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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,

N YEW YORK, February ga de-
N fender has risen to espouse
VI Paavo Nurmi's cause against
/ Y the massed attack he brought
down upon his head when he
failed to appear for the championships
last Saturday night.
Hugo Quist, the Finnish runners one
and only counselor, declares that Nurmi
has been i'll since the early part of this
month and that it was only because he
was in poor condition that he withdrew
from the two-mile steeplechase at the
national championships. A. A. U. off,
Gals did not learn of the withdrawal
until an hour before the race and
promptly met and indefinitely suspended
the famous Finn.
Quist Scoffed at reports that Nurmi
had withdrawn because he feared to try
conclusions with his younger Finnish
rival, Elmo Purje, who won the steeple-
chase and broke the world record in do
ing it.
Purje knew that Nurmi was not going
to run in the steeplechase on Friday
afternoon, Quist said, and it was be-
cause of that knowledge, he maintains.
that Purje himself decided to run in the
obstacle race rather than in the two
mile fiat event against Edwin Wide of
Sweden. Purje, according to Quist, was
in Nurmi's room when the older runner
penned note to A. A. U. officials, say
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26


Referee-Mr. Day Indiana)
Battery candidates for Georgetown's
base ball team had their first outdoor
drill yesterday. Ten pitchers and two
catchers were in the squad that went
through two-hour session of light
work under supervision of Coach Bucky
O'Neil.
Hurlers on the job were Parky White,
Jack Byrnes, Tom Higgins, Jack Ed
inonston, John Carpenter, Spud Davis,
Mickey Mcguire. Aaron Sugar, Ed
Leary and Bill Dudack. Tom Phelan
and Paul Donovan were receivers who
turned out.
Two home basket ball games and a
boxing match in an alien ring are listed
for collegiate athletes of the District
group tomorrow.
Georgetown will entertain ST. Johns
in the American University gym and
Blue Ridge College will engage Catholic
University at Brookland in the floor en-
counters.
Catholic us boxing team will go to
Lewisburg, Pa, to meet the Bucknell
glovemen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26
COLLEGE BASKET BALL.

American University, 80; st. Johns
81.
/ Wisconsin, Fl; Purdue. "a.
Michigan. 20; Minnesota, 10.
Ohio State, az; Iowa, 20.
Northwestern, %; Indiana, 26 lover
time).
Dartmouth, "a; Princeton, 22.
Oklahoma, 80; Nebraska, 33.
Kansas Aggies, 81; Oklahoma Ag-
gies, "a.
Roanoke College, 80: Lynchburg Col
lege, 30.
Randolph Macon, 50: Hampden- Sid
ney, 80.
Mount st. Mary's, 81; Baltimore Uni
versity, 20.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26
WOMEN'S SWIMMING
RECORDS IN DANGER

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 26.-Swimming
records for women hang in the bal
ance this week as Olympic champions
and near champions battle fQr ma
tional A. A. U. championships at the
Lake Shore Athletic Club. The four
day national meet opens tomorrow.
The New York Women's Swimming
Association, heretofore the controlling
team in womens tank events, will find
its supremacy challenged by the Illinois
Women's Athletic Club of Chicago
Both teams will enter the meet minus
one of their stars.
Helen Meany has been declared in
eligible to compete for the New York
Club, while Ethel Lackie of the Illinois
organization has recently turned pro-
feSstonal.
The meet starts with the 330-yard
medley and the 100-yard free style on
the opening night. From two to three
events will be held each night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26

OF the actions OF the foot bail
rules committe has not been
/ published. Yet 1t is rather i'm
portant. 1t relates to the legal
measurement. hence to the shape, Of
the foot ball. 1t Is said that no an
nouncement concerning the rule was
made because of fear that the technt-
calitieS involved would puzzle the pub
lic-including. of course, commentators
on foot ball.
Reduced to terms of popular under
standing, the committee has so dealt
with the long and short axis of the
probate spheroid' that those long, thin
balls. so conducive to forward passing,
will not longer appear in the game.
1t seems that some balls, when suf.
ficient air pressure is pumped in, havs
tendency to elongate, most of them
so much so that shouts appear at
either end. These shouted balls ara
wonderful for forward pasSers. They
are easily gripped and they go through
the air like Zeppelins. which in shape
they resemble in rather a distant way.
Hereafter, thanks to the new speci-
fications of the rules committee, there
will be none of these thin balls. And
to make certain an appliance has been
devised which resembles the stick by
which the feet of shoe purchasers are
measured. If foot ball does not fit
inside this measuring stick the referee
will not permit it to be used In Z game.
The forward passing game of some
teams will, as consequence. be some
what affected, but, on the other hand.
such drop-kicking as remains in the
game will be helped, inasmuch as it was
almost impossible to make decent
drop-kick with the shouted balls.
An answer to a question OF
correspondent as to how the rules COM
mittee is formed may be of wide in
terest. The committee is chosen by the
National Collegiate Athletic Association.
which, in fact, chooses rules committees
in all amateur sports save base ball.
the rules of the professionl body being
accepted by the N. C. A.
D..k~..
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26
CHESS MASTERS TO MEET

HAVANA, February &c R).-Jose
Raoul Capablanca, formerly chess
champion of the world, has told the
Associated Press that Alexander A.
Alekhine of Russia, present champion,
had sent him an invitation for a re-
turn match, which he has accepted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26
DEAF HOLD TOURNEY.

FREDERICK, Md, February 20
American School for the Deaf basket
ball team Of Hartford, Conn, won the
second annual Eastern States schools
for the deaf basket ball tournament
here on total points scored. Mount Airy
School five of Philadelphia tied with
the Hartford quint in games won and
lost. Virginia and Maryland teams
were eliminated in the semi-fnals New
York and New Jersey schools also were
TepreSeQted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26
Cut.Back Employed
By Eastern Teams

The full turn in basket ball, or the
cut-back, If you SO prefer to call it,
is employed not only by certain
Eastern teams, such as Penn and
Princeton, for creating a pivot man
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26
BLISS TOSSERS END
SEASON ON FRIDAY

Bliss Electrical Schools basket ball
team will end its season Friday night
when it entertains Benjamin Franklin
University in the armory at Silver
Spring. Md.
Bliss starting lineup will be picked
from Holt, Luneski. Richman Weisiger,
Terry Wilcox, Jacoby, Bixler, Eggles-
ton and Reed.
Woodside and Frederick De Molay
quints will hook up in a preliminary.
Frederick downed Woodside by one
paign.
Dancing will follow the games.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26
GREENVILLE GETS FREED.

A contract to play base ball with
the Greenville club of the Eastern Caro-
lima League has been signed by Stuart
(Bus) Freed, Washington sandlotter,
who last season played with Bergmann's
Laundry and Herndon, Va, mines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26
OKLAHOMA GAINS TITLE.

COLUMBIA, Mo, February 20 P).~-
Oklahoma became basket ball champion
of the Big Six Conference when Mis-
braska, last night, SO to 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26
REYNOLDS MAT VICTOR.

OWENSBORO, KY, February &c LP).
Jack Reynolds, welterweight wrestling
champion, successfully defended his title
here last night by throwing John Carlin
in straight falls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26

There are nine clubs in Boston, Mass,
devoted to the sport Of pigeon racing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26
SHOUTED SPHERO|D
IS BANNED BY RULE
Official viii Have Stick to
Determine Fitness of
Pigskin for Use.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n YEW YORK. February 26-One
nj of the actions Of the foot ball
NJ rules committe has not been
i published. Yet 1t is rather i'm
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-26

Totals IA S 80 Totals
Referee-Mr. Day Undiana)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
BRITAIN STRIKES
At French ARMY
u. S. Entry Into World
Court Progresses

The capitalist press correspon-
dents at the League of Nations as
sembly in Geneva yesterday re-
ported that the British delegation,
through Lord Robert Cecil made an
attack on their French rivals mill
tary establishment in the form of
a motion he announced he had ready
to introduce, to give the League of
Nations control Of budgets for
standing armies and training re-
serves.
This is a stab in the back for
France, which at the last prepara-
tory disarmament conference yielded
to Britain on the naval question in
return for a statement from Eng
land and the United States with
drawing objection to unlimited
training of reserves.
Frances big army is the might
est weapon in western Europe, and
at the same time it was felt by
other nations it could be endured
because it might at any time be
needed for a united invasion of the
Soviet Union by a coalition of i'm
periahSt nations.
Now, however, the British labor
party, always serving British I'M
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
Drop Murder Charge
Against Strikebreaker

The Queens Grand Jury has re-
fused to indict Philip Nunziato,
scab, who shot and killed Stanislaus
Zasdzinski, union leader, during the
recent strike of gravediggers of
Calvary Cemetery. The only charge
against Nunziato now is violation
of the Sullivan law, on which he
has been released on $500 by Magis-
trate Daily in Ridgewood Court.
Assistant District Attorney Leo
Heffernlan had the homicide charge
dismissed against the murderer of
the strike leader and recommended
that he be held only for carrying a
concealed weapon. Nunziato was
caught red-handed shooting Zasd-
zinski and did rot deny that he
killed him.
Calvary Cemetery is owned by
st. Patrick's Cathedral, which used
police and armed scabs to break the
strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
Shoe Workers Resolve
to Fight Government
Attack on the Union

United action of the textile and
shoe workers against the govern
ment and state attacks against the
Independent Shoe Workers Union in
New York and the National Textile
Workers Union in North Carolina,
was voiced last night by Jim Reid,
president of the N. T. w. U. speak
ing at membership meeting of the
shoe workers union at Cooper Union,
Third Ave. and 9Th st.
The. assembled shoe workers
adopted a resolution to fight the
action of the U. S. Department of
Labor, which has sent letters to all
shoe manufacturers having agree
ments with the union, der: nding
they be broken; also the attempt to
have the union members fill out an
anti-labor, QUESTIONABLE. The work
ers resolved to continue their fight
and building powerful union.
Other speakers were Fred Bieden-
kapp, general manager of the union;
Ben Gold, secretary-treasurer,
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union and Joseph Magliacano,
Italian organizer. Steve Alexander
son, president of the union, presided.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
Martial Law Declared
in Paraguay Against
u MONS, Communists

United Press reports from Asun-
cion, Paraguay, state that the gov
ernment is undertaken a series of
red raids" against unions, Commu-
nists and anarchists.
Martial law has been declared
throughout the country to give the
color of legality to the campaign
of arrests expected.
President Jose P. Guggiara issued
the declaration. The period of ef-
fectiveness set is three months.
Imperialists Demand 1t.
Montevedio, Uruguay, near by,
was the scene of the great congress
for the formation of Latin-Amer-
lean Confederation of Labor several
months ago, which assembled dele
gates from every country but Chile,
and enthusiastically organized a
great militant trade union center.
Delegates from Paraguay partici-
pated and returned to start strong
and militant labor movement.
Paraguay is largely controlled by
British capital, and is in the throes
of a near war with Bolivia, United
States dominated. 1t is thought
here that the desire to placate for
eign Imperialism is back of the at
tacks on the labor movement.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
ANCL O-AMERICAN
NAVAL PACT Off
.STIMSON STATES
Will Call Conference of
Five Powers on
ArmamentS
New Pacifist Drive
Macdonald Visit Here
Empty Gesture

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.-The
pacifist offensive of the United
States government to conceal its
preparations for another world war,
entered a new stage today when
Secretary of State Stimson an
nounced that Anglo-American naval
armaments is ready for considera-
ton at a conference of all interested
powers.
Five Power Conference.
The expectation is that the United
States government will invite four
other powers, France, Italy, Japan
and Great Britain, to participate in
the conference.
At the same time it was announced
that no agreement would be con-
cluded between the two chief I'M
perialist rivals, Great Britain and
the United States. The long "con-
versations" between Charles e..
Dawes, American ambassador to
England, and Premier Ramsay
Macdonald, of the labor imperialist
government, cannot lead to any
Continued on Page Three)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
CHINA WARL 0RDS
BATTLES
TO SHIELD RAIDS
WhiteGuards Invading
.USSR Border Smashed
in 20 Minutes
Imperialists Drive On
Large Scale Conflict If
Main Army Attacks

American news service corre-
spondents in China wired yesterday
that Soviet government officials in
terviewed ridicule the stories spread
by the Kuomin news agency of
Marking, the Mukden officials, and
the Japanese correspondents, who
have been growing steadily more
hostile to the Soviet Union for
some time.
The lurid tales of a battle line
along the Manchurian Siberian
border are set down as fiction.
Imperialism Drives Militarists.
1t is well understood by the
workers of U. S. S. R. that foreign
imperialism is goading on the Chi
nese militarists to attack on the So
Wet Union. There have been con-
tinual raids into U. S. S. R. terri
tory, together with arrest of thou
sands of Soviet workers formerly
employed on the Chinese Eastern
Railroad, s,ace the road was seized
by the Chang Hsueh-liang govern
ment. But the raiders have been
dispersed as fast as they come, and
the Chinese troops have not as yet
dared an advance on a large scale.
"There has been no general en-
gagement, no Red Army invasion
of China and will be none. until the
Chinese militarists attack on a
wide 'front.'" said the Soviet officials.
The stories of great battles are sex-
planned as in most cases exaggera-
tions of smaller engagements in
which the Red Army catches detach-
ments, often white guard Russians
in Chang Hsueh-hang's pay, raiding
into U. S. S. R. territory, and
Continued on Page TWo)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
melvin BANQUET
At CENTER TODAY
Young Workers Greet
Gastonia Victim

A rousing banquet of welcome will
be given by the young Communist
League for Sophie Melvin, one of
the defendants in the Gastonia
murder trial, tonight at 8 o'clock in
the Workers Center, 1928 Union
Square. Fv thing has been ar
ranged with an eye to making the
reception a memo lie aff.ir N the
annals of New York young workers.
A crack orchestra will furnish the
music for dancing, and beside good
food, the League is preparing a
bang-up program, in which many
prominent .,eakers of the Co--..,u-
mist Party and the League will have
a part.
This will be Sophie Melvin's first
appearance in New York since she
went to work in the Gastonia strike
field and was arrested with % other
textile workers and organizers fol-
lowing the raid on the w. l. R. tent
colony. All young workers are
urged to be present at the banquet
tonight, tickets for. which are so
cents at the door.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
WIR Sends Clothes to
Workers in GastOnia

Several cases of clothing were
sent by the Workers International
Relief this week to Gastonia textile
strikers and unemployed Illinois
miners.
The W. |. r. asks workers to push
dispatch of more cases by sending
old clothes to the w. I. R. at /
Union Square, or to stations at 100
Broadway; Hungarian Workers
Home, $50 f. S1st St.; Unity Co.
operative House, 1900 Seventh Ave;
United Workers Cooperative, $500
Bronx Park, E.; Women's Council,
849 Bedford Ave-, Brooklyn. or to
the Brighton Beach Barber Shop,
249 Brighton Beach Ave.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
P OLICE CLUB 400
NEGRO WORKERS;
SMASH Meeting
Communist Candidates
Hold Another

A crowd of 500 gathered at 130th
st. and Lenox Ave-, last night to
hear Communist candidates and
other speakers tell the aims of the
Communist Party in the city munich
pal elections. A large part of the
audience and all of the speakers had
come down from a meeting broken
up at 137th st. and Seventh Ave.
Among the speakers were Charles
Alexander, Otto Hall, William z.
Foster, VIM. Sroka, and VIM. Vein
stone. The crowd burned red
torches.
Viciously clubbing the women
workers especially, so hard that the
sound of blows could be heard for
half a block, Tammany police
smashed the election campaign
meeting of the Communist Party
last night at 18th st. and Seventh
Ave. About 400 were present. The
meeting started about S:45, and
Richard B. Moore, Communist can
didate for congressman from the
Harlem district of New York, was
speaking when half dozen police
came and ordered the meeting
stopped. William z. Foster, secre-
tary of the Communist Party, ant
w. w. Weinstone, candidate fol-
mayor, argued with the police, anc
explained to them that this is ar
election campaign, that the meeting
is under the auspices of the Com.
munist Party, and that candidates
are speaking.
Negro Workers Boo Cops.
The police retreated to the corner
and Moore continued. Then, with
reinforcements, they returned anC
dragged Moore from the platform
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
FORCE 2ND VOTE
ON n, 0, SELL0UT
Carmen Battle Against
A. F. of l.. Betrayal

NE WORLEANS, La, Sept. 13.-
Hundreds of police and special
deputies are patrolling the streets
here, viciously breaking into the pic
kets and forcing the scab-run street
cars through, in preparation for the
second vote to accept the A. F. of l..
sell-out ordered by President w. D..
Mahon of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Street and Electrical
Railways Employees.
Carmen who have waged a mill
tant struggle against the. attempt of
Public Service, Inc. to run the lines
on an open shop basis, as we'll as
against their misleaders who have
been cooperating with the corpora
ton, city council and police to break
the strike, voted 1909 to 81 against
the latest betrayal.
William Green, president of the
A. F. of L. drew up the agreement
which calls for unemployment of
the strikers only when conditions
permit, in cooperation with A. B.
Patterson of Public Service, Inc.
Green is telling the street car
strikers that they misunderstood" !"
and demands acceptance of his
superior judgment and o. K. the be-
trayal. Even local union officials
admitted today that approximately
400 strikers had no chance of re-
employment under the agreement
the A. F. of L. is trying to jam
down their throats.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
Police Beat Up Sick
NegroWOman

Police brutality against the Negro
workers of this city is continuing
Mrs. Elizabeth Scott, 1852 Coney
Island Ave-, Brooklyn, was beaten
up by two policemen on the board
walk, Coney Island several days
ago. When she was unconscious she
was taken to the observation ward
Of Kings County Hospital and then
arraigned in magistrates court,
where the judge dismissed the
charge against her with the warn
ing: go home, and the next time
you are told to get off the board
walk, do it."
Mrs. Scott who has been ill for
some time went to the beach and
placed a camp chair next to that of
white women who was sitting on
the boardwalk. Patrolman Rhodes
came up to her and said she would
have to get off the boarwalk with
her chair. She protested, pointing
out that the other woman was al
lowed to sit there. The policeman
left, but returned several minutes
later with another patrolman. With
out word they grabbed and
dragged her over the boardwalk and
threw her into the patrolwagon.
Placed in Insane Ward.
As a result of the brutal hand
ling, Mrs. Scott was unconscious
vhe1 thrown into the wagon and
vas taken to the ward for insane
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
TailOrs Meet Today

The shop delegates conference
called by the Amalgamated Section,
Trade Union Unity League, will be
held at II a. m. today at Stuyvesant
Casino, Second Ave. and 9th St., at
which the question of mobilizing the
membership of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers Union against
the company union policies Of the
Sidney Hillman clique will be acted
upon. Delegates from scores of
tailoring shops are expected to be
present.
The speakers at the conference
will be William 2. Foster, general
secretary, Trade Union Unity
League; Ben Gold, secretary-treas-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-14
WORKERS SCORE
|. MEXICAN TERROR
In Anti Imperialist,
Communist Protest

Police yesterday brutally beat and
arrested Is members of the Com
munist Party, including Robert
Minor, editor of the Daily Worker,
and Abraham Markoff, of the Anti
Fascist League, when several hun
dred workers demonstrated before
the Mexican Consulate in New York
aainst the reign of terror and mass
arrests of militant workers in Mex
leo. Six women workers were
among those arrested.
The demonstration, organized by
the Communist Party and the All
America Anti-Imperialist League,
was held in front of the Mexican
Consulate at 225 w. 34th ST., as an
expression of the solidarity of
American workers with the Mexican
workers, whose government, at
American imperialist orders, has re-
Gently declared the Mexican Com
munist Party illegal, suppressed its
organ, Ell Machete, murdered Jose
Rodriguez, Communist leader, and
deported Cuban-born workers to
Cuba, where the Machado regime
has jailed or murdered them.
Over 5000 workers from the
shops and offices in the vicinity
were attracted to the demonstration,
and many joined in booing of the
police when the latter displayed
their characteristic brutality against
the demonstrating workers.
AS Robert Minor began to ad,
dress the workers the police began
their attempts to smash the demon
stration. While workers marched
in picket array before the consulate
bearing aloft signs that scored the
terrorism of the Gil government anc
U. S. Imperialism, Minor told of the
attempt of the Portes Gil govern
ment to crush the rising tide Of
militancy among the Mexican work
ers and peasants by declaring the
Communist Party illegal and impris
oning its members. He was pulled
from the box upon which he wa.
standing by policeman. Imme
diately Markoff jumped upon the
makeshift platform and was alst
arrested. Speaker after speaker
climbed upon the platform to re
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