Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-13

 mittee decided not to include in the appropriation bill any new projects except those for prosecution of the war
 The railroad bill as it went to the senate limits the time of government control to eighteen months after the war while the house bill puts the time at two years.
 Lieutenant L. F. PIummer, of New Rochelle. N. Y, was killed at Gerst- ner Field. near Lake Charles, La late yesterday in the. fall of an airplane he was piloting.
 Talk has been resumed, in British banking circles of the possibility of an early cessation of treasury bills and the issue of a new loan to consolidate the floating debt.
 William p. Kennedy was elected president of the Great Northern rail- road at meeting of the board of d. rectors. He was formerly vice pres ident in charge of traffic. More than 5,4o00 worknen at ship building plants at Gloucester, N. J., oilu sASC1., fIaClQSSQz LU- MOIh yesterday because double pay for hol- iday work had been denied them. 1
 | Circuit Judge Willis B. Perkins at Grand Rapids, Mich, denied a motion of the Chicago Tribune to dismiss the | 1,00O,0O0 libel suit brought against the newspaper by Henry Ford of De- troit.
 General Juan Banderas was shot and killed in a downtown cafe at Mex ico City by Colonel Miguel Peralta. General Banderas took a prominent part in the revolutions led by Madero and Carranza.
 The tug Cumberland put in at New port R. l.. yesterday with ten. men, all of the survivors of three coal laden | barges, which were damaged by ice and sunk on voyage from Hampton Roads for Providence and Fall River. Cleveland manufacturers, coal oper- ators and dealers met yesterday to launch a nation wide campaign to pro- vide railroads with thousands of men urgently needed to rescue transpor- tation from admittedly chaotic condi- | tions.
 | pr. Robert L. McElroy who recently was granted a years leave of absence from Princeton university to direct the educational campaign of the Na- tional Security League, will begin his work in New England with a meeting at Hartford today.
 Second Lieutenant Peyton C. March IT, son of Major General Peyton c March, sustained d fracture of tht skull this afternoon when his airplant fell at Taliaferro Field. at For Worth, Texas. He is said to have sma chances of recovery.
 II Government vessels searching alons the New England coast for the Gross Rip Lightship missing from it's sta tion in Nantucket Sound since Febru ary i reported that they had heard nothing from it and that it probabl. had drifted far out to sea.
 T. c. Rogers and p. B. Cooley, fly ing cadets were killed at Park Field l the army aviation camp, near Mem ! yesterday of the machines in whicl : they were making practice flights F They were flying at height of abou l 250 feet.
 l P. J. Farrell, of Newport, vt., solic itor of the Interstate Commerce Com missions bureau of valuation. was ap
 pointed chief counsel of the commis sion yesterday to succeed Joseph W
 Folk, who recently resigned to becom
 counsel of the St. Louis chamber 0 ; commerce. 1 |. Hans B.. Hitler. who posed ss cour Ferdinand Won Hochberg, in HartforC and who claimed to be a member of tn Prlssian nobility. was released fror 2 jail yesterday, where he had been hel 2 since November "A. He was allowe : to register as German alien and wa ? given his freedom on probation. : NEW CONSTRUCTION t t PROJECTS FOR THE ARM