Norwich bulletin., 1922-04-13

Nearly four and a half billion feet pf fir and spruce timber suitable for paper making, has been destroyed by the spruce bud worm in New Brunswick
 A memorial tree will be planted for Clara Barton, founder of the Red Cross, on Easter Sunday at Glen Echo, Maryland, where she died.
 Chinatown Gertie." one of New York's underworld figures until eleven years ago. when she became a Salvation Army work CT, is dead.
 National Commander Hanford Mac Nider, of the American Legion will send an Easter message to all membtrs of the Legion and the Legion auxiliary, by radio, April 15.
 The city corporation decided. by vote of Is to 13, to grant Henry Ford the site of his tractor factory in Cork in fee | simple.
 William J. Bryan, in statement given out at Miami, Fla, announced his def- nita decision not to become a candidate | for the United States senate from Florida.
 Fifty-seven public health service hos | pitals treating disabled soldiers, are to be transferred to the veterans bureau by executive order, effective May 1.
 Session of tbe Massachusetts diocesan convention of the Episcopal church. at which bishop coadjutor to Bishop Will l liam Lawrence is to be chosen, will be held in Boston on May and 1. 1 The steamer Leviathan, now being re- l conditioned by the shipping board at New | port News Shipbuilding and Drydock plant has been renamed the President Harding"
 Marshal Joffre has accepted an invita- tion to unveiI a bust of General U. s Grant in the Hall of Fame at New York university on April 27, the centennial of the generals birth.
 Mrs. Florence Marion Howe Hall, 77 eldest surviving daughter of the late Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe, is dead at her home in High Bridge, N. J.
 
 Plans for a sum1eer school of horse manship and polo have been submitted to President Plunley of Norwich university
 by the military department for considera-
 tion by the trustees.
 Major Frank c. Duryea, 49 years old
 was found dead in his room at the Pre-
 sfdio military reservation at San Francis
 co, with a revolver in his hand Fellow
 officers said he committed suicide, Formal official announcement wa
 made in London that an earldom hat been conferred on Sir Arthur James Bal
 four, former premier and at present lorC
 president of the council. The police are questioning Mrs. ,Ros'
 De Brizzi, who when found in the Soutl station, Boston, said two men had kid mapped her earlier in the day at Stan
 ford, Conn.
 The United States owes 23. times q. much money now as in 1917. when thu public debt was about one billion dollars
 Eliot Wadsworth, assistant secretary O. the treasury declared in speech il
 Chicago.
 Norwalk is to go to work an hour ear Her beginning April 30, in observance o
 passed at the meeting of the city coun
 cll
 The nude body of an unidentified wo
 man. who had been stabbed to death, wa found in hall way on a lower East Sid' ' street. New York, by a patrolman. 2 gingham dress and 8 pair of shoes wer' found nearby
 While the Red Cross liner RosaIins l was jaunmed in the ice not far from St ,,I Johns N. F., passengers and members c ! the crew went oversize and gave chase t' D a herd of seals. They clufJbed a number of the animals to death. Steamship traffic in the North AtIanti
 will be moved sixty miles south of tn
 present double steamship lane through tn s ice danegr zone of the Grand Banks un : der advisory instructions sent out by tn II Photographic office. The state fish and game commissio Il was in session in Hartford yesterday af e ternoon. It decided to make application ! to the government for supply of egg | of the wall-eyed pike or pike perch take
 at Lake Cham3lain.
 For the purpose of developing close
 cooperation between the state depart ; ment of health and the water companie
 in the state a conference has been calle : for April IS in the old senate chambe
 at the capitol, Hartford. David Lazarus and Edo C. StiffsoI - clad in Oriental costumes and with flow ! ing boards. are under arrest in Bosto1 Q charged with obtaining thousands c dollars by soliciting for a supposed hom : for aged Jews in Absecon, N. J. e The burial at Forest Hills cemetery : Boston. of Clark Parker of Pasaden;
 Calif.. whose career as an internations
 confidence man years ago brought hi1
 into the federal courts, became know I yesterday
 | | The University of Wales has decided !. confer the honorary degree of doctor Q
 laws on Charles E. Hughes. the Ameri 2 can secretary of state, who is of WeIs t origin. for ,enGnence as 8 statesman an Y for his services toward securing interna ,s tionaI peace.
 The endorsement of the observance c
 Mothers Day" on May 14 by. the Amer
 ican Legion auxiliary was given by Pres
 idept Harding in a letter received by Mr. Lowell N Hobart, national president ( > the auxiliary.
 IS The body of Irving w. Drew. 77 year Il old, former United States senator fro is New Hampshire, who died in Montclai is N. J., at the home of his daughter, MT l. Edward R. Hale. will be taken to Lancai
 ter N. H., for burial