Show E UK IE SALT LAKE NOTICE IS 15 SERVED or OF CONTEST PlANNED I I Air Nitrates Corporation Intervenes In In- in F Ford o d Muscle Shoals Project I WASHINGTON Feb 20 Accept Accept Acceptance ance by the tho United States government government govern govern- ment mont of the offer by Henry Ford for purchase and lease of the tho Muscle Shoals Ala nitrate and waterpower project would constitute a violation I of the solemn and binding agreement i entered into with our company under Under under un- un I der date of June 8 1918 J J. C. C Hammitt Hammitt Hammitt Ham- Ham mitt vice president of the Air Nitrates corporation notified the house military committee today Tho The witness asserted that despite the opinion of ot Colonel Hull acting I Judge advocate general of the army th that t the agreement was null and void he believed It would hold In Inthe Inthe inthe the courts where It ft would be tested if ff the government Insisted upon vIolating vio yb- lating Its pledge Mr Hammitt explained that the Air Nitrates corporation was a subsidiary of the American Cyanamid company of Maine and was created to protect the stockholders of ot the latter In case the corporation fell down on its war contracts amounting to seven times its capital Without the assistance of the two concerns he declared the nitrate plants could not have been erected by the tho government We ye could have asked he said that the plants be destroyed after the war but all we requested was that the corporation be given a right to purchase the plants on as favorable terms as given others after their operation operation op op- was stopped by the govern govern- ment meat |