MATH OF WHITE HOUSE LAD
BELIEVED HATTER OF HOURS;
DOCTORS ABANDON ALL HOPE
Blood Poison, Contracted From Blister on Foot, Sapping
Life of Calvin, Jr.—Blood Transfusion Performed
In Last Attempt to Save Life—Parent*
At Bedside
Un versa I Service
Washington, July 7.—(Monday)
—Calvin Coolidge, Jr., ie dying.
The end is felt to be only a
swatter of hours.
The boy is still conscious, and
is able to reoognize those about
$iim, but all hope of recovery hae
&een abandoned.
The President end Mrs. Cool
Idge, and John, his brother are
with him.
Universal Service
Washington. July 7.—(Monday)—
C'alvln Coolidge, Jr., son of the pres
ident, is fighting a desperate and ap
parently losing battle for his life in
'the early morning hours.
In constant attendance are his
father and mother, chief executive
And first lady of the nation, their
faces tense with anxiety as they
■watch and pray for recovery.
Physicians watching at the bed
side have rractically abandoned hope.
The insidious poisoning, resulting
from Infection following a simple
■foot blister received while playing
tennis on the White House courts
1s slowly sapping at the boy's low
ered vitality.
A blood transfusion was performed
late in the night in a heroic effort to
strengthen Calvin’s powers of re
sistance against the poison. Blood
•tests showed a steadily decreasing
proposition of the white corpuscles
■upon which his life depends.
Crisis at Hand
Specialists in consultation at the
bedside can only shake their heads
■ominously. There is nothing mors
•that surgery can do at this time.
The crisis is at hand, and the ques
tion is whether the boy’s weakened
vitality will be able to fight off the
*nd.
“He could not be worse,” was the
■way his condition was described.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge
•are passing the anxious hours in
quarters Immediately adjoining the
sick room. John, the elder brother,
•with whom Calvin was playing ten
nis, also is at the hospital, «» are
Frank W. Stearns of Boston, the
president’s most intimate friend, and
Edward T. Clark, the executive’s
secretary.
Operation Performed.
The section of the hospital set
aside for the boy and his family Is
tense with anxiety. All show the
strain of the battle for life and the
fear that it will be lost.
An operation in the region of the
left ankle Joint to drain septicemic
poisons from the bone marrow was
successfully performed Saturday,
night. Then surgery, having done Its
best, retired to let a 18 year old boy
fight out his own battle with dis
ease.
Thus far, there has been no nerve
involvement in the case. As matters
now stand. If Calvin recovers with
out developing further complications,
the restoration will be complete.
There have been no developments as /
yet which would result,Jn anything
like permanent lameness.
Boy Naturally Frail.
Calvin Is frail, and his frailty has
been beset by three days of high
fever. He is facing the inevitable
post-operative shock from an hour
under ether.
The operation itself was simple.
Limb surgery carries little threat of
organic reaction and no operation on
arm or leg is classed as major. Had
the president’s son been In good con
dition his five phyqslclans would now
be pronouncing him out of danger.
Febrile debilitation is what they fear,
and what makes them silent on the
question of whether their patient will
or will not recover.
Sentries on Guard.
« Outside the presidential quarters
armed sentries and secret service men
paced all night-long. Mr. and Mrs.
Coolldge rose late from slumber.
They returned to the White House
at 2 o’clock In the afternoon, dined
and went back to the hospital.
The president looked haggard and
. worn. He walked abstractedly
through the executive offices, nodded
to correspondents gathered there and
went hack to the White House. He
exhibited the samo sorrow that was
his Saturday night, a he stood silent
at the bedside of his boy who had
Just been wheeled In from the op
erating amphitheatre.
The White House has received a
veritable flood of telegrams and let
ters of sympathy from pert»u:ai
friends of President and Mrs. Cool
idge and from private citizens
throughout the country. Hundreds of
cards, too, have been dapoalted by
social Washington.
Democratic Convention Will
Resume Ballotting on Monday
With Deadlock Still Unbroken
Conference of Manager* Breaks Up Shortly After Mid
night Without Agreement—Counter Proposal of
California Candidate Turned Down by Op
posing Leaders—May Last All Week
BY JAMES R. NOUR8E,
Universal Servica Correspondent.
New York, July 7. (Monday)—
The democratic convention will re
Hume balloting Monday morning
without any agreement among the
16 candidates for an ending of the
•deadlock which has tied up the vot
ing on 77 roll calls.
Managers of the respective candi
•dates went into conference shortly
after adjournment Saturday after
noon, in hopes that some agreement
could be reached whereby the dead
iock which has held since balloting
started last Monday, could be brok
en.
The Conference of candidates’ rep
resentatives, working on a plan to
end the deadlock broke up at 12:40
o’clock without agreement. Rejec
tion by McAdoo of the proposal
made by the candidates allied
ngninst him was followed by defeat
of McAdoo’s counter proposal to
discard the rule requiring a two
thirds majority to nominate.
The vote on rejection of the Mc
Adoo proposal was 15 to 1, each can
didate abelng permitted to cast one
vote. Rockwell, on behalf of Mc
Adoo, cast the only vote in favor of
its adoption.
Norman E. Mack, New York na
tional committeeman, when he left
the conference room, said all efforts
to break the deadlock had failed and
predicted that the convention may
be compelled to remain in session
•all of this week if not longer.
Plays Lone Hand.
MoAdoo, played a lone hand In
-opposing the proposal signed by the
•other 15 candidates, Including Gov
ernor Smith, which would have
freed the delegates from all pledges
and Instructions under which they
are now bound. This proposal. It
was confidently believed, would
open the way for a break In the
deadlock and possibly bring about a
nomination.
McAdoo, after numerous confer
ences with hla managers, rejected
this proposal with a counter propos
al to agree to abrogation of the unit
rule provided the allied candidates
opposing him would consent to dis
card the two-thirds rule and would
permit the nomination to be made
by a majority.
This plan was laid before the
conference when it resumed Its ses
sion at 1 o’clock and rejected by the
allies.
Proposes New Plan.
McAdoo also proposed. In his
counter plan, that upon each suc
ceeding ballot the caitdldate receiv
ing the lowest number of votes
should be dropped. His proposal
was sent to the conference in a let
ter addressed to Chairman Hull of
the national committee and Chair
man Walsh of the convention, joint
ly presiding over the conference, as
follows;
‘‘The agreement Just submitted to
me, signed by the various candidates
before the convention, for releasing
their delegates from any pledge in
struction or obligation of any na
ture whatsoever, insofar as their
! candidacy for the democratic nomin
ation for president is concerned
does not, in my opinion, offer a so
lution of the unfortunate deadlock
In the convention. We must, there
fore, adopt a practical plan which
will end the deadlock, no matter
what effect it may have on any in
dividual candidacy.
“I therefore propose that, in «4dl
tion to releasing all delegates a a"
proposed in agreement sumltted,
the unit rule In this convention be
abrogated; that the majority rule be
substituted for the two thirds rule
HIT JAP CITIZENSHIP
Tokio, July 5.—The government to
day Introduced In the lower house
of the diet a bill providing for the
abrogation of the dual citizenship of
Japanese nationals born abroad.
T*st year 193,000 people emigrated from
■Great Britain. _ _
HONOR WOODROW WILSON
Geneva, July 5.—The northern half
■of the Quai Mont Blanc, was renamed
■Qua! Wilson, "founder of the Lea
gue of Nations’’ with simple cere
enonlea
LORAIN ASKS RELIEF
Lorain, Ohio, July 5. — Tornado
Stricklin Lorain made its official ap
peal to the nation far relief, in a
communication disputched to over 40
organizations throughout the country.
Shoes of aluminum with wooden soles
are being manufactured in Germany.
F. S. HASTINGS DIES
Port Washington, N. Y„ July 5.—
Frank Seymour Hastings, 71 years
old, banker, yachtsman and clubman,
died today. He was executor of the
Grover Cleveland eetata.
MAN WHO KK.I JED
BROTHER BEGINS
LIFE SENTENCE
LAiicoln, Neb.. July «. (Special)—
George L. Balster. 26 years old. who
Saturday entered a plea of guilty to
killing Ills brother in Seward county
last March. Sunday became an in
mate of the state penitentiary under
a life sentence' His trial at Seward
occupied but an hour, an understand
ing having been reached between hla
attorney, the prosecuting attorney
and District Judge Corcoran th*\t In
view of his plea of guilty the court
would give him a life term Instead
of sending him to the electric chair.
One of the provisions of the sen
tence is that he shall not apply for
clemency in any way for 30 years,
and further that on March 1 each
year, for a period of five yeara, he
shall spend a day in solitary confine
ment
HARVEST FEED
LABOR ON HOVE
Work Expected to Take
Total of 200,000 Men
From Citie*
Washington, July 6.—Starting In
the fields of Texas, the middle of
May and working north there Is at
present time over 40,000 men In the
harvest fields of Kansas.
This modement will cut Into the
various cities unemployment by more
than 200,000 men say* Director Gen
eral Jones, 'tt the federal employment
feervlce.
Farmers are more optimistic than
any time since 1920 and as a result
the movement Is now at Its height
In the states of Texas, Oklahoma and
Kansas, according to reports from
employment agencies for farm help
throughout the states. Many new
agencies expresslv for the purpose
of hiring men to go on farms have
been opened all through the central
states and northwest.
For the first time In several years
the farmers are being supplied with
men about as fast as they need them
and as many as they need, although
the present quota Is not quite filling
all the jobs.
According to field agents who have
been busy getting estimates of acre
age in wheat for 1924, there will
be enough harvest workers needed
to handle 40.000,000 acres. Over half
of this estimate or approxlmtely 25,
000,000 acres, have been planted In
wirier wheat.
.Although harvest labor fee Ml
sourl and Iowa will be met, according
to employment service agents. Ne
braska will have a greater labor
problem than In past years.
Officials In Washington report that
another bright spot in the employ
ment situation Is the fact that build
ing permits picked up In May, in spite
of the fact that two months ago there
was every Indication of a decided let
down In other lines of work.
In nominating a candidate for presi
dent and vice president; that aach
of the delegates present from eacn
state shall be entitled to pass his
pro-rata of the vote of all Hie dele
gates from such states as may have
delegates absent from the conven
tion: that, after the next ballot and
after each succeeding ballot of the
candidates formally placed before
this convention, the one receiving
the lowest number of votes shall be
dropped from the roll of candidates
until a nomination Is made.
"I submit herewith a form of the
proposed agreement which I am
willing to Join all the other candi
dates In signing.
"Respectfully yours,”
(Signed): "William G. McAdoo.”
Submits Pledge.
The pledge which McAdoo sub
mitted for all the candidates to sign
was as follows:
■ we, tne undersigned, agree that
the unit rule In this convention
shall be abrogated and that only a
majority vote shall be required to
nominate candidates for president
and vice president.
"The undersigned further agree
that after the next ballot, and after
each succeeding ballot among the
candidates formally placed before
this convention, the one receiving
the lowest number of votes shall be
dropped, until a nomination Is made.
"The undersigned do further agree
that each of the delegates present
from each state shall be entitled to
cast Ills pro-rata vote of the dele
gates from such states as are absent
from the convention.
"The undersigned to hereby re
lease each and every delegate from
any pledge, Instruction, or obliga
tion of any nature whatsoever Inso
far as their candidacy for the demo
cratic nomination for president Is
concerned, as completely as If their
names had been withdrawn from
this convention.
"This statement has been sub
mitted to each candidate whose
name has been placed in nomination
and has been accepted by ttiose
whose names are subscribed hereto
either In person or by duly author
ized representative."
FIRST AERIAL P. M.
Chicago, July 5.—Uncle Sam’s first
flying postmaster, John Smith, of De
troit, breezed into Chicago airplane
mail headquarters today after mak
ing the 260-miie trip in two and one
half hours. He and Carl Krltschle, a
Herman airplane manufacturer, were
among a party of six who made the
flight.
Detroit is said to have more woman
real estate dealers than any otter city
in the Un'led Slates.
At »ny rate, we haven’t so much
metal in melt for a while!
LA FOLLETTE
IS INDORSED
Brookhart Boomed For
Second Place on Third
Party Ticket
Cleveland, July 5.—After Indorsing
Jtobert M. LaFollette as a presidential
candidate, and providing for the or
ganization of a new political party
next January, the conference for pro
greaalve political action wound up lta
convention early Saturday.
The candidate for vice president to
run on the ticket with LaFollette,
will be picked at Washington, July
18, when the new national committee
of 50 meets for that purpose.
Two men stood out In the discus
sions of the executive and national
committees. They are Peter Witt,
city councilman of Cleveland, vtho
nearly talked himself Into the nom
ination at the progressive conference
Saturday afternoon, and Representa
tive George Huddleston of Alabama.
Senator Brookhart of Iowa Is also
mentioned for the place.
The national committee, In Its
meeting Sunday, completed the Job It
started In the convention of taking
the communists by the nape of the
neck and the seat of the pants and
throwing them out. Tjnillam Ma
honey, president of the farmer-labor
party of Minnesota, was dropped
from the membership In the national
committee, by unanimous action.
In Mahoney’s place the committee
named John F. Sinclair, banker, of
Minneapolis, a widely known writer
on financial subjects. Besides Sin
clair, the committee added to Its
membership, Parley Christensen,
formerly of Utah, who will represent
the farmer-labor party and J. A. Pat
tison, of New Jersey, who will repre
sent the committee of 48.
rouette was maorsea as a can
didate on his ovfn platform.
The convention then adopted for
Itself a platform embodying the ideas
contained In the Wisconsin document
and In the statement of principles Is
sued at the St. Louis session of the
conference last February. The final
day of the gathering worked out
strictly according to plans of the
leaders and without appreciable op
position. But Just before adourn
ment some of the delegates, dazed
by the rapidity of events, had to be
assured by the chair that La Follette
actually had been ‘'nominated” and
that definite provision had been made
for the new party.
The confusion arose from the fact
that the report of the committee on
organization recommended this action
and that no separate motion of in
dorsement w.is offered. The report
itself was adopted without a dissent
ing vote, but the significance of this
action did not dawn on either dele
gates or galleries and there was a
total absence of demonstration.
All elements in the convention were
Intent on showing they were back of
La Follette’s candidacy. After losing
a fight before the organization com
mittee for immediate formation of a
new party, the socialists, led by
Morris Hlllqult, of New York, were
the first to second the indorsement
report. The farmer-labor party ele
ments who backed Parley Christian
son in the 1920 campaign and who
also had urged the "third party idea"
then rallied to the support of La Fol
lette as an Independent, Abraham
Lefkowlts, New York, being their
spokesman.
Women Urged to Jein.
Speaking for the women of the con
vention. Mrs. Harriett Stanton Blatch
urged all members of her sex to work
for the election of the Wisconsin sen
ator. The railroad brotherhoods and
other trades union delegates spoke
through the chairman of the commit
tee, E. T. Manlon, president of the
Railway Telegraphers, and reinforced
his word with a mighty "aye” when
the report was adopted.
No sooner wa$ the convention end
ed than the national committee and
the state delegation groups gathered
to plan a campaign. The convention
decided to rely upon popular sub
scriptions for Its campaign fund.
National campaign headquarters
probably will be established in Chi
cago.
By the organization committee re
port, the national committee waa con
tinued in office, directed to enlarge
Its membership to at least SO and
empowered to act as a campaign com
mittee.
The committee was definitely in
structed to meet and organize for th»
campaign on July 18, and on Novem
her 29 to issue a call for the Jannmy
new party convention.
. “The object of this convention,”
said the report, “shall be to consider
and pass upon the quasHc of form
ing a permanent Independent political
party formation and local elections
upon the .basis of the general prin
ciples laid down in the platform
adopted by this convention and for
the transaction of such other busl
n«ss as may come before the conven
tion.”
The platform approved was in ac
cord with the expressed views of
Senator La Foilette on the political
situation.
The initial plank pledged “use of
the power of the federal government
to crush private monopoly, not to fos
ter it." Another sharply criticised
the foreign policy under “recent ad
ministrations."
\ndrew Mellon Leaves
N. Y. for Trip Abroad
New York, July 5.—Andrew W.
Mellon, secretary of the treasury, his
daughter. Miss Ailsa, and a party of
friends, left for Cherbourg today on
the Olympic. Mr. Mellon is going
for a vacation in England and Scot
land. returning August 28.
Herbert A. Cummins, until recent
ly in charge of the British legation at
Mexico City, waa another passenger.
CEDAR RAPIDS MAN
DROWNED SUNDAY;
COMPANION SAVED
Cedar Rapid*, la.. July 6. (Special)
—Frank Weston, 24 years old, was
drowned and Albert Steadman res
cued from a sli^lar fate after he had
gone down twice here Sunday. The
tragedy happened at Prairie Creek,
Just south of the city, where Weston
and Steadman, with the latter’s
brother, H. K. Steadman, went swim
ming about noon. The creek swollen
by recent rains, had washed out a
18 foot hole unknown to the men and
Weston and Al Steadman, who could
swim only a little, stepped Into It
like a trap. Steadman was rescued
by his brother but Weston's body
was not found until late Sunday
afternoon after a raft had been form
ed of railroad ties from which divers
worked as It was drawn slowly up
the stream by those on the bank.
ALLIED PARLEY
MAY BLOW UP
Proapects for Settlement of
European Squabble Grow
ing Dimmer
Universal Service
Paris, July 6.—With opposition
papers clamoring for Premier Har
riot’s downfall the prospect of a
European settlement grew dimmer
Sunday. In fact, the proposed con
ference on the Dawes plan, slated
for July 16 In London, may not be
held at all.
A decisive vote will be taken In the
senate Thursday when an effort will
be made by Poincare to force the
resignation of the cabinet. In that
event it Is believed that MacDonald’s
British labor ministry would soon
follow suit.
Herriot Is now holding office, seem
ingly, by the whelesale surrender to
the "last ditchers" who demand no
compromise with Germany. Certain
ly Herriot never will be able to ac
cept MacDonald’s proposal that the
financial committee of the I.eague of
Nations be empowered to decide the
penalties In the event Germany de
faults on its payments. The British
premier's suggestion, it Is held, would
rendev void the powers of the repar
ations commissions. /■
This issue, added to that of the
division of spoils resulting from the
American loan. Is the rock on which
the Dawes plan Is likely to sink.
Irving Fisher’s
Weekly Index
New Haven, Conn., July 6.—Last
week’s wholesale prices of *00 rep
resentative commodities averaged
143.2 per cent of the prewar level,
according to Prof. Irving Fisher's
weekly Index number. The purchas
ing pries of the dollar Is 69.9 pre
war cents, this week's index number
shows.
Both the commodity prices and the
purchasing power of the dollar are
relative to the prewar period of
1913. Thus the “low” prices in Jan
uary, 1922, for Instance, exceeded
prewar prices on the average by II
per cent., that is the dollar was
worth 72.5 prewar cents.
A summary of conditions follows:
Index Purchasing
Number. Power
191* (Prewar) .100 100.00
1920 (Peak) .147. 40.1
1922 (Low) ....111. 71.1
1923 average .157.7 68.4
March average .141.7 67.1
Second quarter, 1924 ...144.7 69.1
Average for June .143. 69.9
(Mr. Fisher Is a noted professor at
Yale university. His weekly Index
Is appearing exclusively in Sioux
CUy In The Tribune every Monday.
It Is the only weekly Index of gen
eral prices in the world.—(Editor’s
Note.)
Iowa Solons to Pass on
Child Labor Amendment
Des Moines, la., July 6.—Governor
Kendall Saturday announced he
would submit to the reconvened extra
seslon of legislature July 22, the pro
posed amendment to the constitution
for regulation by congress and the
various states of child labor.
The governor’s decision followed
announcement by Attorney General
Gibson that the proposal might be
properly laid before the legislature
In special session. The resolution
proposing the amendment was pass
ed by congress shortly before the
June adjournment.
Paper Urge* $2,000 Fund
To Aid Georgia Delegates
Atlanta, Oft., July 5.—The Atlanta
Journal tonight calls upon Georgia
democrats to raise a fund of $2,000
for the financial aid of those mem
bers of the Georgia delegation ‘‘who
have been faced with unexpected
financial burdens In the matter of
larges hotel bills and other expenses
through the prolonged :esslon of the
democratic convention In New York."
AS GERMANS SEE IT
Rerlin, July 5.—The German social
ists are inclined to view the advent
of a third party in the Impending
American election campaign as pre
saging the birth of an American labor
part} destined to play a part In the
x.atlon’s affairs not unlike that now
taken by the German socialist and
English labor parties.
New York city In one year produces
$69,000,000 worth of confectionery, ex
clusive of chocolate; $15,000,000 worth of
Ice cream aad $12,000,000 worth of chew
ing giirr..
MAN ACCUSED
OF 22 MURDERS
|«P?g|
Berlin Butcher Believed to
Have Slain More Than
Score of Youth*
Universal Service.
Berlin, July «.—Paralleling, In
some respects, the Chicago million-*
alre boy murders, but Immeasurably
surpassing the Franks case In the
almost Inconceivable horrlhleness of
Its details, are the developments In
connection with the Hanover mur
derer. Haarman is a butcher by
trade.
The police already believe they can
fasten 22 murders upon this man.
Without exception all his victims
were youths or young whose
mysterious disappearance had been
one of the greatest pussies to the
police.
Pieces of clothing worn b,** his vic
tims and for some unaccountable
reason kept for sale by Haarman,
now have, been identified by relatives
of the slain youths.
Some analogy Is seen In the case
of the Russian murdei -monster
Nikolai Zukor, the police dog train
er, recently arrested In Poltava
charged with the murder of 40 per
sons. Nearly all of Zukor’s victims
were girls and 13 bodies already have
been found.
OUST MAHONEY;
0. K. MBS DALY
St. Paul Farmer Leader Ob*
noxious to Cleveland Men—
Barred From Convention
Cleveland, Ohio, July K.—Willlau*
Mahoney, of St. Paul, wu definitely
barred today from the conference
fur progressive political action by
adoption of a special report of the
credentials committee.
The report said Mahoney's organi
sation, the Farmer-Labor Federa
tion of Minnesota, was entitled to
representation, but that he, by his
actions In the St. Louis session of
i the conference last February and hl»
promotion of the June 17 convention
at St. Paul, had made him obnoxious
to the organization.
R. D. Cramer, of Minneapolis,
brought out*"the query that the com
mittee had not acted on the creden
the South Dakota farmer
labor patty, presented by Miss Alloa
Lorraine Daly, who »'&a secretary of
the St. Paul convention. ' ^
Johnson May Pass
On Simmons’ Case
Lieutenant Governor Expect*
ed to Grant New Re
prieve to Nebraskan
Lincoln. Neb., July ®. (Special)-.
Unless Gove, nor Bryan returns from
New York by next Tussday — anflj
there is no expectation that he ndll.
In view of the deadlock existing In,
the democratic national convention—,
Lleutant Governor Johnson, who haa
gone to his home at Hastings, will
be summoned to Lincoln to take ac
tion In the case of Walter Ray Sim
mons, under sentence to be electro
cuted, whose SO day reprieve expires
that day. Simmons’ case is pending
in the United States supreme court.
The expectation among lawyers In
terested Is that Governor Bryan will
wire the lieutenant governor telling
him tnat If he (Bryan) were here h#
wiuld grant another 30 day reprieve,
the limit allowed by the law, and that
Lleutant Governor Johnson will, la
all probability, take like action. At
torney General Spillman has gone to
Washington, and the only member of
the pardon board lit the city Is Sec
retary of State Pool, who feels him
self incompetent to act alone. The
duty will, therefore, fall upon thi
acting governor.
Mexico Pulls off National
Election in Quiet Manner
Universal Service
Mexico City, July 6.—Quitely and tn
orderly fashion, Mexico elected ft
president Sunday. While the re
sult cannot be known accurately for
several days. It Is believed that a
statement before midnight will de
clare Plutarco Elias Calies the victor
over Angel Flores.
So far as can be learned there wa^
no outbreak of any consequence
throughout the republic. Adherent*
of the two candidates went quietly
to the poll, while armored motors
patrolled the streets, and registered
their choice.
M'LAREN IN JAPAN
Kagoshima. Japan, July 5. (A. P.)
—A. Stuart MacLaren, British avia
tor flying around the world, arrived
here this afternoon after a flight
direct from Shanghai.
Adventurous Negro Flyer
Ends Career in 3 Minutes
New York, July 5.—Hubert Julian,
Wist Indian negro aviator, dressed is
‘lit uniform of a British army officer,
started Friday in a hydros lrplane to
circle the Atlantic ocean, planning to
land on four continents In 31 days.
A^ter flying three minutes, he fell
into Flushing bay, was rescued by a
police boat and sent to a hospital
baCiy hurt.
Ten thousand negroee cheered tlM
■tart at the plea*.
