Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-11

were lost in the sinking of the steamer Egypt, from London to Bombay, the post office department announced
 President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor, in a statement as- serted the tide is again turning in favor of organized labor.
 An accounting in the estate of George ". Perkins fixes the total estate at s5,- 17o.752, and states that a balance of $66o2,s6s is still undistributed.
 The Chemical Foundation has been subpoenaed to appear with all it's books and records Tuesday before the federal grand jury in Washington.
 H. o. Stanley, former New York broker, recently sent to Sing Sing for larceny, has been assigned to position as supply clerk. l.
 Postal eceipts in June show the New York post office had a greater income than any city in the country, with s4, ,626.- 166, an increase of s241,S71 over June. 1921.
 The Fisher Body corporation has talk en over the plant of the o. J. Beaudett & Co.,, of Pontiac, Mich, thus adding 300, ,000 square feet of factory space and 1,50o employees to it's organization.
 Twenty-seven African chiefs, the SOW ereigns of various French colonies or pro- tectorates in Sudan, Senegal, Dahomey, Mauretania and the Ivory and Guinea coasts, arrived in Paris.
 
 The revolt which centered about the Copacabana fortress, near Rio Janeiro, appears to be a closed incident Marshal Hermes Fonseca, former president, is a prisoner aboard the cruiser Floriano. l The chamber of deputies and the sen- ate have authorized the French govern ment to issue a decree permitting the use of substitutes in flour to compel millers to use a larger percentage of wheat sub stitutes in making four.
 Elmer F. Spencer. assistant postmast- CT at Meriden died after a years illness. He had been connected with the postef- flee for more thon SS years and was lknown throughout the state as an au- | thority on postoffice laws.
 The J. B. Stetson Co., is to be recap | italized, according to Philadelphia ad- vices. if the stockholders at a special meeting called for the near future ratify the recommendation of the board of di- rectors.
 The present regular dividend of s1 a share in cash will be maintained on the Enew stock of the Rec Motor Car Go. aft CT the distribution of the 100 per cent stock dividend, according to announce. ment made by the company.
 Wallace R. Campbell. vice president and treasurer of the Ford Motor Co, o Canada, Ltd. announced that his com pany will begin soon the erection of { huge motor plant adjoining the presen factory in Ford City.
 The Standard oil Co. of Indiana vii announce a reduction in the price of gas : oline, according to advices received il Wall street from Chicago. The reduction is made possible by the decline in freigh rates.
 Circulars addressed "to the shopmcn 5 maintenance of way men, clerks an, : others affected by the wage reductions. r urging defiance of the courts and tn armed forces of the United States ar reported to havJ been found on the door steps of many railroad workers.
 Mayor Champions recent orders fo strict enforcement of the Sunday clos [ ing ordiance at Ocean City. N J , brought an indignation meeting 0 board walk business men. at which , committee was appointed to plan a lega fnc nf ife
 , Twenty blind men. employed in tn weaving and chair departments of tn Wilkesbarre, Pa, branch of the Penn
 sylvanit association for the blind, sub scribed to Ia strike order because thei ' foreman. also blind. has been displaced b a man with eye sight.
 . To stabilize exchange. the Portugues I government is shortly to promulgate : law by which exporters will be require I to deposit 50 per cent of the value C s their exports in gold with the government
 which will exchange it for Portugues
 money.
 The total assets of the 1.09s buIldin
 and loan associations in New Jersey wer
 59.26S,557. according to a report as
 April 30 submitted to the commissions
 of banking. The gain in assets for tn
 eighteen months covered by the repol
 was 26 1-2 per cent, or s74.254.070 8
 the rate of IT 2-3 per cent. per annum.
 Mathilde Mccormick. 17-year-ol
 daughter of Harold F. Mccormick, hea
 of the International Harvester compan.
 will visit her grandfather John l
 Rockefeller when she accompanies he | father to New York late this week. It reported she will make last attempt {
 win Mir. Rockefeller's consent to her mal
 riage to Max Oser, Swiss riding master
 WOMAN HELD ON