Norwich bulletin., 1920-08-28
BRIEF TELECRAMS

BRIEF TELEGRAMS
 London bar gold quoted at 115s an ounce, against 116s, at last close.
 tour of the West Indies is being arranged by a group of Canadian busi- ness men.
 Sir Thomas Lipton declared in To ronto that he would challenge for the Americas Cup next year
 Post Office Department announced ap- pointment of John NJ. Jones to be post mastr of Portland, Oregon.
 John Henry Hanan, shoe manHfac- turer, died at his home in New York City. He was Il years old.
 France fixed the. price of bread. effee- tive Sept. 1, at 1.3V francs a kilogram and flour at -1.75 francs a kilogran. Gordon Woodbury, former member of the New Hampshire Legislature, was appointed sisstant Secretary of the Navy.
 Bar silver in London was S1 1-9d an ounce. New York domestic price 99 1-2 cents and foreign silver sS cents an ounce.
 Paris exchange quoted the American dollar at If francs 20 tcentimes, com pared with 14 francs 70 centimes at last close.
 a@n T,I ,Isci.v aEur rAnkf arf- ment by Ford Motor Co.,, which will be available to employees, was announced at Detroit.
 l Soviet government insists peace ne- appointed Assistant Secretary of the land alone, without any outside inter- vention.
 The board of governors of the New York Stock Exchange took no action or the petition for holiday Sept. 4. II | Chilean Foreign Ministry instructed | Chilean Ministers in London and Berlin to protest against shipment of war ma terials to Peru by Germany. Efforts of the Hudson & Manhattan railroad to collect six-cent fares at | ed in the arrest of gatenlan. Having completed their flight from New York to Alaska in fifty-six flying hours the army officers are overhauline their machines preparatory to a return flight.
 The report of the anthracite coal com i mission appointed by President Wilson to settle wage controversy in the an. thracite fields is in the hands of the l President. l Henry M. .Hoyt, an artist, was found l dead in his studio in New York. His friend William R. Benet,, poet, discov. cred him near an open gas jet with the windows closed 1 Francis D. Gallatin, park commission CT. is working on plans to beautify the l Hudson River frontage parallel witt i Riverside Drive by converting it into g 1 parked water. course. The government is having difficulty ir l getting enough of the proper sort o paper to issue post cards, one of th' livery few commodities remaining at tht old pre-war price of one cent
 New York State Federation of Labol voted unanimously to send telegrams tc President Wilson and Secretary Colby asking them to- use their influence fol the release of Terence McSweney. l SeaIskins from this years catch or Pribilof Islands will be worth s2,O00.00t according to preliminary advices receiv ed at the Seattle headquarters of thu United States Bureau of Fisheries.
 Georges PaIiain. governor of the BanI of France for twenty-three. years re signed and was named an honorary governor. Georges Robineau, director 0 discount division, was appointed govern or.
 | Gypsum. in the central part of Kan sas is HooAe1 o-d --1n~v residents ar marooned in their homes as the resul of a 1U a-S lncn ralntall. Hail ant wind did much damage to crops ant buildings near Assaria.
 Colonel B. W. Atkinson. '. s. A.. com manding New York recruiting district by order of Secretary Baker, will pre- sent Distinguished Service Medal t Paul D. Cravath.' at No. 52 William street, New Tor, yesterday
 United States Senator Walter B Edge, of New Jersey. and formerly gov ernor of that state, declared Senate Harding will win. Senator Edge jus returned on the Olympic and will talk an active part in the Republican cam paign.
 [ Hawaiian Island American Legio delegates to the national convention t Cleveland sailed for this country wit instructions to vote for absolute Jap anese exclusion from the United States but to defend the rights of American born Japanese.
 Associate Justice Hitz, District of Co lumbia Supreme Court, ruled the post office department has no authority unde the Espionage Act to enter a blanke