Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 72, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1923 — Page 1

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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 72

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE PROCLAIMS AUGUST 10 AS DAY OF MOURNING

THOUSANDS BOW HEADS IN TRIBUTE 1 Silent, Hushed Throngs Line Route of Funeral Train Speeding Eastward With Last Mortal Remains ' of Warren G. Harding. MILITARY GUARD STANDS AT FUG-DRAPED CASKET Grief Stricken Widow Presents Brave and Tragic Figure, Buoyed Up by Pride in Record of Her Husband. By LAWRENCE MARTIN United Press Staff Correspondent IMLAY, New, Aug. 4.—The train bearing the body of President Harding to Washington stopped ten minutes here today. The train arrived at 9:33 a. m. and left'at 9:43. Practically all of the citizens of the vicinity of Imlay were standing bareheaded on the station platform. Almost every mile of the way from San Francisco has furnished evidence of the Nation’s sorrow. All through 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.

As the presidential funeral train crosses the full breadth of the bereaved country millions will observe Its passing. In the lighted car there Is a profusion of flowers. Coffin Is Rosewood There Is a simple rosewood coffin with Warren Gamaliel Harding inscribed on Its small silver plate. It is guarded by soldiers, sailors and marines chosen from the detachments that accompanied President Harding on the Henderson. Though the? train will not pause for ceremony. It will proceed at a slower pace through towns and cities. Only for switching requirements will it halt before reaching the capitol. 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 by. In Che Lame 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. Spirit Is Unbroken * 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 painfully to the too new wound to permit her the repose that she should have. But her spirit was unbroken, her poise unimpaired. Mrs. Harding gives new’ (Continued on Page 11)

BOYS AND GIRLS, WANT TO WJN $10? Times and Veterans Cooperate in Essay Contest Among Grade School Children,

Get out your pens and paper, grade Mhool children of Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Times, coperating with Hoosier Post 624, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will conduct a contest to find out what Indianapolis grade school boy or girl can write the best essay upon: "Why I am glad I am an American.” Marry B. Dynes, labor commissioner, and a member of the post, offers a first prize of $lO and second of $5. Prizes will be awarded Saturday evening, Aug. 11, at 9:30 at the post's lawn fete in Spades Park. The fete opens Friday. Every boy and girl who enters an essay in the contest, will receive a free ticket to the fete. The essays must be not longer than 200 words, written in ink or by typewriter on one side of the paper only. They must be mailed or delivered MORE SHOWERS ON WAY Cbol but Wet Weather Is Promised V for Week-End. Week end motorists and picnickers will enjoy cooler weather, but it will be up to them to dodge thunder showers. according to J. H. Armington, weather bureau meteorologist, today. Cooler weather is scheduled to arrive tonight and by Sunday afternoon clearing weather may be expected, he said. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 72 10 a. m 78 7 a. m. 74 11 a. m 80 8 a. 76 12 (noons 82 9 9m m. 76 1 p, 14

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CORTEGE TO CROSS STATE Hiding Funeral Train Will Pass Through Northern Indiana. Tne Harding train will pass through Indiana on the way to Washington. A few weeks ago the presidential party passed through this State on its way West The funeral train will cross the northern part of the State after leaving Chicago. It will pass through Whiting, Gary, Alida, Wellsboro, LaI paze Junction, Syracuse, Wawasee, Cromwell, Albion, Avllla, Garrett, Auburn Junction and St. Joe At each place members of the American Legion are expected to gather to pay silent tribute to the jdead President. TWO SCALES CONDEMNED City Continues Examination Weights Used on Market. Additional moves against faulty scales on city market weer made today by the city weights and measures department. Nearly fifty more standhclden? were ordered ih for examinations of scales used on their stands. Os the first twenty reporting early today scales of two were condemned. Within two weeks the department will complete inspection of every scale on the- market.

to the Patriotic Contest Editor of The Indianapolis Times not later than 5 p. m. Thursday. Judges will be announced early next week.

An Open Letter to Police Chief Herman Rikhoff

The Indianapolis Times stands squarely behind newsboys in the war of intimidation being conducted by Some members of the police department, with or without your sanction. Boys who sell The Times and the other flaily newspapers have been threatened with arrest under sections of an obsolete ordinance which makes its unlawful for any person to sell goods on “a public street by outcry or personal solicitation." If this ordinance were strictly enforced farmers would not be permitted to sell their produce if they dared raise their voice when in Indianapolis, which has been justly called “No Mean City,” men and women who conduct stands in city market would be trifling with the law when they speak of their goods to prospective purchasers; the ice man and the coal man had better beware, etc*, etc., etc. Tha ordinance is laughable. Newsboys grade high in citizenship. Look at the successful men of -oday who are proud to say they got their start selling newspapers. The money earned by newsboys goes to pay for their education. In hundreds of instances it helps pay for food and

Guns of Fort Ben Boom in 'Salute

Veterans to Hold Memorial Services at Monument, Indiana continued today to pay tribute to the memory of Warren G. Harding. Messages of condolence were sent to Mrs. Harding and resolutions were adopted by many organizations. Memorial services of the various kinds were planned. Churches on Sunday will devote their services to the memory of the dead President.' At Ft. Benjamin Harrison, a gun boomed at half hour intervals all day, a salute to the memory of the President. Regimental colors were draped and officers were ordered to wear mourning bands on their sleeves for thirty days. - Services on Monument Services will be held on the south side of the Monument Sunday afternoon by Hoosier Post No. 624, La Velle-Gossett post, Bfown-Browns-burg post and Joppo post. Veterans of Foreign Wars. The Fev. J. Ambrose Dunkel will participate. * Executive officers of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs met Friday evening and asked all civic clubs to hold memorial services. ! The flag at the Boy Scout camp was flown at half mast •and a memorial service was held. , Celebration Called Off ! The celebration of the successful conclusion of the French fete, which was to be held tonight at the Pleasant Run Golf Club by members of the Irvington American legion post, was called off. Indiana members of Congress paid tribute to their dead chief. Senator James E. Watson said: "The President was a remarkable combination of heart and conscience andAvain. He was a man of noblest Impulses ahd purest purposes, and no person ever was actuated by more beautiful sentiment or sustained by loftier consideration of right and justice. Lincoln’B f)eaih Recalled "He never entirely divorced his head from his heart in his estimate of either man or measures, and usually his decisions were right." Merrill Moores, congressman from Indianapolis, said in part: "It goes without saying that the fine personality of President Harding will be sadly missed. I was a small (Continued on Page 11) CUPID RESTS JULY Marriage License Total Drops to 365 From 612 in June. Cupid evidently rested from his labors In Marlon County following hard work of getting out 612 marriage licenses in June, because his July batting average reached only 366, records in the county clerk’s offlqp show. That’s the way it always goes, In July said Miss Ida Belle Franc, deputy clerk. Last year* they issued 369 licenses in July. "Nothing to be alarmed aj,’’ she said. "The number will crawl up slowly to a high peak for October, and then slump again.” marketHprices steady Increase in Offerings of Indiana Beans Has No Effect. , City market opened today with little change in prices. Indiana lima beans, which made their appearance Thursday were more plentiful, but the original price was not affected. Butter varied in one brand. The price rose 3 cents. All other brands of butter are the same. Eggs still are selling for 23 and 24 cents a dozen. Barber Equipment Stolen Claude Torr, owner of a barber shop at 472 W. Washington St., today reported to police the theft of a pair of electric clippers and an electric message machine, valued at S6O.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, AUG. 4, 1923

Last Picture of Warren G. Harding

THIS PICTURE OF PRESIDENT HARDING—THE LAST TAKEN OF HIM IN LIFE—TV AS SNAPPED AT SAN FRANCISCO, JUST BEFORE THE LATE PRESIDENT ENTERED THE PALACE HOTEL. THE PHOTOGRAPH WAS RUSHED EAST BY AIR MAIL FOLLOWING THE PRESIDENT’S DEATH THURSDAY NIGHT. N

SPECIAL SESSION FAVORED BY DEMOCRATIC LEADER

WILSON HIED 10 HARDINGFUNERAL War President Will Have Place of Honor in March.. Bu United Prett TEMPORARY WHITE HOUSE. WILLARD HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—President Coolldge today/formally Invited former President Woodrow Wilson to take a place of honor In the State funeral procession of Mr. Harding next Wednesday. Mr. Coolldge, through Admiral Grayson, personal friend of Mr. Wilson, asked that the war accompany the cortege. A squadron of cavalry and a battalion of field artillery will meet the funeral train bearing President Harding’s body when It arrives Tuesday at 1 o’clock and escort the remains to the White House. President Coolldge, Chief Justice Taft, Acting President Pro Tem. of the Senate, Senator Curtis of Kansas and Speaker Gillett will head the civil escort.

clothing in large families; in not a few cases the newsboy is Crippled men earn their livelihood selling The Times and other daily newspapers. A number of the older “newsies” are overseas war veterans incapacitated from doing work inside a factory. ~ • And now, Chief Rikhoff, these are the victims in this unjust war of intimidation. They want to be law-abiding, but what are their thoughts when they know various major crimes are going unpunished? Bootlegging, for instance. And there is another kind of solicitation that flaunts itself so disgustingly on the streets in respectable neighborhoods at night. You are thfe chief of police, Herman Rikhoff, and it is within your power to STOP INTIMIDATION OP NEWSBOYS OR TAKE THE CASES INTO COURT, where The Times is willing to have this ordinance decided on its legal merits. A Times newsboy was “arrested” at Illinois |nd Ohio Sts. Friday. A patrol was called, but the newsie was not taken to

Chambers for Action to Strengthen State 'Blue v Sky’ Law, Approval of a suggestion that a special session of the Legislature be called for the purpose of strengthening the Indiana securities law, was contained In a letter today from Senator Walter S. Chambers, Democratic State chairman, to Maurice Mendenhall, administrator of the securities department. The proposal for a special session grew out of the R. L. Dolllngs Company receivership case and the revelation of securities sales activities of the company in the State. The suggestion was made first by Mendenhall In a speech before the Credit Men’s Association Thursday. Would Influence Minority Senator Chambers said in Ills letter: "If you are seriously considering taking this matter up with the Governor, I shall be glad to cooperate with you and pledge that I will use my Influence with the minority to take up n<i other legislation and to confine the session to two or three days. If pos(Continued on Page 11)

Entered as Second-class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis. Published Daily Except Sunday.

JOHNSON TO ASK ABOUTWARRANTS Reduction of Treasury Orders to Be Querried, J An Inquiry into reasons why warrunts on the county .reasury ordered issued by County Commissioners John Kitley and Albort Hoffman were reduced from the $l6O allowed by the board to SIOO will be made Monday by County Attorney Emsley Johnson, It was announced following a meeting with the commissioners. Claims allowed by the two commissioners to Doan & Matthews, attorneys, for services on the bond issue of two county roads showed a pencil marking reducing their pay It was alleged Th-> matter was protested to the board. “We allowed $l5O on each of those two claims, and we didn’t change them,” said Kitley and Hoffman. They said they would ask County Auditor Leo K. Fesler about the change when he rotums Monday.

headquarters, where this paper would have provided bond immediately and gone into court to fight for its salesman. After all the preliminary bluff, the police let the newsboy go. Incidentally, he is an overseas war veteran, Chief Rikhoff. Certain motorcycle policemen have warned newsboys they must hot cry out their papers. Citizens believe time of these officers could be devoted more advantageously to running down speeders. Chief Rikhoff has been evasive when representatives of The Times called on him and asked him whether he has sanctioned this intimidation. He has pointed out that newsboys of none of the daily newspapers have bean arrested. However, the time has come for a showdown. * The newsboys shculd not be molested or the ordinance should be tested in the courts—not by a policeman. Newsboys are taught to respect the law. The policeman is its representative. When that officer merely threatens and instead of taking decisive action\he breeds contempt of the law.

First Official Proclamation of New Chief Executive Calls on Nation to Observe Next Friday in Memory of Late Chieftain, ASKS REVERENT SUBMISSION TO WILL OF GOD m Recommends People Gather in Houses of Worship Throughout Land on Day of Funeral for Fitting Expression of Sorrow, By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—President Coolidge, in his first proclamation, issued today, declared Friday, Aug. 10, a day o£ national mourning for the late President Warren G. Harding. On that day, he said, the people should gather in their respective places of worship and engage in ceremonies fitting the occasion. It was also Ordered all executive offices of the government would be closed at 1 p. m. next Tuesday and remain closed over Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The proclamation said: “By the President of the United States of America, a proclamation : “To the people of the United States: “In the inscrutable wisdom of Divine Providence, Wkrren G. Harding, twenty-ninth President of the United States, has been taken from us. The nation has lost a wise and enlightened statesman and the American people a true friend and counsellor, whose whole public life was interspersed with the desire to promote the best interests of the United States and the welfare of all its citizens. His private life was marked by gentleness and brotherly sympathy and by the charm of hia personality. He made friends of all who came in contact with him. “It is meet that the deep grief which fills the hearts of the American people should find fitting expression. “Now, therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, president of the Urited States of America, do appoint Friday, next, Aug. 10, the day on whiqh 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 assemble on that day in their respective places of divine worship, there to bow down in submission to the will of Almighty God and to pay out of full hearts the homage and love and reverence to the memory of the great and good President, whose death has so sorely smitten the Nation. < “Ii? witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed. Pone at the City of Washington, the fourth day of August, in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twen-ty-Three, and of the Independence of the United States, the One Hundred and WJrty-Eighth. (Signed) “CALVIN COOLIDGE.” By the President: CHARLES E. HUGHES, Secretary of State. The White House, Washington, Aug. 4, 1923.

Matters of National Policy Will Remain Temporarily as They Are, Coolidge Says

By PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent TEMPORARY WHITE HOUSE, WILLARD HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Ajl matters of national policy government will stand temporarily as they are, President Coolldge announced today in his first conference with newspaper men. No changes will be made, not any public committment of the new Administration until after the funeral of President Harding has been completed. In a temporary White House on the third floor of the New Williard Hotel, the new President performed the first functions of his office. The first official act of his Administration was to set the funeral arrangements of his dead chief. Immediately upon his arrival, Mr. Coolldge summoned members of his Cabinet who are In town—Secretary of State Hughes and Postmaster General Harry S. New. It was decided the body of the late President will be met by the new executive and the members of his official family—the same official family

Forecast UNSETTLED with local thunder showers tonight and probably Sunday; cooler. -

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which functioned for Mr. Harding'—• and escorted to the \£hlte Ho us® when It arrives Tuesday. The state funeral will take place ott Wednesday, when the body of Mr. Harding will be taken down Pennsylvania Ave., where he rode a little more than two years ago to his Inaugural. to the Capitol, where It will lie In state in the great rotunda. The display that goes with the funeral of the chief of a State will be seen when the cortege moves from the White House to the Capitol. There will be a military band playing the funeral march and an escort of soldiers pacing slowly. Officials Win March Members of the Supreme Court, Congressmen, diplomats and representatives of every phase of Washington’s official life will be in the procession, according to plans announced shortly after Mr. Coolidge reached Washington. ' At the Capitol the satafalque will be placed beneath the great dome In the rotunda, where others of the Nation’s on Page 11)

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