Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-03-24

ern time zone beginning at a. m, on
April l was authorized by the interstate
commerce commission.
Ignace Paderewski world famed pianist
and former Polish premier, has rallied
from severe attack of influenza at Paso
Robes, Calf.
Lee Smith died suddenly of heart
trouble at Lock Haven. Pa. at the Hotel
Fallon, of which he was proprietor. He
had had hotel interests at Norwalk and
! Bridgeport, and Narragansett Pier.
The house of assembly of South Africa
| rejected the bill which would extend the
franchise to women. The vote was So
| to 81.
| Miss Caroline Borden of Boston, who
| died March 10, willed all her property
to the American College for Girls in
| Constantinople.
The league of nations will be requested
to collaborate in the application of meas
ures for the protection Of minority popu-
lations in Asia Minor.
Gladys Louisa Sangster, a tiny tot of
| five years, who Travelled alone from
| Gravesend, England, to New York and
thence by train to Boston. is safe with
her father in Newburyport Mass
Reports of heavy ice and fog about
S65 mile seast of Boston and just off the
| westbound trans Atlantic steamer lanes
| were received in Boston from the coast
/ guard cutter Seneca.
Water has been causing Emil Wentz,
29 years old, Of New York, a lot of
| trouble. He was acquitted of selling %
barrels of it to a former policeman who
thought he was buying whiskey.
"Blue Boy, Gainsborough's mastcr-
piece for which Henry e. Hunting is said
to have paid SS50,0O0, has arrived
at its new owners home at San Marino,
near Los Angeles.
The order recently issued by Federal
| Prohibition Director Gregory closing the
Chicago plant of the. United States In
dustrial Alcohol company was cancelled
and the plant re-opened.
Specific tariff duties of So a dozen on
mems leather gloves and 81 a dozen on
women's leather gloves have been agreed
upon by republican members of the senate
finance committee.
Mrs. Alice C. Shields. in jail at Deland
Fla, charged with the murder last month
of her husband, William A Shields, form
erly of Moline, Ill. attempted suicide in
iher cell.
Thomas L. Avaunt appealed from a
fine of 5000 and costs for selling hard ci-
der while using tent he had set up on
the Elizabeth Millbank Anderson estate
at Cos Cob.
The registered voting population of
Chicago passed the one million mark
Tuesday. the final day of registration
before the primary election. April II. the
total including men and women, being l.
l037.2SO.
Physical examination of the reEnlsr
army officers now I'm progress has dis
lclosed -"the most clear cut evidence Of
physical deterioration" due to the strain
incident to the prosecution of the world
war.
The new state bank of soviet Russia has
sent circulars to the Swiss banks offer
ing short-term bands bearing interest at
the rate of 36 per cent. for foreign cur
rencies, particularly Swiss gold notes,
American dollars and British pounds.
nv vote of 81 to Is, the Mississippi
senate indefinitely POSTPONED further con-
Isideration of a bill to give women al
the rights. privileges and inmunlties
granted by law to men,"
Thirty Danish trade unions have voted
TO declare a general strike beginning April
/ in retaliation to the general lockout,
which was declared February Is, affect
ing nearly all industries and ABOUT loO.Ouo
employees.
Mayor George L. Oles. Of Youngstown.
| q. who recently started lively discus
sion by ordering all police to salute him.
ended the tempest by resembling the or
der. saying that he was tired Of salut-
ing"
Axel Noral, of New York, arrested II
bridgeport March Is. when, it is alleged
. he attempted to secure $500 from Peter
Odenslxy Of Bridgeport on the pretenst
of selling Odensky a money-making ma
chine, was bound over to the superior
court under bonds Of $4,000.
Stanley BrzdIo, 8 years old. was in
stantly killed in Bridgeport when he wa:
, struck by an automobile truck driven by
C. H. Wall The driver was arrested and
held on a charge of manslaughter un.
der bonds of $1,000.
Nearly forty suits against the COM
monwealtf and cities and towns have
been started in the federal court by va
rious ban;ss throughout Massachusetts
to recover taxes which it is claimed
have been Illegally collected since 1917.
YaIe's newest dramatic society. the
! Playcraftsmen. has adopted laboratory
work as means of instruction and has
installed a miniature model stage, five
= feet square, for experiments in scene set.
ting and stage lighting
Francis Clay Harley, missionaire and
former mayor Of Astoria, Ore, repre-
senting the National Liberal alliance, is
| to place 500 ballot boxes in New Hamp-
shire and distribute questionnaires for a
statewide vote on the eighteenth amend
ment and Sunday blue laws.
! The annual report of the Federal Re.
serve bank of Boston for the year 1921
: said that business and industrial condi.
) tions in New England at the close of the
J year were decidedly better than at the
= beginning and were generally good.
says she is the American widow of a
former Russian prince and who has been
detSined by immigration authorities since
her arrival at New Orlean month AGO
from Bremen. was granted her appeal "a
enter the United States