Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1923 — Page 1

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SPECIAL TRAIN BRINGS BODY OF WARREN HARDING HOME

Warren G. Harding Marion, Ohio :: 1865-1923 Ql Laborer, Printer, Editor, Publisher, Senator, President cCb Motoring- - - - - His Hobby Golf ----- His Diversion Dogs Their Friend Simple and Godly—A Devout Baptist—Childless, but a Lover of Children Nation's 29th Chief Executive Returns in Death to Scenes of His Boyhood

By ROBERT TALLEY. iY / ASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Nobody back in Morrow County, W Ohio, fifty years ago, ever thought that “Doc” Harding’s boy, Warren, would ever be President of the United States—not even Dr. George T. Harding, himself. For all the world knew then, Warren Harding was just the same as any other youngster and gifted with no more talents than his schoolmates. One of them, by the way, is now a policeman in Memphis, Tenn., and another is a barber in a Western eiiy.~~ But the queer fates of destiny which had plucked Lincoln from a log cabin years later sent this lad to the White House and old Dr. Harding lived to see the day. He was the first father who ever saw his son inaugurated as PresidenUof the United States.

PHONE INJUNCTION SUIT SUBJECT OF LONG CONFERENCE Commission Discusses Ways to Keep Regulatory Powers, Although coming to no definite conclusions as to how to meet a suit brought in Federal Court by the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, asking for injunctions which would virtually deprive the piublic service commission of all its regulatory powers, the commissioners discussed the situation thoroughly at a three-hour conference today. The company seeks to restrain the commission from interfering with collection of inoreased rates petitioned for a year sffco. Some of the commissioners believed that the BeU company, believing the commission would deny rate and toll increases asked, sought to wal'd off the contingency by filing the suit. The suggestion was madfe that the commission release its order soon and "stand on Its own feet.” Some were doubtful as to whether it would be better to assume a purely defensive attitude in the forthcoming case or to take the aggressive and plead for the restitution O' fthe dwindling powers of the body. It was suggested that the court and complainants might permit the introduction of several of the exhibits presented in the Bell hearings some months ago.* Transcripts of the hearings also might be used in the Federal case, and by this means considerable time might be saved, was another suggestion. The commissioners declined to say whether or not the body would release its order. Commissioner Glenn Van Auken, who retires this month, prepared the order which unexpectedly was withheld at the time many persons believed it was due for release.. One commissioner said "a couple of cogs in the machinery slipped at the last minute.” MURDER JURY FOREMAN INDICTED FOR BRIBERY Charge Is in Two Counts in Miners* Insurrection. By United Prett LEWISBURG, W. Va., Aug. 9.—H. R. Harah, foreman of the jury which William Blizzard for murder in connection with the Logan County miners’ insurrection, today was Indicted by a grand jury on two counts s t bribery.

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Tr-p, | HE son of a country doctor of I very modest circumstances, L 1 later laborer, printer, newspaper publisher and finally President, the career of Warren G. Harding furnishes another striking example of what is possible in America. A struggling young newspaper editor of 27, he married Florence Kling, daughter of the town banker, after they had met at a dance. Her father strongly opposed the wedding, and for seven years he refused to speak to his son-in-law. Although childless himself. President Harding was a lover of children. Rarely did an opportunity present itself. especially during his later years, that he did not take a little tot by the hand or pat him affectionately on the head. He never spoke of it, but some how those around him seemed to sense his longing for a child of his own. • • • I RESIDENT HARDING dearly loved his mother and to him treasure. Greater than anything else, perhaps, was her influence on his life. She died ten years before her boy became President, a fact that caused him a secret sorrow on his inaugural day when he was being showered with all the honors a nation could bestow. It was not that he wished to parade his greatness before her, but because he knew the joy that would warm her heart if she could only be there. For many years before she died he sent flowers to her regularly every Sunday morning. He liked to select them himself so he could make the prettiest bouquets possible. When absent from home he usually wired to the florist or made arrangements before he left. After she went away from him he used to go to the cemetery and place a wreath on the little green knoll where she slept. • • * T HOEBE DICKERSON, for that was his mother’s maiden name, i——i and the( President’s father, both married at a tender age and Warren was their first baby. "Was he handsome?” an interviewer asked old Dr. Harding years later, right after his son had entered the White House. "Well, there wasn’t any unanimous opinion about that,” the old man drawled. “Some said, ‘Yes,’ and some said. ‘No,’ but his mother and I both thought he was real pretty.” A devout Baptist, the mother inculcated her deep religious nature Into her boy. From the Bible she supplied his middle name—Gamaliel, which in Hebrew means “God is a reward”—and for his future she chose the ministry. The crowning joy of her life would come, she felt, when she could sit in her pew and listen to a sermon by the flesh of her flesh and the blood of her blood. • • • D r—_ " EBTINY picked another future for Harding, and Fate cast him into the presidency, but the deep religious training that he received from his mother lived throughout the years, as a passage from his inaugural address will show: “I believe in prayer,” fce said simply. "I believe in prayer in the (Continued on Page 11)

Executive’s Last Rest in White House . and State Procession to Capitol Rotunda

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IN THE HISTORIC EAST ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUBE, WHERE IN LIFE HE ENTERTAINED DISTINGUISHED FOREIGN DELEGATIONS AND RECEIVED FOLKS FROM-'"BACK HOME,” WARREN O. HARDING’S BODY LAY IN STATE. TtfE GOLDEN CHANDELIERS CAST A MELLOW GLOW OVER THE FLAG DRAPED CASKET AS HIGH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS CALLED TO PAY TIIEIR RESPECTS TO THE NATION’S LATE CHIEF. '

DEMOCRATS OIL MACHINERY FOR • NEXTCAMPAIGN State Committee Adopts Resolution Mourning Late President,^ Campaign machinery was being oiled by Indiana Democrats who attended a meeting at the Claypool this afternoon. Members of the State committee, party leaders and candidates and near candidates from all parts of the State were present. "We are planning meetings of workers in every district,” Waiter S. Chambers, State chairman, said. “We wish to urge on party workers the necessity of naming first-class men and women as precinct committeemen and the selection of county, chairmen who have both the capacity and willingness to direct the campaign. Prepare in Advance "We want to have everything so we shall be ready to go when the nominations are made. "We intend to make a vigorous, twofisted campaign, and we do not expect to be on the defensive.” The committee adopted this resolution on the death of Warren G. Harding: "Be it resolved by tha Democratic State Central Committee of Indiana, in regular assembly, that for and on behalf of the Democratic party of our State, we hereby express our sincere sorrow over the untimely death of President Warren Gamaliel Harding. Irrespective of political affiliation the entire nation today mourns his* loss. We join in that hour of sorrow. Laud Public Life "President Harding loved his fellowmen. He carried with him. into the councils of the nation a sincere and abiding concern fo ( r the welfare and happiness of the masses. He did this kindly arfS considerately. Jealous, as he had a right to be, of the success of that political party -which had done him such great honor, he at no time evinced the purpose to place party preferment above the public good. Such men are needed today in high places of trust and responsibility. "It is with a full sense of the nation’s loss that we sweep aside petty partisan differences and add our word of sympathy and condolence to the bereaved family and our sincere tribute of love and respect to the memory of our stricken President.” Chambers said he expected to attend the Harding funeral at Marion tomojrow unless prevented by illness in his family. He said if he cannot go, he will appoint someone to represent the committee. > "

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HERE IS THE CAISSON BEARING THE BODY OF WARREN G . HARDING TURNING INTO PENNSYLVANIA AVE. EN ROUTE FROM THE 'WHITE HOUSE TO THE CAPITOL. GENERAL PERSHING LED 'THE MILITARY RSCftltT. THOUSANDS, FROM NEWSBOYS AND FLOWER GIRLS ON UP TO THE NATION’S LEADERS, PASSED BEFORE THE BIER AS IT LAY IN STATE UNDER THE SPREADysTG DOME OF THE HISTORIC OLD GOVERNMENT BUILDING.

STREET CARS TO STOP2MINUTES Conductors to Direct Silent Tribute at 3p.m, _ ' City street cars will come to a stop for two minutes at 3 p. m. Friday In reverence for the memory of Warren G. Harding. Conductors have been Instructed to announce the reason for stopping, and will suggest that all in the cars stand and men remove their hats, J. P. Tret ton, superintendent, announced. Interurban lines and the Broad Ripple line are considering the same action at 2 p. "m. for one minute. —-! HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 69 10 a. ai. 74, 7 a. m 71 11 a. m 76 8 a. m 71 12 (noon) 77 # a. m. 71 Ip. m....,... 78

FIFTH. LABORJSODY OUT Electrical Workers Local Ujjdon No. 481 has withdrawn from the Central Labor Union, following four other local bodies which took such action on the ground that matters other than those strictly pertaining to labor were injected Into‘the central body's jlellberaflons. The electrical union has 200 members and three delegates to the C/ L. U.

Mothers and fathers of Indianapolis: Do you want your children to continue attending school In makeshift frame buildings, poorly ventilated and heated by stoves, buildings of which some of the poorest rural communities in Indiana be ashamed? Indianapolis this winter will have eighty such buildings and hundreds of children will be forced to spend the cold winter days In them. Your children are forced to occupy "these buildings because a little group of citizens who think more of their pocketbooks than of the welfaA of

TABLET TO BE PRESENTED A memorial bronze tablet bearing the inscription “He was Magnificent in life, but is more wonderful in death,’’ will be presented to Mrs. Warren G. Harding, by Indianapolis Federal employes and officials. , **The Inscription Was- thestatement of Mrs. Harding after the death of the late President.

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the future citlzenO of Indianapolis have blocked every effort to obtain adequate school facilities. Not one permanent school building has been constructed In Indianapolis for more than two years. Yet In that time the school population has grown rapidly. Children literally have been crowded out of the school buildings and into frame shacks and old residences. The school board is making an earnest effort to remedy this situation, to provide for your children. But the effort wag blocked once and now fourteen citizens again are at-

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Huge Crowds Along Tracks-Cause Cortege to Creep Toward Final Resting Place of Executive at Marion, Ohio. LITTLE CITY IS THRONGED WITH THOUSANDS t Roads Jammed With Mourners and Military Authorities Take Over Handling of Traffic Problem — Stricken idow Courageous. _ By TOM GERfeER United Press Sports Editor MARION, Ohio, Aug. 9.—Warren G. Harding is home. This sorrowing city has received back the body of her son, twenty-ninth President of the United States, who died in the service of the Nation. A hush, Troken only by the solemn tolling of every church! bell, fell over the town as the train moved slowly through tha yards. \ The Presidential fune/al train entered Marion at 12:35 p. m. and the* Courthouse bell began tolling. The requiem of bells was then taken up by all churches in the city. Erie railroad stations between Mansfield and Marion reported, huge crowds swarmed the tracks from the neighborhood in which! Warren Harding was born, and the train ran slowly. Entering Marion, the train ran through a long line of men, women and children massed on both sides of the track, their heads bowed. At the station a company of National Guardsmen stood stiffly at attention.

All Business Suspended At l2:.>a, wnn two snort masts of t hleocomotive whistle, the train drew Into the station. All businessdn own was suspended and thousands of citizens stood along the streets and as near the depot as the military guards would permit them. At 12:43 p .m. the casket was removed through a rear window of tjie observation car, In which it had been carried from coast to coast. . There was no sound save*Oie deep clang of the tolling bells. While the coffin was being placed on a baggage truck, the honor guard, representing all branches of the service, Mrs. Harding left the train. Mrs. Harding leaned heavily on Presidential Secretary George Christian. General Sawyer followed. Then came members of the Cabinet, and Senator Cummins and Speaker Gillett, representing both branches of Congress. George T. Harding, Jr., brother of the late President, and other members of the family were next to leave the train. Widow Walks Slowly Mrs. Harding walked slowly to her automobile as the casket was being placed in the gray hearse by the pallbearers, who were bent by Its great weight. Absolute silence prevailed until tho body had been placed in the hearse and Mrs. Harding had left the platform. Then a switch engine, with clanging bells, clattered over a crossing and the noises of the railroad yard were resumed. At 12:52 p. m. the hearse started for the home of the President’s aged father. Dr. George Harding, jyhVre a large crowd awaited it. The President's body reached the Harding house at 1:15 p. m. „ Led by Military Guard 7 The procession from the station to Dr. Harding’s home was led by a miltary guard of eighteen which has been with the body constantly s|nce It left San Francisco. The hearse was followed by three automobiles bearing members of the Cabinet, Speaker Gillett and Senator Cummins. The fourth car in line was a limousine with drawft curtains. It was for Mrs. Florence Kling Harding, the woman to whom all the sympathy of old friends and neighbors in Marion is offered. - Seven cars followed that of Mrs. Harding, occupied by relatives. These, with eight others, for other members of the Washington party—twenty cars in all —made up the procession. Through Center St., the heart of Marion’s business district, the concourse went directly to Dr. Harding's home’ where, after 2 p. m., the body will lie in state. Every arrangement for the funeral made by Col. Frank P. Lahm, President Coolidge’s personal representative, and Hpke W. Donithen, lawyer and personal friend of the Hardings, has been made with the one purpose of saving Mrs. Harding the ordeal of a ceremonious funeral. No sermon will be preached, no bands will play; there will be neither

tempting to stop the-buißiing program. They are fourteen against thousands of parents in Indianapolis, but under our law even ten persons can delay a school building program while your children shiver In frame shacks. Os course, it costs money to build schools. But Is there any parent In Indianapolis who would not dig a little deeper into his pocket to proride a decent building to house his child? The school program prorides for the erection of eight new buildings and additions. The proposed cost is

' Forecast CLOUDY and unsettled tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature.

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flashing of sabres, rumble of artillery wheels nor firing of salutes to mark the laying away of President Warren G. Harding. DOLLINGS MOVES TOLD IN LETTER TO SMOLDERS Receiver McßricTe Writes Ohio Official's Are Under Fire, Conduct of affairs of the R. I* Dollings Company of Indiana, the International Note and Mortgage Company and their subsidiaries under the direction of Bert Mcßride, receiver, was explained In a letter sent to all stockholders by Mcßride today. The plants have been closed, all pay rolls done away with and office furniture and equipment disposed of, the letter stated. Mcßride sai dhe knew nothing of the stockholders meeting which was called by Edgar M. Haas of Richmond for Aug. 15, other than what he had read in the newspapers. The meeting will be held at th K. of P. bldg. In Indianapolis, according to Haas. High officials of the Dollings interests in Ohio were under fire today in oourt proceedings at Columbus, Ohio, according to dispatches. William G. Benham, president and general manager of the R. L. Dollings Company, was on the stand in the receivership hearing of the Phoenix PortlandT Cement Company of Ohio.' Benham admitted on the stand that the general managership carried an annual inedme of $90,000, a position he held, but that he was ignorant of the fact that the Phoenix company did not operate a plant at Nazareth, Pa. Stock In the company was floated, he admitted, on the understanding that the company controlled the Nazareth plant. t FRANC AND MARK SET NEW LOW RECORDS Money Apparently Ready foi Another Landslide. B United Press LONDON, Aug. 9. —German marks, apparently due for another landslide, opened at 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 to the pound sterling. By United Press PARIS, Aug. 9.—Tjie French franc, continuing to establish new low records, fell to 1,758 to the dollar on the Bourse this morning.

$1,650,000, or about $5 for each individual in Indianapolis. And this cost will be distributed aver a period of years. Is this too much to pay for the health and education of the children of Indianapolis? The building program is out of the hands of the school board. Whether it will be carried out depends oa-ifte State tax board, a body of three men, only one of whom lives in Indianapolis. Are you, mothers and fathers of Indianapolis. going to permit the build- j lng program, almost a life and deatM matter to hundreds of your Jo be blocked?