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Show If OFFER FOR I SHOALS PLANTS I WASHINGTON, Feb. 15. (3sy the latsd Press)--Another offer for purchase nnd lease of the govern-- govern-- properties at Mueclo Shoals. Ala., were completed today and ar-rangementa ar-rangementa made by its sponsors, the Alalia ma Power company, for imme- . I tliate filing with Bee rotary Weeks. The offei v.ik tendered by Thomas Martin, acting for the Alabama Power com-l-uny. where ho le president, and with Its Submission the total number of pro-oibi pro-oibi received by the government for Its war-acquired properties in Aiaba mfl was brought to four. 'AHif new of-Per of-Per !f -Nn, '. ted to be submitted soon b Booretary Weeks to conerese, which lef ii- it the offer of Henry Ford Pi I R FOR AKllMK I "Ihe Alabama Power company pro-u.-feM cotnpletlon of the Wilson dam il ' i. "it further advances of expen-ultures expen-ultures hy th- United States' 'and the otttrlghl purchase of the Warrior pow-er pow-er plant on the fJlorgns river, situated Ion ground already owned by the pow-compan pow-compan T3 e properties would be ised eomoany for a porlod f 50 years, after which they .would bo subject to recapture by the I government. Th- offer, outlined In a letter to I.Secretarv Woeks, stated it to be the j company's purpose to install at th 'start a plant of 24o,ooo horsepower. IB "subsequent ltiRtallatlon to be made accordance with the federal water power act as may be neeesaary to meet the market demands.' Th Alabama 1 mpany offered fur-thoi fur-thoi "to furnish free t the govern-ment govern-ment 01- any one it may designate. from tin- hydro-power plans. 100,000 horsepower n required for the pro-'ductlon pro-'ductlon of fertilizer and monitions or war and for research in connection 1 therewith " ssssl Whenever the safetj of tli United st.in- demands, tnc letter said, "the United states shall have the right as M"" fully provided In tho federal wa-t. wa-t. p a t. to tdke over und oper-ate oper-ate the project for manu-I manu-I fa sturlng nitrates, explosives, or muni-I muni-I tlons of war or for any other pur-poses pur-poses 1 rriGATioji mil i Tie offer differed ir..m these rocei1.- ii from Henry Ford, Frederick )i Eng8trum "f Wilmington, X. C. or so far as Is known from that proposed Pinkloi hi nd of the construe-:lon construe-:lon company of North America, with headquarters al .-.iii Francisco, in tha' j none of those agreed to function un-idsr un-idsr the provisions of th federal wa-tor wa-tor power act. 00 it costs $10 a month t have a tele-phone tele-phone in Japanese dwelling. |