Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-02

Chicago grand opera stars will be paid less and have mTe work to do Samuel | Insull president of the Civic Opera as- sociation said in an address at Chicago.
 The first party of German refugees from | the Volga region of Russia consisting of | 2S men, women and children, arrived in | Berlin after journey of nine months
 Five armed bandits today held up and | robbed branch or the Fletcher Savings and Turst company at Indianapolis and | escaped with 30,0oe in cash.
 Fire destroyed the old wooden fac tory building on the Milford road Tn East Derby. known as the Bradley Sash & Blind factory and owned by the R. N. Bassett company.
 Influenza has placed Judge Frank D. Hafnes of the superior court who was sit ting at New Haven on the civil side, on the sick list and jury sessions of the court this week have been postponed.
 The nominations of Secretary Hughes of the state department and Secretary Hoov- CT of the department of commerce to the allied debt funding commission were con- firned by the senate.
 New Jerseys notorious forty varieties of mosquito have been reduced to eight or ten in the last ten years by the aggressive ness of the New Jersey Mosquito EXterm inatfon association.
 | A heavier infestation on boil weevils in the cotton belt thst in any recent year is | indicated for tke coming season by Obser- | vations made at the Delta laboratory at
 Tullulah, La. | Three bandits boarded a street car at | Cdvington, Ky, and at the point of guns
 robbed two clerks connected with the First
 National bank at Ludlow, Ky, of satchel
 containing $7,OOo.
 The Penhandle Plains region, embrac- l ing western Oklahoma, eastern New
 Mexico and the Panhandle of Texas, is in the grip of one of the worst snowstorns of
 years
 l pr. Harlow shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been
 elected by the governing boards of the
 University to the Paine professorshp
 of astronomy.
 Colonel George Williams commanding
 Fort Ethan Allen. was announced as the commanding officers of the citizens military training camp to be conducted
 at Camp Devens next summer. Rev. J. B. Bourasa, an emissary from the Canadian government, arrived in
 Manchester, N. H, to attempt to per suade striking French-Canadian textile : workers to return to Canada. , Charged with attempting to obtain money under false pretenses, Ralph Rosenan, of Chicago was sentenced to serve from one to two years in states
 prison by the criminal superior court IT Bridgeport.
 High power explosives will replace poison gas in the warfare which the state , forestry department plans to wage this spring on mound ants that infest state
 nurseries and plantations.
 Roger Coulthurst, assistant book. keeper of the Hotel Touraine, Boston who disappeared after cashing a hote . check for s7,44s, was arrested in Wor' cester. Police officers said he had sp- proximately s7,ooo in cash.
 Mrs. Anna Hart SpauIding direct de- cendant of Stephen Hart, who settled in i. Massachusetts Bay in 1882 and who lat : CT became one of the S4 broprietors of Farmington in 1762, died in New Britain I aged S3} years. Benjamin DowJat walked into stor, f in New Britain and sat down, announc ing that he was tired. A few minute!
 later, the proprietor spoke to him anC on receiving no reply investigated an,
 found the man was dead,
 Glacomo Bertino. 6 South NoItwar . grocer, was sentenced to year in jai and fined $500 by Judge John T. Kel n logg in the superior court, Bridgeport
 for theft of an automobile. The jai A sentence was suspended.
 !, Rhode Island textile strike area 4 were quiet yesterday after the decision = = of unions and manufacturers yesterda, # not to submit the questions at issue t f arbitration by Judge J. Jerome Hahr
 chairman of the mediation board.
 Colonel Guy M Wilson, of tho 125tl = Michigan Infantry was elected presiden , of the National Guard association fo
 the ensuing year at the final session o = the annual convention of the guardsmen il . New Orleans.
 C A resolution was adopted at 6 oow1 : meeting at Strattord declaring
 lthe action of the seven mem T bers of the town council, who voted t. l. remove Town Manager R. H. Hunter, iron z office, as "unfair and without regard fo T the rights of the citizens of Stratford." n The battIeship West Virginia and tn :: battle cruisers Lexington and Saratog 'e probably will be the three capital ship n now building which, with the battlesht
 Colorado, will be retained under tn e naval limitation treaty for completio 'e ST conversion.
 s Appointment of George B. Lockwood
 publisher of the Muncie. Ind, Press an Q of the National Republican as actin 10 secretary of the republican national com !" mittee to succeed the late Clarence E l. Miller, was announced by Charma m Adams
 The council of the league of nations ha
 invited the Polish government to call
 meeting in Warsaw on March 15 Of tech E nical representatives from Russia and bor
 dering states for a hygienic conference t a prevent infected persons from brlngin d, tuphus and cholera out of Russia G. Urging strfct enforcement of the l h. quor statutes because they are the la le of the land, Attorney General J. Wei D. ton Allen in an address before the Bo'