Show cull SECRETARY OF agriculture SUCCUMBS TO TOXEMIA POISON AFTER OPERATION president and mrs mr coolidge condolences to mrs wallace v president appoints charles marvin as successor washington henry glenry C wallace secretary of agriculture died at 4 last saturday afternoon at the naval hospital of toxemia poisoning which developed after an operation performed last week in an attempt to relieve sciatica ile he was in ili his fifty ninth year death came peacefully after long hours of unconsciousness and after medical science was unable longer to check the ravages of the disease at thu the bedside were mrs mra wallace and their daughter miss ruth no other ill members embers of the family were in the city the death dath of the secretary ar al though expected throughout the day came as a shock to official washington and to his many fri friends entis both in the city ity and the country after the operation mr wallace began to improve prove and it was thought that he was convalescing rapidly As late as thursday night the see sec ic re condition was not considered alarming and at that time mr wal lace instructed lr dr inai me agricultural department might issue a denial of a re curing report that he expected to gesn his cabinet post about the first of the year the report has persisted for some time and a nd several friends were prepared for such a step because of the secre health ili his conditions conditions after the operation became serious friday as an infect tion developed and the poison began spreading through the secre system despite every effort of phy luicians loans his condition steadily grew grea worse mr wallace lapsed into ancon in file burly houff ani as the M mottling amin g wort away wa physicians although still clinging to a feeble hope that a change for the better might occur announced that his constitution way was weakening rap idly shortly before bedora noon it was said his condition could hardly be more un favorable and icv it JAS As fear feared ed that it was only a question as to how long his heart action would hold out several times in the afternoon it was thought that he was dying but bui each time the secretary tary retained his hold on the thin thread e of 0 life until he passed peacefully away in the hos hospital vital comforting M mrs rs wallace and her daughter throughout the day was mrs NN eks wife ot of tile fie secretary of war art aej james C da vis vis dir director of the railroad admin adain and M mrs rs davis close friends of the family As soon as mrs wallace returned to her home from the hospital tent dent and mrs coolidge called upon her to offer their condolences |