Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-18

WASHINGTON, d. C.. Dec. %. -
President Wilson today nominated the
following to be members OF the gov
eminent shipping board: John A.
Donald OF New York; John Barber
White OF Kansas City, Mo; William
Denman OF San Francisco; Bernard
N, Baker Of Baltimore and Theodore
Brent OF New Orleans -#e
The board will have general super
vision over freight rates In American
waters. 1t Is empowered to organize
S5e.00O,000 corporation to build or
buy merchant ships. Forty-nine per
cent of the stock will be available for
public subscription, and that which is
not subscribed Will be taken by the
government
The ships will be available TO lease
or charter by private interests, but
may be operated by the government
should private concerns fail to take
them. The intent of the law, aside
from being TO restore ships for AmerI.
can commerce removed by the war, is
TO open up trade routes which private
capital does not consider yet profit.
able enough for II to enter.
May Pc Used AZ Warships
The ships may be used as naval
auxiliaries In time of war.
Mr.. Donald, Democrat, was nomi-
mated for four years. He has had a
luelong experience in the steamship
business Born in Scotland. he be-
came a citizen OF the United States in
1890. As young man he worked with
p ship broker In Glasgow, and later
was employed by q steamship firm.
After serving In the drydocking and
painting business he engaged in West
Indian fruit trade as ship owner. He
Us chairman OF the board of education
OF Staten Island. and is connected
with various business concerns.
Mr.. White. q Republican, was nom
mated for three years. He is q ium-
herman and exporter He was born
- New Fafirseta4es1s a1fesiient uf the
Missouri Lumber and Mining Compa-
ny Louisiana Central Lumber Com
paty, the Forest Lumber Company,
and an officer or director OF many
other concerns. A statement given
out at the White House said he was
especially well informed on export
business. Mr.. White was chairman of
the executive committee OF three sue.
cessiye congresses for the conserya.
,tion OF national resources and was
elected president of the congress in
1911.
Mr. Denman, who gets the longest
term Of six years, is a Democrat and |
q lawyer with experience In admiralty
cases. He Is graduate of the Uniyer-
sity Of California. He was chairman |
OF committee to investigate munich |
pal corruption in San Francisco In |
1908 and has been prominent in |
movement in California for the cleo.
ton Of non-partisari judges.
Mr.. Baker. who was nominated for |
a fiye-year term. has had wide expert. |
ence as ship owner and for 80 years
was president Of tho Atlantic Trans
port Line He IL Democrat. native
OF Baltimore and graduate OF the
Sheffield Scientific School at Yale |
When the shipping bill was pending
he acted as an adviser OF Secretary |
McAdoo. the chief advocate of the |
measure. He was formerly president !
OF the Baltimore Trust and Guaranty |
ConlpRny. is q director of many com.
mercial enterprises, trustee of Johns
Hopkins University, chairman of the
MARYLAND Conservation Commission,
and member OF the National Joint |
Commission on Conservation. He Is a
Democrat.
Mr.. Brent. the second Republican,
was dominated for two years. Born
in Muscatine. Iowa, he was educated
there and at Pasadena, Cal. He is a |
railroed man, and from 1906 to 1910 |
was assistant 10 the yice.president Of |
the Rock Island Frisco lines. His |
part n reshaping the traffic policy OF
those lines brought him in contact |
with lake and coastwise shipping. He |
also has had charge of traffic affairs |
OF the terminal lines az the Union |
Stock Yards and was general manager
of the Chicago Litefage company. At
the White House II was said he was |
q Republican with progressive ideas. |
Under the law the board elects its |