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New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Denies Combine to Keep
Retailers Prices High
Advertising Clubs Head Asserts
Merchants Could Not Form
Necessary Organization

OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 23.-Charles
Henry Macintosh, of Chicago, presi-
dent of the Associated Advertising
Clubs of the World, told the Omaha
Chamber of Commerce to-day that an
understanding among retailers tending
to keep prices high, as referred to yes
terday by Attorney General Daugherty
in his call for price investigation
could not exist to any practical ex-
tent"
cone hundred per cent perfect or
ganization is not possible" said he,
Sin any trade. industry or branch of
commerce il. which there are large
numbers of individuals. and nothing
less than 100 per cent organization
among retailers could hold retail prices
at an abnormal level. The failure OF
even two or three retailers in an en-
tire city to cooperate in such an en-
deavor would automatically nullify the
combination of all the rest, since the
buying public naturally goes where its
money will buy the most and the trade
of any town would gravitate inevitably
into the hands of the merchants who
kept themselves out Of 'entangling al
liances.'
GAS an inevitable result the merchants
in the alliance would be compelled to
meet competition or close their doors
for lack of customers
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Injunction Like a Deed
OF Nero's, Compers Says
Labor Leader, in Holiday Mani
fcsto, Charges Action Of the
Iudges Is Medieval

Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, issued
holiday manifesto yesterday dealing
severely with "wolfish judges" and the
social poison of the injunction and in
dieting Nero for arson.
He traced the progress of humanity
from the reign of Nebuchadnezzar on.
Since Nebuchadnczzars death, he said,
there had been considerable improve
ment, but the injunction still remained.
"The principle that is involved when
judge issues an Injunction" said Mr..
Gompers, "is exactly the same principle
that was involved when king issued
a decree. 1t is almost possible to en-
vision the war chariots, the an-waving
court attendants, the mercenery sol
diery of the ancient courts of medic
val ages.
"The Clayton act told the judges
where to stop, but they have mani
Tested as little regard for the law of
the land as autocrats customarily
manifest.
"There is no uniformity of court
conduct. This proves that the issuance
of an injunction in an industrial dis
pute is a matter of personal prefer
ence with the Judge. If he hates labor,
If he feels and thinks like an autocrat,
if he is irritable, he issues an injunc-
ton. SO it was with Nero. He had a
blue evening and went out and burned
Rome.
Judicial tyrants," he said in conclu-
sion, "shall not destroy that which
freedoms heroes have established"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Harding Creates Board
To Handle u. S. Workers
Federal Employees Will Be
Shifted According to Depart.
ment Needs and Training

WASHINGTON, Dec GA new
semi official commission, to be desig-
mated as the Federal Personnel Board,
has been authorized by President Har-
ding in an executive order on recon-
mendation of Budget Director Charles
G. Dawes, and will have general re-
sponsibility for improving the service
and economy of employment methods in
government departments. Its members
will be officials from the various bu-
reaus and independent establishments,
and it will function under direction of
the Civil Service Commission
The board, the executive order said.
will be expected to formulate policies
and plans for interchanging employees
between one bureau and another when
emergency work requires enlarged
forces, for maintaining a special force
of employees on part time assignments
in different departments, for training
individuals to special fitness for certain
service and for facilitating promo
tions to higher grades for properly
qualified persons. 1t will also be ex-
pected to develop systems of personnel
records and to consider all questions
relating to hours of service. retirement.
leaves of absence and similar detail.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Incoming Steamships
Due To~lay

Vessel. Port Agency
Eastern Leader. Shields. Nov "a
Winchester T. Co
Eastern Sea. Antwerp. Nov "a.
Caribbean 8 8 CO
Lancastrian. Hamburg. Nov 80
Atlantic Gulf K Pacific Co
bacchus Leghorn, Nov rs. Three Star Line
Black Diamond Corp
osakis, Alexandria. Nov 25. Export 8 s Corp
Northwestern Miller. London, Nov. 29.
Furness. Witty & Co
Robin Adair. Seattle. Nov 2s.
Isthmian Line
Brett Izel Bordeaux, Dec a.. French Line
america. Queenstown, Dec Is ~ S Lines
Chinese Prince. Gibraltar. Dec /.
- Furness. Withy q Co
Monterey, Havana, Dec 10
N Y & Cuba Mail s S Co
Quillota. Cristobal, Dec is.
Pacific Steam Navigation Limo
Itella, Trieste, Dec 1........ Cunard Line
Cameronia. Naples. Dec IL. .Cunard Limo
Due Tomorrow
Celtic. Liverpool Dec 10 White Star Line
providence. Marseiles. Dec To-. Fahrc Line
Robin Goodfellow, San Pedro Dec g.
lsthman Line
Fenchwich Marscilies. Nov 80.
James w Elweil & Co
Usage. Los Angeles. Nov 80.
Moore & Mccormick k
calamares. Havana. Dec 22.. Unit Fruit Co
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Dead Robber Charged
With Horton HOld-Up
Porter Says He Saw Bandit
Who Was Slain While Act
inc as E,OOk-OIt

Two employees of the J. NJ. Horton
Ice Cream Company identified at the
morgue yesterday James Bean, the
lookout" who was shot on Thursday
in the hold-up Of the woman rent agent
of the Philips Model Tenements, as the
leader of the band of five men who at
noon on July IL last robbed George
Schneider, cashier for the Horton com
pany, of $4,000 in cash and checks.
The identification was made by
Schneider and Washington La Frazier,
a negro porter who was with him at
the time of the robbery. According to
detectives, the hold-up of the rent
agent was similar in many respects to
that of Schneider.
81 am confident" Schneider said, fol-
lowing his visit to the morgue with de-
tectives, chat did not make mistake
in identifying the man as the one who
held me up. At the time Of the robbery
he was unmasked and had good look
at him."
Five men participated in the hold-up
of the Horton company cashier, which
occurred in front Of the plant at 2O5
East Twenty-fourth Street.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24

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AIabama AmaTinn 9ad az s ,pnsa Jupiter Dec Dec" e.
Algiers 105 n Hatteras Dec 22
Atlanta city POS Ambrose Dec 90.
Balsam LOO 3 Ambrose Dec 90.
Bird city 221 i1' e sand Ambross Msy 5sc Dec %
Borgestad so Cape Henry Dec %.
Galamares CalSn0.ar,s left ls Havana Dec %:
Capuln SAC e Cape Henry Dec ~
Carmania 1,27o Ambrose 10 AM Dec 90
cerro cerro h5uno h5u 90 Sand Key De Dec ss
Chester Sun 1a1 NE Tortugas Dec 2s.
Chester Valley sGA L Deleware Breakwatcr
Dec 22.
City of weatherford ess r. r1atteras Dec %
Occur d Alere 24o e Ambrose Dec 90
Coldwatcr 5S5 K Ambrose Dec 22
Comanchee 1872 Scotland Lv Dec 23.
Consort lat AZ So lon 43 81 Dec 2..
cripple Creek 145 e Hatteras De, 22
Currier 215 SsW Block Island Dec 2s
Dannedaike 70 w Key West Dec 2S
David Mckclvy G7 by N Sand Key
District of Columbia $50 e Bermuda
Duauesne due New York Lee 25.
= K Kemp 4S0 w Nuevitas Dec 23.
eastern Admiral 1,249 Cape Henry
Eastern Planet 1.7ss e Ambrose Dec %.
Easto:n Sea 1876 f Ambrose Dec 90 lin
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Edgar f Luckenbach pd Overfalls s:2o
AM Dec 23
Edgehlll 9s6 + Cape Henry Dec 92.
Evelyn off Alligator Dec 23
FRANKLIN 95 Ambrose Dec 23
G,sorge Barnes AS w Sand Key Dec 20.
Glenridge 275 e Miami Dec 22
Tuitland 80 + Sand Key Dec 90
GI1ulll1sni ~ w p Sand Key Dec %
iiIIeenry - Wilton II Hatteras Dec 49,
nllton 10 Sc Alligator Dec 22
fumaconne $50 e Ambrose Dec ca
Gordon $40 SW Hatteras Dec 90
Lake Fife G2S S Ambrose Dec %.
Lighthurne SO y Hatteras Dec 23.
MaSSlCk
monterey 324 Scotland LV Dec 23,
Mount Evans lat 40 % lon &c IL Dec %.
Munp5see Muskosee 81 80 AmbrGse Aann Dec 2s
Nora 235 " Sand Key Dec q
Lewis * Thurlow w Montaul< Dec Or
Olinda off Key West Dec 90
psskis 1,s't,, $40 y %, r I oy Ambrose Dec %.
Hardness 267. SE Morant Point Doc %
samuel Q Brown 1875 w Sand Key Dec -
Sahaooi Sah Gresorio adI. os SS Hatteras Dec %.
Solitaire 1875 Jupiter Dec 22
storm King 4S5 e Ambrose Dec % (tow-
ing SIS Eastern Sea). '"
Thomas IL Wheeler 6lO NE Hole in Wall
Tomalve off Tortugas PM Dec %.
,u,iraln,sportation II a5 SW Montauk Dec %.
w Z Teag'e due Ambrose $3.50 AM Dec "a
y" est ssl AFRO" 30 $ Baltimore 5 80 PM Dec
William Boyce Thompson S Abaco Dec
Yucatan 215 s Scotland Lv Dec %.
Carlton 122 S South Pass Dec 49,
Camden 45S e San Pedro Dec 2S.
Choluteca 334 South Pass Dec %
cify OF Alameda 40 SW South Pass Dec
CREOLE 81 Sc South rass Dec 2s.
Gulf King 420 NV rortugas Dec "a
Hagood $50 Lobos Dec 23
Hudsen y, So 200 from Bremen Dec 23
! White 4SS W Sand Key Dec 2s
Jeff Davis lso Galveston Dec 2s
Nora 400 E Tampico Dec 80
pennsylyania va a, Ss3 " Sand Key Dec 2s.
Samuel q Brown ass w Sand Kew Dec o.
West cressy islt ~ IA Ion 81 % Dec 2s.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Navy Orders

From The Tribunes Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. Dec. 23.-Navy orders
issued to-day follow:
1ittlefeld. Capt w. TO Atlantic fleet
Benedict, 1t. Y, to U. S. s. Savannah
Dame, 1t c. T., to Charleston.
Deiany. 1t J. H., to Office Navy Op
Navy Dept.
liusted. 1t. c. H. to Boston.
Mcdonald, 1t. d. to q. s. 5. Quail
Price Lit j. D.. to Dayton
Scheidemen. LIT. J. L., to U. S. s. Robins
Anderson. Lit, IL. A. TO des So, Atlantic
Augustine. 1t. G D.. to U. s. s. delaware
curlee. II. II. f.. to Office Navy Op
Drury, 1t. w A, to U SIS. Vega.
Heumiket. 1t C. j.. to r.. s. Vreo.
skou, Lat: S. j., to U. s. S. Procyn
Cashin. Ems. w NJ. to L. S. S. Vega.
Coiweli. Ems: A. r., to U. s. s Arkansas
Fredericks: Ems. j. h., to San Diego.
Higgins. Ems. r. L.. resigned
atitis. Ems. l., w. to U. s.. s. Henderson.
oponoghue q Ems II: j.. to U. S. S. Vega.
Sedgwick. Ems. j. A. to u. S. S North
Tinsley, Ems W. NJ, to L s S. Mississippi.
Iaqe. 1t. c: W. to Philadelphia
Mcponaid' II =. r., to Houston.
bower ii G. s.. to i. S. S. sspuiga'
Brierly. Gun J j.. to Brooklyn.
Isrizzle. Gun. w. H.. to Brooklyn.
Holzl Gun. A. r. to Brooklyn.
sehlaefer. Gun. w. c.. to Marc Island
braun. Mach c.. 10 IT, s. S. Chau,nont
Iesry. Mach, M j., TO u 5 S. widgeon.
Iseeunt Mae:. ', J. to =. $; $. widgeon.
Thrunk. Bosn. j. W. to u. S. i. psi. Malispd.
Honorably discharged--Greene. 1t. J. ..
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Hearing in Oklahoma
Murder Cases Adjourned
One Man Accused in Wilson
Staying Released by Order
of Court

ARDMORE, okla, Dec. 23 (By The As
sociated Press) The preliminary hear
ing, or "examining trial." of six men
charged with murder in connection
with the fatal shooting of three men at
Wilson, Okla, the night of December
IS, was adjourned late to-day until
Tuesday, December 27. John Smith, of
Healdton, one of the men originally
accused in the information, was re-
leased on order of the court late to-
day, after S. P. Freezing, Attorney Cen
eral of Oklahoma, had declared that
there was nothing to indicate partici-
patton by Smith in the affair.
Adjournment came after Attorney
General Freezing had announced in
court that he would seek the incarcera-
tion in Jail of Frank Bourland, a
former Justice of the Peace here, for
refusal to answer questions concerning
the Ku-klux Klan
The triple shooting resulted from the
attempt of crowd of masked men to
tar and feather an alleged moonshiner.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Cleared

Nirgiia tBr), Gibbons; London; Cunard
utS e!1 cunard fosnsrs Co. Liverpool via
=, Flor Flora ,Du), vinken; Cape 1fayti and
s iceland nS a Bp run' homsi Mdfe Antwerp Hq via
Plymouth and Cherboure Red Star Line.
r, General W c Gorgas, Corning; Port au
Argosy Baker; Salaverry via Norfolk
Vessel Duval & Co.
- Alpine Range tBr,, Dagndel; Leith and
Dundee; Eurness, Witty & Co.
Heredia, Thompson; Tela; United Fruit
croxteth Hall (Br), Hannah; Naples and
Pirasus; Norton Lily & Co
Athaulf SGer1, Dreyyer; skoisnar to Bal
Ansaldo V UtaD, Garibaldi; Genoa; Nc
Donnell & Truda.
Northwestern Miller (Br), Young; Lon
and Port Limon United Fruit Co.
Trafalgar (Nor), Peterson; Cienfuegos
and Guayabal via Norfolk; Atlantic Fruit
Altamaha, Kinney; Mobile and Tampa;
Mallory S Co.
Java Arrow. Jonassen Beaumont;
Standard Oil Company.
Philadelphia, Leek; Baltimore; Clyde S
Lake Gilboa. Forrest; Wilmington and
Brunswick; Clyde S S Co
Hover, Jones; Mobile; Walker G. Daily.
Bull &. Co ~ -
Elmac Hudgins; Trinidad. Demerara and
Paramaribo; Clyde Co.
Avara (Braz), Gorilla; Pernambuco and
Bahia; Lloyd Braziliero Line
Orizaba, OKeefe; Nassau and Havana:
n & Cuba Mail s S Co.
independence, Hall, Leerberg Rotter-
dam, Cosmopolitan Shipping Co.
zoppot (Dz), Surken; Port Lobos; Rob
ert l.. Hague.
Eastern Crag. Sanders Bordeaux and
st Nazaire; Cosmopolitan Shipping Co,
~ Montana, Jensen London Atlantic
NJ noboken; peirce; Santos to Boston; :;
Astamahco w. Bjournagaard Blue
fields; Astoria Mahogany Co
Erholm (Nor), Johannessen; Cienfuepos
and Manzanilo; N & Cuba Mail 90
- Orla (Norl, Nilsen Hamburg and
Bremen via Savannah; American Metals
6, Transport Co. 10
w Gsnadisn ana Conqueror (Br), Foy; st John;
S S Co ANeii
y. city city Of Montgomery Hammond; sa-
faraby, Nilsson; Hull. Newcastle and
Lelth; II Winchester & Co
Eastern Coast. Cole; Gothenburg and
Copenhagen; susquehanna s S Corp
smyrna; Export S s Corp
Motor Ship. Daniel NJ Munroe (Br) Mo
Donald; Bisby, J Whitney & Co
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Ford Negotiations Resumed
Secretary Weeks Anxious for
Agreement on Muscle Shoals

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. - Confer
ences were resumed to-day between
War Department officials and j. w.
Worthington and W. B. Mayo, acting
as representatives of Henry Ford in
negotiations for the purchase and
lease of the governments nitrate and
water power project at Muscle Shoals,
Ala.
Major General Beach and Brigadier
General Taylor, chief and assistant
chief of army engineers, and the Ford
engineers met with Secretary Weeks
and, it was understood, gave him ad-
ditional information desired for in
corporation in the letter he is draft
ing in reply to that received from MI
Ford early this week. The Secretary
said he was anxious to obtain the full
views o. both army and civil engineers
relative to construction work on Dams
/ and 2, and hoped that an understands
ing could be reached soon which would
eliminate existing differences in esti-
mated cost
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Duc Monday

SaIthania. southampton, Doc II.
Ia =. lorraine, rIavrc Dec IL. French Limo
N'eo" Amsterdam Rotterdam. Dec H..
Mount Clinton, lamsSrE Sl,s"a Dec SmSt'ca s Limo
United American Lines
SarH IserH santos, Dec 2. Moore & Mccormick
.,nn,aueipnta- Curacao Dec II. Red Line
1u,aha. st Thomas, Dec 90
Anna. Guayaauil. Dec ii Caribbean s S Co
san Lorenzo. San Juan Dec 20.
& Porto Rico Line
Due Tuesday
Olympic. Southampton, Dec 81
Mexico. Havana. Dec 2s. ''''' ~
N & Cuba Mail S 8 Co
Duo Wednesday
N Dollar. Mavseilcs. Dec 49,. Dollar Line
Ninde!ia, London, Dec f4..... Cunnrd Limo
iperia- Valencia, Dec 9..Jas w Elwell s Co
IA Luokenbach Los Angeles. Dec 10.
Luckenbach Limo
Lampasas. Galveston. Dec FL. Mallory Line
Siboney, Havana. Dec 24......Ward Limo
Due Thursday
Mcssha, London. Dec l7..Atl Trans Line
,Oxonian Avonmouth. Dec l7.......l NJ NJ
IoNan. Los Angeles. Dec D.... Unit Am Lines
Ailianca Colon, Dec 23.. Panama RR S S Co
Fort st George, Bermuda, Dee 81.
Furncss. Witty & Co
Tivivcs. Kingston. Dec "a. United Fruit Co
Due Friday
Dante Alighicri Palermo, Dec is
Mcdonnell & Truda
Araguaya, Southampton. Dec 10,
Royal Mail Steam Packet
Bantry, liverpool. Dec 16. Daniel Bacon
Cape Henry, San Francisco. Dec T.
Atlantic Gulf & Pacific s s Co
Choctaw, Cienfuegos. Nov "a Ward Line
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Bronx Druggist Tied to
Radiator bY Bandit Pair

Abraham Alderman, a druggist, of
1865 Webster Avenue, the Bronx, was
about to close his store at that address
shortly before midnight when three
armed bandits entered and, drawing re-
volvers, forced him into the rear room.
Two of the men tied the druggist in
chair while the third went to the cash
drawer and took $500 in cash. After
tying Alderman to the chair the men
tied the chair to radiator. Then they
took his gold watch. When the drug
gist protested, one of the men is al
legged to have struck him over the head
with the butt of his revolver. He sus-
tanned laceration of the scalp.
Ackermans description of the three
to the police says that they were young
men, all under thirty years of age.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Passenger Ships Due

Celtic (Br). Liverpool. Dec II for N Y;
to White Star Line with pass, mails and
lndse; was reported 12o5 miles east of
ambrose at 10 m yesterday, and is ex-
pected IN Quarantine IN Monday Yes
sci VIII dock late Monday or early Tuesday.
Calabria (Br). Glasgow Dec 90 for N Y;
mdse is expected to dock at Pier So N n
about Jan g.
San Lorenzo, San Juan Dec 21 for n Y:
mails and mdse: is expected to dock at
Pier rs, Bklyn, Monday a IN.
America. Queenstown Dec IS for N Y; to
u Lines with pass, mails and mdse is
expected to dock about 1880 m today
at Pier !. Hobolsen
Quillota tBr). Colon Dec is for Y.
to Pacific Mail Line with pass. mails and
mdse is expected to dock about 10 a m
to-day at Pier 40, r.
Fort Victoria tBr), Bermuda Dec 22:
TO Furress bermuda Line with pass. mails
and& mdse is expected to dock about 1
m to-day at Pier 95. n r.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Maritime Miscellany

81 San N sh;If hF;RAHNcIsco, HN, Pee 2a-Pacidc Mail
from w r Grace & Co. VIII be used wit h
DoIompia' Venezuela and Ecuador in San
francisco Baltimore passenger and freirht
service. '' i''
Suden Christensen appointed general
racine Coast agents for Crowell Thurlow
Line' successors to micronesia Seacarriers'
Line Additional steamers to be used to 4
now IN intcrcoastal service between New
YORK, Boston, Philadelphia Baltimore and
Pacific ports. ~
Edward Fox, assistant district operating
manager Shipping Board appointed dis.
trict operating manager, succeeding VIII
liam kincaid, resigned
Bratsburg (Nor) and Unita (Nor) char
tered for one year for trans Pacific trade:
rate, s1.2o deadweight ton per month; T.;
charterer reported to be Dante & Rus
SELL Portland, Ore.
New European service from Pacific Goa st
to be started by Den Norke Ruslandsliin:
motorship Tosca. now on general berth
at Antwerp. to be first vessel,
PORT TOWNSEND, Dec 23-Yoko Maru
tJap), before reported, proceeded for Kobe
I'D after correcting list.
y, SEATTLE, Dec 2S--Cordova. recently in
Hawaiian trade, to be returned to Puget
Sound Alaska service
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Daugherty Is Hiding
Sins of Beef Trust
Meat Union Charges
Inquiry on Retail Prices a
Smoke Screen for Packer
Profiteers, Strikers De-
clare in Letter to Him

Sharp criticism of Attorney Cen
eral Daugherty because of his failure
to investigate the "Big Five" packers
on charges submitted to him by their
striking employees, to the eject that
they are violating the Sherman law by
limiting slaughtering in New York and
Jersey City and maintaining profteer-
ing prices, is contained in letter sent
the Attorney General yesterday by the
union leaders.
Mr.. Daugherty's announcement that
he would investigate retail prices Of
necessities, made yesterday morning,
is termed "a smoke screen to cover up
the sins of the beef trust" and his
department is accused of "friendly in
activity" in connection with the union
request that he act against the packers.
The letter, which bears the sigma
ture of John J. Walsh, chairman, and
julius Pfeiffer, secretary of District
Council No. 2, of the Amalgamated As
sociation of Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen, says in part:
"We urged you to institute an i'm
mediate investigation and prosecution
and offered to lay before you all the
facts in our possession. We have re-
cclVed 10 daJe not even an ackHoWleue- =
ment of our letter. Instead, we read
in this mornings newspapers that you
have publicly charged the retail mer-
chants of the country with the guilt
of high food prices, and have ordered
Chief Burns to investigate the inoui-
ties of small shopkeepers.
Coming at a time when the entire
nation is aroused over the attempts
of the packing interests to smash col
lcctive bargaining and make the public
pay the bill in profteering meat prices,
your attack on the retailers looks like
smoke screen to cover up the sins
of the beef trust and the friendly in
activity of your department.
''If action is not taken by the De-
partment Of Justice we shall be com
peeled to conclude that justice is not
TO be obtained in this country through
the duly constituted authority of gov
ernment"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-24
Ship Builders
Will Get Only
Indirect Help
Subsidy Plans Include No
Cash Payments for u. S.
Shipyards; Will Benefit
by Merchant Marine Aid
Plan Construction Loans
Government Assistance TO
Be Confined to Vessels
Built in United States

American shipbuilding is expected
to benefit from the prosperity Of the
merchant marine and will receive no
direct assistance from the government
under the subsidy plans, which are now
under consideration in Washington, ac-
cording to information in shipping cir
cles yesterday. Indirect aid however,
will be substantial. and will include
construction ioan funds, as provided
in the present Jones law, at low rates
of interest. AS further help, the
advantages enjoyed by American owned
vessels will be confined to tonnage
built in United States yards in the fu-
ture, though provisions OF the subsidy
probably will be extended to all ship
ping now under the Stars and Stripes,
regardless OF the country of origin.
The shipbuilders themselves are not
pressing for direct delay, and hold the
view that if the merchant marine is
prosperous this will react to the ad-
tage OF the shipyards. They are insis-
tent that American built tonnage shall
have preference.
AS matter of national policy, the
shipbuilders recently have protested
against the pracrlce of the Shipping
Beard and other government Depart
ments in giving repair work to navy
Yards, and have said that all possible
work should be thrown open to private
plants on competitive bids The naval
limitation program adopted at the arms
conference has been a severe blow to
the business of the shipyards, which
now are relying upon the development
q merchant shipping to prevent their
elimination.
One reason for the lack of proposals
for aid to the shipyards, one steamship
man said yesterday, was the fact that
the cost of construction in the United
States now was practically a. low as
abroad, with the exception of German
plants, and that this former handicap
on American shipping probably would
not come into play for some years.
According to information yesterday,
the estimate of shipping companies
that at least 5000000G a year would
be necessary to Offset higher costs
ander the United States flag would be
met by recommendation to Congress
tlat not more than S25,000,o00 in cash
would be needed, and that the rest
would be made up by indirect subsi-
dies The latter include preferential
railroad rates, special mail arrange
nents and revision of navigation rules.