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New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
BLANKETS IN AUTO AFII,E

Taking fire presumably from cigarette, blankets in an automobile truck owned by I. Birnbaum, Main street furniture dealer. caused lively blaze and caused considerable smoke, Saturday night in the garage in the rear of the Edwards property. Co. No. responded to a call at 9:27 o'clock and had the fire extinguished when someone pulled Box 42 at Main and East Main streets and brought out other companies.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
DOCTOR FOR 50 YEARS

Meriden, Feb. 14 [P - Dr. E. T. Bradstreet of ITO Colony street will observe his 75th birthday tomor- TOW. Dr. Bradstreet has been q practitioner here for the past 50 years and has served as medical examiner since 1901. He was born in Thomaston on February 15, 1852, and is the grandson of Seth Thomas, after whom Thomaston was named.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
TEN S1O0 BILLS GIVEN
 TO SWEDISH CAMPAIGN
New Britain Opens Drive to Aid Commemoration of Landing
 Anniversary.

The gift of 10 one hundred dollar bills have been received to start the drive for $15,O00 in this city to commemorate the 300th anniversary of tho landing of Swedes in Ameri- ca, according to Severin Johnson, chairman of the New Britain cam- paign.
 The officers. team captains and about 50 workers met in Vega hall yesterday afternoon and received final instructions for the drive, which begins tonight.
 Supper was served in the hall. The hostesses were Mesdames Sever in Johnson, Carl +. Carlson and Ed ward Peterson.
 Much enthusiasm is said to have marked the meeting.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
VASSAR TEACHER DIES

Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Feb. II LP)-- Lucy Maynard Salmon, professor of history at Vassar since 1887. died to- day. She was the oldest professor in active service at the school. She was educated at the University of Michi- gan and was a student in Paris and Florence. She began her teaching career in 1883 as instructor in his tory in the Indiana State Normal school.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
1Ilddlet0Wn Police Are
 Seeking Missing Man

Middletown. Feb. II tPl-Police were asked today to help locate Patrick Slattery, 45, who was last seen here Saturday night. Slattery is not married and vas unemployed. He left the home of his brother to go to a barber shop, and was seen near the Connecticut river later.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14

-NLN, NlN-..a IIty Bureau Mrs. Carrie Mast of Kansas City, Mo-, buried man she thought was her husband, and mourned his death for five months. Then the other day he walked in. The two are pie tured above. Mast denied memory of a suicide note, saying the writer intended to throw himself into the river. A body was found and Mrs Mast claimed it. The body has just been identified as that of Alfred Seitz, former University of Missouri
 student.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14

--NEA, Kansas City Bureau Fame has come with q rush to Miss Marjorie Rhoades, IS. of Caldwell, Kansas. In high school she was a basketball star. At Kansas State Teachers College, she was chosen the most beautiful student this win ter. Now friends have discovered she has a splendid voice, and are arranging for her to study for grand
 opera.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
MISS JOHNSON SURPRISED

Miss Alice Johnson of Maple Hill was tendered a surprise party at her home last evening by several friends from New Britain. The affair was in the nature Of a Valentine party and the homo was appropriately dec orated. Dancing was enjoyed and games were played.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
DUPONT DIVIDEND

Wilmington, Del, Feb. fl LP(-E. I. Dupont De Nemours and Com pany declared a quarterly dividend of S2 per share on the common stock. increasing the dividend from a s7 to an $S basis.
 A dividend of 11A per cent was declared on tho debcnture stock The common stock dividend is pay able March l to stockholders Of record March 1 and the deberture dividend of April 25 to stock of record April 9.
 The following additional directors were added to board: William P. Alien, A. B. Echols, w. I. Earring ton. Jasper F. Crane and F. B. Da- wis.
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New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
COL. JAMESON DIES

Bangor, Me-, Feb. IA P-Colonel Charles D. Jameson, who for many years occupied a confidential posi- ton with the Chinese government as engineering adviser. died in Sarasota, Fla, yesterday from pneu- monia according to word received here today.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
TO PRESENT MISSION PLAY

The Woman's Aid Society of the First Baptist church will present a play The Pill Bottle" tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock at the lec- ture hall of the church. The play deals with medical missionary work.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
ITALIAN SENATOR DIES

Naples, Italy, Feb. 14 P-Senator Leonardo Bianchi, 79. former min- ister of instruction. died today while addressing an assembly of the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery. He had been elected to the chamber of deputies many times and was famous as a scientist.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
LYNN SUES BLIND MAN
Says He Has SLIGO But Refuses To
 Pay Board In Poor House

Lynn, Mass, Feb. 14 (UP)-This city will go to court in an effort to ! collect SS a week, as board, from Arthur Waite, blind inmate of the city home.
 Municipal authorities claim that while Waite has S11O0 in cash he has declined to pay for his keep.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
MISSIONARIES TO RETURN

Manila. Feb. If Rl-Approximate ly 100 missionaries who came here from China as refugees are consid- ering plans to return to their field. They have received word that the Chinese government will guarantee them protection. Most of them came here from Foochow.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
Joint Wage Conference
 AdjOurns Until Tuesday

Miami, Fla, Feb. 14 (P1-The joint wage conference of operators and union miners of the Central Bi- luminous field was adjourned short ly before noon today to meet again at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
LINER BREAKS PROPELLER
Finland, With 800 on Board, is Re
 turning to New York

New York. Feb. II (UP)-The Panama Pacific line steamship Fin land. en route from New York to Pacific coast ports, broke a propeller while 500 miles out from New York and was returning to this port with one propeller working, radio advices to her agents here said.
 The Finland is due here tomor- row morning. Aboard the ship are 500 passengers.
 The radio messages to the com- pany agents said the weather was favorable and the ship was having no difficulty. Delay, it was explained. was the most serious consequence of the accident.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14

An effort is being made to bring another iceberg on the park which will eclipse any of it's predecessors, It is already up some ten feet with fair promise for the future.
 Gridley's hack had a funny turn over on South Main street this week. The lady occupants came out of the door suddint, but Mir. c. soon had things brought to rights again and went sailing on in his usual fine style.
 Lee & Flynn's grocery sleigh, with a boy as passenger, went tear ing down the street few days ago. and seeing another small boy fol- lowing q few moments after We in- ferred that he was on his way to gather up the remains.
 Instead of patronizing the waffle manufacturer that has been mean- dering about town this week go to any poor but honest shoe maker and purchase a moderate supply of fine leather and eat that. The stom- achal effects will prove quite similar.
 We hear of a lady resident on Walnut street who walked from her residence down to the store, to do some shopping, and there dis covered that she was hatless. It ira 1Snirp1 -hpt n Of removed 1t as she first came out of her door, and she had not noted it's loss till informed by the clerk at the store.
 One of the hack sleighs in town was smashed this week.
 Odershaw x Belden have a five cent cigar that is said to be leetle extra.
 The roof of portion of the Na- tional Wire Bed Shop caved in . few days ago, in consequence of the heavy body of snow.
 Ihe warm weather ot last Sunday and Monday made fearful walking and rendered also the sleighing, for the time being, bad enough.
 Beers turns out the most comfort able hack sleigh, by all odds. in town, having mounted his best hack upon runners. Try it and see for yourselves.
 Michael McMahon of East Main street, fell, last Sunday, from a roof that he had been engaged in cleans ing the snow from, and was severe- ly injured.
 Becker and Stuck have shifted back again to their old quarters.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14

Becker and Stuck have shifted back again to their old quarters. Becker 10 lager and Stuck to bread. Whether Stuck got Becker or Beck. CT got stuck we did not learn.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14

Michael McMahon of East Main street, fell, last Sunday, from roof that he had been engaged in clean- ing the snow from, and was severe- ly injured.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14
FIFTY YEARS AGO
 1T WAS REPORTED

An effort is being made to bring another iceberg on the park which will eclipse any of it's predecessors. It is already up some ten feet with fair promise for the future.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14

Beers turns out the most comfort able hack sleigh, by all odds. in town, having mounted his best hack upon runners. Try it and see for yourselves.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14

The warm weather of last Sunday and Monday made fearful walking and rendered also the sleighing, for the time being, bad enough.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14

Gridley's hack had a funny turn over on South Main street this week The lady occupants came out of the door suddint. but NIT. G. soon had things brought to rights again and went sailing on in his usual fine style.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14

The roof of a portion of the Na- tional Wire Bed Shop caved in . few days ago, in consequence of the heavy body of snow.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14

Lee & Flynn's grocery sleigh. with boy as passenger. went tear ing down the street few days ago, and seeing another small boy fol- lowing q few moments after, We in- ferred that he was on his way to gather up the remains.
New Britain herald., 1927-02-14

Instead of patronizing the waffle manufacturer that has been mean- dering about town this week go to any poor but honest shoe maker and purchase moderate supply of fine leather and eat that. The stom- achal effects will prove quite similar.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-16

original red card of membership, and
it was placed in a museum dedicated
to the history of the Communist
Party. He recalled the years of his
turbulant youth, when he had thrown
himself Fundamentally into the work
Of the liberation of the workers, and
many of the incidents, he brought
wildly to mind were found recorded
in the documents of a vast collection
of revolutionary literature.
Comrade Meyer has found his
peace. He has seen the crystalliza-
ton Of his dreams, the practice of his
theories, the liberation of a people. At
present he is in the USSR, having
prolonged his stay to witness the gala
festivals on the occasion of the
tenth anniversary of the Russian
Revolution. He may return with the
second party Of tourists, now being
arranged for by World Tourists, Inc.
of SO Fifth Avenue, New York.
The second tour, of two months
duration, will sail October the 18th,
and arrive in Soviet Russia in time
to participate in those celebrations so
anXiously being awaited by Comrade
Herman Meyer. He, and other mem
bers Of the first tour who have re-
ceived extensions of time for the
purpose as well as those going on the
second tour, will receive places of
honor during the celebrations.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-16
q CAN NOW Die IN PEACE, SAYS SEVENTYFTVE-YEAR-
OLD REVOLUTIONARY ON VISIT TO The U. S.SR.

II can now die in peace, knowing
that all the turbulence and persecu-
ton to which the revolutionary move
ment has been subjected since l be-
came a member in 1876 has not been
in vain"
These are the words of Herman
Meyer, seventy-five years old, who
last July set forth with the other
men and women making up the first
delegation of American workers who
visited the Soviet Union on a tour ar
ranged by World Tourists, Inc.
This man Travelled over three thou
sand miles from Seattle, Washington,
for the chance to witness the fruition
of long years of toll This carpenter
did not allow advanced age to bar his
making the long and tiresome
journey. The ideals he had struggled
for when those ideals were in their
infancy provided him with the neces-
sary vitality.
Joined Party At "a.
At the age of twenty-four Herman
Meyer had become an active revolu-
ZIONIST fired by the teachings of
Marx and Engels, whom he met three
years later in London, little sensing
the long and bitter struggle the fu-
ture held before at least one country
would realize those dreams. When
Meyer came to the Soviet Union he
exhibited to the Russian comrades his
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-16
Korean Workers On
Trial for WORKING
For Independence

TOXIC, Sept. 15.-Ninety-five
militant workers were put on trial at
Seoul, Korea, yesterday charged with
fighting for the independence Of
Korea. The japanese government
charges them with Intrigue against
the existing social order"
One thousand police surrounded the
court room, and barbed wire en-
tanglements were laid as a precaution
against protest demonstrations by
the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-16
Cabinet Secretary
Looks for job as
UnpopuIarity Grows

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.--Secre-
taTy Of Agriculture Jardine had under
consideration today tentative offer
to retire from the cabinet and be-
come head of cooperative" market
ing organization for Florida fruit and
vegetable growers at a salary of
about $4,000 annually.
No Extra Session Probable.
President Coolidge has not made up
his mind regarding the calling of an
extra session of congress, it was
said at the White House today.
A general intention of administra-
tive leaders is not to do anything of
the kind, as it will give an OPP
portunity for demands to be made
for relief for the farmers, and for
criticism Of the cabinet for not doing
something already. Any actual gov
eminent relief would interfere with
the bankers plans to use Hoover's
credit corporations to tie the flooded
farmers down with a network of mort
cages.
Tariff Fight Coming.
Because of tariff war threaten
ing between the United States and
France, revision of American tariff
duties cropped out today as a major
issue for the new congress. There
has been no tariff tinkering since
the .Fordney- McCumber act of 1922.
Spurred by the controversy with
France, leading democrats have mi
atod move to revise the tariff
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-16

]ected to its contents. The leaflets
contained the program of the World
War Veterans and an appeal for
members.
Agitation in the Legion for the
"pro-German" and pacifists has been
less pronounced lately than it once
was. During and directly after the
war whatever side thot first of call
ing his opponent "pro-German" won
the argument. This reply is now less
convincing as the sole answer to an
opinion with which one does not
agree, while it is again becoming al
most respectable to be a pacifist. It
must not be forgotten, however, that
American Legion opposition was
largely responsible for upsetting the
concert tour of an artist of interna-
tional reputation, Fritz Kreisler, in
the winter of 1920.
The New County organization of
the Legion attempted to raise its
voice in defense of the violinist by in
viting him to play at a concert under
its auspices, but pressure from other
quarters than the Legion led to the
abandonment of the project.
Objection by the American Legion
to the attempt to revive German
Opera in New York State led to riots,
while efforts to aid even German or
Austrian children by American charity
have been resisted.
When the Mayor of Pittsburgh gave
permission for "a tag day" for such
purpose, the humane Legionnaires
of the city declared they would not
permit collections, threatening even
to patrol the streets with rifles, and
compelling the mayor to leave the re-
viewing stand before they would pass
it in the Armistice Day parade.
One of the most recent and in MANY
ways remarkable anti-German out
breaks Of the Legion is that in the
motion picture industry of California.
The Los Angeles Times of May 8,
1921, said:
"The American Legion at $40
o'clock last night won a complete
victory in the first open fight in this
country on the German made film is
sue, when Hollywood post. after a day
of picketing and rioting lasting more
than six hours, caused Miller's The
atre to stop its performances of the
German made Cabinet of DR.. Cagi-
gari" and to put in its place the Los
Angeles made film.
"The Playhouse, which had started
the picture early in the afternoon for
a two weeks run, capitulated only
after it had been picketed for hours
by hundreds of men in uniform and
after the disturbances at its entrance
had gone to such extremes that two
mob rushes had been attempted, rot
ten eggs had been hurled, and police
and provost court forces had been
reinforced until they numbered thirty
five men,"
Ten days later the same newspaper
announced that at a meeting of the
loyal American Film League it had
been decided to send a representative
to Chicago, New York, Washington
and other cities in an effort to sup
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-16
The Crimes Of the American LEGION

Here additional facts revealing the Legion
in its struggle against the working class n this
scheduled Monday French workers
see in the American Legion the beginnings
on the this country of this fact
Read the the legion the
past judge yourself
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-16

port the campaign against German
made motion pictures. According to
reliable correspondent "The agita-
ton leading up to this riot (that at
the theatre) made no attempt to con-
ceal the simple economic motive.
About 80 per cent of the Hollywood
Post Of the American Legion are en-
plOyed in the film industry, or rather
unemployed in that industry" The
humorous side of the incident is that
"The Money Changers" the American
film which was substituted for "The
Cabinet of DR.. Caligari," is from a
novel of Upton Sinclair!
According to recent information the
Legion is responding handsomely to
an attempt to use it as a catspaw to
obtain from congress prohibitive
tariff against German firms. The
New York World comments:
"They (moving picture patrons)
will be curious to know why the
American art industry which was
supposed to be foremost in the world
has to be safeguarded against foreign
competition just like shoes or clothes?
Are not American movies the most
wonderful ever conceived? If they
happen to be the most costly, that
disadvantage was presumed to be
offset by their superior quality. j..
Motion pictures production in this
country is suffering from initiation
with all the waste and inefficiency
that characterizes that condition
Competition from Germany or any
where else should help instead of him
dering its artistic and commercial de-
velopment
Preaching VS. Practise.
Against the Legion's long, long
trail of lawlessness there have not
been lacking protests within the or
ganization, but they have not been
backed by utterances of a contrary
sort from equally important sources.
Mention has already been made of
Franklin D'Olier's warning against
interference with public officers. IN
fortunately, almost simultaneously,
the American Legion Weekly quoted
editorially:
Local posts may be said to have
established sharp vigil over the
functioning of local government. They
are seeing to it that neither sins of
omission or commission are permitted
to flourish when it comes to matters
of law and order and sound Ameri-
canism."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-16

THE action of the American Legion
in Detroit, when William D. Hay
wood at that time head of the In
dustrial Workers Of the World,
planned to speak there shortly after
his conviction in Chicago, is a notori-
Gus incident of interference with pub
lie officers.
Mayor Couzens said that Haywood
had right to speak and would be
permitted to do so as long as he re-
manned within the law When David
G. Jones, adjutant of the Charles A.
Larned Post, No. l, heard this, he re-
piled, according to the Detroit
Journal: Regardless of what Mayor
Couzens says, Haywood will not speak
in Detroit. At our regular meeting
Wednesday night vigilance commit
tee was appointed for the very pur-
pose of preventing any speech by
Haywood in Detroit He will not
speak"
A DISPATCH from Lodi, California,
"A t the San Francisco Examiner,
Jan. %, 1921, said:
Called upon the carpet before the
American Legion meeting here upon
a charge of defacing a picture of
President Wilson, which was displayed
in the office of their reality firm,
Samuel and John Lochenmaier,
wealthy residents, have since been or
dered to dispose Of their property and
leave Lodi The notice was served by
Major Garrison, commander of the
post"
Of course the Legion has always
been keen in the persuit of anything
branded radical" or "bolshevist."
Thus the Peoples Charge, of Louis
vile, Kentucky, was compelled to dis
continue because of Economic pres
sure" brought by the jefferson Post,
which charged John G. Still, the pas
tor, with anarchistic teachings. The
economic pressure" consisted chiefly
of visiting advertisers in the pre-
scribed publication and inducing them
to withdraw their support.
In New Brunswick, New Jersey,
campaign was made against "extre-
mist" newspapers and magazines by
visiting all the dealers and getting
them to withdraw the offending pub
LEGATIONS from sale. One of the Le-
gion's most brutal pieces of interfer-
ence was directed against the Men
nonites of Mississippi, because of
their German speech and pacifist
doctrine. The state convention called
upon the prosecuting officers of
Mississippi to proceed against the
Mennonite settlement and asked Le-
gion members to take lawful steps to
prevent discontinuance What lawful
steps it was possible for Legion mem
bers to take was not indicated. Nor
does the Legion disdain to use the
cover of 900 per cent Americanism"
to attack its rivals.
In Ell Paso, Texas, a couple of
months ago, the said council forbade
the circulation of leaflet of the
World War Veterans because the at
torneys for the local Legion post OBJ
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-16
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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-16

In Ell Paso, Texas, a couple of
months ago, the said council forbade
the circulation of a leaflet of the
World War Veterans because the at
torneys for the local Legion post OBJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-11
BLUE AND GRAY FAST
CHANGING INTO KHAKI
Civil War Uniforms Being Re.
placed at Soldiers Home
In Leavenworth.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
LEAVENWORTH. Kans.-Blue and
gray uniforms Of the Civil War are
fast fading into khaki at sthe Ma
tional Soldiers Home near here. and
not many years hence there will be
no one to recount vivid stories of
Sherman's march to the sea or OF the
Confederate sweep up the Potomac.
Ten years ago there were 1929
Civil war veterans cared for at the
home, $50 Spanish-American, 2O1 In,
dian campaigners and provisional
army men, and seven Mexican War
Yin In 1925 only 1921 Civil War vet
erans were cared for. while 1,47S
Spanish. American War veterans and
1919 World War veterans received
attention.
The proportion Of Civil War men
is fast declining, and when the griz'
lied veterans Of 81 gather on the
broad lawn Of the home to talk over
the stirring events Of those stirring
times they encounter alien references
to San Juan Hill. Belleau Wood or
the Argonne.