The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 30, 1933, Page 2

Page Two DAILY WORKER, NEW YORR, THURSDAY Workers fro of Unions m Scores Celebrate Recognition on Friday Many Prominent Speakers, Elaborate Program at Big Manhattan Lyceum Event NEW YORK.—Needle trades work- ers, building trades workers, furniture Workers, metal workers, tobacco wo 6rs, marine workers and all oth trade unions of the Trade Unity League as well a: workers of the A. F. of I im mass to celebrate the victory of the Soviet Union in forcing recogni- tion from the government of the United States, at Manhattan L 46 E. Fourth St., this Friday at 8 o'clock Ben Gold, secretary of Trades Workers Industrial U speak on the role played by the needle trades workers in the struggle for recognition, Juliet Stuart Poyntz Reuben Young, Clarence Hathaway and K. Radzie will speak on the sig- Mificance of the recognition of the TORGLER CLAIMS RIGHT TO STATE PARTY POSITION (Continued from Page 1) Dimitroff's emph: statement, said that the Communist documents had purposely camouflaged the date of | the insurrection. Torgler Discredits Nazi Detective Brosig made the asser- | tion that many secret conferences | had been held, whereupon Ernst | Torgler intervened to say that Brosig | had referred yesterday to the per-/| fectly legal railwaymen’s trade union eldorf as a secret is discredited Brosig con- | mentioning the “great plan to poison 18,000 talement was not allowed to} ge unchallenged. Dimitroff imme- diately demanded thet Brosig state the details of this plan. Dimiiroff Protests Lies oft protesied against witnesses being allowed to make such a roved fact: set is an investiga- itroff's questions, not allowed. rendered its decision on equesi, of yesterday's st it would not ¢: yon Papen the questi and Bruening of the entagon: that existed the stress th prosecution version of rday’s ses- ferred to the matter to- ant 2 nisms at ye confiicts be- unists the the ag- Torgier Scores Spy repiied that the had fre provocations r Whether he knew of these cases But Hi r retreated, saying that the cases probably deait with other officials. “Probably you and other officials judged matters differently then!” Torgler replied. He followed up this statement by demanding that the court give bim the opportunity to state his political viewpoint. The presiding judge evaded this momen tarily by promisins the op- portunity to do so torrorrow. The discussion following this re- volved about the question as to whether Torg had given u Voluntarily to the police or not. Hell Tiaintained that Tc er would have been arrested anyy ‘ince his name | ‘was on the Nazi police list of leading Communists. Torgler replied that he had phoned the police he. and then had gone to Dete sig’s police station, where ti utes state “Torgler appeared volun- tarily. Dimitroff at this point demanded that Duesterber vice-chairman of the Steel Helmets, be called to give testimony on the great tension be- tween the Stee] Helmets and the Storm Troops, to establish this state of affairs as dence that the motive for the Reichstag fire was a maneuvre list “damp. The public prosecutor, how- eyer, refused to call on Duesierberg. “But Dimitroff insisted on this Re yint, stating that this was a political “trial and that therefore the political SOL’S SANDWICH | LUNCH | 101 University Place | (Just Around the Sorner) Telophone Tompkins Sq | ie | re 6-9 BERMAE’S ] Cafeteria and Bar | 809 BROADWAY n to the entire working Dr, Reuben Young, recently returned Negro from the S the significance of recognition to the Negro workers in this country. K. Radzie will speak in Russian. A yaried program which will in- clude the Degeyter Orchestra of 25 profe nal musicians, with D. Grunes conducting, the Ukrainian Chorus of 60 singers in Soviet Songs Ritchie Apologizes For “Using” Troops Against Lynchers (Continued from Page 1) once, and the witnesses were on hand to testify. Each of the men would have had an immediate hearing. But the temper of the crowd was such that General Rockford con- sidered this action unwise, and, for that reason, the men were brought to Baltimore and not given a hear- ing in their own county.” Judge Duer of the Eastern Shore | today signed warrants demanding the | return of the arrested Irnchers to the Eastern Shore. The warrants were served on Warden Harry C. Martin of the Baltimore jail by Sheriff Luther Daugherty, named with Judge Duer in Capt. Frank Spencer's affidavit as among the inciters of the mob which lynched Armwood, Legislators Threaten to "ndict Ritchie The Wicomico County delegation of the General Assembly threatened to initiate a legislative in- iet Union, will spnak on | | Gottfried, a fur worker, they were | yesterday | |Staten Island Relief Refuses to Move Coal| ‘to Homes of Jobless) Demanding more coal and its trans- portation for jobless and part time workers, a United Front demonstra- tion of 100 was held outsidethe Home | Relief Bureau of Stapleton, Staten Island, in the bitter cold, yesterday morning. The supervisor, Miss C, B. Auphier, refused assistance. In stating the demands of the dem- onstrators, David Cassidy of the Un- employed Council told her that many of the workers lived 7 and 8 miles from the police station where coal is rationed out and have no means of getting it home. | A mass meeting will be held at 2047 | Richmond Terrace, at 8 p.m. tonight, {in preparation for the December 10th | Conyention on Unemployment to be held in New York. 5 Sluggers Get 5-20 Year Sentence for Raid on N.T.W.LU. NEW YORK.—Sam Cohen and Bar- ney Shaw, two of the seven gangsters | who murdered two and wounded and | clubbed 30 others in a raid on the | Needle Union headquarters last Spring were sentenced to ten to twen- ty years imprisonment by Judge Cor- |nelius F. Collins in General Sessions | Court, Tuesday. | Three others, Louis Katz, Antony | Benedetto and Harry Katz received a | | sentence of five to ten years, Ben- jamin Levine and Max Goldstein, who | | had previous court records, have been | held for sentence on Dec. 7, pending | | investigation of their previous crime. | In sentencing the gangsters Judge | Collins shed tears over the fact that | the law did not permit “fitting pun- | ishment in such cases” and character- | ized the gangsters as the type “hired | to commit murder.” He failed to mention that although | the gangsters had actually committed murder, having fatally wounded Harry | neverthelss charged only with “felon- jous assault.” Nor were the gangsters’ | quiry into the use of troops against the lynchers, and considered a pro- posal for the impeachment of Ritchie | who, by the micarriage of his plan, | has suddenly lost favor with the “best | citizens” of the Eastern Shore. Many | of these citizens telegravhed protests to Ritchie and Roosevelt and a de-/| mand for the release of the lynchers. situation must be cleared up. “Or/ perhaps certain people are afraid of enlightenment,” he added. The public prosecutor protested | against this remark sharply, claim- ing that “nobody was afraid.” The | presiding judge followed with an eqi arp reprimand. iry magistrate read for! ‘Ss a tedious exposition of Communist Party “intentions,” con- | cluding with numerous alleged state- | nents from prisoners in the concen- | tion camps. The assertion was | made by the Nazi, Loesche, that all} these statements were unanimous to| the effect that the decisive moment | nad ben planned for the end of Feb- | r that means, armed insurrec- tion Dimitroff asked whether Loesche } sed proofs that armed insur- rection immediately threatened at e end of February, Loesche eva- y answered that the totality of expositions proved this. He re- rred to statements of the ex-Com- munist deputy. Jahnke, who stated t 1 nu e time of the insurrection. Dimi- asked where Jahnke was, to ich Loesche replied that Jahnke had “committed suicide. “That's a great pity,” said Dimi- troff. Jahnke, who, the Nazis claim, went over to them, was shot in prison because otherwise he would have re- tuted the Nazi lies. Dimitroff remarked that every- thing that Loesche adduced on the Preparations for revolution were al- to be found years ago in the works of Marx and Lenin, in the Communist Manifesto, first pub- lished in 1847, and in the resolutions of the Executive Committee of the Communist International of 1926. “The program and aims of our move- ment have often been openly pro- claimed. If you want use the Communist Party v icy, you must put s mans on trial! It to adduce somet! the fire itself.” Dix point at the very end of the session. In a detailed debate on the revolu- tionary situat: the people's revolu- tion and its participants, in which more important g positive about Loesche, Dimitroff, Torgler and Wer- | ner participated, Loesche, in reply- ing to Dimitroff, said: “Not one witness told me that the fire was intended as a signal for an insurrection.” “That's what 1 wanted to know,” | replied Dimitroff, quictly and sig- nificantly, WILLIAM BELL ormicta Optometrist > fia 166 EAST MTH STREET Phone: ini Nightingale 4-834 DR. J. JOSEPHSON Surgeon Dentist Formerly with the 1. W. 0. 207 East 14th Street New York City (near Third Avenue) Between 1th and 12th Streets (Classified) Parkway Cafeteria | =~°° > tome 1698 PITKIN AVENUE Naar Hopkinson Ave. Brooklyn, N. ¥. | Williamsburgh Comrades Welcome De Luxe Cafeteria 4 Graham Ave., Cor. Siegel St. | EVERY MITE A DELIGHT DR. JULIUS LITTINS! 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. PHU id Sutter Aves., Brookiyn PRONE: DICKENS 2-2012 Office Howrs: 3-18 AM, 1-8, 6-8 P.M. instigators, the officials of the Inter- | national Fur Workers’ Union and the fur bosses brought up on charges, Federal Gov't Will Not Act Against Rising Lynch Wave (Continued from Page 1) newspaper man to come around here’.” Federal Government Refuses to Act Just after Gilmore told his story to me, however, the Department of Jus- tice disclosed that it is not even con- sidering federal action in Maryland, or in any other lynch-territory, an of- ficial of the department privately “guessed” that the department has dismissed pleas for investigation on behalf of manyy mass organizations. | After delegations had brought de- | mands for federal intervention on the | heels of the lynching of Armwood, | officials here promised “to act if we have authority.” Today, however, they indicated that they can see no| connection between mob violence in | Alabama, Maryland, California and | Missouri. In short, they consider} |each case separately, a State matter. | | Lynchers Tried to Suppress News | Gilmore and the other reporters | and photographers became the ob-| | Ject of the shrieking mob’s rage after | national guardsmen and Maryland State troopers had been frightened out of town, rious because the troopers had managed to take away to Baltimore four of seven suspected lynch leaders, the Salisbury citizens decided to revenge themselyes by beating up newspaper representatives | and thus preventing news from reach- | ing outside the town limits, “we want | those newspaper men,” the mob} shouted, pressing on towards the | Wicomico Hotel where the press were. | | “I know now what it means to be | | hunted by a mob yelling for your| | blood,” Gilmour declared emphat- | ically. | “Do you think s Negro reporter} “Acting Captain John T. GUTTERS OF NEW Y' ORK Howard was restored to the group who receive $500 a year in addition to their regular $4000 a year salary as lieutenants. “His duties according to observers in the department are vague, and they said he was seldom to be seen around head- quarters.”—News item, N. Y. Times. Helping the Daily Worker through Del: I noticed your desperate call for help for your anemic patient in to- day’s “Daily.” In the absence of Comrade Luttinger, who is himself searching for some therapeutic measure for his own patient, who is not very plethoric, I venture to submit the following prescription, which cannot fail in a case of plain, i. e. not pernicious: Rx One dollar a week for the “Daily.” JUDGE EXCLUDES VITAL DEFENSE | DTD. for as many weeks until | quota is filled. | Mx | All radical elements into a united fighting front. If within a few weeks patient does not become plethoric, double the dose, Comradely yours, DR. S. WALLMAN, * Furnitare Unit, Jamestown. .$ 8.25 Units 8 & 28, Sec. 11, Part; Previous total .....sse0e0e Total to date.......... EVIDENCE IN SCOTTSBORO TRIAL (Continued from Page 1) boys and subsequent confession that | whole thing was a frame-up) is the defense’s most vital evidence. Samuel Leibowitz, International Labor Defense Counsel defending the first of seven Scottsboro boys being rushed to trials by “Speed” Callahan, explained that Ruby was in a hos- pital after a major operation. As soon as physicians permitted, inter- rogatories were taken and are now on the way via air mail. All the de- tense wanted was a continuance un- til morning. Defense counsel offered as evidence telegrams from his office and physicians, but Callahan is determined to rush the case through. Immediately after Callahan re- fused to continue the trial to give Ruby’s interrogatories time to get here, the state put on Major Joseph Sterns, commander of the troops on guard during the the first trial in| Scottsboro. Since Sterns was to tell of hearing the boys “confess,” Leibowitz de- manded that the jury be excluded while the court determined if the evidence was to be permitted. In a silent, tense courtroom Sterns swore hearing Roy Wright point out| Charlie Weems as the boy who “had something to do with the girls.” Roy’s alleged confession was said to have been made to William Harris, reporter of the Chattanooga Times, owned by Ochs of the N. Y. T’mes. The defense contends that the boys were threatened with a mob outside it they did not conf S. Startling newspapermen and arous- | 40la during the ride to Stevenson,” | ing murmurs of dissatisfaction among the spectators, Callahan for once ruled an important decision for the defense. He said: “Those boys were scared. Soldiers roff made his most crushing | |would have had any chance to) were all around. I will not permit | escape?” I asked. | their confessions in evidence.” Negro Residents of Town Terrorized | Persistent. refusal to let the de- “Not half the chance we had.|fense show that Victoria Price had ‘There wasn’t one Negro in the whole |reiations with men the night before town outside the hotel.” |the alleged attack by the Srotisboro “What did the mob want to do to|poys, marked Circuit Judge Calla- you and the other reporters and |nan’s rulings today. | photographers?” | Despite the plea of the Interna- “Beat us up, tar and feather us |tional Labor Defense counsel defend- | and ride us out of town on a rail.”|ing the first of the Scottsboro boys “Just how did this mob look to|on trial again, that it is essential you?” | to ectablich that from a medice! view “They looked like irate country-| point, Callahan refused to allow it. men, poolroom bums and young! The day was marked by amazi hoodlums.” decisions from the bench. Time after “Eddy, how do you acocunt for the time Callahan permitted Knight to fact that hundreds of soldiers |ask questions of witnesses along the | equipped with trench helmets, fixed |line he refused to permit Leibowitz | bayonets and tear gas, couldn't keep jto follow. A whole series of deci- @ mob at bay.” “Because of the fact that they | didn't shoot and also because the | guardsmen were young kids who} | turned white as sheep before the/ | mob.” | “Would the soldiers have acted dif- | ferently toward a peacefully Com-} munist demonstration; suppose some | | Stool-pigeon hidden in the Commu- | nist demonstration had thrown a} | brick, as did the Maryland mob, at | the soldiers, what would have hap- | pened?” | “The soildiers, in that case, proba- | bly would have let go.” | It was then that Gilmore repeated ; his information from one of the | Armwood lynch leaders. He added: | “The foulest epithet the mob | hurled at the soldiers was God damn | Baltimore Jews. When the soldiers | were leaving town the mob told them | | to bring something stronger than tear | gas next time.” “Don't you think that the laxity | in dealing with the Armwood lynch~ | ing encouraged the Salisbury mob?” | “Yes, that and Governor Rolph’s | barbaric lynching message. Now, pets yesterday's mob victory, if the slightest suspicion is cast on a Negro | it’s going to be just too bad for him,” | “What would you recommend?” | | “The only thing is for President | Roosevelt, to intervene with federal troops—if the authorities really want to prosecute lynchers.’ sanathiionresiciesscincniiipiaiiiaaahdnoinesanisinte sions by Judge Horton, who presided t the spring trial which allowed such testifhony, was overruled by the present presiding judge. In many decisions Callahan sought refuge in| legal technicalities. In one instance Callahan’s antag- | onism against the defense was so pronounced that he accused Leibo~ witz of trying to implant “vicious” ideas about Victoria Price’s chastity in the minds of the jurors. When Leibowitz demanded a mistrial, Cal- Jahan apologized and ordered the word “vicious” struck from the record. Carter Testifies for Defense Lester Carter, Scottsboro defense witness, was the first witness called when the court resumed this morning. He testified he knew Victoria Price sixty days before the famous train ride. Jack Tiller in the Huntsville jail. Each time Leibowitz tried to show the sexual relations Victoria had with Lester, Callahan ordered the defense net to ask such questions and cau- tioned the jury to pay no attention to such questions, When Leibowitz, rephrasing his question asked the same thing, Cal- Jahan said furiously to the jury: “Pay no attention to such questions. They can have only vicious desire to get something across to you that I have already ruled on.” Leibowitz paled with anger and in He said he met Victoria and | @ quiet voice demanded a mistrial be called because of the judge’s prejudic- ing the jury against the defense, “Overrule motion for mistrial,” snapped Callahan, “but if the word ‘vicious’ is offensive to you (Leibo- witz) I will withdraw it. Jury, you will pay no attention to my use of that word.” All through the direct examination, | Callahan kept interrupting Leibowitz. | When the defense counsel tried to es- tablish fear of the Mann Act con- sequences in crossing the State line from Tennessee to Alabama as mo- tives for attack accusation by Vic- toria, Callahan stopped him, saying “of course they crossed the State line. They had to get her. | that.” When Callahan did not in- | terrupt, Attorney General Knight did. | It’ was almost impossible to ask Carter any questions. | | ‘The audience, which filled the court | room, chuckled every time Leibowitz | was blocked in his questioning by Callahan, | Although Callahan permitted Vic- | toria and Gilley to tell about Chat- tanooga “jungles,” he would not per- j mit Carter to tell of being with the | cirls in the “jungle” the night before the train ride. Carter finally managed to say he, Gilley, Ruby and Victoria boarded the freight together. He told of the fight between colored and white boys, sup- | Porting Patterson's story. At Steven- | son all got off, then got on again on }a gondola. “No other person got into that gon- | he testified. “After leaving Steven- | Son, some white boys on the freight | came towards us, A fight started with @ group of Negro boys. Carter Jailed, But Was Not Called At First Trial | “I jumped off the train. I don’t | know what happened to Orville | Gilley.” | “In Stevenson I met several other white boys who were on train. There | were five of us. We were taken to | Scottsboro, Gleason, one of the boys, | was there. Victoria was there, sitting lin an automobile. She motioned to |me and another boy.” Leibowitz brought out that Carter was locked up in the Scottsboro jail | 18 days, kept in the witness room dur- ing the original Scottsboro trial as a material witness, but was never called | because of his tory supporting the | testimony of the Scottsboro boys. | When Leibowitz pointed to Solicitor Bailey, of Jackson County sitting at the prosecution table who prosecuted at Scottsboro and asked if he kept Carter in the witness room Callahan | refuses to let Carter answer. “I came to tell the truth,” Carter | began. Callahan sarcastically interrupted “you're presumed to be here for that | Purpose.” ‘The audience and ihe jury chuckled their approval of Callahan’s badgering tactics. Leibowitz pro- tested the judge's sarcasm and Cal- lahan apologized, Under cross examination, Knight sought to show Carter's connection with radicals. “Where did you Knight asked, “New York City,” Carter answered, | Naming his last place of residence, | Whispering murmurs and laughter ran through the court room, Having achieved his effect, Knight | started hammering at Carter's story. |The audience showed its antagonism |against the witness by significant murmurs and comments in under- tones. One juror smirked. Throughout the examination, Lei- bowitz, objections were regularly over- ruled, contrasting with Callahan's al- | most invariable sustaining of Knight's | objections, | Knight kept pressing Carter for an | explanation as to why he left the gonde the girls were in to another gondola, whereupon Carter gave Knight sound advice on what freight come from?” Nothing to) NOVEMBER 30, 1933 Rank, File Candidate Slugged by Clique of A. F. of L. Local 302) | NEW YORK.—On the eve of elec- tions in his local union, where he is running as a rank and file candidate, Jim Parianous, member of A, F. of L. Cooks’ and Countermen’s Local 302, was brutally attacked by gangsters while on his way to work at 5 a. m., Tuesday morning. At the Unity Hos- pital, Brooklyn, where Parianous was taken, it was reported that his skull was crushed and doubts were ex- pressed as to whether he would live. Parianous is one of a whole slate | of candidates running on a rank and file ticket to clean out the racketeer- ing clique of officials who now domin- ate the local. Elections are to take | Place on Monday, December 4th. All| | evidence points to the attack having been instigated by Rubin Green and Harry Kayne, both of whom are the machine candidates for business agent. Green and Kayne were arrested fol- jowing the attack on Parlanous but were later released for “lack of evidence.” Green has wide under- worl connections and has been in- | dicted for accepting graft from the bosses. | ‘The rank and file members are de- termined to push the case against the officials, who have used trong arm methods every year in gaining the elections. United Front Group Boosts Newhouse to Top in Competition NEW YORK.—Edward New- house, sports writer for the Daily | Worker, captured the lead yester- day in the Socialist competition between himself, Michael Gold, Dr. Luttinger, Jacob Burck, Del and Helen Luke, to be the first to raise $1,000 in the Daily Worker $40,000 Drive. The standing is as follows: Edward Newhouce, $587.93 Michael Gold, $481.76; Dr. Lut- tinger, $357.93; Jacob Burck, 5339.24; Helen Luke, $107.22; Del, 365.40. A contribution of $238.64 by the United Front Supporters to the credit of Newhouse put him in the lead yesterday. Will the friends of Michael Gold, Dr. Luttinger, Burck, Del and Helen Luke let their champions trail behind? | | City Events | | Scottsboro Mass Meeting A Scottsboro meeting will be held at 489 E. 169th St., 8 P. M., under the auspices of the I. L. D. Prominent speakers will address the meeting. W. E. S. L. Dance A gala Thanksgiving Dinner and Dance will be held at Webster Hall, llth St. and 3rd Ave., Noy. 30, un- der the auspices of the Workers Ex- Servicemen’s League. ‘The festivities will begin at 2 p.m. and continue, cars to jump from and what to avoid, ‘Sf you want save your neck when you're hoboing, Mr, Knight.” For first time the audience laughed with Carter, and Callahan~growled: “Quiet in the court room. I can’t permit this laughter.” Throughout the examination Wade Wright, who questioned Cartier at Patterson’s trial last Spring with the notorious comments “Cartarinsky,” “pack on back,” etc., and who is quiet | jat this trial, stood against the wall, | playing with a rubber band and grinning with a note of incredulity. When the State had finished cross- examining Carter, Knight demanded he be served with a subpoena, if nec- essary a “body attachment,” to make sure that he is here for the next trial. Carter protested that he was a sick men, Callahan observed sarcasti- cally. | “Well, if you're dead I'll excuse | you.” | Spectators roared wih approval. | The defense presented a surprise | witness, H. J. Sulivan, Decatur pro- | fessional photographer who took pic- | tures of railroad track scenes at the defense request. Sullivan testified that looking through Luther Morris’ | barn window near Stevenson, a freight | | happened to pass. He could see only | sides of gondolas and photographed | them. | Morris, a near-sighted, partly deaf | | farmer, swore yesterday saw Negroes | pulling the two girls back and heard | their screams. } Pictures taken through the window | offered in evidence show clearly the impossibility of looking into the gon- dola. When Leibowitz tried to show the tops of the gondolas were even higher than the roof of the barn, Callahan would not permit the question on the | excuse that it was not shown that the gondola photographed was the same gondola the farmer saw. Corroborative evidence destroying Morris's story followed Sullivan’s testimony. This was given by Eli |Schwartzbard of New York, Brod- sky’s associate counsel here, He said that, taking the position which Mor- ris took at the barn window, he found the top of the gondola cars higher than his eye level. Dallas Ramsey, Chattanooga Ne- gro, identified Victoria Price as one of two girls he saw in a Chatta- nooga jungle. Following line of refusing defense questions showing girls’ relationship with Carter and Tiller in the jungle, Callahan barred the answers to questions asked of E. L. Lewis, Chat- tanooga Negro, at the spring trial. Lewis, whose house was burned in retaliation for his testimony, died since the last trial. The defense tried to read his tes- timony, but in almost every instance Knight objected to the questions and Callahan sustained him. Lewis’ im- portant testimony was thereby de- stroyed by the court. Loud laughter and approval of Judge's ba and sarcastic com- ments directed at Leibowitz came re- Peatedly from the crowded court~ room with no effort by the court to stop it. Only when crowd laughed once with Lester Carter, defense chief witness to corroborate Ruby The Truth About Ruth HARRISON DEMPSEY has J interview. Hung Up the Gloves for good and sometimes he said he’s ready to take on Jack Sharkey, that dubiously fathered lineal descendant of daschund. The ex-Manassa Mauler bid fair to end his colorful career as hobo, actor, fighter, pro- moter, by becoming an Enigma, In- gloriously enough, it was a few round- house rights picked off the floor by Kingfish Levinsky which supplied the solution and caused the Demp- sey interview clause to be struck out of the Constitution of the Confra- ternity of Sports Writers. tT fading of the Dempsey clause, second in importance only to the Ruth Retirement Amendment, left a gap, a yawning chasm, one might say. The Enigma of Will Maxie Baer Stay in Holly- wood? is not nearly as engros- sing. Dempsey was at least a fighter. And we still have Ruth. An issue of this week’s New Zork Daily News carried a head of con- siderable magnitude, stating def- initely that “Babe Ruth Will Not Manage Newark.” It was an ex- clusive interview by the linguistic Marshall Hunt, justly celebrated for his creation of the phrase “cir- cumambulatory expedition,” to be used in Heu of home run when- ever the euphony of your prose so demands. Babe Ruth will positively not manage the Newark club. Now of course nobody ever sug- gested that he would. Before Ruth could go to the minors he would have to be waived out of his own league, and.there isn’t a club which wouldn’t make a beeline for him. But Ruth was in town and there had to be an interview. The re- porter says: “Here now, George Herman, is there anything to the rumor that soandso and soandso,” and to corral the great man’s in- dignation into a series of skillfully retouched quotes is a comparatively simple and, on occasion, lucrative occupation. The presses are roll- ing, six sports pages have to be filled and apparently the scene doesn’t shift fast enough for new news, Bess ce FTER all, there isn’t much differ- ence between one mile race and another. The second place man runs faster than the third and the win- ner runs faster than the two and sometimes he clips three-fifths of a second off a record. Your writers have to find something: new, some- | thing “colorful,” for their story of} the race, or they can apply for a} transfer to the copy boy department. They are so abjectly, so embarrass- ingly grateful when a Dempsey or a Ruth turns up they spin the glamor with the facile enthusiasm of & personel press agent. And still the scene doesn’t shift! fast enough. No section of a news- paper repeats itself like the sports page. Superior though the average | sports writer be to the rest of the/ staff in the sheer imagery of his} creative art, he is confined to themes as limited as those of an eighteenth century comedy of manners or Don-| ald Henderson Clarke. Not that he} chafes under the confines. For him! there are only a certain number of | things that can be said of Reggie Mc- Namara and every time a six-day} bike race rolls around he says them. | . 6 8 E all know that Reginald Mc- Namara is called the Iron Man of cycling and that he is 46 years old and a curiosity and we know been reduced to shining in the reflected splendor of M. Adelbert Baer, and his demise has deprived sports’ writers of a cherished tradition—the Dempsey For a period of years following the notorious Count Ten of Chicago no week passed without its Dempsey interview by A. P., U. P. or the local boy aimin’ to crash the big time. Some- ‘times Dempsey said he had® still pushing pedals all over Aus- tralia at the age of 85. And by cracky, we know that Helen Wills Moody sketches in charcoal and, Lou Gehrig is good to his mother and Sammy Byrd is a great golfer - and King Levinsky is managed by his sister, Leapmg Lena Levinsky, and their collective name is really Harris and isn’t it strange that they should change it to Levinsky and we know that Herb Pennock has splendid control and Lefty Grove used to be a mountaineer and Lonnie Warneke too, and we know that Bob Fitzsimmons was a great exponent of the solar plexus punch and why Bill Dickey really socked Reynolds last season and Richard Shikat is a violinist of parts, part poor, part lousy. eta SS E know these things as well as we know the list of the men to whom June Knight has been engaged this past week and that Jean Har- low’s really, really true name is Har- Jean Carpenter. Yet despite its in- controvertibility this data comes to gall you in time. Freud in his “Ueber einige Uebereinstimmungen im Seel- enleben der Wilden und der Neuro~ tiker” cites the case of the ordinarily placid and retiring individual who foams at the eyeballs and chews up all available ashtrays whenever a periodical refers to Clara Bow as the “Tt” girl or mentions George Herman Ruth’s abnormally thin ankles. Cold water baths and injections of strych~ nine have partially remedied his con- dition, In the coming months we will hear faint advance rumblings of the Ruth Retirement Problem and around spring training factions will form to debate whether the man is through. Ruth will publicly bicker with Ruppert about the well-known salary and sign amid great flash- ing of balbs. There is a tempta- tion to dismiss this with = wave §_ of the forearm but you can’t get away from the fact that people fall for the stuff. Still, it isn’t import- ant enough to get steamed up about and that is why one falls into the mellowness of Branch Cabell, who, it is authoritatively reported, has finally reconciled himself to the disconcerting malodors of attained bliss, Helping the Daily Worker Through Ed Newhouse Coniributions received to the credit of Edward Newhouse in the Socialist competition with Michael Gold, Dr, Luttinger, Helen Luke and Jacob | Burck to raise $1,000 in the $40,000 Daily Worker Drive: 2 Dan Brown .. 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