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New Britain herald., 1927-01-11
National Broadcasting Co. Announces Ambitious Plans for Coming Year Expect Many Small Stations to Be Disman- tied for Economic Req sons.

New York, Jan. Il (P)-The Ma tlonal Broadcasting Company an- nounced today that it would spend s3,S00,0OO in the next twelve months to supply to radio fans entertain ment Of a character which will cost the listeners-in throughout the coun- try nothing.
 In addition. s1,500,0OO will be spent for talent by commercial firms sponsoring programs over the con- pany's hook-ups, it was disclosed.
 The expense for the year." said Merlin H. Aylesworth, president of the company. will be greatly in ex- cess of the receipts.
 And due to the fact that all broadcasting stations in the United States are operating at a loss, and because the public will not permit promtscuous plugging the trade broadcasting, l expect to see some of the smaller stations among the coo to TOO in the country gradually disappear as their owners inter ests wane and the big deficits ap- pear"
 Covers Big Territory
 Despite the expected expense of operation, MT. Aylesworth reiterated a previously announced policy of the organization. The company, al though only two months old, reaches by wire so per cent of the radio pop ulation of the United States and re- lays important programs by air to the other 20 per cent,
 There will be, said Mir Ayles- worth, no let down of the policy of excluding advertisers. except as their message takes the simple form of announcement of the firm, person, or organization sponsoring pro- gram. no descriptive talks of cCm- mercial products, such as is permit ted in some small stations, will be permitted he added.
 Programs sponsored by commer- cial organizations to get their names on the wire and heighten their good will in the public mind, costing it's commercial sponsors S1,5000, 900 will occupy 1600 hours during the year. This will be only one tenth of the 16,OO0 hours the National Broad casting Company will be on the air and available to whoever cares to tune in.
 In explaining the intention of the National Broadcasting Company to continue its musical development work on the air, Mir. Aylesworth said:
 Grand Opera Programs.
 AS an example of what we are trying to do, grand opera will be broadcast out of Chicago for the first time on a big scale Friday eve- ming, January 21. Chicago has pre- yiously broadcast opera, but only within a small radius. This time, tWo-thirds of the country will prob
New Britain herald., 1927-01-11
QUAKE PANIC IN PORTUGAL

Lisbon. Portugal, Jan. II P)-The population of the city of Coimbra and smaller towns in the province of Beira today fled into the streets and fields, panic-stricken by an earthquake and subterranean rum- bles which lasted for three seconds. The quake was felt with special severity about Coimbra
New Britain herald., 1927-01-11

COMING TO RIALTO
 Several acts of professional try out vaudeville heads the program at the new Rialto theater. corner Broad
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10

Of members of the Workers (Communist)
Party charged with conspiracy undermine respect
courts result of their distribution of antnjuncton
in Brooklyn shows that the struggle against the injunction
to be matter of speeches delivered by labor
ficials voicing formal defiance.
The comrades arrested held $500 and the
trials which will follow because of the important issue involved
will be of major Importance to the labor movement.
drive part the bosses for the
of their injunction than has been evidence
Officials of the American Federation of Labor leaders
the Amagamaed Association of Street Electric Railway
Employees have been holding meetings and urging
T. injunction but have been arrested -Four
distribute leaflets Jailed at
The reason is clear. The eafet distributed by these com
rade the official expression of the Workers ommunst Party
puts the injunction square before workers. urges mass
violation Of these rulings organization of the unorganzed and
mobilization Of all labor the fight against njunctions
The issue thus brought of the traction industry made
for the whole working class.
The these workers-two carpenters clerk
and machns evidence of the effectiveness methods
struggle against the injunction and the fear with which
the capitalists and their courts regard this way of fighting
The militant defense of these workers. of all other workers
that be arrested similar charges and the extension Of
methods of struggle against the injunction will destroy this
pom of labor's enemies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
What Happened to Walker in Paris?

Evidently Mayor James j. Walker Of New York did not
miss anything in the Of gayety while in Paris which
important stop his recent rowing tour of Europe From the
day he landed IN New York after his foreign tour there have
been caerwaungs from the Taany to the effect that
the state department had It's agents spying upon him. This
story repeated in Washington the other day by James A
Gaivan democratic congressman from Massachusetts, Con-
gresham Gavan charged that the hadowng ordered in
try and something this mayor who member
Of Tamany Hall political body not sympathy with the party
ia power in America
Probably The state department did set It's epies
would certainly be innovation Adept spying,
connecting forgeres and rameps Of the most nefaoua abre
It Is not at all unlikely that spies political supporters
well enemies is part of the capitalist political "get
something on its supporters In order to hold them In
line we'll information secured through It's
beabor its enemies Walkers exploits may have become
known to the republicans through their spy system may acct
densy been exposed The important fact is that
something Walker and that is to be used by the
pubcan in the coming campaign when AL Smith will probably
the democratic ticket and not only have defend the
ord of Tmmany but face the charge of being dripping wet
story he effect that the Tammany mayor of New York
spree nNPar will be welcome political ammunition in pro-
In Anticipation of such campaign the democrats
already busy Spreading the idea that the story ramep.
csely what did happen to Walker in Paris.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
Fight FaSciSm and Its Financiors!

The trial of Greco and Carro started yesterday
Uses to be another Sacco- Vanzett
the prosecution which is trying to send these two
workers electric chair the might of Italian fascism and
its American connections connections which The DAILY WORK.
Err has straight the offices of Pepont Morgan
and Company-the financiers of fascsm.
aspect of the which in favor of these prosecuted
workers is that first the international Labor De-
tense has been pointing out to thousands their fellow workers
the nature of this Opposing the fascist trameup at
every point the International Labor Defense and the organizations
which support impossible for the prosecution to
disguise the anworng class forces which back the prosecution
GrecoCaro labor and the defense of the
workers whose lives menaced by the vengefu fascist
their associates in the United States must and will be
carried forward on this basis.
Now the time to slogan of Greco and Carrlo
shall be freed"
We will until the net of the American capitalists
agents tighter these workers and guide the hand of
Mussolini to their threats.
Support the Greco Garlic defense
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
By Upton Sinclair

Next day sold real copy of COLL"
to Mr.. Crowley, and again l was
under temporary arrest. But when l
appeared in court, l learned that the
judge wouldn't have me. eve think,
Mr.. Sinclair, you've had your share
Of book-advertising." He was not on
the bench when he said this, so /
could hit back 'Look here, Judge
Greed, who started this advertising?
You have advertised my book as OBJ
scene, and certainly I'm going to ad-
vertise it as not obscene!" But again
I confronted the problem of the "Brass
Check" press. When I delayed to get
arrested, they called me coward;
and when couldn't get arrested, they
said I had been foiled in my effort
to be a martyr!
For sale in this pious city of Bos-
ton prepared some special copies of
COLL" known as the Gig leaf edition."
The police object to pages 193-4-5-6,
203-4, 206, 328-9-a total of nine pages
out of ST. had these pages blotted
out with large black fig leaf, and
l made sandwich signs in the shape
of white fig leaf, labeled coil! Fig
Leaf Edition. Warranted 1000 Pure
under Boston Law" I put on these
signs, and sold the book all day on
the streets of Boston; if there was
going to be any more arresting.
wanted to be the prisoner. But there
was no arresting, and the Gig leaf
edition" is now being sold all over
the country-since the book stores re-
gard it as collectors ITEM!
The trial of the booksellers clerk
comes off in the fall, and I expect to
be there to defend him. Whether l
will be heard is uncertain, owing to
the amiable provision of the law, that
''intent" does not matter. You may
write novel about a sin, and por-
tray your hero as spending the rest
of his life atoning for the sin, but
that does not help you; they pick out
the sin, and condemn you on that, and
under the law neither Judge nor jury
knows about the atonement. Theodore
Dreiser's hero atones in the electric
chair, but even so, they have convicted
a book-clerk of the crime of selling
"An American Tragedy" And that
is the law they want to impose upon
the rest of America!
I am finishing these proofs in Sep
TENDER, and next month there is to
be a jury trial of the book-clerk who
sold "Oilw | shall be there, to testify
# am allowed to; and incidentally !
expect to gather material for a new
novel, to be entitled Boston," and
to deal with the Sacco-Vanzetti case.
suppose it is not against the law to
gather material about Boston in Bos-
ton. We shall see!
ITO Be Continued)
The name of Sinclair's book, coll"
which was published serially in The
DAILY WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
what, for example ?"

what, for example"
"Ain't that the book in which the
girl says that she can have lover,
because her mother has one, and she
knows it,"
"Yes, that's in there"
"Well now, is that the kind of thing
to be putting into book?"
at happens to be real case, Mr..
Crowley. l knew the people"
"Well, there might be such people,
l don't deny; but that's no reason for
spreading the story. Such things de-
stroy the reverence that young girls
ought to feel for their mothers, and
such things ought to be - ed up,
end not put into books for girls to
read" And there, of course, we had
70 part company, because am in the
business of putting the facts about
America into books.
The crucial fact about this censor
ship is that they enforce their juven-
lie standards against modern writers,
and not against the classics. The po-
lice of Boston have become very
"cagy"; you cannot sell them "The
Scarlet Letter." nor any other old
book they have been warned about.
Seeking to bring out this point, l
invited them to a public meeting, and
read them Act III, Scene II of Ham
let, with its Individually obscene Ian
guage, and invited them to buy the
book; but they sat motionless. l read
them Genesis NIX, 30-38, the quite
horrible story of Lot and his daugh-
ters. Imagine, if you can, a modern
novel telling how two women get their
father drunk and then cohabit with
him and bear him children! l offered
this obscene book to the Boston police,
out again they would not enforce tn
law. l sold it to Boston nationalist,
who later applied for a warrant for
my arrest-and did not get it.
Then I held up a copy of COLL"
before the police. At least, it appear
ed to be COLL" and they bought it
promptly. After they had notified me
to appear in court next morning, and
had gone out, l called the attention
the audience to the fact that
hadn't told the police what the book
was, ana that what they had bought
was copy of the Bible bound in the
covers of COLL" 1t seemed to me that
he way to meet this censorship was
with laughter and the audience agreed
with mel have never heard more
hearty laughter from a crowd. But
las, the story had to reach the pub
&c through the "Brass Check" press.
The three reporters who handled the
Nssignment were named Quinn, Shay
md Murphy; and they held confer
Hnce--so l was told by one of the
~cwspaper photographers who attend
d. Were they going to let any smart
7leck socialist make a monkey out of
Mike Crowley? They were not And
hey did not!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
THE PRICE OF ROSES

You ask the price of roses-and turn
And see hundred miners faces yearn
Outside the window, hungrily and bleak
And then / hear the florist lightly speak:
Five dollars for the bunch" And then see
The faces with their burning eyes on me
Who'd wear yor, pretty roses at the price
Of so much bread-yet roses are so NIGEL
HENRY REICH. JR.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10
Continued from Last Isstte.)
XXXII.
A Visit to Boston

Two or three years ago it happened
that a Russian Jewish family, re-
siding in Boston, sought to American
ize itself by changing it's name from
Kabotsl1i to Cabot. This occasioned
distress to the family which for three
centuries had been speaking only to
the Lowells, and they sought by court
action to compel the interlopers to
adopt some other name. Their eff
forts failed; and some wag composed
new version of the old jingle:
Here's to the city of Boston.
The land of the bean and the cod,
Where the Lowells speak only to
CabOts,
And the Cabots speak Yiddish,
by God.
Now, having alighted from my
transcontinental train, and spent two
weeks in the venerable city, submit
a third version, as follows:
Here's to the city of Boston,
The land of the bean and the cod,
Where the Lowells won't let you buy
"Oil!"%
And you send to New York, by God
That is, quite literally, the situa-
tion. The old-time. blue-blooded aris-
tocracy of the city supports the
Watch and Ward Society,"; several
Lowells and Cabots contribute then
money to keep my socialist novel from
reaching the common people of their
city. And when I left Boston and re-
.uraed TO New York, the first sigh
l saw was a stack of my books, -four
feet high, in front of one of the news.
stands in Grand Central station; l in
quired of the clerk, and learned that
this stack would last one day, and the
cause If its rapid disappearance wa
people from Boston who took a copy
home with them.
Besides the blue-bloods, who put
up the money, there are two forces
actively concerned, Catholic Mediaev-
ism lnd Protestant Fuadamoula.jsru
the Knights of Columbus marching
arm in arm with the Ku Klux Khan
and Cardinal O'Connell embracing
Billy Sunday. And do not fool your.
elf with the idea that there is any
hing peculiar to Boston in this com
bination Of big0tries. The same for.
COS exist everywhere in America, anc
The Boston crowd are hell-bent to ex.
tend their methods to New York, sc
rs to stop the flow of prohibited
books. If they can have their way
it means the end of modern literature
N America; so it is worth while t
understand the Boston law and the
methods of enforcing it.
The secretary of the Watch ant
Ward Society was the Reverend
Frank Chase, and so long as he lived
he suppression Of books was dom
a silence. Chase would tell the chair
nan of the booksellers committe'
That books he objected to. and TIN
booksellers would quietly take thes,
looks from their shelves. The chair
nan Of this committee, proprietor o.
The biggest book. store in Boston, ex
claimed to me the Reverend Chase!
moral standards. Said Chase: 'It''
I'll right for the novelist to say tina
John went to bed with Mary, anC
Mary had baby. But the momen
he shows John making any gesture
towards Mary, tending to rouse hel
ceilings. then the Book is o3se
and ban it." Imagine, if you can
what would become Of the courtshir
scenes Of the worlds literature, sub
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10

TWO palpitating hearts beat in the
breasts of the Washkowsky family
IS they wendell their way to .Finkel-
STEMS cobblery, to find the crafts
nan busy at work on the Washkowskv
hoes. No, he did not see any money
n the shoes. Washkowsky's roll was
wrapped up in one of his wifes gar
ters. (The money would have been
safer in her socls) A detective found
! garter with Finkelstein and even if
1t does not turn out to be the mate
e the Washkowsky garter he will
get into trouble anyhow. The moral
Of the tale is that no husband is fit
to be his own banker, and the proper
environment for garter is leg.
IN medieval days every solvent baron
: lad his jester who made him laugh
at times and at whose head he could
throw his boots with impunity, when
angry. So it is entirely fitting that
viii Rogers h gu d accompany
Baron" Dwight w. Morrow, our am
bassador to Mexico on his tour of in
spection in the southern republic.
IT. J. O'FLAHERTY.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10

Coolidge in his message to Congress.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-10

The name Of Sinclair's book, coll"
which was published serially in The
DAILY WORKER.
New Britain herald., 1927-07-11

John Mastriani Of East street left
Saturday on motor trip to Toronto.
Canada.
Mrs. James Murphy has returned
from st. Francis hospital. Hartford.
and is recuperating at the home of
her sister, Mrs. Catherine Cameron
of Morris Cove, New Haven.
The regular mid-week prayer
meeting will be held at 7:45 o'clock
Thursday evening at the Baptist
church. The topic will be THE 2Srd
Psalm"
The oiling of Trumbull avenue
will be started on Wednesday.
Mrs. Frank Andrews returned yes
terday after spending week with
her son, Henry Judd in Bridgeport
Mrs. George Bowden of Pierce
street is spending two weeks in
Maine.
Phillips H. Lord, former high
school principal, and Mrs Lord spent
the weekend with friends in town.
Mrs. Grace Lester has returned
from a visit at Clinton.
Relief Corps Meeting
The N. S. Manross chapter, W. r.
c., will meet tomorrow afternoon
with Mrs. Laura Warfield. Whist will
be played and social time enjoyed.
Mrs. Warfield has been member of
the order for good many years but
has been unable to attend meetings.
The public is invited to attend.
Drs. B. L. and H. Protass, dentists,
Strand theater bldg. Tel. 241.-advt.
Store for Rent. Centrally located.
Inquire NJ. Birnbaum, Phone New
Britain. Tel. 23S4-advt.
Watch for clearance sale. ]. J..
Birnbaum-adyt,
New Britain herald., 1927-07-11
SPECIAL MEETING
To the Legal Voters and Members OF
the kensington Fire District:

You are hereby notified and
warned that a special meeting of
said district will be held at Fores-
ters' Hall in Kensington, Connecti-
cut, July Is. 1927, at o'clock p. m.
STANDARD time) for the following
purposes:
1. To consider, and if deemed ad-
visable, to vote to extend the water
mains within the fire district, as rec
commended by the district commit
tee. or to extend any portion of said
mains so recommended.
2. To consider, and If deemed ad-
visable, to authorize the issue and
sale of the bonds of the district to
an amount sufficient to meet the
expenses of said extensions OF water
mains; said bonds to be issued as
follows:
(a) Bonds to be denominated on
their face: Water Bonds, Kensing-
ton Fire District, first SERIES" as
authorized by special act of the leg
islature approved May 18th. 1921,
being the balance of the unissued
bonds of said series.
o. Bonds to be denominated on
their face: Water Bonds, Kensing-
ton Fire District, second SERIES" as
authorized by special act of the leg
islature approved March 9th,. 1928.
3. To authorize, if deemed advis-
able, the committee Of the district
to borrow money for the purpose of
meeting the expenses of said ex-
tensions Of mains. pending the is
suing of bonds, and to especially
authorize and empower the commit
tee of the district to sign and
execute notes in the name Of the
Kensington Fire District for such
purposes.
I. To consider. and if deemed ad-
visable to vote to lay tax on the
last grand list of ratable estate and
property within said district not 10
exceed two mills, which tax shall be
In addition to a tax of three mills
laid at the annual meeting held
June seth. 1927. to meet the extra
expenses which may be incurred by
said district because of any action
that may be taken at this meeting
or other expenses of said district;
the tax to be at such rate and pay
able at such time as the meeting
may determine.
s. To consider and II deemed ad-
visable to fix the compensation for
the collector.
6. To consider and II deemed ad-
visable to fix the compensation for
other members Of the district COM
mittee.
Dated at Berlin, Connecticut, this
18th day of July. 1927.
JAMES B. ELLSWORTH. Chrm.
EDWARD s. MCCORMICK,
LOUIS BRADBURY.
Louis Bradbury. Clerk.
Committee of the Kensington
Fire District.
New Britain herald., 1927-07-11
Personals

Firemen Richard Collins, Edward
Carlson. William Finneran, Harry
Squires, Peter Pac and Edward
Stauff commenced their vacations to-
day and Captain william H. Porter,
Captain James Grove, Firemeh Al
bert Saulnier. Peter Nuss. william
Frey and Jacob Heck resumed duty
after their vacations.
Miss Helen Keimowicz of AS
Chestnut street left Saturday for
Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry W. Rice were
the weekend guests OF Mr.. and Mrs
Reginald Towers at the Towers sum-
mer home at Indian Neck.
William 8. Cannon. business mana
ger at New Britain General Hospital,
will resume his duties Wednesday
after few days absence.
John NJ. Valentine, the we'll known
10y violinist, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. F. Valentine of 255 Carlton street
will spend six weeks at Narranxan-
sett Pier. r. !.
Edward Basso Of Glen street is
visiting friends in Arlington, jersey
City, and New York City,. e:
New Britain herald., 1927-07-11

after IS years Of service with that
concern. Mr.. Walker was born on
Lincoln street, New Britain. and
spent most OF his life in that city.
On May %. 1879. he went to work
at the Rule Shop" and remained
with that company until now. His
early days there were the days of
contractors" and Mr.. Walker soon
began to accept contracts for wood
working jobs. After rs years he was
made foreman when the old con-
tractor system was abandoned.
From then until his retirement he
had charge of the planning and
handle making.
When the company established
branch plant at Roxton Pond, Can
ada, Mr.. Walker was sent to organ
ize 1t and start production. He has
been responsible for many improve
ments in the comRany's tools and
processes. About five years ago he
came to Plainville. Now he will sell
his Pennington avenue land and re-
tire still further into the country,
where he will raise chickens and live
quiet life.
All-Plainvilles Win Two
The All-Plainviles had a most
profitable weekend, defeating the
strong Pextos in Southington Satur-
day and trsuncing the Forestville
town team here yesterday. Satur-
days victory was shock to the
Pextos, for the Southington team is
rated the fastest team in this part of
the state and Is leading the Central
Connecticut league. Plainville tore
right into Lindstrom in the first
inning and made four runs, then
played nice ball behind the beautiful
pitching of Chant. Time and again
Southington threatened, but Chant
applied the screws at each threat
and turned back the PeXtos without
much damage being done. In the
sixth. after one man had scored and
the bases were full, he struck out a
batter and got the last one on fly.
The final score was 6-2.
Darrow and Bucherri hit hard,
while Sataline, former Plainville
Blue. played a wonderful game at
first base and saved the game on
several occasions. The game was the
first of three-or game series
between the teams. The box score.