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JEljc Mlatifei Ur i-Wccldn Suurnal
VOL. XXV. NO. 132
PACKAGE OF FRUIT
.. SHIPPED TO FRIEND
- traps Satterfield
Plennie Miner Leaves to
Bring Back Fugitive Slay
er Tells of Slip That
Led to His Arrest
A small package of fruit, careless-
* . ly shipped by express to a friend
* in Alberquerque, N. M., under one
of the aliases by which he was
known, was the apparently insig-
1 nificant circumstance that led to the
arrest in Los Angeles, Cal., Saturday
• of J. B. Satterfield, -wanted here for
4 the slaying of his brother-in-law, R.
H. Hart, whom he is alleged to have
shot to death on December 27, 1921.
Plennie Miner, special investigator
in Solicitor General Boykin's office,
revealed the circumstances sur
rounding Satterfield’s capture just
before he left late Saturday for Cal
ifornia to return the allaged slayer
to Atlanta.
And in this circumstance, trivial
in itself, is found a justification for
the criminologists’ theory that every
criminal, given enough rope, will
hang himself; that even the shrewd
-4 est felon sometime, somewhere, in
* days or weeks or years, will make
ths one small mistake that can have
but one result —his capture. That
* is the theory that gives the crimicnl
ogist hope, and time after time it
has been borne out in fact.
Satterfield proved it. For eigh
teen long months he eluded his pur
suers, with officers of the law some
times only a few hours behind h,m.
From the mountain of northern
Georgia to the Pacific coast;
through ‘California logging camps
and orange groves; always they were
just behind him. And finally he be
trayed himself.
Likened to DuPre Case
A ■imilar mistake brought Frank
* DuPre back to Georgia to pay the
•* penalty for his crime. From sup
posed safety in Detroit he wrote a
careless letter to a Chattanooga
pawn-broker, a letter that put the
police of two states on his trail.
Failed to Change Alias
• In sending the package of fruit to
lbs friend in Alberquerque, Mr. Mi-
mr said, Satterfield used the alias,
“R-. L. Looney.”
‘ Mr. Miner said he previously had
sent mail matter through the Los
Angeles postoffice under this alias
and that of “R. L. Rooney,” but had
discontinued using the mails when he
found they were being watched.
”He was a smooth customer,” said
Mr. Miner. “For weeks we watched
the mails. We then found he had
switched to the express companies,
but — he had neglected to change h.’s
alias. That was his undoing. The
best of them make a mistake sooner
or later.”
•* Satterfield’s case is, in many ways,
one of the strangest and most daring
, that has w r ound its tedious way
across the annals of the Fulton crim
inal courts in years.
On a December evening, almost
two years ago, he appeared at the
Hart home, on Trinity avenue. His
relatives had thought him miles
away, in the middla west, and did not
know he intended coming to Atlanta.
Satterfield had married Hart’s sis
ter and she had died several years
before, leaving two little girls,
Dorothy and Elizabeth. The chil
dren were at the home of Mrs. L. C.
Stuckey, their aunt, in Albuquerque,
N. M.
Mr. Hart, at the death of his sis
ter, Mrs. Satterfield, had been made
executor of her estate, and had paid
F *■’ over,- from tme to time, certain
sums to the Satterfield girls. In
this way practically all Mrs. Satter
-1 field’s estate was paid over to the
i, girls by Mr. Hart, according to Mrs.
Hart and intimate friends of the
family, who say that there are re
ceipts to show for every dollar of
« the estate.
Warning Received
r Satterfield, it is charged, became
incensed at Mr. Hart because the
latter would not accede to his de
mands as to the disposition cf Mrs.
Satterfield’s estate. On the day of
the killing, it is said, Mr. Hart re
ceived a letter from Mrs. Stuckey
warning him that Satterfied w'as on
his way to Atlanta to do him bodily
harm.
Mr. Hart did not take the threat
seriously, but, it is charged, that on
the night of December 27, 1921, Sat
terfield came to the Hart home on
Trinity avenue. Apparently he was
in good spirits and talked in the
most friendly terms with Mr. and
Mrs. Hart.
Suddenly, according to Mrs. Hart,
he assumed a threatening attitude
and announced that he had come to
Atlanta to kill Mr. Hart. With that,
says Mrs. Hart, he pulled out a
pistol. Mrs. Hart and her young
». son, -who were in the room, are said
I to have seized Satterfield’s arm and
attempted to prevent him from using
his weapon. Mr. Hart, who, it is
’ said, was unarmed, ran out of the
room and into the street. He had,
according to friends, suffered a
paralytic stroke a few weeks before,
and had not entirely recovered the
use of his limbs.
Satterfield, it is charged, ran out
after him, pistol in hand. Almost
at the corner of Trinity avenue and
Whitehall street Satterfield, it is
said, came up close behind his
brother-in-law, raised his pistol and
fired point blank at Mr. Hart’s back.
Mr. Hart fell and died almost in
stantly. All this, it is said, was in
plain sight of the slain man’s fam
ily, who had rushed out of the house
as Satterfield broke away from
them.
Satterfield, without coat or hat,
is said to have walked rapidly down
* Whitehall street and disappeared be
-4 fore he could be apprehended by the
* crowd that, gathered, attracted by
th® sound of the shots.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
World News
Told In
Brief
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—TornadC
sweeps West Springfield, damaging
fifty houses.
NEW ORLEANS. —General Lee
Christmas shows improvement aft
er blood transfusion operation.
TOPEKA. Governor Jonathan
Davis, of Kansas, is seriously ill
from influenza at executive man
sion.
LAUSANNE. —Turks and AmerF
cans are reported to have reached
complete agreement on provision of
•treaty.
SARDIS, Miss. —Negro is taken
from county jail by a mob and hang
ed after reported confession of at
tack upon white woman.
ST. LOUIS. —John I. Martin, 77,
sergeant-at-arms of democratic na
tional committee for 25 years, dies
of apoplexy at St. Louis.
NIAGARA FALLS. —Eight persons
are killed and two badly injured
when train smashes into automobile
I truck carrying picnic party.
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Wash.—
Fifty houses are damaged and seven
persons injured by freakish wind
storm at West Springfield, Mass.
WASHINGTON.—Mrs. Harding
requests simplicity in funeral serv
ices for late president with as little
display as possible in Washington
and Marifen.
DRESDEN. Four thousand com
munists take advantage of miners’
strike and seize United coal mine
near Zwickau, Saxony, and propose
to operate it.
OKLAHOMA ClTY—Several thou
sand Indians from seven tribes stop
their “pow-wow” near Ponca City,
Okla., as token of grief for their
"great ■white father.”
SCOTT CITY, Kan.—Thirty-five
persons were injured, three severely,
and thousands of dollars’ damage
was dene by a tornado that, almost
wiped out Leoti, Kan.
WASHINGTON.—Woodrow Wil
son authorizes statement that he
will participate in Harding funeral
ceremonies at Washington Wednes
day “as far as possible.”
ST. LOUIS. —Jerome Elliot Davis,
boyhood friend of President Har
ding, dies at home near St. Louis
shortly after president’s death in San
Francisco is announced,
CHAPPEL, Neb—Harding fu
neral train is suddenly halted here
when tire slips from. locomotive
driving wheel; train proceeds after
delay of about 35 minutes.
WASHINGTON. President end
Mrs. Coolidge attend service at First
Congregational church in Washing
ton, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Frank W. Stearns, of Boston.
WASHINGTON. Mrs. Harding
asks that body of the president be
accompanied from Washington to
Marion only by those with whom he
spent the last days of his life.
SAN FRANCISCO.—Mrs. Harding
begins long trip home as calmly and
bravely as she has acted since mo
ment of husband’s death. She de
clines to allow death mask to be
taken.
ST. LOUS. Maxwelton inn,
about a mile from St. Louis, where
several hundred persons were initiat
ed into Ku Klux Klan Saturday, de
stroyed by four high explosive
bombs.
CHICAGO. Recently organized
“sponge” squad under Police Super
intendent Morgan Collins begins an
nounced clean-up campaign against
bootlegging establishments in Chica
go, estimated ts total 10,000.
HONOLULU. —Miss Lucy Aldrich,
sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., arrives from China, but declines
to comment on her experiences while
a captive of Suchow train bandits
except to say she was well treated.
DUSSELDORF.—Germans joined
French in condemning throwing of
hand-grenade at military band Sat
urday, but penalties closing all res
taurants and theaters at 10 o’clock
and establishing curfew at 11 will be
continued.
NEW YORK. —The Laura Spell
man Rockefeller Memorial, founded
in October, 1918, by John D. Rock
efeller in memory of his wife, spent
$9,361,871 up to December 31, 1922,
according to report made public
here.
NEW YORK.—Employes of Proc
tor & Gamble Co. in thirty cities of
the United States and Canada, who
recently were given guarantee of full
time employment, are advised by
William Cooper Proctor, president,
that guarantee meant up to age of
retirement when they will receive
pensions of three-quarters pay as
long as they live, making another
extension of company’s profit-shar
ing plan.
The Weather
Virginia—Partly cloudy in north,
local thundershowers in south Tues
day.
North and South Carolina, Geor
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi
Tennessee and Kentucky: Partly
cloudy Tuesday; probably local thun
dershowers.
Louisiana —Partly cloudy Tuesday,
showers near the coast.
Arkansas and Texas Partly
cloudy.
Oklahoma.—Generally fair,
HARDING'S BROTHER
ON SPECIAL TRAIN
SPEEDING TO WEST
General Sawyer’s Son Also
to Meet Funeral Party.
Throngs Along Route Hon
or Memory of President
CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—(By lhe Asso
ciated Press.) —Riding in a special
train, Dr. George T- Harding, broth
er of the late president; Dr. Carl W.
Sawyer, and one other man from
Marion, Ohio, accompanied by W.
H. Finley, president of the Chicago
and Northwestern railroad, left Chi
cago at approximately 10 a. m., cen
tral standard time, today to meet
the Harding funeral train.
At the time the funeral train
was approaching Cedar Rapids, la.,
having passed Beverly, la., ten min
utes distance at 9:58 a. m., central
standard time. At that hour the
funeral train, which left Omaha
about one hour late, and. had tra
versed half the distance between
Omaha and Chicago, had made up
fully thirty minutes of the time lost
by engine trouble before reaching
Omaha.
Dr. Harding. Jr., and Dr. Sawyer,
son of Brigadier General Sawyer,
the president’s personal physician.
I scarcely appeared until they were
whisked aboard the westbound spe
cial and were off.
Railroad officials were uncertain
exactly where they would meet the
funeral train, but President Finley,
of the Chicago and Northwestern
railroad, who arranged for the train
and accompanied the Marion men,
directed that it proceed as far as
possible.
Skies were clear and the. train was
making fine time, railroad advices
from Belle Plaine. la., and surround
ing territory stated.
In Chicago, where a downpour oc
curred this morning, the skies still
were partly, overcast, and weather
forecasts indicated the possibility
of more rain today or tonight.
Running Time Slowed
The running time of the train from
Cedar Rapids, Ia„ eastw’ard, was or
dered slowed down by Colonel Walter
V. Shipley, division passenger agent
of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad,
at Washington, who is in. charge of
the train. He believed that on ac
count of the crowds at the railway
stations, the speed of the funeral
train should be reduced. This led
railroad operating officials to esti
mate that the train would not make
up further lost time, but would
reach Chicago about 30 minutes
late, or approximately 3:45 p. in.,
Central standard time.
The westbound special carrying -
Dr. George T. Harding, Jr., and his
companions from Marion, was ex-,
pected to meet the funeral train at
Dixon, or Sterling, Ills., according to
B. E. Terpening, assistant general
superintendent of the Chicago and
Narthwestern railway.
funeral train speeds
STEADILY TOWARD CAPITAL
ON BOARD HARDING FUNER
AL TRAIN, Neb., Aug. 6.—(By the
Associated Press.) —The trans-Mis
scuri west has paid its final tribute
to the memory of Warren G. Har
ding and the east was given its first
opportunity today as the funeral
train bearing his body from San
Francisco to Washington sped stead
ily towards the national capita’.
As eloquent and silent and impres
sive as were the tributes pf the west
ern states traversed, those manifest
ed by the people eastward from the
Missouri river along the railway line
to Chicago showed plainly the love
and affection of the section of the
country for the man who was until
last Thursday evening their chief
executive.
Crowds Increase
It was only because of the in
creased population of the states tra
versed today that the groups of per
sons who have stood mourning along
the steel trail since the train left
the Golden Gate city appeared in
larger numbers and at more frequent
intervals. Their manner of tribute
was but that of the smaller gather
ings seen in the western stretches at
every ranch, mining camp, railroad
station or center of greater habita
tion, and the effect of none was lost
by the woman who journeyed with
the dead in the last car and who
still resisted bravely against any
outward sign of surrender to her
sorrows.
The route followed today led
through lowa and Illinois.
Arrival within the city limits of
Chicago was scheduled for 3:30 p. m.
(central standard time), and after a
short pause there the train will
speed onward around the tip of Lake
Michigan and through Indiana,
Though it was in the early hours
this morning when the funeral train
reached Omaha there were thousands
of persons who had kept watch for
for it and who, like the other gath
erings at points passed everywhere
since Friday evening when the train
drew out of San Francisco, would
not permit a time factor to prevent
them from making their offering of
respect to the dead and of sympathy
to Mrs. Harding.
In Omaha as in the other places
where stops were made, floral pieces
also were offered thus making it pos
sible for those attending to such af
fairs on the train to keep the bier
always decorated with fresh flow
ers.
The train passed through Jeffer
son, lowa, at 6:20 this morning, near
ly one hour behind its schedule.
Accident to Engine
The train was somewhat late in
Omaha because of the storms and
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Tire Leaks No Air
Mr. B. D. Harrison, of Hammond,
Ind., announces a new puncture
proof inner tube. Actual tests dis
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with 603 nails there is absolutely no
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tube costs no more than the or
dinary tube —increases your mileage
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removing tube from the tire. Mr.
B. D. Harrison, 144 Indiana St.,
Hammond, Ind., wants every auto
owner to benefit by his wonderful
invention and makes an unusual
offer to anyone who wishes to act
as his agent in this territory. Write
him at once.— (Advertisement.) A
PRESIDENT HOPES
TO RETAIN CABINET,
NONE HAS RESIGNED
i New Executive Directs Af
fairs of Nation Quietly
From His Suite of Rooms
in Hotel
WASHINGTON, Aug. s.—(By the
j Associated Press.) —President Cool-
I idge today put his shoulder under
l the burden of government and made
j ready to carry on along the pathway
pointed out by President Harding.
His second day as president was
occupied with a long succession of
official conferences in which he
gained an initial grasp of his duties
and responsibilities and made final
plans for the state funeral of his
I predecessor. He signed the name ot
j Calvin Coolidge, president of the
I United States, for the first time to
• a proclamation announcing the pass
ing of Mr. Harding and calling upon
the nation to observe next Friday
as a day of mourning and prayer.
Gets Down to Business
Announcements of policy were
withheld by the president, nor would
he indicate tonight whether he had
in mind an extra session of con
gress.
; “Everything stands as it is,” he
said to newspaper correspondents,
“until you are notified to the con
trary.”
This statement applied also to the
cabinet personnel, and it was
learned later that the president
hoped the present cabinet members
would not only remain to assist him,
but -would refrain from presenting
even the customary formal resigna
tions. This hope, he is said to have
expressed personally to all the cab
inet officers now in Washington.
In addition to his talk with de
partment and bureau chiefs, Mr.
Coolidge was engaged throughout
the day in conference with Colonel
Clarence O. Sherrill, White House
military aide, regarding plans for
the funeral of President Harding.
In mourning for his predecessor, he
were a wide band of crepe on the
sleeve of his gray suit.
The first official act of President
Coolidge as the now executive of the
nation was his signature of a proc
lamation announcing the death of
President Harding and calling upon
the country to observe next Friday,
August 10, as a day of mourning
and prayer. On that day Mr. Har
ding's body is to buried at Marion,.
Ohio.
The proclamation was signed at
11:18 a. m. It was brought to the
president’s hotel suite by J. Butler
Wright, third assistant secretary of
state, and then was returned to the
state department for the signature
of Secretary Hughes.
President Coolidge's proclamation
follows:
‘‘By the president of the United
States of America, a proclamation.
‘To the people of the United States:
“In the inscrutable wisdom of
Divine Providence, Warren Gama
liel Harding, twenty-ninth president
of the United States, has been taken
from us. The nation has lost e
wise and enlightened statesman and
the American people a true friend
and counsellor whose whole public
life was inspired with the desire to
promote the best interests of the
United States and the welfare of all
its citizens. His private life was
marked by gentleness and brotherly
sympathy, and by the charm of his
personality he made friends of all
who came in contact with him.
“It is meet (hat the deep grief
which fills the hearts of the Amer
ican people should find fitting ex
pression.
“Now. therefore, I, Calvin Cool
idge, president of the United States
of America, do appoint Friday next,
August 10, the day on which the
body of the dead president will be
laid in its last earthly resting place,
as a day of mourning and prayer
throughout the United States. I
earnestly recommend the people to
assemble on that day in their re
spective places of Divine worship,
there to bow down in submission to
the will of Almighty God, and to
pay out of full hearts tke homage
of love and reverence to the mem
ory of the great and good president, '
whose death has so sorely smitten
the nation.
‘Tn witness I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
“Done at the City of Washington,
the fourth day of August, in the
year of our Lord, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-three, and of
the independence of the United
States the one hundred and forty
eighth.
“CALVIN COOLIDGE.
“By the President.
“CHARLES E. HUGHES.
$ 10,000 Bond Ordered
For Lincolnton Men
Charged With Murder
WARRENTON, Ga., Aug. 4.—The
hearing on application for bail of
Sheriff W. S. Harrison and R. L.
Burgiss, charged in warrants with
the murder of Frank and Wayne
Cullars near Lincolnton, July 4, was
had today in Warrenton with result
that the judge ordered that bail be
allowed in the sum of SIO,OOO in
each case, the bonds to be approved
by Judge S. L. Wilkes, the ordinary
of Lincoln county. Considerable in
terest was manifested in the hear
ing, and a large number of people
from Lincoln county was present.
/ The hearing was had upon affi
davits submitted, there being a num
ber on each side. A large array ot
lawyers appeared or. each side,
among them some of the ablest crim
inal lawyers of Georgia.
It is expected that the prisoners,
who are now confined in the tower
in Atlanta, will be released as soon
as the bonds have been approved.
They will be tried at a special term
of the superior court called for the
purpose, to be convened the third
Monday in October in Lincolnton.
FIRST WOMAN SENATOR AND THE NATION’S FIRST CITIZEN —Mrs. W. H. Felton and
President Calvin Coolidge, photographed together at the Georgian Terrace two years ago, when Mr.
Coolidge visited Atlanta as vice president of the United States to address the Southern Tariff con
gress in this city. There was the bond of personal friendship between Mrs. Felton and President
Harding, and Mrs. Felton Friday was grieving for the deceased president; but she believes a man
of high worth has succeeded him in President Coolidge, shown here on the occasion of their first
meeting.
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WILSON INSISTS
ON PARTICIPATION
IN HMOING BITES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—With
the same grim determi ,ation as
when he insisted upon taking part
in the inauguration of President
Harding and later in riding in the
funeral procession for the unknown
soldier, former President Wilson
now has insisted on participating in
the funeral here of President Har
ding and again has won.
The ex-president fought against
a medical advice that was not in
clined to allow him to run the risk
of endangering his own health by
taking actual part in the ceremonies
for the late president and he waved
aside a premature announcement
from the headquarters of President
Coolidge that Mr. Wilson had de
clined an invitation to attend the
funeral.
Mr. Wilson toaaj r notified Presi
dent Coolidge that he will “partici
pate in President Harding’s funeral
as far as possible.” This statement
was authorized by the former presi
dent following an announcement Sat
urday night by Lieutenant Colonel
C. O. Sherill, the president's mili
tary aide, that Mr. Wilson had de
clined the special invitation sent him
by President Coolidge because of rea
sons of health.
Mr. Wilson will participate in the
national funeral here of the late
president at least to the extent of
riding in the funeral procession, his
friends and physicians said today. It
is expected he will be accompanied
by Mrs. Wilson, his constant com
panion.
Also, it is likely that Rear Admiral
Cary T. Grayson, Mr. Wilson's per
sonal friend and physician, will go
with the former president. This pre
caution W’as taken, it is understood,
to guard against a possible collapse
of Mr. Wilson should the strain and
emotion prove too great.
Mr. Wilson's letter to President
Coolidge follows:
“My Dear Mr. President: Thank
you sincerely for the gracious cour
tesy of your note just received. I
sincerely grieve as you do over- the
death of President Harding, w’ho had
undoubtedly w 7 on the esteem of the
W’hole nation by his honorable and
conscientious conduct in office.
“I shall esteem it an hour to take
part in the funeral process’on, and
shall be obliged if you will assign a
position in the procession for my
car which will be occupied by Mrs.
Wilson and myself, and I hope by
my friend, Admiral Grayson. It
will be with feelings of the utmost
solemnity and reverence that I will
attend. I regret to say my lameness
makes it impracticable for me to
attend the exercises in the capitol.
“Allow me to express the hope
that your administration of the great
office to which you have been so un
expectedly called will abound in sat
isfaction of many kinds.
“With cordial good wishes, sincere
ly yours,
“WOODROW WILSON.”
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, August 7, 1923
PASTOR PRAISES COOLIDGE AS
DEVOUT AND GOD-FEARING
THOUGH NOT CHURCH MEMBER
iDr. J, N, Pierce Says the
President Is Reverent,
Prayerful and Never Miss
i es Services
WASHINGTON, "Aug., s.—To :he
pastor of the man upon whom fate
has thrust the crushing burden of
’ the presidency, no man could be
I more thoroughly fitted, spiritually
I and temperamentally, for the task
I than Calvin Coolidge.
Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, dominie
of the First Congregational church,
where for the past two years the
Coolidges have worshiped, so de
clared in an interview Saturday.
Pierce, himself a New Englander,
is a co-trustee of Amherts college
with President Coolidge, whence
they both graduated, Coolidge in
’95 and Pierce in ’O2. Their friend
ship long antedates the time when
Pierce became pastor of the local
First Congregational church with
the then vice president as a mem
ber of the congregation.
The abiding faith of Dr. Pierce
in the ability of Calvin Coolidge to
pilot the ship of state is based on a
belief in the new president’s uncom
promising stand for duty, his devout
reverence, and his essential justice.
“To Calvin Coolidge, God is the
Father and all men are brothers. It
is in this attitude that he approach
es the responsibilities of the presi
dency,” Dr. Pierce declared, shortly
after returning from the temporary
White House at the Willard hotel,
where he had been summoned by
the new president.
“Calvin Coolidge is a devoutly re
ligious man, yet not as other men
are. He never misses a Sunday at
church, yet he has never joined the
church. To my knowledge, Mr.
Coolidge has as steadfastly refused
to join the church as he has resist
ed every overture to join fraternal
organizations.
“Mr. Coolidge believes, with us
Congregationalists, in freedom of be
lief. He will fight as much for
freedom of belief for a Catholic, a
Jew or a Hindu as he would for his
own right to believe.
“It is his essential justice. Mr.
Coolidge is a man who, once having
resolved all the elements of a situa
tion into an application of principle,
acts inexorably. The effect on him
self is never considered.
“1 believe I am right in saying
that Mr. Coolidge takes the presi
dency at a most difficult time.
“The tenancy of the Republicans
is scheduled to expire within a few
months, and there willthen be a
candidacy, open. I am sure I am
right when I say that such is Mr.
Coolidge’s character that there will
never he a time when he will act
with that candidacy in mind. . Os
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Coolidge Is Second
President From Vermont
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—Cal
vin Coolidge is the second presi
dent to come from the state of
Vermont.
Just as the first, he succeeded
to office from the vice presidency
upon the death of the president.
Chester Alan Arthur became
president September 20, 1881,
upon the death of President Gar
field.
Calvin Coolidge became presi
dent August 3, 1923, upon ' the
death of President Harding.
Head of Matthews
Stave Company Shot
To Death by Employe
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Aug. 4.
W. A. Matthews, president of the
Matthews Stave company, was shot
to death late today by J. L. Combs,
a company employe, who received a
bullet wound in the left breast which
is expected to cause his death. There
were no other witnesses to the shoot
ing which took place in the stave
mill office in this city.
When Combs emerged from the
office after shots were heard, he
handed his pistol to the first man
he met, saying:
“Matthews shot me and I’ve killed
him. Go and see what you can do
about it.”
Later, he told officers that Mat
thews entered the office with a shot
gun and fired once at him. He then
shot Matthews seven times with an
automatic pistol, Combs said.
Four Men and Boy
Are Killed as Train
Strikes Automobile
WILDWOOD, N. J., Aug. 4.
Four men and a boy, returning in
an automobile late today, were killed
when their machine was struck by
a Pennsylvania train at Burleigh
crossing, seven miles from this city,
course, he will not be unmindful of
it, but lie will act as though it did
not exist.
“Mr. Coolidge is a man who be
lieves that the right wins out and
that wrong never does. He believes
that destiny is God. In his remarks
upon hearing that President Har
ding was dead, he declared ‘I am
confident that God will guide the
destinies of the nation.’
“Supported by that belief, with a
reverently prayerful nature, and an
abiding faith, Mr. Coolidge takes
the presidency, a strong man, in
whom the na.ti.on may place its con
fidence.”
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V/ashington Thousands to
View Body of Former
Leader as It Lies in State
in White House
WASHINGTON, Aug. s.—(By the
Associated Press.) —The national
capital, in sorrow and mourning
symbolic of that of the nation, went
forward today with the preparations
to receive and pay a last tribute t»
the dead president.
A state funeral, to be marked by
a solemn dignity and simplicity, was
arranged for by President Coolidge
and other high officers of the gov
renment, who devoted themselves
untiringly to the preparation of cere
monials which will fittingly express
the grief and reverence of the
American people.
President Coolidge, Chief Justice
Taft, members of the cabinet and
of congress; and others high in gov
ernment councils, will participate in
the ceremonies.
At the suggestion of President
Coolidge, Woodrow Wilson was in
vited to take part, but after a con
ference between Lieutenant Colonel
Sherriff, aide to the chief executive
and Rear Admiral Grayson, Mr. Wil
son’s physician, it was announced
that because of the condition of his
health, the former president re
gretted he would be unable to par
ticipate.
Upon its arrival here from San
Francisco Tuesday, the funeral train
will be met by Mr. Coolidge and
other ranking officials, who will ac
company the body to the White
House behind the escort of a squad
ron of cavalry and a batallion of
field artillery.
It then will lie in the east room
until Wednesday. Whether there
will be private services at the Whit 3
House will depend upon the wishes
of Mrs. Harding.
To Lie in State
Wednesday morning the body will
be escorted to the capitol and placed
in the rotunda. After funeral serv
ices there it will lie in state until
6 p. m., and, an hour later, will
start on the last journey to Marion,
where on Friday it will find a rest
ing place in the soil of Ohio.
As the flag-draped casket movea
from the White House over Penn
sylvania avenue it will be escorted
by several thousand troops under
General John J. Pershing, and be
hind the automobiles carrying Mra.
Harding and members of the fam
ily, will be President Coolidge, mem
bers of his cabinet, members of
the supreme court and senators and
representatives. In line also will b®
representative groups of patriotic
organizations, headed by their re
spective commanders, with colora
and in uniform, as well as many
civic and commercial organizations.
Pennsylvania avenue will be roped
off from the White House to th®
capitol and will be cleared of traf
fic. Cordons of police will line th®
famed thoroughfare, where it is es
timated that more than 100,000 will
gather to view the procession.
After the simple services in th®
rotunda have been concluded, the
public will be admitted for a lajst
view of the dead. They will march
in from the entrance four
abreast, but reaching the bier, the
line will separate, passing twa
abreast to either side. There wilt
be a guard of honor at the easket
and the lines will be kept in con
tinuous motion.
Many to View Body
Basing their estimates on simihU"
events in the past, the police hav»
reckoned that the number of per
sons who would view the body from.
10:30 a. m. to 6 p. m. will exceed
100,000.
When the doorse have been closed,
the body will be taken to the Union
station with a military escort and
placed aboard the train. President
Coolidge and many other government
officers will accompany it to Ma
rion.
Two army officers, both Ohioan®,
were appointed today to represent
Mr. Coolidge in making arrange
ments at Marion for the funeral.
They are Colonel F. P. Lahm, for-*
merly of Mansfield, and Lieutenant
Edward M. Taylor, of the Sixteenth
Field artillery, formerly of Marion,
and once an employe on President <
Harding’s newspaper. They will
1 have credentials from President
Coolidge, placing them in complete
charge of the Marion arrangements.
The funeral train will reach Ma
rion Thursday morning and th era it
again will be met by a military es
cort. Final arrangements for the
ceremonial there have not been com
pleted, but it has been announced
that there will be a brief burial
service.
Only a comparatively few member*
of congress are now in Washington,
but all of them have been notified
formally of the time of the services
here and as many as can do so will
come. They probably will assemble
at an uptown hotel Wednesday
morning and march to the WhiW
House together to accompany th®
body to the capitol.
Proclamation Is Signed
President Coolidge halted today In
the preparations for the funeral
services to sign a proclamation an
nouncing the death of President
Harding and calling upon the coun
try to observe Friday, August 10*
the day of interment, as a day of
mourning and prayer. He also
signed executive orders for the clos
ing of all govern met departxnenta
from the time of the arrival of the
funeral party from San Francisco
Tuesday until after the day of burial.
Other executive orders signed by
the chief executive provide that
there shall be no official entertain
ments until next December 1, and
that formal calls of organizations or
of officials in a body at the White
House will be deferred until Septem
ber 3; the end of the thirty days’
period of national mourning.
During those thirty days, flags on
federal buildings throughout the
country, on naval ships and at navy
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