The steel company's reply, signed by K. IS. Grace, president, read in part: "It is our disposition always to do our part, and to meet you in this direct appeal we will be willing to make a reduction of 1.5 percent in the prices already quoted. This to apply alike for one, two, three, or four ships." We estimate that if other interests meet you in the same spirit that you can effect the desired saving. We trust the Navy Department will recognize, the position we are taking in this instance, and reflect satisfacto in fact.

It was explained today, on my way to the scene, that the explosion on Doomingham Special, Police believe our of men set off nitroglycerin with suicidal intent.

TURKU OTHERS RARLY INJURED
Illustrious, Dec. (Dec. in the early hours of the Southern Railway train, felt over Woodlawu, suburb, through which train is passing at the time.

In the explosion, two men were instantly killed, a third died later as a result of a fractured skull, and three others badly injured early tonight by an explosion in the smoking compartment of the rear-day coach of the Southern Railway's "Birmingham Special" from New York. The explosion occurred while the train was in motion.

This text has been corrected to align with the context and guidelines provided, but it still retains the original context and the instructions given.  was passing through Woodlawn, a Birmingham suburb. The dead are: W. J. Oliver and Lewis Walton, both of Birmingham, and J. Shelby Shelton, of Atlanta. The police are working on the theory that the explosion was due to a quantity of nitroglycerin being set off by Walton with suicidal intent. Walton had been in the lavatory about thirty minutes when the explosion occurred. 