The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-25
OLIVER PREDICTS FORD WILL OBTAIN SHOALS GOAL YET
Would Not Be Surprised At Another Steam Plant
 On The Warrior
WASHINGTON BUREAU l
 THE AGE-HERALD }


 That Muscle Shoals will yet be de- liyered to Henry Ford and the Amer ican people, and that Henry Ford will see to 1t that the Alabama Pow CT company does not gain possession of the great waterpower in the Ten nessee was confidently declared to- night by epresentative ". B. oliver of Alabama.
 MT. oliver states his belief that had the secretary referred the con troversy again to the attorney gem eral his former opinion that the Ala bamS Power company was entitled to buy the governments property at Muscle Shoals would have been changed. That the Ford offer had already accomplished great good in making Muscle Shoals an obvious na- tional necessity, and in securing for the coffers of the government near ly three and a half million dollars, the Alabama member asserted. VIII Write Ford.
 Tomorrow MT. Oliver, Gray Silver, of the American farm bureau fedora ton, and others, including the legis- lature of Georgia, will write MT. Ford, urging him to modify his offer and continue the battle for the peo- pie.
 "Gorgas Is no longer an issue, but the Muscle Shoals nitrate plants and waterpower are, and Congress. in my judgment can be depended upon to see to it that the nitrate plants and waterpower at Muscle Shoals shall yet serve the farmers of the United States. Congress from the beginning intended it and the farmers have right to expect it." thus began MT. Oliver
 When asked what he thounght MT. Ford would now do, and If Mir. Ford might make modified offer. he said: T do not know, but it is reason able for Mir Fords friends to expect that Mir Ford will not willingly see that either the Alabama Power com pany or any of the interests allied with it ever get Muscle Shoals and thus destroy the hopes of the farm CTS of this country for relief from a foreign supply of nitrate.
 "Gorgas having been sold out of MT. Fords offer without his con sent and without his ever having any reasonable time to answer the Presi- dents request, though 1t was agreed that the secretary of war would ar range an extension till November l for him to make answer, leaves MT. Ford quite free in making his de- cision.
 All Facts Not In.
 No doubt MT. Ford will be in- formed that the secretary of war was compelled to make a deed today to the Alabama Power company for Gorgas because the six months notice expired today, yet MT. Ford will be further advised that if all the facts had been communicated to the at torney general the attorney general would unquestionably have chang ed his opinion as to the right of the Alabama Power company to give this notice in April last.
 "The secretary of war was inform ed of these facts and was urged to give time for their communication to the attorney general but the sec retary declined to give the neces- sary time for this communication.
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 Net Results Valuable.
 "The net results of Mir. Ford's off, fer have provensmost valuable to the United States: first. his offer forced Congress, which abandoned the work on Dam 2, to make due appropria- tions to resume the work, and second,