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Rolling up from Rio, the Munson liner Southern Cross neared New York. It was 4:30 a.m. when William Henry Murray Jr., son of Governor "Cocklebur Bill" Murray of Oklahoma, an unidentified woman and the ship's third officer left the cabin of Assistant Purser Joseph Apud. Next morning Assistant Purser Apud was found dead, shot through the head with a bullet from the revolver he clutched in his hand. The revolver was identified as belonging to young Murray. Assistant Purser Apud had left a farewell note. His death was announced as a suicide, but Apud's mother met the boat at Brooklyn, demanded an investigation. In Oklahoma City, Governor Murray said that his son had been teaching natives in Bolivia and Argentina to drive oil trucks. "I didn't know he was coming," continued the Governor. "I guess he intended it as a surprise. . . . He's just like that; he won't tell them much up in New York. I talk a lot, but he isn't that way. You watch."
George Vanderbilt, rich Manhattan sportsman, returned from a trip to islands in the Pacific with 120 animals, 25,000 ft. of moving picture film, a story of having hooked a young whale.
A lover of fine horses, President Paul Doumer of France was last week offered three pairs of thoroughbreds by the Breeders' Association of France. Gratified, because horses are not only more chic but cheaper than an auto. President Doumer was forced to decline the offer because he had no stable. The stables of the Elysee Palace were long since turned into a garage.
At Ketchikan, Alaska, customs officers boarded the yacht of General William Wallace Atterbury, president of Pennsylvania R.R., seized his supply of rye whiskey and champagne. General Atterbury fumed.