august a.^3- Ujerica Today Mourns Passing Qf Her President , Who Died in g a n Francisco Thursday Night iiiois ‘ 10CIE0 m m I ’lose of Best Day ; s Bcsran l ast Hard ledEntire V,orld. WILF BE J) IX MARION y e in State ih 0R Up° n Vrnval d laen W ill Be Marion. V i today mourns 1 w;i< no time to „| tin time! w;)> ;1 1l over iu the > ’). .uni praised ill jt-ii t<> ih'- door. < -!llin>£ ns. \vli> had been at iid fought ami won vie :im‘. but it appeared ill the slmek to' .ail who land' for Mr. Harding offiee. l v i> kindly and y had become a world 'h<> k c.nue t<> ids wife kh|. of t-ourse. and at >r mi many pr uni and ~. ... ... . ■ o hysteria. •f »i,.,» i i ' t,lU< l in i '<• 11 ' down upon | •'tit oVI "■ Ilf tin mn t u itts ' :>, '’rTo j hi iin- iotunda o.f " Bitulo. .it Mar it »n, j (ytjfo , i : - \viiich War I !" !'• awarded | I "‘ . 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HARDING Tim LATH fKESIDENT CALVIN COOLIDGE THE NEW PRESIDENT. ated Prt'ss). —Senator Hiram .Johnson, of (’afiforuia. ittsuetl a statement today dei-laring the nation ltad sitflFertal an "irreiMtrable loss" iu the death of Presi dent Harding. "The death of the President is a ter rible shock to everybody and partieular ]y so to those who have bet'll associated with him." suit! Mr. Johnson. “His lov able, and high qualities endeared him to all ‘who were privileged |to know him and enshrined him iu the hearts of the whole people. . In his death the nation, indeed the wh de world, suffers irreparable loss. All Americans are mourning today." j Capitnl at Raleigh Closed. Raleigh. X. <’.. Aug. H. —The State j capitol dosed this morning and will re main closed until after the funeral of President Harding, it was announced by Secretary of State W. X. Everett, y Baseball (James ('ailed (MV. Chicago. Aug M (By the Associated Press). —Baseball Commissioner K. M. Landis today issued the following state ment : “It is the sentiment throughout base ball that no games be played either to day or on tin* day of the - funeral of the late President, and as a further mark of respect to his memory Hags at all ball parks will be displayed at half mast until after burial.” Message From King and Queen. -London. Aug. 3 (By tlie Associated Press!. —King George anti Queen Mary today sent the following messaget con dolence to Mrs. Harding: "The Queen and I are much shocked and' grived to hear of the irreparable loss which has befallen you jirid assure yoi\ our heartfelt sympathy in your sor row. The whole British people will join with those, of their sister nation who mourn the death of their President at tin* culminating point of his dis tinguished career.’’* Senator Cummins-Grieved. . Des Moines. Aug. 3.—Senator A. B. Cummijjs, of lowa, who by the elevation of Vice President Coolidge automatical-* ly becomes President of the Senafe until tue next regular session, issued the fol lowing statement today : “My one thought tit this moment is that I have lost one of the best and dear •"H friends I ever had. He gave to this | country a pure exalted mind, a devoted heart, and finjtlly Iris life.’’ Loss Cannot Be Overestimated. Murray Bay. Quebec. Aug. 3 (By the Associated Press). —The loss of Presi dent Harding cannot be overestimated, Chief Justice Win. Howard Taft, former President of the Cnited States, declar ed today.• Message From Queen Mother. I.ondon. Aug. 3.—Queen Mother Alex andria sent Mrs. Harding thi.T message: "I offer you my heartfelt sympatny in “the great sorrow which has befallen you and the American people; in the loss , of the great and strong President.” Had Premonition. San- Francisco, Aug. 3.—President Harding had a premonition that his last illness was to be fatal, according to a statement by Elbert E. Remsberg, his borther-in-law, to newspaper men. Mr. Remsberg said the thought of death had been present in the executive s mind very often since he was brought \ here last Sunday, and that he several i times, spoke of the fact that seyeral mem bers of his family had died about his , a ? p - American League Games Cancelled. Chicago. Aug. 3 (By the Press).—All games yfceduled for . today l in the American League were cancelled by B. B. Jlohp sou, President of the League, because .of the death of Presi dent Harding. Officials in London to Wear Mourning. London. Aug 3 (By the Associated Pre*s)jr—The fallowing a nMuu upem o:|t was issued from Buekingliam Palace this morning: "The King commands that the Court shall wear mourning *fnr one week for the late Hon. Warren G. Harding, Pres ident of the Cnited States of Amewt«&\ The mourning is to commence from this date.” No Gaines in Southern league. Memphis, Tent).. Aug. 3 (By the As sociated Press). —John P. Martin. Pres ident of the Southern Association of IWebnll Clubs, announced this morning that all games scheduled for this after noon had been cancelled on account of tlu* death of President Harding. Will Inlays Shocked. New York. Aug. 3.—President Hard ing was another victim of the cruel sys tem snrrounding anti controlling the of fice of Chief* Executive, declared Will H. Hays, the man who as chairman of the republican committee in ID2O. sent Mr. Harding to the White House. "I am fnexpressably Mr. Hays said this morning. "The Presi dent gave his life to lii.s country. The sacrifice of this great man should not have been. He is another victim of the cruel system surrounding the office of the Chief Executive.” Wilson Wires Mrs. Harding. 'Washington, Aug. 3. —Former Presi dent Wilson lias sent a message of con dolence to "Mrs. Harding at Sau Fran cisco. The telegram, however, was not made public. * Death Came Wftliout Warning. Presidential Headquarters, Palace Ho tel. San Francisco, Aug 2. —Warren G. Harding. President of the United States, died instantaneously and without warn ing tonight at 7:30 o’clock, a victim of a stroke of apoplexy, which struck hitii dovvff in his weakened condition after an illness of exactly a week. The chief executive of the nation, and by virtue of his office and personality, one of the world’s leading figures, passed away at she time when his physicians, his family, and his people thought that medical skill, hope and prayer had won the battle against disease. The disease had been conquered, the fire was out, but seven - days of silent, though intense suffering had left their mark and a stroke of apoplexy came without an instant’s warning and before physicians •could be called, members of his party summoned, or remedial mea sures taken, passed from life’s stages after having for noary two and a half yedrs served his nation and for many more years hdonative state of Ohio. With the passing of Mr. Harding, the office of President devolves upon Calvin Coolidge, vice-president of the ‘United State, a man silent in nature but demon strated as strong in emergencies. He was notified of the death of Mr. Hard ing at his home in Plymouth. Vermont. The suddenness with which the end came was shown by the fact that only Mrs. Harding and the two nurses. Ruth Powj dely and Sue Dausser. were in the room at the time. Mrs. Harding, with her ■ characteristic faithfulness and constant tenderness, was reading t<\ tin* President at the time. Then without warning a slight shud der passed through the frame of the chief executive, lie collapsed and the end came. Immediately the Indications of distress shhwed tliemsel Harding ran to the door and, called, for' Lieut. Com ma ifder Boone and for the other doc tors to come quickly. I Only Doctors Sawyer and Boone, the hies and assistant physicians, were able to reach the room before the nation’s leader passed away. They were power less to ’do anything. Brave in the faee* % ot the President’s illness, Mrs. Harding remained brave in realization* of his death and did not break down. .Milestones in His Life. Here were the milestones jn Warren G- Harding’s life: - . Born in Blooming Grove. Moifiow county. Ohio. November 2, lHd“. Began career as newspaper publisher, November 2(>. IMX4. Elected to Ohio state senate, his lir.-t political office. November (?, ISPS. Elected lieutenant governor of* Ohio, November 3 r 11)03. ‘>dppfeated as Republican candidate for governor. November 8. 1010. Elected to United States senate. November 3. 1014. Nominated for (he presidency, June 12, IS2O. Inaugurated March 4. 1021. Died August 2, 1023. The iJist Words of President Harding. San Francisco. Aug.- 3.—" That’s good! go on! read some more.” These were the last words uttered by President to Mfs. Harding. Mrs. Harding was at his bedside read ing aloud when *he paused and looked at the President, according to Alfred Holman, San Francisco publisher and close personal friend of the President, who visited the sick room a few moments before the end came. Mr. Holman told interviewers that the President halad raised as he asked \Jrs- Harding to (mtinue reading, In stantly liis expression changed. He was dead. f Terra Cotta Finns FineA Chicago. Aug. 4.—-Six terracotta man ufacturing concerns* charged with viola tions of the Sherman anti-trust act en tered pleas of guilty today before Feder al Judge ClifEe nnd fines ranging from 81,- 300 to $3,000. each were imposed. The firms are located at Chicago, St. Louis, Kausas City and Denver. The Eighth District Meeting of the Improved Order of Red Men will he held in the Pythian hall today at 3 p. m. After the bqsiness meeting there will be a public speaking at the Court House by the Mayor and others. The public is invited, to the meeting at the Court Qouse at 4:§o, •v ** THB CONCORD TIMES WILSON WAS GREATLY > FAVORED BY HARDING Witlimit Ado, Mr. Harding Saw That Grayson Was Near Mr. Wilson at All Times. # Washington. Aug. 3. —former Presi dent Wilson has sent a message of con dolence to Mrs. Harding at San Fran cisco. The telegram, however, was not made public. Exactly 29 ago Warren Hard ing actually helped lift Woodrow Wil son down the steps of the White House portico and into the carriage which took both to the inaugural ceremonies at the capital which made.one President Hard ing and the other Mr. Wilson. No one of the thousands who saw the robust figure beside the waxen, drawn and stooped figure ever dreamed that the 'latter would be living to write a message of condolence on the death of the former but the fate which molds men’s lives brought a fair measure of re turning health to one and exhaustion and death to the other. Mr. Harding's gentle consideration of his stricken predeeessod on that notable day s excited the admiration of the thou sands who saw it ttud won the warm reX speet of Mr. Wilson himself, for when the crowd along Pennsylvania avenue cheered and applauded the healthy and robust incoming President he silenced them with a deprecating gesture signi fying consideration and sympathy for tlfe stricken, almost pathetic figure be side him. At the capitol during the in augural ceremonies his considerate atten tion to tin' outgoing President was most marked and it did not stop there, it took practical form. Here follows a bit of heretofore unpublished history. Rear Admiral (’ary T. Grayson had been President Wilson's physician eight years, ns lie had been physician to Presi dents Taft and Roosevelt before him. Qe knew Mr. Wilson's case its probably no other physician could and as time de veloped, snatched him front the grave. Mr. Harding brought Dr. Sawyer, his won physician of years acquaintance, who knew equally well (lie complicated and long standing illness of Mrs. Harding. Dr. Grayson's White House detail end ed, and he was subject to assignment else where. But without a request or suggestion from anybody and without any one know ing it. President Harding personally gave an order to the navy department that Dr. Grayson was to be assigned to duty in Washington w lie re his services would be available to Mr. Wilson and that in no circumstances was he to be ordered elsewhere without the President’s consent. Wpodrow Wilson probably will get bis firsf knowledge of Mr. Harding s action if lie reads this dispatch. GREAT CROWD PRESENT AT CRESCENT THURSDAY Estimated at More Titan 6.000.—-Monu ment to Dr. LyerJy Unveiled. The largest gathering of people ever assembled at Crescent, the Reformed people of the state visited Nazareth Orphans’ Home, Thursday. They were there from Burlington. Greensboro, High Point. Wiiuston-Salem, Thomasville. Lex ington and tht* country districts east of the Yadkin river where the Reformed Church lias thousand's of members. They were there from Lesoiiv, Hickory, Newton, Lincolnton and flu* country churches west of the Catawba. The crowd wtis estimated to be more than six thousand. Rowan and\ Cabarrus people were there iu great numbers. The weather was ideal, a little cloudy in the forenoon, and sunny all afternoon. The Faith stand bad a generous supply of barbecued pork, and wa* sold out by mid-afternoon. It looked like all the provisions and refreshments would be sold. The total receipts go to the cur rent expense fund of the home. Ev erything is donated. ‘ Rev. Iyeorge Longaker, of Akron, Ohio, was the speaker. His subject was “The Child.” More than 800 people crowded the auditorium and heard hint with profit and pleasure. A special feature was ,3. the son of a country doctor. George T. Harding. Like moss country boys he went to country school between morning and night chores aud later attended col lege at Iberia, Ohio. He tried school teaching for a year, but having, had a smell of in-inters' ink while sticking type for his college paper, the lure drew him into the newspaper field. His - family meantime had moved to Marion, in an adjoining county, where he obtained bis first newspaper job. and where his life interests were centered thereafter. Mr. Harding's ambition was to become a publisher, and it' was real ized at the age of 19 when he bid in the Marion' Star at a sheriff’s sale. The pa per was purchased under a heavy mort gage! and his friends have often said that the struggles' and hardships which were his in making this paper a success had much to do with fashioning his charac ter and developing a broad patience, and tolerance which were his chief character istics. Whatever his other attainments, Mr. Harding’s greatest pride was. in his pro fessional accomplishments and traiuing as printer, editor and publisher. Nor did the interests and exacting duties of his high office serve to dull his delight in pottering about a composing room. On his first trip back homo after bis inaug uration, ht» went to ti|e St*r office, pull ed off his eoat, 5011e4 qp hif> sleeves, bor rowed h chew of tobacco and helped “make up” the paper. His luck charm was a printer’s rule, carried always in a vest pocket: As his ambition had carried him into the -ranks of publishers, so his fancy took him into the realm of politics'. From the first he was an ardent partU sail, and Ids insistence upon wearing a “stove pipe” hat, the badge of support of .Tames G. Blaipe, while a reporter on a Democratic newspaper brought Jjim a sharp reprimand from his chief, who held it to be inconsistent for a worker on a Democratic papere to so prominently dis play the symbol of his Republicanism. The future President’s ability as a stump speaker won him early recognition from his local party leaders. Marion County then was in the Democratic col umn and he undertook to switch it to the Republican party, but his first ef fort at office on his party ticket resulted in'a defeat, though he Commanded an un expected vote. iVIr. Harding's first, political office was that of Ohio State Senator, to which he was elected at the age of 34. He served t\yo terms and later was elected Lieu tenant Governor of his State. In 1910 he sought the governorship, but was de feated. Four years later he was elected to the United States Senate, where he served six years, much of the time as a member of the important Foreign Rela tions Committee. From this place he was elevated to the Presidency, tlie first Senator to be elected Chief Executive. Early in his years of itolitical service he met William McKinley, to whom his close friends have most often likened him. and with whom he had in common, a pre dominant passion for obliteration of class and sectional lines. A friendship sprang up between the two men. Mr. Harding also was close in later days to Theodore Roosevelt, Senators Ft>raker and Penrose and others high iu his party counsels. The President was a life-long Baptist and was a trustee in his home church iu Marion. He also had been a member of the I£Jk and Moose fraternities for years, and after his election as President he be came a thirty-second degree Mason and a Shriner. } Golf was his favorite recreation, but he also liked to fish, although his oppor tunities for that sport were limited after lie came to the White House. He play ed hard and possessed the faculty of put ting all his worries behind him during his recreation hours. GASTONIA LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN FOR LENOIR COLLEGE REMOVAL Necessary Machinery S«( Up to Review Proposition and Make Definite and Di rect Offer for Lutheran School. Gastonia, Aug. 3.—Formally deciding to launch a campaign for the securing of the removal of Lenoir-Rhyne College from Hickory to Gastonia, the board of directors of the Gastonia chamber of commerce, at a leugtliy meeting this af tenyon. formulated plans for the neces sary machinery to 1 put over a definite aud real campaign. With the setting up of this machinery within the next week the matter" passes from the hands of the chamber of commerce to a broader or ganization representative of all Gaston county. Within a week the entire proposition will go before the people of Gastonia ajul of Gaston county awl it-wilLbe for tieiu to decide whether or not they want ijjnns splendid A grade college, heavily endowed and with full prospects of be coming one of the leading universities of. the South, located in Gastonia on the plans proposed by the chamber of commerce. Following the report ('received fkom Chairman A. G. Myers, of the special committee named to meet with the com mittee from 'the trustees of the college, the board of. directors held a long ses sion. going minutely ihto all angles and phases of the proposition aftd its pos sibilities. Action was taken placing the strong endorsement-of the board upon the move ment for securing the college, and the recommendation of the committee was then adopted providing for the naming of a committee of I(X>, 30 front Gas tonia township and 30 from the balance of Gaston county, to form the nucleus of the campaign organization. Wit If the naming of the general com mittee the entire matter will be placed before it in all its phases, and then the campaign will pass directly into its hands and the work-of organizing all of Gaston county will be rushed. The people of Gaston will then decide the question as to whether or not the proper offer will be made. WILLIAM FARIES HANGED ' HIMSELF IN PRISON CELL Was to Have Been Electrocuted for the Staying of Fcur Persons Last Sep tember. . Columbia. S. C., Aug. 4 (By the As sociated Press). —Wm. C. Faries. sen tenced to be electrocuted on August 24, was found dead iu his cell at the state penitentiary here this morning.- Prison authorities said he hanged himself with pieces of sheets during the night. The death of the G2-year-old cotton mill workeV who was convicted of mur der in connection with the slaying iu September last, of four members of the J. M. Taylor family at Clover, in York County, was discovered when attendants went to his cell about 7 o'clock to take him breakfast. A note was found in the death cell oc cupied by 1 Fairies: "Dear Friends,” it read. "I leave you all in peace and hope to meet you in peace. I want to go down iu peace, and no one make light of me and my hope ! s to meet you all in glory and peace.” . Faires had tied his own hands before he let his body fall with the noose around his neck. An old custom which survives in many part# of Italy is that when a girl baby is born in a peasant family, her father immediately plants a row of popular trees. The idea is that when thejgirl reaches the age of seventeen the trees will be'of sufficient size to cut -and sell for her dowry. Dies While Reading of Harding’s Death. New York. Aug. 3.—An unidentified man dropped dead of hejart failure, in the Times' Square subway station early this morning as he glanced at the front page of a newspaper extra announcing President Harding's death. Madoc. of a Welsh prince, is be lieved by hla .’puntry men to have dis covered America 3Cfl years before Co lumbus. PAGE FIVE COOLIDGE TIKES DP DUTIES IMPOSED BY . DEATH OF HARDING 4l New President Held Series of Conferences With Ad visers During the Morning and Talked With Reporters NO CHANGES TO BE MADE NOW Says Present Personnel of Harding Administration Has Done Well and Will Be Kept on the Job. Washington. I). V.. Aug. 4 (By the Associated ljress).—l president (\x>lidge took up his duties as Chief Executive this morning at a series of conferences devoted almost entirely to plans for- the funeral of President Harding. He let it be known, that the present personnel of the Harding administration would con tinue iu office indefinitely, and he could not -see any reason for change or for the interruption'of any negotiations now being carried on with foreign represen tatives by Mr. Harding’s appointees. At the first conference with newspaper men. however, the President declined to discuss administration policies He ‘ would not comment on the possibilities of an extra session of Congress. . One of the first things President Cool idge did today \ggs to prepare a procla mation qf M r - .Harding’s death, calling i for* a uaWoual day of mourning on the day,of the funeral. It will be issued lat er iu the day. /1 Next Friday to Be Day of Prayer. j Washington, Aug. 4 (By the Associ- * ated Press).—The first official act of i President Coolidge as the new executive | of the nation was his signature today on .fc a proclamation announcing the death of j Harding and calling upon the J observe next Friday, August j| 10th, as a day of mourning and prayer, ) On that day Mr. Harding's body is tp j buried at Marion. Ohio. !> " i The proclamation was at 11.18 i a. m. It was brougji| to the President's ? hotel suite by J. “Butler Wright, third c assistant, seftrbtary Os State, and then. |j was returned to the State Department 3j for the signature of Secretary Hughes. *3 Due of the suggestions made by the I new- President to those with whom he 3 discussed plans for the funeral was that 1 Woodrow Wilson take a prominent part M in the rites to be performed Wednesday in the rotunda of the capitol over the 51 body of Mr. Harding. It was sgid an J invitation would go forward to Mr. Wil- I son at the S Street liable where he has 1 lived in semi-seclusion /since he retired from the White House, but those in a position to know thought it doubtful wh>ther f *The‘ former President's physi cal condition would permit his accept ance. , The proclamation follows: “By, the President of the United States! of America, a Proclamation B "To the people of the United States:! ‘‘ln this* inscrutable wisdom of Divine 9 Warren Gamaliel Harding,! 2Dth President of the United Stat«*s. has! been taken from us. The nution has lost! a wise and enlightened statesman, and! the American people a true friend undj counsellor, whose public life was inspired with the desire to promote the best in terests of the United States, and the wel fare of all its citizens. His private life was marked by gentleness aud brotherly sympathy, and by the charm of his per sonality he made friends of all who came in contact with him. “Now. therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of Ameri ca. do appoint Friday next, August 10, the day on which the body of the dead President will be laid in its last earthly resting place, as a day of mourning and prayer throughout the United States. I earnestly recommend the people to as semble on that day in their respective places of divine worship, there to bow down in submission to the will of al mighty God and to pray out of full hearts the homage aud love and rever ence to the memory of the great and good President whose death has so sore ly smitten the nation. . "In witness 1 have hereunto set my hand ami caused the seal of the Uuited Htates to be affixed. “Done at the City of Washington, the 4th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred twenty three and iu the year of the independence of the United States the one hundred for ty-eighth. “CALVIN COOLIDGE, “By the President. “CHA& E. HUGHES, “Secretary of State « “The White House, “August 4th, 11)23.’’ Die at Same Moment. Scranton, Pa., Aug! 2.—Mr. and Mrs. John Perry, parent* of nine children, died at exactly the same hour today on a little form at Forest Lake, where thpy had i moved iu an effort to regain their lost health. Perry was al years old and his wife was 4p . The woman died of a complication of diseases. The husband succumbed to miners' asthma. The couple lived in Scranton until two years ago. when Perry decided to move to the farm near Montrose. Pa„ in an effort to fight off the ravage* of his ail ment. The couple occupied adjoiniug rooms during their illness and were nursed by the children. At exactly the same mo ment the child nurses emerged from the two rooms to announce that both pa tients had died. Wet Weather Has Bad Effect on Cot ing Crop. * Wadesoro. Aug. 2. —The wet weather of the past stweral days is thought to b« having a. effect on* the cotton crop, or foil ' weevil is more active timing 1 cloudy, wet weather and much appre hension is eing felt regarding the crop which had previously giren evidence of being a comparatively gooti one. were issued to British infantry just a century ags; before that’ soldiers wore bfeeches. * i