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New Britain herald., 1927-06-28

shaft Is larger and heavier, the con- meeting rods re-designed, and the bearings enlarged to care for the additional power loads.
 Experimental runs in the new Es- sex have shown it capable both of higher speed and of improved per- formance throughout its entire range. Maximum speed is now well above a mile-a-minute, while the company continues it's assurances that the car may be safely driven at 50 miles an hour all day long. Even at it's best performance, the motor operates smoothly and with out apparent effort. The Essex mo- tor retains its essential high grade items: aluminium pistons, all con- meeting rods balanced, crankshaft built under Hudson Super-six prin- ciples, roller tappets, front end drive by silent chain, highly de- vcloped splash lubrications. etc.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-28
MOTOR IS LARGER

The improvements in the new Essex affect both it's performing ability and it's appearance. The mo- tor is improved in detail and is en- larged in displacement by about 10 per cent. This is accomplished by adding one-quarter inch to the stroke, the new dimensions being ? 11-16 by 1-2 inches. The crank
New Britain herald., 1927-06-28
PLEASING CURVED LINES

The new bodies are more attrac- tive throughout. The req, quarters of all enclosed car-the coupe, the coach and sedar are rounded in pleasing curves. All these cars. too, ar painted in duo-tones. Mouldings and window reveals are employed as decorative features. The wheels are an inch smaller. setting the whole car closer to the ground. Road clear ance. however. is not affected. be- cause of change in the rear axle design. Large sized tires give the whole half of the car remarkably trim and rugged appearance. Ip- holstery is in fabrics of richer de- sign and material than ever before used in Essex cars. All enclosed cars have dome light, door pocket, rear vision mirror. window curtains.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-28
BURNED IN TRUCK FIRE

A. Mancini of f Franklin street was painfully burned about the face and hands shortly before o'clock this afternoon when his automobile truck took fire at the Colonial F'll- ing Station at IS Hartford avenue. It is believed he was having his truck filled with gasoline while the engine was running. The truck was damaged. The fire department was called by an alarm from Box 43.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-28

Kahuli. Maui. in Hawaii. There Is . 400-mile break" in mid Pacific. where . void exists between the two links.
 The beacon is in reality . series of sounds in the radio earphones by which the pilot can tell whether he is on or off course.
 Ships on the Alert
 San Francisco. Calif. June 28 (UP)-At least ten commercial vessels, strung out along the sea lanes between this port and Hono- lulu, have received radio instruc- tions to give all assistance possible to the trans-Pacific planes of Lieut.. Lester Maitland and Ernest L. Smith.
 At radio headquarters in San Francisco it was announced that network of radio connections had already been established.
 Masters of vessels were instruct ed not only to hold themselves ready to perform any service, but to broadcast complete details when ever the fliers are sighted or heard from.
 Vessels also will be prepared to signal latitude and longitude to both planes by use of signal flags.
 Included among the vessels now between San Francisco and Hono- lulu are the Somina. Sierra and Calawaii. all passenger ships. The Watson ships Maui and Matson,a are on the course and two Matson freighters. bound for Honolulu from Puget Sound. are reported nearing the great circle route to the Ha- l waiian islands.
 Dollar and Nippon Yusen Kaisha liners as we'll as several oil tankers also are between here and the is- | lands.
 Preparing Welcome Honolulu. June 2s (UP)-Hawaii was prepared today to extend her famous Aloha" greeting to the first , fliers to reach here from across the Pacific.
 When definite word was received that the trans-Paciflc fliers were planning to start on their oceanic journey. little time was lost in ar- ranging an official reception and well coming program. and should the f1iers reach here tomorrow they will require no letters of introduction.
 At Wheeler field, a crew of car penters was put at work constructing a platform upon which Governor Wallace Harrington, General Lewis, General Smith, Mayor Arnold of Honolulu and other prominent off, cials and citizens will welcome the airmen. The entire population Of the islands has been invited to witness the landing and battalion of troops from Schoefield barracks has been assigned to guard duty. Parking space has been provided near the field for 10000 automobiles.
 After the first greetings are over and the history-making airplane pro- vided for, procession will be formed and started on the 26 mile trip to Honolulu, where luxurious suite had been provided for the f1iers in the Royal Hawaiian hotel.
 At the hotel newspapermen will be permitted to interview the fliers, after which they will be allowed 12 hours sleep, with strict orders that they not be disturbed.
 The program planned for Thursday includes a public reception at the capital grounds. after which they will make official calls upon the gov- ernor and the commanding generals of the army and navy headquarters.
 At noon Thursday public lunch con is planned on the roof garden of the Alexander Young hotel. An official dinner at the Royal Hawaiian, followed by another public reception and dance is planned for Thursday night.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-28

ato. Joseph Haffey. A. J. DeLaurier and L. w. Vogel.
 Mir. Vogel presented a collection of gifts to Luke Stevens in celebration of the birth of boy. MT. Stevens presented cigars to the members Of the club.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-28
DOG BITES LITTLE BOY

Mrs. Blasko of 23S Jerome street complained that her eight year old son, Steve, was bitten in the back and on the leg by dog owned by Dr. Waterman Lyon of 249 Jerome street. An investigation is being made.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-28
BOY sHOTWITH BLANK

John Starkoski of 20 Nash street complained to Captain Kelly today that his son was shot in the left leg by a blank cartridge pistol fired by a 13 year old boy living in the neighborhood An investigation IS being made.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-28

Collins warned him that he had no right to take the license and regis
 tration certificates and in the future he must make complaints to the po- lice if he would avoid trouble.
New Britain herald., 1927-06-28
LOCATING HAWAII
 IS NO EASY TASK
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instruments are the sun compass and the bubble sextant. both of which were used by Byrd in his po- lar flight. The horizon sextant, now under experimentation, still lacks the perfection to make it of much use.
 Radio Beacon Operating.
 Pliers to Hawaii have the advant- age of the radio beacon, now used for the first time on an extended flight. By it they are enabled to follow . radio highway of 20 miles wide and 1000 miles long at both the beginning and end of the jour nev.
 One beacon. to send guiding waves over the ocean, Is located at Ian Trancisco and the other near
New Britain herald., 1927-06-28

transmission anti-theft lock, and all instruments grouped under glass and indirectly lighted.
 An interesting advancement has been made in the seating arrange ment of the coach. The right front seat is mounted on a mechanism which allows it to slide forward far enough so that passengers in the rear seat can leave or enter the car without disturbing the front seat rider. The action of this new device is entirely simple and positive. and adds decidedly to the convenience of the coach-type enclosed car.
 The coupe Is finished optionally in leather for business purposes.
 NEW CAR DETAILS
 List prices of the new cars. f. 0. b. Detroit, and color combinations are:
 Essex -2-passenger- s7Oo; entire body and hood in Sa- hara Sand; moulding and wheels Emerald; stripping black, edged with red.
 Essex coach and coupe-each s735: finished in two tones of green; moulding in black with green center and edged with straw color. Essex coupe trimmed with leather s15 extra.
 Essex sedan - 5-passenger. $s35. finished tin two tones of Gray. Moulding deep green edged with white.
 Essex 4-passenger speedster, SS36; entire body in Gray; moulding in green with black stripe in center. edged with cream color
New Britain herald., 1927-06-28

Remarks Visiting Grand Chancel- lors, E. B. Barco, Mass. R. l.: Lee w. Crawford, N. Y.: B. w. r. Crowell, Vt.
 John F. Baker Is chairman of the local committee on receiving visiting delegates.
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tAbove) Essex, which created ths Coach type body, has per fscted an arrangement which makes entrance to the rear compartment easy.
 (RIoht) Essex power ls In. ereassd through | motor which is improved throughout and slightly enlarged. These new Essex will travel easily at bet. ter than | mile a minute.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-24
AmericanisIl-- What Is It?

Challenged from the floor by delegate the Chicago Fed
GRAFTON of Labor whether would be permitted
to speak WCF the radio station maintained by
trial labor body John Fitzpatrick president of the body
THE radio station to Communists just open
If Communists have something that urthers
(Our emphasis.)
Now, what does Mr. Fitzpatrick mean by Americansm?
What is most typical of industrial America today?
Is not the shooting down of striking miners in the coal
fields of Colorado?
Is it not the starving of thousands of
pendents in the bituminous fields?
Is the stranguaton trade union activity by in
junction?
Is it not the ynchng burning tarrng feathering of
Negroes?
Is it company unonism at the heart of
the trade union movement the first line of defense
ingclass?
the persecution foreign workers for their &C
Invites in the class struggle?
it not the of Nicaragua plotting against
the neighbong republic of Mexico subugation the Flip
mos and the blasting of Chinese cities murder of Chinese
people by the guns of American warshps?
This is not ALL but it is enough
And this is the for which Fitzpatrick stands
no matter how cautiously he walks the political tight rope
On this kind of Americansm the Communists have declared
relentless in which they will neither give quarter
Because it opposed the interests working masses
dagger at their hearts and rope their necks
And because the Communists will further reacher-
policy of casscoaboraon and all that implies according
to the Fitzpatrick gospel there little likelihood
be permitted to speak from the VIGIL mcrophone despite
sophy of Fitzpatrick except thru the organized
masses of Chicago workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-24
Trying to Conceal the Iron Fist in the Philippines

Among the difficult tasks facing American imperialism in the
Philippines is that of finding native elements who will aid the
governor general in holding the population in subsection For
system been whereby the depart
ent which exercises direct control over the islands,
the Philippine legislature the provision Of funds for the
poyment of native civilian aides for the governor general
The late governor general Leonard Wood complained nces
sanity that the Philippine legislature exercised undue influence
over his by of the that they paid
from the legislative treasury The result that bill in
PRODUCED into the United States providing that the
collected by the United States bureau Of internal
Philippine tobacco products which at present goes the
Philippine legislature should be turned directly to the
general that he his aides and compel them
enforce the despotc nperast mandates of the Wall Street
government at Washington.
fundamental principle of imperas policy is involved in
the Philippine problem of aides for the governor general
create the illusion that the natives them
and that the governor general merely benevolent
patiently waiting for the day when the natives capable
Of segovenmen to the euphemsm Cal Coolidge used in
his last speech before wherein he condemned the Philip
pins to perpetual serNitude
Thus far those native aides who were paid by the egisa
from the proceeds the shipped
the islands have refused engage espionage against and
Of the nationalist the islands, with the
suit that American soldiers and officers assigned to such
work.
The York Times, speaking the new bill to
the native aides from the influence of the legislature
that the presence the Islands the officers
acting aides has lent color the charge that the
is marstc The idea to be to conceal the iron fist
of Imperialism by the of native erenares and to force the
Fpno the bill This system has been used for decades
by British imperialism in trying to make its rule supreme its
going colonial revos that Britain the necessity
larger forces in the colonies and the experience will
repeated the Philippines the overwhelming majority
the population opposed the rule of the mperaist bgands
who for than quarter of century have the
try and enslaved the of workers and peasants
The Fpnos have shown continuity of resistance
Imperialism that is admirable only awaiting
orabe opportunity drive its agents from the Islands
Their attempts at liberation have the unstnted support
class conscious elements of the working class of the United
and our duty this country to fight against and reentess
expose the servants of Wall Street congress responsible
the introduction legislation directed against
the Philippine legislature in the bill that will the
coming session of that is only weeks away.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-24
Bacchus' Train
XVIII.

Continued from Last Issue.l
is alcohol ever to be credited with
< the flights of genius? I asked this
question of George Sterling, saying
that | wanted TO quote him as an
authority. He answered, instantly,
"Never! Absolutely never! You write
things that you think are marvellous,
but next morning when you read
them over, you discover they are non
sense"
The opposite belief was held by a
near-genius whose memory has been
piously embalmed by his wife, in a
beautiful book called "The Road to
the Temple" I hope I shall not pain
her too much if I say that the ex-
cellence of the book seems to me far
more the product of Susan Glaspell
than of George Cram Cook. Susan is
in her own right dramatist of pow
er; while Gig" as his friends called
him, was poet only to his devoted
wife. She gives us pages upon pages
of his free verse, and it seems to me
an easy kind of poetry to write.
Many years ago Jig Cook wrote a
novel, "The Chasm," and it made me
happy because it was an out-and-out
Socialist novel, and pray day and
night for American Socialist novels.
In twenty-four years I have had only
two answers---the other one being
"Comrade Yetta." So I had every
prejudice in favor of Comrade Cook,
and also of his wife, who has given
me an almost Socialist drama, 'Tn-
heritors." When l read that Jig had
gone to Greece to become a shepherd
| set it down as war-casualty; but
now I read between the lines of his
Widows pious tribute, and realize that
Jig had cast in his poetical fortunes
with Bacchus, and prohibition had
made these rites too expensive in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-24
Patriotism and War

an official inspection in Germany
after the armistice, tell the tale as
he wrote it up in the Journal of
Industrial and Engineering Chemis-
try" in 1919. After the Allied forces
entered the Rhineland "the managers
of several factories agreed that the
occupation of the territory was the
best thing that could have happened"
-
"0N THE other side of the Rhine,
0labor refused to work, and de-
manded unheard-of pay-everything
was topsy-turvy. In fact, before the
Allied armies arrived, revolutionary
ideas were developing rapidly along
the Rhine. One director of a we'll
known chemical plant is said to have
escaped by night with his life by way
of the river, when his employees were
especially menacing. When the Brit
ish Army came he returned, and is
nouv at his. odd post"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-24
Money Writes

America.
Let Susan tell you about it in her
own way:
"All his life this man had habit
of occasionally getting drunk and
seeing truth from new place. He
was far from ashamed of this. He
valued it in himself He saw then,
saw what was pretending, in himself,
in others. 1t would begin in good
times with friends-self-cons
ness and timidities going down in
the warmth of sympathetic drinking.
There was a sublimated playfulness,
ideas became a great game, and in
play with them something that had
not been before came into being"
And then again, she quotes her
husband
You see, they drank only with
their bellies. But true drinking is an
affair of the head and heart. There
must be second, finer ferment in
the mind-a brewing and refining of
raw wit and wisdom Long after
wards, on Parnassos, he had what
venture to call a somewhat godlike
relation of wine and vision. Drink
ing was one of the things in which
Jig succeeded, in which he realized
himself as human being and artist.
Yet he saw the black thing it may
become"
Yes, he saw it; but apparently his
wife saw it only dimly. He was full
of dreams of classic glory, and yearn-
cd to Greece, as a child seeking the
pot of gold at the foot of the rain
how. His wife followed him dutifully;
and they saw Parnassos, the hope of
his life, and then suddenly, very
tired by the deep excitements, We'll,
come on, let's go some place and get
a drink" They went to many places
and had many drinks, and Susan
writes as follows:
"Next day was one of those times
of a particular beauty in our house
hold. Hangover days we called
them, and they have subtle, fragile,
sensitive quality. Satisfied by vio-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-24
By Upton Sinclair
By Fred Ellis

able to pull him through. l meet an
cld-time journalist who has an alb
sorbingly interesting story of real
life, and I say, "You ought to get
So-and-so to help you make that into
a best-seller." So-and-so is one of our
most brilliant young novelists; and
the answer of the journalist is, "No,
thank you! He is doing his writing
on booze. He gets drunk in public
and makes violent rows, and I'm too
good a quarreler myself" In CONVEX
sation with another friend ] refer to
one of the most eminent of our re-
spectacle poets. "That old gentleman
who soaks himself in gin," remarks
my friend-"how does he ever find
time to write?"
Shall l go on? George Sterling
wrote me that he had had a visit from
one Of our most brilliant satiric poets;
and I asked, Glow did you find him ?"
The answer was, "If he was inter-
ested in anything but booze and wom-
en-, l couldn't discover it." / learn
that a relative of mine knows a
bright young novelist of the fashion
able set, and l ask, 'What sort of
person is he?" The answer comes,
"He and his wife are both drink
ing themselves to death" l receive
an abusive letter from a successful
novelist, who has risen from the
workers, and whom once helped;
now he is furious with me because,
forsooth, l have dared to give help
to rival young writer. I ask
mutual friend what that can mean,
and the answer is, "Oh, he's. boozing,
that's ALL"
All my life 1 have lived in the
presence of fine and beautiful men
going to their death because of alco-
hol. call it the greatest trap that
life has set for the feet of genius;
and l record my opinion, that the pro-
hibition amendment is the greatest
step in progress taken by America
since the freeing Of the slaves. That
cbiter dictum is dedicated to my
friend Mencken, ''to make him YELL"
(To Be Continued.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-24
By G. MACDONALD.

FRANCIS p. CARAVAN, president of
the Chemical Foundation and for
mer alien property custodian was in
terviewed yesterday about the for
nation of the new European Chem
ical Trust. He spouted forth mouth
fuls of patriotism, and insisted that
Germany was behind it all-seeking
world supremacy again, and merely
duping France and England. Mebbe.
But England amt so dumb! She's
been looking for allies in the next
big war for some time, and the Ger
man factories are expert in making
poison gas!
AND there's another side Of the
"A story, which helps to explain the
eagerness Of the German chemical
magnates to combine with the Brit
ish. Let Cdlnnal Mmuas, vino nmaHz
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-24
Chicago Police Open War
On Citizens
(By Our Chicago War Correspondent

(By Our Chicago War Correspondent
CHICAGO, November %. - In
censed because a gangster started to
shoot up the central police station,
William O'Connor, Chicago's chief Of
police ordered his men on the streets
with instructions to bring home the
corpse of everything that looked like
a gangster.
Since the mayors bloodless war
against the King of Great Britain and
Ireland and the realms beyond the
seas started, the police have been
twiddling their thumbs and so have
the undertakers. Outside of an occa-
sional murder, business was quite
slack. Something had to be done
about it. Something was done.
Police headquarters learned that a
gentleman by the name of Capone,
"Scarface AL" as he is better known
to Chicago citizens, had his death
warrant signed and sealed and his
competitors in the gambling business
were waiting an opportunity to deliver
it.
"Al" was supposed to go to court
to answer to some trifling murder
charge and his foes were planning to
meet him there--so the police were
advised.
Now, "Al" is very popular with the
police department, since he delivers
Cicero regularly to the Crow-Barpett-
Thompson machine on election day and
the police were instructed to see that
no machine guns were allowed into
the court room.
Fearing that GAPS" enemies might
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-24

I lent encounter with life, one has a
rarefied sense of being something
nearer pure spirit. They are isolated
days, no use trying to go on with
things. Perhaps not so isolated as
suspended. A woman who has never
lived with man who sometimes
drinks to excess has missed one of
the satisfactions that is like a gift
taking care of the man she loves
when he has this sweetness as of
newborn SOUL"
| will make my comment on this as
brief as possible; l cannot recall
ever having read greater piece of
nonsense from the pen of modern
emancipated woman. The plain truth,
which stares at us between every line
of the closing narrative, is that poor
Jig Cook, poet who pinned his faith
to Bacchus instead of to Minerva,
was at the age of fifty a pitiful
white-haired sot, dead to the Social
list movement, dead to the whole mod
ern world, wandering about lost
among dirty and degraded peasants.
He died of an infection utterly mys-
ferrous to his wife-who apparently
knows nothing Of the effects of alco-
hol in destroying the cells of the
liver and breaking down the natural
immunity of the body.
Why write these cruel words? The
poor fellow paid for his blunders, and
he is gone. But look about me, and
how many of our young men of gen.
ius l see dancing in this stayr train!
have named the ones who are dead
%. Henry and Stephen Crane and
Ambrose Bierce and Jack London and
George Sterling; but what shall I say
about the ones who are on the way
to death?
meet an intimate friend of one
of our most brilliant young drama
lists. "How is he?" I ask, full of
friendly hopes; and the answer is
that he goes off on drinking bouts
that last two or three weeks, and his
friends never know if they will be
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on to flivver and armed with ma
chine guns, sawed-off shot guns aid
tear bombs rushed for the South West
side.
Soon they sighted pedestrian
wearing fur coat, a velour hat and
a face that oozed prosperity.
Hes a gangster" roared Gibbons.
Ready! Aim! Fire!"
The machine gun rat-at-tatted, the
sawed-off shot guns blazed and the
tear bombs wept. Frank Herbert fell
to the sidewalk MORALLY wounded.
Now, the police are asking ques-
tions,. He may be member of the
America First Foundation, for all they
know.