Norwich bulletin., 1918-08-27
Condensed TeIeqrams

UViluOIioCu IGiGHI dIItS
 The House bill suspendins custom duties on Red Cross imports was pass ed by the Senate and sent to President Wilson for approval.
 A large storage warehouse used | by. the Miles Lumber. Company mad i the Medford Woolen Company at Medford,- Mass, was destroyed by fire.
 Sir Horace ArchambauIt, chief jus tice of Quebec, died suddenly of heart | failure at Trois Pistoles. He was 61 | years old.
 The steam yacht Vega, held for in vestigation by the naval authorities | was released yesterday.
 The British third and fourth armies suffered about 23, 800 casualties be- | tween August q and August 25.
 About 260,o00 unnaturaIized male ] Germans live in the United States 1 and have registered with police and postmasters under enemy alien regu- lations.
 A school for camoufIaae artists is the newest feature of the artiticer school of the Great Lakes Training Station.
 All motor vehicles in he army, from bicycles to trucks, will be turned over to the new motor transport corps organized by Colonel Charles B. Drake.
 Senaor Reed of Missouri will leave Washington today to spend two months visiting the battle front and European capitals.
 A Russian prince who recently ar rived in London, according to the London Daily Mail, confirms the vague rumors of the killing of Alexis, the son of the former Emperor
 AirPlane ambulances to carry injuT- ed aviators from the scene of an acci- dent to a field hospital are to be pro vided at all flying fields.
 Eight hundred second ieutenants graduated yesterday from the Central Officers training school at Camp Lee, Va.
 Addition of Secretary of Commerce Redfleld to the membership of the priorities committee of the War h. dustries Board was announced yester- day.
 Theodore F. Garfield of Seattle, Washn., a student aviator at the Mi ami naval air station. was killed today l in a seaplane accident. The plan fell into Biscayne Bay, Fla. The despatch boat Disc has been | cited in a French army order for having sunk an enemy submarine on l August off the coast of Brittany. Mrs. Thomas w. Allison, mother of Brent Dow Allinson, pacifst and poet, no serving 20 year sentence in the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth, l kaS., for evading the army draft was | taken in custody by federal officers at Chicago and questioned. Federal of i ficials declined to state why
 pr. Baltassar Brum, the foreign minister of Uruguay, heading a spe- cial mission to the United States was entertained informally at luncheon yesterday by the President and Mrs. Wilson at the White House.
 Bankers, lawyers, teachers, clergy men and actors are included among the hundreds of young Americans in training as apprentice seamen for the merchant marine.
 King Leopold of Bavaria at family dinner Sunday, according to an official statement made in Munich, announced the engagement of Crown Price Rup- precht to the Princess Antoinette oi
 Luxeburg.
 Il Federal warrants charging conspir.
 acy were issued in connection witt
 thefts of cloth valued at nearly $10,-
 900 from the Boston ard Albany rail iroad and Huntington mills at Spring. field.
 | Giuseppe christofaro and Stepher
 Minurski ,held in connection with the
 murder of Michael Lagoni Sunday a
 Bristol, Ct.,w ere released yesterday
 under bonds of S1.0 % 0each for appear
 ance Friday.
 Removal of the wreck of the motol
 vessel Madrugada which has been {
 menace to navigation off Winte
 Quarter Shoals since she was shellet
 zy a German submarine August 15
 was announced by the Navy Depart
 ment
 ViIhjalnar Stafansson, Arctic ex
 plorer is expected to arrive at Dawson
 Yukon Territory today from For
 Yukon, where he has been convalesc
 ing since his illness last winter. The custom among members of tn marine corps of saluting wounde' = members of the organization who hay r returned from France has been give the official approval of Major Genera : George Barnett, head of the corps. . Fishing craft destroyed by Germa- 3 submarines off the New Englan
 coast will be replaced by the emerg 3 ency fleet corporation at the reques g of the food administration with dee g sea modern trawlers.
 g So that bad weather might not in
 terfere with training the War Depart r ment announced that special building l would be erected at once at Cam 1 1 Devens.
 : The Brown corporation, pulp an q paper manufacturer which has
 number of mills throughout Canad;
 and the United States, is about t
 start work on a twenty million dol lar paper mill at La Tuque, where '' already has large pulp mill Sinking of the Gloucester fshin /; schooner J. J, F1aherty by a Germa 1 submarine was reported in a messae : received at Gloucester, Mass. by tn ' the owners from Captain Charles l Gregory, who with his crew of 24, hay : landed safely at St Pierre Miquelon. l Several hundred striking shoe work :; CTS who again attempted to resum 1 work in Brockton factories yesterda J were denied admittance by manufact II urers because they were not member : of the Boot and Shoe Workers Uniol q cranmore H. Wallace, of Boston lon
 identified with New England textil
 properties, and president of the Lud
 low Manufacturing Associates, cor
 trolling eleven mills, died at his sun " mer home at Beverly, Mass. He wa l "A years old.
 e John H. Howard of Chicago, form e CT freight claim agent of the Chicag = and Alton, was appointed manager ( a new section of the railroad admins 0 tration to have supervision over a e freight claims against railroads unde l Federal management. The Union Station Bank at St. Loui o with deposits of S1,S00 900, did nc
 open for business yesterday, but wa
 in charge of State Bank Examine
 Enright Of the total deposits $752
 442 were savings. Examiners bega s an investigation week ago.