Norwich bulletin., 1920-02-24


 Negotiations for shipping 2o,ooo,ooo States are under way.
 A dry land life .preserver is the latest device to be tried as means of circumventing prohibition.
 Clifton s. Webbsr, aged about 60, was electrocuted in the engine room of a shoe factory at Belfast, Me.
 The four naasted double deeked schooner Robert L. Bean named for builder was launched at Camden, Me. The Celestial, the first American sov- ernment ship ever built in a Chinese shipyard will be launched at Shanghai in March.
 The large cold storage plant under construction at St. Pierre, Mig, for the fishing interests, was heavily damaged by fire.
 The secretary of agriculture was asked by the senate to determine how far depletion of forests has proceeded in the United States.
 
 Soviet Russia, in proposing favor able peace terms to Finland. has made it's offer conditional upon permission to use Finnish harbors.
 Admiral Nicholas Horthy, command CT in chief of the Hungarian army is reported to have been named regent of Hungary by the national assembly.
 
 Dwight w. Pardee, secretary of the New York Central railroad for 25 years, died at his home at Tslip. N. r., from hardening of the arteries.
 The steamer TuIIamore which ar ported steaming for A hours through ice fields off the Newfoundland coast.
 Three divisions of the American Writing Paper company were clos ed indefinitely owing to pulp shortage, due to poor transportation conditions. The union of retail clerks of Lynn, Mass, ended a strike which has been in effect for several months with a formal statement admitting it's fail- ure.
 The ten thousand ton oil tanker Ario, built by the Bethlehem ship building company at Sparrows Point for the Standard Oil Company, was launched.
 A system of cooperative farm credit, based on personal security as disting- uished from mortgage loans, was pro posed in a bill introduced by Repre- sentative AIcFadden.
 A movement to unionize the 12oo0 telephone operators in New York city was launched by Miss Teresa Sullivan vice president of the Telephone Op- erators' Union of Boston.
 News of the loss at sea of the Ca- nadian schooner Associate, from Gi- braitar for St. Johns, N. F. was brought to Havre, France by the French liner La Touraine.
 The presence of large icebergs and foes off the Nova Scotia coast and in reported by the British steamer Ard groom in wireless message.
 The American Woolen Company has inaugurated a system of retail stores at it's four mills in Lawrence Mass. in an effort to reduce the cost of liv- ing for the 15.O0O operatives.
 British cotton operatives to the number of 100000 are preparing to send an application to the employers for an increase of one hundred per cent in wages over the prewar rates
 A charge of $1o for passports to Cuba Bermuda the Bahama Islands and Mexico has rzeen tenta ti AeN agreed upon by the conferees on the diplomatic and consular approp1fa- bill.
 Profiting by war experience in the use of, seaplanes to locate submerged subna lines the bureau of fisheries plans to use aircraft in aiding tuna and sardine fishermen in finding schools of fish.
 Life for those in the "treat.em- rough" corps of the army has been made a little more comfortable through the devising of means to take some of the engine generated heat from the inside of tank.
 Christopher Borishevieh, z, was drowned but his sister Alice, 8, was
 
 rescue and failed to reach him after i he had fallen through a hole in the ice in Leonards pond Providence.
 Eight masked gunmen entered the 1 Tammany Hall, Eighth assembly dis trict, New York and robbed forty members who were playing cards, of 1 about $5,000 in money and jewelry They escaped before an alarm could be given.
 A bull fight staged in the corral of an Fl Paso, Texas. packing plant, with matadors picadores, banderillas and all the traditional appurtenances ot | the Spanish national sport, was in- terrupted by the police. Nineteen Mexicans were taken to jail. i Harriet Holland, 34; SyIvanus Thresher, AT, and his eleven year old daughter, Gladys, were found dead ir the hallway of a lodging house 1T ! Providence in which Thresher had i lodgings, after other occupants of the house heard four revolver shots.
 Robert Barton, Sim Fein member ci parliament for East Whitlow, who was T7-