Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-10

Rear Admiral Thomas Washington was | appointed by Secretary Denby to head 1 board of inuiry to decade upon per- manent naval reserve policy. J. Butler Wright, counselor to the United l States embassy in London, has been call l limitation of armaments.
 Narcotics, valued at S1, ,000, 900 were l shipped to Washington from New York, | having been confscated here in raids dur ing the last year.
 Frank McQueen, receiver of taxes for the last ten years at Oyster Bay L. l., | died suddenly at Florence Park, of heart disease.
 Chief Justice Taft was reelected pres ident of the Unitarian conference at it's closing business session at Detroit This is his third consecutive term.
 The wooded slopes of Mt. Madison, at the northwestern end of Presidential Range and within the White Mountains National Forest were ablaze Saturday
 A S4Ou,O0O concrete bridge at Belfast, Maine, was opened and dedicated in memory of Waldo county boys who lost their lives in the world war.
 Three boys were seriously injured and two others slightly burned by the eXplo- sion of an aerial bomb which they found on a field at the Brockton Fair grounds.
 Saturday PawtucI1et, (R. I.,) ceIebrat- ed the 250th anniversary of the found- ing of the city by Joseph Jenks. The eel 1 ebratio-4 will be kept up for five days.
 The Russian soviet commissariat of Ia- bor has sent agents abroad to recruit i foreign workment for Russia, according to a radio message from Moscow.
 Retail food prices during September were found by the labor department to have declined in all but two of If cities in which it conducts investigation.
 Wage reductions of five cents an hour were accepted by the 1,50O employees at i Edgewater N. J., of the Corn Products Refining company, and they returned to work ending a five day strike.
 A total of 146,66T persons in-the state of Massachusetts, ten years of age and over. were unable to write in 1920, ac- cording to 1920 census figures dealing with ilIiteracy in that state.
 The next convention of the Commercial Travellers Union of America will be held at Montreal in 1923, it was decided at last nights closink session of the 1921 con vention in Toronto, Ont.
 The average length of a human life should be at least 150 years, Mrs. Fife AcCollum Jones of Webster City, Iowa, asserted in an address before the New England Osteopathic Association in Bos- ton.
 Post office inspectors arrested N. Er- nest Dyer, residing in the South End district, Boston, on a charge of unlaw- fully sending a bottle of colored alcohol by parcel post.
 Secretary Weeks announced the ap- pointment of Edward M. Fullington of Columbus, Ohio. to be author for the Philippine Islands including the govern ment. the railroad and bank.
 Timely action by the Nacaraguan government III S6uulLS lIOOpS lO llIe IlOlI- duran frontier averted contemplated attack on Leon,T the largest city in Me arag1a, by. the insurgents,
 The actual capital of the new Russian soviet state bank amount to 7O,000,o0 gold rubles, according to a despatch by the Rosta official soviet agency from Moscow.
 The Boston Union Cigar Makers Co., operative, Inc, manufacturers of cigars was the subject of bankruptcy petition
 filed with the federal court by five credi
 tors, all of New York, each with clain of $1,OOO.
 Orrin R. Six, Of Kansas City, is being . held by police at Detroit, Mich, for au' thorities of Fulton, Missouri, where It i! said, a warrant charges him with beine the promoter of an alleged $1,000,00o oi stock swindle.
 , The president would be authorized tt
 take over and operate coal properties il } a national fuel emergency under bill in , troduced by Senator Kenyon, republican ]. Iowa, chairman of the senate labor com \ mittee.,
 Spring wheat production showed re
 duction of almost 1S, 200, GOO bushels ant
 corn a reduction of 22,S0,00O bushel
 compared with month ago, the depart ment of agriculture's October crop re
 port indicated.
 Clarence Hopkins, of Katonah, N. Y. ! ! an automobile racing driver, was killet | near Katonah while on his way to thu Danbury fair where he was to have driv
 en in races. His car skidded and over
 turned pinning him beneath. A despatch from Petrograd says tha city is suffering from flood, caused b. winds which have driven the water III the Neva river into canals, washing ou bridges, flooding cellars and docks anc
 hindering shipping.
 Under Sheriff W. s. McPherran wa } shot and killed and two alleged bootleg
 gers were wounded in a fight between 7 posse and alleged liquor dealers las night near Monarch, a mining camp if teen miles north of Sheridan, Wyoming Secretary Weeks has reaffirmed his de : cison not to permit army airplanes t r participate in exhibition competitions :. basing his objections on lack of person . nel, material and general uselessnes 2 from a military standpoint of testing tn 1 Of air bxr