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KLAMATH FALLS. OltlCOON. . MIIIUV, AIGUHT It, Ii4.'.
VfUCto FIVE OK NTS
C00LIDG1E
NOW PRESIDENT;
Oath of Office Is
Taken by Light of
Oil Lamp at 2 .a. m.
Aged Father, Notary
Ceremony For Son, 30th. Presi
dent of United States
PLYMOUTH, Vermont. At 3.- Calvin Cool
idgo, thirtieth president of the United SUiUm, took the
oath of office at U:17 a. m. today, in his father's farm
house across the street from the house whore he was
born. The father, aged 7v a notary public, administer
ed the oath by the light of an oil lamp. The text of the
oath had been received earlier from the while house by
telephone ,
Coolidgo made this statement:
"The world has lost a great and good man. I mourn
his loss. He was my chief and my friend. It will be my
purpose to cany out his policies which he has begun for
tho service of the American peopje, and- for meeting
their responsibilities whenever they may arise. For this
purpose I shall seek tho co-operation of all those who
have been associated with the president during his term
of office. Those who have given their efforts to assist
him I wish to remain in office that they may assist me.
I have faith that God will direct the , destinies of the
nation."
Coolidge left for Washington at 7:30 this morning.
He is due, at Washington at 10:55 tonight.
, WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. President Coolidge up
on his arrival here tonight, will make his home tempor
arily at the New Willard hotel, where he has resided
during most of his vice-presidential term." He may work
in the vice-president's office several days, while the
president's office at the white house .is undergoing
repairs, and will probably not move into the wfilte house
until after the funeral.
PRESIDENTIAL HEADQUARTERS, PALACE
HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, Augi 3. Wan-en G. Hard
ing, president of the United States, died instantaneously
and without warning last night at 7:30 o'clock, a victim
of a stroke of apoplexy, which struck him down in his
weakened condition after an illness of exactly a week.
The chief executive of the nation, and by virtue of
his office and personally one of the world's leading fig
ures, passed away at the time when his physicians, his
family and his people thought that medical skill, hope
, and prayer had won the battle against disease. The dis
ease 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 bo called, members of his party sum
moned, or remedial measures taken, he passed from life's
stage after haying for nearly 2'- years served his nation,
and for many more years his native- state of Ohio.
Tlio and rnnio bo suddenly Hint
thn mom hern of Ihn ntflolul purly
could not bo cnllwl, II cumo nftr
a dny which hiul, been (Inscribed by
Ilrlgiuller Onnorul Sawyer, thn presi
dent's porsonnl physician, an tho
mom satisfactory day tho prostdnnt
had had since hli illness began.
Th physicians In tholr formal
announcement of tho end said that
"during I ho day he hnd boon free
from discomfort and there was overy
Justlflontlaa for anticipating a
prompt recovery."
The firm Indication that a change
nocurnd In the condition of Hard
ing came shortly after 7 o'clock
when Mm, Harding personally open
ed the door of the sick room and
called to those In the corridors to
"find Or, Bonne and the others
aiilck." ' -
At that tlmo Mm. Harding was
understood to have been reading to
the prosldont, sitting at the bedside
with the evening papers and mes
agon of sympathy which hnd been
received during tho dny.
Dr. Snwyoiv alone of all the doc
tors, wan In tho president's apart
ments when the nllinux onmo. Ho,
flrnt was cnllnrt by Mrs, Harding,
who then rushed to the door loading
Into tho ho ol oorrldors and roni.
, mnndod an In'iinodlato search for tho
other physlcnns, '-
Tlio doalh of tho chief executive
Public, Performs!
whs iiiinounccd In these words:
"The president died Instim
tancouxly nnd without warning
Mill while conversing with
members of tho family at 7:30
p. m. Death was apparently duo
to some brain envolment, prob
ably apoplexy. During the day
ha hail been free from discom
fort nnd there was overy Justi
fication for anticipating a
propt rocovory."
(Signed:)
O. E. SAWYER, M. n,
RAY V. WII.L8UR, M. n.
a m. cooper, m. n.
(Continued on Pea Two)
Mrs. Harding Heroic
In Hour of Bereave
ment, Friends Declare
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 8.
Mrs. Harding retired 1 o'clock
this morning and slept fitfully,
said members of tho offlclnl
party, who added tlint she this
morning, as always, was con-
slderlng others before herself,
One memgor of the party said .
she was facing the president's
dnnth "With heroism."
30th President
J '
CALVIN
Body Will
i WASUINOTO.V, Aug. the
customary plan Is followed, Hard
lug's body will lie In slute for sev
eral hours before the official funeral
ceremony Is conducted In the ro
tunda, . Admission to the official
funeral services will be by card and
It will be Impossible to provide for
nil those who lull to attend. In
fact, It le difficult to provide for
all those who take part In cere
mony. ,
The rotunda" has space for loss
than 1000 seats, and out of these
COO have to bo reserved tor niombers
of congress. Tho diplomatic corps
requires about 250. end In addition j
pliircs aro required for the supreme
court, high offlcors of the army and
nnvy nnd others In official life.
LATE NEWS
I I XKHAI, DAY cii.N;i:i
SAX Klt.VNUSCO, Auk.
nrrniineiiieiite of t tip sehertiiV' of the
fumiill tinln to hiiiiR HimlliiK'x
body Inlo Wu.lilii(;ton Tiwsiliiy In
stead of Wcilni'Nilii)' Welti uiioniiiiei'il
Into toila.v. I'liiieriil wvvlees will lie
belli III tlio Wnslilnuioii eapllol ro
linidil lulo' llevt WYilnesilny lifter,
noon mill services In Morie.ii, Olilo,
next I'rli'ii.v, tvbleb will lie pro
claimed n (lay nf luitlouul iiioiii-iiIiik.
TO DM I.AltK llOIJD.tY
SAt.EM. Aug. 3, Advised by As
sociated Press dispatches this after
noon that funeral services for Pres
ident Harding would bo held In
Washington noxt Thursday, Oover-
MILESTONES IN
Nov. 9
1S82.
18M.
1891.
isns.
1901.
1903.
1910.
1913.
1914.
191(1.
19(111. norn on farm near
Graduated from Ohio Central college of Iberia. Ohio.
Become owner and editor of tho Marlon (Ohio) Star, dally
nowspnpor,
Matrled Miss Florence Ellrnbeth Kllng nf Marlon,
Elected siato senator, "
Tte-clectcd stnto senator.
Elected Heutennnt-governor of Ohio.
Ilepubllcan nominee for governor of Ohio; defeated.
Mnde nominating' speech for William Howard Taft at Chi
cago convention,
Elected V. S. senator from Ohio.
Temporary chairman republican national convention
Chicago, '
H, 1920, Nomlnnted by republicans as candidate
nrosldent.
Nov.
, 1930. Elected president
V rch
4, 1921. -Took office ns
Stiitos, '
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COOLIDGE
Lie In State";
Presidents Lincoln'. - Garfield and
McKlnloy had military funerals, but
In tho absence of definite word from
Mrs. Harding It Is tnought there will
be no military display.
The president and his wife have
sbono a leaning to simplicity, as was
evidenced when at time of Inaugur
ation he reduced the program of
ceremony to a simplicity approach
ing Hie Inaucuratlon of Jackson.
SAX FRANCISCO. Aug. 3. The
president's body will be taken to
night nt 6 o'clock from the Palace
hotol direct to the Third and Town-
! sond street, and the train will leave
isond street depot, and the train will
leave there as soon after as possible.
BULLETINS
nor Pierce this afternoon said he
would issue a proclamation tomor
row deslgnatlnK Thursday as a dny
of mourning ni-.d a legal holiday in
Oregon, He said he would ask all
churches to observe the dny with
special memorial services.
KlXfi SKXns COXDOI.EXCFS
LONDON. Aug. 3. The king sent
condolonce.i and ordered the court
in mourning onq week, .
PHKSIDKXT MADB Wll.I.
MAUION. O.. Aug. 3. The presl
dfnt's brother revealed that the
president before leaving for his
western trip mnd0 n will and dis
posed of his affairs as If not ex
pec. lug to return alive.
HARDING'S LIFE
Corsica, torrow county, Ohio,
nt
for
of the United States,
the 29th president of tho United
'
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FESTIVITIES
Crepe Replaces Bunting As
Death of President j
Is Announced
8 AN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. Yes- '
terday flags gayly decorated San j
Frnnclsco streets. This morning j
sombre crepe hung In place at ban-1
ner nnd bunting.
Yesterday San Francisco nnd (he
nation feh encouraged over the pros
pects of the recovery of President
Harding. Today the body of the de
parted chief executive lay In an
eighth floor room of tbe Palace ho
tel where he fought a losing battle
for life.
Downcast but not broken, his
brave wife, who was reading to the
president when the ecd came sud
denly at 7:30 last night by a stroke
of apolexy was today receiving the
condnlenres of a mourning nation.
Mrs. Harding was reading "A
Calm Review of a Calm Man," an
article In the current Saturday
Kveslng Post, about the president
himself, when his frame shook with
a mortal shudder and he was sons.
Downstairs gay throngs lif the
Palace rose bowl room were daner
Ing when the announcement was
made. "Ladles and gentlemen, the
president- ins Juot passed away.' -
The music stopped and the dancers
took their wraps and quietly de
parted. 'All schools, stock exchanges and
sta'.sv and city offices, and moat of
the business places were . closed.
Theatre men met to discuss the
closing of the theatres, but some
of the Individual managers an
nounced before the meeting that
they would be "dark" today. The
chamber of commerce announced
that business would ge suspended,
both by the chamber and by Its
thousands of Individual members.
The body Is to leave tonight tor
Washlngtod. Interment Is to be at
Marlon, Ohio.
Harding was the sixth president
to die in office.
IIAItniXG'S FATHKR ILL
WASHINGTON. Aug. 3. Mrs.
Carolyn Votaw and Miss Abigail
Harding, sisters of the president,
and Herbert Votaw, brother-in-law,
will leave for Marlon late today.
They received a telephone message
from Marion today that the presi
dent's father Is prostrated.
CAIUTtKTS CLOSED
NEW YORK. Aug. 3. Silence
reigned today In the financial dis
trict. Cabarets and roof gardens
are closed.
GOVT. DKIMUTM F.XT8 CIX)SF.D
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. Secre
tary Hughes, ranking official here,
ordered all government departments
closed.
VISITS MOTHER'S GRAVE
RUTLAND, Vermont, Aug. 3.
President Coolidge stopped to visit
his mother's grave this morning
near Plymouth, e.iroute to Washing
ton. ,
riKRCK ISSUES PROCLAMATION
PORTLAND, Aug. S. Governor
Pierce issued a proclamation urging
flags on public buildings and schools
at half mast until after the funeral,
He stated that Harding's death Is
a national oalamtty,
WILL DECLARE HOLIDAY
OLYPMIA, Aug. 3. Oovernor
Hart will declare a holiday for the
funeral. He asked that flags be half
masted 30 days. '
DAY OF MOI RXINO i
LONG It EACH, Calif.. Aug. 3.
Governor Richardson proclaimed to
day a day of mourning. He asked
all places of business to close.
VHP'?'.
1- V
wswfi?t.
MRS. CALVIN COOLIDGE
Mrs. Orace Goodhue Coolidge was principally in farming. Hit father
born In Rurllngton, Vt. She attend-! was John C. Coolidge, and his mottl
ed the public schools there, and later er Victoria Moor Coolidge. :
entered tbe University of Vermont..
Miss Goodhue met Coolidge during ,
Hie wimer Ul IJi.-Vu, wmie bud rwat bluuuij ui luv vuingu, oa lueu h
teaching In the deaf and dumb to Amherst College.
school In Northampton, Mass. Cool-j jn bis college days Coolidge wis '
Idge was then just starting In the known to bis fellow students prla
practice of law. jclpally for his prolonged silences and.
Thcv were married October 4, his scholastic ability. He was g raw
1905. ' i
Mrs. Cooiidge's Interest has been .
almost- exclusively in her home. In '
her husband and In her two boys,
John and Calvin. Junior, both still In
their 'teens. She holds a member-
ship In '
ted Cross, but Is not a
u.y other society or club.
COLLAPSE DUE
''"
TO
E
President Generous in Out
Pouring of Service,
Says Hoover
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 3. Pres
ident Harding's collapse was ascrlb-
J L.. C- . . IT .. n - I. n ..a.A-
OU iJDtlClllI iluuici lit n a. aw-
lDUUy l "
selfish" outpouring of service and
to application at all times of "gen-
.r
tnllty and goodwill to bis tremend-1
ous tasks."
Hoover said: "The almighty has !
taken the president from his work.
There is loss to the nation, of great
leaner ana io many inousaoas a ,
beloved friend. At my first meet-1
Ing with
ern during the war his
iOTl.uS ..0.RUuUI. . "
'neiehbor. I went to be
bclpfiil.
Being helpful to his neighbors
was Wnrren Harding's Ideal. He'
envisaged the whole American
people us home folks and neighbors.
He loved to think and to talk on
what mnde good neighbors. He
liked to feel of America as a good
neighbor In the world." t
The president's mind remained
clear to the last, even under a burn
ing fever. His demeanor through
tne Illness was cool and couectea, j .. ncrease In the compensation
even occasionally verging on the hu-,law aliowance. antl-hlgh cost of llr-morou-
I Ing legislation, and a provision of
"Almost everyone who entered the 120,000,000 for compensation for
mom wan greeted with a joke," said World war veterans.
Hoover. He was cheerful always His opponent, RIohard H. Long,
and retained Interest to the last In ! mada ,n, ,, the Boston tiollee
his surroundings.
NO BASEBALL GAMES
.8AN FRANCISCO. Aug. 8. -No
coast league games toady.
mur-Ann a., vn wIa
league 'kamee todav. Jud Landls
suggested alstf that no game.
played on the funeral day.
Apoplexy of Blood
Vessel in Axis of
Brain Cause of Death
; SAN FRANCISCO, Aug! 3.
Apoplexy of a blood' vessel in
thg axis of the brain near the
respiratory center, cuused the
president's death, according to
a statement by the five attend
ing physicians,
GIF STARTED
AS FAR M BOY,
Calvin Coolidge Rose From
Humble Beginning By ,.
Power of Own Efforts
CALVIN COOLIDC.E, 30th presl- '
dent of the United 8tates, was
born In Plymouth Village, Ver
mont, July 4, 1872.
He came from a long line of Yan
kee ancestors, who had engaged
jonn Calvin Coolidge (as he" wsS
christened) attended the public
country lad. with his trousers tucked"
Into bis boot tops and the marks of
rural Vermont still plainly upon
him. , f : ,:. (
in these days, Coolidge dropped
the "John" from his name.
j He was graduated from Amherst
tin 1SQK. w!h an I - H Ammrm and
highest honors. .;, .
- j He then studied law In the of floes
- I of Hammond and Field, Northsmp'
"within 'lo months' and entered the
practice of lew In his awn office. . ,
Gets First Office
Cooiidge's eatry into politics can:?
wuea lue couaiy eierK aieu. ni wee
appointed to serve the balance Of
the term. ' When iWs' expired, the
republicans wished to nominate him
for tbe office, but young Coolidge
refused, - ' ;
In 1889 he was elected a memhef
of tbe elty council and. for the fol
lowing two years was elty solicitor.
He then returned to the practice 0f
law.
Coolidge married Miss Grace Good-
hue of Burlington. Vermont, October
. .-. M, n,u.. to. ,h. .
teacher In the deaf and dumb school
at Northampton. - ;
Cooiidge's upward climb lb the po-
; lltlcal world was steady, and certain.
owing to his sure decision and the
'a.tery h,g qu,et manner ,.,,
over men. He held various offices,
! Including the mavorshln nf North
., i'ioit
,tate senator.
i t .
f0Ur years, holding: the nosltlon of
tenate pre.dent during the latter-
two years. ,
-In 1915, Coolidge was elected
lieutenant governor, an office which
ne neia uniu ne was cnosen gov--ernor
In 1918. v
Wins on 'Strike Issue ; ' .';
He ran for re-election as gover
nor In 1919, on a platform of per
formance. Including reduction of
working hours for women and mln-
strike of 1919 by promising to re
store the striken to duty gnd to
oust the polloe commissioner.
"Bo be it," said Coolidge, "Our
case shall be law end ordtf," On
i thl Ptm Coolidge polled S m.
ri'ot T'?:
iiuiiuiiiia ui me . svriN suuailOQ,
which brought it to a rapid. onolu
ston., made him nationally famous,
Coolidge was nominated tor the
vice presidency of the United States
at the 1920 republican national eon
ventlon, and was elected to the of-.
flee at the Noverber I eleotlons,
Coolidge throughout his career
maintained the simple habits whloh
he formed In his early lawyer days;
When elected to the vice presidency
be still livod with his family In tbe
half of the two-story frame build
ing where he had. taken bis bride
tn 190S, His rent was 131 a
month.