Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-17

According to a report in London min ing company in Belgian Congo is con sidering the transportation of diamonds by airplane.
 General GaIIieni former minister of wnr and military governor of Paris has been named a marshal of France ill a decree signed by President Millerand
 Sir Cecil Lowther coalition unionist, was elected to the house of commons by 31 votes in the by-election in the Pen rith district.
 A bill prohibiting capital punishment for persons under IS years of age was signed by Governor Stephens Of Cali fornia.
 Six hundred thousand French meblIi- zation posters were officially stamped and are ready for distribution by the gov ernment according to Humanite of Paris.
 Walter IT. Clark of Hartford was nom mated for judge of probate of the Hart ford district at the republican convention. last night.
 Fire of unknown origin destroyed eight l storehouses on the Packard Co.'S air | plane Held in Detroit, causing loss of S10000O.
 Senator Carraway, democrat, of Ar l kansas introduced resolution to pro hib+t enlistment of negroes in the army 1 or navy.
 Commander V. & Hackson, [. s. N. the last member of the American expe- neditionary forces in London sailed for New York aboard the Aquitania
 The working force at the Boston navy yard was further depleted yesterday when co men, most of them empioyes in the hull division, were furloughed. Rear Admiral Samuel s. RObison. com mandant of the Boston navy yard, re- ceived orders to proceed to San Domingo as naval governor.
 The ban on withdrawal of bonded li- ouor by wholesale druggists, imposed in | January. was lifted by Prohibition Di- rector Daniel F. O'Conneu in Boston. William \. Lalley corporation Preis- ident declared in Detroit that buyers
 strike is still in progress as d result Of
 the public's belief that retail prices are
 still too high.
 A reduction in the wages of union moulers in greater Boston became ef- fective with the consent of the unions involved. The cut was about S1.00 for the eight hour day.
 John B. King, of Washington, D. C.. student at Massachusetts Institute of
 Technology. was twice wounded by supposed burglar whom he found in his
 rooms in Drayton Hall.
 Owing to inability Of boIsheviki gov ernment to fulfil it's promise of increas- ed food rations a tramway strike has
 broken out in Petrograd and a railway
 strike is threatened.
 sir Auckland Geddes. addressing stu
 dents of the University of Texas, de
 clared the only way to have permanent peace is to have understanding and CO., operation between nations. Peruvian government awarded Mar conf Wireless Telegraph O., Ltd. of , London. the concession for operation of t the Peruvian wireless telegraph and . postal lines.
 Fares will be reduced every line , of the Eastern Massachusetts Street rail way within a few days as result of the F 1-2 per cent cut in wages of it's
 employees.
 The trial of Mary J. Fellows for the 3 murder of her husband Rufus J. Fellows ;, proprietor of Sunnyside Inn. in Johnston, . R. l., on January s. started before Judge . Hahn in the superior court in Providence = R. l.
 Asparagus and others of the more
 tender early vegetables were damaged
 by frost during the past week but fruit ; trees almost generally escaped, accordins g
 to repor.s fro mthe New Englai.I states.
 British authorities at Hong Kong have . sent river gunboats to operate against > the Southern Chinese forces in Kwan- e tung province according to message oi Q protest from Dr. Sun Yst-Sen Southern
 Chinese leader received in Washington. Stefan Janicka shot and killed his wifi, : Mary Janicka at their home in Law - renee and then ended his own life with - the same revolver. The couple had
 l quarreled over DOarder to whom the T. husband objected.
 't Newspapers of Madrid are conductInr e a campaign in favor of Thomas Breton
 Spanish composer. He was denied ; ; pension and retired from the directorat,
 of the Conservatory of Music because O '- the age limit.
 IL Senator Wadsworth of New York, in T. troduced a bill to give Major Genera = Hunter Lggett, now retired the rank O ] I lieutenant general on the retired list |, |, He held the rank while in active servic, 10 in the world war.
 II Proclamation by President Harding al i9 lows aliens on vessels touching Ameri i can ports while en route to foreign port to land temporarily without vised pass ports. Passengers are required. howece- to continue their voyage on the sam
 steamer.
 I Thomas ". Lamont. of J. P. Morgan . Co. now In Paris, says the reparation " agreement offers the best solution of in
 problem. but the allies must "decid V. how to make Germany pay without lsv 77- ing such heavy hand on her econon1i
 resources as actually to diminish her ca f pacity to pay.'
 OBITUARY Ii Benjamin C. Wsodine h. New Haven, Conn, May 16.-Beni, he min C. Wooding, who was the oldest Ii,