Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-04

would be an increase of % cents an hour. uniform rate of pay of ;1 per hour will return to work today, compromise of | S5 cents per hour having been affected. |
 Attempts made yesterday to bring | about a settlement of the strike of 5000 unskilled workers in Waterbury were un- successful. Northern Baptists' campaign for $1o0,- 000,000 in connection with the inter church new world movement has passed the ssS,ooO,oOO mark 5...e.
 Thomas Morris, probably the oldest man in the world, whose age was ab- 1 solutely authenticated, died at his home in Grand Island, Neb., aged 126. Plumbers of Derby, shelton, Ansonia and Seymour were given 90 cents an hour by their employers. and while they want ed ;1 an hour they accepted the offer.
 Rear Admiral Grayson, it is reported
 will advise the president to resume his weekly trips down the Potomac river
 and on Chesapeake Bay on the May flower.
 Immigration officials for the port of 1 ANSW IOIh, dIc WdlCltlil6 It'll lAltcIcSl lAlc growing number of stowaways arriving
 here on almost every ship that carries passengers. -'>
 Several thousand labor men marched
 in orderly lines through the streets of
 Winnipeg as a protest against the im-
 prisonment of leaders in last years
 general strike.
 George H. Weaver, vice president of
 the Remington Typewriter Co, was killed
 in an automobile accident on the White Plains road, near. the Elm Rock road, Bronxville.
 J. R. Howard, president of the Amer
 ican Farm Bureau Federation, predicted
 bread lines within a year in all the large
 cities if something is not done to in- crease food production.
 John McGrsil, for fifty years an em- ploye at the finders Frary & Co., fac tory, New Britain, was run down and killed by a&n inbound passenger train while on his way to work Monday morn ing
 : Postmaster Patten. of New York, am !. nounced the Berlin post office calls at : tention to the packing of foodstuffs tc : that country. The contents are fre- quently in state unfit for use, An app-opriation of .4s,eoo wa, c made in the sundry civil appropriation s bill reported to the house of representa- - ltives, for making, Improvements in tn e annex of the Brooklyn post office. - The win of Nathan 6or. forme s United States senator from West Yir
 ginia and ex-secfetary of the navy. wa
 lrr- NY n His estate was valued. at $7,000, 000.
 William O.. Chapaton.. alleged presi 7 dent of the Detroit Ysrdrnen's Associa '. tion and leader of the local switch , mems strike. was arrested on charge 0 :. violating Section 47 of the federal pena { code. -,
 n The price of stove coal was advance by Montreal coal deaers to &ls a ton. a i increase of s1. Dealers maintained the ad
 vance was necessary because of highe Y freight rates and increased wages c i, miners.
 English papers are asking King GeorE IS to efface the stain on British honor. l. brought by Thursday nights incident a l. the Garrick theatre when hoodlum
 broke up .Laurette Taylors play, "on st Night in Rome"
 d U. S. Senator Boise Penrose had . v. hours conference with Will H. Hay r. chairman of the republican nations ID committee. Senator Watson of Indian g will possibly draw up the party-s plai
 form at Chicago. r. Walter A. Watson, alleged to haI n- married score of women and confesse in that four of them died violent deaths. al 1e nounced he would show to the. police ,i- Los Angeles the grave of one of h st murdered wives.
 ,S An explosion at the entrance of or = of the Havana City Hall departments '9' the old presidential palace, near u :. Plaza d'Armas, blew out the framewoI rs of the doorway and wrecked the il il terior of the room.
 eo FIfty-four members of the Eighth l Journalists" an organization formed 'h American newspaper men on the Rhir iiS more than a year ago, met Monday convention at Fort Worth, Texas. The ne will make tour of the oil fields ar oi cattle ranges. It. Methodist general conference in e Ills sion in Des Moines, Iowa, adopted
 resolution calling upon the major poll at ical parties to add plank to their pla
 form against "any weakening" of u
 prohibition act. The resolution was i
 troduced by Anderson.
 Twelve thousand members Of tl ms congress of women's clubs of the Pitt 3s burgh district pledged, themselves or wear only staple. clothing until pric -es of more modish garments drop and Ite place two weeks ban on potatoes in " campaign against; the high cost of Ii n- ing
 A ~
 Robert Morrison, of Clinton, Stat
 Island, was shot through the back wh
 running away from a soldier on qua IA at warehouse No. 3, U. s. Base Hospit;
 Fox Hills, s. l.. According to the qua ort Mills, Morrison stole out of the war of house with a typewriter under his ar six, and refused to stop.
 ith --ta .e GREAT BRITAIN GETS SIX he FORMER GERMAN wARsHn as s London. May s.-Six former Germ n warships, the Baden, rHelgoiand. Pos, 'no Rheinland. Westfalen and Nurnberg, a as 124 submarines have been allocated - 1 Great Britain according to announ,