Norwich bulletin., 1920-01-13

ported untitled orders on books for | December as S,265,366 tons.
 A step toward closing loop holes in | existing sedition laws was taken when l the Senate passed the Sterling bill.
 Director Hines signed a contract l with the Southern Pacific Terminal Co. fixing annual compensation at $2S4,761.
 Confidence is expressed in official circles in Paris that the Plume situa- 1 ton will reach a definite solution Wednesday.
 According to Tokio report China and Japan started negotiations on the question of the restoration of Shan tung to China.
 Owing to diversion of newsprint paper to the United States, Manitoba and Saskatchewan newspaper are fac ing suspension.
 Chicago Federal Reserve Bank in- creased its discount rate on Treasury certificates Of indebtedness from Az to 3-4 per cent.
 cIemenceau it is reported, will make trip to tn United States ill behalf of the League of Nations, if he is elect ed Prsident of France.
 Attorney General Palmer was quoted by Philadelphia newspaper interview CTS as declaring President Wilson does not seek reelection.
 Further investigation into the kill ing of James Wallace, American citi- zen, near Tampico, Mex, was ordered by the State Department.
 Governor Edwin P. Morrow, of Kentucky, appointed Henry Watterson, former editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, colonel on his staff.
 Twenty five thousand Besian work CTS went on strike, affecting the De- partments of Forestry, Colonies and Public Works and the Postoffice
 Five hundred Italian reservisss who were called from America to Italy to rejoin the army, returned on board the Anchor Line steamship Italia.
 Joseph E. Willard, American ann bassador to Spain, who was absent on a visit to the United States, has ar rived at Madrid to resume his duties.
 Supreme Council is scheduled to send a note to Holland this week, de- manding the surrender of the former kaiser to stand trial by an Allied tri- bunal.
 Secretary Glass in a letter sent to the Ways and Means Committee ap- peal for an appropriation of S150, ,0OO,- O00 to aid the starving inhabitants of Europe.
 According to information received at Boston from Washington, Department of Justice agents are ready to arrest from 500 to 500 more Reds" in New m>>2nd.,
 Revenue agents were on the trail of 1000 cases of whiskey believed to be en route to New York. following con- fessions obtaAed from Chicago sa- loonkeepers.
 Imports into this country from Ja- pan totaled $303, ,993. .041, in 1919, com pared with s2S4,945,439 in 1918. Ex- ports to Japan from this country to- I tailed $326, ,462, ,26s.
 A fire was started in the PathoIog- l ical building of the jSnns Hopkins aged the buildings, The flames were | Hospital at Baltimore, seriously dam soon under control.
 Police dressed in plain clothes raid 1 ed hundreds of poolrooms, cafes, sa- looms and slums of Chicago and rounded up 1000 criminals. One man was killed ny the police.
 French cruiser Marseilies arrived at Copenhagen with 500 troops, who will, occupy Flensburg, Schleswif, dur ing the taking of the plehisoite. Eng land will send 1,2oO men
 l 4 large Transatlantic dlrigibIe, cap able of carrying. 150 passengers 1;1 1 travelling 75 miles an hour, is being contracted in the Royal Italian navy's aero station at Ciampino, near Rome. 1 Vera Cruz despatches gave denial. tc sensational reports printed in this mornings papers in Mexico City that l the city of Vera Cruz had been de- stroyed by an earthquake Saturday night. I By reason of the failure of the pro. 1 hibitionfsts to secure a majority of the votes in the recent mo ncense'' ref 1 erendum, New Zealand will remain wet and the present license system will continue.
 Cabinet members with privileges o+ debate but not ballot should be seated l in either the House or Senate, Secre. tary of War Baker declared in speech before the Political Education
 League of New York
 A Caproni airpIane left Rome t,
 stake route to be covered in tn, Rome to Tol0io flight, being arranged and financed by the Italian govern,
 ment. It is reported D'Annunzio vii
 be in charge of the flight
 Wha. is said to be the worlds larges sale of commercial airplanes wa! Imade at the aeronautical show a Chicago, according to an announce fment last night One company sold Al
 "ships" to B. l.. Brookins of Tulsa
 Okla, fror $2,5oo, 900.
 l In three raids of alleged gambling houses in the Bronx by the 'fyins
 squadron,' composed of detectives o the special service division, forty. three men were arrested and examined l by. Magistrate SiIberman Four wer, lucid as common gamblers. !! sAs climax of 25 srious fires ir Brooklyn, in wiEch lives of severa ] shuqdreds of persons were endangered land much cash and many valuables
 were stolen, the police arrested fou -,-<