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The Washington times., 1934-03-10
Three Players
DeadIocked In
Chess Play

The current District chess
championship has again be-
come scrambled and three en-.
trants-Vladimir Sournin, de.
Tending champion; Martin c.
Stark and Donald H. Mugridge-
are tied for the leadership.
Each has won 512 games with
112 games lost.
The Stark-Sournin game, ad-
journed last night, was being
finished this afternoon. The
Mugridge-Hess game, also ad-
journed last night. has been
postponed indefinitely. C. C.
Bettinger triumphed over Ed.
ward Sperling in the 9th er
match last night.
AS but two more rounds are
remaining, the champion will
most likely emerge from today's
playoff of the adjourned Sour
nin-Stark match. That is pro-
viding the winner meets no un-
looked for reverse in the con-
cluding rounds.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
TEMPLE FIVE
WILL MEET
ORIOLES
BY DANNY GILL

Dy DGAANAN4 NNAAA
Capt. Joe Harrison, whose work
with the fast-flying Occidental
bowling team has been nothing
short of phenomenal, is likely to
be rewarded with the singles
assignment tonight against Joe
La Mastra, star Of the Connecti-
cut Yankees, which meets Occi-
dental at Convention Hall. Blake
ney and Joe Harrison will roll
doubles.
Much has been heard here Of
La Mastra, but few fans have
seen him in action. If he can
take the measure of Joe Harri-
son, Joe'S followers will admit
he's a great bowler.
Hold Decision
The Connecticut Yankees have
one victory over the Blue Rib
bons, of Willimantic, Conn, to
their credit, and expect to add
the Occidentals to their list. Cap
Eain Joe Harrison and his boys
have a different opinion, of course,
and a record-breaking match is
anticipated.
Vieing in Importance with this
match will be the battle at North
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
| D D P
|SPLANNED

An important meeting will be
held Wednesday night at 1880
at TIT Fourteenth st. N. w. by
service athletic clubs for the pur.
pose of organizing an Army and
Navy baseball league.
The following posts are ex-
pected to enter the proposed
league: Army War College, Army
Medical Center, Navy Yard, Naval
Hospital, Fort Myer, Boiling
Field, Fort Washington and Ma
rine Barracks.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10

east Temple between Ollie Pacini's
Temple crew, and the Victoria
team of Baltimore. A doubles
match bringing together Harry
Schreck and Meyer Jacobson Of
the Orioles, and. Irving Billheimer
and "Red'' Megaw is also on tap
at Petworth bowling alley at 3
O'Clock and again at 8 .. m.
Husband Wife
At Arcadia, Monk" Fraser is
running the first block of his an
nual husband and wife" tourna-
ment with the second block due
next Saturday.
At Convention Hall today,
"Whip" Litchfield is rolling Jack
Whalen in the second round Of
the match game elimination tour
nament.
Bob Miciotto and Pete Coccuzzi
are rolling Gus Places and Louie
Pantos in an Italian-Gr match
at Temple, while Joe Demma's
Holy Rosary Sweepstakes is also
being held at Temple tonight.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10

Invitations will be mailed to all
Washington Golf Clubs, members
Of the Bi-State Association and
Richmond Golf Clubs.
Andy Clarke is assisting with
plans for the tournament.
The deciding game for the un-
limited basketball championship
Of the city win be played at
Armory Hall tonight at BIS
o'clock when the Old Dominion
and Columbia Firefighter De-
partment quints clash.
Play in PreIim
TimeSHerald five will play in
the prelim.
st. Rita'S girls meet Holy Cross
Academy sextet at Armory Hall
at 4 o'clock today.
st. Rita girls defeated the
Washington Blue Jays, 1912 yes
terday. Misses Linton and Mess
starred.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
Sports Today
BOWLING

DO w AAANO
At Convention Hall, Connect.
cut Stars VS.. Occidentals, z p. m. ;
Whalen VS.. Litchfield, match
elimination singles, 3 p. m.
At Arcadia Alleys - Husband
wife tourney, 3 p. m. and 8 p. m.
At Temple Alleys-Team match,
Victoria (Baltimore) VS.. Temple,
8 p. m.
BOXING
At Catholic University-WeSt-
ern Maryland College VS.. Catholic
University. 8 p. m.
At National Guard Armory,
Sixth and Pennsylvania Ave. N.
W. Semifinals, District Guards
championships, 8 p. m.
BASKETBALL
At Tech High-Carnegie Tech
VS.. Georgetown, 8:45 p. M; Cen
tral High VS.. Georgetown Fresh
men, 7:15.
At Army War College-Third
Corps Area championships, Fort
Myer VS.. Fort Monroe. s p. m.
At Jewish Community Center,
Sixteenth and Que Streets North
weSt-Bronx Y. w. H. A. New
York; VS.. Jewish Community
Center girls, 7:3O p. m.
At Roosevelt High-District A.
A. U. championships, 7:30 p. m.
At Macfarland High-DiStrict
A. A. U. championships, 7:30 p. m.
SWIMMING
At Shoreham Hotel-South At
lantic scholastic meet, heats at
3 p nj 6nals ak $50 p. n.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
OBSCURE STAR
ROLLS 1901 SET

Ray McGaha. Decatur Heights
League bowler, wouldn't think Of
entering a sweepstakes alongside
such stars as Joe Harrison. AStor
Clarke and Ed Blakeney, yet
yesterday at the Rendezvous he
rolled 1901 for IS games in
open competition, a total which
would have placed right near the
top in every "big time" event Of
this season. He averaged 1877.
What makes this performance
even more sensational is the fact
that MACS" league average is
only 100.
Leo Sorrel, Lutheran Mems
League maple-spiller, Rays op-
ponent, won only one game out
Of the IS. losing the twelfth on
roll-off after both men had rolled
1873. His high game was 158
and he thanked this with 139 and
1873 for a 435 set. His final five
games totaled 671. McGaha's
sets:
The Washington times., 1934-03-10

The c. U. boxing meet will be
staged in c. us gym. The
Georgetown-Tech floor tilt will be
played in Tech High gym.
In out-of-town contests, Mary
lands track and field team COM
petes in the Southern Conference
championship meet at Chapel Hill,
N. c.; Georgetown's thin-clads
compete in the open events Of the
same meet; George washington
University's six-man swim team
completes in the Eastern Intercol-
legiate championships, at Univer-
sity of Delaware, Newark, Del,
and Wilson Teachers basketball
team opposes Frostburg Normal,
at Frostburg, Md.
Western Maryland rules a hot
favorite to win tonight's ring en-
counter with C. u, but this con-
dition, according to followers Of C.
u, is made to order for the Cards.
c. us athletic teams have a habit
of winning when they are sched-
uled to lose.
Georgetown is a slight favorite
to defeat Carnegie, which team
occupies the cellar in the Eastern
Basketball Conference, of which
Pittsburgh is the champion.
Large Crowd Expected
Probably the largest crowd ever
to witness an intercollegiate box
ing event in this city will be on
hand in C. q. gym tonight when
Cards and Green Terrors clash in
their series of bouts.
The main encounter of the night
brings together Red" Fleming, C.
us hope in the 175-pound division,
and Bernie Kaplan, Western
Maryland's great fighter, who is
intercollegiate champion.
Another outstanding match pits
Danny Pyne, C. us heavyweight
ace, against Tom Pontecarvo, Of
Western Maryland. Pyne is un-
defeated to date this year.
In other bouts, Jack Bruton,
lis, meets Robert Bennett, Of w.
M: Capt. Bill Calabreese, c. u,
1875, opposes either Carl Rusteberg
or George Harrison; Angy Res
traino, c. u, 1876, meets Paul
Meyers: Ed Thibodeau. C. o., 145,
clashes with either Dick Kiefer
or Rod Haynes: Max Brinkman,
C. u, 155, boxes Don Keyser, and
Tom oliver, 165. C. U. grid star,
goes up against hard-hitting Andy
GorSky.
Opportunity Knocks
Freddy MeSmer'S Hoya basket
2aA team hap . chance 70 top
The Washington times., 1934-03-10

Singles for both men and wom-
en-, doubles for both men and
women, and mixed doubles will
be played, and spectators are in
vited.
Drawings for women's singles
are open until Tuesday night.
Other classes are closed. Pat
Walker, the 1888 mems cham.
pion, will not be present to de-
fend his title.
Drawings for the mixed doubles
for the first round are as follows:
Mrs. H. Clay Thompson, Albert
Conradis, bye.
Jenny Turnbull, Holmead CAL
Ian, bye.
Mrs. John Burns, Mel Lowe
VS.. Mrs. Goodwin Graham, Ned
Murdock.
Corinne Frazier, Harry How
lett, bye.
Mary Ryan, Jack Purinton, bye.
Mrs. Don Mackenzie, w. r.
Willoughby VS.. Mrs. Thomas
White, Clark Brant.
Mrs. Margaret johnson, Kay
Blanchard VS.. Mrs. j. Howard
Ford, Malcolm Beattie.
Mrs. H. Finckel, Mr.. H. Clay
Thompson, bye.
Drawings for the women's
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
OE LA MAS7RA MAGNET AS YANKEES ROLL OCCZDENTALS
WARMING UP FOR GUARDS BOUTS

BRYAN DORSEY (left)
and Bill Thoma (right) go
through a fast sparring
match in preparation for
the semifinals of the Dis
trict National Guards box
ing championships tonight.
Both are welterweights.
Times Staff Photo.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
Lacrosse Folk
Aim to Form
Dixie Body

A movement to organize a Dixie
Lacrosse Association" with Prof
Reginald v. Truitt, Of the Univer.
sity of Maryland, as its head, has
been initiated by Miller Moore.
president of the United States In
tercollegiate Lacrosse Association.
An organization meeting has
been called for Sunday, March 18,
in the sports department Of the
Evening Star at $3.50 p. m. La
crosse leaders in this territory
have been invited to attend. Prof.
Truitt formerly coached the Mary
land lacrosse team.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
COrunl on Vacation, :,
But He Won't
Forget Fans

Bill Corum, Washington
Times columnist, is on his va
cation and his articles there
fore will not appear daily.
However, Bill thinks his
fingers may itch for a type
writer from time to time
while strolling around Ameri-
cas- winter playground at
Miami, and should he run
true to form, will probably
not desert his readers alto
gether during his sojourn in
the South.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
Joe SdUOLdi Matched
With Ernie Dusek

Ernie Dusek VS.. Joe Savoldi will
furnish the Semifinal thrill Thurs
day night when promoter Joe
Turner tarns loose his Auditorium
lineup. They are slated As
minutes.
Already having scheduled Rudy
DuSek and Joe Malcewicz in his
main event, Turner last night
added Ernie and Joe after con-
siderable dickering.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
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The Washington times., 1934-03-10
"HitLess Wonders"
Pilot Near Death

PORTLAND, Ore. March 10.
Fielder A. Jones, manager of the
Chicago White Sox'S "hitlesS won
derS" in 1906, was near death
m q hosnita1 haEA todAR
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
Walker Will Not Defend
D. G.. Badminton Title

The third annual badminton championship of the District
Of Columbia under the auspices of the Badmnon Club Of
Washington, will be held in the Y. W. 6. A. gymnasium,
Seventeenth and Streets Northwest Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday nights from to 10.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
Boxing Bouts, Basketball
Feature College Bill
RY HARRY COSTELL0

Catholic Unversys boxing meet with Western Maryland
Green tops the local intercollegiate card tonight
another attractive event. Georgetowns basketball quint
opposes that of Carnegie Tech.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
DUNBAR DOWNS PROTON

Dunbar High School found the
Proton Athletic Club basketers
tough, but finally subdued them
after a hard battle last night, "a
to 10.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
SharwoodH leads Belief Haven
Golf Tourney Committee

ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 10.-J. Sidney Sherwood
former Pennsylvania open golf champion has been appointed
general chairman Of the Belle Haven Country Club invitation
golf tournament listed on April e. % and 20.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
B. Y.P. u. Mems
Duckpin League
RECORDS

Averages - Lewis, 1856 Woods,
1853; H. Hodges. 1918; Cleary'
11O-14; Greer, 11O-12. High strikes
Lewis, 80. High srares, Lewis, 15S
High game-Beach. 1S1; Trotter. 15S.
High set-Woods. 394; Brown, $50.
1 60A H1eA team sst-FtrUt. AS%S.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
ThiStLethlUQite NeW
Richmond u. Coach

RICHMOND, Va, March 10.
Glenn F.. Thistlethwaite, former
head football coach at Northwest
ern University, University of Wis
conSin and Carroll College. Wau-
kesha, Wis, will coach University
Of Richmond gridders in 1884. He
also will occupy the office of direc-
tor of physical education. He sue
ceedS Frank M. Dobson, resigned.
The Washington times., 1934-03-10
NAMED CAPTAIN

NEW YORK, March 10.-Sam
Winograd has been elected cap
tain of the city college basket
ball team for the 1934-35 season.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04

for recognition Of the union. At times it appeared
that these two demands were separate belonging
in separate compartments. The union leaders recti
fed this mistake later on, when the question OF
wages and conditions was more closely knit with
the fight against company unions.
This strike was the spearhead in the fight
against company unionism in New York It smashed
through the wild cries Of red scare" Communist
support Of the strike was recognized and heartily
accepted by the majority OF the strikers The hack
men now consider the Daily Worker their paper
The Socialist leaders have again discredited them
selves. At last the hackmen have strong union
a union born in militant struggle.
THE taxi drivers must now get down to the hard
work of Strengthening this union. It must be
built up sodly on the basis Of denocracay elected
committees in each garage. The union must pay
special attention to organizing the unemployed
hackmen to fight for relief and unemployment in
surance.
The cabmen must even more sharply than ever
before fight against the discrimination shown the
Negro drivers. By becoming the fighter for this
especially oppressed group of hackmen, the union
will build an unbreakable bond between Negro and
white drivers that will make it impossible for the
bosses to split the ranks of the drivers along
racial lines
Members of the union must continue their fight
against the Socialist Party leaders and their agents
who are aiming to split the ranks of the drivers
There must be established real binding unity be-
tween the various locals of the union.
Especially must the shop organizations be
strengthened in the garages of the Terminal Com
pany where the bosses are attempting to make
job contingent upon membership in the company
union.
The fight that the taxi drivers have begun must
now be taken up by all workers. Utmost support
must be given by all workers to the new fighting
Taxi Drivers Union Of Greater New York
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
NaziS Prepare For
Thaelmann Trial by
Mass Convictions
Series of Frame-Ups Il
Meant to prepare
Public Mind

BERLIN, March IS, (By MaiD -
A series of trials of Communists has
been held in various parts of Ger
many with the obvious aim of pre-
pairing public opinion for the great
trial of Ernst Thaelmann, leader of
the German Communist Party.
The special court of Hamburg yes
terday condemned IA Communists.
charged with fighting Nazis at the
beginning Of the year, to various
terms of hard labor up to eight
years. Another trial of II Commu-
niSts, also in Hamburg, resulted in
Is convictions.
The Supreme Court of Leipzig
yesterday opened the trial of six
Dusseldorf Communists charged
with having kept three and half
Kilograms of prussic acid for
poisoning storm troops" This
amount according to experts" is
enough to kill 1900 people. All
the defendants emphatically deny
the charge. Mention of such poison
had already been made at the
Reichstag trial as proof of Commu-
mist terrorism"
The widely advertised new book
by a certain Sommerfeld on the
terrorist activities" of the Commu-
nists is also designed to serve the
same purpose of creating the proper
atmosphere for the trial of Thael-
mann and other Communist leaders.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
"Save Thaelmann As You Saved Dimitroff, g
Dimitroh's Mother Appeals to All Workers

MOSCOW, April 2.-Paraskeva
Dimitrova, mother of George Dimi-
troff, heroic Communist of the
Reichstag fire trial, now safe and
happy in the Soviet Union with her
son, her daughters and her grand
children, has written an appeal to
workers throughout the world to
save Ernst Thaelmann, imprisoned
leader Of the German Communist
Party, and the 100000 other pris-
oners of the Nazis.
The full text of her appeal fol-
lows:
Appeal of Dimitroff's Mother
"ToilerS of all countries!
Il owe it your solidarity
and to the Soviet country that my
son, George Dimitroff, and his two
comrades were released from prison
and saved from death. Only now,
in my old age, have I learned the
meaning of international solidarity.
During the six months of my
stay in fascist Germany I had many
bitter experiences in the course of
my visits to the Leipzig prison and
to the Secret State Police Depart
ment in Berlin, as well as to the
other offices in fascist Germany. I
should have despaired if 1 had not
known that the oppressed of the
whole world were backing me in my
struggle for the life of my son and
his comrades, Popoff and Taneff.
Only this knowledge and conviction
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
ItalianFaSCiStSPIo
To Kill French
Communist Leader
Evidence F und On
Body of Assassin
Who Killed Self

PARIS, March II, (By MaiD "A
plan to murder Marcel Cachin,
leader of the French Communist
Party, failed, when his would-be
assailant, Dante Bonfanti, an agent
of the Italian Fascists, committed
suicide at a Communist meeting
held here yesterday at which Cachin
was the main speaker.
Documents found on Bonfanti
established his identity as the man
whom the Italian fascists had del
egated to kill a number of prom
inent leaders of the French Comnu-
mist Party, the leader of the Inter
national Labor Defense and the
murderer of Clerich, prominent
Italian anti-fascist emigrant in Paris
who was shot the other day in mys-
ferrous circumstances.
Bonfanti, writes the "Humanite"
organ of the French Communist
Party, was tool in the hands of
the police and French fascist or
CARNATIONS, who had worked out an
elaborate plan of terrorist acts
against Communist Party leaders
and workers organizations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
Former K.P.S.L. Organizer
Explains Why He Left S. P.

ganization because of the expul-
sion of George Smerkin and Sol
Larks, but was still determined
to see what I could do in Los An
geleS.
Elected county organizer, did
not even receive the cooperation
of the executive committee. Time
and again fought for the united
front, but was repulsed each time.
After while I became disguised
and decided to do something on my
own. At the mass meeting against
war and fascism at the Plaza in
Los Angeles I spoke, trying to show
my solidarity with the workers. For
that I was expelled from the Y. P.
S. L. for being too Communistic.
I am glad that I woke I'D in time
to see who are the real leaders of
the working class. For that reason
| am joining the Communist Party
and the Young Communist League.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04

of the united front activities of the
Communist Party.
The entire audience was once more
on its feet when I. o. Ford of Cleve-
land presented to the convention
the historic banner which Cleveland
Socialists presented to the Commu-
mist Party in Cleveland at the last
Lenin Memorial Day. This banner
was the same banner carried in the
famous 1919 May First parade by
c. E. Ruthenberg, founder and first
secretary of the Communist Party
of the U. S. A.
The banner was received on be-
half of the convention, by Ella Reeve
Bloor, veteran leader of class bat
ties. Mother Bloor's inspiring talk
brought a tremendous ovation.
John Williamson, in opening the
convention, said "We open this con-
vention, confident in the working
class-and our Party program, and
determined that under the leader
ship of our Central Committee and
the Communist International. we
will lead the daily struggles of the
American workers and make these
the rehearsal for our historic task OF
overthrowing capitalism and estab-
fishing a Soviet America"
James Ford, Negro Communist
leader, outlined the role of the Party
in fighting for the rights of the
oppressed Negro masses and on the
concentration in building the Party
in the factories. AS the last speaker
he summed up the chief tasks of the
Party. 1.-THE workers will fight" he
concluded, citing the strikes of the
miners, steel, taxi and other work
erS.
William L. Patterson, Nationa
Secretary of the International Labo,
Defense, spoke on the great struggle
to free the Scottsboro boys, and the
support pledged by the LID. to al
working class fighters.
Delegate Bender, a coal miner
from East Ohio, greeted the con.
vention on behalf of the miners, anc
emphasized the necessity of building
revolutionary unions and militant
oppositions in reformist unions.
Robert Minor, member of the Pol.
itical Bureau of the Party, was tht
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
1000 in Cleveland Hail Opening of Communist Contention

Transforming them into the common
property of all under the direction
of the revolutionary government.
There is no way out, in short, except
by the abolition of the capitalist
system and the establishment of a
Socialist society"
The international character of the
G. P. was strongly emphasized in
the opening mass session.
Anna Schultz greeted the conven-
ton in the name of the Central
Committee of the illegal Commu-
mist Party of Germany and of the
revolutionary and anti-fascist work.
ers of Germany.
'"Thaelmann is not here tonight.
but the fight for Thaelmanns free
dom is here" she said amid stormy
applause. THE C. P. of Germany
is alive and fighting. 1t has car
ried out 400 strikes by a united front
from below, and we must prepare
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04

for Soviet power, not only in Ger
many, but in the U. S. A. as well"
The convention stood a minute in
silence in honor of Petko Miletich,
foremost leader Of the illegal C. P.
of Jugo-SlaVia who, it was learned.
was murdered by -Slavian fas-
cist military dictatorship, after three
years of f1endish torture in prison.
The speech of Harold j. Asch.
former secretary of the Socialist
Party of California, brought out the
support given this convention by
rank and file socialists. Asch, now a
member of the Communist Party,
said: Il was in the Socialist Party
for 10 years. I should have left
years ago. I am now with my own
kind, with the revolutionary work
ers."
More than 300 have left the So
cialist Party in California and
joined the G. p, he said, as a result