, 1923-08-03
DEATH STR|KESD DOWN CHIEF AS
HOPE FOR RECOVERY SBR|GHT

CONTINUED from rage OneD
victory against disease. but It ap-
peared in a moro insidious form and
he lost the battle.
GREAT SHOCK COMES
TO MRS. HARDING.
Great as was the shock 4 all who
dwell under the American flag and
to peoples in many lands. for Mr..
Harding by virtue of his office, and
his kindly and his lovable personality
had become a world figure. the great
est shock came to his wife. reading by
his side. But she did not collapse.
"She was shocked. OF course. and
Mt first unable to realize that she had
lost tho husband who had made up
all the interest in her life for SO many
proud and happy years. said Gen
eral Sawyer later. But there was
no collapse. no hysteria- Just a
brave rally to face her SORROW n
the duties devolving upon her at this
hour"
Mrs. Harding was standing the
shock well early today but whether
she could stand up under the grief
that bore down upon her as the sad
Journey back to Washington is made
was another question. Those who
know her best say that she will.
When dawn crept over the noun
tains and lighted up the Golden Gate
this morning almost all of the ar
rangements for this trip-the saddest
transcontinental journey in the his
tory OF the nation-had been made.
The trip will be started about seven
o'clock this evening. and should end
in Washington Tuesday morning.
From that point the arrangements
have not been definitely made but It
IL expected that the body will lay in
state in the rotunda of the capitol
where a Borrowing people have often
times before paid their last respects
to the leaders and tho heroes they
have lost
BURIAL TO BE
MADE AT MARION.
The burial place will be made at
Marion, Ohio. tho small Ohio city
which Warren q. Harding made
known around tho world because
there from poor and humble u
roundings he struggled upward until
the American people awarded him
the highest gift and paid him the
greatest honor within their power to
bestow. President Harding was a
mar who loved 1.-The home folks" and
II he had had time to leave a parting
word last night It undoubtedly would
have contained instructions that he
be buried in the town that knew him
as warren and where he called
most everyone by their FIRST INT
The trip across h continent VIII
be made on h same train that car
red the chief executive a well. happy
and hopeful man to the Pacific coast.
It's route will take It through Reno.
Ogden, Cheyenne. Omaha. Chicago
and thence Il Washington. 1t will
mako no stops except to change en-
zines and for other operating pur-
poses.
Tho body of tho president VIII be
borne in the same car as carried him
to the west 1t will be accompanied
by the same party that accompanied
the executive when he left Washing
ton June 20, with the addition of At
torney General Daugherty. General
Pershing and Mr.. and Mrs. q. e.
Rsmsberg and family of Santa Ana
Calf, Mrs. Remsberg being q sister
of Mr.. Harding.
NAVAL AND MILITARY
HONORS ARE PLANNED
Naval and military honors viii be
paid the dead commander by the
army and navy throughout the whole
trip. Two soldiers and two sailors.
members of the guard OF honor OF l6
enlisted men and WI officers. will
stand at attention beside the casket
The car bearing the body will be
lighted at night and the whole train
probably will be draped in black.
The body OF the president lay today
in the room in which he suffered ana
died. 1t will remain there before be-
ing taken to tho train. and Just be
fore tina is done the very simplest
private service will be held
fnYsICIANS AGREED
ON CAUSE OF DEATH
The five physicians who attended