Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-30
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Kansas farm products for 1918 are valued at $592,017,324
 Minneapolis flour output last week was $445.140 barrels, an increase of 1880 barrels.
 Americas peacet time naval policy Will be fixed by the present damo- cratic congress.
 shows a decrease of a8SS,O0O, Bul lion increased z 5O6, 900.
 National Park Bank of New York and Union Bank of Canada will en- ter banking field together in the Ori- ent.
 Director General McAdoo announc- ed he has no intention of staying on as railroad head until successor is picked
 Purchase price of the fleet of the International Mercantile Marine by the Government is placed at SIPS, 500,- 600.
 Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co. will build an all-steel breaker at Edwardsville, Pa to cost g, 0O0, 900.
 Department of Agriculture reported comm ercia1 stocks of wheat for Dec. 1, 1918, amounted to $219, ASA, S32 bush els
 Government will sell large tonnage of semi-finished shells and shell steel. Britain will also make a sale of hold ings. | One man was killed and ten seri- ously injured when a large tank of the Standard Oil Co. of. Baltimore collapsed
 Military Affairs Committee is said to be opposed to the permanent title 1 of full general for Pershing. Bliss and 1 March.
 l Franco American Board of Com- nnerce organized in New York includ- ] ing representatives of business and { banking interests. | Savings banks are investing heavily i in IA per cent. Liberty bonds. They are picking up the bonds at present i low prices.
 Department of Agriculture and ! Congress legislation to fix the wheat price guaranty for 1919 i Under protection of the Webb ex- port law 50 American firms announced i their intention to combine to strentgh- en their foreign trade efforts. | A report of Director General Me Adoo of the Railroads shows a decided improvement in traffic conditions trpughout the country. Government report on corn croF shows the yield will be 455, DOG, ,00i bushels. Seven states where corn is the principal crop were short. The corsair, the former J. P. Nor gan yacht, arrived at Queenstown t become the staff headquarters of tht American Navy in Irish waters.
 Contracts were placed for the plat'
 requirements in connection with 11; of the 500 engines ordered by tht
 Government from the American Lo
 comotive Co.
 A sub h-committee of the packers
 committee on livestock will confe, with officials of the Food Admins
 tratfon Monday regarding condition
 of the beef supply.
 British governments committee ol
 the production of gold recommend
 the government to supervise mininy development and distribute the labo
 equally.
 1 Chairman Dens of the House Milf
 tary Committee introduced a bill pro
 viding for repeating of restriction l imposed by the draft law on volun tary enlistment.
 More than 4,ooO mechanics employ ed by the Victory plant of the Bethle hem Steel Co, Quincy, Mass, threat en to strike as a result Of the aileg ! ed lockout of certain union members. } Representatives of the Railroad Ad } ministration dumped several millio pounds of high explosives owned b the French Government into the At
 lantic Ocean as it was considred menace.
 House Military Affairs Con'ritte will take up problem of America
 army of occupation after the holi
 days.
 New Jersey will keep the ban on on emy alien automobile drivers unt
 peace terms are signed. 2 The Special Fuel Administratio : Commission appointed to make an in ! vestigation of fuel conditions in Brit 7 ain, France and Italy submitted it 3 ; report to President Wilson. 2 Britain, France, Russia, Americ; : Germany and Austria Hungary los p 5,796, 504 in killed during the war.
 Half a million enlisted men an p 10000 officers have been discharg9 2 from the training camps since No = Il.
 }. Employees of the Lynn plant of tf n General Electric company voted postpone for a week action on a propc
 sition to join workers employed by tE I company in other cities in 8 gener;