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Atmi; for montha - ending
Si, 1923:
Sundays only
Daily and Sunday
SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR
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mibc, 0v mcmoim . jSIDELIGHTSl WIDOW DnJE
iMM MPIlf IffiE I EDITOR 811 ; IWHEATYIELfi . LOM SHFFKRIMfi IS .. 1 mM
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Cashier of California Institution Wounded During At
tempted Hold-up by Pair
Battle Staged Between
One of When Surrenders
j LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9. Two bandits who attempted
to hold in) the bank of San Gabriel near here and wounded
'I- 4-Vt n nff irMNn -
v f cmzens. ( une was capiureu.,
I One of the bandit pointed
. f eTotrer at Clay Klllian, the cash.
( s r, as he saC In his cage and tired
ointblank. Klllian was struck in
j the shoulder. Other bullets nar
lriwly missed Wililam TL, See, pres
et T ident ol the bank and Miss renaa
dits ran out when ther employes
made a rush for them.
The pursuers were Joined by
other San Gabriel citizens and
caught up with the bandits If
wash. A rerolver battle. was end
ed when one Of the fugitives
lw urew up nu nanas in surrenaer.
J Another shot was heard and the
I other man was found, dead. with a
head. The captured bandit rare
his name as Jose Sobla of Lkjs An
geles.
i
dot;; of food
1
German Passive Resistance
. Is Alarming Many Ruhr
Industrialists 'it;'.
BERLIN, Aug. 9 J By the As
sociated Press.) tPassif ! resist
aace Ipthe .Rhlir and the Rhine
land w,hk5h; Chancellbjr jCnttye
terday . informed . .the ,'reijchs.tag
would ' bey continued .tintiV,Prance
decided to 'create an; atraoaDhere
conducive to negotiations on an
equality basis, is, approaching: the
stage where its. further, main tend
ance along peace tut lines , wilt xje-
; pend wholly on thai goTernniiEhi's
' ability to keep the. resisting popu
Elation well fed.V j ' ,
The falling mark, curtailment
of local food supplies, due to.natiH
ral shortage 'and I interupted rail
facilities and t also the puoitiTe
measures which increasingly are
being imposed .by the French; now
rapidly are contributing; to the
growing Irritation and. restlessness
among the miners, steel workers
MAY DEI
lit j?
I and ciTil serrice employes. "
The goTcrnment's apprehensions
-ifn this direction are liberally
, J v shared by Hugo Stlnnes, the
IThysBens and other Ruhr lndus-
trialista, who equally are alarmed
yTe' the prospects of" an era of
lawlessness stimulated by the
i ; fc kL shortage, quite as much as
are PPrenenslTe n ccount
M : the aggressive procedure of
IV French authoritieVf
That the French authorities are
Unce along the entire front
X will not be over-scmpuldds In
a selection of the methods . to
:omplish this end, .is" Tiewed
fe "as an Impending certainty
A s also forecasting a' season
j sabotage whose ramifications
? not be seen. : ' , ', , :: .
THE WEATHER
, OREGON Fair Friday;
Tioderat,e westerly winds.
LOCAL' WEATHER'
(Thursday) ' -
Temperature, max. 81.
Temperature, mln. 66
Rainfall, none.
River. l. j ' - - "
Almospherer clear.
THai. west. -
Jmly
LIFE WHEN
EMS
of Desperadoes ; Revolver
Citizens Posse and Outlaws,
; Other Commits Suicide.
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tTAA mitt lnrn Kir a rACOa irff
; xne uiuer cuiimuiicu suiwuc
iHeFum
II
FTnal Arrangements Com
pleted With Arrival of
Widow in Marion
MARION, Ohio. Aug. 9. (By
The Associated Press) Changes
In the announced plans for the
funeral services of the, late PresJ
ident Harding - were made today
following the Arrival of Mrs.
Harding - and a conference with
those in charge of the last rites
of the late chief executive.
- It -was . announced that the ser
vices would. ; be in .chare of the
Reterend George , L. Xahdis, pas
tor of Trinity- Baptist church;
where Mr. .Harding worshipped,
and Dr.; Jesse -Swank,: pastor of
Epworth ' Methodist - Episcopal
church,. of which, Mrs. Harding Js
a member, jolnily. Prayer at-, the
home before the funeral ,eoftee
starts' for the cemetery will be-of-
lerea oy ur. wauerA. Jung or
Cblotobus.'r a' forttier pastor ; of
trinity Jjaptist .church at Marion.
Previous plahs-had not included
prayer... at the home before the
I funeral procession left the ceme-
ip Another announced change was
tha the benediction at the vault
pui(i Ve delivered by Dr. Willfam
F., Anderson of; Cincinnati, resi
dent, bishop of Ohio of the- Meth
odist Episcopal church and a close
personal friend of the late pres-
ident, . . Preyious plans hadpr
vided that the: benediction- would
be delivered by the Reverend Mr.
Landis,, . .. '
Services at the cemetery will
open, with the singing of two
verses ,ot "Lead, Kindly Light,"
by Trinity Baptist church choir,
aftee- wIch. ; the Reverend. Ir
Landls will read the scripture lea-son,-
first Peter, first Chapter,
Verses three to five; verses la tb
I ; yerses 210 2 5 and Revela
tions zz. verses one to rive.
The Reverend Dr. Swank, then'
will offer prayer, and the choir
will sing three verses of "Nearer
My God to Thee and Bishop An
derson .will pronounce the bene
diction. ':";"!:; .I
Memorial, Features at
tl i.f'Cahcf Concert Tonight
A special prayer b Rev. Ward
Wirlis 1 Long,, and congregational
singing led ' fay Miss, Lena Belle
Tartar will feature the CheTTiaii
band, concert tonight in Willson
park. ' . Jj '.
I ; The-, prayer will be offered 4 by
Rev. Mr.. Long just after the vocal
solo by MJsa Tartar and the audi
ence willf then sing two hymns
under the direction of Miss Tar
tayM She will sing, "The .Bells
of Str Mary's and "Love's Old
Sweet Song" for ' the , evening
solos.. , ':
; Five more concerts will be giv
en alter, the one , Jthis ; evening,
when the season will be closed for
tte year. . J
NOTED AUTHOR DIES i
. KEWANEE, 111. Aug. 9. -Randall
Parrislv author of many. pop
ular boks of fiction and history,
died at hii hoia here today.' ;
PUN IS C IKED
' - i
llu nUlviL bilY VHLLtf lii DUE TO
nai vm i . - . ? : r -
Marion Claims HaVdmcj ''the1
r Man"and Nothe Pces
! idenr'rVill SleerjbrcVbr
With OwrfDead'
SCENES IMMARIOMARE
, STRIKING IN CONTRAST
Every Home Has Picture of
f Former Citizen; All Ham
! - lets in Sorrow -
MARION, Ohio, Aug. 9. (By
the Associated Press) A one
time country editor came back to
sleep for a night again under his
father's roof in Marion. And
witb him, came , the tgrifef of the
nation, of the world, that hewas
dead. - . , ;
.Warren Harding .was' -back
again among, the. neighborly folk
of his home town.--; The brief day
of his greatness was but a mem
ory treasured bir the nation.' ; His
life work was done; the aloofness
of : his high place , ended. . .The
home folk Awho had held back
wh$n last he came, among them,
awed by the ma jesty ."that doth
hedge a king" now came eagerly
to look their last on his dead face,
peaceful with the calm of eternity.
L . r The Man Comes Home -I
It was easy to Deileve that the
genial, soul, that has ; fled might
burst the bonds of death and
move the still lips to happy greet
ings of these thronging old' friends
in the modest parlor ofhis fath
er's house. fTo .him they were al
ways "Jack" aid. "Tom" and
rBilly"; while .he- bad been "W.
O." nd . Jthe boas'' in the glad,
wholesome., simpler days before a
people claimed .JilnT fdr hignesf
service to . tne nag, , i was in
he would have hailed them ioday
had the big -kindly heart still
stirred with life. Time was when
he told them face to face of the
"heavy heart" with which ; he
realised that' they held back from
Harding the president as they had
never kept aloof from Harding the
man. , u, ; ,, ...
But it was Harding the man,
not te president? who came home
today. -.And i is JUrding the nan
who will, he, laid to sleep tQmdrt
row with in.. a stone throw of the
3 hls mother yMfi
where his final restine; place will
he Is. still undecided. Bujt n9 plan
has been proposed that, will take
him from the close vicinity of hia
tWns d4d, in, that-.pleasant,; ,flulet,
bnrUl tgroupd j with neighbors, aij
about taking their long ease frdm
life. ' - y.' v "
- ' j Contrast Is Striking : i
There was one stflklnf contrast
in the scene here, ia Marion today
irom that in -Washington yester
day... There no,rhurnful,drapery
coverea me greai 4 goTernraeni
bulldiiiks -afld the tokens of sor
row in houses and stores were-&
rarity. It was noj. that, Washing
ton felt no sorrow but that prece
dent - long established Is against
funferal . draping of the . nation's
capitol.- r s -;r:. ... :- r ,j ,
Here In Marion the flowing
black drapery te everywhere and
hardly a home hut has the pic
tured face of the "dead president
In the window; always with a bit
of crepe of a - mourning border
abOut it.. Far and ; wide over, Ohio,
it is the same. . In all , nearby
towns and hamlets there are cere
mdnial trappirigs of sorrow and
everywhere the fate of c Warden
Qi: Harding, last of thepresidents
Ohio has given to,, the .nation,
fourth of the six from his state to
meet, death in that high , office.
looks - down, on, passersby . . with
friendly glance." i '
SKELETON IS FOUND
ASTORIA, Or., Aug. 9. The
skeleton of a man was found to
day la .thep timber.- near the Tilla
mook, highway ? about; fonr miles
south, of Its junction with the Ne
canicuti,rier roi2.
SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY.
Some Fields Going to Forty
I and Fifty Bushels Is Re
! portrSpring Variety Not
f': Yet Cut
OATS IS HARVESTED
! IN LIMITED QUANTITY
Hay . Market Described By
Marketmen and Growers -As
Utterly Dead
Grain threshing that has beei
in progress for the past several
days in .'the Willamette "valley is
now well enough along that a fair
estimate' can be made of the grain
yields for the year.' ' .
Fall wheatrnow being threshed,
is yielding very wellfrom 25 up
to 40 and even -50 bushels to the
acre. ; This latter yield was re
ported from a fine field of grain
near Rickreall. The general aver
age, however, of between 36 and
35 bushels, is not greatly In ex
cess' of the' fall wheat . average
even for 1922, for last year while
frightfully dry late in the season,
still produced some ' remarkable
fall wheat that got its growth and
development before the drought
set in. -:: i :,;
' No Spring: Wheat Cut
"Spring wheat Is not. yet being
cut- for this year. It promises lip
many cases almost as well as the
fall grain. This was not the case
last year, when there, was hardly
a bushel of - spring-sown grain
harvested, and many of the fields
could' not even be, mowed. This
year f.he spring grain has grown
steadily, almost as well as the fall
grain. ,that got its roots well de
yelo'ped before the summer came,
he, harvest Is from one to three
weeks later than the fall-sown
grain. j"
i Oats is being harvested in a
limited quantity, and some . has
been threshed, 'though in general
the crop is later than the wheat.
Both fall and spring oats promise
well.
r : Price Not Good ;
Prices are not very encouras
ins: to the erower. however. No.
1, white wheat is being quoted at
about S3 cents, and Neol red at
about 85 cents. Good gray oats
is quoted at. 40 cents per bushel,
arid No. 2. at '37 cents . According
to. the estimates of one of the
jeaaiog nansers oi saiem, an ex
pert on agricultural conditions, it
would require a price practically
doubly thatjj now ruling to make
ine growers apy reu money.
The tiajr market Is described as
utterly dead The rains of a few
weeks ago, during haying season;
damaged .the hay. crop irreparably
.from, a market .point of view, al-
inougn most, oi ine nay is sun
gd4 for lbeal feed:
Some of the bay growers, how-
isver; especially those who have
alsike . andj clover, may make a
real "killing" of their seed crops.
They let the second crop of clover
stand and. ripen for seed, instead
of cutting green for hay. The
season hag been especially good
tor : the development of a ; clover
seed crop.' Harley O.-, White, seed-
man and authority on farm crop
conditions, looks, for clover seed
yields up to 10 bushels to the
acre. With the price standing at
an' estimated 15 cents a pound, a
10-bushel- crop" of .? 600 pounds
would be worth 90 an acre.
.This la of course, an exceptional
jieldi. afid is far above the esti
mated average of perhaps five to
tlx bushels an acre. . though Mr.
White saw one field of clove.
threshed near Albany a few years
ago that yielded 15 bushels to the
measured acre. There might even
be : some . other such phenomenal
yields this year; for tne conditions
have been right to produce them.
With, most of the second-crop clo
ver held for seed, there will be
very little clear, bright clover hay
in the Willamette valley. .thisyear
since the first cutting la, already
blackened by rain during the. cur-
MOltNING AUGUST 10, 1923
! ' .i ii .
Salem Surgeon Declares Sponge, Also Left in Man's
- Abdomen , Was Removed Three ; Months ; After First
Operation Specimen Carefully Saved for Use as
Exhibit in Possible Damage Suit n .
When ! surgeons operated upon. Jerry Wyant at a local
hospital yesterday they removed a rubber glove that had
been encased in Wyant's bladder for the past 22 months.
.According to one of the medical meir who was present
at the operation, . Wyant Underwent an ( operation, for gall
stones about two years ago.
sary to re-operate upon the
sponge that had .carelessly been
the glove was lost the first
determined.
WILL PAUSETODAY
Activity to Cease five
Minutes - Traveling
., .Trains to Stop
Special tribute to President
Harding will be paid by the South
ern Pacific system. The follow'
Ing message was received by the
Salem office last night by A'. A,
MickeL local agent, from the San
Faancisco office, vJ ;
: "Activities on all parts of the
Southern Pacific company. Pacif
io system, south from Portland
and west of Ogden and El Paso,
will come to a complete pause for
a period of five minutes today
.(Friday) as a tribute to the late
President Harding. ; -
"Passenger and freight trains.
-switching engines In yards, ma
chinery shops and such, work es
sential each day of the : year in
carrying on the transportation of
service of the company will be
halted from 12 until 12:05 p. m
Pacific standard time. . . ..
. "This clause of trains, whether
they be in cities or on mountain
stretches, on roadbed or on the
deBert, will, mark the time that
the f uneral cortegeetarts towards
the cemetery in Marion at 2
o'clock central ' standard , time,
where final services are to be held
for the stricken president. .
"In addition, all offices of the
Southern Pacific, except thoee es
sential for necessary train ser
vice, will be Closed - throughout
the' day." : , '
CHICAGO. Aug. 9. Industry
and commerce will 'cease tomor
row and traffic for a time will be
suspended as Chicago joins with
the nation in paying ' tribute l to
Warren G. Harding
Traffic throughout the city will
be halted from 2 to 2:01, central
standard time, during the same
period" telephone i service will be
suspended and guns of the 122nd
and 124th fiehf artillery will be
gin .booming : ihe presidential
salute'. ; -' ' ' - .v - I :
Chicago's 5,000 patrolmen dur
ing the minute of suspension will
remain at salute. Trains entering
Chicago will stop - for five min
utes beginning at 2 o'clock. :
SAN . JUAN, Porto Rico, Aug.
9. (By the Associated Pre,ss.) ;
With all government offices
throughout the Island-closed from
Tuesday to Saturday, memorial
services will he held tomorrow for
the' late President j Harding in
many, places.' All business will be
closed. -V I ' v ; i' I" . ! J
IDAHO . LEGION GAINS
, COUEtt D'ALENE Idaho, Aug.
9. Reporting an increased , mem
bership tor the ; first, time In the
history of the Organization, Les
ter F. Albert. department' adju
tant, opened the fifth Idaho con
vention of the American- legion
heTe today, - , - t - .
lEIPACFG
MOM
SCO: DOCTOR
Three months later it Was neces
patient in' order to remove a
left in the patient. Whether
or second time could not be
- Soon after his second operation
Wyant, who is one of the' best
known linotype men on the Pa
cific coast, came t'o Salem for his
health. ' making a visit with his
brother-in-law, J. L. Vibbert, 1120
South Commercial street. Feeling
somewhat better. Wyant returned
to his office in San Francisco
i Early this summer Wyant again
began Co complain of 111 health,'
and though the California doctors
wanted to operate, Mrs. Wyant,
who had become suspicious of
their ability, insisted that if an
operation was necessary, this
should be performed in Salem
where they knew and trusted the
skill of , their family physician.
vThey returned to Salem three
months ago.
For several weeks Mr. Wyant
had ' been in very poor health,
gradually becoming worse. A few
days' ago an- x-ray examination
showed the presence of several
small gallstones and a large, dark
substance in the bladder. The
third operation was. advised.
Three surgeons, a surgical
nurse and another nurse were in
attendance at the 1 operation,' and
in their presence the rubber glove
that had been left In' the patient
after, his previous operation in
San Francisco was removed. This
was immediately, and almost with
out being touched put In a Jar
and sealed. The exhibit will pro
bably be ' used as a basis for 'a
damage suit against three Cali
fornia practitioners
Wyant came out from under
the influence of the anesthetic
about' noon yesterday and was re
ported 'as resting easily as possi
ble last night. One of the sur
geons stated that he had no doubts
as to : the patient's recovery, but
could not state definitely, wheth
er or not Wyant had been inform
ed of what had occurred, though
he believed suclt to be the easel
Wyant is confined to the Willam
ette sanitarium
Presidential Train Will Reach
Its Destination Later
Than Planned '
ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL
TRAIN AT MARTINSBURO. W.
Va., Aug. ,9. (By the Associated
Press) President' Coolidge ! and
his official party who left .Wash
ington! tonight to .,.. lay Warren
Harding to rest in Marion tomor-J
row reached Martinsburg at 11:50
o'clock eastern standard time.
. IC was officially announced that
the special train would be slowed
down so that the . party, would
reach its destination at 1:30 p. m.
instead of at noon. Mr. Coolidge
let it ; he known ; that ; he would
make no rear-end appearance on
the trip. ' -' . 1 . r
After receiving some of hlsfel
law. travelers in his " private ; car
tonight . Mr. : Coolldg 1 retired at
11:25 m. . - -
GOOUDGE OMY
TO Mill BITES
MARION, Ohio, Aug. 9. (By
The Associated Press At 8:30
o'clock tonight, the crowd wait
ing in line to see the 'dead presi
dent, was so large thatx Mrs
Mrs. Harding announced the body
would continue in state Vuntil
midnight, or later if necessary.
Standing several abreast, the line
at that , hour still extended for
nearly 6 blocks and showed little
signs of diminishing; .
The funeral train brought two
full carloads of flowers and four
other carloads arrived by express
on another train. Other offerings
continued to arrive throughout
tne day and during the night in
great . profusion. ...
Flowers soon filled every down
stairs room and. corner of .the
Harding home. It was not Jong
before they were banked all, over
the front lawn. . As evening ap
proached they filled the side and
back yards and . indications were
that by tomorrow , the yards of
several neighbors would be need
ed to hold the floral tribute1.
i Yards of the four railroads en
tering Marlon were filled to over
flowing tonight with special cars
and special trains bringing dis
tinguished mourners to the' city,
More specials are, due tomorrow
morning, including, the one; from
Washington bringing ' President
Coolidge, Chief Justice Taft and
other high government 'officials.
The Supberb, the private car in
which the boay of President
Harding was brought back from
San Francisco - probably will be
retired from active service., it be
came known .today.. According to
: stories going the rounds Of the
railroad men, the cr will not re
turn to Washinton with the funer
al train party but will be taken
to, Mansfield and thence to Chi
cago over the Pennsylvania rail
road lines. , 1
During the afternoon and eve
ning an average of 3 5 persons a
minute passed throuh the front
room of the Harding home to
view the body Of the dead presi
dent, bee ret service men esti
mated that at 10 .o'clock tonight
approximately 17,000 people had
viewed the body.
Approximately 100 newspaper
men from all sections of the coun
try were in Marion tonight to re
port the news of the funeral.
Scores of extra wires had been
installed to handle the hundreds
of thousands of words of press
matte. -
UD WILLS
LY
Cabinet Decides Negotia
tions are Unlike Allied
Separate Action
LONDON, Aug. 9. (By the As
sociated Press.) The net result
of today's cabinet council which
discussed the .terms of Great
Britain's reply to France and Bel
gium with regard to German rep
arations , appears to be -that the
negotiations between the allies are
proceeding, and ho approach has
yet been unade 'to anything like
separate action by the allies.
Great. Britain will send a long
reply to the French government
dealing .with all the points raised
by M. Poincare; the French pre
mier, In his recent note. ; The re
ply will also strongly re-state
Great Britain's position.
It Is understood that the note
will intimate that Great Britain
cannot advise Germany to with
draw her passive resistance de
cree absolutely and uncondition
ally and that It will also remind
France that British interests do
not permit of waiting intermin
ably.
Postoffice Ordered to
- Remain" Closed All Day.
Postmaster John Farraf receiv
ed a telegram from Postmaster
General New. ordering the postof
fice closed all day today, In hon
or of the President Harding me
morial. ' Earlier orders' had seem.
ed to indicate that the - office
would be closed only, during the
actual memorial . ceremony - hour,
from 12 to 2 o'clock. .
El
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IH Tna CITT Of BA1X2X .
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: Virin til Folk Ooutlaa
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The Oregon Statesman 1
PRICE FIVE C2Z7I3
Determination " Wot to , Col
lapse Admired by Friends;
Lett AloneT With Her D:
parted Husband ' .
LITTLE IS KNOWN AS
T0 HER FUTURE PLANS
Will y Establish Residcnco
...With Brother; Abandons
Journey Abroad
MARION, Ohio, Aug. 9. (By
the Associated Press.) Florence
Kling Harding was alone tonight
with her: dead. She awaited
bravely and calmly the coming of
tomorrow when he would be taken
from her .and placed .in the na
tion's newest shrine, behind locked
Iron gates of an unpretentious re
ceiving vault in the Marlon ceme
tery... ;
. V The return . from . Washington
to her girlhood .companions, her
friends and most intimate associ
ates, failed to weaken her resolute
determination -to keep strength to
the end. .To the many who came
to cheer and ease her burden of
sorrow, Mrs. Harding ; spoke her
thanks, but firmly , declined to
pass on to .them even the smallest
of the troubles that were hers to
bear. ? , ... ., .. . i
Nd Danger of Collapse .
Even to those of her companions
who traveled on the funeral trala
from San Francisco to Washing
ton' and continued the journey to
its ending here today, the' brave
widow Jet it be known that she
was in no danger of a collapse;
and there was no-reason for them
to worry about her. - This state
ment but Increased the admiration
only expressed by her friends whe,
in recognition of Its truthfulness,
stood quietly aside ready to aid.
but lacking the opportunity.
Mrs.; Harding was the last U
step from the funeral car whei
the train arrived in the Marios
station. -The casket already hai
been transferred: to: the hearse.
The eight cabinet officers and
other Washington officials had
taken" their places on j the plat-
Lform. The remaining members
of the group j which ' accompanied
the late president to Alaska and
had been requested y Mrs. Hard
ing to , come to Marlon,, also had
left the coaches and made their
way to assigned posts in the pro
cession. Talks About Warren'
George Christian, jt., secretary
to the late president, stepped to
her side and together they walked
to the automobile and were taken
slowly to the home of George T.
Harding, Sr., riding In the third
car behind the hearse. There she
stepped to the curb. Mr. Chris
tian offered his arm and together
they entered the modest littla
homestead just as the casket was
placed in position In the parlor.
To the - Marion friends who
visited her during the day, ' Mr.
Harding conversed - but little on
subjects ! concerning herself and
her future plans. She preferred
to talk about "Warren" and how
he had devoted himself to public
duty in the 30 years past, men
tioning at frequent intervals some
of his ' achievements during . that
time, and; something of his am
bitions for the future. .
I Will Stay In Marion
Beyond her decision to make
Marlon r her residence after her
visit to Washington to spend most
o her time during the next year
or two at the home of her broth--er,
Clifford B; Kling, Mrs. Hard
ing gave. her visitors no 'definite
idea of her future plans. She was
(Continued on page 2)
In Memory of the
Honest Editor and
The . Great President
In mempry of Warren G.
Harding, good printer, hon
est editor, -just publisher,
and wise President, all work
in every department of the
Statesman plant will ceasa
today for a half hour, dur
ing the funeral at Marion,
Ohio, from 1 to 1 :S0 o'c!::!:.
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