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Show pathetk; swi if mili1im1 i . i Wireless Calls Him Miles Out at Sea, "Son Dead, Can You Come?" Bereaved Transferred Back and Rushed to Home in j Time for Funeral. CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 30. "Some day I'll come back to you, little boy." said Lionel Thorogood, naval militiaman, militia-man, as ho gravbly returned the smil ing salute of his 3-year-old son, Donald, Don-ald, and said goodbye to tho boy and his mother hero ono day last April bo-fore bo-fore returning to' his ship. Several hundred miles out in tho Atlantic last Monday Thorogood was taking his turn at the watch on a United Stales battleship when tho wireless brought him the following message. "Your son Donald dead. Funoral Wednesday afternoon. Can you como?" Tho captain of the battleship was appealed to. Tho battleship sent several wireless messages to her sister ships in tho vl-oinity. vl-oinity. Soon a gray form appeared and the bereaved father was transferred trans-ferred to another ship. After a few hours a torpedo boat was sighted and Thorogood transferred to his third ship. A port was reached and a taxlcab rushed tho father' to a train bound for Cleveland. Another taxlcab rushed him from tho train to his homo yesterdav, ono hour before tho funeral took place. |