Show CALL CALLIN CAllIN IN STEEL MEN WASHINGTON Jan TAn 7 Rib up- Driving toward a conclusion of ot its Investigation n the senate semite munitions committee called a group of steel- steel men as witnesses today In an Inquiry in- in into the cost of steel plate supplied for lor naval vessels Officials of ot three companies were summoned including Bethlehem Steel company MIdvale Steel corn corn- pliny pany any and the Carnegie Illinois Steel corporation The testimony was asked after atter of the tho Interstate commerce commerce com corn merce commission co had reported to the tho ho committee committeD that thata a study of several sev- sev eral ral months convinced them the United States could save money on Its ts shipbuilding by expanding its own wn own plants at an air estimated cost of about bout 2 Besides tho the steel man manufacturers the 10 committee also summoned J J. Carson Jarson Adkerson of Washington head lead of tho the American Manganese Producers' Producers association Uon Adkerson planned to protest Importation of manganese from Russia and other sources sources on the ground that it presented prevented prevented pre pre- vented development of an industry In n America The committee has only a half hal dozen lozen days of ot open hearing ahead of ot it The committee plans to ques ques- Uon Jon the tho sources of revenue of the thi Navy league and Army Ordnance association Monday On Tuesday It t will have officials official of Colt Automatic Automatic Auto Auto- matic Firearms company as wit wit- nes nesses flosses s. s After a weeks week's recess reces the committee com corn then will question a number of New York second hand dealers and others other as to tho the source of ot machIne machine machine ma ma- chine guns used by gangsters and South Ame American revolutionaries |