Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1926, Page 19

SHOALS BIDS GLOSE ™ WITHNINE ENTRIES rour vears: maiy e Seven Bidders Would Lease Entire Property—Differ as to Major Output. Br the Associated Biddjgg for Muscle Shoals closed with seven proposals to entire property and to a | | | vesterday it in the hands of the con-|amMer of applicants for automobile drivers’ Officer Avory E. Smoot, assigned to i the traffic bureau, pnal committee which will be- 1 a study of the offers this week determine which one, if an) 1d b ommended for accept- s. None of the bids In reaching its conclusion, the|p «ommittee must decide whether | Vinscle Shoals s to be operated pri- | . marily for fertilizer or for power. All of the bidders have agreed to manu- fucture the required 40,000 tons of fived nitrégen annually, but some | - want the property mainly for its| . power and others for manufacturing Women’s Adventures in | for allaround brasery. Proves Enough for Brave Officer. Street Navigation Is Shared by Him. Four years of excitement as an ex- permits were enough for Policeman Smoot has a reputation He would ) in the face of a bandit' > or pale in sight of other e ot fiin at the wheel is| take it from | t knows whereof he speaks. THE SUNDAY ERMIT EXAMINER SMOOT QUITS JOB OF TESTING AUTO DRIVERS It seems to be a remarkable coin- cidence that most of Officer Smoot's experiences were gained while at the merciesr of feminine drivers. He holds no briefs for the -man drivers, however, although it was sort of funny that women should be involved in a majority of his escapes, he ad- | mits. Foley Beat a Retreat. To prove that men sometimes cause gray hairs to multiply on the heads |of permit examiners, Traffic Bureau attaches cite the case of Policeman FFoley, who recently solved an emer- gency involving one in a very prlginll manner. If Examiner Foley's asso™ ciates are to be belleved, this operator, with Foley in the rear seat, began his test by running smack into the inter- section of Fourteenth street ang Pennsylvania avenue with a ‘‘stop’ sign set against him. He halted in the middle of the street car tracks when the traffic officer blew himselt hoarse on his whistle. Examiner { Foley opened the door of the car, t without saying a word, au, shaking his hgad. nt ahead in ignorance of the fact that Foley had beat a retreat, and did not discover the examiner’s ab- sence until several blocks later, when | he failed to get a reply to his persist- ent inquirifes as to what to do next. had to turn around and drive back tof the Trafiic Bureau to find out, his "AR. WASHINGTON, D. pants of the bench were no more|completing a thankful than was Policeman Smoot.|pen the dust had cleared up much C.... APRIL 11, left-hand turn and of the limousine was hugging the front wheels of the surprised truck. Nobody was hurt, but.it all served to put another erimp in Officer Smoot’s far-from-jaded nerves. Policeman Smoot, as previously related, is a brave man. He did not complain of his lot. But his col- leagues and superiors could not help but .iotice the haggard look that in- creasingly haunted his features, as the days went by. They realized that if something were not done for this officer's nerves he would, before long, be a subject for examination himself. So now Mr. Smoot, smiling, sits snugly on the inside of the Traffic Bureau looking out and feeling much better, thank you. S i T Medical Officer Transferred. Maj. Samuel J. Turnbull, Medical Corps, at Walter Reed General Hos- pital, has been ordered to Trenton for duty with the New Jersey National Guard, T 1926—PART 1 By the Associated Press. Hercules apparently is winning out in a popularity contest with Neptune and Andrew Jackson for the honor of having his classic features reproduced on the figurehead of the old hero frigate Constitution, When she first was built “Old Iron- sides” carried a figure of Hercules on her plunging nose, but it became a casualty in the Tripolitan war, a pirate “cannonball virtually decapi- A carving of Neptune was substituted and later a figure of Jack- son, which was mutilated by a po- litical foe of “Old Hickory.” At other times the ship carried at her bow sev- eral other figures of lesser historical interest. Now that the Constitution is to be restored and take to the seas again, Navy historians are puzzling over the selection of a figurehead. ment officials tating it. say \that Face of Hercules Is Urged Again For Bow of Frigate Constitution . seems to favor Hercules, because the ship recelved her baptism of fire under his guidance. Depart- sentiment | on the top flor. URNITU2e AUDITORIUM ACCEPTED. Macfarland Hall to Be Ready for . Occupancy This Week. The recently completed auditorium of the Macfarland Junior High & was formerly accepted yesterday by the District Commissioners. be ready for occupancy this week. The auditorium is 70 feet wide and 80 feet long and contains a balcony. It will seat about 750 persons. cost_amounted to $99,700. Work will be started in the near future, it was announced, on a wing addition to the school, which will con- tain 10 class rooms and a gymnasium w719 DR. SHANTZ TO LECTURE. Scientist Will Relate African Bo- tanical Excursion. Dr. H. L. Shantz will deliver an illustrated lecture on his botanical observations in Africa before the American Horticultural Soclety at the New National Museum Tuesdgy evening, at 8 o'clock. The subjeot of his lecture will be “A Botanical x cursion From Cape to Cairo.” Dr. Shantz was one of a_ special mission which traveled through Africa to gather data on its natural plant resources and crop producing pos sibilities for use of the Allied Peace Commission in 1919. A year later ne returned to Africa with the Smith sonian Institution expedition to collect information fpr that institution. His lecture will cover his observations on these expeditions. The public is in vited to attend. Sales on the installment plan are estimated to represent about 17 pe: cent of all the retail sales in the United States. A RO pirposes, His knowledge was gained through instructions being to head for home *Assurance of Backing. Iive of the bidders have assured the committee that the: ve power- ful financial backing and are pre- Southern pow- | p of & and Elon H. Hooker k T. Hepburn, both of mide com r in the acture of chemica d the ution of power f fuscle Is would be seconda under offers, while the Southern pow- companies and Hepburn would e power distribution their main ern. e other bids for the entire proj- ct came from F. E. Castleberry Shreveport, La.. and Ll 3 chinist of The two offers for part of the proj- were submitted by the American Nitrogen Co. of Products Seattle, ¢|and J. E. Levering, a local engineer, .| who wants nitrate plant No. 1 ang long experience. Four years of | heart throbbing and gasping in gal |10 - ss gasoline bronchos | L out are sufficient to s nerves—even Avory Tried Both Methods. Officer Smoot did not admit_defeat | until he had tried all sorts of ruses to escape with his life. He found that soomer or later the novice | driver will get you if you don't look out. It's all the same, whether you ad- here to the policy of sticking the ship or closing your eyes jumping. He tried both methods trate plants and part of the power an allotment of current. OFFICER AVERY E. SMOOT, Traffic Bureau. while the heading was good. his escapes were as narrow one way as the other. One time he tactfully dismounted to watch a nervous female applicant back into a parking place on D He stood at a respectful distance, but it was Before street, near Fourteenth. not quite respectful enough. he could jump, the car had hopped over the curb and pinned him against He limped for a week an oak tree. in, whiie he was observing an- __| other sweet young thing steer her v way through traffic on E street, ite the Natiopal Theater, ar or its driver or both got vertigo and started on a steeplechase the triangular park that graces that block. The committee has until April 26 to submit its recommendation to Con- i -, T L-l- and mattress Overstuffed Kar- avenport ted in beautiful en Earpen the park embankment.. 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