Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 10, 1929, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text4 STAGE FOLKVANKEESTAKE Tijuana Wrecking Crew Dooms Coffrcth's Plant nrr:r)F0T7D mah, ttctbttnti, mkdfoutv fan v.a ox. "M oxda y, .tux r 10, 1020. 1 MM PLAUt CARRY OUT vWERCOMFAN DEATH PACT Margaret Lawrence and Louis Bennison Found Dead in 51st Street Apartment Notes Hint ; at Suicide Agreement Liquor ' Bottles Strewn . About Premises. Stampede Browns, 17 to 2 While Bambino Watches Game From Stand Gehrig Gathers Two Cir cuit Clouts Cards Win. NEW YORK, Juno 10. Pj MuiK"iuL Luwremo, Iuk hIhv and widow f Wnllueo KddinKvr. w bliot to death In ber KiiMt GUI Street Pent hotih uparlmcnt yon terday. KpiuwltMl beiddo th bed on which her body wan found wan tliu body of UtulH BennlHon. HtiiK nnd HOni-n actor. Holh hud been shot through lh left bream. jMlico mi Id Bcnnirion evidently had shot Allan liwremo, then killed himself. A Hlihide nKiec mcnt wiih hinted In two notcH found In tli apartment. (Hie nolo jiluiu'd on a ihior mild; 'The Min uet hau u heart. Book us tni. Th handwiltlnu of thU nuti wnH Identified hm that of AIImh XJiwrcnce. It whm Binned 'Tianna" ; The other nolo wan on one 01 the twin beds In tho room wheroj tliu bodicM were found. It '' UiiMlKni'd and mid: "I'lense no tify Mr. MuMMt-n ul Hm l.amtm, flu) j at uiiit." The bud leu were found by Mm. Gertrude Chnllilr. n friend of MIhhj hiwronrc, who h-l herself into, the apartment after no one re sponded to hir r.nwr. MIhh Uiw-j reiiuo wan In a nlht (town. Kx-1 eept for burn feot, Uuniilaon watt, fully clothed. I Kmpty Ihuior bolt leu and rIuhhcs j were Htn'wn aboui the attractively furnished apartment, Drink HroiiRlit Mania. , Hmnet Minuter, nitthor and nc tor, identified the phttol hh one belonklnK to BennlHon by tho Init ial ' U It" on handle, lb' Hiilil 'tho actor waH subject" to ft Hulrldo nmnla after perloda of drinking. . Mm. Chalalr wild she had called nt the Pint house biMt Wednesday ii mi while ah wan vis. Una with MImm 1m wronoe, Mi'iinlHou came out of another room wavlnn a plsioi. ThlH will finish UK both," Mra. riiulalr quoted the actor (ih say ing. Hbo Huld MIhh Lawrence re monstrated with him uud lu put tho plHtol In IiIh pocket. . MIhs Lawrence, was In hot HHh year. Her Htnn career wuh mark ed by nulck and Impressive, huc coM. althounh itn last imtnihH were Btonny. marred by professional und domestic, difficulties. 1 Her first professional appear nnce wan In ft utopk company In Vhlladelphla beforo Hhn wiih 18 yc irH old. , In 1UIS Hho married Omon 1. atunn, patent luwywr. and retired from tho Bluite for Devon yearn. There were two duunhterM, Klisn teth and Ioulo, now about 14 ntid 1 2 ynrM old. In Wit he was divorced fr Munn and In 127 murrb'd Wal Im'e Kddliiker, widely known co inedlnn. In Ioh AiiKelPH. Her Ih Mt Important appearance In ". OHNeHNton," In which nho viii belnK utarrea by Edtiur wyn. A Milt for divorce was pendlns' akulnnt KddlnKcr when he dledj Jnnuary 8 luitt In l'lttHlmiK. 1'a , "Aheie he wan action. Ib'mumm wna 46 yearn old. lb ruinrt fim northern fallfumlu. vheio ho worked art n cowboy, training which he later capitalized in bin and no re en curvet. Ho played with Mrs. Lenlie Car ter in tho road production of "The Heart of Maryland" nnd later whh In idock iu Sun Krnnolwco, Halt like t'llv and Oaktaml. lie ,( Minn 1 Jiwrenee'n leailliiK man In "Thn Heaven Tappers." Tollce natd they bnrned be had n wife and child In Hun Fmiwlneo. A brot her, Andrew Iteunlson, la connected with u film ntudm in 3'S , llKelen. Ily William .1. 4'hlpuiau. ANxoriati-d I'ithh HmhIh Writer Tho week-end campaign In I ho major leuKue found both the (iiantH and tho Ilraten urriviiiK ul the "iid of their HpurU, but kIvIiik their opponentH no Ktiurunteu aguliiHt un inimeiliutu retiumptbjn. Ked Lucuh pitched one of the bent Katiietf ho ban flashed thlH Hctmon to nlutde th veteran, Jack Hcott und.thn Clantn by 2 to 1 ul Hedlund field yeHlerday tit the J'lrateH crumpled before an elKht ruund UHhiiult at KbbetH field where tho ltobliiH took a 0 to (i declnlon. Tho defeat of both of the teamn currently rated an the moHt dan KemtiH In I ho National leaKiie en abled the CardlnalH und the ('uba to Improve their pohIIIumm u bit. The Ited HlrdH bad hoiuu diffi culty with Claude WllbniKhby, but hunched their hits in Huch a way a h to win by f to 4. Jchh HalneH wan tlKht In (he pinchcH, and had (o be an the I'hiln outhit h.H aup porl, Kl to !l. Artie iNehf found Youhk Hen Canlwell a toiiKh opponent In Chi cago, ami the Ciibn won by 2 to 1 only becauH Hack WUnuti nicked Canlwell for a home run In tho neveiitb with Hornsby on bdHe. The HraveH hail ncored In Ihir own half of the round on Mil Kulre'H doubtu and Harper's ftlu Kle. Th o Oi id h ell m bed to within half u game of the IMraten and remained one content ahead of (he third -place Urn ins. i With Hiibe Ituih In the dtandn an a npectator, the YankeeHHtam- peded tho Hi owns by 17 to I1 In the Hfirien opener yentenlay. I,ou OehriK and Sammy Hyrd led the early ansa u It with home ntuH, (lehrlK with IWo and hyrd with one, und after that, the Yankn connted, hlttlnft- everyihhiK that wan nerved to them. The victory Kent (he Yankn Into nccond place, Heven full kiiuh behind the lead ing Athletlcn. ( (lehrlK'H two Ikhicih nent his total for (he HeuHon to 14, KivliiK him the lead in bin own league and flemlltiK him into a He with Klein of the PIiIIII-h and llafey of the CarillnulH In Wio Interlcauue men. With (he Athletic ' and the White Hox Idle, awaltluK the an Cclp.ited feant of . (he Mackmcn thin week, action alonfr tho rent of thn American Icmkuc front wan confined to Hunt on and WaMhlni ton. (leoi'KC I'hle, who won nine Kamen before IohIuk one, met bin necond defeat of the neanon when he weakened toward the flnlHh at Hraven field, perm It t Inn the Ited Hox to ncore nix Union In the hint two Inuinim to Kain a 7 to tt mai'Kln. 10d Morrin went the route for UoHton. Ad I.iska, the promlslnB re cruit from the American Asnocla tloii. pitched up to bin beet ad vance notices In turning- back the lndiann by G, to 2 at WanhiiiKton. The Senators clubbed John Mtljun for four runn In fhe third, nnd Llwka counted In with only one bad Inning tho fourth, which haw both the Cleveland runn ncored. V sltJKM ,m r V Wi Klamath Fnlln defeated Med ford yinterday at tho fairgrounds fore a fair Nized crowd, 10 to 8, in u ten-lnnltiK Karne. Krrorn by Mahoney and MeDon- aid in the final ntanza, and a hit ' produced the winning run. J The nenre waa one to nothlnff In favor of Klamath until the aixth, when Medford rammed over two ! runs, and manured in the next in niiiK to Ket a two run lead. Then both tea inn begun to find oppoalng i twirlera. j Meunn, the viKitlng pitcher, had ' the Indian nlgn on the locals for ' five fiiuiuKM. before they solved his Htyle. He Ih a aouthimw. Conlln, ! who heaven from the ame aide of i his anatomy, contracted a nore thumb, und lout IiIh cunning in the Innt Inulnga. Both whifR-d six men. Mennr.s. Hhea and Wlluon did the u mplring. The Htatlstlea: KLAMATH KA I AM AH U "Sunny dim" Cofrroih, who cit-uUmI (he world's rlclu-wt turf Hlnke tho (Virfroih luuutb-ap will JuM be one of tho firm oporaUntf tho now track at 'rijuaiui, -I Hy HiLssell I. Newlaml (Associated Presa HportM Writer) TI.H'ANA. Mexico, (!') A Ti juana landmark that heraine fain ohm ,uot throiiKh au(iiiilty but rather herau.xe of Uh rapid Krowth. noon in lo give way to progress. The Tijuana race track bulli In 1 ill 0, the home of the richest home racing njake in the world the Cof froth handicap han lived itn day and like ho many other re Hen of earlier times, in doomed to crumble before the wrceker'H tooln. And while 1(h wooden walln are being ricmollHhed, a new plunt of nteel nnd conerete will l,e rearing Itn unromnntle outline u rfhnrt dis tance away. Horse racing, of coin-no. In to be mintinucd lu Itaja, Cullforuln, as 1! han Klnrrt JameH "Hunny Jim" Cof-froth- first came to thlH we.Htern part of old Mexico more than 13 yearn ago. CoffrotH, an International figure an a Hun Kranclnco boxing promo tor during the 4ft round days'. gave up bin promotional enterpriHes lu thin game when it was voted illegal In California in MM 4. Ilyrao race betting In (he state suffered a simi lar fate about the same time. - Sensing the opportunity and ftusm d with his .success In promot- j iitK a ncore or more of champion ship boutn ranging from the ban- titmuf it;ht to heavyweight divi 1 sions, Coffroth moved bag and bag I guge lo Lower California, i Hin plans were declared Imprne ; tlcabb- but the Hack was opened I January 1, CMC. Nature conspired i aKalnnt him, and two wVoks later, , floods wiped out the project. But ja new racing plant sprung up and I with it the Coffroth handicap. The ; first running of this-chutsiei tiacV -o; winners value ot only 4.ouu. Tin lust running, in the spring of It 20, hud a grosH value of 1130.000. The new race track will be known as' the Agua Calient Jockey club and will represent an outlay of more than $1,000,000. While the new combine Includes Coffroth in its membernhip, he Is nut expected to participate as actively as before. 1 The leaders in the new orttntKa-1 j flbn are Wirt O. Bowman1. HaroVi j Long ami JameH X. Croftonl asso i elate of "Sunny Jim" in the olh 1 'I'ijuana Jockey club. Burns, 3rd .... Fuller, rm Smith, 2nd .... Mann, c ..v.... Cox. Ul Means, rf Sanders, cf .... KelluH, If Means, p Totala M HDFORD II. Dunn, 3rd ... C. Hunn, 2nd ... Valencia, 1st ... Markee, cf Woods, c McDonald, rf Mahoney, sa Dye. If Coulin, p 0 2 C- & 6 4 . 6 & ...42 10 13 A B It H ... 6 1 ......... 5' 6 4 4 5 4 Totals 43 K 14 6 Summary: 2 base hit. Markee: bases on balls off Means. &: off Conlin, 3. Struck out by Means, 6; I'onlln. 6. Wild pitch. Means. Umpires, Shea and WllHon. Announcement We take pleasure in announcing that a new issue of Copco 6 Preferred Stock is now available for sale to our many customers and friends who reside within the territory served by this Company. This is an attractive investment, combining safety of principal, marketability and good yield. Write to Copco Investment Department, Medford, Ore gon, for full details and illustrated booklet. STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS. i .... w. u Missions ;. 411 24 San Francisco 46 31 I.os AliRi'i 42 34 Onkl.mil 41 30 Hollywood .. Sacramento Scuttle Portland' .... 34 37 35 43 DIAMOND LAKE FISH i LEAGUE OF NATIONS ;' ... 24 47 1'ct .071 ! .097 .653 ,D32 .47U .4411 .3 till ,33S This Company Has Over 5000 Home Shareholders The Qvljfornia Oregon Power Company OFFICES. Medford. Grants Pass . Roseburg . Klamatfa Falls -Orcjoo Yrcka. Dunimuir-Caliibrni Nutlomil lA'llfillV Plttahurgh 2 . Louis 30 19 ChlcaRo 27 IS New York 24 19 Philadelphia 21 23 lloston 17 2S Cincinnati : 17 29 1.. Id lllllllllllllllllllllllll i all oyater egRs hatched sur- The pen name of Mark Twain)' Tn the seventeenth century Rpec Vlved, In flvo (,-eneraliona their! was first used by Caplain Isaiah 1 ulatlon In tulip bulbs resulted In shells w ould make a pile twice the j Sellers und adopted by Samuel ', prices of several hundred dollars slie of tho earth. Clemens on Sellers' death. for a single duip. Flshlnc Is Knod in Diamond Lake (irltfln. Jou Myers and Kvnn Mil lor. of this city, woro visitors the yesterday. Coast League Yesterday .MADIttn. June 10. (.n The and the Journey to that body of fi,.sl -lll.nMr . ,.,, uf , League 'hlln.llhlll wnlor can ho nittdo ensllv In a llltle .... .. . 1 nllndelpnla over throe hours. uccordlnK to Al , N""."!,s, cm",c'' ?', -N,nv York - 1'lclle. who, liccompauled by l.oh " v. ,..!,, .... s.iiii.'.i ini.iii.iijuiiiu 4111U .iuuisn ieiron personalities. I Cleveland .. The Papal Xuneio. American Washington Tho road Is liadlv blocked bv onlv I -"""asMi.ior "Kien nainmonu, tne cnicago three snowdrifts ami good detourV 1 Kl'''"'-. Italian ant Herman ambas-. Boston i i. . '. .xMilm-i in.) tl, illiilimiiillc . r.i.ni. ! nave oeeii umuo arouati tueiu. l no i " linrty arrived there, at 1 oVlocR , 'ntatlves of most of the countries and hv 4 o'clock all Its nmmbe: s i ."' " "r'rt. heard the reading of had caught their limits. Tho flwli I ,,le reports and the discussion of are biting good, and favor single i vnrio,ls nuestlons raised by the I and double-headed spinners, ihi I l"'rl""n loreign minisier. wno ap party said. ' lM'nreil pale and debilitated. Herr Mrcsem.'inn auoweti nimseit to ne photographed and filmed on entering. American IvcnKW , W. L. 1 1 IS 20 23 27 32 31 LAY CORNERSTONE FOR It. 11. K Portland 0 1 0 link la nd 1 7 1 Chesterfield and Woodall; Hag la ami Head. . . E TALK BASEBALL Afternoon panic: Portlund .., Oakland Oilman. Heck and I'.voy and I.omhardl. K. If. . .S 13 2 . 8 14 4 lteKo; Mo- NEW YORK. June 10. (.T) Babe Kuth may be too 111 to play baseball these days but he can't keep away from the same that made him famous. ith his wife, the former Claire Hudson, the Babe was a spectator I at yesterday's name between the Yankees and the Browns. The VATBWN CITY, dune 10. .-F famous sliiBser sat In a box along The pope todav promulgated thcfl,ltf l',!h Uvlii ""d "fundamental law" of the new' " 1,100,1 l,p nmi cheered when ablnet and i vmlean Mate in l artf. Ies. The nls friendly rival. Lou Gehrig, hit L LAW:3 AT COFFEE TAVERN Patron In the Bud Simon oof i fee tavern on Stxih Mn-et weie th tinexpefted wlineNnet of n mar r In ye, and the kuMm tit mi appro ' fti'iMtely nervetl WtMbliUR rmppet i luNt evening when Itev. BUI Buy. the radio prrmher. pevfovmed the Mmplo ceremony unlttnit Ml- Mar- . Kiierlte Harah MonuHh. "I, of Ahirnnil, and William Jtnn1nK Belthrhtfi'r. .12, of Keno, On-, in tnaVriaice at ? o'ebnk. Kev. Bay wan summoned met the phone by the Ji'Utin couple, whit ilmve their oar into ih.- Su per Hervlee Htalton. and Hon weni HOIomm to the coffee tavein to ar runift for thn ceremony. AtrMim cm lb Bcene, th radio preacher performed the service before the lHi'Ki nnniber of patron (fathered fur their Humlay eventnn meal iMvh l-owry, proprietor tr l:ie J'ost Offieo nervier fdution, fur nlnhed n beautiful bompiet of foHen for the bride, and Mud Shn.m t round the young couple and the room full of Vfitnewies to a de llBlitrul -ddln nipper. The world umh eluM niotclies Qvr Ug tr IbhabltaiU. S. Seattle 4 Sacramento & Colin rd and Stidnecke; 'ould. Bryan and Harris ter. ii. n ! 1A 0 11 o vmct, Koeh- . V., Afternoon Kauie; U. H. Seattle I 2 Sj era memo !t 12 1 Houve. ltmannkl and Cox; Keailni; and Severeid. M. ' 11. F Misrlon i U I I.oh AmceleH ? U 1 V.-U.m 1ltim,.. hi,. I It.tl.lft in PUB. Bohert. Beters. Hal foot and: Hannah, Sandbertt. WASIIINOTOX, June 10 (.Tl Brenldent, Hoover will make a brief address and lay the corner it one late today of the new de part ment of commerce bulbliui;. The coi'i'monies W II be attended by members of th. other hiKh officials of the novern ment. The new structure w 111 cover more ground space than any of fice bulldinK In the world, spread ing oxer two coy tkocks. u is ,Jlk(, Uli;i,iatv,. mure in cae of located within a short diMancr of M.xm.,m, lirnencv. however, the Wasttlnton monument and t . ' . , will eovt $ 7.000 000 fiiit of these pives the pontiff full, his thirteenth home run and was leahdailve. executive and judiciary ,.inea wun ouuouiiy irom powers. In case the papacy should way nls expensive hat be vacant, these powers o i the wnen "Columbia I.ou" shot his college of cardinals, which can onlv ""oenth Into the right field oieacners later. Still a bit weak from a severe cold. Both was able, nevertheless. Sriim ire. flow- but one ' to trlk a cond came of baet.itl. Pot. j i i 11 Afternoon g.ime: H. 11. V Muslims 3 J I l.ns Angeles 3 8 0 M.yuald and HnMwIn; lloehler. Miller an. I tlamlberg, lliiiuuih. tseMn Innings by agreement). It. 11. K. Hollywood 7 15 1 NM1 l-'rulietsco K 15 a Shell, ul.iu h. Ilulvey nnd Sy-libt-r, look; Malls, tllynn, Thurs ton, .lones slid Heed. Afternoon game: It. 11. K. ltllwmMt 7 14 1 San Kianiis... 14 t Klntiey, M.Cai.c. Mnrly nnd Itassler. Sypher; tiome lavls, Couch and liewl. S'iviii l.lvhl Htil. ATLANTIC C1TV. N. .1. June 1(1 . U"i M s Sloan, i-rel.lenl of the NVw York I'dlson Co., was elected prr-Mml of llie National li.vculv Um UMotlattvu, rvl ll BTNEKAI. PAUI.OltS were built for the purpose naturally they uie ex actly rlsht In every particular, and far mere desirable (ban , a remodeled place coultl have been. . . Those wisliliiR the finest and mosl eom plete liiclliiies will cull upon us na a matter of course. Our funeral parlors are excep tionally complete and hcnuilful. CONGER FUNERAL PARLORS H V" CHAPEL T : : s W. MAIN AT NCWTOWN ST. tfhone 201 lX7l -S - U 43 WSimum in seri ne. -jm Hit pntxa When a Want Ad Counts! "Pa" stuck to the old battery operated radio through thick and thin. Naturally he went to the same dealer for replacements when the set broke down, only to hear, "We no longer handle that line." But wise Father knew the value of a well-worded Want Ad, and it didn't take him long to find just the part he wanted. You'll find all kinds of bargains offered for sale through the Want Ads. Use them the very next time you want something, or have something you no longer want. Everybody Reads the MAIL TRIBUNE i.i