Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1920-05-21

Deputy Louis Dubois was appointed to
succeed President Poincare as president
If the Preparations Commission.
Governor smith of New York signed
he Witter bill, preventing boarding of
foodstuffs for the purpose of forcing up |
prices.
Warning that France must, in the |
midst of peace, make preparations for |
future wars was uttered by Marshal |
Foch.
Milk deliveries in Manhattan and Long |
Island City were curtailed by strike of
:, 900 drivers employed by distributing
companies.
Serious disorders have occurred at St
Michele, a village in the Province of
Venetia near the mouth of the Taglia-
mento river.
Meat is being imported from Australia
and New Zealand by Chicago, the meat
centre of the world, in order to force
down the price.
City officials of Chicago attempted to
secure a truce with 5.S4S striking en-
ployes of the city garbage, street clean
ing and repair departments.
Three women have already been ap-
pointed as members of the Connecticut
delegation to the democratic national
convention at San Francisco.
More than $5OoIooo worth of mer-
chandise has been stolen recently from
Hudson River docks through presentation
of unauthorized bills of lading.
Six Youngstown Ohio men are in jail
as a result of the seizure of two auto
mobile loads of whiskey on city streets
The motor cars were confiscated.
One man was burned to death and
eight others injured in fire at the Bar
rett manufacturing plane at Philadelphia
The loss is estimated at $3.50, 900.
Secretary Houston asked the senate to
increase appropriations for the custom
service from S10,300,O 900 to $11,sOO, 900
because of unexpected imports.
Finland will soon send a peace deIexa-
ton to Copenhagen to meet representa-
tives Of the Russian soviet government,
according to the Berlingske Tidende
1t was announced the settlement of
| wages for anthracite miners would be
further delayed after conference be-
twee noperators and Secretary Wilson.
The Chicago Yarnish Company has
/ been bought jointly by E. l. Dupont De
Nemours and Company and the Flint
| Varnish and Color Works of Flint, Mich
United States Railroad Labor Board
| refused the petition of outlaw" rail-
| road employees demanding recognition and
| a hearing on their requests for higher
wages.
Leroy W. Ross, U. 5. attorney. beEar
/ preparing papers in cases of S.aa0, mer
! listed as violators of the selective ser
vice act in Brooklyn, Long Island ano
Staten Island.
Shutting dewn of industrial establish
ments in Greater New York. because o
/ the interruption to movement TO raw
material over transportation lines by
strikes, is increasing
i Favorable report was ordered by tn
Senate Auditing Committee on tn eBo
rah resolution calling for an investfga
ton by the senate into all expenditure
made by both parties.
the transportation of 1000 persons week
ly from Poland to the United Satets b,
, the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigran
Aid society of America
Marshall Fields purpose of tying nj
, his imemnse fortune until his grandson
: reach the age of so was to protect hi
! descendants from leading useless live
of luxury and idleness''
Conference committee of the house an
: senate, on the resolution ending tn
state of war with Germany, agreed I
recommend acceptance of the resolutio
s as passed by the senate.
julius Barnes, L. S. Wheat Directo
. ridiculed predictions that flour will COZ
$40 Darrell and bread % cents los
9 as result of government removal
price restrictions on wheat June l.
The London Times and London Dali
Mail say that the violent side of IL
Z movement in Ireland is in the hands ,
about 1900 fatatics, many belonging
e the Irish Republican Brotherhood"
q Alexis A. BrusiIoff, former command
h in chief of the Russian armies under ii
g imperial regime, is reported to have a
v sumed the supreme authority in ii
l. Russian soviet which was formerly he
: by Lenine.
+ Two hundred and eight tons of Anne
= can made butter shipped to Rotterda
j, byA Armour & Co., for a German cor
! pany, were returned to this country b
cause of the refusal of the German FIR
to pay the price asked.
The attitude of the government {
:. y wards the paper making industry w
blamed primarily for the paper shorta
by r. P. Andrews of Washington D.
!, president Of the National Paper Ira
- Association of the United States.
le Following the arraignment of two m
s. in New York, who had $4,000 worth
silks and woollens in their possession,
/ was disclosed that ST. 000 600 worth
IN goods have been stolen from piers
1e the Old Dominion Line and the NJ
York Central within the last month.
Restriction of gasoline sales for plea
~ ure cars to three gallons at one tin
y and refusal to supply tanks well filed,
al iconserve supplies and assure agricultl
NJ al interests and commercial enterpris
ne adequate fuel, was announced by t
a. majority of the large oil companies