Thousands March with Harding Carriage to Washington
Crowds gathered in tribute as a funeral cortege carried President Warren G. Harding’s casket toward Washington. Citizens, heads bare, bowed in silent homage to the nation’s late chief.
06 Aug 1923
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1923
Page
1
Crowds gathered in tribute as a funeral cortege carried President Warren G. Harding’s casket toward Washington. Citizens, heads bare, bowed in silent homage to the nation’s late chief.
Nebraska citizens from a 25 to 35 mile radius gathered in Kimball to honor Warren G. Harding as the funeral train passed en route to Washington. Between 800 and 1,000 people lined the tracks, with heads bowed and a Lions Club wreath bearing the number 306 among floral tributes.
Sidney Neb Aug 5 crowd gathers as train continues journey amid heat in a scene captured by Associated Press.
Denver forecast shows New Mexico unsettled with local thunder showers Monday and Tuesday. Arizona expects little change with a chance of a local shower in extreme southeast portions. temperatures mostly steady. University 24 hour report records a high around 90 and a low near 62 with partly cloudy conditions and light to moderate humidity.
Santa Fe passenger train No. 5 from Denver to Santa Fe derailed at Buttes 24 miles north of here around 11 Saturday night. No injuries. Engine crew H. Erickson and A. Yates stayed with the locomotive. switch tampering suspected as possible cause. Train slowed to under 20 mph at the derailment.
Senator Oscar W. Underwood signals a bid for the Democratic nomination in 1924, pitching himself as the businessman's choice. He asserts the need for a U S policy on Europe and favors a tariff to boost world trade and U S prosperity.
Washington dispatch reports President Coolidge and officials will base state funeral plans on Mrs. Harding’s wishes. Officials will mirror McKinley rites, include Marion after services, and honor pall bearers from three military services. Wilson Taft Hyde governors confirm attendance and governors nationwide receive invitations.
State Highway Engineer James A. French toured Silver City last week boosting plans to pave the Silver City Port Bayard road with concrete. The nine mile link to the government hospital for tubercular ex service men would cost about 200000 and use the present bedrock. Once finished it would be the finest road in southwestern New Mexico. Grant county now has four miles of paved road from Fort Bayard to Bayard station. The surface for this pond is to be resurfaced with asphalt.
Rev. Hugh A. Cooper at First Presbyterian denounces vice and urges citizens to aid in wiping out lawless dance halls and bootlegging. He cites I Kings and Harding's last address as a testament to religious duty, service, and American unity.
Washington reports Woodrow Wilson said he would participate as far as possible in President’s funeral events. He may ride in the cortege from the White House to the Capitol, with rotunda services uncertain due to health. Wilson initially declined after a conference with President Coolidge and aides but later indicated he would join as his condition allowed.
A boy crossing American Silver corporation property at Mogollon spotted smoke under the mill roof and raised the alarm. Warehouse employees used fire extinguishers to halt a blaze caused by a short circuit in power conduits, preventing spread before the mill could be shut down for receiver proceedings.
Chicago August 5 Twenty percent of skyscraper tenants are lawyers in a survey for the National Association of Building Owners and Managers by W R Ballard of Boston Maas The study covers 72 skyscrapers with 8733 tenants finding 843 lawyers Banks and trust firms use most space followed by investment firms and real estate The survey lists 38 tenant classes for skyscrapers
The southwest saw mills are busier than since the war with high building demand for lumber and timbers. In New Mexico during April to June 1923 the timber cut totaled 7.2 million feet led by Carson forest, with $50 000 in government receipts. 25 percent to the state for schools and roads.
Manila reports Stankey AirBride of Chicago, a lightweight, fought Silvino Jamito, Orient lightweight champion, to a 12 round draw. Referee scored the bout, but sport writers favored Jamito, noting he pressured the action throughout.
Des Moines August 5. As President Harding funeral train travels toward Iowa crowds rush to join memorials in Council Bluffs Boone Ames Clinton and other cities. Knights Templar join stations at Boone and Clinton to guard the train with military escort Battery A of the 185th artillery and American Legion and Boy Scouts meeting the train. A West Point cadet will present General Pershing with roses for Mrs Harding as the train departs Boone with a bouquet of tribute. High tributes are paid in Iowa churches.
The body of late President Harding will not be in state in the Ohio capitol unless plans change. Ohio requested the honor as a distinguished native son but Mrs. Harding plans to go from Washington to Marion, with a route that does not touch Columbus.
George T. Walker and F. Bradford Harden, two American sugar investigators, were threatened by natives on Negros Island last night. Locals opposed to Philippine sugar centrals to outside capital gathered before their hotel and threw stones. the pair were not hurt, though full details were unavailable.
A 15 year old Indian girl Miss Rosenda Gace at the United States Indian school won the National Humane Society essay contest. Her essay The Chicken Pull condemns a barbarous Pueblo practice and she illustrated it herself. Her prize includes a $15 first prize.
Buffalo N Y Aug 6 a Niagara Falls train collision with a motor truck carrying a picnic party left eight dead and two fatally injured The dead include Mrs Camillo Caprietto and her five children Angelo Bartello aged 35 and a baby were killed The husband of the dead woman and another man were among the seriously injured
Five people from Mount Eden were killed and one seriously injured when an car collided with a train at a railroad crossing between Hayward and Mount Eden. The driver failed to see the train due to fruit shipping boxes blocking the view on a spur track platform.
Roy Fitzgerald a 17 year old youth was injured when his motor bike collided with a car driven by A B Skelton an employee of the Indian school at the intersection of Fourth street and McKinley avenue. He was taken to St Joseph's hospital where ether was used to set the broken limb. Dr M K Wylder attended. Police report other speed violations on East Central avenue with several motorists cited for speeding between midnight and 1 am. Louis Ackinger was arrested for drunk and disturbing the Sabbath. Deputy Sheriff Romero arrested M C Padilla for abusive language at a public dance.
Howard Floten a black man was seized from the county jail by a mob and hanged to a tree just north of Sardis. Officials say he confessed to attacking a white woman in the city.
Willlie Hunter former British Open champion won the invitational golf tournament at the California Country Club defeating Elmer C. Henderson 5 and 4 in Los Angeles on August 6.
New York, Aug. 5. Cotton futures rose sharply after a bullish U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast showed a smaller crop than expected. Wheat prices steadied amid favorable credit for farmers and orderly markets. Industrial news remained indecisive with United States Steel posting strong second quarter earnings. Continued on Page Te.
President Coolidge rests and prays in Washington preparing for the coming week as the Harding funeral train moves toward the Capitol. He and Mrs Coolidge attend morning services at First Congregational Church, joined by friends, with a solemn sermon on love and sorrow.
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