Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-17
Condensed TeIeqrams

ihe NeW maven road VIII build S5O,O00 engine house at. Hopedale Conn
 Greek tobacco area was cut 50 per cent. for 1918 compared with 1917.
 Shipping Board assigned two ships to carry cotton from the South to New England.
 A new coal tipple costing $40,000 will be installed by the Wood Coal Co. of Ethel, w Va.
 Increased importation of wool from various sources iA being considered by tht War TradesBsard.
 Metal products will be manufactur- ed by the Perfex Speciality Co.,, of Camden. N. J., capital S100, ,009.
 Fire caused damage of $1oc,000 at the plant of the Pennsylvania Tank Car Co. at Masury, Pa.
 Groton Iron Works, steel shipbuild- lng plant, completed about 25 per cent. of government contracts.
 An aero station costing $3oo,0oo is planned for Narragansett Bay, R. l., by the Navy Department
 War Trade Board allows Holland 100000 tons of. coal It will have to be shipped an Dutch ships two-story factory addition to cost S50,O0O will be built at the Aetna Mills Co. plant at WatertoWn, N Y one story addition to cost $24,02o will be erected at the Robins Dry Dock & Repair Go. plant in Brooklyn
 lehigh Valley Railroad signed a contract with the Railroad Adminis- i tration for an annual rental at S11,- | 321, ,233.
 Chile Copper Co. produced e.s54,- O00 pounds of copper in November compared with S,54S,0OO pounds in October
 Director General MeAdoo denied the report that contracts for barges to. operate on the Mississippi River were cancelled.
 ! Government authorities and copper producers are reported to be working to bring about stabilization of the in- dustry.
 This winter is expected to be the busiest in the history of the build inaVand constructing industry of the country.
 Articles of incorporation have been filed at Dover, Del, by the Tom Thumb Cartslcetor Co., of Phila- delphia, capital &sS5O0Q
 Six self propeIled steel barges will be manufactured for the Navy by the Todd Shipyards Corporation of New York City
 President Wilson accepted an invi. tation to >ssit King George of Eng gland H will probably step at Lon don on his way home.
 The Lion Brewery, New YorIosGity is to be converted into an ice -making i plant, and new machinery costing 1OO,OOOewtlJ be installed. The working force of. the Bethlehem
 Pteel Co. plant at Bethlehem, Pa, vii be reduced, and capacity production at the plant slowed down. l The Eavy<0epartments is planning to spend 5000, 900 ir31919 for the ex
 tension of the keagda Island Nav,
 Yards shipbuilding' plant.
 The Universal Rubber Products Co
 of New York has been incorporated with $250,000 capital tosAAap ufactur,
 tires and mechanical fu bbe1EE
 Surgeon General arelandkAS tn, Army appeals fqsthe AWeriearfbeopl fop q larger afi09rore Jealous mem Y bership il1 the American Rcd Cross.
 E, saoys 1 ,, and ,saII . Other psrina product ], States Buoy Evaporation foMea il K Newborn, N ts% with s10O, ,O00l ltapftaI
 RepresentativA HeffIn ss thS i4ous committee ors Rgrfcultura. khargEd ,1h
 Bureau of Crop EstimatAy with over
 estimating the cotton crop bT boo, % bales.
 Capital stock off the Seneca Rive Power Co,, oft gBaldwinsWIle, N Y
 has has 9s9 bess9 increased from s5o,Ooo t
 improvements.
 Secretary McAdoo bade the 5000 em ployest0 0fsa the Treasuryt tarewsl1 pn introduced his successor Carter Glas; He said he never felt more alive i : his. life"
 Three airpIanes equipped with Lib erty Motors left Ellington Fiel( , Houston. Tex, in race~against tim
 to Detroit The aviators expect t [ make it by 4SOfSoday. ; FaurRESore Americans, members c : thex Erev1-pf the armored cruise Bro0klXn7 have died as a result Sf in juriest sustained ip the explosioi
 cruiser last Monday at YoESohams
 Japan. Robert E. oakin. a civil eneinee who4ahas been in charge ofKfhe con structon of dam onfEhe Housatoni River at Stevenson, died at Danbur, of pneumonia.
 D. Ward Northrop, secretary { 5 state of Connecticut from 1883 : 1885. and former mayor of Middle n town. died in hospital at Middle : town. aged "A.
 n Italy, with a population of onl $ 36,O0o, 900 and with 5,5O0.00O men calle :. tG Ah 51colorsS.suffered approximatel : 1 500 G0b casualties in the war. 0 The first convention of the Women c Democratic Nationa! league sinFa Il = entrance of the United States into II = war will be held in Washington Ja
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 Among the American prisoners r'
 ported to have arrived in London aft r release from camps in Germany al William John Lilly, Southington, al Il James E. Petochelli, Pawtucket. R. T David Lloyd George, the Britis prime minister and Arthur J. Balfou . British foreign secretary. will all < : in Paris next Saturday or Sunday. President Eelendez of Salvador
 seriously ill and Vice President Quil : onez is in charge of the govern1ner 2 Mrs. Maria Del Viitar Fowler, wi Y Of George R. Fowler. sugar produc T of Havana and New York. died at h T. home at Greenwich. Besides her hu
 hand. she leaves a daughter and a so
 the latter being an aviator in Il
 Cuban army. I