TOOK POISON.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 519, 30 July 1932, Page 1

TOOK POISON.

FILM ACTRESS ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. Lina Basquette Very 111. HOPELESS LOVE FOR JACK DEMPSEY REVEALED. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received July 30, 11.30 a.m.) LOS ANGELES, July 29. Lina Basquette, the twenty-five-year-old • actress, swallowed poison to-day a few hours after she announced neF engagement to Teddy Ilayes, former trainer of Jack Dempsey, to stifle rumours that she might marry Dempsey. Beside the actress the police found a note addressed to Jack Dempsey reading: ‘‘l love you, only you. I couldn't help it. I couldn’t go on withPhysicians said that her condition is critical. Lina Basquette. who has been twice married, took a caustic poison after spending the evening with Ilayes. She had been so despondent, Ilayes said, that he had telephoned her after he had taken her home. “ Are you all right," Hayes said he asked. “ Sure, I’m all right, I have just taken poison," was her reply. He rushed to her apartment and administered first aid until the police arrived in answer to an anonymous phone call. The actress was writhing in agony on a divan. The police said that it might be several days before she was out of danger. Lina Basquette attempted suicide once before in 1930, after an unsuccessful effort to obtain custody of her child from Harry Warner, a brother of her husband, Sam Warner.

Dominion agreement regarding their requests, the second was the reference of the proposals to the British delegations, and the third was the discussion of the details between the British and Dominion officials, who will next deal with meat and fruit. The fourth stage will be further discussions between the British and Dominion delegations, and the fifth Britain’s decisions. The' Sub-Committee on Industrial Standardisation discussed chiefly the steps the various Dominions have taken to carry out the decisions of the 1930 Conference. FIGURES CHALLENGED.

Britain’s Trade with. New Zealand. Pc- Press Association. AUCKLAND, July 30. Commenting on the figures quoted at Ottawa by Mr Baldwin, Dr Neale, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, said that there was something seriously wrong. Mr v ßaldwin was reported as saying that Britain's imports from New Zealand in 1930 were valued at £44.9 millions and her exports to New Zealand at £18.7 millions. According to the 1932 official Year Book the figures were £36.000,000 and £21,000,000, showing an apparent balance of £15,000,000, not £26,000,000. Even £15,000,000 exaggerated the position as much of the New Zealand exports found their way to Europe. These re-exports amounted to some £7,000,000, so that the real balance of trdae was about £8,000,000, not £26,000,000. It was difficult to see on what basis Mr Baldwin’s figures were arrived at. In the case of Australian figures. Dr Neale said that according to the Commonwealth Year Book, Australia actually imported more from Britain than she sent there.