w? i ? McCutcheon's Han-1 Made Laces We are showing an extensive col? lection of Hand-Made Laces, which 8 l 1?K. are greatly in demand and many Hurley Asks 600 Million to Finish Ships Continued from pare 1 650, which, when subtracted from $2, 861,756,570, leaves $180 a dead-weight ton as the actual cost to the govern? ment of the fleet. Offers for Eight Ships "We sold one of our 7,500-ton freight? ers to the National Shipping Corpora? tion of New York for $210 a dead? weight ton and we have received from the Skinner & Eddy Shipbuilding Cor? poration an offer to buy at present construction costs four 8,000-ton freighters which the Skinner & Eddy Corporation itself is building. We sold one of our 5,075-ton freighters to the Omega Steamship Company of New York for $210 a dead-weight ton, and wo have received from another firm an offer to buy four ships at the same price. "In giving this picture of our finances I have confined myself to facts and figures. I have made no mention of the unusual conditions under which our work was planned and carried out. However, it is interesting to note that the cost of our steel and machinery was three times its normal and that the wages we paid to labor .were based upon double the normal rate. Industry Expanded Tenfold "Also, It Is interesting to consider in connection with the foregoing figures the fact that we expanded the shipbuilding industry tenfold in ten months with high priced materials and under the handicap of transportation delays which made the work very costly. In the prosecution of our work we have made many blunders, and, finally, when we were compelled by the signing of the armistice, suddenly to stop and reverse the ponderous ma? chinery we had been driving at full speed, we found ourselves confronted with new problems, through the mazes French Flier Climbs Up Nearly Six Wies pARIS, June 8.?Lieutenant ?Lu a French aviator, yesterday V cended to a height of 31,168 feet" five and nine-tenth miles, esUbuV ing a new world's record for height 0? May 28, Lieutenant Casals a?, cend?d 31,000 feet. The previa altitude record in an airplane ? was made last January by Captain 1W of the British army, who flew to a height of 30,500 feet. of which we are happy to Teport that we can now see our way clearly. "The inter-relation of the shipbuild? ing and ship operating industries is very close, and tho unprecedented.con? ditions which the war has imposed upon both of them cannot safely be adjusted to normal without carefully considered action by the government at whose call they abandoned the normal limitations of commercial on ganization and adjusted themselves to the abnormal conditions of . war Moreover, the importance of those, two great industries to the prosperity of the American people is so great that the necessity for establishing them upon a healthy commercial basis it widely recognized as a prime matter of national policy." -SJ Lynar Case Up To-day. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.. June, 8. Jonathan D. Wilson, District Attor ney of Orange County, announced to? day that he will move in tho county court to-morrow to forfeit tho $10,000 bail of "Count" Max Lynar, alias Lou don, if he does not appear for trial. As tho "count" is under arrest in St. Louis, waiting to be extradited and brought East to answer charges in New York City, there is no prospect of the alleged swindler appearing be? fore County Judge Russell Wjggins here. Lynar is accused of having swindled J. D. Delacey, of New Windsor, out of several thousand dol? lars. URKISH CIGARETTE 100% pure Turkish tobacco makes Muriels worth more than they cost?for Turkish is the world's most famous tobacco for cigarettes. Murads please you when, your best friend does not. You are proud to have the Governor of your state see you draw the Murad box from your coat pocket. ^^J It is true, "ordinary" cigarettes 1 cost a trifle less. Judge for yourself?!