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SHIPPING BOARD ASKS FOR BIDS ANNOUNCE TERM8 BY WHICH IT WOULD DISPOSE OF FLEET. MUST BE IN BY MARCH 14 Records Show That Only Quarter of Tonnage of 1,335 Vessels Now in Operation. Washington. ? New terms and condi tions under which the government would dispose of Its entire merchant fleet, comprising 1,336 vessels of var* Ioub types, wero announced by the shipping board in a general advertise ment calling for bids. Records show only a quarter of the whole tonnage now Is In operation, the remainder comprising the "laid up" fleet. In announcln gthe call for bids the board said the advertlsament was designed primarily to comply with the law governing the sale of its property and was not "a sudden effort to force the sale of the board's fleet," it was In accordance with the "due advertise ments" provision of the merchant marine act, It was explained. Previous offer of sale by the board has been on a flat basis of $30 a ton. Displacing this provision, the board said, It now was prepared to consider offers for purchase "under the various types, based on their relative value as affected by their desirability from point of de.sjgn, physical condition at time of sale, and other pertinent fac tors." The basic sale price of each vessel, it was explained, will be determined by Its Individual worth, and will be subject to revision whenever neces sary, due to repairs, damage or other conditions. Bid* must be submitted on or before March 14 and it was stipulated that the board would make no award be fore that date. OfTers must bo made on a lump sum basis and may be for one or more ships or for the entire fleet, the advertisement said, and each offer must be accompanied by an Initial payment of two and one-half per cent of the amount bid. The board's fleet Is made of S24 steel, ocean-built cargo ships, 324 steel, lake-built cargo ships, 14 refrig erator vessels, 43 steel tankers, 27 . .passenger ships, 35 tugs and 48 mis cellaneous craft 90,000 Deaths Annually From Cancer. Charlotte. ? Cancer, one of the three of the world's most pervalent and fatal diseaseso, causes 90,000 deaths annually, creates 39,000 orphans an nually, causes one In 14 deaths among men and one In eight deaths among women, were some of the facts pre sented to the Klawanis club at the weekly luncheon by Dr. R. T.. Fergu aon, Dr. J. A. Elliott and Dr. W. II Scruggs. The discussions were a continua tion of a talk made at the luncheon a fortnight ago by Klwantan Oren Moore on "Cancer of the Breast,'' thr> club members voting to devote anoth er meeting to the subject. Klwanian Addison G. Brenlzer is state chairman of the committee to disseminate infor mation on the subject in an effort to control the disease to a greater extent through educating the public. Poison Rum Claims Victim. Ashevllle. ? One man is dead and three are In serious condition as tho result of drinking poisoned liquor, ac cording to diagnosis of attending phy sicians. James F. Qulnn, 45, a plumber, died at a lofcal hospital from pneumonia, following acute poisoning. Ijlndsey Campbell. U. R. Murdock and Ed Dowel, are suffering from sim ilar caBes of poisoning. The physician who attended Qulnn said he pumped out the stomach of the stricken man and found the con tents to contain a liquor which ap peared to be composed of "red ly? and wood alcohol." Peace In Mexico Near. Mexico City. ? "President Obregon has every confidence that complete peace and general harmony will pre vail In Mexico at the earliest date through the renowed friendship of all factions," declared former .Senator | James Hamilton I^ewls, aftor a con I ference with the President. ? "He expressed hopes that thft pros Ant friendly relations between the United States and Mexico would con tlnue and grow until they would feel toward oach other as do the various States toward the national government Campaign Against Bold Weevil. New Orleans. ? Clarence pusloy, director of tho National Boll Weovll Control Association, announced here that Harper Dean, chief of the bureau of agriculture of the United States ?' Chamber of Commerce, would arrive Saturday for a conference to do tannine how that organisation might cooperate In furthering plans for con ky trot of the pest during the coming ?aason. More than tjOO banks and fifty $fcambern of commerce already are tttpportlnt the movement, Mr. Oualey ?aid. FOUR BURNED TO DEATH IN FIRE AT ETNA, PENN. Pittsburgh, Pa. ? Four men wero burned to death 4n a Are which de stroyed a three-family dwelling house at Etna, near here. Two oth er men escaped by Jumping from a second story window. An over turned oil lamp was believed to have started the fire. All the bodies were recovered front the ruins but only one had been identified, that of Andrew Dable. Three of the victims were sleeping in an unstalrs room when the fourth was believed by fire offi cials to have upset an oil lamp on the first floor and to have been overcome. ' Their escape was cut off when the fire spread to the stairs; two other occupants of the Becond floor Jumped from windows escap ing unhurt. The other families in the house escaped without diffi culty. 600DS MARKET VERY DULL ! CURTAILMENT TO PART-TIME BASIS IS NOW BEING DIS CUSSED. Product* bf the Mill# Not Moving at I Necessary Hiflh Prices; Manufac turers Worried. Greenville, S. C. ? The present slack condition of the cotton goods market hus placed a serious problem before ! textile manufacturers throughout the | piedmont section, according to mill I executives here, and curtailment of the operation of many plants to part j time basis is now being discussed, one prominent manufacturers said. With coiton mills at Union- Ander son and North Carolina points al ready operating under curtailments, Indications are that plants in tl.is section will sooner or later have to i shut down or work part time only. Is j the opinion of local mill officials. 1 While several local men prominently | identified with the textile industry ] declined to make statements In re ' gard into a possible curtailment pro gram, It was stated by Capt E. A Smyth, president of the New Balfour N. C., mill and connected with a number of others, that the plan was being discussed. The extremely high cost of raw cotton has caused the cloth goods market to soar to such an extent that almost no buying Is being done. Captain Smyth said. The retailers will not ftuy from the Jobbers; the Jobbers will not buy from the wholesalers; the wholesalers will not buy from the manufacturers. The result Is that the mills are left to bear the brunf of the burden of hold ing purchased cotton at an even higher price than that at which cloth can be sold. It is Impossible for the manu facturers to break even and they are liow facing a serious problem, It was declared. The buyers In the foreign markets, refuse to pay the lowest price at which the manufacturers can possibly sell cloth now. The Chinese have the happy faculty of doing with j out that which they think they can not afford, Captain Smyth (pointed out. and the same condition exists In j the South American and African mar j kets. The buyers are holding out for j lower prices, Captain Sinyth said, In the belief that the market will decline still more, even though goods prices averages have dripped six or seven cents on the pound during the last few weeks. When asked If In his opinion the steadily declining prices on cloth would not relievo the market, he said that indications are that prices based on the cost of high priced raw cot ton could no* reach a point low enaugh to bring the buying up to normalcy. IT the mills In the piedmont sec tion are forced to shut or curtail pro duction. the chances are that the pro gram would remain In effect until the advent of the new cotton crop In the fall, he opined. The extent of nny possible curtailment which might be put In effect Is not known. One Killed, Another Injured. Columbia, S C ? "Shorty"' Gregory textllo worker, who was Injurod to gether with three companions In an antomoblle collision near Columbia and brought to the Columbia hospital with a broken back, died on the operat ing table as the result of the Injuries ho received. Leroy Miles, a press feeder for a publishing company, who nifTored a fractured skull and other Injuries In the same accident under went an operation In the enrly part of the afternoon, and, according to the Information from the hospital, the out come Is still doubtful. Quarrel Over Marbles, One Killed. Tarboro, Nev.- Orvllle (Howell, 9 shot and killed James O'Neill, 12, here following a quarrel over a game of marbles, according to the police. The boy Is alleged to have shot O'Neill with a 22 callbro rifle, the bullet entering the left lung, causing death In about SO minutes. Howell wan taken Into custody hy the police, but was later paroled In custldy of his parents. He will he tried In Juvenile court, but the dat? for the hearing has not been fixed. FARMERS AIDED BY NEW CHEMICAL DISCOVERY 18 MADE BY RE SEARCH LABORATORY AT WASHINGTON. WILL YIELD MUCH AMMONIA Th* United State* Will Alto Have Great Explosive at .It* Com mand. Boston. ? A chemical discovery said to be one of the most important of the 20th century, has juBt been made at the Fixed Nitrogen Research labor atory, at Washington, Prof. Arthur B. Lamb of Harvard announced. The discovery is that of a new ea alyst which will bring about the per manent union of hydrogen and nitro gen atoms and will yield 14 per cent i of ammounia, Professor I^amb said According to the announcement, two I great benefits will be derived from the new product. The United States, it is claimed, will have at its command an explosive twice as effective as that discovered by the Germans a few months before the start of the World War. The American farmer will also, according to Professor I>amb, have the use of fertilizer much cheaper and more effective than heretofore avail able. The new catalyst .it is contended, j has far groater durability than that i discovered by Haber in 1914, which I yielded 7 or 8 per cent of ammonia. Business Slump Unusually Narrow. | Washington. ? The usual post holi day slump in general business was narrower in scope in January and ] early February this year than usual, and sharp increases over preceding months were noted in the production of basic commodities, the federal re serve board reported in its periodical business review. Coupled with the increased output in basic commodities was a heavier ] demand for credit for commercial pur poses, indicating continuation of a healthy business development, the re ' view said. Production increases were most marked In steel igots, lumber and . bituminous coal and in the mill con , sumption of cotton. Contract awards , for new buildings were slightly high | er in value in January than In Decern i ber and were 26 per cent greater ' than in January, 1923. U se of Meat Greatest Last Year. Washington. ? Production and con I sumption of meat was the greatest in ' American history last year. An esti mate by the department of agricul | ture placed the consumption at 18, j 481,000,000 pounds. Detailed estimates [ of production, however, were not j made public. I Tho per capita consumption was I 167 pounds, or 17.3 pounds more than in 1923, and was exceeded only once j before, in 1908, when 170.9 pounds per capita were consumed. Total I consumption was 2,000,000,000 pounds over the average for the last five yeara and the. per capita consumption was j 18 pounds over the average. Ninoty por cent of the increase was repres ! ented by pork products. Germany to Yield Steel King Thinks. j New York. ? Charles M. Schwab i chairman of the board of tho Bethle ' hem Steel Corporation, returning on I the steamship Olympic after a BOven i weoks' business and holldlay >trlp to I Europe, predicted that Germany would i accept the amount and terms fixed a* reparations by the Allied Repara tions Commission. "I feel sure," he said, "that the work of the c.ommlsBion will solve the troubles of tho German people. They will accept the decision of the com mission a/ul mako every honest en deavor to make the payments It may decide upon, I am convinced. Congress Pays Tribute to Harding. Washington. ? Congress laid aside legislative business to pay tribute to the memory of Warren G. Harding. Tho house and senate Joined in a memorial service, held In the house chamber, with Secretary Hughea as the only speaker, and President Cool idge, his cabinet, supreme court jus tices and foreign diplomats in attend ance. In a gallery opposite the speaker's rostrum, with a small group of friends, sat Mr. Harding's widow. Elsewhere In tho crowded galleries were men and women *>f promlnonco, among ttaem Mrs. Coolldge, joining In the simple, Impressive ceremony. Swallows 16 Pins. Toledo, Ohio. ? Miss Adell TIrban, a department Rtors clerk, la In a serious condition In St. Vincent's Honpital aa a result of nwallowlng sixteen pins. It was revealed. While 'at work Saturday ahe had pins In her mouth when a clerk of fered her some candy. She put tho candy Into her mouth and swallow ed tho pins with It. The girl scream ed an clerka ruahed to her aid. ShO was hastened to the hospital where an X-ray examination revealed the pin* In her stomach. CRAZED WOMAN LEAPS 300 FEET TO STREET BELOW. London. ? Hurling her two little girls from tho campanile of West minister Cathedral, 300 feet to the pavement below, Mrs. Margaret Davey, an Irish woman, leaped to death after them. All three bodies were smashed almost beyond recog nition. j The first Intimation of the triple tragedy came to passers-by when a child's body came hurlting down from the high tower of tho cath edral and thudded Into a heap of broken bones and mangled flesh on the sidewalk. While some ran to the victim | and others scattered, several wo men fainting at the sight, the body j of another young girl fell a short distance from the first, ' Then those near the scene, gaz ing aloft to the top of the cathed ral tower, saw Mrs. Davey leap off and smash upon a curbing near where the bodies of her children lay. AGENTS ISSUE STATEMENT HUERTA CLAIMS FEDERAL LOSS ES FOUR TIMES THAT OF REBELS. Federal# Are in Pursuit of the Enemy, Who Is Blowing Up Trains But Declining Battle. Tampico. ? The federal forces have dislodged the rebels from the heights known as "death curve" about nine miles from Tuxpan. Washington. ? Losses to the forces of Preeident Obregon "have been four I times that of the revolutionists" for | the last month in the west, Adolpho 1 de la Huerta, Mexican revolutionary j leader, said in a message to his agents here. Impending marches on 'Mexico City were forecast in a state jment issued by the agents. "A state of panic along the line of i communication between Vera Cluz i and Mexico City" exists, according to ! wirelees dispatches received from the revolutionary capitol at Frontera, the | statement said, "duo to daily attacks ? by revolutionists. "General Marcial Cavazos. with his j brigade of light cavalry is now report ' ed to be within two days' march of ' Mexico City. Cavazos is menacing 'Mexico City on the south. "The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of General Dieguez col umn, following his evacuation of More lia, has given rise to a belief that he, too, is r^irching on Mexico City from the weet. Reports from Tuzpan re port no activities on the part of Obre gonistn forces in the petroleum ro gion, save their continued retirement In small groups towards Tampico " Ona Killed and 1 wo Wounded. High Point. ? One man was shot to death and two others were wounded, one probably fatally, In a gun battle on the Thomasvllle-Denton highway. | six miles from Thomasville, according I to advices received here. The dead 1 man 13 Will Ward, 27, Davidson c.oun ! ty farmer. The injured aro Butler I Myers, 25, and his father, Albert My ers, 60. The father has a chance to recover, but young Myers Is not ex pocted to live. Both are in a local hospital. Shoriff R. B. Talbert, of Davidson county, who investigated the tragedy, came to High Point bringing Albert Myers. McDowell Will Face Murder Charge. Tampa, Fla. ? That Frank McDowell will face trial In the regular process of law Instead of going before an In sanity commission, was the statement of Pinellas county authorities. The youthful "Holy GhoBe" murderer, held in the jail at Clearwater, when being apprised of this fact, declared his hope that there would be no lengthy delay before trial. "Can't they do something to speed matters?" he asked. "It is Immater ial to me what they do with me. Of course, I'd prefer going to the electric ch:ilr to being placed In an Institution or prison for life. Life under Institu tional conditions is abhorrent to me. I'd rather die than bo shut up." Mrs. Gaines Burns "V-o Death. Greenville. H. C. ? Mrs. Matthew M. Gnlnes. 71, well known woman of this city died In the city hospital ae a re sult of Injuries received when her clothing caught afire from an open grate In her home. Mrs. Gaines was alone In the house at the time The fire was first seen by Rev C K. Peele. pastor of tho Buncombe street Methodist church from an upstairs room of his home. Two Are Killed In Gun Fight. Bonneville, Ark. ? A three cornered pistol fight sequel of n prohibition officer's rail four years ago -was fought In the streets here and when the smoke of battle cleared, two mon lay dead and a third was tinder arrest on a charge of murder. The dead men are W. H. Wolson fift. former federal prohibition enfoc.e ment officer, and Joss Woolrldge, 30. farmer. Woolrldge was slain by Wll son, who, in turn, wan shot to death hy Kdward WooMdge, according to witneanea. NUMEROUS BILLS ALARM GOOLIDGE i DECLARES WELFARE AND PROS PERITY OF COUNTRY BEING DISTURBED. FOR LARGE APPROPRIATIONS Deplores Effort to Drain the Treas ury In Order to Help Certain Classes. Washington ? The numerous bills pending in Congress calling for largo appropriations are regarded by Presi dent Coolidge as disturbing to the prosperity and welfare of the country. Enactment of these measures in the I opinion of the President would go far toward destroying prosperity and creating a situation from which the country would be long in recovering. A survey of the various bills In volving appropriations which have been introduced has convinced the President that their enactment would call for appropriations larger than the entire expenditures of the Government outside of the Post Office Department before the war. Among the measures which Mr Coolidge' regards as inimical to the country's welfare are those calling for Increased compensation for pt flcials, pensions, the bonus and for j grants of money to numerous special ' classes. If such bills are enacted the j President believes the budget system : would be broken down and a departure ' taken from what he considers a wise policy of holding the executive re i sponsible for the financial state of the j Nation. ! Appropriation For Air Mail Service. | Washington. ? An appropriation of $1,500,000 for continuing the trans j continental aeroplane mail service was 1 restored to the treasury-postoffice ap propriations committee in reporting I the bill to the senate. The house had failed to provide the appropriations I which would continue the air mail be i tween New York and San FranclBco ; via Chicago and Omaha. A total of $736,867,000 Is carried by the bill as compared with $729,950, i 000 as voted by the house. Amflng the other increases recommended by the senate committee was $2,500,000 for collecting customs revenue, urged by Secretary Mellon; $1,100,000 ad ditional for internal revenue collec tions; $416,000 for maintenance of postoffices and $300,000 for foreign mail transportation. No change was made by the com mittee in the appropriations of $10. 629,000 for enforcement of the pro hibition and narcotic drug laws. Auto Bandits Are Busy. j Hickory. ? Between 50 and 75 auto i mobiles have been stolen by a gang | operating around Danville, Va., Hick j ory and Dincolnton, N. C., according j to R. P. Harris, State automobile in i spector for North Carolina, who is , here in connection with efforts of offi i c.ers to round up members of the ring j of thieves believed to be in this sec j tlon. City Detectives J. C. Lewis and j W. T. Kessler, of Danville, who came | here in connection with the case, esti ' mate the number to exceed that set by the inspector. Luther Fry, held in jail at Newton i on a prohibition law violation charge, ! has confessed, according to officers that he sold stolon cars. House to Vote on Ford Offer. Washington. ? An attompt will be made to bring the McKenzle bill auth orizing acceptance of Henry Ford's bid for Muscle Shoals to a vote in the | House next week. Representative McKenr.ie, Republl ? can, Illinois, author of the bill, srfld j he had asked the rulos committee to give the measure priority with gen eral debate limited to six hours in Rtead of ten, as originally requested 1 He said that with the tax bill out of j the way the was confident time would I be allotted for disposition of the : Muscle Shoals question during tho week. Chalrmnn Snell, of the rules com mltttee, said that no decision would j bn reached as to priority for Muscle Shoals legislation until aftor the House votes on the Revenue Mill, prob ably by tho latter part of this week He said there was no serious opposi tlon In tho committee to early consid eration of the qeustion, although It might be determined to give the naval appropriation bill right of way with the Muscle Shoals bill the next gen eral legislation to be considered Sentenced to Death by Chinese. Harbin, Mnnchurla ? 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