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UNITED THRUST AT DEPRESSIDN HOOVER'S GOAL Calls Bipartisan Parley of Congress Leaders to Map Program. BANKING CRISIS MENACE War Debt Holiday Extension Is Probable Topic at Session Tonight. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Pres* Staff Correnpondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—President Hoover announced today that the purpose of the meeting of congressional leaders he has called at the White House for tonight is to work out “a program of national unity,’' designed to set up a constructive force to displace the disconstructive ones now at work. “I feel it is not proper,” the President said, "for me. in advance of this meeting, to make any further announcement." The conference will be concerned largely with domestic problems, the President explained, although it also will touch upon the internatiopal situation. It was learned at the same time that Mr. Hoover had called a conference of about eight leading bankers and real estate men to meet at the White House Wednesday to consider the domestic business situation with particulai reference to real estate. Mortgages Cause Concern Lack of fluidity in the real estate mortgage field of finance has been causing concern in administration circles. It was indicated there will be no formal announcement following tonight’s meeting. President Hoover wants to work out his complete program very carefully before giving it publicity. Most of the emphasis was placed upon national issues in the discussion of the conference today in Washington, although it was learned that discussion of the international situation would enter the meeting. The President is known to consider the business situation in i-his country as directly connected with European conditions. He feels that it would be difficult to settle the situation on one side of the Atlantic without consideration of that on the other. Democratic Leaders Meet As Mr. Hoover received the press at the White House, a group of influential congressional Democrats met with Senate Democratic Leader Robinson in what appeared to be an informal caucus on the eve of the White House conference scheduled for tonight. Those who met in the senate office building were Robinson and Senators Walsh, Montana; Hull, Tennessee; Ashurst, Arizona; Glass, Virginia; King, Utah, and Representative Garner, Democratic leader of the house. The administration has been concerned seriously for some time regarding the banking situation. Difficulties arising out of the uncertainty of bankers regarding the reparations and war debts issue and the freezing of foreign securities which are held in large quantities by American bankers, have combined to present the administration v'ith a delicate situation. Meeting Is Decisive Tonight’s conference is expected to be one of the decisive events in shaping America’s part in the tangled world situation, which temporarily has wrecked the allied plan for collection of war debt reparations from Germany and American efforts to obtain repayment of billions of dollars in war loans; brought Austria and Germany to the brink of bankruptcy; forced England to suspend the gold standard, and fastened burdensome shackles on the entire world economic structure. Senator Watson, Republican floor leader, was summoned from Indiana to participate in tonight’s deliberation:.. Senate Democratic Leader Robinson of Arkansas, also was called. John N. Garner of Texas, house Democratic leader and possible Speaker of the new congress, arrived by plane Monday. Senator Borah (Rep., Idaho), one of the most important figures in the congressional situation, has been here several days. He has been consulted by President Hoover regarding possible extension of the moratorium. Closer Accord Sought Senators Reed (Rep., Pa.), Glass (Dem., Va.), and Walsh (Dem., Mont.) are here. Representative Snell (Rep., N. Y.) is expected tq arrive today. In regard to possible extension of the debt moratorium, the conditions on which the United States may insist are understood to involve: 1. Closer a tcord between Germany and France; financial assistance to Germany by France; abandonment of irritations by Germany, such as agitation against the Polish corridor, insistence upon pocket battleships, steel helmet parades and other belligerent demonstrations which provoke bad blood. * 2. Evidence that credits extended will be used in productive enterprises and not be poured into armaments and wasteful forms of the dole. 3. A start toward a real disarmament holiday that will reduce budgets and at the same time diminish mutual suspicions. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 64 10 a. m 69 7a. m 63 11 a. m 72 Ba. m 65 12 (noon).. 77 9 a. m 67 1 p. m 77

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Here’s one society girl who went on the stage—and is staying on. For footlights still have more allure than social lights for Natalie Schafer, above. She is continuing her career on Broadway, begun several seasons ago, and will appear soon in a leading role in a new play.

WORLD MOURNS AT DEATH OF MORROW

Hoover Absent By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. President Hoover has designated Vice-President Curtis to represent him at the funeral Wednesday of Senator Dwight W. Morrow (Rep., N. J.), it was announced today at the White House. Mr. Hoover is in the midst of important negotiations here and will be unable to attend personally, it was said.

BANK ISSUED Condition on Sept. 29 Is Asked in Statements. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 6. The comptroller of the currency today issued a call for a statement of the condition of national banks at the close of business Sept. 29, 1931. Luther F. Symons, Indiana banking commissioner, issued a state bank call, reports to be as of Sept. 29. cumilis QUITS POST German Foreign Minister Submits Resignation. By United Press BERLIN, Oct. 6—Foreign Minister Julius Curtius today submitted his resignation to Chancellor Heinrich Bruening. Curtius previously had advised Bruening that he desired “to retire from the cabinet regardless of the parliamentary situation” and supplemented this today by actual submission of his resignation. EYE-EAR ‘FIRM’ THROUGH Deaf Man, Dead, Worked With Blind Brother-in-Law. By United Press MONTAGUE, Mich., Oct. 6. Death has ended a strange, though nearly perfect, partnership here. The passing of Leon Pond, deaf, disrupts the partnership he had with his brother-in-law, Henry Holliday, blind. The couple worked at unloading produce and lumber cars. Leon had the eyes—Henry had the ears.

THE BIRD’ FOR THE PRESIDENT —THAT’S HOOVER GREETING AT WORLD SERIES

BY JOE WILLIAMS Sports Editor. New Tirk World-Telecram Philadelphia. Oct. 6.—you are (if you don’t mind) sitting miles in the air on the swinging, swaying, press box at Shibe park, home grounds of -the American League champions. It is the third game of the world series between the Cardinals and the Athletics and it is ten minutes past 1 o’clock. A squadron of blue-frocked cops line up in front of the Athletics’ dugout. There is a moment of silence, fraught with tenseness. The President of the United States is about to enter the arena, which is drenched in a warm autumnal sun and packed with thousands of his subjects. Presently there is a blur of motion down on the field., A military man and an austere executive type in formal afternoon attire lead the way. Behind them comes a plumpish, gray-haflked, smiling man, carrying

Leaders of Many Nations Join in Tribute to Statesman. By United Press ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Oct. 6. Leaders of this and other nations joined today in tribute to Senator Dwight Whitney Morrow, whose brief but brilliant career as statesman and diplomat came to a sudden end Monday. Morrow, 58, died in his sleep, of cerebral hemorrhage. The man, known ds a good “neighbor” among friends, statesman and diplomats, was mourned by President Roover. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain, President Ortiz Rubio of Mexico, and many of the foremast citizens here and abroad. Preparations were made today for his funeral Wednesday at his secluded estate here. Far away in China, his daughter, Anne Lindbergh, and her husband, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, on an aerial vacation tour, mourned his passing. Hoover Pays Tribute Services for the senator will be held at 3 p. m. Wednesday at the First Presbyterian church of which Morrow was a member. The Rev. Carl Elmore, pastor, will officiate. (Dther details have not yet been arranged. President Hoover paid tribute to Morrow as a “loyal and generous character as a neighbor and a friend.” “The country has suffered a great loss in the death of Senator Dwight W. Morrow,” he said. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of England cabled: “I am greatly grieved by the loss of one whom I long have regarded as a most delightful personality and a much valued friend.” Anne Told of Death The Lindberghs will be the only members of the immediate family unable to attend. The flying couple were on board the British aircraft carrier Hermes, in the Yangtze river, en route to Shanghai. Mrs. Lindbergh was informed of her father’s sudden death Monday, in a cable from her mother and by the United Press, but until the Hermes reaches Shanghai, where it is due Wednesday morning, the Lindberghs’ plans probably will not be known. “Daddy died peacefully today. Don’t hurry home,” was the message from Mrs. Morrow. The Lindberghs accepted the hospitality of the Hermes when their monoplane, in which they had (Turn to Page 8)

a gray soft hat in his right hand, and waving it mechanically at definitely spaced intervals. With him is a midle-aged woman dressed in what the fashion writers probably would call a burgundy ensemble, and this is set off with a vivid blotch of orchids. At a random guess you would take them for a successful banker in a mid-western town and his wife. \ctually it is the President of the United States and his wife. a a a YOU watch them intently as they walk past the file of coppers forming the official escort and while you are watching a strange sound breaks around your ears. Out of the first spontaneous break of polite applause, there comes unmistakable note of derision, and as this note seems to hang in midair, sullen and challengingly, it is taken up by more timid souls, until ultimately it becomes a vigorous full-rounded melody of disparagement.

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FARMER TELLS VIVID TALE OF PICNICDEATHS Member of Fatal Reunion Party Cites Ominous Silence at Feast. PANIC GRIPPED CROWD Hysterical Scene Followed Discovery of Poison in Sandwiches. BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT LEBANON, Ind., Oct. 6.—“ Everything got still as death, just like something was wrong.” That silence was the first reaction of the picnic group at Memorial park here June 21, when strychnine capsules in the sandwiches, which caused the poison deaths of Alice Jean and Virginia Simmons, were tasted, Ora Pollard, Lebanon farmer, testified today at the murder trial of Mrs. Carrie Simmons. In the little Boone circuit court, Pollard gave a minute description of that picnic, and that silence which turned to hysteria and tragedy. Pollard figuratively brought the picnic tables and the Simmons and Pollard families into the court to be faced by Mrs. Simmons, charged with the strychnine killings of her two children. - Tells of Silence Pollard told how that oppressive silence of the picnic meal, which had started without pronouncement of the Lord’s—blessing, was broken when his mother, Mrs. Emma Pollard, opened her sandwich. “And there Wa,s a capsule,” Pollard said. “The crowd spread back like there was danger. I turned to my mother and said: ’lt looks like a big grubworm, mother.’ ” Pollard, dressed in a blue suit, related how he and Horace Jackson, one of the party, conversed before the picnic. He told how everything seemed to be moving smoothly. “Jackson said he was corn king of Hancock county,” Pollard told. “Yep, he showed me a watch fob he had won, and I was interested in anybody who was corn king two times hand-running. No Grace Said “I knew all the time that the Simmons folk was pretty religious. My mother had told me that—she always said so. “My sister, Isa, stood up then and asked if anybody had anything to say before we began to eat. I took it that she was expecting somebody to return thanks, but nobody said anything.' “Isa said then that we might as well get busy. “Course, I was ready and I fell too. I surely did eat. Jackson passed me the potatoes, and I jumpped right (Turn to Page 8) ACT TO~CURB SHORT SELLERS OF STOCKS Exchange Decrees Statements of Intent Accompany Orders. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—Further curbing of short sales by the New York Stock Exchange was seen today in an announcement to members that all selling orders must be accompanied by a statement as to whether the sale is for long or short account. The announcement issued by the business conduct committee over the signature of Ashbell Green, secretary of the exchange, was as follows : “The committee on business conduct directs, that before executing any selling orders, members shall ascertain and notify their floor brokers whether such orders are for long or short account.” 300 MINERS ON STRIKE Wage Cuts Lead to Walkout™in Petersburg Shafts. PETERSBURG, Ind., Oct. 6. Three hundred miners of the Patoka Coal Company an the Enos Coal Company went on strike here today because of wage cut disputes. The strip miners are objecting to the wage reduction from $6.10 to $2.80 a day for workers on the Algiers, Winslow & Western railway which runs to the mine tipples and is owned by mine operators. The strike order was issued sy Abe Vales, Terre Haute, president of District 11, United Mine Workers of America.

You say to yourself: “This isn’t right. This man is the President of the United States. He is here to see a ball game. He is deserving at least of the same courtesy that is bestowed upon John Bannans, the plumber.” But the strange vocal babble, identified as catcalls and boos, continues until Mr. Hoover and his party have taken their seats and the ball players have reassembled themselves into patterns of play. “Well, this is odd, indeed,” you reflect, "giving the Bronx cheer to the gent who runs the country,” and yet you reassure yourself that you are sitting among thousands who supposedly typify the mood and spirit of the nation. a a * TIyCAYBE in order to get a sane perspective it is important to remember that these thousands are here because they are primarily interested in Lefty Grove’s fast ball and Pepper Martin’s hit-

Law-Abiding By United Press EVANSTON, 111., Oct. 6. The W. C. T. U. drew the name of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis into the wet and dry controversy today without explaining the reason. “Judge Landis, now high commissioner of baseball,” said an announcement by the national W. C. T. U. offices, “once was one of the largest saloon keepers in the world —and the ONLY saloon keeper in Illinois who obeyed the Sunday closing law. “He became a saloon keeper in the spring of 1915, while also a federal judge. The Tosetti Brewing Company went into bankruptcy and Judgfe Landis found himself running the business, which included eighty-six saloons. “He announced that HIS saloons at least would obey the state law against operating a gin mill on Sunday. This made news, because no influence could be found to make Governor Dunne of Mayor Harrison of Chicago enforce the law, a situation which later became a campaign issue.”

FLIERS SEEKING 525,000 MODE Pacific Pair Ask Prize for Hop to Texas. By United Press WENATCHE, Wash., Oct. 6. Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon Jr., who won $25,000 by making the first nonstop airplane flight from Japan to the United States, hoped today to persuade Colonel W. E. Easterwood of Dallas, to reconsider his refusal to pay them a similar sum if they would extend their trip to the Texas city. The young American aviators, re--freshed after a full night’s sleep, planned to communicate with Easterwood at once, in the hope he would change his mind. Pangborn and Herndon said they wrote to Easterwood before they took off on their historic flight, but that they did not receive a reply and were under the impression when they left Japan, that they were eligible for his prize. The prize of $25,000 offered by the Tokio newspaper Asahi will be paid them when their barograph has been checked, it was said. Easterwood informed the fliers Monday he had specified that the one stop between Tokio and Dallas be San Francisco. While the fliers awaited landing gears from the Bellanca factory, they planned to go on a fishing trip into the Cascade mountains. POISON JEAR FADES Only 15 Purdue Studehts Now Being Treated. By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 6.—Hospitals here were crowded with 119 Purdue university students who suddenly became ill after eating tainted food in Cary Hall, a dormitory. Physicians said the students would recover. Only fifteen remained under treatment today. All of the victims suffered severe stomach pains believed caused from eating chicken salad that was said to have become tainted in a faulty refrigeration plant. The students became ill immediately after the meal. An emergency call was sent to hospitals, but the supply of ambulances was inadequate and a score of private automobiles were pressed into service. It was believed that prompt treatment prevented any deaths. MAIL PLANE MISSING Shlp-to-Shore Flyer Fails to Reach New York. By United Press NEW YORK, Oct. 6.—North German Lloyd line officials today asked coast guards and other government agencies to aid in the search for the mail plane which left the giant liner Bremen at 9:30 a. m. Thursday when the Bremen was 800 miles out. The plane was scheduled to reach Brooklyn at 6 a. m. today, but has not arrived. It has not been heard from since it stopped at North Sydney, Nova Scotia, to refuel.

ting, but it must be important, too, that these people are disturbed mentally about other things —unemployment, for one. •And when the President steps out among them, you agree that perhaps it is only natural that they should attempt to show him how they feel about the way he is doing his job. When a Republican President invades such a hotbed of Republicanism as the state of Pennsyl-* vania and the citizens proceed to give him the bird, it must mean that somebody has left the biscuits in the oven too long. • Personally, I wouldn’t know. I didn’t even enjoy hearing Mr. Hoover being booed, although I did stand up and wave my weskit when the rooting sections took up the cry, “We want beer!” Watching Mr. Hoover from the press box, however, I was forced to the unhappy conclusion that the gentleman is unsympathetic. He sat there with his hands folded

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JUDGE SPEEDS SELECTION OF CAPONE JURY Fallen Gang Despot Admits Worry Before His Plea of Not Guilty. FEARS HE’LL BE LOSER Crime Czar 111 at Ease as Talesmen Are Questioned. BY RAY BLACK United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—Selection of a jury to try Alphonse Capone moved swiftly today at the first session of the trial, which the government hopes will break the gangster’s rule forever. As the morning session ended, prospects were that the twelve men who will sit in judgment on the “big shot" on a charge of evading income tax would be selected before the day was over. Capone, whose right knee wobbled as he stood before the bench and pleaded not guilty, was nervous throughout the morning as the prospective jurors were questioned in rapid fire order and weeded out. A few minutes before the start of the trial, newspaper men had asked the paunchy gang despot if hq were worried. AI Admits He’s Worried Capone shoved a piece of candy in his mouth, chewed vigorously a moment and said: “Who wouldn’t worry? I don’t know if I’ll be acquitted or not. But who wouldn’t worry? Sure, I’m worrying.” As soon as he had denied guilt, Capone cleared his throat noisily, shuffled a step backward and then sat down. The blinking gang leader was in the same courtroom and before the same judge where he pleaded guilty to the same charge last summer. But when he appeared before Judge Wilkerson last July 30, after a “bargain” with government prosecutors that was to let him off with two and a half years in the federal penitentiary, he encountered a tartar in Judge Wilkerson. “No one can bargain with the United States government,” declared the judge and the startled attorneys for Capone shifted his plea to not guilty. No Bargains Today Today there was no hint of “bargain” in the proceedings. It was to be a fight to the finish, no quarter asked by either side. The plea came about thirty minutes after Capone had whisked up to the Federal building in a taxicab, lumbered out and stalked into the building with his three bodyguards. Few in the crowd noticed his arrival. A special elevator shot Capone and his henchmen to the sixth floor. He was shoved through a barricade of antique desks. Once behind that, the bodyguards, Frank Rio, who once served A year in a Philadelphia jail with his chief; Mike Kelly, Italian who assumed an Irish name, and Phil D’Andrea, chauffeur of the maroon Ford sedan in which Capone rides these days, disappeared. Capone was out of the hands of his “gorillas.” The United States government took charge of him. Hie three famous scars gleamed on his round face. Through the dusting of powder, deep circles shaded his nervous eyes. He kept his eyes straight ahead as he walked along. He might have seen Johnnie Torrio, who lurked in the crowd. Ten years ago Torrio, then chief of Chicago’s gangs, taught Capone his first lesson in crime. Now he is a witness against Capone.

across his tum-tum and smiled, as if to reply, “try and get it.” a a a MR. HOOVER’S humiliation did not end, I regret to report, with the pre-game demonstration. Eetween the eighth and ninth innings the amplifiers cried for “silence, please.” Then came the request that as a mark of courtesy all spectators would kindly remain seated until Mr. Hoover and his guests had left the premises. This was the signal for another shower of raszberries. I remember that Mr. Babe Ruth protested vehemently against this discourtesy. “If he’s leaving, they ought to cheer,” grumbled Mr. Ruth. Ido not know exactly what Mr. Ruth meant by this remark, but I happen to recall that he campaigned for A1 Smith a few years back, even to the extent of wearing a brown derby, smoking cigars and saying “raddio.” Taking it by and large, it was not an altogether pleasant after-

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First Inning CARDINALS—FIowers flied out to Haas on the first pitched ball. Watkins popped out to Earnshaw. Frisch flied to Simmons. NO RUNS. NO HITS. NO ERRORS. ATHLETICS—Bishop hit to center for a single. The A’s fans were cheering wildly. Haas sacrificed, Flowers to Bottomley. Cochrane was out to Bottomley, unassisted, Bishop taking third. Simmons lined to left center for two bases. Bishop scoring. Foxx walked. Miller fouled out to Wilsoh. ONE RUN. TWO HITS. NO ERRORS. Second Inning CARDINALS—BottomIey fouled out to Foxx. Hafey was out, Dykes to Foxx. Pepper Martin came up and was applauded noisily. Martin fanned. NO RUNS. NO HITS. NO ERRORS. George Earnshaw was bearing down and had excellent control. ATHLETICS—High was sent in to play third for St. Louis. Dykes singled to center. Williams fanned. Earnshaw w T as out, Johnson to Bottomley, Dykes going to second. Bishop flied to Martin, who made a running catch. NO RUNS. ONE HIT. NO ERRORS. Third Inning CARDINALS—WiIson flied to Simmons. Gelbert rolled out to Foxx, unassisted. Johnson fanned. NO RUNS. NO HITS. NO ERRORS. The Cardinals were three up and three dow’n for three innings just as the A’s were in the games of Monday and last Friday. ATHLETICS—Haas singled to right. Cochrane forced Haas at second, Frisch to Gelbert, and was safe at first when Bottomley juggled Gelbert’s throw in an attempted double play. It was an error for Bottomley. Simmons bounced into a double play, Frisch to Gelbert to Bottomley. NO RUNS. ONE HIT. ONE ERROR. Fourth Inning CARDINALS —Earnshaw made a fancy stop on a hot grounder to toss out High. Watkins flied out to Miller. Frisch walked and stole second. Bottomley fanned. NO RUNS. NO HITS. NO ERRORS. Earnshaw shook his head sadly when Frisch broke the spell and became the first man to reach first base. ATHLETICS—GeIbert threw out Foxx. Miller popped to Gelbert. Dykes was out, Hig hto Bottomley. NO RUNS. NO HITS. NO ERRORS. Johnson was pitching a little better, although his control still was none too good. EDISON JOR DEATH Battle for Life Little More Than Faint Struggle. By United Press WEST ORANGE, N. J., Oct. 6. Thomas A. Edison’s battle for life, now little more than a faint struggle, went on today as family and physicians kept their close watch upon him. The latest bulletin, issued late Monday night, described the aged inventor as resting comfortably after a “quiet and uneventful day.” “There is, on the whole, little change for better or worse in his condition,” said the statement issued by Charles Edison, the inventor’s son. RACES TO VICTORY AGAIN Louis Schneider Gives Chase When His Auto Is Stolen. Louis Schneider, who won the 1931 500-mile auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, turned West Tenth street into a speedway when a Negro youth stole his auto today. With Arthur Chevrolet he had gone to the Chevrolair Motors plant at 410 West Tenth street, parking his car outside. He heard it start away, climbed into Chevrolet’s car, and gave chase. Eight blocks distant, he forced his car to the curb and held a 14-year-old boy for police. The youth was taken to the detention home.

noon for Hoover, and I am afraid it will be a long time before any political friends get him out tc another ball game. a a a EVEN so, the experience may yield some very interesting results. Presidents and monarchs ’ive too cloistered a life. They vjght to get out and mingle with .he peasants from time to time. Nor do I see any reason why the oeasants shouldn’t be permitted to speak their minds at intervals—making a generous concession and granting that we have minds to speak. And now just a word about that ball game. The Cardinals won a well-pitched game behind Grimes. Grove appears to be overworked and through. So do the A’s. On the other hand, the Cards have developed an aggressive, winning psychology.. I don’t believe they can be stopped, and I say this at the risk of picking my first winner in forty-eight years.

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GABBY STREET PINS FAITH UN RIGHTHANDER St. Louis Players, Full of Confidence, Out to Land Another Victory. A’S STILL FAVORITES Flowers ‘Knocked Cold’ by Batted Ball, but Goes Into Fray. Cards ...000 0 Athletics 100 0 BY L. S. CAMERON United Press Snorts Editor SHIBE PARK, PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 6.—Having* played three aces and taken but one trick, the Philadelphia Athletics met the St. Louis Cardinals in the fourth game of the 1931 world series baseball championship here today. The Athletics were faced with the necessity of winning today if they were to save themselves from reaching that unhappy back-to-the-wall stage of series competition. Sylvester Johnson, Cardinal righthander, and George Earnshaw were the slab choices. Cochrane and Jimmy Wilson again were behind the bat. The Cardinals have won two of the three games played, scoring one victory over George Earnshaw and breaking even in the two games pitched by Lefty Grove, No. 1 man of the Philadelphia staff. 35,000 See Game \ A crowd of approximately 35,000 comfortably filled Shibe park. Nearly ideal baseball weather prevailed. There was an intensely hot Indian summer sun and a gentle breeze. Despite the advantage in games won held by the Cards, the Athletics remained betting favorites, but there was not much wagering. The Athletics played without their officially adopted mascot—President Hoover—who was here for the Monday game. The Athletics showed plenty of pep in their pre-game practice. So did the Cards. Well along the highroad toward victory they "kidded” one another almost continually as they tossed the ball about in their final pepper drill. Flowers “Knocked Cold” Their merriment came to an abrupt end twenty minutes before game time, when Jake Flowers, substitute inflelder, was struck on the head by a batted ball. He fell flat cn his back and lay unconscious for several minutes. Gabby Street raced out ;o his aid and after Flowers was revived the Cardinals’ manager led the injured player to their dressing room. The accident quite stunned the crowd, which remained silent until Flowers was able to stand erect. The fans then applauded him cordially. John McGraw, Babe Ruth and Nick Aitrock were spied by photographers, who got them to pose in front of the Athletics’ dugout. Sylvester Johnson warmed up for the Cardinals. Gabby Street came out to talk to Johnson and the pitcher nodded Ills head affirmatively as the manager walked away. Some Vacant Seat Earnshaw, Athletics No. 2 pitcher, warmed up at the other practice rubber. The ground keepers went on to the field at 1:20 to give the infield its final going over. The unreserved sections were solidly filled, but there were many vacant spaces at the extreme ends of the reserved seat sections. Manager Street had made no announcement, but the fact that Johnson was the only pitcher warming up made it appear certain that he would work for the National League champions. Photographers snapped away almost constantly at various Cardinal players to the almost disregard of the Athletics. The umpires, led by McGowan, walked over to home plate and called for Eddie Collins, Ahtletics’ coach, and Gabby Street, Cardinals’ manager, to Join them. HOLD ’LEGGER SUSPECT Negro Taken at Crown Point After Liquor Auto Crashes. William Harris, Negro, Indianapolis, was arrested at Crown Point today after his auto, with 100 gallons of alcohol aboard, figured in an accident, according to word received here by police. Lake county authorities are seeking another Indianapolis Negro, who was with Harris, but who escaped after the accident.

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