The Winslow mail., 1923-08-03

The Nations chief executive is
dead. All America mOurns. The
United States has lost its President
and in the little city of Marion, Ohio,
an aged father is grief stricken by
the sudden death of his son Warren.
News of the Presidents death was
first received in Winslow by radio.
The announcer for prominent
broadcasting station in Los Angeles
had just announced that he had the
news of the day including sports,
and that the first report he would
read would be a message announc-
ing the Presidents recovery or pos
sible recovery Hardly had he finish
ed speaking when messenger en-
tered with the fatal telegraphic bull
letin announcing the unexpected and
sudden death of Americas chief ex-
ecutiWe.
The radio message stated that ap-
parently the President was on the
road to full recovery, and that Mrs.
Harding and Brigadier General Char
les E. Sawyer, the Presidents per-
sonal physician and two nurses were
in the room. All of a sudden about
1880 D. M the President struggled
and attracted the attention of those
in the room and died practically in
simultaneously by what was thought
to be stroke of apoplexy. DR.. Saw
yer then rushed into the hall and
summoned five other physicians who
were waiting, and they gave out the
above statement that death was due
to apoDlexy.
Details are not forthcoming but it
is presumed that among these ply
sicians were: DR.. Ray Lyman Will
bur, President of Stanford Univer-
sity and the present head of the
American Medical Society; DR.. Chas.
M. Cooper, San Francisco heart
specialist; lieutenant commander
Joel T. Boone, naval surgeon, who
for more than a year has been acting
as assistant to DR.. Sawyer, and DR..
Hubert Work, Secretary of the In
terror and former President of the
American Medical Association.
The death of the President coming
as a bolt from a clear sky as it did,
not only shocked the entire nation
but even those who had been in con-
slant attendance upon the President.
The President retained full con-
sciousness up to the time of the
stroke, and everybody had remarked
upon and bulletins had been issued
that he was on the road to full re-
covery and health.
Only a few days ago DR.. George
F. Harding, aged father of the Pres
ident and who practices medicine in
the little city of Marion, recalled that
President Harding had had "a severe
attack of lung fever" while youth
The Presidents father also said that
Harding had suffered several attacks
of Indigestion which were accompa-
MED by slight dilation of the heart
These, however, were of slight dur
alton and did not confine him to his
bed.
1t is thought that probably these
former attacks had left the Pres
ident's BODY in a weakened condi-
tion in vital places, and that as he
had avanced in years and become
burdened with the affairs of state
this condition caused the stroke tC
be fatal.
Biography of Deceased Executive
President Harding was born or
the outskirts of the little village OF
Blooming Grove, Ohio, November 2
1855. At the age of eleven years ne
obtained job as printer ueVll
on the Caledonia Argus, a publica
tion in a nearby town with which
his father was associatde. In 1881
President Harding entered the Ohio
Central College, a small institution
in the village of Iberia In 1882 ht
graduated from this school with the
degree of Bachelor of Science, ant
went to Marion, Ohio. Harding was
then engaged in school teaching
reading law, and in the insurance
business.