The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-24
SUDDEN DEATH AGAIN NNADES
 HARDING GROUP
Brigadier General Sawyer
 Falls Dead At 7 Marion

MARION, Ohio. Sept. 23.-Brig. Gen. Charles E. Sawyer, close friend and physician to the late President Harding died late Tuesday at White Oaks farm, his sanitarium. Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, his son, who was present with Mrs. Sawyer when his father died. gave heart disease as the cause of death The elder Sawyer was GA years old. Mrs. Warren G. Harding, widow $, of the late President, was in the house, but not in the same room, at the time.
 Sawyer had come home and com plained that he was feeling badly. He was lying on lounge when the end came suddenly. He threw up an arm before his face and slumped over on his side, while his son used every available form of first aid treatment without success.
 Brigadier General Sawyer was with the late President Harding throughout his term at the White House and was with him at his death in San Fran cisco. He was retained at the White House a short while by President Cool idge, But later returned to Marion to give his attention to the sanitarium and the Harding Memorial association, of which he was chief executive.
 Though diminutive in stature, Brig. Gen. Sawyer cut wide swath in Washington from the day he appeared = here with the Hardings to be the White House physician.
 -ie was brought to Washington by President Harding because of his fa- miliarity with the case of Mrs. Hard ing whom he had saved from death in previous illness. He was civil ian but President Harding commis- stoned him a brigadier. general in the reserve corps and placed him on the active list so that he could take up his residence Lere.
 Sawyer did not confine himself to his duties as White House physician, but took an active part in the affairs of the administration. This he was able to do because of his long personal association with Harding. He was made head of the disqualification board and son came into conflict with Chas. R. Forbes, then head of the veteran bureau.
 Uncovered Bureau Scandal
 Sawyer is credited with having first disclosed to Harding the conditions in the veterans bureau which were pub licly exposed in the Senate investiga- ton last winter leading to the indict- ment of Forbes. On the basis of Saw yer's information, Harding summoned Forbes in and forced him to resign.
 After IIarding's death, Sawyer de- voted himself to raising funds for memorial at Marion. He also spent considerable time on a book about the Harding administration. He had blocked out the various chapters be- fore he left Washington recently and returned to Marion. Sawyer felt that Harding had been misrepresented Tn the scandal exposures and he wanted to te his story from the point of view ei aa rtimate friend who knew many tse. were concealed from the pub Itc.
 Goes To Marion
 >.v continued nominally as the
 nite House physician for a time ,. BY olidge became President but V1s ed from this assignment in .,rdc- be at liberty to care for Mrs. i4a1G'r~ who has spent much of her lime ce her husbands death at the sawyer sanitarium on the outskirts of Marion, Ohio.
 Sawyer's is the fourth sudden death which has devasted the Ohio group which moved in with the Harding ad- ministration It follows that of Hard- ing by little more than year. Jess smith, confidante of the Hardings and close friend of Daugherty. committed suicide a year ago last May. sherman A. Cuneo. who was on the Harding staff at Marion and later was asso- ciated with Prohibition Commissioner Haynes here, was found dead in his home soon afterward, apparently as nhYXiated.