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Dawes, fifty, of Peoria, dropped "dead. * . Teggmen blew the safe at the L, S. McCabe & Co. store at Rock Island and chiseled the combination from another safe. About $200 waa obtained. Leopold Deters, seventy-three, one of the wealthiest citizens of Clinton county, died. He was made rich by an oil strike on his farms n$ar Carlyle In 1911. *-Peoria's new armory will be competed by November, according to contractors. The building, 175 feet in length, will contain a rifle range, a toll floor,, storeroom ^ and ,-a -iarge liibby. -Joseph* Carney, sixty-one-year-old .Watchman at the town residence at Chicago of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc- Cormlck, died in a hospital from a ballet wound inflicted in a mysterious •hooting at the McCormick home, according to authorities. Charles B. Sullivan, br<**r, brother of Judge Philip L. Sullivan and Mrs. William L. Heptlg, formerly Miss Bess C. Sullivan, assistant state's attorney, died at his home in Marengo. The initial Fourth of July accident of this season occurred In Bloomington when Delmar White, ten, lost the sight of his right eye wlte& a carbide cannon was discharged. GOOLIDGE ASKS SCHOOLS DEPT. LADY EMILY LVYTENS v. One hundred years ago |he first white settler located in Tazewell county. The first house was built in Pekln in 1824 by Jonathan Tharp. The wife of Mayor Cromwell selected the name of the budding city in 183G, following an election defining the limits. Bandits, who successfully blew a Safe in a garage at New Bedford, itear Sterling, made good their escape. They got over $300. The bandits passed five policemen stationed at the bridge. Fifteen shots were fired «t the car without any apparent dam* •ge to the "occupants. Patrick Murphy of Chicago filed BOtice In the Supreme court at Springfield asking for a rehearing Inr the case involving the constitutionality of the Chicago soft drink parlor license ordinance. Murphy was fined $100 and costs for refusing to take otit a license and the Judgment was affirmed. e--- John C. Allen of Monmouth, bank president and department store owner, was selected by the Republican congressional convention at Aledo as nominee for congress to succeed W. J. Graham, appointed to the federal bench of the r District of Columbia. With more than fifty1 prep institutions competing, East Aurora high school has been awarded first prize in the state thrift championship. It was shown that 95 per cent of the students make deposits in the public school bank. The high schools and gnded schools at Aurora have a total of $34,000 on deposit The smallest deposit is 5 cents. More than one-third of a million dollars is spent in Macomb each year by students at Western State Teachers' college. This estimate does not include the money spent for food at the school cafeterias. 7 ^ Mrs. Guy Foster of Muskegon, Mich., narrowly escaped death at Taylorvllle when the Ford coupe she was driving was hit by the fast Wabash passenger train and demolished. Mrs. Foster was lacerated about the bead and face, requiring 20 stitches. Army worms are leaving a trail of devastation through the section surrounding Bishop Hill and the loss to farmers will be very heavy. Whole crops of corn have been taken by the pests. Many acres of pasture land have been denuded. Farmers of Kendall and Grundy counties have agreed to operate a railroad. They will take Qver the Fox & Illinois. Union Traction line. The action Is necessary to prevent the abandonment of the property and Its early junking, It Is said. / Alleging slander, Frank J. Redolfl and Lawrence McEroy of Gillespie have filed suit against Dewey Ruyle, asking $5,000 damages each. Following a recent burglary, the defendant is said to have connected the names of the two complainants with the case. Sheriff B. A. Stewart of Iroquois county won the lawsuit filed against him by Arthur Gagnon, farmer of Ashkum county, demanding $10,000 damages because the officer, armed with a warrant, made a search of Gagnon's premises for a still. Miss Ebba Carlson, who was instantly killed between Elgin and St. Charles in an automobile accident, was a former Kewanee young woman. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carlson live there. She made her home In Kewanee until two years ago, when she went to Elgin. ^ Raising more than $91,000 in two weeks, friends of Northwestern university put over the $2,000,000 endowment fund for the colleges of liberal arts and engineering at the eleventh hour. More than two years ago the general education board of New York promised .a gift of $600,000 to the two colleges If the university had raised $1,400,000 by July 1. x B. M. Kavanaugh, Illinois Central ticket agent at Harvey; reported to the police that he had been robbed of •8 ,000. He said he locked the station nod went across the street to eat. He ifft the money, which was wrapped In foils, on top of the safe. When he -feturned he found a window had been pried open and the money was gone. . ftergeant Vincent of the Harvey police •aid there was no clew to the thief. *--" Babies who expect to be born soon ' Would do well to choose Oak Park or Kvanston for their native towns. Statistics published by the American Child Healtfi association give Oak --Park the lowest Infant mortality rate fh Illinois last year, with only 37 out ""«f every 1,000 babies dying during their first twelve months. Evanston was second wih 46, and Elgin third With 48. Nine new libraries supported by taxation were established in' this State In 1923 and tax receipts for library purposes increased from $2,- 061,872.52 In 1922 to $2,004,509.24 In 1923, while card holders increased approximately 30,000. Total expenditures, including expenses of endowed libraries, were $2,215,273.8 in 1922 and 92,333,755.83 in 1923. Approximately 100,000 books were added to libraries In the year. • - John J. Bulllngton, commander of the department of llllinois of the American Legion, in an address before the Advertising Men's post of the legion, at Chicago, pledged the organization to keep aloof from politics. "This year of all years the Illinois legion must keep out of politics," he said, "and I shall keep it out." An airplane was used td take mall and supplies to Seaton and Keithsburg, towns near Galesburg which had been shut off from both rail and motor transportation, due to the recent floods. Bridges are out in a number of pieces, making transportation In any way except by air Impossible. The threat of the Peoria & Eastern railway, leased by the Big Four system, to pull away from the parent road sufficiently to be operated under a separate set of officers reached another acute stage when the Section street roundhouse at Danville , was reopened. The house was closed when the Big Four consolidated Its various plants there at the Lyons terminal. •3> • Arthur Gerhold, Elgin; Is afraid of his wife. She is "an Amazon In physical size and strength, weighing 200 pounds," Gerhold charges In a cross bill filed against his wife's suit for divorce, and he, weighing but 140, dare not oppose her. Gerhold says that his wife threw a chair at him, broke a vase over his head >and In other ways tyrannized him. Almost 1,000,000 persons patronized public libraries in Illinois in 1923, according to a compilation made by Miss Anna May Price, superintendent of the library extension division of the secretary of state's office. The figures show 991.702 persons held library cards in the state last year and that the total circulation of books was 17,578,379, excluding the Chicago reference libraries. At a special election held at Mount Yernon for district 80 a proposition was passed to issue $60,000 in bonds to build four additional rooms each to the Lincoln, Edison and Horace Mann schools. This was the, fourth election on the proposition. It was defeated twice and, when carried before, the bonds could not be sold because of irregularities la connection with notices of the election. - r Tells Teachers He Favor* '• Creating Secretaryslripu.rt£« of Education. Washington.--Creation of new cabinet position of secretary of education and relief at the head of a Department of Education was indorsed by President Coolldge in his July Fourth address before the closing session of the National Education association convention here. The President took opportunity in his address to voice the patriotic sen' tlments of the nation on the onedred and forty-eighth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and to express himself upon the question of education. Unknown to the assemblage, he left the bedside of his seriously ill son, Calvin, Jr., loUg enough to make the address and then hurried back. Declaring that Ignorance la the "most fruitful source of poverty, vice tnd crime," Mr. Coolldge came out for compulsory education. The ten thousand ichool teachers and educators who crowded the Central High school stadium gave the President the warmest of receptions. His remarks were loudly applauded and his hearers interrupted him several times by standing and cheering. Stressing the point that education "should be the handmaid of citizenship," President Coolldge said: "On this day of all days it ought to be made clear that America has had its revolution and placed the power of government squarely, securely and entirely In the hands of the people. "For the most part our Institutions are attacked," he said later on, "In the name of social and economic reform. Unless there be some teaching of sound economics in the schools, the voter and the taxpayer is In danger of accepting vague theories which lead only to social discontent and public disaster. "The body politic has little chance bf choosing patriotic officials who can administer Its financial affairs with wlsdolh and safety unless there Is a general diffusion of knowledge and Information on elementary economic subjects sufficient to create and adequately to guide public opinion. "The cause of education has long had the thoughtful solicitude of the national government. While It ia realized that It Is a state affair, rather than a national affair, nevertheless It has provided by law a bureau, of education." Coolidge's Son Undergoes a Serious Operation Washington.--Calvin Coolldge, Jr., the President's sixteen-year-old t son, was operated on at the Walter Reed hospital. Septic poison, resulting from a blister on the foot, gradually spread through the lad's body, until he was placed on the operating table. The left leg between the knee and the ankle was cut open. This revealed an osteomyelitis condition, which means that the poison had settled in a bone --in this Instance, the shin bone. The nature of the operation was that the poison literally was scraped out of the bone--as much as possible, that is. fc* 4. Frank C. Carlson, sixty-six, working on an excavation at Rockford, was burled under a falling wall and died soon after being taken to the Swedish- American hospital. .. $ A short time ago the state department of public health celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the state diagnostic laboratory. During the first year of Its existence 171 examinations of specimens were made in the laboratory, while more than 125,000 were made during the twentieth. • --e-- . • Charles D. Dibell, soir of the late Judge Dorrance Dibell, Joliet, has been appointed master In chancery for Will county, his appointment effective July L Three St. Louis men. C. M. Lawson, E. P. Cave and Hugh M. Lawson, the first two vice presidents of Ely & Walker Dry Goods store of St. "Louis purchased the W. H. Lyman & Co. store at Kewanee. This Is one of the largest and oldest mercantile Establishments In western Illinois, established in 1867. Permits for the construction of 1,433 buildings, valued at $33,404,400, were 'ssued In June, according to the records of Building Commissioner Frank Doherty at Chicago. A uptlon-wlde search for John Walker, twenty, wht> disappeared on May 26, was Instituted. On the day of his disappearance Walker's automobile was found wrecked In a ditch at the roadside near his farm home in the vicinity of Belvidere. Lightning striking a chimney of the Trl-City Auto Supply company R6ck Island hurled It to the ground flying bricks injuring a sleeping man in a nearby. house. Another house was struck and burned to the ground. The damage Is estimated at $J5,000l Soviets Export Grain* Though People tfimger Riga, Latvia--An additional 5,000 tons of Russian grain arrived In Windau for the soviet trade delegation in Riga, which Is offering the .shipment to Scandinavian buyers. When asked about the Russian crop prospects, the delegates said that while the outlook Is pessimistic, Russia will continue to export grain. Officials callously report another famine Is beginning in the lownr Volga district. Radical Jap Leader for War With America Tokyo.--While the highest officials, Including the prince regent, are expressing their keenest regret over the insult to the American flag, Mr. Shimlzu, head of the Talgyosha association, which staged the recent raid on the foreign colony's dance at the Imperial hotel, and also sect a delegation to the American embassy. In a speech advocated Immediate war with America.. • -- Coolidge Receives First Radio From Guatemala Washington.--President Coolldge received the first message ever sent from Guatemala by radio. The new radio station at Puerto Barrios vas officially opened with a message (from the Guatemalan President to Mr. Coolldge extending both birthday greetings and Independence day felicitations. A. A. Adee Is Dead 'Washington.--Alvey A. Adee, for 88 years second assistant Secretary of state and for 54 years connected with the' diplomatic service of the State department, died at the age of eightytwo years. 67 U. S. INCOMES OVER A MILLION Lady Emily Luytens, wife of the famous architect, who Is now rebuilding the city of Delhi, India, has announced herself a candidate for parliament as a Laborite. TREASURY SURPLUS IS ABOVE HALF BILLION Figures for the Fiscal Year Show Excellent Situation. Washington.--Final figures for the fiscal year which closed June 30 show that the excess of ordinary receipts over expenditures amounted to $505,- 366,986. This exceeds by more than $7,000,000 the estimate of $498,000,000 which President Coolldge made, and Is $176,000,000 greater than the estimate which was made by the treasury last fall. Adding the surplus of $505,366,986 to the public debt retirements required by law, the total reduction In the public debt during the year amounted to $1,098,994,376. Customs receipts fell $25,000,000 short of the estimate which was made last fall. The actual customs receipts for the fiscal year 1924 amounted to $545,637,503. In the fiscal year 1923 record total of $561,928,806 was reached and It had been estimated that the total In the year jtist closed would amount to $570,000,000. Total ordinary receipts during the fiscal year 1924 amounted to $4,012,- 044,701, as oompared with $4,007,135,- 480 In the fiscal year 1923. Total expenditures chargeable against ordinary receipts In the fiscal year 1924 amounted to $3,506,677,715, as compared with $3,697,478,020 In the fiscal year 1923. * Internal revenue receipts, • after glv* Ing the 25 per cent credit on six months of the 1924 personal income taxes, amounted to $2,795,157,036, as compared with $2,624,472,760 In the fiscal year 1923. . , ; • • . '-- Educators Elect Jesse H. Newlon President Washington.--Reports of committees on resolutions and nominations were adopted at the final session of the National Education association's convention. Resolutions approved called for indorsement of the Sterling-Reed bill, demand for permanent tenure guarantees and pensions for teachers, approval of the child labor amendment and the antl-narcotlc measures, recommendations for tribunals for consideration of International disputes to prevent wars, and regret for the disregard for laws, especially those forbidding liquor. Jesse H. Newlon, superintendent of schools of Denver, was elected^ president I - Federal Taxes Paid on Over .XI Billion* Derived in 1922. Washington.--A total net Income of $21,336,212,580 -- equivalent to the gross debt of the nation--was reported subject to federal taxes by citizens of the United States for the calendar year 1922, it was disclosed In statistics of Incomes for that year made public by the treasury. On this Income the federal goyernment received $861,067,308 from the 6,787,481 persons who admitted tax liability. This shows an Increase over 1921 of $141,670,202, or 19.69 per cent in tax paid; or 125,- 305 In the number of returns filed, and of $1,759,000,000 In total Income subject to taxation. The average net Income per return for 1922 was $3,148.46 per tax payer, while each, theoretically, paid $126.86 toward the apkeep of the government. Based on the 1920 census, 6.2 per cent of the total population paid taxes, and by this basis of calculation, each American citizen, whether man, woman or child, had a net income for 1922 of $194.72, just $10 higher than in 1921. The per capita tax by t he federal government amounted to $7.86, almost $1 more than in the previous year. Four persons In the country had Incomes of $5,000,000 or more, and 63 others had Incomes of from $1,000,000 to $4,000,000. The 67 Incomes above $1,000,000 constituted the highest number for this class since 1918. There were 12,000 persons reporting net Incomes between $50,000 and $100,000, a gain of 4,000 over 1921; 2,171 with Incomes between $100,000 and $150,000, and 763 with incomes between $150,000 and $200,000. Two-Year Sentence Given Gaston Means New York.--Gaston B. Means, adventurer and former federal agent, received the maximum sentence, following his conviction of a conspiracy to violate the Volstead act. Federal Judge Wolverton fined him $10,000 and sent him to the Atlanta penitentiary for two years. Elmer W. Jarnecke, his former secretary, escaped with a $5,000 fine and two years in prison. Fast Passenger Train on "Pennsy" Wrecked Lancaster, Pa.--The Broadway limited, one of the Pennsylvania railroad's fastest passenger trains from New York to Chicago, was wrecked one mile east of this city, eight of ttie nine cars leaving the rails. Two women passengers and one member of the crew were slightly hurt. Higher Court Affirms Anderson*s Conviction New York.--The conviction of William H. Anderson, former state superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league, now In Sing Sing, for third-degree forgery, was unanimously Affirmed by the appellate division of the Supreme court. » F. S. Hasting« Dies Port Washington, N. Y.--Frank Seymour Hastings, banker, yachtsman and clubman, died here. He was seventyone years old. He was executor of the Grover Cleveland estate. Ex-Premier Wounds Foe Lisbon, Portugal.--Alvaro de Castro, who recently resigned the Portuguese premiership, fought a duel with swords with Flight Captain Rlblero Ifonseca, because of a political dispute. Fonheca was wounded. Honduras Election Peaceful Tegucigalpa, Honduras. -- Elections to the constituent assembly were held amid perfect order. The Nationalist party won throughout the country. The new assembly will meet August 80. Girl Leaps to Death Hutfchlqson, Kan.--Ruby Clampitt, girl forger, was killed when she Jerked away from the Barton county sheriff and leaped from a speeding train. The girl escaped from the Barton county Jail ten days ago. Radical Heads Cabinet Santiago, Chile.--President Allessandrl has commissioned Pedro Aguirre Cerda, president of the radical party and leader of the liberal alliance, to form a cabinet. Lorain Lockjaw Epidemic After Storm Injuries . Uorafn, Ohio.--Gangrene and lockjaw broke out alarmingly among those injured In the storm which wrecked Lorain and other northern Ohio cities a week ago. Insanitary living conditions were blamed for the epidemic of infection by Capt. H. O. Whlttaker, medical officer of the One Hundred and Sixty-sixth Infantry on duty here, who urged all Injured persons to report for vaccination Immediately. Thirty persons were treated for gangrene and lockjaw In one day, Captain Whlttaker said. Bodies of Five Boys in Ship Fire Found Baltimore, Md.--The bodies of five boysf members of a newsboy band, and that of a negro were found on the hulk of the bay steamer Three Rivers when the remains of the vessel, which was burned to the water line In Chesapeake bay, were towed Into Baltimore. This brings the total number of victims of the fire up to ten and accounts for all those known to be missing. Report Shows Extent of Loss in Ohio Storm Columbus, Ohlo.T-Henry M. Baker, Red Cross director, in charge of relief work In Lorain, in a telegram to Fred A. Miller, chairman of the committee named by Gov, Vic Donahey to consult and advise on relief measures In that cl&, summarized the Lorain situation as follow^: Dead, 67; receiving hospitalization, 176; homes totally destroyed, 92; homes partially destroyed, 285; persons fed dally, 2,000. Arrest Filipino Scoutsf Leaders in Strike Plot Manila, P. I.--What was understood to be a widespread movement among the Philippine scouts to strike for more pay culminated In the arrest of 23 ringleaders at Fort McKlnley by the provost guard which raided a meeting. One Day Paris-Warsaw Airplane Line Opened Paris.--A Warsaw to Paris one-day air service has been Inaugurated. Airplanes leave the Polish capital at four o'clock In the morning and arrive In Paris at 5;15 o'clock In the afternoon. The schedule calls for an average of 130 kilometers (81 miles) an hour. Spanish Foreign Legion Loses 400 Men in Battle Madrid.--The fighting In western Morocco was severe Sunday. A company of Spanish Moors was annihilated by the rebels. An official communique fixes the losses In the foreign legion of the Spanish army at about 400 in the present engagement. Delegate Hit by Gavel New York.--Herman Schoernstein of New York suffered concussion of the brain when he was struck on the head by Chairman Walsh's gavel as It flew oft the handle the delegate space. Twenty-Five Injured* in Ptuhge Brownsville, Pa.--Twenty-five persons were injured when a footbridge along the banks of the Monongahela river collapsed and sent them hurtling 80 feet to a brick pavement. * is • Small Nations Invited London.--Invitations to the London conference on the Dawes report have been issued to the smaller powers as well as to the great powers. These are Greece, Portugal, Rumania and Yugo-Slavla. Forest Fires in Alberta Winnipeg, Man.--Forest fires are now raging through valuable timber lands in northern Alberta. The Canadian Pacific hotel at Lake Louise was destroyed at a loss of $500,000. Mellon on Vacation •' New York.--Secretary of the TWasqry Mellon sailed for England Saturday. He expects to return before September 1 In order to be here daring the Presidential campaign. 6,000 flat Makers Strike New York.--Five thousand members of the United ClotH Hat and Cap Makers' union went on strike demanding certain technical changes which would strengthen their contract, with the employers. ' CALVIN COOLID6E, n JUNIOR, IS DEAD < President's Son Dies ' \ V Poison of Small Wound ^ on Foot. .1 Igor Stravinsky, Russian pianist and composer, will come to the United States next season for a concert tour and as a guest conductor of prominent orchestras. V. S. GOVERNMENT ' MARKET QUOTATIONS Washington.--(For the week ending June 26.)--LIVE STOCK--Medium and good beef ateera. 6c to 35c lower at $7.40@10.40; butcher cows and heifers, 25c lower to 25c higher at $3.50^)9.25; feeder steers, steady to 35c lower at $5.25@9.00; fat lambs, $1.10 to $1.25 lower at $11.50pi4.00; feeding lambs, 25c lower at $10.25@12.Q0; yearlings, •1.00 to $1.25 lower at $8.75@11.75, and fat ewes 50c off at $2.75@6.00. HAT--No. 1 timothy, $31.50 Boston, $80.00 New York, $26.00 Pittsburgh, $23.00 Cincinnati. $26.50 Chicago, $24.50 St. Louis, $19.50 Kansas City; No. 1 alfalfa. $20.50 Kanaas City, $18.50 Omaha, $27.00 Memphis; No. 1 prairie, $11.75 Kansas City, $13.00 Omaha. $17.00 Chicago. $16.00 St. Louis. DAIRY PRODUCTS--Butter. 92 score, 4H4c New York, 39c Chicago, 4Jc Philadelphia, 42c Boston. Cheese; Twins, 18%c; single daisies. 19>4c; double daisies, 19c; longhorns, 18fcc; square prints. 19 He. GRAIN--No. 1 dark northern apring, $1.26% @1.60^4 Minneapolis; No. 2 hard Winter, $1.17V*@1.21 Chicago, >1.1201.18 Kansas City. $1.15 St. Louis; No. 2 r'ed winter. $1.2001.22 St. Louis, $1.1101.13 Kansas City. No. 3 red winter, $1.16% Chicago; No. 2 yellow corn. $1.0001.01 Chicago, 93%@94^4c Minneapolis; No. 3 yellow corn, $1.0101.03 St. Louis, 96o Kansas City; No. 3 white corn, $1,02 0 1.04 St. Louis; $1.00 Kansas City; No. 3 white oats, 56V&057HC Chicago, 51>4 0 51 ?4c Minneapolis, 57@5"V4c St. Louis. Look for Delay in "Oil Scandal» Trials Washington.--Trial of former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, Harry F. Sinclair, Edward L. Doheny and Edward L. Doheny, Jr., against whom Indictments In connection with the oil-lease scandals were returned In the District of Columbia Supreme court, probably will be delayed until after November election. The defendants will come to Washington to arrange ball, which has been fixed at $5,000, to enter formal pleas of not guilty. c " Southern Methodists Vote to Join Northern Church Chattanooga, Tenn.--An official vote of 297 to 75 placed the stamp of approval of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South upon the proposal for an organic union with the Methodist Episcopal church. The question now goes to the annual conference for ratification. A resolution was adopted directing that the annual conferences of 1925 vote upon the union of the two organizations. Raid Reds' Rooms in the Reichstag; Find Grenades Berlin.--The Berlin police entered the relchstag and Prussian diet buildings, broke open the committee rooms, lockers and desks belonging to the Communist members and seized one revolver, many hund grenades, numerous percussion caps, and documentary evidence to prove that the Communist party Is engaged In political murders and was arranging new. political murderi. • . . .... Lorain, Storm Destroyed, Asks Aid to Rebuild Chicago. -- Acting Mayor A. A. Sprague, in behalf of Mayor Dever, who Is attending the Democratic convention at New York, in co-operation with other cities. Issued an appeal to Chlcagoans for aid to the toruadostrlcken city of Lorain, Ohio. A fund of $800,000 solely for relief Is needed, according to an appeal made by the mayor of Lorain. The fund will be handled by the Red Cross. Eight of One Family Die in Crash of Auto and Train Eagle Lake, Minn.--Eight persons, all of this same family, were killed when their automobile was struck by a Chicago & Northwestern pussenge» train at the grade crossing here and only surviving member of the fainmay not recover. the Uy Fire Peril Closes Forests San Francisco, Cal.--An order closing extensive areas In seven national forests In California to all camping and other recreation, because of the critical fire hazard, waa Issued .here by the forest service. Italians Shoot Serbs Belgrade, Serbia.--A serious Incident occurred on the frontier near Krnnj, when three Italian patrols shot and killed two Serbian soldiers at the Serbian boundary line. Cleveland Man Honored Washington.--Richard F. Grunt of Cleveland was elected president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United Stutes at a meeting of the directors, succeeding Julius H. Barnes of Doluth, Minn. Mussolini's Friends Gather London.--General Balbe, military generalissimo of the Fascistl, wired to Mussolini' that iM),000 Black Shirts are ready to defend hiii),°according to ofllrial information here. Washington.--After battling wltjh. the utmost fortitude for five dajft£ Calvin Coolldge, Jr., son of the PreSdent, succumbed to an attack of blood poisoning which had racked his devitalized body with almost unbeatt able pain and which slowly sapped the youthful reserve strength of his failing constitution. When the end came at 10:30 o'cloolc Monday night, the President and Mr«. Coolldge, who had remained at tit# side of their dying boy almost co4* stantly since he was first afflictefl,"" were at the hospital still hopeful f<M? • his recovery, the President x;eassu(t» Ing his sorrowful wife with cheerful and comforting words. Death came with a sinking spell,, the fourth Into which the boy hasdl lapsed in the last twenty-fouf hounL Despite the use of oxygen and all other restoratives known to medical science, he fell fast toward the fini|| coma; not even the sterling courage that had characterized his mental' state throughout the fatal illness andl had Stood off crisis after crisis was able to meet the final overtures of death. The collapse began at 6:30 o'clock and his condition gradually grew worse nntll the smiling and brave victim of a boy's bruise sank into eternity. ^ Medical science spared none of he* knowledge In the efforts of her e*> ponents to save young Calvin's llfk. An operation was performed on thfc affected leg, the left. An effort was made Saturday night to drain off tbjjji. poison that was creeping toward th» heart. A blood transfusion was r#» sorted to and oxygen was used. Non# proved of any help In the epic battl# the doctors fought to keep away th# grim harvester of death. In the terms of the physicians, the specific form of poisoning was staphlococcus. It had started In the blister' on the top of the right big toe, spread upward through the leg and down tl» left leg, some of It settling In the left' shin bone. The poison began its work about Wednesday--Calvin had been tQ a ball game Tuesday with no effecta, Thursday It became serious. Friday Dr. John Deaver of Philadelphia wa® called in. Saturday Dr. John Kolmer of Philadelphia was called and thfr boy taken to Walter Reed hospital^ where five doctors were In constant at* tendance day and night. Saturday1 there waft an operation to drain th® poison from the bone. From then onT there was little hope. It- was just a matter of time. The localization of the poison In the bone is known as osteomyelitis and had the poison stayed in that on» spot all might have been well. But went back up the leg and soon was ravaging the vitals of the boy, causing intense pain. i f . Illinois Man Slays Father After a Violent Quarrel Dixon, 111.--Dr. James M. Durin^ fifty-six, of Steward, one of Lee coua> ty's most prominent physicians, wa» shot and killed by his son, Gilbert twenty-three, in a fit of anger at thelf home. Refusal of the boy to answe£ a question asked by his father at th# supper table led to the shooting. Dofli tor Durln, angered by his son's refusal to talk, Is said to have slapped hica! The boy arose from the table, wenir to the coal house at the rear of th# residence, and returned with a shot* gun, shooting through the screen door,, without a word, it is charged. Angry Veteran Beats Up Hines, Head of Buream Washington.--Brig. Gen. Frank T! Hines, director of the veterans' bu-» reau, was Involved in a fistic encoun^ ter with a former service man In htaf office at the bureau, suffering a gashf over the left eye and bruises whlcl# required medical attention. Accord^ ing to witnesses, the veteran who ert^;- gaged in the affair was Thomas Deaver of Houston, Texas, who ha<§--- called to protest that a medical ex»v aminatlon made at San Antonio had| Injured his claim before the branch. LaFollette Indorsed by v . the Socialist Conventionii Cleveland, Ohio.--The national eoi|4 ventlon of the Socialist party of America formally enlisted under the LaFol-' lette Presidential banner. It adopted"' a report offered by a majority of committee of 15, recommending that; the convention concur iitPthe action of the Conference for Progressive Polltl- r cal Action In Indorsing the LaFolleft#.* candidacy on his platform. The vot®-' on this- report was 106 to 17. . Sets World's Record AJon, France.--Driving a twelvecylinder automobile, Rene Thomas, racing driver, Sunday covered a mili from a flying start in 25 and 12-1OO0L* seconds. This Is said to be a neMF world's record. ~ f V John D. Is Eighty-five New York.--John D. Rookefelleig-^ Sr., celebrated his eighty-fifth blrthf.:. , day anniversary at his home Tuesday. He issued a brief statement saying, that he was well and happy. Two Boys Drown Ishpemlng, Mich.--In an attempt tosave his brother, who Jumped from a moving raft, Emil Strandre, fourteen, and his brother, Louis, ten, whom he tried to save, were drowned In Rock lake. f ord Charges Low R<*te ' DiSfroit, Mich.--Henry Ford's loan of $5,000,000 to the city of Detroit waa renewed with interest at 3 per cent,. Richard W. Reading, dtjr comptroller^ announced.