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CONVICTS KIDNAP CITY MAN, ESCAPE
SEIDENSTICKER NAMED CITY’S POSTMASTER Former Member of State Pardons Board Succeeds Leslie Clancy. SERVED IN HOME LOAN Appointment Is Announced by Senator Van Nuys in Washington. Adolph Seidensticker, 3720 North Pennsylvania street, former attorney lor the Home Owners Loan Corporation in Marion county and ex-member and secretary of the state pardons board, today will take over the Indianapolis postmaster*hip. News of Mr. Seidensticker's appointment to succeed Leslie D. Clancy was received Friday night from United States Senator Frederick Van Nuys in Washington. Mr. Clancy received his appointment to the postmastership Jan. 27, 1932. from lormer president Herbert Hoover. The new postmaster was born in Indianapolis and educated in local schools. Upon his graduation from Indiana law school in 1806. he entered practice as a member of the firm of Florea & Seidensticker. The partnership continued until 1918 when Mr. Seidensticker resigned to devote his entire time to the post of secretary of the state pardons board. He had been appointed to the pardons board in 1913 by Governor Thomas R. Marshall and served until 1925 when board was abolished under the Ed Jackson administration. He then re-entered law practice. Mr. Seidensticker. 58. is a member of the Masonic order and past master of Pentalpha lodge No. 564. He and Mrs. Seidensticker have three children. J. Porter and Adolph Seidensticker. and Mrs. Mary’ Margaret Miller. Adolph Seidensticker resides in Philadelphia. Mr. Clancv has been transferred to the posh ion of assistant money order cashier. SITES FOR 12 INDIANA FOREST CAMPS CHOSEN Selection Announced at Capital by Conservation Director. By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 29.—Robert Feehner, emergency conservation work director, announced today’ the sites of twelve new forest corps camps in Indiana. The new camps will bring the total number of camps in Indiana to thirty during the winter months. New Camp's will be located at Medaryville. Henryville, Martinsville, Shoals. Versailles. Winslow, Freetown. East Enterprise. Jasonville, Spencer. Chesterdon. Madison. 9 KILLED AS SYNAGOG GALLERY COLLAPSES False Fire Alarm in Vienna Blamed for Fatal Panic; 30 Hurt. JJy VmitrH Prrss VIENNA. Austria. Sept 30.—Nine v omen were killed instantly and -hirty others injured badly Friday when a gallery collapsed in a Jewish synagog at Bucharest. Rumania, dispatches reaching here said.. The tragedy occurred when hun-d-eds rushed on to the gallery aisles an effort to reach exits after a alse fire alarm. Times Index Page. Amusement Page 6 Book-A-Day 7 •Budge ■> 9 Bioun Column 4 Church News 7 Comics 11 C'.cssword Puzzle 9 irious World 3 nee Lesson No. 6 2 Uietz On Science 7 Editorial 4 Vuiancial 9 - jidio 9 hrial Story li rrts 8 V „ iburt Cartoon 4 ill Street—A Series 7 .v iman s Page 5
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PRESIDENT ACTS TO END STRIKE Miner Pact Is Signed by Roosevelt; No Prospect of Ford Peace. By United Press President Roosevelt today signed a miners-operators’ agreement which he hoped would restore peace to the Pennnsylvania soft coal fields where 75,000 miners are on strike, but there seemed no immediate prospect of peace between Henry Ford and striking workers in two of his plants. Strikers in the Ford plants in Chester, Pa., and Edgewater, N. J„ expected the strike to spread to Ford plants throughout the country. The Ford company dismissed 510 of the Edgewater strikers, maintaining they had no reason for leaving their jobs. Mine union officials and operators expected all striking miners-tcr return Monday when the coal code becomes effective. The agreement approved by the President specifies that miners working in the socalled “captive mines (mines owned by industries such as steel that take the entire produce) must enjoy the same status as miners working for other operators.” The H. C. Frick Company which failed to sign the coal code and precipitated the strike, was one of the signing operators. FORMER CITY MAN IS DEAD AT NEW BETHEL La*:t Rites for T. C. Caplinger, 78, to Be Held Here Sunday. Funeral services for Thomas C. Caplinger, 78. of New Bethel, former resident of Indianapolis, will be held at 2:30 Sunday in the J. C. Wilson funeral home. Burial will be in the New Bethel cemetery. Mr. Caplinger's death came as the result of an illness of several month. He is urvived by a daughter and on. Miss Besie Caplinger of Indianapolis and Harry R. Caplinger of New Bethel. SETSEXHIBIT >C HEDULE Woman's Department Club Will Show Art Collection. A schedule of exhibits has been announced by Mrs. George J. Mess, art show chairman, at the Woman's Department Club, as follows: Sept. 24 to Oct. 7. Miss Emma B. King memorial exhibition: Oct. 8 to Nov. 4. paintings by Edward K. Williams of Brown county: Nov. 4 to 30. work of Curry Bohm of Brown county: Dec. 1 to 31. flower paintings by Leota Williams Loop, Tiffin. O.: Jan. 1 to 31. prints by Indiana artists: Feb. 1 to 28. oil paintings by Joseph M. Henninger, sculpture by Elmer H. Daniels; March 1 to 31. Paul Randall memorial exhibit, and April 1 to 30, paintings by Robert L. Selfridge. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 58 8 a. m 66 7 a. m 60 9 a. m 68
Girl Is Recovering After Leap; Hearing Continued
Alleged Attack Victim Is Reported Improved at Hospital. Mrs. Mary Feyerlem. 18, of 26 South Addison street, who suffered critical injuries when she jumped three floors from an apartment window in a pruported attempt to escape criminal assault by two men, was reported improved, today at city hospital. Physicians say she will recover, i although she still is suffering from bruises and contusions received when she fell on a pile of bricks in the court of the apartment at 431 North Illinois street. Meanwhile, Municipal Judge Dewey Myers continued to Oct. 3 the case of Frankie Ralston, theatrical agent, who is accused of selling marijuana cigarets to Richard Heypan, 30, of 609 East Twentyfourth street, and William Bowers,
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CITY TRUCK DRIVERS FREED BY KIDNAPERS Released After Valuable Cargo Is Removed. Two Indianapolis men. A. L. Hendricks, 2122 Park avenue, and Raymond Eggers. 44 South Tremont street, were released shortly ajter being kidnaped early today near O'Fallon, 111. by four bandits who stole a load of valuable merchandise from a truck the two men were driving. According to a press dispatch, the bandits unloaded the truck in a garage, location of which was not known to the drivers. After the merchandise had been unloaded, the truck was restored to Mr. Hendricks and Mr. Eggers and they were permitted to drive away. The truck was the property of a Toledo (O.) firm, according to Mrs. Hendricks, who received the first teport of the kidnaping from The Times. Thieves Steal Ferns Four large ferns valued at S2O were stolen from the home of Mrs. Margaret Dugen, 313 East Twentysecond street, early today, she reported to police.
21. of 517 North Delaware street, charged with the attempted attack on Mrs. Beyerlein. In additional statements to detectives, Mrs. Beyerlein. as first thought to be unmarried, told them she is married, but separated from her husband. Heyman and Bowers, held on vagrancy charges under SIO,OOO bond each and their cases also set for Oct. 3. are alleged to have forced Mrs. Beyerlein to come to the North Illinois street apartment on threats of dismissal from her job as waitress in a downtown drug store. Heyman is a department manager and Bowers is a soda clerk in the same store. Mrs. Beyerlein said she jumped through a window at the North Illinois street apartment after Heyman and Bowers forced her to smok* a marijuana cigaret on threats of a beating and then tore offl her dress in an attempt to attak' her* v
Partly cloudy tonight with possibly a shower this afternoon or tonight; Sunday, fair and cooler.
RUSSIANS FLY 11 MILES HIGH, SHATTER MARK Scientists Break Record Set by Piccard by More Than Mile. START TO DESCEND Soviet Officials Refuse to Be Satisfied With Achievement. By United Press MOSCOW. Sept. 30.—Three Russian scientists, exploring the stratosphere eleven miles above the earth in the giant government balloon Ussr, today shattered all existing altitude records. Studying their instruments at the comfortable temperature of 71.6 degrees maintained in their gondola, the scietnists cruised through space where the temperature was 88 below zero. Starting at 8:43 a. m. from the local airport, they reached at 9:58 a. m. an altitude of 17.9 kilometers (eleven miles, 204 yards). Soaring rapidly, they surpassed all previous records within forty minutes after their start. “Feel Fine,” Report After cruising about and studying their instruments, the ballonists ascended finally to 18.4 kilometers (11 miles, 750 yards) at 12:30 p. m. ‘‘We are feeling fine and send best wishes,’’ they radioed to earth. Twenty minutes later they began to descend. They reported their supply of oxygen was holding out well. Officials expected them to land about 4 p. m. and sent several airplanes to Serpukhov, fifty-six miles from Moscow, where it was calculated the balloon would touch earth. Larger Balloon to Soar Unsatisfied, with the achievement today, officials planned to send the even larger balloon Osoaviakuin—the official term for the society for aviation and defense—into the upper air Sunday to excel the USSR's feat. The USSR, in a cloudless sky, remained visible from Moscow, a tiny speck in the sky, during its ascent and descent. The previous altitude record for balloons, set by Professor Auguste Piccard and Max Coyns of Belgium, was ten miles, 117 yards. The airplane record, as yet unofficial, is eight miles. 1,003 yards. It was set Thursday by the French civilian pilot, Gustave Lemoine.
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BULLETIN OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 30.—Harvey Bailey, Albert Bates and “Boss” Shannon today were found guilty of the Charles Urschel kidnaping. Sheriff, Kidnaped by Convicts, Safe; Faces Quiz by Matt Leach Comes to Gary With One of Escaped Criminals, but Parts With Him in All Friendliness; Desperado Captured in Hammond. By United Press GARY, Ind., Sept. 30.—Sheriff Charles Neel of Harrison county, kidnaped and held captive for three days by escaped convicts from Indiana State Prison, today told the story of his weird experiences. Almost simultaneous with Neel’s appearance here, James Clark, one of the most desperate of the ten prisoners who wounded three guards in effecting a daring break Tuesday, was captured in Hammond, a few miles from here.
Clark, one of the group of four who held Neel captive, was caught three blocks from the police headquarters. Neal said he was released early Friday. He wandered, all day trying to get to a city. He came by interurban to Gary from Hobart. Clark told police a different story. After hearing it, Neel said he “guessed Clark was right.” Both Neel and Clark suffered from exposure and lack of food. Neal had hot been harmed. He said the convicts complimented him on "being a good fellow.” Neal told local authorities that Friday morning he tried to get a ride to Gary, but motorists refused to stop. He slept several hours in an open field, he said, then walked to Hobart. Clark said early Friday morning,
THUGS IN LAFAYETTE SHOOTING SEEN HERE Car Is Reported Sighted by Milkman. Two armed men answering the description of the bandits who held up and wounded Henry Bush. Lafayette, and stole an automobile from his home Friday night, were seen in Indianapolis early today, according to the police. A milkman making deliveries near Northwestern avenue and Thirtyeighth street told Policemen Michael McAllen and Clyde Mitchell that an automobile answering the description of Bush's car headed south on the Cold Springs road into the city. Bush is recovering in Witham hospital, Lafayette. CULVER BANDIT IS HELD Seventh Suspect in Bank Robbery Is Placed Under 550,000 Bond. By United Press PLYMOUTH. Ind.. Sept. 30. Thomas Leahy, alleged Culver bank bandit and kidnaper, w r as under $50,000 bond here today. Trial was set for Oct. 16 by Judge Albert Chipman when he was brought into Marsahll circuit court Friday. Sheriff Charles Keller, who arrested Leahy, siad he was suspected of being the seventh member of the gang w’hich several months ago held up the Culver state bank and kidnaped the cashier and a customer.
WASHINGTON PARK, HOMEWOOD. 111., Sept. 30.—What Jack Howard has done can be done again and today it looks as though Speedy Skippy will be right there w’hen the w’ire is crossed and he will be in front. He has Mr. James to beat, but this shouldn't be so hard. You can label him the best thing on the card.
The Homewood handicap at a mile looks like it was made to order for Polydorus. and Anna Adelia. a winner at Coney Island, looks like a good thing in the third. Watch old Scimitar in the nightcap. He is back in the hands of Mikel and this is the only trainer that can make the old boy rush. When the fifth race at Havre comes up today forget all abbut the way the Big Train Equipoise ran the other day and think of him as the most logical and the soundest bangtail on the tracks today. Weight won't make any difference. even though the track is muddy. Today's Selections At Washington Park — First—Liberty Oak. Domino Player, Fiji. Second —Sarazen 11, Golden Sun, Camp Boss. Third—Anna Adelia, Tar Water, Hoops. Fourth Hyman, v Crapshooter, Pharahead.
three convicts left the party together in an automobile. Clark, slightly ill, decided to walk with Neal. Together they roamed through fields trying to get to a city, Clark said. At Hobart, Neel paid for a meal for both, Clark related. Neel also paid their interurban fare to Gary. Here they said good-by and parted. Clark started for Hammond wearing Neel's overcoat. Neel went to police headquarters. Police w’ere unable to explain Neel's failure to bring Clark to headquarters. After he shaved and ate, he retired. Captain Matt Leach of the state police said he would question Neal today on this point. Drove Toward Chicago Neel had just delivered a. prisoner to the penitentiary at' Michigan City when the ten convicts came charging out the main gate, firing revolvers that had been smuggled in to them. “Someone grabbed me by the arm,” he said. “One of the dozen men milling around me took my revolver. “ Have you got a car?’ one of them asked. I told him I did and he ordered me to take him to it.” Tw’o convicts got into the front seat and two others in the rear, accompanied by Neel. They drove west from Michigan City toward Chicago, then turned south on a side road. The sheriff’s car was wrecked a few miles from Michigan City. The convicts went to the farmhouse of Carl Spanier, took his automobile and forced him to accompany them. When they stopped for gasoline, Spanier escaped. Start Aimless Wandering At the farmhouse of Carl Gustafson ten miles southwest of Michigan City, the second car oroke down. In a driving rain the convicts and Neel started out on foot across fields and through underbrush. At daylight they crept into a clump of bushes and Iqy there until nightfall. Wednesday night the convicts started out again. They were trying to make their way to Gary but were lost. They looked for another automobile to steal, but searched in vain. Thursday they again hid in woods. Thursday night the aimless wan- ! dering started again. Shortly after midnight they came upon a farmer’s automobile parked in his yard, and stole it. Neel and Clark exchanged greetings when they met Friday night in the Hammond police station. Neal gave Clark $5 and the latter was taken back to Michigan City to resume his life sentence for banditry.
RACE TRACK Selections g J o BEVILLA
Fifth—Speedy Skippy, Mr. James, Penncote. Sixth Late Date, Polydorus, Shandon Farm entry. Eighth—Scimitar, Catherine. Fox, Seventh Black Fool, Finnic, Morpheus. Honey Locust. Best—Speedy Skippy. Clear and fast. At Havre De Grace — First—Arab, Plutarch. Lone Hand. Second—Fortification. Pharatime, Wise Ways. Third—The General Prince Tokalon. Commuter. Fourth—Pairbypair, The Darb, Character. Fifth Equipose, Dark Secret, Mate. Sixth—Hillsborough. Anne Messic, Dodgson. Seventh —Soeur Blanch®, Syriac, Irish Maid. Best—Equipoise. Clear and muddy.
CAPTIVE GETS AWAY IN NASHVILLE STATE POLICE ELUDED IN CHASE HERE
Shoot! •Don’t Let Any One Beat You to the Draw,’ Police Ordered.
i "D ON 'T let anyone beat you ! to the draw. You have guns and are supposed to know how to use them.” That was the terse order given today to police concentrating on the hunt for escaped convicts, by Captain John Mullen. u n n All available radio cars and ma-chine-gun squads were thrown into the area southwest of the city and in the White river marshes and all other police in the city were ordered briefly to “be ready.” nan SHERIFF CHARLES NEEL of Corydon, who was “taken for a ride” by escaping Michigan City convicts and appeared in Gary to tell the tale, was to be brought to Indianapolis today by Captain Matt Leach of the state police. Neel was released Friday night. “I was standing in the lobby of the Michigan City prison when the break occurred,” said Neel. “Suddenly, I heard a terrific crash and the prisoners were upon me. One of them grabbed me, taking the keys of my car from my partner friend, Dr. Lee Wolf. “They drove out to state Road 12. After driving for some time the car went into a ditch. The convicts forced a farmer to 'drive them farther in his car, holding a gun on him all the time. “They abandoned his car and walked across fields in the pouring rain. We laid in bushes all Wednesday night and on Thursday the men stole another car from a farm. Finally they put me out of the car. One of the men wanted to tie me up. another said: “It'd kill the old man—give him a break.” “I was lost and walked around aimlessly and then found State Road 6. After miles of walking I got to Hobart and then took a trolley to Gary.” an Three dun-colored prison jackets bearing the prison numbers of three of the escaped Michigan City convicts, were found abandoned in an automobile near Brownstown Friday. Two of the jackets were issued to Charles Mokley and the other to Edward Shouse, according to prison officials. n n tt EDWARD WATTS, Ben Davis jeweler, took a pot-shot at one of the fleeing convicts near High School road Friday night. “I had been listening to the voice of A1 Feeney, state director of public safety, tell of the flight of four convicts from Terre Haute,” said Mr. Watts. “I left the drug store at 6301 West Washington street, and walked toward home. “Suddenly the car with the convicts in it roared past me and swerved south into High School road. One of the convicts was thrown out. As he regained his feet and fled, I fired a shot at him. I don’t think I hit him. however. He had a gun in his hand but didn't attempt to shoot back.” Mr. Watts explained that he has a permit to carry a revolver. n a u Shortage of guards and methods of receiving raw products for prison plants within the penitentiary were given as reasons for the Indiana state prison jail break as an investigating board finished its probe into the prison delivery today. a a a INVESTIGATION of the broadcast of a fictitious gun battle between police and escaped convicts during the height of the hunt for the escaped Michigan City convicts was ordered Friday by the federal radio commission. The broadcast was staged by representatives •of the Columbia Broadcasting System through its Gary outlet station WIND. SIO,OOO LOOT OF THUGS Masked Bandits Take Pay Roll in Robbery in East. By United Press BINGHAMTON. N. Y.. Sept. 3p.— Five marked banchts entered • -the office of the Kroehler Manufacturing Company here late Friday, took a SIO,OOO pay roll and escaped in a waiting automobile. Auto Injuries Cause Death By United Press HAMMOND, Ind.. Sept. 30.—A skull fracture suffered when he was knocked down by a speeding auto- | mobile caused tire death here Fri-, day night of Frank Grywich, 43.
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West Side Resident Tricks Desperado When Gas Runs Low; Appears in Bloomington; Seized While Driving Near Ben Davis. ONE DESPERADO IS CAPTURED James Clark Caught at Hammond Following Liberation of Hostage Sheriff; Terre Haute Citizen Also Escapes From Criminals. A man believed James Jenkins, escaped convict from the Indiana state prison, was seen near Tell City, Ind., this morning, state police were notified. He was driving a stolen convertible coupe. Jenkins is believed the man who was thrown from an automobile driven by other escaped convicts near Indianapolis Friday night. Kidnaping of an Indianapolis man and abduction of a Terre Haute man whose automobile was stolen marked the trail of nine convicts, escaped from the Indiana state prison, during a series of dramatic events Friday night and early today, during which four of the fugitives eluded state police at Ben Davis after an 80-mile-an-hour automobile chase. The kidnaped Indianapolis man, Victor Lyle, 26, of 838 South Holmes avenue, escaped after being forced by one of the escaped men to drive to Bloomington, Spencer, and Nashville. He was held up while driving near Ben Davis. Frank M. Ratcliffe, Terre Haute, was thrown from his automobile shortly after he had been abducted there near the city market.
The hunt today is centered in Brown county and vicinity with the search being led by sixty state police. Os the ten men, mostly lifers, who made a break from the prison Tuesday, only one has been captured. He is James Clark, serving a life term for murder. Clark was captured in Hammond shortly after he had liberated Sheriff Charles Neal of Harrison county, kidnaped as the ten convicts fled from the prison. Four of the fugitives were in the automobile stolen at Terre Haute, which was halted suddenly in Ben Davis to throw pursuing state police off the trail. Terre Haute Man Seized First reports on the escaped men were received at 7 Friday night by Indianapolis police, w'hen Brownstown (Ind.) ocers stated six men had abandoned an automobile there and had headed east on U. S. Road 31 in another car, a large, gray sedan. . Shortly after 9 Ratcliffe was kidnaped by three men, robbed of his blue seven-passenger Franklin automobile and a watch. The car was taken after he was forced to drive east out of Terre Haute. He was thrown from the car which he said was followed by another large machine in which three or four men rode. Ratcliffe identified one of his captors as Russell Clark, serving a twenty-year term for robbery. Heading w r est, the convicts sped through Brazil at 9:45, both cars having been sighted by police. The next report was at six minutes past midnight when Plainfield officers sighted one car. State Police Join Race Shortly after the convicts’ car left Plainfield, its trail was taken up by a state police squad commanded by Sergeant Bert Davis using an armored automobile, and a chase east on U. S. Road 40. which at times reached an eighty-mile-an-hour speed, was on. Efforts of police to force the other car into the road side ditch failed. In Ben Davis, the driver of the pursued car stopped suddenly at the intersection of Road 40 and the High School road w r as reached. The police car speeded past. The bandits shattered rear window glass in their car. and trained pistols in a group of bystanders at the intersection, but did not fire. As an effort was made to turn into the High School road, the convicts’ automobile struck a pole and one man was thrown nut. Although apparently injured, he succeeded in escaping on foot. The others fled ■west m the badly damaged automobile. Appears in Bloomington Uyle’s captor is believed to have been the convict thrown from the p- 'omobile in Ben Davis. Lyle appeared at police headq rters in Bloomington shortly before 4 this Trrornmg,- and said that while driving near Ben Davis, he was stopped by an armed man w’ho climbed into his automobile. With a revolver pressed against him. Lyle drove to Spencer on State Road 67. then on Road 46 to Bloomington" and from there to" Nashville. The gasoline supply ran low in Nashville, and Lyle dashed away in his car. while the convict was trying to obtain more fuel at a evidence. Abductor '* Lyle is believed to
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have been Joseph Jenkins, sentenced to a life term for murder. Tentative identification was made by Lyle from a photograph. Fight Is Prevented Over-eagerness of state police is believed to have prevented a fight to the finish in Mickleyville, nearer to Indianapolis than Ben Davis. Had the state officers remained slightly behind, it is believed that the convicts w ? ould have run into an ambush of Indianapoplis police in Mickleyville. Aiding in the hunt as the chase neared Ben Davis v;ere Deputy Sheriffs Patrick Kinney and Howard Skaggs. They were at Speedway City when informed by radio of the chase and drove to Ben Davis in six minutes. Edward Shouse, one of the convicts, is believed to have been on a Big Four feright train at Clarks Hill. The conductor, Charles Byfield, Lafayette, identified a photograph as that of Shouse, who was sentenced to the prison for twentyfive years for robbery. Report this morning indicated the convicts are doubling back on their trail, pohce at Greencastle reporting that Ratcliffe’s automobile had been abandoned there. The convicts entered another car, they reported. 18 JEWISH EDUCATORS OUSTED IN GERMANY Veterans’ League Edits Brings Dismissal of Professors. By United Press BERLIN, Sept. 30.—Twenty-two professors were dismissed today from various universities, eighteen because they were Jews and four on political grounds. The action followed an edict by General Horn, president of the Kuffhauser War Veterans’ League, ordering the exclusion of all Jews who fought under the German flag in the World war. AID PLEA SOUNDED Tampico Faces Starvation Peril, Asserts Aviator. By United Press MEXICO CITY, Sept. 29.—Thousands of inhabitants of the Tampico region are in danger of starvation in the flooded area devastated by the recent hurricane, Thomas Resendez of the Mexican air service reported today after returning from a flight during which he dropped food and medicine to the stranded people. GECKLER IN HOSPITAL Juvenile Judge Ordered by Doctor to Take Short Rest. Judge John F. Geckler of Marion county juvenile court, spent a restful night in the St. Francis hospital, Beech Grove, where he was ordered for rest Friday. Physicians report that he probably will be able to return to the bench in a few days. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 am: South-southeast wind, 13 miles an hour; temperature, 68; barometric pressure, 29.93 at sea level; general conditions, high broken, lower scattered clouds, light haze; ceiling, unlimited.’ visibility, 6 miles.