Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-01

SOdI movement DJ FaiIToa0 m Ghe eastern region this month increased from 153 543 to 192,658 cars over the corresponding time last year.
 Reports have reached the state de- partment in a roundabout way that Ambassador Francis and all the allied diplomats left Volo~da July "a.
 Secretary Houston reported to the Senate that practically all the phos- phate rock produced in this country is being used for agricultural purposes
 The biggest appropriation demanded since the begging of the war will be l tomorrow. It will represent Z 700,- 900 900.
 l o. H. Cheer of Mecann 6 Co.,, Pitts burgh, joined the Food Administration as a volunteer export in the retail dis tribution of butter, eggs, cheese and poultry. 1 Striking shoe cutters at a mass meeting at Brockton, Mass. refused to return to work on recommendation of i the state board of conciliation and ar l bitration,
 The American Flint Glass Workers Union was granted another increase in wages by the National Association of Manufacturers of Pressed and Blown Glassware.
 pr. Won kuehImann, former Ger man foraIgn secretary, will be a can didate for the reichstag at a coming by election in Berlin the Vossische Zeitung says.
 Eighteen persons, indicted for al. legged thefts of beef from the army quartermaster's department, pleaded not guilty in the federal court in New York yesterday.
 A freight steamer bound nortl through the Cap Cod canal ran into the Sagamore highway bridge during a heavy fog early Tuesday, demolish ing the structure.
 One hundred and twenty cranemei at the Fore River and Squantum plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding cor poratlon, who struck Tuesday, returnet to work yesterday.
 Forty-five Cambridge men who ar rived at Camp Devens yesterday pro tested when they learned they ha, been classified as conscientious object ors by their draft board. The Department of Agriculture an nounced that, though lack of shippin 10000 tons of nitrates from Chile con tracted for delivery in February, can not be shipped this year. Communicating of the yellow pin industry of the south may be resorte
 to by Chair Baruch of the war in dustries board unless the government needs are fully supplied.
 Two coffee concerns were ordered b
 the Federal Trade Commission to dis : continue the distribution of premium
 coupons redeemable for articles of un g equal value based on chance.
 The price of milk to the consume in Greater Boston during August an : September has been fixed at 15 cent 2 a quart and 1-2 cents pint by tn . New England regional milk conlmis . sion,
 ' Decisions by the war labor board o ? wages and working conditions of stree
 car conductors and motormen in vari
 ous cities, inciu6ing Boston and Prov
 dence, probably will be handed dow today.
 George Ehret, the New York brewe { who property recently was taken ove by the government because of h
 residence in Germany since the Unite -. States entered the war. is now report | | ed to be in Denmark. A delegation of labor leaders undt ' Bourke Cockran, of New York, calle :. at the White House to ask the Pres 2 dent to transfer the case of Thome | ; Mooney from the California state cou
 to the Federal courts.
 The Cudahy Packing company l. Chicago was ordered by the feder = trade commission to discontinue i : practice of compelling jobbers a maintain the company's fixed re-sa IT price of "Old Dutch Cleanser Is Members of the Cuban mission, whic 2, is authorized to negotiate a sale of u = 1919 sugar crop to the United State = conferred in New York with the Inte l. national Sugar Committee. The .pric