Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-29
BRIEF TELECRAMS

bklEF IELEukAM0 Alfred Condo, director and editor of Fl Democratic newspaper, of Guatemala City, vas assassinated. W. F. Buckley, president of the Amer can Asscciaton of Mexico, was ordered Q leave Mexico for alleged propaganda. Representative Manuel Herrick, of Ok ahoma, announced he will start week. Iy newspaper in Washington, to be call ed Retribution, to answer his critics.
 A plan to raise s20o,O00 for anti-tuber- culosis work in New York city before Christmas was launched with proclama- tion by Governor Miller.
 Postoffice department announces the perfection of a bullet-proof motor designed for use in big cities where large sums of money are sent through the mail.
 At the initial session at Cincinnati of the American Institute cf Criminal Law and Criminology a card index system of all known criminals was advocated. 
 Society for pure English has been form ed in England to further the best inte- rest of the language by the promulga- tion of sound knowledge"
 Two members of the crew were killed an another seriously injured when boiler burst on the locomotive of a Seaboard Air Line railroad, near Youngstown, N. c.
 A fire started by an explosion in the basement of Redmen's hall destroyed the building at Greenwich. Loss Is estimated at s1O0,co0.
 Bandits released the ranch owners and others, including the American manager of an Armour packing plant, at Pasco Iba- neg, in Argentina
 To stop the flow of liquor into this coun- try from European ports members of the customs searching squad will search ves- sels immediately after their arrival.
 pr. Taisuma Dan and a party of lead ing Japanese fnanciers and business men who are touring this country were lunch con guests of Mayor Peters in Boston.
 Wage reductions affecting 40 tanneries in Peabody, Salem and Lynn were an- nounced The plants normally employ about 5000 persons.
 Clarence M. Hathaway, formerly sec retary of the Fall River Cotton Manu- facturerss association, died at his ,home in Fall River in his 67th year.
 
 R. l., for many years a prominent lumber dealer in Fall River, died suddenly in his 73d year.
 Postmaster Burton of Brooklyn was mo- tified that United States marir,es will be placed on all trucks carrying registered mail and money.
 Statements in Washington dispatches printed in London that President Harding intends to cut the allied debt in half were denied in official quarters in Washington.
 Col. Charles ". 4ghittlesey, chairman of the Red Cross roll call, declared that the half-million goal sought in New York will be reached. A shipping board steamer of the Lake
 
 by radio that her condensers were not working and that she would be compelled to return to port.
 According to replies sent to the presi- dents conference on unemployment, 22O cities in the United States have taken steps to provide local employment by in- stituting public work
 One hundred and twenty New Yorh steamship officials will attenl the Is an. nual meeting of the National Board O, Steam Navigation, to be held in the New Willard Hotel Washington, Dec. '. 1 The appointment of Lieutenant CoIone Jason S. Jay as liaison officer to secur, closer cooperation between the Amerl can Red Cross and the Veterans Bureau was announced n
 Federal prohibitions agents who hay, confscated s1,0O0,ooo worth of imported 1 liquors, will seize $5,o00,00o worth Q whiskey stored in New ork warehouses 1T the near future.
 l c. S. Barrett. president of the Nationa Board of Farm Organizations and also O. the Farmers UniCn, issued a call for tn, agricultural leaders to meet the delegates to the limitation of arms conference ol Dec. s.
 The state department has been ap prised of steps which have been taker in connection kwith the proposed loan O { S5o,0e0,0oo by a group of bankers to Ar gentina. The loan will not be opposed b, the government, it was said today.
 Boy orators from public and privat schools throughout New York state vii compete in a series of contests arranged by Columbia University in upstate cities to determine the choice of ten entrants fo a public contest to be held in Earl Hall Columbia, Jan. 1S, 1922.
 New York state tax commission unde new ruling, announces registration of au tomebiles made prior to July 1, 1921, vii be valid until Feb 1, 1922 New plate for 1922 will be ready for distributio, next Thursday in all county clerks offic es.
 Joseph Cosgrove, wanted by police au thorities of Detroit, Mich, charged wit larcency of S4,0o0 worth of fur coat from leading stores there, waived extra oltAOAA IIS HtS III lIlS CIlN COuIl III DIluge port. He will be taken to Detroit fo trial.
 Pennsylvania railroad announced thu as a result of safety measures ther were 5 per cent. fewer fatalities and I per cent. fewer injuries to employees of th system during the first six months of thi year than during the corresponding perio of 1920.