Norwich bulletin., 1918-04-15

efa
 Governor Whitman signed the Wal :ers bill re -apportioning the election districts.
 Captain Archie Roosevelt, who was !, lnJurea at the front was removed to. } Paris hospital
 The General Industries Co. at Dover Del, changed it's name to the Du Font American Industries. Seventeen thoroushbreds were burn | ed when a stable at the Bowie, Md. | race track was destroyed.
 Herr Niewerth, a German, who at- tempted to blow up the steamer Ten nyson, was captured in Bahia .
 Thirty inches of snow covered the tracks of the Norfolk & Western rail- road in the Shenandoah valley.
 Major General Leonard Wood an- nounced that 40 900 officers will be needed urgently for future drafts.
 Persons other than Mexicans desir- ing to enter Mexico must file applica- tions for passports 20 days in advance of entry.
 The Federal Vocational War Board issued an appeal to men of draft of class IA to take a course in radio in struction.
 Dodgs in Britain with short hair are not wanted. Longhaired dogs are favored as their hair is being spun into wool.
 Gen. lgnaeio 5rayo, military com mander under the Huerta regime in Mexico, is dead at Fl Paso He was S1 years old.
 The Brazilian government issued an order prohibiting the importation and circulation of cotton seed which has not been tested
 Associated Justice William P Potter denly at Swarthmore Pa, yesterday. His home was in Pittsburgh
 Ehe food administration ordered the Home Baking Co, of Butte. to return an extra car load of flour to the mills because of an excessive supply. At the executive meeting of the Mayors Committee on National De- fense, Henry R. Hoyt was appointed chairman of the law committees
 The Rockefeller Foundation expend- ed $6O0e.000 in connection with war work in. 1917, according to the annual review or the work for the year. 1 -
 | The Food bill, to prevent persons in l wartime from entering or leaving the country when contrary to public safe ty, reported favorably ito the House.
 The Brazilian government is endea- voring through it's embassy, to have Gustavo Rocha, a Brazilian citizen, ex- empted from. the draft in New York
 The Senate military committee ap- proved the request of General .Persh l ing, allowing men of the army and navy to accept decorations of the Al lies.
 According to advices from Havana
 to the Feeral Sugar Refining Co. Ger.
 man hands are believed to be respon.
 sible for the fires in the cane sugar
 fields.
 The school children of Berlin in tn, province of Brandenburg, according t the Tageblatt, will be given a holida, today to celebrate the Victory o Armentieres."
 Major. General William A Mann
 commandant of Governors Island, Nev
 York, will toss out the first ball in tn,
 opening game between the Dodger
 and the Giants Tuesday.
 the New York Legislature at a. join
 of 1000 eco men to win the war, whicl
 will last two years more.
 Carey Richards Evans, an Americal
 ambulance man, was killed while il
 the service of the French army. Evan
 was new man from Ohio. He wa
 buried with military ,honors. | Two German fighting planes wer shot down inside the American line , by Lieutenants A; S.. Winslow of Chi
 cago and Douglas Campbell of Cali fornia. Each man bagged one machine
 Canada started on daylight savin yesterday in compliance with the laI , passed by the Dominion parliament Official timepieees in practically ev cry city, town and village were ad 7 vanced an hour at 2 o'clock yesterda morning. '
 } A Copenhagen despatch says, tn : foreign committee of the Austria delegation has been summoned. to mee April 20, according to a Vienna des . patch to the Politiken. Count Czerni } will then make a declaration. on foreig ! and internal affairs.
 } Minor Judson Chapin, a~second clas [. quartermaster, U. s. naval reserve, al } tached to the aviation service, wa
 killed in a seaplane accident in Franc
 informed tonight by cable. Chapin
 father, Ora E. Chapin, lives in Chicag' .I A London despatch says: "On Sal : urday it was cloudy and misty" say
 an official statement on aerial opera Etions last night, but our low f1yir Ilnachines dropped 1.209 bombs on CT t emy troops on roads leading to u : front. One of our machines iss mis- }. ing"
 ? ne agent or the marine 0epar ,, ment at Sydney. N. S., was nptifie
 iyesterday that an American steam
 was burned off the Nova Scotia coa
 Saturday night and that the ere s had been transferred to a Unite
 States warsfip which came to her al sistance. The name of the. vessel ";
 jnot mentioned. VI Sam Laneford Knocked Out. al Panama, April 14.-Harry Wills, If napro haa1rvreipht railpi1ist l,nncln,