Page Siz THE PEHEOPLE’S ADVOCATE British “Count Us Out” Protest Receives Great Support CATRO, Egypt. — “Might as well rule the British out,” was the _terse statement of the British spokesman represent- ing England and the Dominions at the conference on the Olym- pic’ Games here. eatening to “walk out? i: is- gust if the 1949 Olympic Gane were allotted to Tokyo, US, Brit- ish, Canadian, Australian and Scandinavian athletes were unani-_ mous in their protest against the selection of the Japanese site for the meets. Hundreds of Cablegrams from all parts of the USA Showered upon the convening American delegates to the conference demanding that another site by chosen. Opposing the rapidly Srowing world-wide de- mand for a boycott of the Olympiad if held in Tokio was Avery Brun- dage, AAU Czar, who remained firm in his championship of the Tokyo choice, despite the hundreds of letters of protest that found their way to the conference. Lawrence Robertson, one of the most famous of American track coaches, charged the INipponese with proving themselves unsports- manlike by their air attacks on the defenceless Chinese populace and made a further flat statemen tthat he would have absolutely nothing to do with the 1940 events if staged in Japan. VERNON—A _ record total of 10,502 persons attended the five Opposing Games At Tokio Bazano Flattens Kolbas At VSC CCF Plans Sports Day Highland Dancing, Boxing Mooted Plans are already under way for the fourth annual CCF Sports Day to be held at Hastings Park, May 24, rain or shine. games of the interior British Co- lumbia amateur intermediate play- offs. NEW LION HOTEL 122 EAST HASTINGS STREET The initial committee will sit on Sunday in the second session this year at Mount Pleasant Local, for- merly Advance CCE Club. The committee, formed by one delegate from every CCE club in Vancouver, is headed by Charlie Chappell, Bob Skinner, secretary-treasurer, and Bill Braithwaite. Efforts are being made to make htis years’ program even better than the preceding thre and at the rate ground work is proceeding there is little doubt but that the object will be attained. With the regular track and. field events there is planned a gala windup in shape of a grandstand perform- ance, using all-union entertainers. As a novelty attraction there has been some discussion on the holding of a Highland dancing competition and an amateur box- ing tournament, neither of which, however, has been discussed by the full committee. e Boycott Japanese Goods. Where Quality and Service Are Supreme 100% Union House 3 q i05 E. Hastings St. 3 CARLETON CAFE Johnny Kulak, Mer. Tel. Sey. 4060 Private Dining Room for Banquets, Parties, Etc. GO WiTH THE CROWDS TO THE — ROYAL THEATRE For Vancouver’s Biggest and Be st Vaudeville and Stage Show Two Selected Pictures at Every Performance ADMISSION: 5c, 10c, and 15c atest in Vaudeville Dazzling Stage Show [emanates cI) fi Ladies’ Half Soles and Heel Ladies’ Leather Heel Men’s Half Soles and Rubber Heels $1.00, $1.25, $1.40 85c — Guaranteed English Leather — NEW METHOD SHOE 337 Carrall Si. This advertisement is not published or displayed by the Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Columbia. Bazano Bis Time, Says Writer And from out of the din and the glare there arose, not a miner fresh from the creeks, but the triumphant 235-pound form of Tiny Bazano, one of the most colorful and resource- ful of the cauliflowered gentry Known as “wrestlers.” in the last event of a Sizzling double-barrelled attempt on the part of the fast-beconiing-famous VSC to give the cash customers an honest-to-gosh thriller for the two- jit ante. Tiny Bazano took two falls from Powell River’s champion wrestler, Mickey Kolbas, in such a manner as to leave no doubt of his superiority. Interviewed after the match, Kolbas, hitherto unbeaten in every Start, sadly shook his head and muttered something about “That Suy is really good,” and when Kol- bas makes a statement like that the guy must be good. Bazano, built like a greek god and about five times as colorful, had a tought time with the bronzed boy from up-coast and very nearly. lost by a KO several times when Mickey landed damaging wallops to the Bazano digestive area but came back strongly each time. Serious Threat This young 28-year-old pachy- derm is the second VSC contribu- tion to the big-time mat wars and is a serious threat to Nagurski, Szabo and crowd, certainly their match in color and strength. The first to leave for the big time from the club was Rham Singh, who The Ruling Clawss ——_ mE z Site Fk See aa “ce = > . . No, this is one of the new union recreation halls be Morgan’s sitting room.” . It used to took his first lessons from Tiny and is now rated sixth by the “Ring.” in the first main event, George Bunka got the combination of the Boston Kid, iron man if ever there were one. Bunka stood the crowd on its ear by hanging both Kid and Referee Jackson at the same time and practising punting on the re- spective nether regions at one and the same time. Bunka used a fly- ing mare and an airplane spin to win. Im the boxing half of the card, Paddy O’Brien, also fresh from the creeks (same apologies), show- ed for the first time in the new hall to draw with Guy Cantrell, hard-socking red head from the Victoria Road Recreation. The bout received the best hand of the evening’s boxing entertainment. Sports Writers Stuck For Libel LONDON.—English sport writ- ers can hardly say “boo” to any of the “‘ould sod’s’” ham-and-epgers without becoming involved in a libel suit, or something, so strict are the libel laws in England. Ben Bennison, veteran English boxing authority, cost his paper a judge- ment of $5000 for saying that Jim- my Wilde had koyoed Boy McCor- mick, a statement that is literally true. Len Harvey, in an article published in the London Express, questioned a referee’s decision and the court awarded the injured re- feree $2,500 damages. For inti- mating that the Scotch champion, Dave Forbes, had a pale orange streak up his back, Boxing, a mag- azine, paid $40,000. YE OLDE ENGLISH FISH & CHIPS RESTAURANT SEA FOODS High Quality Food, Cooked and Served by All White Help 100% Union from Front to Back — Visit Us at — 46 WEST HASTINGS ST. HEE EE EB Why Go Farther? — Our Coffee Come in any time. . HBEHESESEE Es A Fresh Coffee with a PICK THE B MADELON CONFECTIONERY 169 EAST HASTINGS STREET DATE STAMPED COFFEE CONTEST Entry Forms at Your Grocers CASH PRIZES By Art Schwartz HAS been frequently argued that sports writers, good or bad, are so far removed from has little or no effect on the popular mind. By no stretch of the imagination could I consider this true. Two sportswriters may witness a boxing match, boat race or corn-husking competition and they will each come out with if views of the affair governed by their particular fancy. They will write according to the subtle poli- cies of the syndicate from which they draw their pay. Sports writers can perform a use- ful service for fascism by glorify- ing the “lust to kill”; an ingredient in many sports where 99 percent of those present watch rather than play. A compelling instance of this wilful perversion of sports is in the reports of two separate writers working for different syndicates, from each of which IT submit ex- cerpts and let the reports speak for themselves. The first is by Bob Considine, sports writers for Hearst’s Interna- tional News Service: “Madison Square Garden, NY, Feb. 23-—All the ferocious cruelty that brought him to the top of the fight game came back to the fists and .heart of Joe Louis here to- night when the brown bomber butchered Nathan Mann .. . “Once again the merciless stalk- er, Louis, leaner and meaner than since the night he destroyed Car- nera, floored his game foe four times before Mann, giddy and gory from punches, was counted out by Referee Arthur Donovan. a - - in the second he began chopping down his man with an applied sadism that throttled the boos. . . . He began the onslaught slowly, only his bright mongoose eyes hinting the furies that ran down his chocolate arms and con- gealed in his fists .. . the red stuff drooled down Mann’s wire-bristle chin. . . . Louis beat him to a punch with an inhumane left hook... . Louis came hammering after him, his thick nostrils wide, eyes bright. ...” Do you begin to CAN’T Be Beat! . The gang’s all here. Rich, Mellow Flavor EST MOVIE and his politics that their writing get the idea? Now look at the parallel excerpts from UP’s John Wardner who is, incidentally, one of the frankest and merriest sportswriters in the game: “. .. One minute and 56 seconds after the third session began WNa- than was on his knees and gog- gling at referee Arthur Donovan as Mr. Donovan counted him out. A left hook deposited squarely on the chin, put Nathan in cold storage for the evening. They dragged him off to his corner and Louis looked mildly around at the crowd, and the crowd responded with howls of disappointment.” Well, that’s that, but Vil bet my other shirt that any morning-after reader thought these men had written about two different frays altogether. The moral of all this is that even a sportswriter’s style on the capitalist press is governed by the outfit that sets up his “cof- fee and—’’. * * The Local Round . . . Seven or eight of the N’Shore Olympic Club leatherpushers, under Shorty Scho- ele’s wing, journey to the newly merged Victoria Recreation Club tonight for a mit-mat-melee. .. . Sonny Griffiths, well-known local welter of a few years back, is don- ning the pillows again for another shot at the toughtest game in the world. Sonny will train at the VSC exclusively. Ronnie (Brenchy) Beaudin is coming back to Vancouver’s ring wars, writing that the pay back easthas a funny smell. ... Jimmy Chapman is an- other near-future homecomer. .. - VSC is now the best equipped training gym in the burg at two- bits the month. - Dick Smith, WA. (soccer) scrappy little right- winger, debuts fistically at the Orange Hall Sat’day nite ...in the other corner is Jimmie Cowan... . This’ll be worth watching. ... *= — Vancouver Sports Club — SATURDAY, 3:30 P.M. SHARP ® BOXING ® WRESTLING DRANGE HALL Adm. 10c fae astings Auditorium 828 East Hastings St. MODERN DANCES EVERY Thursday and Saturday 9 to 12 Malmin’s Popular Orchestra ADMISSION — Only 25c also INDEPENDENT WHIST DRIVE Every Thursday with Free Admission te Dance Two first Prizes $5.00 each, etc., and Pool. Also two other prizes and a $5.00 monthly prize. Continued From Page One treachery, espionage, wrecking and the treatment meted out to talist courts. This, to me, is one the trial. In spite of the fact that we at wanted to submit was arbitrarily ruled out, while the prosecution was allowed all kinds of lattitude. = Received Indictment In this trial here, the presiding judge asked each of the accused separately if he had received a copy of the indictment. They al] an- swered “Yes.” Then the full indict- ment was read out. After that, each of the accused was offered the services of defense counsel. Two of them took counsel and the others intimated that they would rather handle their own case. Then the judge advised each of the accused that he had the right to call any witnesses he wanted to, and to question any or all witnesses. The attitude of the State Prosecu- tor A. Y. Vishinsky was indeed a revelation to me. He does not, like the usual prosecutor in a Canadian court does, bully and browbeat wit- nesses or the accused. He does not walk up and down and: shout at them with a threatening mien. But the sight of some of the ac- cused jumping up to their feet and interjecting, interrupting or contra- dicting would cause Justice Wright to turn in his graye or worse: An example of this was: Vishinsky urges Bukharin ot come to a cer- tain point and Bukharin remarked casually, ‘‘I’ll come to that later.” Anothem example: the accused Krestinsky said: “I don’t feel well,” and Vishinsky immediately said, “In that case we'll stop questioning you, but do you fell well enough to listen to the evidence?” Krestinsky replied, “Yes.” Then Vishinsky said, “Very well) let Bessanoy continue.’ Interjected Remarks Five minutes afterwards Kres- tinsky was on his feet, interjecting and arguing with Bessanoy on a point of Bessanov’s evidence. I strive in vain to imagine such an in- cident in a Canadian court! The accused in the prisoners’ box represent further-reaching forces than the wreckers, spies, saboteurs, and murderers who operated under their direction within the Soviet Union. Listening to the indictment and the evidence one feels as though a heavy curtain was being drawn aside. Behind the criminal con- spirators in the dock one feels the sinister forces of international] re- action and especially the fascist States working ceaselessly by all available means and methods to hinder socialist construction and weaken the socialist fatherland of the toilers and exploited of the world. An example: The accused Grinko admitted that while he was com- missar of finances he sought and nately confessed to and accused each other of are revolti decent people with a spark of human feeling. i To one man like myself, however, whose previous exper, is limited to Canadian courts there is a sharp contrast bet. the treatment they are receiving in this Soviet court of jv I felt impelled, while sitting in the court, to compare this’ the treatment that I and my seven comrades received a hands of Justice Wright and the Crown Prosecutors N. Sc: ville and J. Sedgewick in 1931 at the historic Section 98 tri:- definite political charges, we were given less consideration — common criminals and defaulting brokers. Every conceix obstacle was thrown in the way of our defense by the jv police and prosecutor, as is well remembered. Evidence the They are charged with criminal offenses in accordance § article 58 of the criminal code of the USSR. 4 The erimes with which they are charged and their | and murder which they = see \ prisoners and accused in * of the most striking featuz that time were standing tri) Poland on behalf of a secret ni} alist-fascist organization of 1° he was a member and which ple” to betray the Ukraine to Polany fascist Germany. Grinko ~* Soviet money available to Tre } ist conspirators, strove to di Soviet finances and create cur! {| difficulties at the behest of fo. governments which came thr | the Trotskyist centre. Germany Subsidy The accused Bessanoy desci how an arrangement had been r and operated by which the Ger intelligence service subsidized takoy to the tune of 250,000 m pearly. Chernoy, ex-commissa agriculture, confessed that he personally received 30,000 m and 150,000 rubles from the Ger Secret service for espionage wrecking work. Ivanov, anothe the accused, in his evidence rel his relations with the British | telligence service. The connections of that a. enemy of the people, L. Trot. With the German secret ser Since 1921 and with the Bri secret service since 1926 was point of departure for systen: reliance by the Trotskyist crim) adventurers upon traitorous 3 tions with hostile foreign poy through their intelligence dep ments. | Integration of all their crim : activities under the géneral di tion of secret services of vari capitalist states, wrecking, mur a plot to seize the Kremlin by ec couspiracy to lay open the front for the invaders and attempts |. widespread diversions and muti is the logical sequence to the surance given by the accused Ry Several years ago. 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