Evening star., 1926-10-20

A new bidder for Muscle Shoals
has appeared the Farmers Federal
ed Fertilizer Corporation engineered
and sponsored by G. Bascom Slemp,
former secretary to President Cool
idge. Much mystery attends it. MIR.
Slemp says he is but the attorney
"for group who are seeking a salts
factory solution for the Muscle Shoals
problem He is not vet ready 70
make public disclosure Of his prin-
cipals. He declares that he is acting
solely 'in public spirit" and vol
unfairly in the hope of doing some
good" He Is going to present the
prop Jsals Of the +. +. +. Corporation
10 Congress in the expectation that
an examination will disclose that they
s.te fa,' superior. both to tho offer
of the Air Nitrates Co, which the
special committee named ut the last
session TO receive bids for Muscle
Shoals rejected. and to the offer Of the
Associated Southern Power Cos,
which the committee accepted. The
latter proposition is now pending In
Congress, backed by the recommenda-
ton Of tho special congressional com.
mittee. headed by Senator Deneen OF
lluIlOlS, III u AOilE CSS a0biAOh &EC N4AS
lease The Southern Power Cos. Of
fer likewise passed the scrutiny and
gained the approval Of the expert ad-
visers of the Departments of War,
Commerce and Agriculture, who ex.
amined all the bids at the Deneen
committees request. 1t Is understood
to have also the tacit Endorsement OF
the President. However, the Air Nj
trates' proposal rejected by the com.
mittee is backed by the Cyanamid Co.
and the Union Carbide Co, with wide
financial and business ramifications
and with rnany friends in Congress-
II ratification of the Southern Power
Cos. lease is obtained 1t will be only
after q hard fiEht. Mr.. Slemp pro.
fesses to believe a deadlock will re-.
suit with the Farmers Federated Fer.
tilizer Corporation ready to save the
day by taking the Muscle Shoals
plum" for itself.
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Huston Thompson. prominent VIII
son Democrat, who recently quit the
Federal Trade Commission. has hung
out his shingle as practicing at
torney here at the Capital. He also
will maintain law offices In Denver. In
his home State of Colorado. It is no
secret that Thompson's real objective
is the Colorado senatorship. The term
of Senator Phipps, present Republican
incumbent, does not expire for an
other four years, but Thompson is
prepared to bide his time and In 1880
give battle to Phipps.
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While the New York hotel which
Queen Marie will honor with her
patronage was reQuisitioning from
private collectors antique furniture
with which to furnish the royal suite,
the Rumanian Legation here. which
was the Queens domicile during her
two-dav stay in Washington, reversed
the process and borrowed from local
hotels special furniture for the Occa.
sion. 1t develops that the legations
regular furniture Is the ordinary
Grand Rapids product. A bed At for
a Queen was the most serious prob.
lem. This was solved, however. and
a gorgeous canopied-top affair Of the
French period of Louis XIV was in
stalled. This was loaned by the
Wardnlan Park hotel.
Either Senator Willis Of Ohio
marched at the head Of the Ohio con-
tingent in the American Legion pa
rade at Philadelphia last week or else
a great hoax was perpetrated In his
name. The weight OF the evidence
favors the latter conclusion. What the
street throngs saw was this: A Le-
gionnaire bearing a huge placard
with the inscription, Hon. Frank b.
Willis, United States Senator from
Ohio" and marching just behind,
fianked on both sides by smartly uni
formed aides. . tan figure in Q cuta-