Evening Star Newspaper, August 24, 1921, Page 10

LECIONMENBERS ENIOYPARISREST F.merican War Veterans, Who Have Been Feted in France, | Tewe Day Off. i B the Associated Press. PARIS, August 24—Members of the American Legion, who for the past two weeks have visited many points in France, and have been occupied with manifold ceremonfes, were fin | Paris today enjoying a rest. Formal | | functions will be resumed tomorrow and will continue for three days, |} when the visitors will go to Bel- gium. | The American Legion delegation found a home-coming welcome yes- | terday, when they returned to Cha-! teau Thierry, made famous by their | feats of valor against the Germans in the world war. Entire families trudged miles to meet the train on vhich the Americans arrived. Many of the French people inquired for American soldiers they had known Guring the wor and gave memb of the delegation letters to carr back to men whose addresses they did not know. Numerous children brought flowers for “their Ameri- oping that he was among’ the pariv. It was more a family reunion than an official function. Thousands Attend Exercises. The entire population of the reglon! attended the laying of the corner stone of the Roosevelt bridge, built to re- place the bridge the Germans d stroyed when the Americ: T pality of Chateau Thisry in the name 0 the Roosevelt family for naming | tise bridge after the late President i and his son Quintin, who was killed in action in France. The principal !l dock was christened “Quai Du Colonel |} Galbraith,” in memory ofthe formerma- : tional commander of the American! Legion. il Before going to Chateau Thierry the legion representatives visited ing to the cathedral, where | expressed thanks to the men of the leglon for the great work they and || their fellow count n had done on || French soil. SAYS BID WAS IGNORED. Tew Yorker Tells of Offer for Mus- it cle Shoals Lease. FIELD, Ala. August 24.—An | ) offer o cent on an investment ®f $120.000.000. or $4.800.000 annually, was made for the Muscle Shoals plant by Herman D. Ruhm of New York city. he stated here yvesterday. Mr. Ruhm declared that he had made the oifer shortly after Secretary of War Weeks had asked for bids and that he bad never received a reply. i Mr. Ruhm declared that he offered |1 to take over the nitrate plants and | the completed power plant at the || Wilson dam as soon as the govern- ment would provide sufficient power to operate the nitrate plants. and agreed to pay an annual rental of ] $4.500,000 therefor. The bid required that the govern- ment modify the machinery of the nitrate plant to some extent. The proposed lease on the prop- erties was to run for a period of || fifty years and contained a clause which provided for a surrender of the plant to the government in event || of war. [ MURDERER T0 DIE. Ohjo Man Faces Chajr Despite || Pleading Guilty. | COLUMBUS. Ohio. August 24— imbus. wife murderer, sentenced for first-degree _ hout a jury trial, is to die in the electric chair at the Ohto penitertiary tomorrow night unless | Gov. Davis intervenes. Davy pleaded gullty to the general charge of homicide. ~This, under the Ohio law. puts the decision as to "'_“ degree of the crime up to the trial judge. After two days of delib- || eration Judge K. B Kinkead declared |} Travy guilty in the first degree and || sentenced him to death. There have been several other cases || where men have heen sentencd lo| SHEF the chair after pleading guilty, but in every case sentence is said to have been commuted before exccution took | place. 2 COTTON MILLS REOPEN. i CHARLOTTE, N. 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