MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 134
SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
T1 FOUND OESO
lU. I APftRTMEKT
ACTOR. ACTRESS
SUICIDE PACT THOUGHT CAUSE
DOUBLE KILLING OF STAGE
AND SCREEN STARS
NEW YORK, June 10, </P)—Mar
garet Lawrence, stage star, and
widow of Wallace Eddinger, was
found shot to death in an apart
ment yesterday. Sprawled beside
her where the body was found was
the body of Louis Bennison, stage
and screen star. Both were shot
thru the left breast with a heavy
calibre pistol.
Police said Bennison shot Mrs.
Lawrence and then killed himself.
A suicide agreement was hinted in
*wo notes found pinned to the door
which said. “The sunset has a heart,
>eok for us there.” It was signed
Tienna. The other note said,
‘Please notify Mr. Mussen at the
Lambs Club at 1 o’clock.”
The bodies were found by a friend
of Mrs. Lawrence who let herself in
when no one responded to her ring.
She found Mrs. Lawrence dressed
in a lr'ght gown and Bennison fully
clothed except that his feet were
hare. Empty liquor bottles and
classes were strewn about.
Mr. Mussen, author and actor,
identified the pistol as belonging to
Bennison and said that Bennison
was a subject to suicide mania afLer
drinking.
Margaret Lawrence started her
s*age career at the age of 18 and
had prominent roles and many suc
,nesses Bennison was a former cow
hoy who capitalized his early train
g on ihe stage and screen.
GASOLINE LINE BURST WHILE
ATLANTIC HOP WAS UN
DER WAY
UNDATED, June 10, (A3)—The
Swedish seaplane “Sverige” late
last night was forced to land on
either the Eastern coast of Ice
land, more than 100 miless short
of the objective, or even farther
East on the Atlantic.
A radio message from Capt. Al
bin Ahrenberg and his two cm
panions said the landing was
made at 11:23 p. m Sunday or
6:23 Eastern Standard time. The
message did not say where they
were at.
The plane was bound from Ber
gen, Norway and is reported to
have asked for aid after a gasoline
hne bur'-t. The Junkers mono
plane left Stockholm early yes
terday on a projected flight to
New York with intermediate stons.
At Bergen two extra passengers
were dropped and after that all
.seemed to be going well until after
the passing of Faroe Islands, mid
way to Iceland, where headwinds
were encountered.
60 HOURS ACROSS
NEW YORK, June 10. (TP)—The j
inauguration of air-rail trans- |
continental travel system June 15 j
by the Aviation Corporation will j
make possible a trip from New
York to Los Angeles in 60 hours.
The fare will be about $250 it was
said.
jCUDDV IS NOMINATED !
; BT PRESIDENT HOOVER
WASHINGTON, June 10. (ff)— j
President Hoover nominated to |
ithe Senate J. Hart of Alaska for '
U. S. attorney of the second Alaska
District. Warren N. Cuddy of Alas
ka, now serving by court appoint- ,
ment, was nominated as U. S. at
torney of the Third Alaska District.
trotzky seeks
ENTER ENGLAND
MEDICAL AID
REQUEST OF FORMER RED
CHIEF WOULD COMPLICATE
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
CONSTANTINOPLE, June 10, (JP) '
—Leon Trotzky, former Red Army
’eader now exiled, asked Premier
MacDonald for authorization to
visit England, “for urgent medical
treatment and scientific work.”
Trotzky gave the British Consul
Pera a letter of visa on grounds
that he needed medical assistance
and also wished to survey the pub
lication of an autobiography in
English Ever since he was ban- ,
;shed from Russia he has been
making an effort to find a sanctu- [
ary in some city where he could get
medicai advice.
He was refused permission to en
ter Geimany. Balkan cities and
Norwav. and had made no effort to
seek a visa on England as long as
the Baldwin government was in
1 owei.
The English situation is com
plicated by the fact that the :
present Moscow regime, which
Trotzky opposes, may be recognized
by the Labor government and dip
lomatic relations between Great
Britain and Russia resumed.
ei of dictation
Of INTI SALOON
LEAGUE IS SEEN
ANY DEFECTS IN THE EN
FORCEMENT PROBLEM BE
CORRECTED, COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, June 10. (£>)—
The resignation of Mrs. Mabel
Willebrandt from the position of
attorney general is understtod in
official Washington to mark the
determination of the Hoover ad
ministration to put an end to
dictation and domination by the
Anti-Saloon League processes of
prosecution of prohibition law of
fenders, according to a dispatch
from Arthur Sears Henning to the
Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Henning says that thru
its influence with Mrs. Willibrandt
and the Women's Christian Tem
perance Union, the Anti-Saloon
League deeply entrenched itself
as the invisible government of the
Volstead era. He says, ‘‘Evidence
discloses behind the figure of Mrs.
Willebrandt shadowy forms of our
real rulers, Scott McBride, Super
intendent of the Anti-Saloon Lea
gue and Mrs. Ella Boole, president
of the National Women’s Christ
ian Temperance Union.”
Mr. Henning says Mrs. Wille
brandt aimed to become the chief
of the prohibition enforcement
under the Hoover regime but that
Walter Mitchell, new attorney gen
eral, opposed such a plan.
Mr. McBride, following the pub
lication of the Willebrandt ex
pose, issued a statement that any
defects in the enforcement of pro
hibition will be discovered and
corrected by the Hoover Law En
forcement Committee.
SOUTH POLE SUMMER RESORTS LIKELY
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Sir Douglas Mawson (inset) and the Discovery, the
ship in which he will make another visit to the Antarc
tic which, he declares, may some day be spotted with
summer resorts for the ailing.
CEHHE BLASTS HT
BACK SECOND PLACE
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NEW YORK, uJne 10, (JF)—In the
American league, Gehrig blasted a
path back to second place for the
Yanks with his 13th and 14th home
uns in successive innings, the third
.nd fourth.
The two drives, one with one on,
sent him to the top of the Ameri
cans and tied him wiht Chuck Clein
of the Phillies and '‘Chick” Hafey
of the Cardinals for the interleague
leadership. The first blow was off
'Rip” Collins and the second off
| ‘Wallv” Steward.
sociiilcie |
DOVE DDT HOTEL
WINDOW. DEATH;
—
HOSTESS HAD LEFT PROFESSOR
TO PROCURE GLASS WATER
WHEN LEAPED
NEW YORK, June 10. (/P) —*■
Social circles were entered by
the death of Russel Smith Gordon,
professor of socialology at the Col
umbia university who, under cir- ;
cumstances involving considerable
mystery, plunged to his death
from a window of the apartment
of Mrs. Ethel Clyde, social regis- !
t°rite, daughter of the founder of
the steamship line and widow of
a German army officer.
A p^hce report said the educator,
who was highly rated in his profes
ion, had either “jumped or fell”.
He was alone in the room at the
ime of the accident, Mrs. Clyde
having left him a few seconds be
fore to get hill a drink of water. J
Mrs Clyde said she could of- 1
fer no information upon ,which
reason for suicide might be based
It was said that members of the
Smith and Clyde families had
been friends for years. Mrs. Clyde
was well known for her philan
hropic work.
LANDED SAFELY
PILOT FOUGHT FLAMES WITH
ONE HAND; LANDING PLANE
SAFELY WITH OTHER
SEATTLE, June 10, (£>)—A burn
ing airplane and three passengers,
made a landing safely by Charles
A Rector, pilot, after a three mile
flight across the city to Boeing
Field.
The left wing was badly damaged.
The gasoline line broke while the
plane was 2.000 feet up. As the j
flames licked back toward the cab
in. the pilot fought the flames wth
a fire extinguisher in one hand and
side-slipped the plane to the field
with hte other.
The passengers were Miss Peggy ;
Hawley, J. R. Hawley her brother, i'
and Volmer Jensen. All were on!]
their second flight. The pilot’s '
hands were burned. Firemen ex- '
(•inguished the blaze. 2
ANTICIPATES BIRTH
BELGRADE, June 10- <£>)—'The j
court physician hurried to Veldes, J
where Queen Marie of Jugoslavia j<
is residing, in anticipation of a ]
third child. i]
G. 0, P. CELEB®
DMMflU JUBILEE
AT BIRTHPLACE
PRINCIPAL CONVENTION ADD
DRESS DELIVERED SECRE
TARY OF WAR, GOOD
RIPON, Wise. June 10. (JP)—‘The
same building that sheltered the
leaders of the republican move
ment 75 years ago is the center
of the Diamond Jubilee commem
orating the Republican party’s
birth- The city bulged with a vis
iting list of 20,000 persons who,
guided about the city, were shown
the white school building whei*
Alvin Bovay called the first meet
ing in March 21, 1854.
vSecretary of War Good, made
the principle address, declaring
that thru the Republican party
leadership the country has reach
ed its present state of prosperity,
contentment and well being. ‘Ou
contentment and well being.
“Our party was born of people
who brushed aside the pettiness
of partisanship, selfishness and
personal ambitions, and will con
tinue to advance the human wel
fare so that the comfort and joys
of American life may become the
common enjoyment of all,” he said,
said.
Governors, senators, congress
men and other leaders of the
nation sent messages of filieitation
to the convention.
MEN WILL GATHER WRITING
DATA AS WELL AS MOVING
AND STILL PICTURES
SEATTLE, June 10. ^—Begin
ning at Athabaska Landing, 60
miles above Edmonton, on Wednes
day, Amos Burg and Dean George
Rebec, both GO, and both of Oregon,
plan to make a 3,500 mile canoe
trip thru the northwest territories
to the Arctic ocean via Athabaska
and Mackenzie rivers, across the
Arctic tundra into Circle.
A 12-pound rubber boat will be
used on the last 500 miles of the
trip on the Bell and Porcupine riv
rs into Fort Yukon.
While Berg has a record of 25,000
miles of canoe travel this will be
Rebec’s first attempt. The men will
gather writing data as well as mov
ing and still pictures and expect to
return by September 1.
RADIO OPERATOR IS
THOUGHT ESCAPED TO
SHORE: III HIDING
SAN FRANCISCO, June 10, (£>)
—After 72 hours of search follow
ng the mysterious disappearance
)f William L. Tallman, radio op
erator from the Admiral Benson,
;uspected of murdering Mrs. Vir
ginia Patty in Los Angeles, his
thereabouts is still unknown.
Police are continuing their
;earch on the theory that instead
>f committing -suicide, Tallman
nanaged to get ashore and is in
Tiding.