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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-10
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The nation will pay the tribute of
silence to Warren G.. Harding as his
body is entombed today at Marion.
From coast TO coast and from
border TO border every wheel of the
federal government and practically
every one of industry and of COM
merce will stand still. Theaters and
other amusement places will be
blosed: base bail games postponed
and other events of sport deferred.
As recommended by President
Coolidge in his proclamation officially
announcing the death of the late
President. the day will be one of
mourning and of prayer. Thousands
upon thousands will gather in their
places of worship for services as
myriad church bells toll their mourn
full message of beloved cheftain
laid TO his last rest.
Services Abrond.
These services will not be confined
to land or to America. At sea on
great passenger liners flying the
American and other flags prayers
will be said and memorial cere-
monies will be held in a number of
foreign lands--in historic Westmin-
ster Abbey, in France, in Switzerland.
in South America and elsewhere.
President Coolidge did not proclaim
this burial day a national holiday. as
1t was not his purpose to recommend
stoppage of industry, preferrjnR
rather to leave to each Individual
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-08-10
NEW POLITICAL FACES
ON PRESIDENTS SPECIAL
BY ROBERT II. SMALL
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
ABOARD THE PRESIDENTS TRAIN,
AKRON, Ohio, August 10. Calvin
Coolidge Is making his first trip out
OF Washington as President Of the
United States. He is accompanied by
some of the men who will bulk large
in the new administration. Most of
them are strangers to Washington,
strangers to the people Of the coun-
try. but they are destined to take
their places In history, just as the
man from Massachusetts, was destined
to become the occupant of the White
House.
Mr.. Coolidge will visit Marion to-
day as private citizen. The funeral
ceremonies are for Warren Harding
not for the departed President of the
United States. The ceremonies Of Of
ficialdom were dropped in Washing
ton. But Marion, bereft Of her own
first citizen. will take a particularly
keen interest in the new President,
They will find him silent and solemn
whore the President they had given
to the nation was free-spoken and
smiling Of countenance.
No OmciaI Visitors,
The party on the way to Marion
with the new President Is largely a.
volunteer one. There are many sem
ators. the governors of several
states and various other dignitaries
But inasmuch as Mrs, Harding had
expressed the wish that the services
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Presidents Flag
From Mayflower
TOGO to Craze
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MARION, Ohio, August 10.-A
great blue flag with four white
stars that has waved proudly from
the masthead when the guns of
saluting battle craft roared their
tributes to President Harding in
the past will wave bravely before
the hearse that carries him today
to his tomb. 1t is the Presidents
flag from the presidential yacht
Mayf1oWer, sent to Marion in the
custody of a proud member of the
Mayfiower's crew that the little
company from the ship which
marched in Washington as special
guard of honor for the dead shall
be represented also at the last
service for the Commander-in-
Chief who will sail with them no
more.
The flag is no silken banner. but
is knit of the heavy stuff neces-
sary for the hard service on blue
water. 1t is larger and heavier
than the banners carried by troops
ashore and was not made to ride on a
staff, but to swing from the rolling
masthead of a deep-water ship in
all the breeZeS that might blow.
Yet it will be carried through the
streets of Marion today by Howard
+. Carlson, chief radio man of the
Mayf1ower, specially designated to
bring 1t here that the men of the
Mayflower. who personally knew
the dead chief, might have a share in
his last honors.
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D. c: AUT0|STS WAR
ON GASOLINE RATES
Associations Demand Reduc.
ton, With California Paying
ID Cents a Gallon.

A war on gasoline prices was de-
clared today by the American Auto
mobile Association and tho National
Motorists Association.
Representatives Of both organixa-
tions announced that steps would be
taken toward obtaining reduction
In what they claimed to be exorbitant
prices OF gasoline.
Today Washington motorists are
paying 81 cents a gallon wholesale
and % cents retail Other Atlantic
seaboard states are paying even more.
The middle west, however. sells tho
same gasoline for considerably
lower price and California only pays
IL cents gallon wholesale.
The vast differences In the price
scale In the various states form con-
vincing evidence in the minds of
leading motor organization heads that
somewhere largo and unfair profits
vestigation by Gov. McMaster of
South Dakota and It's result has
brought them much encouragement,
Meeting Being Planned,
An executive meeting of the three
"As" will be held here in the near
future to determine how to get to
the rock bottom of the matter and to
push legislation that will protect the
motoring public. Announcement to
this effect was made today by v, D..
L, Robinson, national director of
roads. He stated that where 1t could
be found that exhorbitant prices were
being charged tho A. A. A. would be
ready to get after the cause with
every available effort,
Raymond Beck, manager OF the
National Motorist Association, de-
olared today that he was convinced
that enormous profits were being made
at the expenses Of the public and
that it was Nighttime the motoring
public, through it's organizations,
fought the unjust prices to a finish.
He stated that the association yes
terday had sent wires to every sec
ton of the country to ascertain the
price of gas during the past week.
Would Go to Congress-,
1--WE will force the matter to Con-
gress, where we will compel them
to show UP the companies that arc
oyercharginE and pass legislatien
with teeth In it." Mr.: Beck declared.
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KEPNER TO BARE
HIS STORY MONDAY
Grill Expected When Frede-
rick Murder Defendant
Takes Stand.
By q stan Correspondent.

FREDERICK, Md, August 1o-B.
Evard Kepner. the prominent archi-
tect and church leader. who has been
on trial in the county circuit court
here charged with the murder Of his
wealthy wife, Mrs. Grace Simmons
Kepner, will take the stand in his
own defense when the court recon-
venes at 10 o'clock Monday morning.
That decision was announced today
by Leo Weinberg, chief of counsel
for the defense, after a long confer
ence with Mr.. Kepner. In a little
county jail. and was the direct result
Of damaging testimony sprung with
sensational suddenness on at least
three occasions by the state yester-
day. Fully realizing that tho state
has been burning for an opportunity
to grill Mt. Kepner before the court.
Mr., Weinberg said he saw no chance
Of his client escaping the grusling or
deal, and was prepared to devote at
least one entire day to the testimony
Of the defendant. He probably will
be called again Tuesday, and, IL the
states DISCRIMINATION proves as Sc
also testify part Of Wednesday.
Defense Asks Delay.
The request for adjournment of
court until Monday morning came
from Mr.. Weinberg himself, esten-
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FUTURE HOLDS MENACE.
Passive Resistance Policy Fate Soon
to Be Determined.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August 10.-Passive re-
sistance in the Ruhr and the Rhine
land, which Chancellor Cuno yester-
day informed the reichstag would be
continued until France decided to Gre.
ate an atmosphere conducive to nego-
tiations on an equality basis, Is ap-
preaching the state whore it's further
maintenance along peaceful lines will
depend wholly on the governments
ability to keep the resisting popuia-
tion we'll fed.
The falling mark, curtailment of To-
GAL food supplies, due to natural short
age and the interrupted rail facilities,
and also the punitive measures which
increasingly are being imposed by the
French, now rapidly are contributing
to the growing irritation and restless
ness among the miners, steel workers
and civil service employees.
The governments apprehensions in
this direction are literally shared by
Hugo SHINES, the Thyssens and other
Ruhr industrialists who equally are
alarmed over the prospects of an era
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MRS. HARDING STILL
KEEPS UP COURAGE.
No Mark of Respect for Dead
President Has Escaped
Her Notice.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MARION. Ohio, August 10.-After
the last night OF vigil near her hus-
bands casket, which rested in the
little frame homo of DR.. George r.
Harding. Mrs. Harding continued to-
day the watchful attention there.
still brave and calm. No mark OF
respect to the memory OF tho late
President escaped her during the
early hours. No offer OF sympathy
from her friends was received with
out a returned act Of graciousness.
Mrs. Harding reiterated her thanks
whenever a plea that some ono DO
allowed to help was heard, but stead
lastly kept her grief in quietude. ap-
parently preferring to suffer alone
without giving cause for worry to
others, willing though they we're to
share her burden.
Mrs. Harding Secs Crowds.
The crowds awaiting last oppor-
tunity to gaze again on the face of
the dead before the casket was
finally closed for movement to tho
cemetery were viewed by Mrs Hard
ing from the windows of the house
where she spent tho night, The
column filled the pavements from
the point whore the pathway led
across the lawn to the doorway to
an ever-increasing distance in the
downtown Streets caused by the
growing number of persons who took
their places at the lines end,
In the line were hundreds of faces
familiar to Mrs. Harding and in them
she recognized many old and warm
friends of the late President and
herself. 1t was typical of the woman
concealed from the sight of those in
the streets by the drawn shades,
that orders were given those in
charge Of arrangements that mono
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the Changing OF the DellS was Stiileu.
Except for the multitude that grew
hourly TO fill the sidewalks with NOV
ing humanity, Marion was a city of
silence in her sorrow, a silence that
would not be broken until the simple
funeral train gathered late In the day
to bear the dead President to the
tomb that awaited him. Then there
must come an added stir and move
ment that could not be avoided; then
would voices be raised in prayer or
sacred melodies as the last rites were
said. But the morning hours were
peaceful and calm and as untroubled
as the sleep of the man thus honored.
The Harding home was opened
again to the public at o'clock this
morning, two hours before the time
set for the public review to begin
again, and the long. silent line began
to move. A detachment Of artillery
troops was on duty at the house d.
rectfne the line. BY the time the
line had started TO move 1t had
lenRthened to more than fifteen
blocks.
stand Before House.
Thousands. despairing Of opportun-
ity to see their dead President and
friend, made a solemn pilgrimage to
the home where his body lay. They
went on the opposite side of the
street and finally. reaching the spot.
would stand uncovered in silence for
q few minutes before being forced to
move on that others might take their
places to pay their respect and q last
farewell.
Tho long line. six to eight abreast
and extending down Center street into
the very heart Of the business dis
trict, where every door was locked,
was most orderly. It was broken for
a few minutes at $50 to permit en-
ployes Of the Marion Star. with whom
the late President labored in getting
out his newspaper for years. to take
at special request OF Mrs. Harding.
New and then It also would be broken
to permit distant relatives OF MIR.
Harding to view the body.
Throngs Pour Into City.
All during the night and increasing
a. the day drew on. thousands OF peo..
pouring into the city from all COM
pass points In ono continuous stream.
Thousands OF automobiles parked
along the roadsides outside OF the
city, their occupants catching what
snatches Of sleep they might until
morning.
sands began arriving during the
night and continued to come in today
city streets were packed with people
early and the task of feeding the Wis
itors was taxing Marfon's eating
places
Hundreds Of people walked the
streets all night unable or unwilling
to go to bed. Many slept on benefits
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u. S. TANKER MISSING
WITH CREW OF 30
Damaged Lifeboats and Body In
Ice Chest Only Clues to
Swift Stars Fate.
nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
PANAMA, August 16.-Shipping cir
cles here fear that the American
tanker Swift Star, bound from San
Pedro, Calf, to Fall River, Mass,
with a cargo of crude oil, has been
lost at sea with her crew of thirty
men,
Drifting wreokage marked with the
vessels name was found by mariners
Off San Andres Island, ESQ miles north
of Colon, while fishing boats from
that island report that damaged life
boats were seen drifting off the coast
on July "a. The fishermen also found
a floating ice chest marked Swift
star" The chest contained the body
of a man: The sea for some dis
lance around was pil-stained.
The Swift Star passed through the
Panama canal July 10.
Shipping records show that the
tanker Swift Star has not been heard
from since she left the canal. The
vessel, commanded by Capt: Richa I'd
Hull, left San Pedro fer Fall River
on June ae. She carried 100000 hAr>
Esls OF crude oil,
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STRIKE WAVE GROWS.
Millions of Marks Pay Not Enough
to Assure Food.
BY HIRAM X. MoDERwELL.

By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News.
Copyright, 1923.
BERLIN. August 1o.-Unexpected
aid has been brought to Chancellor
Cuno of Germany IN his efforts toward
a cessation of imitation.
Printers in Berlin last night de-
cided to strike beginning today. This
includes numerous printing shops
making money for the Reichsbank, al
though the authorities this morning
still hope to persuade the men to
make an exception regarding money
production.
This Is one Of the wave OF strikes.
mostly unauthorized, which Thursday
afternoon began to sweep over Berlin
The latest reports show that the
movement is spreading. Some sub
urban lines this morning are not
working and also many factories.
The strikes are entirely spontaneous
and moderate. Socialist and trade
union leaders are helpless. In some
cases the men do not strike but sim
ply sit down and refuse>to work, say
ing g;r o,,.. norr vs.ra roo b,n
cry"
Wages Cease to Exist.
Wages have virtually ceased TO
exist. Men occasionally receive hand
outs Of money sufficient for a days
food supply practically without rela-
ton to the established wage scale.
At present a metal workers weekly
wage Is two and a quarter million
marks, or so cents. A pound OF mar
garine costs a third of the weekly
wage. The cheapest shoes cost three
weeks wages. Many prices have
doubled over night. Fats are almost
unpurchasable.
Workmen make sudden demands on
employers for five or ten million
marks bonus-whatever occurs to
them-or demand that the manage
ment of the factory undertake the
regular supply of food. Some en-
ployers offered margarine IL the men
would not strike.
The communists are calling a gen.
eral meeting of all shop council rep
rosentatiyes, which, in tho general
mood of desperation, may have serious
consequences.
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THOUSANDS POURING INTO CITY
FOR FINAL TRIBUTE TO LEADER
''Boys' From Newspaper He Edited Pass
Beside Casket-Sleepless Hundreds
Walk Streets All Night.
BY the Associated Press.

MARION. Ohio. August 1O-The when human eyes
would look their last the face of Warren Gamae Harding,
twenty President of the United States dawned with many
who loved him still waiting pass slowly beside the bier
ing his fathers home. Before the shadows of evening steal
the wide peaceful fields of the valley where he born
the gates of his tomb will have closed behind him. and the long
long way of his funeral ended
The gracious Kindness who onged for
the end of the public ordeal that has stretched than
ceremonial pageant that the people of the nation
the and the that claimed him might testify
their grief aside her wish be alone with her dead
a the last.
Throughout hours OF darkness last night the caket which
held him open the humble home and all freely well
pass beside il again Today the face of the dead chief
visible for the last the boys who knew him
the offices of the Marion Star when he sat
there editor others privately the casket be-
of their bygone with the
dead In the depths of her great Mrs Harding had not
failed of the thoughtful kindness that has marked her
action death her husband San
Francisco.
THOUSANDS PASS INTO ROOM
night that and child IN Marion
long this last honor to the dead
No how thousands had walked through
the modest lay and gazed the
ful under the glass
about the dark streets despite the hun
waiting the other hundreds slowly away talk
ing with usd ose the nGsG death as thew wh Rsd nown him
life kindly dignity that marked him in his hours P1sdens
dns U o4 thsm nsf %ns
nc The last day before the haowed relics
sgsn .D s4s on m OF sh
but walked for the most part ana .a
p Would not not e 60 with hn tomb
CITY OF SILENCE.
Again TODAY the stir of movement of hushed
honor the great surround silent and de-
serted rafting broke the quiet of the shady
On add thousands
the throng already gathered but no whistle blew and
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GERMANY ON VERGE
Of REVOLT, IS VIEW
Of NATIONS CHIEFS
Unrest Among Workers In
Creases AIarmingIy and Flu
ture Is Greatly Feared.
STRIKE GROWS AS WAGES
BECOME NON-EXISTENT
Printers Making Currency for
Reichsbank Walk Out-Ruhr
Nears Crisis.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, August 1o.-A Central
News dispatch from Berlin today
said:
Reports to hand from all parts of
Germany today show that unrest
among the workers is increasing
alarmfng1y. so much so that in po-
liticaI circles this morning fears
were not concealed that a revolution
may break out as suddenly as that in
November, 1918, did,
STRIKE WAVE GROWS.
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President Orders Speed Re-
duced to Arrive Just Be-
fore Funeral.
SOMBERNESS MARKS
NIGHT TRIP TO WEST
Departure From Washington With
out Ceremony-Special Bears
New Political Faces.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AKRON, Ohio. August 10.-Presi-
dent Coolidges special train. en-
route to President Harding's funeral,
in Marion, stopped for five minutes in
Akron this morning at 1921 o'clock.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge ap-
peared on the rear platform of their
car and were greeted by applause
from a delegation of approximately
l, 900 persons, headed by Mayor d. {.
Rybolt. They also posed for photog-
raphers.
The President and his encourage ex-
pected to reach their destination at
l:30 pm.
Party Retires Early.
At Martinsburg, w. Va. the first
stop, only small group of section hands
and station employees gathered at mid
night to greet their President, who had
retired shortly before the station was
reached. Cumberland, the next stop,
was passed in the dead Of night. The
train was as sombre as the train that
bore the remains of Mr.. Harding back
10 his native state. Not only Mr..
Coolidge, but the rest of his party
Chief Justice Taft, Gen. Pershing, mem
ing officers of the three arms of the
seryice-retired soon alter the capital
had been left behind.
The train moved quickly out of Wash
inston on a dash to Marion, but before
Ma rtinsburg had been reached it was
decided TO cut speed so that the train
would not arrive until one hour and
half before the final services. leaving to
Marion it's own dead as long as pos
sible.
Receives Senators In Car.
ceived in his private car a few sena-
tors. including Spencer of Missouri,
who dropped in to pay their respects.
John r. Adams, chairman of the re-
publican national committee. boarded
the train at the last minute.
Mrs. Coolidge. as efficient a house
wife as New England has produced,
visited the diner with her husband
before going to bed and inspected
with interest the pots and pans. The
first lady of the land, vino, 1t is ex-
pected, personally will supervise the
menu when she moves into the White
House and perhaps prepare a few
Of the Presidents favorite dishes, ex-
pressed herself amazed at the COM
pact cooking quarters.
Maj. James F. Coupal, a member
of the Army Medical Corps. who has
served as Mr.. Coolidge's physician
since the Chief Executive first came
to Washington as Vice President, uar-
ticipated in the inspection. The
diners crew pointed with pride to
their larder and the major, after
looking al the foodstuffs. pronounced
them excellent.
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WEATHER.

Mostly cloudy tonight and Satur-
day; no change in temperature.
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ended at pm. today: Highest. so, at
p m. today; lowest, 6S at am. to-
day.
Full report on page :.
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The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton is delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-19
MOTHERS OF
 FAMOUS MEN
THE MOTHER OF WENDELL
 PHILLIPS


 Most of the qualities that com bined to make his greatness were Inherited by Wendell Phillips, great American orator and reformer, from his mother. Sally Valley. a splendid, sweet woman, of charming manner and high principles. Although he was the eighth child of his mother. he did not find her a tired, worn-out woman, who regarded her duty to her children fulfilled by bringing them into the world. She felt that she must help them as they grew womanbood. And her help did not end with the material comfort she created for them. She believed that q mother must do more than feed her children well. and clothe them warmly. She felt that they needed her mental and spiritual understand ing as well.
 The life of Sally Phillips was de- voted to doing these things for her children. Her chief aid was the Bible: she never grew weary Of searching the Scriptures, and said she could find solace for any trouble there. as well as the answer to any problem.
 She believed in the value of early religious impressions, but was wise enough not to make the childrens religious training task, but rather a pleasure. Her outstanding quail ties, every one of which her famous son inherited, were beautiful sim plicity of manner and attitude; an earnest sincerity, and an intense de- termination to stand by the right. It was this last mentioned quality that was most clearly reflected in the life of Wendell Phillips. He could not bear to see injustice done to anyone, and would stand by the right re- gardless of the cost to him. He all ways declared that his mother had given him the love of justice, both by inheritance and teaching.