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I ? ?& I I Just I charn I Skirts I 1 Anot! 1 I heaut II'' see d i i: we I BIDS IN MILLIONS out of AT SfilP AUCTION Bradft Washington, Feb. 16.?While con- sion tk troversv over the proposed sale of 30 partmc (former German liners oocupied to- dean c day three government agencies, the Univer White House, the senate and the ais- ?Th< trict supreme court , presidents of teach great shipping companies, were bid- they c ding in tens of millions against each ent suother, for the craft at the shipping reage - board's auction. For one group of there>" six vessels the bidders fought with j^s jag. $250,000 boosts in price until Maj. Gen. George W. Goethals, retired ?gafe J now head of the American Ship and! -n ^ Commerce company, dropped out at j 4 000 000 which, hp said. was his I Yimit, and P. A . S. Franklin, presiI / dent of the International Mercantile ma*nta f; Marine, raised the price to $13,100,- *00(* al ||B> 000. / Hvest0 Kr|./ Commissioner Scott had announced in opening the auction that it was M only for the purpose of receiving c^uajj bids, final action to await approval | of the senate committee and th.e comPa E f house and merchant marine commit- no^ as g . toe and the outcome of William Ran- 1 | dolph Hearst's application for an in-'mer ^ K'1 junction to prevent the sale . While | co^on D , the bidding was in progress the sen-! en^ire I ate furthc: complicated the situation, j ne^ec adopting u resolution requesting make that the sale be postponed, but at the conclusion of the bidding, today ;of ^ 6? * it was announced that the auction rurchs would continue at 10 o'clock tomor- * R?" * row. ' farm? ' "Th In the district supreme court Associate Jifblice Bailey took under ad- acrea* p?-r\ visement Mr. Hearst's application af-; * tor hearing contention- of counsel ^lind that the shipping board lacked legal j ^00Cl ' power to dspose of the vessels. He J will render his decision Friday. I LANS gf At the White House it was said i thp nrp-sidpnt would answer prompt-1 Ilv with a decided negative the reso- j Pai iution adopted by the senate Satur-' Paris c'-yj asking if there existed a report-] Wash ed secret understanding with Great jresigi Britain as to ultimate disposition of j Lansi former German craft. ' Presi INCREASED COTTON I rows ACREAGE IS FOLLY morn Washington, Feb. 16.?An increased acreage in cotton this year is ' Haddoi / to announce tl" ling styles in Co - r her attraction in iful Voiles. We lem by all mean WILL BE GL v I iilll IIIIIIU the question, according to Dr.1 calls the event >rd Knapp, who recently re-^ the autocratic r as chief of the office of exten-, which is democn | \ rork in the South with the de- "President Wi ;nt of agriculture and became'continues, "retui ?f the college of agriculture, ous illness, and < "sity of Arkansas. | ion that Secretai e experiences of 1919 ought to absence has bee southern cotton farmers that wished, and disn anriot hande, with their pres- representation a. pply of labor, an increased ac- are not even coi in cotton; the labor is not decision in whi ' writes Dr. Knapp in one of! have used more t works before leaving the de- "Opposition hj int of agriculture entitled j Mr. Wilson and Farming in the Southern States since the latter 0." conference. Mr. 'safe farming,' " says Dr. blamed for conc ? 1 j. was forced to m , "is meant ? sysi*?ui muv,u tins soil fertility, produces the dent s ^ness al? nd feed for the people and th4 ^rea^ ?* t^ie c< ck in sufficient quantities to tw0" ^r* a comfortable surplus and pro-! matter? however, cotton as a strictly cash crop."j ^ex* *s not ^r* tton," Dr. Knapp says, "is not|to Pla^ the class y very high. It is high as|goat' w}lich assu red with prices in former years, j superior s fa compared with current prices! a new Secretary er commodities. Before the far-j estinS indication ecides that the high price of, |n its e^itoria will warrant his planting the' Libre Parole r acreage to that crop, to the President W t of all else, he had better crned his countr a pretty thorough examination out the least r?g retail prices of the necessities re5eniauu?1? >vuo i at the place where he must t*ie war after wi ise them during the year if he a Peace program ;o produce them on his own over t^ie Peace r from a mysteric lere is no thought that cotton Foreign Mir *e ought to be reduced, but only autocratically d ;he lure of price should not ^sn * that laugh; our eyes to the necessity of Kiven the impn and feed." that he is PreP! coat'. Isn't Mr the first step?" >ING MADE 'GOAT' BY CHIEF, ONE PARIS VIEW MARSHALL TI HIMSELF :is, Feb. 16.?Although all the newspapers gave prominence to Special Dispatcl ington despatches telling of the Uniontown, F lation of Secretary of State President Thorn np: and his correspondence with came here last ' r i cVmll tn hp the T) (lent-wuson, iew nave cuuuucub- r Iitoriallv on the incident. The annual banquet arrived too late for yesterday's ty Bar Associat irs newspapers, which went to when asked fo an hour earlier than usual be- opinion on Seci of the daylight-saving law com- nation, nto operation. The "Journal" "Haven't at I ? Wjl LI- ?V UOU / iat we are aire ats Suits, Snapp ******** Spring Wearin: : have a splenc s before buying. AD TO SHO1 i mmammmmmmmmma a striking example of say about it," said the Vic egime the facade of "It doesn't affect me," itic." j Then he went on with a s lson," the newspaper "I guess 1 can explain *ns after his mysteri- to this incident best by 1 :omes to the conclu3- about something that ha y Lansing during his the train while Mrs. Mars n ruling as Lansing were en route to Uniontc lisses him. National pie sitting immediately in .id popular sentiment had been reading this 1 nsulted in reaching a from Washington and the ch Louis XIV would cussing it very earnestly, formality. j seemed to believe Presid< is existed between had acted for the best, b Mr. Lansing ever panion heatedly expresses acted in the peace that Secretary Lansing * Lansing was openly followed no other course :essions Mr. Wilson throughout. iake, and the Presi- "Why, what else coulc ne prevented an out- jng have done?" the wor inflict between the some asperity, n's motive in this ?Here the president wa may have been com-; of Wg questions had t0 be Lansing called upon and there was fte vic ;ic role of the scape- W^Q doesn-t am0Unt to ar ,mes the burden of on,y thjn| he cmjld d0j j , ults? The choice of; tQ ca? those Cabinet m, will give an inter-, j thjnk Mr>Lansing di ! right thing." 1 'on the incident the , .. . i "There you have it in ftmsrks * .. * , Mr. Marshall concluded, i llson, who has gov- . , , . ... I in the laughter that fc y seven years withstory. ard for national rep-, threw America into, "The woman was righl nnino1 tVip oiprvHnn on' amount to Anything. , and who domineered legotiations, returns ANOTHER AMERICAN ius illness to accuse HELD FOR RAN lister of governing BY THE uring his absence. ' able? Mr. Wilson has Washington, Feb. ission for some days Welsh Adams, an Americ iring to 'change his captuVecl by bandits in . Lansing's disgrace ^ex'c0> an(i 's beiiig hel( pesos ransom, the State . . was advised today. ILLS JOKE ON Adams' home is In Li IN LANSING CASE where his wife and childr The American emoass; i to The Tribune. c^y bas been instructed 'a., Feb. 16.?Vice- Department to bring the as R. Marshall, who tbe attention of the M t-r?Lj. ...UT, HT?,. 4.u? Iliglll Willi 1TX13. luai- Ol'llies Willi niv.' rincipal speaker at the stop be taken to secure of the Fayette Coun- lease. ion, parried questions The American re pros r an expression of Saltillo and Monterey, etary Lansing's resig- the incident, said the a Zacatecas were endeavoi i.vthing particular t') the whereabouts of Ad? lllllllillifflllliiliy n Co, ady showing >y Sport Coat w* v* m t g Apparel ai led line, you : > W OUR ST llllllllllilimil ^IliiillLllIlilMllllMIIMillllEllllllll e-President.' captors and that three co he added.[Mexican troops had been ser mile: ! Tre kidnapping occurred i my relation Friday and the bandits telling you'portet* to ^ave looted the v ppened on!0* ?rovidencia mine op? shall and I Minerales and Metales ( >wn. A cou-'an American concern. Adi front of us'suPer'ntendent of the mine atest news :y were dis- ALL NURSES OF RED , The man CROSS IN THE SOLD jnt Wilson FIGHTING INF ut his com-' \ d the vieW| Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 17.? could have! Cross nurses in the Southerr than he had comprising the states of N South Carolina, Georgia, Fl I Mr. Lans- Tennessee, are now engagec nan asked, influenza by public nur This was stated today by ! ts sick, a lot Van De Vrede, director of r talked over the division, in explaining e-President, quests for nurses received b; lything. The Cross through boards of h ell you, was only ibe met by taking the eetings, and from communities where thi d just the ready doing influenza duty. . Cross can, however, assist a nutshell," communities to comba -- za through its chapters, wl lb lie JUiliCU illowed his 'nstructec* *n details of , ganization last October, il T , ,'olained. I do not i Miss Van De Vrede decla | influenza is spreading son ! Georgia, according to lates is stationary in Florida ant SOM ; , ... see, and, while not mere MEXICAN^ . , , 0 , n .. I \orth and South Carolina "Kl,r io flovplnninc into E 1(3?Wilson j an has ; in many cases in the latter Zn?atcc-v.| I for 50,0 . J i "AULTS FOUND Department! BY REPU1 I ??? as An*?clcsj Washington, Feb. 10.?R en now live. I he long continue'.! investk y ft .Mexico j he aircraft production prog by the State ! >resented today in the 'r.oi 1 kidnappingl he special committee inqu pxicr.n ruMi- war expenditures. thr-t cv fy, Representatives Frear an Adams' re- he two Republicans of tb ; nittee which conducted the entatives at ion characterized the avial in reporting1 T?:n in their report as ' uthoritie - in vaste," and Repre.-cv/.i.i'vi' injr to learn )cmocralic meinlx-r oi' *i: trns and his o ' v : <"1 in 11 1 1 I :i I ''I I M I. 5U111C t m s and I 1 == i^H' :e our | should I | Ss ^^3 f m ^ ' I ' lumns of Republican members had sacrificed it out. Jfacts for sensationalism in ?an effort it Avalos.to discredit the government. were re-i Both reports contain thousands of warehouse | words. They differ entirely in the ;rated by record of achievement and shipping Company, American airplanes abroad and in the v ims was performance of the aircraft production generally. ' A prominent part of both reports lis given to the controversy over the CH ! connection of John D. Ryan, former LUENZA Erector aircraft production, with j the construction of a government All Red built railroad, which, it has been i division 'charged, redounded to the benefit forth and the Chicago & St. Paul roa<T, of orida and which Mr" Ryan is a directorI in fight-' Disclaiming any attempts to deterTvmfi'iroc fVio mainritv renort on i II1111C lilVbKVWi Witv . smg. that point says: Miss Jane| ^ Ryan's statement of disinmrsing 1 ; erestecjness js true, he has been most 'fcnfl'fc rG" , _ unfortunate in handling a public y the Red . , . . , 1th can' m judgment of your committee covered a flimsy effort to m away promote large private business interJ 'ests and was accompanied by blunr I ^1. * 11 -3 idering explanation from beginning in organ-'to end.? ,t influen-| jn contrast ^he minority report by lich were Representative Lea says: such or-; <The evidence shows that Mr. t was ex- ptyan practically abandoned his own ; business affairs and devoted himself ired that unremittingly to the service of his lewhat in official duties." t reports; Besides Mr. Ryan, the majority rei Tennes- port attacks his assistant William C. asing in Potter; Col. Edward A. Deeds, who appreci- preceded Mr. Ryan in aircraft proineumonia duction/and Secretary Baker -as restates. .sponsible head of the aircraft production program. It describes the i program as "an appalling record of BLICANS orf*ers anc* counter orders, ignorance a:;.! (!i?!;cnngs, waste and extrava'gance. evidence of self-interest and cports on . nf improper practices. ;vam were "There has been little evidence of ise fio n Christian spirit on any side of the n::'<r ",lJ Irish question, although religious 'questions have played a very disturbid Magee,, part jn ^ [> subcom investiga-i John Drinkwater's success with his A lwolinm T in/?n1n" hoc efimnlnfn/1 LIUlJ pi u j anuuiuui ijiuv,wui nc*^ otiiuuiauiMi a riot of him to complete a trilogy of AmeriL..\ j jean drama??one with Robert E. T ec ;ubcom-'as the hero, and another, with a J~h:i ' vr.o Brown motif. I V I