Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-14
Condensed Telegrams

At a meeting of directors of the Union Pacific Railroad, R. s. Lovett was elected president to succeed c. B. Seger.
 Food administration wilt consider s applications for exportation cf cotton seed products to the allies.
 The treasury department announced the extension of an additional credit of $3,200, GOO to Belgium.
 Senate interstate commerce com mittee declined to report favorably the Calder bill providing for the building of tunnel under the Hudson river between New Jersey aad New York partly by government exDenst.
 Fuel administration announced that anthracite production for the week amounted to 1,S07,000 tons. Federal expenditures on the rail- roads while under government control from January 1 to November 1 totaled 1 $463 ,617 ,000.
 New Oreans Cotton Exchanqe seat sold for S6.O0o each. The two day hog shipment embargo | in Chicago ended. Flour output of Minneapolis for the l week ending December II amounted to 1 4S0 barrels
 1 More than $6oo,ooo,ooo ia gold re- i ecived from Russia by Germany as in l demnity was deposited in the Bank of France to be credited to the common account of the allies.
 National City Bank of Chicago in- creased it's capital to $1,0Ga, ,000. l Finnish government refused to per-
 init Bolshevild representatives free passage over Finnish territory or to allow the transport of Bolsheviki lit 1 erature.
 Private Billy Maher, of Erie, Pa., old time prize fighter, wao fought at Vimy Ridge with the Canadians reach ed Montreal wearing three wound stripes.
 The preliminary flight in the air mail service to be instituted next week between, New York and Chicago was not made yesterday because of un- favorable weather conditions.
 A formal invitation to visit Switzer- land was extended to President Wilson | by President Calender and the Swiss
 parliament.
 H By unanimous vote the municipal
 council of Paris decided to confer
 upon President Wilson the title of a
 citizen of Paris. Carl Stunpf, a member of the Bos
 ton Symphony orchestra, committed suicide by hanging himself. He wor-
 ried over Germany's defeat War department announces the re- leasing of 51 officers, three of them
 New Workers, and P enlisted men
 from German prison camps.
 All draft questionnaires between Is to 36 must be in before Dec. q, Pro-
 vost Marshal General Crowder an nounced
 Directors of the Bankers Trust Co n Vr1va1y 4I- capital from $11250, 900 to S15. 900 900 Kansas, Missouri and Illinois show
 the largest reduction in corn acreage
 in department of agriculture reports
 Federal reserve banks were author.
 ized by Secretary McAdoo to exchange
 war savings stamps of the 1918 serie.
 to the 1918 series between Jan. anC 10.
 Two German brothers named Roech ling were arrested by military authori ties on 3 charge of receiving stoIel machinery from France Ahdication of King Boris of BuIaarii
 is unconfirned. I Meme Pear Wallace, Eskimo guid t who helped Peary find the North Pole died of pneumonia at Pittsburgh, N. H
 Information reaching the sttae de
 pertinent planes athe 1. w. W. for tn
 general strike in Cuba 5 Corn prices advanced as much a seven cents a bushel when the gov , ernment reported the crop as the low / est in five years. = Paris Matin says President Wilson | official stay in Paris is fixed at f , hours.
 $ United States general staff com 2 pleted the stcdy of military program z and favors universal service. < Cardinal Gibbons was decorated b King Victor Emmanuel as a gran i, knight of the Order of the Crown 0 t Italy.
 | It is officially announced that tn
 railroad administration has no inten o tion of reducing wages. Production of locomotives from Jul q 1 to Dec. i were: American 902, Bald . win 269 T ,ina 140