The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-14
TIPPING BOARD 5. NQU|RY GENERALS.
 VER CONGRESSMAN.
fitness Before Walsh Com nittee Says Representative Gallivan Early Threatened
 Probe Into Methods
By Associated Press

|GNew York;, November 13.-The name
 Representative James A. Gallivan of
 Massachusetts was brought into testi- Ecny offered here today in the Walsh Emmittee inquiry into the affairs of Ee United States shipping board. NRobert E. Kline, special representa- Eve of the boards supply and sales partment, was testifying as to meth Els used in disposal of surplus ma
 rial In the course of his testimony R described an. effort on the part of department to procure what he said
 las an advantageous contract for dis <bsal of scrap material. A bid for fs sale on "six months supply basis a rate of 50 cents a ton over the arket price was accepted, rejected [ccepted again and once more held lp cause an official in Washington dis E)vered he had acted without authority, Ne said
 GALLIVAN THREATENS In the interim another form of bid as offered The second bidder all 'ged he had been discriminated 'gainst, and. according to the witness, De board received from MT. Gallivan telegram complaining that this bid- Ter, one of his constituents. had not Ieen treated fairly. This first tele- tram, the witness said, was soon fol- owed by another, which he termed
 sharp" demanding an investigation
 nd threatening to take the matter to he floor of Congress.
 The insistence of MT. Gallivan, the Fitness said, no doubt caused the home 'hice of the board to give the con roversy over the scrap contract luicker consideration" At any rate, ie said, he forwarded to the board
 ,mplete file of the case. ~The delay T determining the successful bidd sr, 'cwever, cost the government money, le declared, for at that time-last June
 Ed Juiy-the market for scrap ma erial was much higher than it now is.
 Scrap material sold by the board vas disclosed by the witness testi- ifcny to include ~everything from un-
 sed parts, bolts and asbestos pack fg for steam pipes to even discarded
 informs of the guards used during he war to protect shipyards and 'iaDts. He also described details Of low this material was assembled, in- oiced and eventually sold.
 DELAYS WERE FREQUENT
 From shipyard materials and con- ests over contracts for scrap" the learing, in it's closing hours today, rifted back to operations. Capt. ames A. MacGregor of Baltimore now ieneral manager for the South Atlantic iaritime corporation, but formerly lstrict agaAt for the shipping board t Savannah and Wilmington, was ailed- He related instances of de- avs to shipping board vessels. alleged pterlocking operating organizations elays in repairs to ships and con- ,ested harbors, which he said cost the hipping board money. He admitted, owever, that incidents similar to those e described had occurred with prI- ate companies. but not to such an xtent as they did with the government perations.
 He told of a shipment of resin, Sa- a nnah to Havana, which could not be nloaded at the latter port because f congestion. Its cpnsignee raised a igorous complaint, and he was pad or the resin by the steamship com any which carried it with check on h.pping board funds.
 Methods of shipping board opera ors holding cargo for their own yes- els when board vessels operated by mother line were available was crit aized by the witness. He alleged that his system caused tie-up of cotton [ Savannah last fall.