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WILL SUBMIT OFFER FOR MUSCLE SHOALS *> PROPOSAL TO BE SUBMITTED BY ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA. NEW JERSEY CORPORATION Expects to Formal Proposal Ready For Delivery to" Secretary Weeks By May First. Washington—R. R. Grant, of Eliza beth, N. J , president of the Aluminum Wheel Co. of America, announc ed after a conefrence with war de partment officials here that he would formally submit an offer for develop ment of the government properties at Muscle Shoals, Afa. His proposal, h» said, was Would be written in a completed draft as soon as tjie projects could be in spected and certain basic data ob' tained from government officials. Mr. Grant left for Norfolk, Va„ to confer with tho ..irtilizer interests which he hoped to interest ih the Ala bama properties. Depending upon tho result Of the Norfolk visit, he said, ho would either go direct to Atlanta, Ua., Birmingham. Ala., or Florence, Ala., to continue his preparation and col lection of data. He expected to have ttye formal proposal ready for deliv ery to Secretary Weeks by May 1, provided the ordnance, quartermaster and engineer bureaus of the war de partment give their endorsement when It is put Into finished form "My plan call calls for the creation of a government controlled corpora tion," Mr. Grant said. "When this Is accomplished, T suggest as its first act the mortgaging of the properties in or der to make an immediate return to the government for the investment it already has made. "Later,'' he continued, "a second mortgage would be arranged and s* curitles sold for the raising of mono* needed to bring the projects to a com pleted Btage of construction and oper». tlon, Including the hydro-electric units proposed and nitrate plants. In that way the projects can be developed without imposing any additional bur den on the federal treasury, and at. the snttie time, giving It an Immediate return of the money It already has sunk In the various works at Muscle Shoals." Old Hickory to South Carolina. Knoxvllle. Tenn—The fourth annual reunion of the Ttilrtlet.lt division, Old Hickory Association of World War Veterans, will be held In the summer or early fall, preferably at a South Carolina city, the place and date to be selected by the executive commit tee at a meeting later In the spring. This statement was made hy Capt. Frank P. Bowen of the Old Hickories on the return of himself and Col. James A. Gleason. president of the as sociation, and fifty H May. members of the committee from Tennessee, fol lowing a meeting of the committee held the day previous. All members were in attendance at he meeting with the exception of Mr. Barton of Nashville, It was stated. In discuss ing the action of the committee, Cap tain Bowen. Bald: "It was the sense of the committee that some city In South Carolina would be entitled to the reunion this year, and the naming of the place and exact date for this convention was de ferred to a later date In order to af ford cities In South Carolina an op portunity to bid for the convention. Farrar's Farewell Appearance. New York. Oeraldlne Farrar's farewell appearance with the Metro politan Opera company was the great est triumph of her career. Bhe sang for her swan song the role of Zaba, which she created at the Met ropolitan. and then, crying and laugh ing, was carried from the nudltorlum pn the shoulders of stage hands, while the great audience cheered and show ered her with flowers and gifts. Long before the time for her per formance, crowds of opera lovers, Farrar lovers, crowded Into the lobby of the opera house, clamoring for tick ets. Had Impressions of U. 8. Currency Washington.—Louis Harris, former Philadelphia business mm. under ar rest at Minneapolis, had In his pos session "photographic Impressions" of $26,500 of United States currency. Chief Moran said he is still watting for a detailed report from, his agents at Minneapolis. Moran said further, that until further investigation is com pleted, he IS' unable to say what dis position will be made of Harris' cam The secret service Is seeking to find out how Harris came Into possession of the Impressions. Foch Wss One of Thsm. '"Why an honorary member; wasnt I one of the men from Tarbes who fought during the war?" said Marshal Foch when he was asked to become an honorary member of the Tarbe*. France, Federation of Former Com batant*. a French organization sim ilar to the American legion. The latter outflt thought the Maralial was ao much one of them that they made him an active member In George Wash ington post of Washington. D. C H the Brat Legion post organized, when ha was on tnr lß' this country. BLAZE SWEEPS TENTH FLOOR OF WILLARO HOTEL Washington. Vice - President Coolidge, several members of the senate and house of representa tives and many other persons prominent in public, business and social life were among some 600 guests of the New Wiliarn hotel who were routed out of their beds at an early hour by a fire which swept the top floor of the ten-story structure avenue and Fourteenth street. The blaze had its origin a few hours before President Harding. Mr. Coolidge, members of the cab inet and senators and represonta-_ tives, foreign diplomats and others had sat around the banquet board as guests of the Gridiron club at its annual spring dinner and frolic. The fire was confined to that floor and the roof above, but tons of water poured into the flames seeped through to the floors below, causing much damage. HOOSE PASSES NAVAL BILL BREAKS AWAY FROM OWN LEAD ERSHIP AND STANDS BE HIND PRESIDENT. Measure Carries Total of $251,269,000, About $18,000,000 More Than Was Fixed. 1 Washington.—By the margin of 71 votes, the house broke away from its own leadership, stood behind the Pres ident and passed the 1923 naval ap propriation bill with an amendment fixing tho enlisted personnel at 86,000. The vote- on the McArthur-Vare amendment, the big point in dispute, which increased the man force from .67,000, as provided in the bill, was 221 to 148, with two members an swering present. Ninety republicans 'voted against the 86,000 amendment, 'while 48 democrats supported it. A bare handclap or two greeted the announcement by the speaker. Tho galleries, half deserted, made no at tempt at a demonstration. With the fighting section out of the | way, the bill was put on its passage j and went through, 279 to 78. As amended, the measure carried i h total of $251,269,000, or about $lB,- 000,000 more than the total fixed by j the appropriations committee which | framed It. It goes now to the senate, | with the charge by Chairman Kelley, | of the -naval appropriations sub-com-' mitten that miftiy millions will be ad-1 ded and which the house would have j been asked to add "had not the big j navy men changed front at last." AH compared with the 90 republicans who voted against the amendment, 173 republicans voted for It, while 16 j others were paired for It. As against the 48 democrats who ! voted for the amendment. B7 demo- I crate voted against it, while 14 others . were paired against It. Bxcept on two occasions the bill j sailed elong through unrugled sens, j Once, however. Chairman Kelley broke loose In what members charac-1 terlzed as a vicious attack on the : "navy yard combination.? charging that despite the arms conference there were still demands from navy yard and naval project districts for more money than was carried in the bill. Lady Astor Speaks In New York. New York—Nancy Langhorne Astor, | the Vlrglnft girl who married a British nobleman and won the first seat in the house of commons ever held by a woman, came back to America for a j short visit. The beauty for which Lady Astor i i*fas famed in her debutante days in Virginia Is still a part of her charm. Ehe spoke with the accent of the South though It has been eight years since ; she has been home. > The gathering of men and women who crowded townhall to hear her speech cheered with a fervor that be spoke their admiration for Lady As tor's achievements. Lord Astor accompanied his Ameri can wife from England, apd will go with her to Baltimore where this week she is to take a prominent part In the International conference of the League of Women Voters. It was Lord Astor. said Lady Astor. who started her on "this downward career from home to the house." California Hears Concerts. Ran Francisco. —Radio phone con certs from Newark. N. J., and Schnec tady, N. Y., were reported to have been heard tn San Francisco homes through a repeating device at the Rock Ridge radio station tn Oakland. The Oak land station established connection with the two eastern points two weeks ago Henry M Shaw, In charge of the station, said that he "manifolded" the sound that had traveled about 3,000 miles so that they were picked up in the home seta here' Bucharest School to Help Americana. Bucharest. —Children In the Tillage school near Bucharest hare contribut ed 13 In lef (francs) to aid the children of families made destitute by the de struction of the Knickerbocker theater In Washington, D. C. Unable to visualize the vast extent of the United States, the youngatera believed the collapse of the thaatar was a disaster affecting the entire American people. Rumanian children have received much help from t'talr lit tle American brothers and -Isters through the Junior Red Cross. ACTIVE SPINDLE HOURS INCREASE SPINNING INDUSTRY MORE AC TIVE IN MARCH THAN FEBRUARY. ACTIVE SPINDLES DECREASE Number of Spindles in Operation, However, Was Not So Large as •|n February. Washington —The census bureau an-j nounced in a report covering the ac- . tivity of the cotton spinning industry : for the month of March that the ag- j gregate number of active spindle | hours reported for the month was 1 7,779,280,703, as compared with 7,119,-! 576,600 in February. This was based on an activity of 27 days, while the figures for February was Based on an activity of 23 2-% day?. .The average number of spindles op erated during March was 33,117,840 as compiled with 34,575,837 in Feb ruary. Approximately 36.870,544 cot ton spindles were In place March 31, the report said, of which 31.874,496 were operated at some time during the month, as compared with 33,737,380 for February and 34,457,509 for Jan s uary. Active spindles and spindle hours, respectively, for March for various states were announced as follows: Alabama. 1.208,528; 341,609.003. Connecticut, 1.264,908; 288.485,190. Georgia, 2.522.314; 665 861.955. Maine. 1,086.368: 244 704 550. Massachusetts, 10.185.243; 2,047,985,- 625 New Hampshire, 136,416: 32 085,791. New Jersey, 400.540; 90,572.606. New York, 926.987; 234.340,923. North Carolina, 5,199,315; 1,446,126,- 278 , Pennsylvania, 137.626; 29.369.525.642. South Carolina, 4,989,060; 1,406,903,- 541. Tennessee, 400.139; 107,061.119. j Virginia. 607.290; 151,153 277. All other states, 1,050,184; 273,470, | 676. Fifty Injured fcv Oil Explosion. I/Os Angeles.—Probably 50 persons j were irjured. a number of them fa i tally, when an oil station caught fire | at Downey and the Are reached under -1 ground storage tanks, causing them to ; explode. Ilowney is a small town about 15 I miles southeast of Dos Angeles and ! its fire and police facilities were so small that It was necessary to call on ! the sheriff here to take charge of the ; policing. Ambulances were sent from j the city immediately. The property damage had not been estimated an hour after the explosion, but It was thought that It would prob ably not exceed S2O 000. Persons near by said there appeared to be no sign of flames. Prices For Meats Decrease.^ Chicago. Wholesale meat prices show a tremendous define since the peak prices following the war, accord ing to the American Institute of Meat Packers. "The average value of all meat and meat products exportfd during 1921 was 14 3-4 cents a r.ound. as compared with 30 1-2 cents In 1919." Bays a bul letin Issued by the institute. "Tbe average value of meat exported during 11913 was 11 3 4 cents a pound." Steamer Brewster Sunk. Norfolk. Va. —In a collision in the James river of Brandon the Buxon line steamer Brewster waq sunk bv the Lake Sterling of the Richmond-New York line. One member of the crew o£ the Brevster. Chief Engineer C. W. Hjis gey, of Berkley. Va.. went down with the ship. His wife received a tele*ram from the Buxon line offices at Rich mond announcing that he had been drowned. The Brewster sailed from Richmond with a smkll cargo of general merch andise and was about half way be tween City Point _,and Jamestown, when she and the Lake Sterling came together. The Brewster Is lying In 40 feet of water and Is a total loss. Dinner For Lady Astor. New York. —In honor of Lsdv Astor, who described herself *s a sort of con necting link between the English speaking people, many men and wo ni n. scores of them leaders in sundry fields of labor, attended a dinner un der the auspices of the Engllsh-Speak- Infe union. Presiding was John W. Davis, for mer ambassador to the court of St. James. In her speech Lady Astor put in a good word for the accomplishment of the league of nations. Russian Famine Under Control. Washington. The American relief administration now has the Russian famine under control in all the ac cessible district*, former Governor Goodrich of Indiana declared after con ferring with President Harding and Secretary Hoover. Mortality among children has been reduced to normal, he reported, and deaths from acute starvation among adults are rapidly diminishing, while the morale of the people in the famine districts haa ahown an extraordinary change for the better. THE ALAMANCE GLEANER, GRAHAM, N. C $2,000,000 FIRE IN POCOMOKE, MARYLAND Pocomoke City, Md. —With ten acres in the heart of the city burn ed over, causing an estimated prop erty damage of more than $2,000,- 000, Governor Ritchie ordered a company of the first regiment, Maryland national guard, at Salis bury, to proceed here at once to protect property which escaped the flames. The heart of the business sec tion is in ruins. Both banks have been destroyed, and in addition to business structures, 50 homes fell prey to the flames. Communi cation with the outside world has been established by tapping wires on the outskirts. ELPIN6 TO SOLVE QUESTION PRESIDENT MARTIN TELLS COM MITTEE COMPANY IS READY TO NEGOTIATE ANEW. Martin Submits Estimates for Com pleting Wilson Dam to Senate k. Agricultural Committee. Washington. Thomas W. Martin, president of the Alabama Power Co., testified before the senate agricultu ral committee, that the company would "be glad and willing" to enter into new negotiations with the gov ernment for the purpose of working out a policy for the' development of the Muscle Shoals, Ala., power pro jects. Mr. Martin's statement was made in answer to a question by Senator Kendrick, democrat, Wyoming, aB to whether the company officials would be willing to "sit down with the gov ernment'' plan a value for the prop erties they were interested in and then guarantee 100,000 horsepower as an income to the government on the investment It had already made. "We naturally would be interested In trying to solve this question," Mr. Martin replied. Senator Kendrick said he had not lost faith in the government, adding that he did not want it to loße pos session of the valuable properties at Muscle He explained that a physical valuation of the plants could ho determined, the power company agreeing to pay 80 or 90 per cent of their present value and to take over their operation in a way which would permit the government to ref-Un pos session In an emergency. Senator Norria of Nebraska* chair man of the committee, invited Mr. Martin to give his opinion of the hill Introduced in the senate proposing: the creation of a "federal chemical corporation" for Muscle Shoals de velopment. .• "I can only say.'' Mr. Martin said, "that we would he verv glad to co operate'with any the government puts out." He exnressed the belief ♦hat the power comnanv could co-op erate advantageously with, the cor poration in the distribution of power throughout the country surrounding Muscle Shoals. Estimates fo** completing the Wil son dam. at Muscle Shoals, for ap proximately SIR.RS4 000. were submit ted to the senate agricultural commit tee by Mr Mnrtin. The estimates were prepared by engineers of the power comennv. who commuted the cost at s• S't.OOO ieo« than those fired hv Oil. W .T. Bar*°n. „armv en gineer In charce of the Mi\«cle Shoals district, when he appeared before the committee. Twenty-two Auto* Burn, ' Lexington. N. C Damage probably tpproxiipating 130,000 to $40,000 was j done by fire here which seripusly i damaged or destroyed 22 automobiles and trucks in the garage of the Motor Service company, destroyed tires and j supplies and caused heavy loss from water and smoke to the stock of the Barnes' Variety Store and Picket Bros, grocery store. Two buildings ! owned by Varner & Buchanan were also considerably damaged, with a i third suffering small damage. The Methodist church, which stands with- I In a few feet of the garage, escaped | without damage. Reduction on Melons Urged. Washington Senators represent ing the states of Alabama. Georgia, . Florida. South Carolina and North i Carolina Joined in a petition to the Interstate commerce commission urg ing a reduction in freight rates on watermelons. The commission for ; some time has been studying the prob lem. but. acording to a recent state ment. cannot tell when action will he had. The senators reminded the com -1 mission that the present announce f ment of the reduction would have efTect on the planting of crop. Two Officer* and Private Kllled._ r Washington—Two marine officers 1 ai\d a marine private were instantly killed at Quantico. Va.. when two air r planes In battle practice locked wings • in the air and plunged to the ground. 1 The dead are: Ftrst Lteut Earl M. Randall, of Winchester. Maas.: Sec -1 ond Lieut. Duncan W. Lewis, of Mem -1 phia. Tenn.: Private Joseph J. Dhoghe, 5 of Chicago.™" » j Lieut Randall was flying alone in 1 a German Fokker and Lieutenant f Lewia was pilot of a Voufht plan*, i with Private Dhoghe. EXPLOSION KILLS SEVERAL HUNDRED FOUR HUNDRED CARLOADS OF AMMUNITION EXPLODE AT 4F MONASTIR, SERBIA. THOUSANDS ARE INJURED On®-half of Oity's Population Rendered Homeless—Victims Mostly Chil dren and Soldiers, Belgrade.—Four hundred carloads of ammunition and high explosives stor ed near the railroad station at Mon astir, southern Serbia, exploded, kill ing several hundred persons, wounding thousands and virtually destroying the h »art of the city. One-half of the city's popuiation was rendered home less. The victims were mostly children :nd soldiers. A church In which chil dren were worshipping collapsed un der the detonation; while the barracks in which 1,800 soldiers were having lunch was destroyed. Immediately after the explosion fire broke out in various parts of the city. The panic-stricken inhabitants fled to the nearby woods and mountains from which They watched their homes burn. All telegraphic and telephonic com munication from Monastir with the outside world was cut off. Tme first news of the disaster reached Belgrade from refugees. Pistol Battle in Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala. —Folowing a gun battle police, led by Chief Fred Mc- Duff, captured two of the three men who are believed to have styot Police man S. S. Crabtree. The third man es- caped. Claude Wilson, of Atlanta, one of the captured men, was .shot once through the BfUast. He was taken to a hospital In a serious condition. The other man takeri prisoner is Charles Wilkes who, officers say, broke jail in Roanoke, Va., June 27. 1921, where he was sentenced to 35 years in the penitentiary for burg lary and having burglar tools in his possession. He is in the city jail on a charge of assault with intent to mur der. Policeman A. L. Appling who was working with Officer Crabtree at the time he was arrested, positively iden tified Wilson as one of the three men whom he and his partner attempted to arrest. I . - Additional Tax Levy Necessary. N Washington.—Levying of additional taxes probably will be necessary to meet the deficit of more than $350,000,- 000 forecast for the fiscal year of 1923 by Secretary Mellon, it was satyl at the treasury. High officials of the treasury, dis cussing the expected deficit, said that no consideration had yet been given to means of meeting of the lack of funds but that it was apparent that the deficit would probably have to be raised by taxation, as the government "did not have anything to sell." Whether the deficit would run as high as half a billion dollars, as esti mated by some treasury officials, could not be accurately determined at this time, it was said, as the various contingent items of revenue and ex penditures taken Into consideration in figuring the finances for the coming fiscal year made an acmrate determi nation of the expected deficit impos sible. Officials "asserted, however, a ' considerable deficit was certain. I Committee Favors Loan to Liberia. I Washington.—By a vote of 13 to 9, the house ways and means committee favorably reported the Fordney feso lution authorizing a loan of $5,000,000 to the republic of Liberia. credit was first authorized in 1918 after Liberia entered the war on the sid& of the Allies, but was never put through. Secretary Hughes, ap pearing before the committee, urged that the resolution be adopted by Con gress "as a matter of national honor" and denied that the legislation had been advocated by American banking interests, who, he said, held only a fraction of outstanding Liberian bonds. Radio Commission Favored, i Washington.—Legislation creating ! an adjunct commission of ten to ad | vise the commerce department in the * control of radio communication will be recommended to Secretary Hoover, I in a report being prepared by the ra dio conference. The full conference has adjourned ! subject to the call of the chair and will continue to function in »n ad 1 vlsory capacity until the special Pom j mission is created The commission would consist of five government mem jbers and flvje, civilians. Cantonments Will be Abandoned. Washington—Decision to withdraw from the cantonments at Cam p Lewis. Washington. »nd Camp Dix. New Jer isey. the troops composing th» divls j ions now stationed at those posts and ] to scatter th» units in the permanent ■ ;army posts within the two corps areas - has been reached by the war depart .; ment. The dicision .was made in con nection with a prolonged study of the i distribution for the regular army on a : basis to provide at the same time for . economy of operation 'and efflcUacy In training. j CONDENSED NEWS FROM iliE OLD NORTH STATE SHORT NOTES OF INTEREST TO CAROLINIANS. Lincolnton.—John Thomas McLean, one of the best liked and most promi nent citizens of Lincolnton, died at his home in this city, following an illness ot a year. High Point. —L. H. Hole, Jr., of Greensboro, was appointed receiver for the Carolina & Yadkin River rail road by Judge B. F. Long in superior court. The road was placed in receiv ership on petition of the North Caro lina Public Service company. Washington, N. C.—Two thousand dollars has been subscribed so far to wards equipment for the boys' and girls' camp on Pamlico river, recently donated by the Eureka Lumber com pany of this city. Of the amount sub scribed S6OO has been paid in cash. Winston-Salem. A report was re ceived here that Ed Sisk, the Rocking ham county farmer, who is implicated with ff{s two aons in the murder of Chief of Police Ed Ziglar, near Mayo dan, will make an effort to give bond and secure his release from jail at Wentworth through habeas corpus pro ceedings. High Point. The North Carolina Industrial Tracic League held a meet ing here to discuss the forthcoming investigation inttf class rates in the to be conducted by the Inter state commerce commission. The in vestigation will begin in Atlanta, Ga., May 22. Raeford. —An election was held in Stonewall township, Hoke county, for the purpose of voting bonds to the amount of $15,000 for the erecting of a consolidated school building and teacherage in the township. The re sult was an overwhelming victory for those in favor of the bonds, 152 votes being cast,for the bond issue and 19 against. J Raleigh.—Following a crap game ar gument in East Raleigh, Philip Cros sin, a negro painter, of 514 Smith street, was shot and probably fatally injured by W. H. Hughes, a white man. Goldsboro. The large veneering plant of the Utility Manufacturing company, of this city, was totally de stroyed by fire of unknown origin: The loss is estimated at |225,Q00. Henderson. —Henry Harris, negro, who goes also by the name of Henry Green and George F. Scars, shot and killed his wife at their home on Wal nut street in the western part of this city, and immediately made his es cape. Durham.—Rev. George T. Watkins, for 14 years pastor of the Baptist church at Goldsboro, began his pas torate at Grace Baptist church. He accepted the call from this church a few weeks ago and begins his work under most favorable conditions. Asheville. Though no official an nouncement was o mjde following an executive session of the executive committee of the Old Hickory associa tion here, it was learned from a re liable source that the committee be lieves a reunion of the thirtieth divis ion should be held this year. Beaufort. —A surveying party arrlv ed to commence work on the highway survey from Beaufort Craven county line. They say it will take about two months to complete the work. The survey of the More head City link to the Craven line was made two years ago. It is understood that construction work on the high way will start this summer. _ Fayetteville.—Work on the surfac ing or resurfacing of approximately 72,000 square yards of streetoaving will begin in this city at Con tracts for this work have been let by the municipal board of aldermen and the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, the latter corporation having in charge the paving of Russell street under the old franchise granted the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad. Henderson.—Henry Harris, accused of the killing of a negro woman said by some of the officers to have been his common-law wife, was given a hearing before Recorder R. J. South erland and sant to Jail without privi lege of bond. x Concord. —At a recent meeting of the Board of Aldermen of Concord, the city was authorized to secure the ser vices of a food and milk inspector, and at Its last meeting the board sf lected Dr. T. N. Spencer, local veteri narian. for the place. Reidsville. Some thirsty party or parties had on a genuine thirst and went to the extreme of "breaking into Sheriff Sands' office and stealing sev eral gallons of supposed moonshine. Some of the stuff was later recovered. —— *. ReidavlUe.—Paul Coltmne. 18, of High Point, while attempting to board a freight train, slipped and fell to the ground and was cut on the head and received Injuries about the body. 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