Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-09
Condensed TeIegrams

Controller of currency issued call for condition of national banks as of Dec. 31 last.
 Nova Scotia lobster pack amounted to 130,000 cases in 1919. The value was $6,750,00o.
 Steamship La Lorraine was held up in Havre harbor because of a strike among the crew.
 Central coal distributing committee will raise government ban on Ameri- can coal exports.
 Roumanian oil production first six months of 1919 was larger than total production of 1917.
 Bar silver was quoted at 76 7-sd an ounve, in London, compared with S1.32 in New York.
 German army which numbered 2So,- 900 men on January 1, will be on a treaty basis by April 1.
 According to authorities in Wash ington full exportation of coal will be resumed within ten days.
 Farr Alpaca Go. of HoIyoke, Mass will distribute. on Friday to employees bonuses amounting to $25O,O0O.
 Berlin school authorities prolonged the Christian vacation until Jan. 20, because of the shortage of coal.
 James Mclean, vice president and director of the Phelps.Dodge Corpora tion died at his home in New York.
 According to authorities in Rome the sixth national ban, now being of fered, is likely to be oversub Inscribed.
 A general license was issued by the British government for the e7porta- of.
 Chicago Stock Exchange member ship was sold for sS,0OO compared with $1o,oo0, for the last sale late last year.
 Ten men taken into custody in Wa terbury on suspicion of having been engaged in radical activities were all released.
 The shipping board steamer Lake ae9ifavett reported by wireless that she was returning to Boston on account ofsbeiler trouble,
 Standard Oil Co. of New York, ad vanced price of gasoline and kerosene one cent a gallon in New York and New England states.
 A total of 1,1S3 firms were incorp- orated at the offices of the secretary of New York state in December, a record forone month.
 It was decided representatives of the United States will not be present >at the exchange of ratifications of the peace treaty at Versailles.
 The former transport St. Louis was scuttled at Hoboken in a deperate effort to check flames which swept the ship from stem to stern.
 Commercial Gable Co.,, announced 1 messages for Hungary may be accept ed subject to Hungarian censorship and senders' risk. Rate S7 cents g word.
 Senator RamsdeTI of louisiana in. | tcoduced a bill providing for the sale of all government owned tonnage within two years, at prevailing world prices.
 A certificate of amendment was fil- l ed at Dover by the General Motors Corporation permitting an increase o1 capital from $1,02O, 100000 to $5,61O,- ] GOO, 900.
 Massachusetts and Connecticut vii l fight out the issue as to who shall ge i the New York wood alcohol ring fol trial, at conference, in New Yorl 1 this afternoon.
 Questions relative to the domestic situation and especially crimes attend ing strikes throughout Spain were con. sidered by the Council of Ministers a an important session.
 Gold bars shipped from New YorI assay office during 1919, amounted. t I STA, ,S49.620. Of this total $59,S11, ,50. went to domestic points. and $14,53S, 11S to foreign countries.
 State department was notified Ga | briele Porter of Fullerton, Cal, wal killed by a Mexican federal army of fcer at Tampico. He was in the em' ploy of the Penn-Mex Co.
 Charles (chappy) Moran. known t, the police all over the country as confidence man, today was fined $50t and sentenced to serve IS months il the federal prison at Atlanta.
 Belgian cabinet approved popuIa loan of 2,500,000,000 francs at pel cent, payable in 75 years with sur. premium of 50 per cent. at maturity 750 frs. will be paid for 500 frs. I The Massachusetts legislature ha convened for it's Hist annual session and reelected Edwin T. Mcknight a president of the senate, and Joseph E ! Warner as speaker of the house.
 Minimum salaries of $s5,ooo for am bassadors and S15,000 for minister with government owned embass, buildings and allowances for up-keel were recommended to the house, After being ashore for more thar ] five hours on the Hen and Chicken; reef, half mile of Larchmount. tht sound steamer Lexington of the Colo. 1iial Co was fioated by two tugs. Attorney of American SeedIess Rais in Co.,, and others filed brief with fed eral trade commission asking immedi. ate termination of alleged monopoly of California Associated Raisin co. A bill designed to make October 27 | .i,-%l l1o-v ~fr