White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1925-07-10
Worlds News

PLYMOUTH, Vt-Following an
emergency operation, Colonel John
Coolidge, father of the President, is
resting comfortably apparently out of
danger. Upon receiving word that
the illness of his S0-year-old parent
was serious President Coolidge rushed
by auto and special train from
Swampscott, the summer capital, and
reached the bedside just prior to the
operation. Because of his advanced
age the physicians used only local
anesthetic and he was conscious
throughout. Throughout the day FOL
lowing the operation on June ~,
President and Mrs. Cuolidge re-
NAMED within call, encouraged by fire.
quent assurance that the crisis was
passed They were told, however,
that the parents age, the faulty ac-
ton of his heart and other infirma
ties made complications possible.
It also was emphasized that the
first operation was an emergency one
and that there might be recurrence
of conditions which brought the col
onel near to death, making surgical
treatment imperative. For the pres
ent, however, there is little likelihood
of another operation.
CHICAGO.-Miss Helga Johnson, a.
high school student of Aberdeen,
WASH. has been chosen champion of
her state in the Second National
Meat Story Contest, conducted by
the National Live Stock and Meat
Board. Miss Dorothy Kennedy of
Toppenish won second place in Wash
ington, and Miss Agnes Salo, another
Aberdeen girl, was third.
BELOIT, Wis.,. NJ Darling, whose
cartoons signed Ding" have grown
famous, last week was granted an
honorary degree by Beloit College.
Years ago while an undergraduate
there he was suspended for drawing
caricatures of the faculty. The hon
orary degree was doctor of letters.
SAN FRANCISCO = infringement,
of patent rights on an automobile
gear differentail improvement is
charged by the Perfecto Gear Differ
entail company of Bellingham, Wash,
and the Ruckstell Sales & Manufac-
turing company of Berkeley, Cal, in
a suit filed in United District Court
here against the United Automobile
Corporation of San Francisco. The
hot ioir oil no r.
emit was granted to the inventor,
Arthur F. Baker of Sedro-Woolley in
1918 and that the Bellingham firm
subsequently. acquired the patent
rights Later flaw was discovered
in the patent and new patent was
applied for and granted in October
1928, the complaint states. The plain
tiffs ask that the defendants be re-
strained from further infringement
and for recovery of all profits derived
from such infringement
WASHINGTON.-It is rumored here
that Secretary of Treasury Andrew
w. Mellon plans to retire from the
cabinet when the remaining major
problems COQIrOuLluS Ills uepdltuiOhI
are solved The same rumor men
lions Cong. Theodore Burton as his
successor.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES in the
general health Of the nation has cut
the annual death rate 13 per cent In
the last decade, according to esti-
mates of the National Bureau of Eco
nomic Research.
Increased resistance to disease,
due to better physical well being, has
been an important factor" the report
states. american families as re-
suit are paying more attention to food
values for health's sake than ever
before"
WILMINGTON, Del.-Directors of
the e. 1. Dupont de Nemour company
declared a dividend of 40 per cent on
common stocks on it's outstanding
stock last week.