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MRS.HARDING DIES AFTER L i 6 FIGHT Widow of President Passes Away Peacefully at the Sawyer San-

j itarium Near Marion, Ohio.

M SEVERAL A»LM$NTS

Failed Sine. Husband'* Fatal Trip. DfNfHto Since Return from*'Alaska, js|fef.>arwier, ,f fret Lady Hatf 8uf* •''|lfiN( fr«W Mansely 'Twenty' Years.''

riOn, OhlQr-Flor&ce Klftj Hard* widow of Warden 0. Harding,

>ty-alntn Chief Executire of the Ststaa, dlsd

ing„ suffered her first couapsev artu xiir a time her life was despaired of by Dr. G. E. Sawyer, for many years the

[Harding personal physician. By midsummer of 1922 slie was con~|

fined to a "wheel chair. Fot a, time it was not thought that she would ever rise from It But she regained strength slowly and finally went to Florida for a" long rest. , » \

Mrs. Harding never fully recovered* from the terrific strain of that -Ill-fated Alaskan trip. The ordeal of. the trip itself, the constant worry -over the resident's healh and finally the tragedy of the short illness which took his life, imposed a strain nnder which Mrs. Harding finally sank.

After the President's death came the ordeal of grief and the strain of remaining -true to her determination that she would not break down under i t From this drain upon ner strength she never fully recovered.

Mrs. Harding's first husband was Henry Be Wolfe, whose family and hers -were neighbors in Marion. In 1885 she got a divorce on the grounds of gross neglect. The one son. of that marriage, Marshall Eugene De Wolf£, who lived,to manhood, died in Kersey, Colo., In 1911., • "• .

TO TEST TAX PUBLICITY i m

Baltimore Daily Post, a Scripps Organ, Faces Trial for Publish­

ing Tax of Daniel Wiilard.

directed TJnited States Attorneys In various sections" of the country to bring against periodicals* publishing tax Ijsts, witha-vlew to establishing

»a judicial interpretation of the pro-ijjdsions of section 253T, of the Revenue

act of 192f, which provides that there shall be^made available to public in­spection in the office of the Collector of Internal Revenue lists containing the-names and post-office addresses of persons making income-tax returns, together with the amount ot Income tax paid by such persons.

TO INDICT SIX MORE

BAN OK CHRISTMAS TREES"

D e a t r u ot To n Incompatible W?i|h Growth Promotion;

Waaiingtoti —A federal law to .pro­hibit the sale of Christmas trees was advocated by H. "Vl Berr r, of Port Plain, N. Y., a delegate to the Nation­al Conference. \ '• • •' ;

*¥It Is poor practice to? teach chit-dren to, have tree* at Christnitas/' he. said,. "and to teach them to plant a

at five *uV I1!** ;***!* ***-

Weeks;. Sfe'ltewyar said*

Mr*. Hardlng't death was due di­rectly to a kidney aUmsftttfrom which •he bad- suffered lor'years,, and which nearly resulted fatally while she was

the White House. B. Kling, Mrs, Harding's

George E. Christian, Jr., who had been secretary to Mr. Harding; Mrs. Mary Sawyer, widow of Briga­dier General Charles E. Sawyer, and Br. Csrl'W. Sawyer were present whea the end came.

ArfsnareTnents for the funeral were Immediately taken over by her brother and Mr. Christian..

\, Sketch of Mrs. Harding Mrs., Worenci Kling Harding rose

simply from simple-things to great. She worked by the aid* of her HUB5-band in ins office of the Marion Star, ijthen the luccess of that struggling p e s t teemed impossible, with as high sad steadfast a courage i s that which upheld Iter when she took up the mani­fold duties of -Mistress of the White House in. spite of ill health, which Made such exerlion almost impossible. * Mrs. Harding was bora in Marion in August, lUm Her father* who died a few years ago after a long career as banker and manufacturer ia the Ohio %ewn1 *e*r«& her with all the care nasally gltsnTatt older daughter. "Sfet her "first marriage turned outjunhsp«

' pily and her second,-to barren Hard­ing, excited her father's undisguised

t annoyance. M& Harding then was a young edi­

tor with a peculiarly unlikely looking proposition on. his hands, in the eyes

>>gf the father. The Marion Star ob-Jpbusly was doomed to failure; he was

/ angry when his daughter married.*"" i Hoping to prove her father wrong,

Mrs. Harding went to work in the ^ business office of the Star. On at

least On* occasion when her husband was away she ran the whole plant,

itlng the editorials and the newjs, rerseeing the»makeup, and acting

finally i s circulation manager. Mrs. Harding; saw Iter husband rise

to Influential editor, to senator, final- j jfcr to Preildentlal nominee. She worked behind hinr—here was the-di­recting ha*4 behind the-machinery or the front porch campaign. Tinder it there was asyer a altchV -

Jft taw 1WWMT Of U S Mrs. Hard.

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Movement to Repeal Publicity Clause In Coming Congress Session Gains Headway — Similar Proceedings Anticipated in Different Cities

tmmr Methods Suggested lit fcttsaeti Sage

Foundation's Report , New1tdrto---Esrablishment through­

out the nation of free ettiploymenfe igenctea under ioint federal, state and mnniclpal control was urged ia aRns-jell Base Foundation report

Suish an instltatlott is theonly renV Bdy for evils of the presentsystem of employment which a five year invest tigation has revealed, said a report mi foundation issued Under the cap-tioa "Public Employment Offices "

LATEST EVENTS > AT-WASHINtaf0H

Curtis calls all Senators listed, as . Republicans, Including La Foilette,

to select Senatav leader aoori. President wiil not deliver in person

his message to Gonaressu Coolldge to keep hands off in organl*

xation of Senate. . -Row Is brewing over Muecls Shoals

In next Corigress session. • Sscretary of labor Davis has definite­

ly Informed President Coolidge he . will not i.eOept a pleoe in the new

Cabinet, end It Is likely that Secre­tary of Commerce Hooyer will fee switched to another department.

Acting Secretary of State denies United States plans arms parley.

Railroad problems promise to Set lead* Ing factor in Senate reorganization.

President Coolldge began writing h?» address to Congress, which con­venes December 1. It ia expected to include a definition of Mr. Cool-tdge's position on national prob­lems.

The poetal committee of the Amerl-can Kewspaper Publishers* Aasocfa-tlon had a conference with Presi­dent Coolldge,, relating;, to the findings' of the post Office Depart­ment t

President Coolldge advocates s "tree­less Christmas."

Borah wants Coolldge to cast ?dis-arma,tnent conference following Brit­ish delay en Leagee protocol.

U. S* officials expect* eafly debt funck ing prapoeel frowi France. •

United Sfatee Supreme Court hsara artUi«entsr* }« rallroid val

_Waghingtoii.—In, formally-announc­ing the indictment of The Baltimore Daily Post as the first newspaper de­fendant in<the government's impend­ing series of" test cases to determine the Intent of Congress with reference to publfcatioSi of incOnie aac informs-' tion, Attorney General 'stone clearly indicated tfi%t further indictnients in other cities would follow swiftiy«>

It W|ia learned at the Bepartment of Justice^ that all of th^ five pr six other newspapers; to bo jirosec^ted on. th0 siptme i?*sfe sre in cities wtiSrf in-ternal revenue district offices Are sitt-ated.< This ia largely because the labt tectors of intisrnat revenue arafo act as' proSe^^ing^wltnesjsea^ _ i •. ,.. r

TJ*ere 1^ a dtrong* Intiination that ; SHil :Int;i?e^rneC.^fe;^iis«

(e aharge- against the Baltimore n§wspap«*'is ^ola^on .oCS^^oh'$16t ot the Revised Staintes^ which was re-enacted into the revenue laW" in Sec­tion 1018. of the latter act. . This seoiionproriaes among other things that, "it . shaH be unlawful; for any person to print or publish in any man­ner Whatever act provided by law any income return of any part thereof;" The-penalty providefi for T?iolatipn is a fittifr of not inore than |t,0QO or Im­prisonment for not more than one year, or lx>th. . .

The government's position is that thev:sorca3led publicifef prjovis\on Of the reventueviaw, J§eetloSt, 25? nverelyi|

"made avaiiahle to inspect On?, the in-coine tax retarris of dtisens, fhere-f Ore, according: to the ihdictnieftti The Baltimore Daily Post committed, an act "against the peace and dignity of theUnited States.1' '-.',.. '_[• ;

iSBo ©(311100*6 grand. 3jp(iy*s Indict-ment doiitains fife counts, "They are

M'lforfe^ Isut; sere:

CASTLETOtT CUT-OFF OPEN

Conneeta New Railway Freight Sys­tem to West,

Albany, N, Y.—With impressiVe ceremonies the Castleton Cut-Off of tie New York Central Railroad, was opened for traffic >• This cut-off, the most strategic railroad construction of recent years, was completed at a!

cost of i?5,000,000, to relieve the freight congestion; at Albany, which has been the most troublesome point of the New York Central Railroad-system. * •

FINDS JAZZ A MENACE

National Playground Official Thinks Mania Wilt l?ie Out

dinclnnati.-^'That t i e jaw spirit to« day is a positive menace, but that it Will play Itself out ultimately, was the statement made by Eugene tie*; spe­cial 'representative of the National1

Playground and Recreational Assocla-. tlon of New York in a discussion at the tenth annual social hygiene con­ference.- * Qnr yonpt Md oar sdiilts are obsessed with too great an eager-

WORLD NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM

MADRID.—-Following a consultation between the Spanish representative in Morocco and Abdel Krim, the rebel leader, an arrangement has been reached by which, an armistice will be signed between Spain and the rebel­lious tribesmen. . _ .*

COLUMBUS, OHJO^M^ ^ l i , . SUeatsley, fifty years Old, found prac­tically cremated in the furnace Of the parsonage of Christ Lutheran Church, in Bexley, a suburb, was dead before her body was placed in the fire yault, It w|a?iUidlo»Wt in a preniiliiry report submitted by T. a Long, a local cfiem-

t£ PASOv—Determlned opposition to any modification ot the Japanese Exclusion I*aw wis voiced by *the American Federattoa of Labor In con-*#*)**•'*&*'••• **&»mmm;- unalterably

English Husband Is Suing Bait to Ricotcriiofi% Hi sayt Wa«

WitWieitf in Seitterwent

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based on the puolicstlon of Iticome, "tax Jftynie|ts of five, citizens of 36altl more, .v^Sev .eltiigns. :-naMed, and the | ani0imt;-:ot tasc jg|Sa:tby "eaoh fpUowi J* ISKikhian B«y|j |l§ff.Sfe| i*6Qh••'A CbblenSi f!36.S^| #ranlc JL S'nrst, f»lif 4$i 'Bahiel, WSliardy 1^0,434^1, and Waldo NieWconaer, iiO&?2SJML . r

Gaien Jk-Ta^,ci^ii|ctor of Eaterrtal Ite^enUe Jfpr tte B^j^ore di flrict, appeared as the governments witness. Harold Allen and Seweil Key. special assistants to Mr. Stone, appeared in Baltimore, as <the agents ot the At­torney ' General./ -v f • The Attorney. General's office issued a formal statement. „3?he„ only com-

kmettt beyond this" which' the Justice Department head would make was that he intended tb~ press for immediate court action i& order to avoid all possible delays in the anticipated litigation, - ultimately ending in" the United States Supremo Court. The statement follows:

Attornfey General Stone announced that an indictment lias been returned in thfe United States District Court fo~ the District of Maryland against The Baltimore Daily'Post as a result of the publication by that paper of information, contained in income-tax returns recently made available for inspection by the Collector of Internal Revenae in that district.

Tblals^eflrwt^of^vei^teetossws which, tta' AttorMcr i •J^SSBei rSBS! " ^ S J f ^WOC^TSB/iSeWWiR

London,—The iJoti of an nnnaated •tttelm'-pdtentatOi A.'-negro,; lot ta* wife of an Englishman figured in a £.125,000 lawsuit here which Was de­scribed' -hjr' the British prees as -~m*

-story without parallel In modem times/* A checle ft* *>lS6,ooo is «t* legeft to have been paid by this mys­terious potentate, who is called hy agreement in cottrt * -Mr,, Af and *fio is pictured as -" a good-looking man of twenty-four,** as'_•*, settlement^'tot' :the-marital entanglement. .' *j

ThO salt waa'nrottiht by Charles Robinson^ r former bootanaker^ »«ain«t the Midland Bank for £125,-000 a. the balance from £1W).000 al­leged *fo have been had and received oy the )iiaak for his/nsej or, alter-J nately, the same amount of moaey "f or nogiigencsf .-- '';•,.•" '.*•: ..Lord;' JE^bo|jp#- attorney- fdr'Roib-inson, descrloed this defense as **a moat fcideoruseharge of blackmailing conspiracy.** On fihe dther hand, Sir John Simon, one of the leaders of the Liberal party, who is counsel for the bankv in bis cross-examination of

j'Robinson tried te make the plaintiff admit that it was a plot to trap "Mr. A." with Mrs. Robinson, not Robin­son denied participation in any plot.

The courtroom was filled with fashionably dressed women to hear Lord Halsbury's charges.

According to-Jiim,, Mrs. Robinson met the potentate at the Victory Ball in London m* November, lsit^. She planned to go to the Orient With hint, bnt when Jbt was in a Parts hotel one of Robinson's icdaaint* ancea, Montagne Nooi Newtown* broke into the room and terrified her from ner purpose by threatesdag to betray her to Robinson,

Newton was one of three saen alv leged by BEalsbnry to Hare obtained from Robinson'by trickery £115,000 of- the nkmey, OSMI dt the" others hav> tag beest "Mr. A's*

!a|sr- Genera) Sir .Lee • General of the Sudan

and sirdar, or conUsvander-ln-chtef, of the Kgyptian- army, died In Cairo, aft­er an unsucceesfal operation to re­move the ballets, fired by assassins.

CHICAGO.—WWe break In grain prioes due to heavy~ lfqiildstlon. ,'

CAIRO^-Oen. Stack, Egyptian Sir­dar, governor of - Sedan, wounded by Cairo assasins, . . . '

QENEVAv—llahep Brent peada be-fore opium "conference for American restriction plan. r •• " ".' ' **••'

DUlLlN^Cardlhsl Logue, Primate of Ireland, dies; news! oomesas shock as illness was not made/known.

PARlaV- Franos is ready to discuss payment of her war debts to America and England, and Premier Herribt is preparing to face the biggest financial probeat hehas Jad^-ona which nre-vlous governments since the war. have fcidestepped.

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