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Harding's condition, the decreased temperature and pulse action, the improvement in the heart action, and the decrease in exhaustion, but it was the prevention of any spread of the pneumonia patches in the right lung that pleased them most. Dr. Sawyer summed up the feeling of his colleagues when he said: "I feel I am justified in saying we feel we have reached clearer sailing." Considerable satisfaction too, was found in the fact that Mr. Harding now is taking nourishment regularly and retaining it. This will go much to remedy his extreme weakness, which has been considered a dangerous factor in his condition from the start. The weakness and exhaustion were primarily induced by the general fatigue of the arduous trip and the continuous flushing with purgatives administered in order to rid his system of the poisonous matter left by the ptomaine attack. The principal task of the doctors now is, it was said, to build up the president's strength and at the same time prevent the further spread of the pneumonic area in the lung. And the stronger he becomes the more resistive power he will have to combat the pneumonic condition. Today's bulletin was issued after a consultation of the attending physicians that lasted for nearly two hours. They made a thorough examination of the patient and found progress at every stage. It is yet too early, however, to say that Mr. Harding is definitely cut off of danger, according to the physicians, and similarly it is too early to forecast any date upon which the effort can be made to return the chief executive to the White House—a trip necessitating a tiresome railroad journey of at least four days under most favorable circumstances. If, however, the improvement in his condition noted in the past 12 hours can be proportionately maintained for several days or the rest of this week, the belief prevails that a start to Washington could be safely attempted next week. The doctors, however, fought shy of making any definite predictions on this score. Official Bulletin Issued at 10 A.M. SAN FRANCISCO, July 31. The official bulletin issued at 10 a.m. today was as follows: The president had a fairly comfortable night with considerable restful sleep. His temperature at 9 a.m. is 100; pulse 120; respiration 40 and regular. There has been no extension of the pneumonic areas and the heart action is definitely improved. Nourishment and fluids are being taken regularly. Elimination is satisfactory. He expresses himself as feeling better and less exhausted. Signed—C. E. Sawyer, Ray Lyman Wilbur, C. M. Cooper, J. T. Boone and Hubert Worth. fled by the president's condition. "I am glad to be able to announce," said Dr. Sawyer, "that the president has had, comparatively speaking, the best night and the most restful night he has had since his illness. "This augurs well. "I believe conditions warrant my saying that apparently we have reached slightly clearer sailing." Dr. Sawyer asked to be excused from answering any questions of a technical nature. The more technical developments of the president's condition, he said, would be dealt with later in the official medical bulletin, promised for shortly after 9 o'clock when the laboratory tests such a stage as to permit of more and consultations will have reached detailed and specific information. The good night's rest which Mr. Harding obtained resulted in an atmosphere of optimism that prevailed the entire eighth floor of the hotel where heavy-eyed reporters and secret service men had held vigil all night. Dr. Sawyer's brief announcement, made after a cursory examination of Mr. Harding between 7 and 8 o'clock this morning, shattered a good deal of the gloom that stalked the corridors of the Palace Hotel all night after the discovery that the president... (By George R. Holmes) (I. N. S. Staff Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, July 31. President Harding showed marked improvement this morning after the most restful night he has had since his illness began four days ago. Dr. Charles E. Sawyer, his chief physician was smiling when he emerged from the president's suite in the Palace hotel at 8 o'clock. He was obviously optimistic and gratified. The good night's rest which Mr. Harding obtained resulted in an atmosphere of optimism that prevailed the entire eighth floor of the hotel where heavy-eyed reporters and secret service men had held vigil all night. Dr. Sawyer's brief announcement, made after a cursory examination of Mr. Harding between 7 and 8 o'clock this morning, shattered a good deal of the gloom that stalked the corridors of the Palace Hotel all night after the discovery that the president was suffering from broncho-pneumonia. The condition of the president is still precarious. Dr. Sawyer's visit to the sick room shortly before 8 o'clock was the second visit he had paid since midnight. About 2 a.m. he went to the president's room and found him asleep. Mr. Harding slept continuously ANNIE ALTA ANAHEIM'S NEWEST SUITE Lots 50x100 ONE B Northwest Co Lots 50x1 ONE B Northwest Co 56 CITY U SIDEWALKS CURBING OILED and GRAD Make Your Select SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO HOME BUILDERS 109 Sou THE PLAIN DEALER, ANAHEIM, CALIF. from about midnight until shortly after six a.m. the most sleep he has obtained consecutively since the pains from his attack of ptomaine first began to gripe him last week. After his valet had attended him, the president sent out for the morning papers shortly after seven o'clock and propped up by a pair of pillows he read with interest the gloomy accounts of his illness as they appeared here. The news of his last night's condition was conveyed to him in double decked headlines of large type, strung across eight columns. "President has pneumonia, his condition grave" said one. "Harding's condition serious," said another. And down the center of the page ran in heavy black-face type the official bulletins of yesterday and last night. If Mr. Harding had any comment on the news he must have withheld it, at least he made no comment. By GEORGE R HOLMES (I. N. B. Staff Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, July 21.—Everything is in readiness here today for a battle to save the life of President Harding. The president's condition is grave. Pneumonia, the dread foe of all physicians where a patient's powers of resistance have been diminished, has developed in the president's right lung and this is considered the most alarming single factor in his case. A very great deal depends, his physicians said, today, upon whether this inflammatory condition of the lung can be held in check. It is the pneumonic condition and not the abdominal symptoms resulting from ptomaine poisoning, that held the attention of physicists throughout the night, on the eighth floor of the Palace Hotel. Oxygen tanks were lined up in the presidential suite this morning for emergency use. The placing of those life-saving tanks in readiness is significant of the fears of the doctors. The pneumonic symptoms appeared in the last 24 hours. They were not there at 11 o'clock Monday, the official bulletin signed by the five attending physicians stating: "There are no peritoneal grazecerned today with building up the president's shattered strength for a fight against this pneumonic infection and they found considerable satisfaction in the fact that their patient was able during the long night to partake some nourishment and to get an appreciable amount of refreshing sleep. The president went to sleep about midnight, and early this morning was still sleeping, with the doctors and attendants moving quietly about the eighth floor corridors and hoping against hope that the morning examination would reveal no extension of the lung infection. It was reported early this morning that Dr. Charles Mayo, of Rochester, Minn., one of the most noted surgeons in the United States, had been summoned to San Francisco to stand by for a possible operation should the need for one develop as a result of the pneumonic development. At 5:30 a.m. the president was still resting easily and was sleeping. Dr. Boone, who was on duty most of The night in a room adjoining the president's bed-chamber, entered the sick room, but seeing the president asleep, he backed out as noiselessly as he had entered, with a gratified smile on his face. A few minutes before 6 o'clock President Harding awoke. He sent for Dr. Boone and shattied a few minutes with the physician. The president seemed to be in good spirits upon awakening and somewhat refreshed. Shortly before 7 a.m. President Harding sent out for the morning papers. He was reported to have read with considerable interest the reports concerning his illness. The president is considered by his physicians to be temperamentally well fitted for a battle against pneumonia, but less well adapted from a purely physical standpoint. The drainage of his resistive powers by the long days and nights of constant travel and exertion on his history-making trip has been pronounced and in the final analysis, they say, it is the capacity to resist disease that determines battles of this character. Ordinarily the president's great natural strength and vigor could be counted upon to lift the strain upon his heart that was commented upon in the last bulletins issued by his physicians. "In the president's condition anything can happen," said Dr. Charles E. Sawyer, chief of the attending physicians. "The president's resistance is low. He has expended his natural powers, as revealed by his inability or speedily throw off the poisons taken into his system. "Happily, however, the lung usually is capable of resisting disease." It was a quiet but nevertheless tense night around the president's quarters in the Palace Hotel. The development of lung infection was a severe blew to the physician, who had been hopeful that this complication would not be added to their other enemies of weakness, heart strain and digestive disorders. Mrs. Harding was about the president's room until after midnight. Then she retired to her own room to obtain sleep. Her cheerful demeanor and unfailing optimism added much to relieve the concern of the physicians after the discovery made on the X-ray plates. Dr. Sawyer was loud in praise of the manner in which Mrs. Harding is standing the ordeal of the president's illness. "She is one of those creatures" he said, "that is best under fire." Dr. Joel T. Boone, junior medical officer at the White House, and holder of the congressional medal of honor won as chief surgeon of the famous marine brigade at Chateau Thierry, was on duty in the presidential suite all night. During the early hours of the morning the president slept and Dr. Boone contented himself with regular noiseless inspections to make sure of the patient's continued rest. Dr Sawyer was in and out of the president's quarters several times during the night but he had little to add to the last regular bulletin issued last night. He found considerable satisfaction, however, in the president's sleeping. There is no present intention of moving the president from his president quarters stop the Palace Hotel—even should it be found necessary to operate. The quarters have been fit- ANNOUNCING OPENING WEST SUBDIVISION HIGHEST ELEVATION 0x110 $1000 ONE BLOCK FROM EAST CENTER STREET West Corner Sycamore and East ONE BLOCK FROM EAST CENTER STREET West Corner Sycamore and East CITY LOTS FULLY IMPROVED ELECTRICITY ORANGES G GAS WALNUTS DILED and GRADED Sts. WATER ON E Selection Today Small De For Reservations See M. O. HENSLEY 109 South Clementine Phone 951 Tuesday, July 31, 1921. TELEGRAMS POUR INTO WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON, July 31.—Messages of sympathy poured into the White House and the state department today from all parts of the world as heads of foreign governments and hundreds of officials and private citizens throughout the United States expressed concern over President Harding's serious illness. "Many of these messages will be forwarded by special wire to San Francisco to be communicated to the president when his condition is sufficiently improved. Answers in many cases, will be sent by the state department." Rudolph Forster, executive clerk at the White House, is keeping in touch with the presidential party by telephone and telegraph and is being constantly advised of the president's condition. Mr. Harding's illness is the principal topic of conversation in Washington, constant requests being made by government officials and other residents of the capital for the latest news from his bedside. Because of the latest serious developments in the president's condition, White House officials were without information today as to when the president and Mrs. Harding will return to Washington. The executive mansion has been in the course of extensive repairs since the Hardings left here in June, but the living quarters on the second floor can be prepared for occupancy in a few days. KING GEORGE WILL EXPRESS SYMPATHY LONDON, July 31.—King George is deeply concerned over President Harding's illness, it was officially stated this morning. The king will send a message of sympathy and hope for improved health as soon as he receives news of Mr. Harding's sickness through official channels. The Daily Chronicle; personal organ of former premier Lloyd George devoted its leading editorial today to President Harding, hoping for his early return to good health. EXPRESS SYMPATHY LONDON, July 31—King George is depoly concerned over President Harding's illness, it was officially stated this morning. The king will send a message of sympathy and hope for improved health as soon as he receives news of Mr. Harding's sickness through official channels. The Daily Chronicle, personal organ of former premier Lloyd George devoted its leading editorial today to President Harding, hoping for his early return to good health. President Harding's illness is attracting widespread attention in the press, in official circles and among the public at large. It is linked with reparations and the German crisis in British interest. Number of rattles is not a certain indication of a snake's age as two rattles sometimes grow a year. OPENING PLACE NEXT ELEVATION IN ANAHEIM 2000 and up R STREET and East Streets OOO and up R STREET and East Streets IMPROVED ANGES WALNUTS ON EVERY LOT Small Down Payment Y Phone 951 WATCH PAPER FOR FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENT