Show I I I I I I I j I I I I I BIDS ARE OPENED ON DESTROYERS I By International News Service V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON March 24 Bids Bids on fifteen torpedo boat destroyers were opened at nt tho the navy department by Assistant Secretary of ot the tho Navy Roosevelt Only three concerns submitted figures figures figures fig fig- ures and none nono of ot these came within the limit of ot cost set by congress wh when n It authorized their construction Two concerns the concerns the Union Union- Iron Works Yorks of ot ofSan ofSan San Francisco and the Fore River Mass Shipbuilding corporation corporation ot of offered to construct part ot of the number wanted at cost coat plus 10 per cent profit Neither gave figures on the tho cost coat how how- ever Immediately after tho the bids were opened tho the representatives pf pt the builders went into conference with Secretary Daniels Tho The failure of either cither bidding concerns to name a limit disconcerted navy officials Each stated that the vessels would be constructed constructed con as expedItiously as ai po possible The department wants the vessels complete completed com corn in fifteen months at the outside |