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ilU/XTi/A 1 | 4/JClVKBni irww vp FORD IS STILL NITRATE PUNT DETROIT MOTOR CAR MANUFAC* TURER BELIEVED GETTING READY TO "SUBMIT- PROPOSI TION FOR .BUYING BIG DAM ,v AND NITRATE PLANT. Washington, Nov. 29.?Govern ment officials in touch with the Nego tiations of Henry Ford for purchase / and lease of the Muscle Shoals, Ala bama, nitrate and water power pro jects,'said today they expected to receive soon from Mr. Ford a modi fied proposal, probably a complete substitution for the one now under discussion. The expected offer would be an out growth of the recent conference here between Secretary of Commerce Hoover, Major General Beach, chief of army engineer and Mr. Ford and his advisers that conference was un derstood to be non-productive in the way of progress on the offer before! the conferees. ' j Differences as to the present pro-' posal exist between the government's ' " Tn._j ?v;_-u I representatives ana air. rora wuku apparently cannot be removed. It wits said authoritativly today that if j ? the proposal w&s submitted to Con-| gress in its present form that body immediately would not accept it. Belie^that Congress would reject < * the offer was said to be justified on the ground of economy and its re peated refusal to appropriate more money for the completion of the ^ Muscle Shoals project. If the Ford plan was accepted by Congress more j than $30,000,000 have to be made available for the completion of the Wilson dam. Army estimates recent ly revised by the engineers placed the figures at between $42,000,000 and $55,000,000. , - Mr. Ford has offered $28,000,000 for this work, and it was understood ; firmly declined in conference with I "*' TT ? o4- oIIaw- I JYir. QOUYCr UU lllkicaoc Miav buvh ance. Thus the negotiations have been at least temporarily abandoned until ^Mr. Ford, with Thomas A. Edison, \ the inventor, makes a new survey of the project. When Mr. Ford has made the inspection and received-the advise of Mr. Edison concerning the natural possibilities of development at Musclej^Shoals, officials ;here ex pect him to return with a modified' proposal. What the modifications will be they said depended largely upon the decision to be reached later by Mr. Ford but would probably take a form that would eliminate the existing differences. SCOTCH LIQUOR VALUED ' AT $1,000,000 SEIZED New York, Nov. 28.?More than 1,000 cases of Scotch liquor valued at $1,000,000 have been seized by onflinrifioQ in iCUCiai ptuiliuitiva uuvt?v..?.w ... bonded warehouses here, it was 'v learned tonight, following discov ery that enormous quantities of im ported intoxicants were being di . v verted to bootleg channels. The seizures were made in co-operation with customs authorities. E. C. Yellowley, acting federal prohibition director, said tjiat his department contemplated the further confiscation here and in nearby ports of an additional $5,000,000 worth of liquors. A shipment of more than 8,000 casea of whiskey consigned to the Alps Drug company, wholesalers, whose license recently revoked by Mr. Yellowlev. was the first seized.] Part of another confiscated shipment he saM, was found to be actually '? consigned to a national bank here, which had been furnishing letters of credit for two large liquor firms. Mr. Yellowley said the bank was under investigation by Washington authori * ties. Governor's New Secretary Columbia, Nov. 28.?W. Royden Watkins today assumed duties of secretary to Governor Cooper. He arrived in Columbia Sunday night. Mr. Watkins has already made a number of friends in the state's offi ciau family and it is evident he will make a good name for himself Ss state official. Several officers of the American Legion have met him here today. Mr. Watkins being a promineat Legioner. ' i JAPANESE METHOD GETS REAL PEAR] Paris, Nov. 26.?Pearls are pearls whether produced by the# Japanea method or artificially stimulatinj their products in oysters or formed'ii the usuaf^manner, so far as Frencl science can determine. M. Boutaii i in a report to the Academy of scieno j shows that the process of formatioi lis the same in both cases And th< | only difference is in the large scon of the "Japanese" pearl. Among jew elers there has been some different * ?tMAiAviftr oaomAf 01 opmiun, UUl tlic uiajuxivj owv?iv? to agree that only by holding pearli to the light and judging the size ol the core could they distinguish be tween "real" and cultivated pearls In pie "Japanese" method som< small objct is placed in the oystei which promptly protects itself ?bj depositing about the intruder th< pearl substance, exactly as it doei when such an object gets into th< shell accidentally. There was no ex planation as to why "real" pearls art found only about small cores. Thf reason for the larger cqre in the cul tivate'd stone is the need ?o h^ster the process so it will be profitable. HISTORIC TEMPLE, AT ^ NEWSHAM, SOLD ! *? London, November 29.?M&spm .throughout the world are intenselj interested in the announcement t>i the sale of the historic temple at [Newsham, in Yorkshire, where the Order of Knights Templars have naa their headquarters for centuries. The sale price of the temple is given as $140,000. As the estate com prises about 913 acres this makes the price about $160 an acre, or less, than New England farm land. The estate was the birthplace of Lord Darnley, the husband of Mary Queen of Scots. SAYS NATIVES ATE MARINE VV -i ? ? f Witness Tells Senators of Cannibal ism Among Haitan Bandits Washington, Nov. 25.?The tor turing and eating of Private Law rence and the killing and mutilation of Lieutenant Muth of the Marine Corps by bandits of Haiti were de scribed before the special Senate in vestigating committee today by P. M. Bilkington of New York, a tech nical expert, who, as manager of the American Developing Company, was in that Country two years. He assert ed that the cannibals had t^e primi tive idea that by eating human flesh they acquired the- courage and for titude of their victims, but related incidents of marines lost in the mountainous country being cared for toy the Widits. The natives were generally de scribed by the witness as amiable, docile and amenable, and the higher class as competent to conduct an in dependent Government. Lack of se curity for foreign capital and the failure of the United States to make the treaty effective were criticised by Mr. Pilkington. The natives, he said, objected to foreigners, fearing they would take control of govern ? TUai* oleA aK. meqt away irum mem. mc^ ai^u v.in jected to the construction of good roads, he explained, because it in volved the destruction in many in stances of their shady trails, and al so because automobiles killed their burros. t Defective land titles prevented de velopment the witnes said there hav ing been no survey of the country prior to American occupation. This Government now was making, he said, a complete and valuable sur vey. i NOTICE OF SETTLEMENT Estate of Enoch Baskin Smith, Dec'd, Notice of Settlement and Applica For Final Discharge. TAKE NOTICE that on the 20th day of December, 1921, I will ren der a final account of my actings and doings as executor of the estate oi | Enoch Baskin Smith, deceased, lr the office of the judge of probate foi Abbeville County at 11 o'clock a. m.: and on the same day will apply foi a final discharge from my trust as such executor. All persons hafving demands a gainst said estate will present there for payment, proven and authenti cated or be'forever barred. H. C. SMITH, Executor. 11, 23.1tw 3wk. TRESPASS NOTICES, for sale al Press and Banner office. P?st youi land against hunting. ATHENS MAN HELD ON < MURDER CHARGE IN FLA i, Orlando, Fla., Nov. 30.? G. H e Hopkins, of Athens, Ga., was beinf ? held by the police tod$y in connec a tion with the shooting to death-in hi ti room in a local hotel shortly af fi ter mdnight of a man who was iden e tified this morning as I. W. Brown i alias Roxy Casoletto of St. Peters t burg. x ^ i Persons who reached Brown'i - room immediately after shots wen 3 heard found the man dead with i 1 bullet in the right breast and anoth 3 er in his head. No fire arm was dis i covered. The occupant of an adjoin - ing room and an employee of the ho . tel told the police they had seen $ i man climb hurriedly down .the firf r escape a moment after the shooting J . The police have been unable tc 5 assign a motive for the killing. 3 WORK OF RARE SKILL Movable Steel Dam Built In Canal. Detroit, Mich, Nov. 30.?A mov able steel dam, placing of which ii described by the government officials in the office of the United States engineer here as a remarkable en gineering feat, is nearing completion in the north canal at Sault Ste. Mare, Mich. The most remarkable feature of the work, the engineers say, is the swinging of the entire framework of thg dam, weighing ap proximately 80 tons into place at one time. This was accomplished by means of a Stiff Jeg derrick on either side of the canal. c * - The dam will have been installed by December 1, the engineers say, work of placing the gates being un der way at present. The dam was not desired to afford protection to two locks in the Soo canal. When the dam-is completed it will be possible toyfihut off the water feupply through the canal entirely. Placing of the structare is a precau tionary measure .entirely it is point ed out. If at any time any of the 'gates in the locks become out of or der it would be impossible to stop . the flow of water which might flow through the canal at a high rate of speed, imperiling shipping and carry ing aay other locks, ft is to prevent such an occurrence that the dam was authorized by the government. The new dam is said by engineers I to mark a new step in such construc tion the entire framework and gates being built of steel. The dam is to be operated much like a draw bridge toeing divided in the middle. It will be'possible to close either 6r both sides at a time i keeping the water from one or two I locks, as desired. The dam will be I tested each month. 50 PERSONS INJURED iw t*i_j 17 \ toc rni 1 apsf in A a lA-rk a i?. 1 New York, Nov. 29.?The roof and one wall of the American thea tre, under construction at Bedford and Park avenue in Brooklyn, col ' lapsed this afternoon while about 50 men were at work in the orchestra pit. An hour later firemen had recov ered six bodies and had sent about 20 persons to hospitals. The contrac tors, held on a technical charge of homicide, were taking a rollcall of their .employees to determine how , many were buried in the debris. WON'T LET HENRY REDUCE COAL RATES Washington, Nov. 30.?Reduced rates on coal which Henry Ford 'at tempted to put into effect on his railroad, the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton, were further suspended to? day by the interstate commerce commission. The i original commer cial order said the rates should not i toe reduced until January 1, pending an investigation by the commission 1 while the amendment today post poned the effective date to January i 31. r Mary Pickford III. London, Dee. 1.?Mrs. Mary Pick 5 ford Fairbanks is suffering from tonsilitis and will return to America, sailing Monday with her husband, it 1 Weld ncdliicu Jicic Luuaj. "It is noth'ng serious," her hus band insisted. "She has been feel ing badly for a couple of days and we just decided we would return on the liner Paris a few weeks earlier t than we intended." LEGAL BLANKS of all kinds at Press and Banner office. \ ? . DO you ever wonder how along without the comfor v of today? * /, Without window-glass, es, without automobiles, w telephones, breakfast foo< ally all the items we consic life. ' * " And have you ever w Qrlir^-iW-iGinnc Viqg nlaA/orl in au v vi vioxiig nuitj v/vi 111 ment? 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