Show TO OPEN BIDS TODAY FOR NEW N NAVAL VAL SHIPS WASHINGTON Oct 10 Secretary Secretary Daniels today announced that bids Willbe will willbe willbo be bo opened December 20 ilO O for the first of the tho supply ships and transports Pt pro provided vided for tor in lD the time last naval na appropriation tion Hon bill and embodying ng new military characteristics evolved e bv by b the tho naval al general board The new transport wille will ill willbe be DO e IGO feet long sixty one feet beam and will have a n twenty-foot twenty draft She will wiH have a maintained sea speed of fourteen knots and will win provide quarters Juar- Juar tors terR for 2000 J men en nn and two thirty horses She will be fitted to burn bum either eith eith- er oil or coal The Tho supply ship will be bo feet long with fifty five fifty h-e h feet beam and twenty twenty- on foot ond-foot foot draft and also will be bc e equipped to burn either oil or coal She Sue is expect expected cd to carry carn two months' months stores for a fleet leet of ei eight ht battleships |