Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-18

Captain Raymond L. Murray, Provi- dence, R. l., was elected senior vice com mander in chief of the veterans of foreign wars
 A general strike of all seamen on the Canadian Lake steamers seems today to have paralyzed Canadian shipping on the Great Lakes through Sau1t Ste Marie.
 Ger service division of the American Railroad Association announced the movement of freight by the railroads is back to normal.
 Captain Raol Amundsens expedition ship, the Maud, bound for the north pole, is caught in the ice about twenty miles off Cape Serge on the Siberian coast School budgets in American cities should be twice as large as before the war according to an anaylsis of public i school statistics just given out by the Russell Sage Foundation. | Tentative dates selected for Senator Harding's appearance in New York when he will speak at Madison Square Gar den, are Oct. 23 or 25.
 Extension of credit by the government does not seem warranted by present con ditions. Secretary Houston stated yes | terday.
 British Admiralty has forbidden the first passenger liner of the United States Mail Co.,, the Panhandle State, to stop at Queenstown, Ireland.
 Women jurors have just served at the Bristol, England sessions for the first time in England. They were congratu- lated by counsel prosecuting.
 Eighty-six lodges of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen were expelled from the order for taking part in the unauthorized strike of switchmen.
 Women's vofes in the Rhode Island primaries more than doubled the usual vote in the republican primaries for delegates to the state convention.
 Reports from police authorities in IS cities throughout the United States show that gamblisg has greatly decreased since prohibition became cffectiYe.
 Actors and theatre employees won their strike in Madrid, managers recognizing rttheir union and agreeing fo pay extra for Sunday and holiday performances. Dr. Giuseppi NTotta, president of Switzerland, and Premier Millerand of France discussed matters relative to trade interests between the two coun- tries.
 The Delaware, Lackawanna and West
 ern Railroad applied to the Interstate
 Commerce Commission yesterday for per mission to segregate it's rail and coal properties
 movement to establish at Harvard university a school of instruction in fish cries. the ways of the fish. their move
 ments, their catching, canning and sale,
 was begun yesterday. J. K. Witherspoon, Seattle, was elect
 ed commander of the United Spanish 7 War Veterans at the 22nd national en- } campnent of the organization at St. s Louis.
 Six hundred German, Austrian and Hungarian prisosers of war who have l been in Siberia since the war, sailed $ from Shanghai for Trieste on the steam ? CT Nankei Maru.
 : 4 parade will be held in New York l by members of the American Olympic ' team ten days after all returs to this { country. Mayor HyIan will present a s medal to every athlete. v Mrs. J. VI. Lane. of Rosenburg, Ore. e has completed a forty day fast, durins : which time she partooll of no nourish n ment except a little orange and lemor a juice and water.
 | Republican National Committeeman
 Babler. from Missouri, in a public state n ment fiatly denied he agreed with Chair. e man Will Hays to allow the state com. e mittee to assume any of the duties o e the national committeeman. 0 The bombardment of moving targets a
 sea from an artillery train on the Rock
 port branch of the Boston and Maine rail
 road furnished the summer colony of tn ' Massachusetts North Shore with a nove
 spectacle and plenty of noise during tn } first days of this month . Conferences of Italian manufacturer S were in session throughout Italy to de y eide sonf means of combating the con
 trol of their plants by labor organiza S tions Premier Giolitti's arrival at Turin D and his call for a conference betweel ). strike leaders and manufacturers is ex n pected to end the trouble