—President Harding’s funeral train passed thrii here, moving slowly by the bareheaded crowds gathered in the early morning on the station Pjatform, at 6 a, m. today, The train was preceded at 5:45 a. m. by a pilot engine and coach, which will run 15 minutes ahead of the funeral train across the conti- nent. BY LAWRENCE MARTIN 2N ROUTE WITH THE PRESIDENT HARDING FUNERAL TRAIN, Aug. 4.—Bearing its precious freight the nation’s illustrious dead, shrouded in sor- row and weariness, the special train carrying President Harding's body to Washington was speeding across Nevada today. Almost every mile of the way from San Francisco has furnished evidence of the nation’s sorrow. All thru the night as the train plunged on at a speed equaled only by| the crack Overland fliers, men, women and children could be seen standing along the track, the men bareheaded and all wearing a hushed and reverent look. The flag-draped casket rests in the same car in which the late president journeyed across the continent on his way to Alaska. At its head and foot the guard of honor—two| soldiers and two sailors—stand rigidly at attention. train crosses the full breadth | lof the bereaved country, millions will observe its passing. In the lighed car there is a profusion of flowers. HENDERSON TROOPS | GUARD CASKET | There is a simple rosewood coffin with “Warren. Gamaliel Harding” ifscribed on its small silver plate. It is guarded by soldiers, sailors and marines chosen from the detachments that accompanied President Harding on ne Henderson. Tho the train will not pause for ceremony, will proceed at a slower pace thru towns and cities. Only for operating requirements will it halt before reaching | the capital. The crowds that stood in the night were obviously moved by the passing presence, for no sound came from them. They stood in mute respect as the train with the flag-draped coffin in the last car went b In the same car was the brave and tragic figure of Mrs. Harding, facing still several days of need to keep fighting her grief, still too much in the public eye to be allowed to go away by herself with her sorrow. It was impossible for Mrs, Harding to rest as she needs to rest. Her nerves are too unstrung for quiet sleep, her} heart-throbbing too painful to the new wound to permit her) 3ut her spirit was unbroken, her poise unimpaired. Mrs.’ Harding gives new the magnificence of her evidence almost every hour of | courage, Other menibers of the party, worn out with grief and| loss of sleep, rested today. MRS. HARDING 1 wife would act. Sho herself directed CALM, COURAG! the arrangements for the funeral It was the calm courage of Mrs,| Services ct the Palace hotel Harding—a quiet, steady going cour-| Her quiet thoughtfulness made age that contained no hint of heroics | things wonderfully easy for those who would have been considerate of hi rangoments for and president's body used all a simple funeral service that ¢ the first for removal of the The doctors and nurses who at from the hotel suite in San Francisco | tended her ,awakening, marveled at | to the 1 to run as smoothly as|the will with which she came back the dignity of Harding's wife and his | to the world from whieh her husband TEMPORARY WHITE HOUSE, | countrymen would haye wished had suddenly been taken and arow " urd Hotel, Washingte ‘Through all the trying time since | and dressed and set about the nece ‘ President Coolidge oe Ay from an ¢ " |sary planning for the services. form invited former 1 turbed sleep, into which she finally! On the arm of George B, Christian, 1 Wilson to take a pl of sank after midnight.on the night the | who had been President Harding's ' the state funeral proces: | president died, Mrs, Hardin it] secretary, the late utive’s wife 1 of Hardingnext Wednes-|thru." It was her calm self control |entered the sunlit parlor where tho tr Coolidg thru Admiral |that made it possible for the others | little party jiad gathered late yeater Lt per al friend of Mr. | to play their parte jn the hurried ar-| day afterndon to pray a while for vsked that the war presl-|rargements for departure without |their frlendayho lay in the simple ccompany the cort ‘having to worry how the president’: (Turn to Dast Lage, Column 3) | | Below, Per Year, by Ma 6 +-NEW PRESIDENT TELLS PLANS! a | AUGUST Two aigts IN SEATTLE. [NV ew Whitehouse Family Above is Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, now first lady of the land. the president is strolling between his tivo sons, Cal- | vin, Jr, on the left; and John, onthe right, ‘DEPUTY DEAD — HARDING DEATH IN CAR CRASH LAID TO MEALS Dies in Hospital After Being Investigate Cuisine on Naval | | | | | | | | Coolidge announced today in his first conference with news- ‘ment on the business of the new government should be made lat this time. | places. *f | | the announcement he made a few minutes after he had been the announcement that there would | Three Grave Problems Coolidge to etain Same Assistants All Matters of Government Will Re- main as They Are Now, Until After the Harding Funeral; Talks Frankly to Newspapermen TEMPORARY W HITE HOUSE, Willard Hotel, Washing- ton, D. C., Aug. 4.—All matters of national policy and goy- ernment will stand temporarily as they are, President papermen. No changes will be made nor any public commitment of the new administration until after the funeral of Presi- dent Harding has been completed. The president* does not believe that any public announce- Things will stand as they are until coiftrary announce- ments are made. This includes the Mexican recognition negotiations and all diplomatic affairs. Coolidge is determined to carry on without change to such an extent that for the time being Brig. Gen. Sawyer, personal physician of President Harding, and George Chris- tian, his secretary, will continue in their offices. The president has given no thought as yet to fill their A hundred newspaper men crowded into a white paneled room in the New Willard for Mr. Coolidge’s first press con- ference. The president met each of them at the door, greet- ing by name those he knew. He answered questions readily, but was determined that the impression should not be gleaned that any transition in government was to take place because he succeeded to the presidency. It was denied’ that any of thé members of Mr: Harding‘sill cabinet had submitted their resignations. It. was indicated that as a mere matter of formality all would offer to resign. In this connection it was said the president would stand on notified of Mr. Harding’s death. This announcement said: “Those who have given their efforts to assist him, I wish to remain in office, that they may assist me.” ROOM CONTRASTS TO THAT OF HARDING The room where the newspaper men were received con trasted strangely to the old round room executive's offices at the White House, where President Harding always, with a vase of American Beauty roses on his desk, met the Tre porters for bi-weekly conferences. The windows were closed a and perspiration gleamed on the brow of the president. | He wore a light gray suit with a*blue tie and looked just | as he always had on the rostrum of the senate. To begin the conference, the president, standing in the center of the sweltering group, talked with his tight-lipped Yankee accent, as if he spoke in grim determination. He did not ile once, His lean New’England face was expressionless am seemed to sense the dramatic pitch of his first touch as 7 president with the men who will record the workings of his ration, OPEN ]be no change in policies. In that PER MEN jconnection also he stood by the! ing the “news angle” of the | statement made in Vermont, which Mr. Coolidge first made| referred to this question: in thesé) (Turn to Last Page, Column 3) Real conference Are Facing Coolidge ‘International Question, With Nations in Mad © War Race, Demands Attention BY A, L. BRADFORD | uation, is President Harding's adyo- = WASHINGTO: A 4.— Three | cacy of this country’s participation in ms faced Calvin Coolidge | the world court. took over the duties of the| Will Coolidge sponsor the world th president of the t d States | court as strongly as did Harding, i a ES is asked here to Hit by. Trolley Transport 1. The international situation—| ‘The gravest domestic question that with European conditions generally | greets the new president is the econ! 9 Edward Ive + died in the Cole} JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 4.—The | pelieved growing steadily worse what | omy crisis facing the American farms) | umbus saiitarium on’ Saturday mor uisino of the tra derson | will the United States do to stave off | With wheat having gone below ing, the victim of an ‘auto accident amed for the ng of pol-|* final crash? $1. bushel the agricultural bloc ta of Friday: night, in-which he was] soned erat, which were belleved to| 2 Domestic \affuirs—To continut | Moneta Is trspered to Semmanel Ra thrown ‘thru the windshield of bislyo a stec Fothuelive Stecid and complete the tack begun by |the plight of the farmer be given fix autd when the nimoltheiwhs atruble a stron contr uting factor in ident Harding of setting Amer- | @2¢ vored co ‘a ¥) it Bei Wat at thelnont the death of President Harding, aa | jea’s own house in order after the! President Coolidge, himself aa lby a city st I nvestigati fedetal officials Yes was driving home én Friddy by evening when he attempted to turn|here d od. in front of the street’ car. His ent'| ‘rho: crabs were caught ‘and! pre- was. struck browdside with great! 4 rolfible cltt Ae force and he was hurled thru the | P’red bo its Of Sita, Ho} ld too long before bein fracturing his | ser windshield 15 feet into the atreet struck upon his-head, skull, Ives was taken to the tarium nscions, acm, on Saturday. Ives was @ special deputy: sheriff and owned a barber shop in the Hoge! building, Ho lived'at 715 N. 47th st He is survived, by his widow, Mr« Carrio Iven, and several children SHIPS CRASH NEAR FRISCO) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4.—The Matson liner Manuikai and” tha} French freighter Alaskan collided off the lightship outridé the'Golden Gate today, ‘The tivo sh ruck ng ing blow In the heavy fog. Both were damaged slightly, but eame into part under their own. steam.) No passen- gers or mnembers of the orews were } injured transport. sant: | ki He died at 7:15 | district harmful results. Body. May Lie i in Ohio Statehouse TEMPORARY WHITE HOU S 8, Willntd Wotel, Washington, D. ©. Aug. 4A messi sent to’ Mrs. Harding today, transmitting the Nek of the Ohio state at Mr. Harding's body Ne’ in. state 1 time in the capitolat Colum Officials here who received the forwarded it to Mrs, Harding, will decide summer without P wa request and she Londoners ma able go to the Swiss Alps and back in the ame day by a su pustenger airplanes. soon be “freely throut this | United § | ing-Wwhat effect the ascendancy to the | re- |" government to | ever. sted new: line of | policy, tion of the war | “farmer,” is expected by members of situation—with an | this bloc to view this problem syne open season for all presidential can- | pathetically didates now f en as the result of} The railroad question will be one Harding's death. jot the foremost domestic problems he international situation is de- pith which the new president will scribed by officials and diplomats as| have to deal, as a controversy ovel the most serious since 1914. * |some sort of government control © Coolidge comes into office with; the railroads is almost certain every nation interested in the pres- | develop in the next congress: ent European crisis, looking to the| Other domestic developments that ates for ald or guidance; | will arise with the convening of thé every foreign chancellory is wonder eat dislo presidency of Calvin Coolidge wil) have on American foreign policy, One of the most rerious. situations facing Coolidge is the Ruhr and rep- jons crisis. tins brought. about pne ‘ot. saan interesting political situations fF modern times. TER ARMAMENT Tho latep resident was winds THAN EVER certain to havo becn the next presh en, with the United States hav- |denital nominee of the republican | ing successfully contributed to world | party. ay peace by the Washington disarma-| Despite the fact tsat Mv, Coolldse J ment conference, President lidge | wil be in the White House and will find the nations abroad engaged | have a strategic fdvantage at the in a greater armament race than|time of the convention, observers” believed today that from now on It) Another question of international] will be a free for all politioss @xht a which has had an important! for the republican nomination *s)) reflex in the American political sit- 1924, 4