September 25, 1935
The Cardinals and the Cubs began a critical late season series today at Sportsman's Park. The Cards entered the series three games back, with five games left to play. The Cubs started Lon Warneke against Paul Dean. Dean was to finish the season 19-12 with a 3.37 ERA. Warneke was to be a twenty game winner thanks to today's contest in which the Cubs prevailed, 1-0. Dean struck out the first four batters he faced but then Phil Cavaretta hit a home run onto the roof for the game's only run. Cavaretta, the Cubs first baseman, was 18 years old.
The Tigers lost, 3-2, to the Indians but they had clinched the AL flag back on September 21st when they swept a doubleheader from the hapless Browns. The Browns ended the season with a 65-87 record in seventh place.
In The Nation today an item on a demonstration in Chicago by the American League Against War and Fascism protesting the "impending conflict between Italy and Ethiopia." The League applied for a permit for the demonstration which was refused "on the ground that the proposed demonstration was a 'hostile act toward a friendly power.'" The Police Commissioner punctuated the permit's denial by stating: "there isn't going to be any parade, and those who try to parade will get their heads cracked."
He was as good as his word. According to The Nation's account:
A number of persons who attempted to march, without otherwise committing any breach of the peace, were set upon by policemen. Old men and women, Negro and white, were among the victims; clubs were the weapons, although kicks and arm-twisting were also freely employed. Some 400 persons were arrested, several score being herded into a bullpen about twenty-five feet long and twelve feet wide. The injured were ignored, although some were bleeding copiously from the blows of policemen's clubs; for two or three hours even water was denied the prisoners.
Newsreels of the event apparently featured this commentary: "if these people want to start a war, let them go back where they came from."
The Nation also featured an article entitled "The Right of Asylum". The article lamented the government's policy of refusing to grant asylum in cases of deportation:
we do not hesitate to return an anti-fascist to Italy, where he may be put to death, or a militant anti-Nazi to Germany, or a Chinese student "agitator" to the tender mercies of his native firing squads. The fact that death or long prison sentences may wait these persons when they reach the countries of their origin deters us as little as the fact that in deporting them we may leave their native-born American children without economic support.
The article also noted that proposals had been made, but not enacted, in Congress to deport "no fewer than 6,000,000 aliens, as a means of solving the unemployment problem."
The Tigers lost, 3-2, to the Indians but they had clinched the AL flag back on September 21st when they swept a doubleheader from the hapless Browns. The Browns ended the season with a 65-87 record in seventh place.
In The Nation today an item on a demonstration in Chicago by the American League Against War and Fascism protesting the "impending conflict between Italy and Ethiopia." The League applied for a permit for the demonstration which was refused "on the ground that the proposed demonstration was a 'hostile act toward a friendly power.'" The Police Commissioner punctuated the permit's denial by stating: "there isn't going to be any parade, and those who try to parade will get their heads cracked."
He was as good as his word. According to The Nation's account:
A number of persons who attempted to march, without otherwise committing any breach of the peace, were set upon by policemen. Old men and women, Negro and white, were among the victims; clubs were the weapons, although kicks and arm-twisting were also freely employed. Some 400 persons were arrested, several score being herded into a bullpen about twenty-five feet long and twelve feet wide. The injured were ignored, although some were bleeding copiously from the blows of policemen's clubs; for two or three hours even water was denied the prisoners.
Newsreels of the event apparently featured this commentary: "if these people want to start a war, let them go back where they came from."
The Nation also featured an article entitled "The Right of Asylum". The article lamented the government's policy of refusing to grant asylum in cases of deportation:
we do not hesitate to return an anti-fascist to Italy, where he may be put to death, or a militant anti-Nazi to Germany, or a Chinese student "agitator" to the tender mercies of his native firing squads. The fact that death or long prison sentences may wait these persons when they reach the countries of their origin deters us as little as the fact that in deporting them we may leave their native-born American children without economic support.
The article also noted that proposals had been made, but not enacted, in Congress to deport "no fewer than 6,000,000 aliens, as a means of solving the unemployment problem."
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