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Evening star., 1934-05-17

ington and Philadelphia. " The
boys here are wondering how the
Browns manager got that way "
Buck Herzog, former National
League star, personally escorted
the Washington Club from the
Capital to the Cincinnati exhibition
game yesterday Buck gets
his dough from the B. & o. now
adays-he used to get it from the
Giants and the Reds Buck
managed the Reds for three sea-
sons = = IA, is and 'l6 I
broke in as a manager at the
wrong time" he mused as he
watched the proceedings in the
Cincinnati ball yard . = 1.-THE
Federal League came along and
just about ruined everything
Why, up in Chicago I had nine
players quit on me one night -
Evening star., 1934-05-17

voice of a men,
Mr.. Will a m
Der of the craft.
Fuchs, sports COL
umnist of the
Daily Worker, the
central organ of
the Communist
party in this
country.
Mr.. Fuchs deals
a bit roughly with
sports writing as
practiced in the
C a p italist press,
- --1"r
Evening star., 1934-05-17
1T DOESN'T MATTER

washington. L 0 o O 0 Is
Cincinnati. 80. 90 1 l ) x
Runs-Kuhel. Myer. Manush, Stone.
Phillips. Adams. Comorosky. Koenie. Piet,
Hafey, Manion. Kleinhans. Error Bluege.
Runs batted in-Manush Cronin Stone,
Hafey (2). Travis. Comorosky. Bottomley
g. Klenhans Pst KeTr bT9Psss hits
Hafey. Bottomley Home run-Hafey.
Double plays-stone to Berg. Manion to
on bases-Washington. s; Cincinnati. 5.
Bases on balls-Of- Vance. l: off Klein
hans. 3. Struck out-By Prim; A. by
Burke, 1; by Kleinhans, 3. Hits-Of
Vance. 4 in - inning; of Prim. 0 in
innings; of Burke; 3 In 2 innings; on
Kleinhans z in 50 innings. Winning
Burke. Umpires-Messrs. Brosnan and
KaUcher,
Evening star., 1934-05-17
By the Associated Press.

]oy
NEW YORK, May 17.-Bryan
Grants strenuous bid for a place
en- the Davis Cup team finally has
won recognition from tennis au-
thorities, but not the kind 'Bitsy'
sought.
Commenting on various and
sundry queries as to why the
diminutive Atlanta player, who has
defeated three of the Davis Cup
pers, George Lott, Lester Stoefen
and Frank Shields, was left off the
Davis Cup squad, Holcombe Ward,
chairman of the Cup Selection
Committee, explained that it was
Evening star., 1934-05-17
Bears Name Five
For Jaunt East
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PERKELEY, Calf, May IL
- Coach Brutus Hamilton named
today the five men University
of California will send to the !. c.
"A track meet at Philadelphia
May 25-26.
The group Kiesel. sprinter;
Bob Clark, who has broad jumped
"a feet inches; Bob Fowler. soph-
omore 2-miler, unbeaten this sea-
son; Dick Coe, hurdler, and George
Mackay. weight man-will leave
SATURDAY..
Evening star., 1934-05-17
SHOWS It WANTS
NEW DEAL RACING
New York Again Evidences
Its Support as Belmont
Meeting Starts.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NIEW1V. va YORK; o'5as;,N May ~ p:i,,;c,e 1.-THE
Y Park, largest of the met
4 ropolitan districts racing
plants, again has demonstrated
the popularity of thoroughbred
racing under the new deal" of
open and legal betting.
A crowd estimated at $4,000, the
largest opening-day attendance in sew
eral years, turned out yesterday to
see the card, featured by the victory
of Mrs. Isabelle Dodge Sloan's Okapi,
stablemate of the Derby and Freak
ness winners, Cavalcade and High
Quest. in the Tobopgan Handicap.
The betting ring" was so crowded
that the day ended in a state Of
confusion similar to that of the
metropolitan opening at Jamaica and
the exclusive Turf and Field Club re-
ported that between 400 and 500 per-
sons were present for luncheon.
Evening star., 1934-05-17

said about the
G 'ints this morn
ing? If I didn't
know any more
than tn a t I'd
jump in the river,
the lug!"
A sturdy and
cynical commen-
tator on the un-
wholesome vag-
aries of sports
journalism, Mr..
Fuchs piles up
point after point
in his Indictment
Evening star., 1934-05-17
ELAZONRY IS SCRATCHED.

LONDON. May II (P.-Lord How
ard de Waldens colt Blazonry was
scratched from the entry list for the
EPSON Derby. to be run June 6, be-
cause of failure to complete training
following an injury.
Evening star., 1934-05-17
OFFER DUNDEE $4,000.

NEW YORK, May II R1.-Vince
Dundee, middleweight champion, has
received an offer of $4,000 to defend
his title against Jack McAvoy in Man
chester, England, early in July.
Evening star., 1934-05-17

nut you seldom get criticism OF
Is broad and basic nature, the kind
that is printed by the ream
under the heading Letters to the
Editor" or "Voice of the People" The
first voice to apply its criticism to
sports writing in recent weeks is the
Evening star., 1934-05-17

IT'S probable that Mr.. Fuchs is
L partly correct in his analysis Of
the public credo. though you can't
travel very far among sports fans
without hearing one of them say:
This Doaks, the sports writer,
must be screwy. lid you see what he
Evening star., 1934-05-17
Shell Vance From Hill.

TN THEIR exhibition yesterday, the
Nationals were outhit as we'll as
outfielded. The Reds, who sur
prised the few hundreds in the stands
by playing errorless base ball, helped
themselves to IA safeties while the
Nationals collected just IL.
Most of the Redleg hitting was at
Ray Prim's expense, but it was Bob
Burke who took the licking. The
Continued on Page 2, Column 1)
Evening star., 1934-05-17
Third Base Regular Nationals Be0 Eastern Standard
FROM THE PRESS BOX
BY JOHN LARDNER-

YORK, 17As rule denounced only
for technical and by those who think he is talking through
kelly particular
fan mail gentlemen who hold that Stanley Keches
ought to be spelled right that the Giants still team OF
Evening star., 1934-05-17
LOYAL TO BIG TRAIN
Neighbor Who Attended Birth
Sees Walter Beat Cornell.

Sees Walter Beat Cornell.
ITHACA, N. Y, May II R.-A
neighbor who attended at his birth
drove here from Venice Center, N. Y,
to greet Walter Johnson, manager of
the Cleveland Indians, who defeated
Cornell. 11-4, in an exhibition yester-
day.
She is Mrs. Jessie Ford, formerly
of Humboldt, Kans., where the Big
Train" was born.
Evening star., 1934-05-17
By staff Corrrsnondent of The Star.
)LEVELAND, Ohio, May 16.
This town is base ball
4 batty. Cleveland is accus-


toned to having its In
dians well up in the
American League race at this stage
of a season For years the
Tribe has been great Spring club
-" Only to flop in June
But this time fans here are taking
the Indians seriously To a
man, they're confident johnson has
a high-class outfit that will stay
around the top all the way
And is that Hornsby guy unpopular
in this place for saying that the
Indians are not so good as the
Tigers? . There's greater riv-
airy between Cleveland and Detroit
than ever existed between Wash
Evening star., 1934-05-17

with and controversy Is SAID W oe soou o
The Comm Not All rams Are n'oeis'
Evening star., 1934-05-17

GAMES TODAY GAMES TOMORROW
Wash. at Cleve. Wash at Clev.
N Y. at Det. N Y. at Det.
Phil at Chi. Phil at Chi.
Bos at ST. L. Boston at St L.
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Editors Note
on This Letter


. No doubt Friend Bliclfeldt is
correct in that we are sometimes
guilty of over-statement. How
ever. if this reader has ever stood
on a breadline, he cannot deny
broken pieces Of stale bread is the
rule rather than the exception. II
boile down to whether it is more
correct to call dry, stale bread "a
slice of bread" or ga crust of
bread" While we agree that our
printed statements must be very
exact, we do not believe that in
this instance the words used 20
very far of the mark. =
On the next point, that of the
authenticity of Mrs. Frank Murt-
lands letter, Friend Blickfeldt
raises much more important
question. The farmers and farm
women who use. the columns of
the Producers News, tell the truth
because there is no reason to tell
lies. They serve no other interest
except that of the workers and
farmers militant movement. The
bare facts of their conditions may
seem unbelievable to members Of
polite society" where such things
as hunger, oppression, and misery
are religiously barred from dis.
cussion. Nevertheless, these facts
are the truth.
When historians in future years
seek for a record of the lives Of
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ness men. The crisis and the
breakdown of the capitalist sys-
tenn has changed this and is
changing this some more. A
great percentage of the local
businessmen are failing. They
are becoming bankrupt and inn
pOverished. And in view of this
their entire viewpoint Is chang
ing business men of the neces-
sity of supporting the farmers
and workers struggles. If we
do not help them make this
change in our direction, they will
De organised by the rich fascist
bands against as.
But in this connection we must
not become blinded to one thing
that in the cities Qarge and
smaiD and even in the country
towns there are businessmen and
bankers who are definitely the
agents Of the big banks, trusts
and mOnOpoles. Against these
We must raise the class strug-
gle; just as We raise the class
struggle against the rich, Elk
plotting farmers who are the
agents of bankers and big bust.
ness In the countryside, often
through their official positions
in the sO-calIed cooperatives.
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Confined from Front Page)
ers" of the state organization to
keep it behind closed doors.
Before adjourning the delegates
adopted a resolution expressing
appreciation to the administration
in Washington for its earnest en-
deavor to restore agriculture to its
just rights in the industrial world. "
No essential change was made in
It's Legislative program.
A musty atmosphere hung over
the convention, rejecting the de-
cayed spirit of an old organiza-
ton. Chained to routine procedure
and conventional questions of the
accumulated years, anything new
seemed foreign, like the papa
breezes, and real gust of mill.
fancy would have blown cobwebs
out.
Distrustful Of rank and file &C.
tion, the state officials talked Oh
doing everything In the "open
show window" but shunted off EN-.
barrassing questions, as for in
stance, the discussion as to the
existence of the delegates railway
fund Of $4,000"
Steam-rOller Discussion
1--WE have it and we have not,
was the substance Of the officia
explanations. "Get the idea?" t,
quote the secretary. Many farm
ers did not. And when one farmea
finally saw the inconsistency of
the explanation, three directors co
incidentally arose as one will
drawn gold watches in hand, and
announced: ct is now time fol
special business" The delegat,
stood gaping at his unanswered
question.
And again, the proposed reso
luton mot to hold any picnics, O
any other gatherings, in commune
ton with other organizations, bu
make it strictly Farmers Uniol
meetings" met with stormy oppo
sition. This caused the first rum
pus, and reminded the droninI
speakers that there was an audi
ence, which had been silent for
day and a half after being fed Of
fetal reports and statistics.
It was declared passed by tn
chairman after a standing recount
and several votes by reclamation
and votes to table. But a militan
delegate who had attended tn
Chicago United Front conference
scored this piece Of dictatorship t
the county organizations. Anothe
rank and file deleoate mounted tn
platform and declared his orCani
7at!cn would continue to cooperat
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-19

as IN the past with any other farm
organization.
A proposal to lower dues from
$3.50 to $3.50 was Eidiculed off the
floor. Instead explanations were
heard as to how it was found very
necessary to demand dues pay
ment before receiving cooperative
dividends and benefits, etc., thus in
fact, amounting to a check-off sys-
tenn similar to the A. F. of L.
method of assuring incomes for
the leaders" etc.
The convention again reiterated
its stand on the Frazier bill of re.
financing farms and farm mort
cages at 3 per cent interest rate.
1t favored passage of the
Wheeler bill for reconciliation of
silver at Is to 1 ratio, with un-
limited coinage of silver and gold.
1t opposed the general sales tax,
and favored a vague state income
tax, and stood for lowering of the
legal maximum interest rate, as
well as reduction of the tariff.
And so closed a tame affair,
STEPPED in tradition, out of ster
with the times, so much so thai
Peterson Of the South Dakota
Farmers Union commented upon
its lack of militancy, while the
demagOg Talbot of the North Da.
kota Farmers Union thunderet
what you need is to get the you'll
here and leave the bald-heads al
home"
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lGendAned 1rsm Prsn& Paeel
so-called official judgment on the
land. 40
When the mother noticed the
killers, to avoid tragedy she Iet
a shot go from her rifle in order
to scare the killers in this vav
Next day the mother was arrested
The Aid Committee of Club soli-
darity went to the l. L. d. which
recommended that lawyer send
a telegram to lay the case over
Tor two weeks. Stracnanowsk;
was freed under bond and the case
laid over. But not for long did
she enjoy freedom, for in three
days along came the police with
a hospital ambulance to take her
away to an insane asylum for OBJ
servation, 80 miles from her farm.
The Aid Committee of Club Soli-
daritv and the secretary Of the I
1. D. visited her in this inst;t,-
ton and were convinced that
StrachanowsH was of her richt
mind. She complained of NOR
food. and said that a ruree came
to her room every half hour 70
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wash the floor, endeawing to un-
nerve her. The asylum doctors,
after Ia days of examination,
stated that she was mentally well,
but in order to whitewash a bad
conspiracy they also said she had
nervous trouble in order to take
her last dollars for the cure OF
this sickness.
A mother who dares to defend
her hard-earned property is per-
secuted by these capitalist con-
fiscators in all possible ways.
The Aid Committee, Polish
Workers Club Solidarity and the L
L. D. will not neglect this case
and will strive to free this mother
from the asylum and give her back
to her children.
It is time that all mothers
would take an example from this
heroine who defends her hard
earned savings, and stand together
with the men in workers oFganiza.
lions for only with united strength
can we defend our homes and oul
lives.
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The C. w. A.
Jobs

When the C. w. A. jobs were
started while back q farmer
wrote to the National Office, say
ing that now our "goose is cooked"
He was of the opinion that this
meagre handout was going to
make everything so rosy for the
impoverished farmers that they
would have no reason to organize.
Now this same farmer writes in
and says that the farmers are "up
in arms against the CWA Job
racketeering." There are so many
abuses and grievances on these
jobs that even the fortunate few
who have got ON are "readv to
raise hell" Perhaps this Is not
generally true, but the fact Is that
almost everywhere there is soma
dissatisfaction.
AS the CWA jobs have workers
from the cities on them, and there
are professional men and others
it is obvious that we cannot OF
should not organize them into the
United Farmers League. The u
F. L. must support their organi-
zation and their struggles. The
members Of the UFL on these jobs
should take part in organizing Of
Joint committees Of action that
will lead the workers in efforts r.
abolish the abuses and to rectifv
the grievances. And, Of course
everywhere there is crying need
for more Jobs and for longer last.
ing jobs.
Some Of the outstanding griev.
ances seem 70 be, Discrimination
against single men and against
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1934-01-19

Meub0us WASH
Dear Editor:
)" / enjoy reading your paper ex-
cept for one small matter which I
think you will find well worth
changing. refer to the minor ex-
aggeratione in many of the letters
and reports printed in the paper,
as in the statement of the FNCA
dec. 29 issue)-"Millions freeze
on breadlines waiting for a bowl
of soup, a crust Of hard bread"
Why not simply say, ga slice of
bread ?" Maybe it wasn't a hard
crust at all. Things ne bad enough
without trying to make them look
worse.
My main objections to such ex-
aggerations is that the conserva-
tive farmers and workers who gen
orally can be irduced to read a
sample of most any newspaper
Immediately become suspicious and
sometimes real hostile, the minute
they run across anything thai
smacks of a cheap, everything.
knocking, everything denouncing
no-program sheet.
What really started me writing
this letter was the effect produced
upori me by reading the letter from
Mrs. Frank Murtland in the Dec
20 issue. Did you verify her etate
ments as printed in her letter?
Have conditions come to such 4
state of affairs that kidnapping
has been legalized? / feel urgeC
to shout to the world such injus
tice but for the fear that II thosl
statements may not be exactly il
accordance with the facts.
Julius Blickfeldt.
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FIGURES SHOW RUIN
OF NORSKE FARMERS

OSLO, NOrway.-The Central
Statistics Office reports that b
the HOrdaland district lac pr
cent of all farmers are bank
rupt. This means a total Of two
thousand farms. Besides tAiA
100 farms are in debt to $50 per
cent of their value 1000 Be.
tween IS per cent and 1OOp1
cent, $500 between so and 70
per cent, and $500 from Is to
so per- cent 5000 farms are b
debt to the extent of Is PER
cent, and only 1929 are entirdy
free of debt.
In the district Hedmark alcns
4144 distraints were carried %
in 1881 80, as compared with SD
In 1927 and 191 in 1928.
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By w. r. Carlson

BELLINGHAM, Wash When
the CWA projects started here 5
or 6 weeks ago large percentage
of the farmers possibly 40 per
cent? including myself, were i'm
mediately given jobs, being trans
fsrred directly from relief work
to these jobs.
/ began to work for the build
ing of the Relief Workers Union.
We were beginning to make
Roadway with the UFL, holding
various meetings throughout the
county at which our delegate to
the National Conference spoke. We
were dieposing of the Producers
News by taking up collections and
giving a copy to each one present.
This way we disposed of about 200
of the 500 copies which ! had re-
ceived. We were getting enough to
pay for the papers and also gas to
get to these meetings.
Last week without warning the
CWA work blew up. and about
400 men were laid off. We had
already been laying the foundation
for building the relief workers
union and had made preparations
for a mass meeting on Tuesday
the 9th. This lay-off started on
the 9Th. The workers were very
hostile about this lay-off but hay.
ing no organization were travelling
in circles at the welfare board. A
meeting of fired CWA workers
was called for / p. m. and about
a hundred came to this meeting,
A committee of Is was elected
specific demands were drawn up
and we sailed into the welfare and
CWA officials. Before the after
noon was over we had nice little
demonstration. About 200 work.
ers were united solid behind this
committee. in fact so solid that
when part of this committee was
forcibly evicted from the office Of
one Of the head officials (McEl
mon, head Of the county welfare
board) and the cops were calleC
out to clear the place out, the
workers laughed at them and
would not bulge an inch. They
finally gave up and tried to pass
it off as a joke. Resolutions anc
demands were also sent to all fed,
eral and state officials, and de.
livered by committees to all county
officials. We also demanded a
meeting Of our committee with tha
welfare board on Thursday the II
On Tuesday the 9th we Launched
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The Letter Box
Farmer Asks Whether We Verified Story of Mrs. Frank
Murtland; Editor Answers His Question

the people Of this age, they viii
go first to the columns Of work.
ers and farmers correspondence In
the militant press. For it Is here
that the unvarnished, undeeorated,
naked truth appears. This is the
most accurate reporting Of con-
ditione and times possible.
Of course one who reads only
the capitalist press may find the
facts which the workers and farm
enp tell unbelievable. Their minds
have become so poisoned with the
propaganda of the capitalist class
that they are certain that "pros-
perity" is here and that happiness
and contentment have descended
upon the land. Through the rose
colored glasses which the capitalist
fakeEp have fastened upon their
eyes, everything appears lovely.
The Kept Press
The capitalist papers distort the
truth beyond recognition, they
omit facts. or they deliberately lie
-all for a purpose. They serve
the interests of the bankers, the
middlemen and the exploiting
bosses. The letters of farmers and
workers-such as Mrs. Murtland's
letter, for instance-would never
find space in the sheets of the
money class.
The workers and farmers press
also serves a purpose. 1t works
and fights in the interest of the
workers and exploited farmers
But where capitalist press mus
: lie to serve its masters, the trutl
is good enough for the workers
and farmers press.
Friend Blicfeldt hesitates Il
believe that the authorities woulC
stoop to such humanity as to
kidnap the children of a leadinf
UFL organizer. Friend BliclSfeldt
need not hesitate. Mrs. Murtlandi
story is verified in a Thousand
ways, both by her own experienc,
and by the experience of thousand
of farmers and workers who have
discovered that there is nothing 81
inhuman to which the ruling class
will not stoop in order to protect
it's profits, its life Of ease ant
; luxury.
We have already seen how fal
the capitalists will go in thl
spectacle of Fascist Germany. II
America. we have the cases of
Tom Mooney, the Scottsboro Boy
and many others of outright per
secution of militant workers AMI
; farmers. Let Mr.. Blickfeldt re
member the brutal treatment givel
Casey Boskaljon in his own state
! Washington, by a group of fascis
gangsters, led by the sheriff.
forces, because Casey sought T.
organize farmers against the rob
} berry of the money class.
; What we need is not LESS o
I the straightforward, honest report
J ing Of farmers in our papers, bu
: MORE Of it. And we need a big
: ger and better class-consciou
, press to print the true stories o
the conditions among the farr
, masses. That is why we are nov
{ building the Farmers Weekly.