Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-06

enlisted in the army
 Preliminary reports of registration at i Yale for the freshmen class show more than 300 have enrolled. The war department announced that the 2 900 900 mark has been passed in the production of rifles.
 The Chinese government approprlat- ed s100, 900 to finance the sending of a regiment to Vladivostok.
 Fixed price contracts will be made in the future wherever possible in the purchase of war supplies.
 A windmill used by the ancestors of George Washington has been discover ed in Northampton, England.
 Surgeon General Goreas requested the Red Cross to enroll 1 900 nurses a week for the next two months.
 The new draft age limits from 1s to 45 if adopted by Congress will provide eight million of men for the army.
 President Wilson sent his greetings to King George upon the anniversary of Great Britain's entry into the war.
 The Dublin Independent says Mrs. Sheehy Skefington has arrived in Ire land despite the careful watch of the police.
 Appointment of a committee on standardization or petroleum products under the Fuel Administration was au- thorized.
 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Sec retary of the Navy, will leave Paris today for the trenches. He will then go to Italy.
 George Neybert, assistant secretary of the Gottfried Brewing Co.,, of Chi | cago was shot and robbed of the pay roll of S1,7O0 The fuel administration estimates | that 1000 poo tons of coal a year will be saved in the United States by the lightless night orders.
 Lieut.. Clement R. AJacomini, flying instructor at Rockwell Field. SaT Diego, died as the result of injuries received in a nosedive.
 Mrs. EmmeIne Pankhurst, EngIisF militant suffrage leader is now one oI the speakers of the Labor Departmen Division of Information. In a recent Italian advance in AL bania, German General and severa other officers were made prisoner dressed in pink pajamas.
 The war department announced tn opening of school to instruct officer and enlisted men in utilizing carg space to the best advantage.
 Communications were received a Geneva by the Red Cross from te American aviators who were capture in air raids along the Rhine.
 Production of tin plate during Jul was 100000 base boxes. The averag production of tin mills during tn month was s7 per cent. capacity.
 The Syracuse Club, of the new In ternational League will disband Aul
 20. unless efforts to transfer the fran chlse to Canadian city are success ful.
 William Leach, of Bayonne, N. J.,
 the British air service, dropped 1896 feet after a battle with 30 enemy ail
 planes. He brought down three Hu
 machines
 Officials of railroads operating ea
 of Chicago and St. Louis report steady volume of tonnage which pract | cally engages the entire capacity | the roads.
 The selling organization recent l. created by Alien Property Custodia
 Palmer will meet in New York Aug.
 to consider the sale of German ownt
 corporations.
 After finishing a months artilIe
 training at Yale PTS undergraduate
 members of the Reserve Officer
 Training corps, left for Camp JacksC Columbia, $. c.
 Lightning struck Charles cordis,
 Rosesmond, Ind, dipped a cigar fro
 his mouth, wrapped itself around
 tree, uprooting it, and then ignited t
 house. Cordis was uninjured. , Former United States senaor N
 than B. Scott, and several of his fam $ had a narrow escape from deadly Ge
 man mustard gas which escaped. fro s. Camp Leach, Washington, while bel N' tested.
 The steamer samnanser was Iaunc
 ed successfully at the Canadian Vi e kers, Ltd, plant at Montreal. T
 Samnanger is a 1000 ton ship, S80 ft l. long. 49 feet wide and with a dep 2 of 30 feet. II. III Claude E. Harvey, an equipment e ,o Slneer with the Colts Fire Arms Ma M ufacturing Company, died on Mond ,e after an illness of three months w ,s a complication of diseases He " born in Danbury. July IS, 1871. For the first time in New York's h al tory woman holds the position T. executive secretary to the city's may = The appointment of Miss Frances eS Rokus was announced Tuesday ;4 Mayor John F. Hylan. The positi tiL pays $4,S00 annually.
 What city officials characterized D. the slackers' drive" began in the m; as an riage license bureau in New Yo iSe, Tuesday, when nearly 200 coupl ~ most of the men being between 1 ar ages of IS and 21 obtained certifca a entitling them to we'd 15; SUBMARINE MENACE al IS BEING oVERcof of By oestroyers Built at the Old F
 River ShiPyard. ",
 in Boston, Aug. 5.-Omcial governm m reports show that the submarine m ed ace is being overcome. said E. in Grace. president of the Pethlnh