| Show JOHN G I 1 ckles BY ORTH AGED FATHER OF PRESIDENT QUIETLY PASSES AWAY AT VERMONT HOME end comes swiftly after severe attack of heart village mourns his going president fails to reach bedside plymouth vt VL colonel john C coolidge father ot of the president died at 1041 thursday night A brief bulletin brought from the white farmhouse by angus macaulay Wa caulay I 1 bodyguard to the colonel said colonel coolidge passed away very quietly at 1041 the presidents preat dents father who was within two weeks of his eighty first birthday had been sinking gradually since he suffered a severe heart attack a week ago at that time his physician dr albert M cain of bridgewater said his patient was at the point of death his pulse rate reached A remarkable physique coupled with an iron will carried colonel coolidge through to a new rally tor for ufa life but he lost strength h day by day another severe ligart heart attack heralded the approaching end throughout the day dr cram has til ill summoned from his home in early in the morning remained in the sickroom after the heart action had been restored to a more nearly normal rate colonel coolidge sank into a deml comatose condition john C coolidge father of president calvin coolidge from time to time dr cram or caputy sheriff macaulay brought reports across the way to the general a store t ore w where here anxious neighbors and newspaper correspondents waited each bulletin told the same story ot of slowly ebbing strength at 10 thursday night the physician and mrs may jackson the nurse who had been with colonel coolidge throughout his illness says that the end was at hand tho the aged patient tailed failed little by little and at the last appeared to go to sleep ile he suffered no pain the president speeding northward on a special train to the bedside of his dying father lost in a hopeless race with death the presidential train Is due to reach woodstock thirteen miles from here at 6 friday morning word of the death ot of colonel coolidge was flashed immediately to the executive offices in washington to be relayed to the presidents train en route to vermont the presidential party has reserved rooms at the woodstock inn in wood stock the party will leave at once by automobile for plymouth A unit of twenty five national guardsmen guardsman guards men reached here from ludlow and windsor they will be used to control traffic and act as guards during the visit of the president the president kept closely informed of his fathers condition over a special telephone circuit to the white house left washington tor for his boyhood home here when informed that death was at hand tor for his father the sick man was told that his son was on the way to see him he nod ded his head slightly and dr cram said he believed he ha understood the message |
