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HARDING’S BODY IS LAID IN TOMB
Nation in Mourning as the Simple Funeral Services for the Dead
President Are Held in Mario n—lmposing Official Cortege
and Ceremony in Washington.
Marlon, O. —All that was mortal of
•Varren G. Harding, twenty-ninth
President of the United States, was
placed In the tomb Friday, August 10,
In the Marion cemetery.
No Imposing ceremony, no military
display, no marching of organizations
marked the mournful event, because
Mrs. Harding wished it so, but as the
simple services were being held in the
cemetery, In every city, every town
and village, every home of the broad
land the people of America were pay
ing tribute to the memory of their
chief whose life truly was sacrificed
in their behalf. Barter and trade,
financial business and every other
worldly activity that could be sus
pended ceased'for the time, all sports
and pastimes were abandoned —the
nation mourned.
Great Throngs in Marion.
Here In Marlon were gathered a
host of prominent persons, from Pres
ident Coolidge down and Including the
leading government officials, senators
and representatives, governors of the
states and delegations from hundreds
of cities and organizations. All day
Thursday and on Friday morning
special trains brought In the throngs,
and other thousands of Ohioans came
by automobile. So great were the
crowds that It was necessary for the
state officials to urrnnge to have the
roads for miles around Marion pa
trolled to prevent accidents.
Thursday morning the funeral train
arrived from Washington, and Mr.
Harding’s body was taken at once to
the residence of his father, I>r. George
T. Harding. From 2 until 10 p. in.
that day and from 9 a. m. until 1 p. in.
Friday opportunity was given Ohioans
to view the face of their dead friend.
Then, quite without pomp, the casket
was borne to the cemetery. Follow
ing the hearse were the members of
the Harding family; next the Presi
dent of the United States with mem
bers of the cabinet and other high
officials; then came Mr. Harding’s
close friends and neighbors, and after
them a great concourse of mourners.
Simple Services in Cemetery.
It was Mrs. Harding's wish that all
who wished should have a place in
the funeral procession. Among those
who sadly accepted the invitation
were all the employees of th# Marion
Star who had worked for Mr. Hard
ing for years, and the Ohio newspaper
publishers, members of the Associated
Ohio Dallies, In which organization
Mr. Harding had taken an active part.
Reaching the cemetery about three
o’clock, the cortege proceeded to the
receiving vault, and there the brief
services were held. Prayers, readings
from the Scriptures and the singing
of Mr. Harding’s favorite hymns—
that was all. It was simple and dig
nified, as was befitting the obsequies
'of a distinguished citizen of Marion.
The services were In charge of Rev.
George M. Landis, pastor of Trinity
Baptist church, of which Mr. Harding
was a member. He was assisted by
Rev. Jesse Swank, pastor of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, Mrs. Harding's
pUsiu;','" ■■■ • " .....
Troops Guard the Casket.
Instead of being interred in the
family plot, the body of Mr. Harding
was placed in the receiving vault, and
there it will remain until a mauso
leum has been erected to receive it.
As the weeping family and friends
moved away from the vault, National
Guard soldiers stepped forward and
took their place on guard. In a few
days they will be replaced by the
guard from the regular army, that will
stand around the vault for the regu
lation period of six months. The de
tail for this purpose will consist of
an officer and twenty-five men from
Fort Hayes at Columbus.
The Presidential party from Wash
ington, which came on a speoial train
Friday morning, started back for the
national capital almost immediately
after the conclusion of the ceremonies.
Mrs. Harding, who had borne so
well her difficult part, also returned to
Washington, on the same train that
brought her and her dead. It was an
nounced that she would remain in the
Midte House until she has finished
the supervision and removal of the
effects of the late President. This
orobably will take about three weeks.
Services at Capital.
Washington, The United States
government Wednesday paid officinl
tribute to the body of Warren G. Hard
ing, twenty-ninth president. It was a
tribute at once simple, dignified and
impressive. The ceremonies were pre
liminary to the journey to Marlon,
Ohio, and the final interment Friday in
the late president’s home city.
The ceremonies consisted in official
transfer in the morning of the body
from the White House to the Capitol,
where it lay in state until six o’clock
In the evening. The American people
participated by marching in the fu
neral procession and by passing b
tiie bier in tbe rotunda of the Capltc
and by lining the funeral route in vast,
reverent crowds. Ten thousand school
children carpeted with flowers historic
Pennsylvania avenue.
The body left the White House,
where it hod luin during the night, at
10 a. m. Gen. John J. Pershing, gen
eral of the United States army and
commander of the military escort, led
the procession to the Capitol.
Guard of Honor.
Six generals of tbe army and six
admirals of the navy acted as an im
mediate guard of honor to the caisson
bearing the remains of the late Presi
dent.
Seven senators, Including President
pro tern. Cummins, and seven repre
sentatives, Including Speaker Gillette
of tiie house, acted witli members of
the Harding cabinet as honorary pall
bearers.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,
marshal of tiie civic procession, the
clergymen in charge of tiie services,
and tiie physicians who attended
President Harding at ids lust Illness
were assigned to places immediately In
advance of the caisson.
Chief Justice Taft participated as a
former president instead of as head of
the Supreme court. Ex-President und
Mrs. Wilson were placed behind him.
Behind Mr. Wilson In tbe procession
were placed, successively, ambassadors
of foreign governments, associate jus
tices of the Supreme court, foreign
ministers and charge d’affaires, sena
tors und officers of the senate, repre
sentatives and officers of the house,
governors of states and territories and
commissioners of the District of Colum
bia and acting secretaries of the vari
ous departments of the federal govern
ment.
The following also were Included In
the official section of the procession:
Circuit Court of Appeals, Court of
Claims, Court of Customs Appeals,
Court of Appeals and .Supreme Court
of the District of Columbia, under
secretaries and assistant secretaries of
federal departments, assistant post
masters general and assistant attor
neys general, United Stntes marshal
and United States attorney.
The chairman or senior member of
the following groups:
Federal Reserve board, Interstate
Commerce commission, Civil Service
commission, various mixed commis
sions dealing with international prob
lems and other agencies of the federal
government.
Next In line came patriotic and
civic organizations, headed by men
who have won the Congressional Medal
of Honor for heroic deeds In the serv
ice of their country by land or sea.
They were followed by army officers,
led by Assistant Secretary of tbe Navy
Roosevelt. ’
Next came officers of tbe const
guard and public health service, head
ed by tbe assistant secretary of tiie
treasury and officers of the coast and
geodetic survey, under command of tiie
assistant secretary of commerce.
The services in the rotunda of the
rupitoi were us ibVibws:'
Invocation, Dr. A. Freeman, assist
ant pastor of the Calvary Baptist
church, of which Mr. Harding was a
member.
Hymn, “Lend, Kindly Light,” mnle
quartet of Calvary Baptist church.
Scripture: Tvventy-third Psalm
Micah, sixth chapter, eighth verse.
Revelation; twenty-second chapter
first to fifth verses.
Quotations.
Prayer, Dr. James Shera Montgom
ery, chaplain of the house of repr©
sentatives.
Hymn, “Nearer, My God, to Thee,*
male quartet.
Benediction, Dr. Anderson.
The body then lay in state and from
four to six the general public was ad
mitted.
At 6 p. in. the casket was taken
back to the car in which it had been
brought across the continent. Then
began the Journey to Marion —back to
the home town.
'The special train bearing the Presi
dent’s body arrived in Washington al
10:25 p. ni. Tuesday after a transcon
tinental journey of 90 hours and 10
minutes. It was 9 hours late —the
great crowds in the big cities had al
most blocked its way. President Cool
idge, cabinet members, members of
congress and civilian and military dig
nitaries were at the depot. The Ma
rine band played “Nearer My God, to
Thee.”
Mrs. Harding walked to her car on
the arm of Secretary Christian.
The casket, escorted by its guard
of honor, was taken on a caisson to
the White House, where it arrived at
11 :30. It was placed in the East room.
At midnight the White House doors
were closed, leaving Airs. Harding
with her dead.
HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY, McDONOUGH, GEORGIA.
IHE WEEK’S EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF STATE, NA
TION AND THE WORLD
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ROUND ABOUTTHE WORLD
A Condensed Record Of Happenings
Of Interest From All Points
Of The World
Foreign—
Utter confusion prevailed in the re
.ail situation in all lines in Greater
Berlin duo to the continued plunging
)f the mark and the consequent fan
tastic rise of the dollar. While the
Tood situation continues to show a
chronic shortage in ordinary staples,
aourly rises of prices caused by the
fluctuations of the mark are project
ing a new and serious element Into
’.he situation, as the retailers are with-
Irawing their wares from sale when
ever the customers refuse to pay
prices based on the gold mark or the
iollar units.
An important session of the Bel
gian cabinet recently was devoted to
the study of the reparations deadlock.
The plan follows in part that sug
gested by Premier Mussolini, of Italy,
who declares that the question of in
’.erallied debts is inextricably inter
woven with that of reparations.
Four hundred additional recruits of
:he Chang Tso Lin army, formerly
bandits such as those who wrecked
aud robbed the Shanghai-Pekin ex
press and kidnaped its passengers,
have been sentenced to death on a
charge of desertion. Seventy were
killed after a mild Insurrection.
Russia has officially notified Great
Britain that appointment of Christian
Rakovsky as head of the Russian
delegation In London will be cancel
led in deference to Great Britain’s
objections, according to the Daily Ex
press.
Fifty Moros were killed and a num
ber wounded and three members of
the constabulary were wounded in a
pitched battle near Lake Lanao, on
:he island of Mindanao, it was report
ed to the governor-general’s office at
Manila, P. I. No details were given.
Mobiliziation of the federal forces
in the state of Durango and their
co-operation with the military forces
in adjoining states in an effort to
capture the bandit leader, Jan Ga
lindo, and force the release of Robert
(V. Newnan, who was kidnaped by the
bandits’ leader in April, was ordered
by President Obregon in a telegram
to General Anatoiio B. Ortega, chief
uf military operation in Durango.
Prince Hajo Toualou Houenou, a
lephew of King Behanzin, of Daho
mey, has filed a charge of assault
and battery against the manager of a
Montmarte night cabaret, Paris, alleg
ing that he and a negro friend were
expelled from the establishment be
cause some of the customers objected
to the presence of negroes.
While little tangible evidence is at
hand to indicate the probability of
British and French statesmen arriv
ing at any sort of agreement at pres
ent on a method of solving the Ruhr
•tad-3? 9s2 RrfHoV. p-rtv.
ernment spokesman declared the sit
uation was not so serious as the week
end press reports and comment had
•teemed to indicate.
W ashing ton—
President Harding’s funeral train,
freighted with the sorrow of the na
tion, reached Washington at 10:22
a’clock, August 7. Although the train
was nine hours late, thousands jam
med the station concourse, waiting for
hours packed against the iron fence
that shuts off the train platform, to
be first to give their silent tribute
to the dead chieftain.
Costs of retailing coal and profits
made by retail dealers can best be
explored by municipal and state agen
cies in the interests of the communi
ties concerned, according to conclu
sions reached by the federal coal com
mission. In a statement the com
mission said it had found coal retail
ing inextricably associated with truck
ing and storage, and with the retail
ng of a variety of other commodities.
The expense of concluding a national
3urvey was estimated to be $2,000,000.
Edwin Milton Hood, member of the
staff of the Associated Press and
lean of the Washington corps of
newspaper men, died suddenly at his
home at Washington. Mr. Hood, who
was born In Washington in 1858, be
gan his career as a copy boy and
worked through successive stages to
-° the superintendency of the Wash
ington office. For a number of years
ne had been assigned to the state de
partment and diplomatic field and
was one of the best and most widely
known newspaper men in the capital.
Numerous heat casualties —tuuo u.
ihetn reported aenoua —took p-act, in
the great crowd which saw me Har
ding funeral cortege and among me
uniformed troops winch toou part, a
broiling sun and a high degree of
humidity combined to prostrate
scores.
President Calvin Coolidge held a for
mal reception for the corps of diplo
mats representing foreign govern
ments in the American capital. The
reception was held in the magnificent
crjctal hall room of the Wiiiard ho
tel, temporary white house. By his
action in receiving the diplomatic
corps outside of the white house, the
new president smashed all precedents.
Major General Enoch H. Crowder,
American ambassador to Cuba, who
has been called from Havana to dis
cuss Cuban conditions with state de
partment officials, was received by
Secretary Hughes but it w T as indicat
ed that beyond the paying of re
spects there was little discussion.
The ambassador was with the secre
tary only a few minutes, although
earlier in the day he had discussed
matters with other officials of the
department.
Domestic—
Farmers of Arkansas and of the
country must pool together, sell and
buy together and vote together if
they want the power that commands
respect, Charles S. Barrett, of Union
City, Ga., president of the Farmers’
Union of America, declared in an ad
dress at the opening of the annual
convention of the Farmers’ Union of
Arkansas, at Little Rock.
Two men and a woman were blown
to pieces when a small powder house
of the Rosedale Coal company at
Maidsville, near Morgantown, W. V-,
exploded,
Roy Wilson, official of a foundry
company, Chicago, was held in cus
tody pending an inquest into the
death of his wife, Hildus Wilson, 32,
who was found shot to death in their
home by police.
A severe windstorm north of Golds
boro, N. C., caused considerable prop
erty damage recently. Several to
bacco barns were destroyed.
Tht U. S. S. Cleveland has been
awarded the annual trophy for excel
lence in engineering in the cruiser
class of the United States battle
fleet, it was announced at the fleet
headquarters, Brumerton, Wash.
Millionaire residents of Willmette,
a suburb of Chicago, whose property
reaches the lake shore, have been
barred from using their own beaches
by Chiaf of Police Edward Zipf,
whose action followed the closing of
the lake shore to the public by the
land owners.
Gasoline may be purchased for 16
cents a gallon at the state supply
depot at Mitchell, S. D. The sharp
cut in price, reduction of 10 cents a
gallon from gas station prices pre
vailing throughout South Dakota, is
Governor McMasters answer to the
contention of dealers that 26 cents
a gallon Is a fair price.
The state supply depot of South
Dakota is selling gasoline at 16 cents
a gallon, which is ten cents a gallon
reduction.
Simplicity almost approaching se
verity will characterize the last rites
t 9 Warren G. Harding, when his body
is brought to Marion, Ohio, from
Washington. Carrying out the express
ed desire of Mrs. Harding, as com
municated by her to those in charge
of funeral arrangements at Marion,
the only services, excepting probably
a prayer at the home of his father,
George T. Harding, Sr., where the
body will repose before being placed
in a receiving vault, will be very brief
and will be conducted at the vault in
Marion cemetery -where the presi
dent’s body will be placed temporarily.
Five persons were killed and four
were injured, two of whom may die
when a freight train on the Elgin,
Joilet and Eastern railroad crashed
into an automobile at Griffith, Ind.,
recently.
Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and
Harvey Firestone will attend the fu
neral services at Marion, Ohio. A few
years ago the three famous men join
ed with President Harding in a camp
ing trip in the hills of Maryland.
Four men bound, gagged and knock
ed unconscious the express messen
ger on the Big Four passenger train
which left Peoria, 111., for Indianap
olis and robbed the safe of five seal
ed packages and railroad remittances
which were destined to Indianapolis.
The only apparent change in the
condition of Governor J. M. Davis,
w'ho is critically ill at his mansion,
Topeka, Kans., was a slight drop in
the temperature according to Dr. L.
N. Powell, his physician.
Eight oil operators, six of Texas and
tw’o of Los Angeles and one Los Ange
les corporation, were indicted by the
federal grand jury, Los Angeles, Calif ,
on charges of using the mails to de
fraud.
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