An operation was performed for gallstones, and for the first few days it appeared he had a more than even chance for recovery. His heart began to weaken on Friday, however, and it was seen he could not live.

In the death of Mr. Parry, the Trade Commission loses one of its most valuable and active members. He organized its staff, and personally directed many of its economic investigations. Recently he had given his whole time to the commission's newsprint inquiry, and, his physicians said, injured himself by a too close application to his task. The commission's lumber investigation was conducted under his direction.

Mr. Parry was born in New York City in 1844. After graduation from Columbia University he went West, and engaged in newspaper work in Oregon and Washington. Later he was elected city comptroller of Seattle.

WOMEN TO INSIST ON CONSCRIPTION LAW
Mr. Alexander Graham Bell Urges "Drive" on Congress for That Method of Preventing.
WASHINGTON, April 21.?Appeal to the women of America, addressed to the "mothers, wives and daughters of brave men," has been sent out by Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell to make a "big drive" on Congress in the effort to have that body pass conscription legislation. The appeal calls upon the women to act now, as "tomorrow may be too late."

"Universal military training," the appeal says, "is a means whereby the whole citizenship of the nation can be made to contribute to its defense, exactly as through property taxation the whole."  The citizenship is made to contribute to its maintenance. 