The New York herald., 1922-10-10
Plan CHEAPER RATE
ON NON-LIQUOR ships
Operators Fear Otherwise
Foreign Vessels Will
Get Traffic.
BEGIN REMOVING RUM
Officers Seize Four Cases of
Contraband on Shipping
Board Vessel.
THREE CANCEL PASSAGE
Travellers Tell U. S. Line They
VIII Sail on British
Steamer.
THREE CANCEL PASSAGE

In compliance with the decree OF
Attorney General Daugherty that
Anglican ships shall be barred from
carrying liquor on the high seas YES
sells of the United States Lines will
sail hereafter without even so much as
a pirt of whisky for medicinal pur-
poses. Thomas H. Rossbottom, gen.
eral -managcr, said yesterday.
The liquor stocks of this line, it is
understood, will be turned over TO the
customs department.
Local agents of foreign steamship
lines declined yesterday TO comment
regarding the Attorney y-General's rul-
ing. They are awaiting presentation
OF the ruling to the officials of their
various companies, it was declared.
None of them would discuss the
probability OF divcrting their vessels
from their courses to take on and dis
charge liquor carGoes at nearby for
eign ports.
Assuming that American commerce
will suffer a serious setback by the
ruling the suggestion was made yester-
day in responsible shipping quarters
that operators of American passenger
ship lines might apply for a rate diff
ferential, based on their inability to
serve liquor, whereas, it is believed,
their foreign competitors will continue
10 do so. Passenger fares on the At
lantic are rgidly controlled by the
North Atlantic Conference, composed OF
American and foreign lines, and the
proposed rate cut for non-liquor carry
ing American vessels necessarily would
have to be sanctioned by the conference.
I the suggestion for the rate differential
be -made it is certain to preciptate a
serious rate war, said officials of sew
Grad lines. They declined to admit, how
ever, that definite plans are being
made for application of a differential.
Seize Four Cases of Rum.
That travel on American ships will be
cut down by the ruling was emphasized
yesterday when three persons Cancelled
passage booked on the President Polk,
a Shipping Board vessel due to sail to-
morrow for Plymouth, Cherbourg and
-s.ondon. They avowed they would not
cross the Atlantic ION a dry ship, but
will book passage on British vessel >
The first instance Of liquor being re-
moved from a United States Shfppfnr
Board vessel since Attorney General
Daugherty made the ruling occurred
Yesterday when the freighter Winona.
in service for the Export Steamship
Company of 20 Broadway. docked at the
Java street pier, Brooklyn. IL was
boarded by dry agents, who seized four
cases of liquor. Officers Of the vessel
disclaimed ownership of the liquor. ex-
planning that it probably was brought
aboard by some of the 1000 refugees
recently transported by the craft from
Smyrna when the Near East city was
destroyed by Turkish fire.
IT, II. Raymond. president OF the
American Shipowners Association. spent
yesterday in Washington. While other
officials of the same organization Sde-
clined to admit that his visit to the
capital had anything to do with the
ruling of Mr.. Daugherty II was hinted
that efforts might be made by the asso-
citation to have Congress define the in