Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-05
PRESIDENT
| PAYS HIGH TRIBUTE
| TO OLD DOMINION
Abandonment of Section
alism Provides Theme
for His Speeches.
FLOTILLA OF AIRCRAFT
FORMS GUARD OF HONOR
Senator and Mrs. Harding APP
pear in Fine Health
and Spirits.
URGES MARITIME GROWTH
Tells Newport News Audience He
Wants to Sec Great Shin
ping development.
FLOTILLA OF AIRCRAFT
FORMS GUARD OF HONOR
URGES MARITIME GRO WITH
Tells Newport News Audience He
Wants to Sec Great Ship
ping Development.
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StaH Correspondent The Times Dlsna,cb
NORFOLK, VA, Dec. 4.-y;rp;nj,
extended her warmest welcome TODAY
20 PRESIDENT Elect Warren C. Har.
o'hs upon his return from Panama.
an" gave him the most picturesque
erecting ne has ever received. Nor
ioik, Newport News and Portsmouth,
the great Underwater communities NJ
the state. with the army and navy
participating. gave their distinguished
guest fourteen hours Of unabated ey-
element
AIT. Hardins was received with all
'he coior anu forInality, all the homo,
ana pomp and circumstance duo m
the presidency itself; md, in nddj-
eion TO all the show, there was Tn.
genuine enthusiasm of these W.
sinia people for the man who !, ,o
be. not the Republican party.s Pres,-
dent, but the nations President IN.
four years.
Two Formal Addresses.
In two formal addresse,-one Al
newport News and the other Mt Nor.
foIk--Mr. Harding touched somewha,
upon his policies, his interest In tho
navy and the merchant marine. and
his determination that this should nor
DC "mortSaged" nation, IL no couId
prevent 1t: but he dealt In no new
questions or with no now problems
no was happy in his references +,
his hosts. No man could have hee,
more manifcstly appreciative. He
told MS audience ut Newport News
Tor example, that his State of Ohm
carved out OF original Virginia ter
ritory, has simuly inherited from the
mother commonwealth tho habit az
furnishing Presidents.
Tho distinguished guest and hi.
party arrived OFF Old Point Comfor.
~ O'Clock this morning aboard the
steamship Pastoras. and from the
time the United Fruit liner hove into
sight until he left ut II o'clock to.
night aboard a special train for Red
ford, Va. to address tho Elks. h.
was IN tcritable whirl. Not since
Theodore Roosevelt came here IN
open the jamestown Exposition has
any man been so wildly acclaimed bv
these Virginians.
Army and Navy Co-opernte.
And the two great war services.
the Army and Navy. which operate
IN conjunction here. as perhaps at no
other place on tho continent, riyaled
each other in their attentions to the
visitor and in spreading Before his
eyes the vast military works that are
concentrated in the Hampton Roads
territory.
AS The Pastores steamed slowly
through the Virginia Capes, a SQUAD
ron OF army airplanes from Lang
ley Field sailed forth to meet the
inner. Immediately another squadron
OF hydroplanes from the naval base
took the air and in open formation.
the air craft disappeared from view.
to reappear few moments later cir
cling the Pastores. AS the shin passed
into the roadstead four giant d,rig-
Dies flying both Army and Navy color.
joined the air neet already aIoft and
bulked gracefully over the liner.
y fleet OF perhaps zoo merchant
ships was lying in tho roads as the
Pastores entered and as she passed
along the !inc OF anchored freighters
every siren sounded. 4 few. hund red
yards from Old Point the grey-toned
and frowning battleship Florida rode
n anchor, awaiting the transfer
over her side OF Secretary of State
Colby. who sailed this morning aboard
her for South America. Seven hun
dred OF the Fiorldas seamen stood
rigidiy at attention as the .Pastorcs
glided by, and while no salute waa
fred. thcrcordial greetings OF the off,
GERS and men OF tho Flarlda were
wig-wasged to the liner. Tho skip
per of the Pastores signalled tho
Senator's thanks.
The Seamen's Compliments.
From the masthead OF virtually
every ship In Hampton Roads from
those lying in the River James of
Newport News, and from those Ia
Norfolk harbor itself. signal stream
ers tapped In tho wind---the ssamen's
best compliments. his good wishes and
friendliest handshake TO a dHtlp-
guished visitor.
At Newport News reception com.
mittees from all three cities with q
group OF Harding's friends from
Washington and Marion. were first 70
receive Mr.. Harding. HeginninE than
tcontinucd on Fourth pagsl