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p. S. May Bar
All Western
Union Cables
f>tate Department Hints
Government Is Consider?
ing Withdrawal of Per?
mits Because of Dispute
?Discrimination Is Charged
asserted America Will Not
Pay Twice the Rate for
Messages Asked of Britain
F-om The Tribun?'* Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.?The State
?Department to-day issued a statement
regarding its differences with the West
Fclegraph Company which
the government is consid
tl'.? question of vithdrawing the
rnpts under which the com
?7oa its cables.
Th< .;ute was brought to a head
fry the announcement of the Western
jUnion c impany that it would not han
dl government cable messages except
?upon prepayment of charges or carry
messages originating outside of the
X.'niied States at reduced government
rates.
"It has been the uniform policy of
the government to allow the landing
cf cables only on condition that the
government of the United States shall
|[l>e entitled to exercise ..nd to enjoy the I
| saine privileges with .egard to the con
I trol and use of such linea as are exer
jcised and enjoyed by foreign govern
5 jnents," the State Department state
tfcuent reads. It continues:
i Discrimination Charged
J "Obviously the United States could I
i not be expected to allow the Western!
i Union company, an American corpora?
tion, to charge for its messages twice,
1 %h*> rate charged, for instance, the!
J British government; nor to accede to!
* requirement that the ordinary prac
ftice of business with respect to perodi- j
Seal settlement of accounts, which is
?* the only practical way for, the govern-"!
ment to settle accounts of the charac?
ter in question, shall be set aside in]
5 dealings with our government."
i The statement takes up the history1
J ef the dispute regarding payment on
2 cable messages. It says that the dif?
ferences arose over the insistence bi?
l? the department that it be uccorded
? government rates, which is considered,;
j itself entitled to.
At the last session of Congress the
j Slate Department had introduced a bil? i
(providing for dealing with the unau-;
J thorized landing of cables and for in- j
e junction against their operation where
lit was shown the companies were not
(complying with the terms of the land-]
l.ir.g permits. The bill, however, never;
| went further than committee.
Regulated by the President
In regard tt? this, however, the state
j ment says'
"The legal principle^;controlling the
j landing and regulation of cables in the
?(United State?f are well established. In
?the absence of Congressional legisla?
tion these, matters are regulated by
? ?he Executive by virtue of his author
i'jty with iespect to the conduct of re-?
| lations with foreign countries. The'
? Executive may prevent the landing of
a cable or permit it on conditions
i.which will protect the Interesta of the
j United States; and if a landing has
j been mad?? without the consent of the
j government the operation of the line ;
?'may be prevented."
I The statement adds:
| "The department has In a concilla- i
? tory spirit, made clear its willingness
? to make j ?ompt payment of any funds
! due to the company, on receipt of as
I surances as to a reasonably prompt
j payment of the funds due by the com
( pany to the department; and it has
1 similarly signified its readiness to
? render all possible assistance and make
> all proper concessions with a view of
? facilitating tb.e adjustment of accounts
> ?relating to refunds due to the depart
! ment and of minimizing the expense
? incident thereto."
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: Albert Vertchamp, Violinist,
Reappears in Recital in City
Albert Vertchamp, violinist, who ap?
peared in this city las tseason. wasi
i heard again in recital last night at
! Carnegie Hall. His program was of
j conventional mold: the Tartinl G minor
i ?sonata, Sinding suite in A minor, and
? two groups of more or less familiar
? short numbers. Mr. Vertchamp is of
! that somewhat numerous company of
! aspirants for public recognition whose
i gifts, good taste and earnestness en
| Title thera to a respectful hearing, but
{ who can make little claim to pre
i eminence. He has a firm and pleasing
[ tone, a not always accurate left hand,
t but a sufficiently agile bow arm. He
| has not attained breadth or brilliance
S ?f style. His best playing was in the
| first movement of the sonata, a Chopin
j notenre, and an Old French gavotte,
i which was charmingly done.
U. S. Expenditures Drop
$1,230^000,000 in Oct.
| Bulk of Decrease front Sep?
tember Consists of Reduced
Payments On Public Debt
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.?Govern?
mental expenditures for October fell
tff by nearly $1,230,000,000 as compared
with September, according to the
monthly statement issued to-night by
the Treasury. Disbursements for the
month totalled $714,442,000, against
$1,944,003,527 in September.
Expenditures for October were di?
vided into ordinary* disbursements of
$426.407,872, compared with $495,776,
054 in September r.nd payments on the
, | ublie debt amounting to $187,945,288,
I as against $1,?147,316,873 for September.
Interest on iho public debt antount
I in? to $114,27*946 was tho largest of
?;he ordinary expenditures for the
month, with $70.466,67|5 disbursed to j
*he railroads standing second.
The use of $269,494,500 for the re- !
j demption of certificates of indebted- '
j ness was the largest item of the pay- !
I ments of the public debt.
I Man Who Stole Fatal
Wood Alcohol Convicted
[Undertaker Figured in Deal for
Fluid Tbat Caused 100
Deaths Last Winter
John Romanelli was convicted yester?
day of grand larceny in the Supreme j
Courtj Brooklyn, for stealing the wood :
alcohol which made its appearance in i
New England in the guise of whisky at
Christmas time last year, causing more |
than 100 deaths. Romanelli insisted j
.in his testimony that he did not know I
whnt the '>!(? h"l was to be used for. j
He had agreed with Cosimo d'Am- j
brosio, of 462 Carroll Street. Brooklyn, {
he said, to seil thc alcohol. For his1
part in tho deal, he said, he received ?
$2,000, which he used to pay a mort?
gage on his home.
"D'Ambrosio would not tell me where
the stuff was or who had it." said Rn
manelli. "Finally I asked him one day
if it was all straight and if he was sure
there was nothing crooked about it. He
replied: 'It is all straight. Ask me no
more about it.' "
"Didn't you know," demanded Assist?
ant District Attorney Warbasse, "that
this alcohol was going to be made into
some kind of beverage in violation of
the prohibition laws.'''
"I didn't know what it was going to
be used tor." replied Romanelli. "I
hadn't I he a ightest idea."
The jury found hiin guilty of grand
larceny in the first decree after de
l?b?rating for an hour. Romanelli is
an undertaker and lives at 271 Third
Aveue, Brooklyn. He will be sen?
tenced Monday.
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Four B. R. T. Strikers
Admit Killing Passenger
Plead Guillv to Manslaughter,
'Escaping Murder ("barge Now
Facing Five Others
Four of the nine striking employees
o? the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com- j
pany accused of stoning a Sea Beach
train .on the night of August 31, caus- j
ing the death of Frederick Friedman, a
passenger, seventeen years old, of 211
Sixty-fourth Street, Brooklyn, pleaded
guilty yesterday to manslaughter in
the first degree, when arraigned before :
Supreme Court Justice Cropsey. The
| nine men had been indicted for murdorj
1 in the first degree and the date for1
their trial had been set for to-day.
Justice Cropsey remanded the four
prisoners to Raymond Street Jail for j
sentence Monday, and changed the date
of trial for the remaining five to Fri?
day.
Those who pleaded guilty are James
L. del Papiai, twenty-five years old, of
1202 Sixtieth Street; Michael Collucio,
twenty-three, of 1"30 Sixty-fourth
Street; Amilo Spraceo. twenty-four, of
1452 Fifty-sixth Street, and Simon
Cohen, twenty, of 28114 West Thirty
second Street, all> of Brooklyn.
The men originally were indicted on ,
two counts. The first alleged that they
willfully and feloniously struck and
killed Friedman. The second alleged
that, while they were engaged in th??
stoning of a railway train in opera?
tion, they caused the death of Fried?
man. John W. Fairbanks, the motor
man of the stoned train, was seriously
injured, and for a time it was thought
he would die.
After pleading guilty Spraceo said
; he had Bcrvod ninety days in the work
! house on one occasion, but had forgot?
ten for what cause. He had been a
! guard, he said, on the B. R. T. for two
? years. He wept as lie testified.
Collucio said he had been indicted
??before, and had served twenty-five days
j in jail for carrying a revolver.
?Chicago Opera Association
Opens Its Tenth Season
| CHICAGO, Nov. 17.?The tenth sea
i son of the Chicago Opera Association
: opened to-night with the American
premi?re o? "Jacquerie." The opening
night presented Gino Marlnuzzi in the
| triple capacity of composer, conductor
; and artistic manager of the Chicago
; Opera Company. His opera deals with
1 the uprising of French peasants which
j took place in the fourteenth century.
| The cast included Edward Johnson,
Yvonne Gall, Carlo Galeffl, Virgilio
i Lazzari, Vittorio Trevisan, Lodovico
Olivier??, Desire Defrere, Olga Carrara,
Carl Bitterl and Satlustro Civai.
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Shipping Board
Lost 2 Billion
In Fleet Sale
(Conttnuod from pago one)
I chairman of the Shipping Hoard, in ?
August, 1919, the witness said, intro?
duced a new system providing for
weekly statements showing the finan?
cial obligations to the board of its 176
operators. Nine hundrea men were
I put to work to straighten out bank ac
! counts to make the introduction of this
system possiblo, Mr. Gillcn said.
Where Was the Treasurer?
"Where was the treasurer of the
Shipping Board during the two years !
of operation to which you refer?"
asked Representative Kelly.
To this question Mr. Gillen made the
following reply:
"Up to the entrance of Judge Payne
intu the Snipping Board the treasurer'
exercised virtually no control over?
funds. The comptroller of the Ship?
ping Board and the comptroller of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation ran their
respective d.visions without knowledge
of the treasurer, with tue funds run-,
ning into hundreds of millions of dol- |
Iars.
"On July 1, 1919, Congress passed a
law requiring the Comptroller of the ;
Treasury of the Uiiite?! States to audit ?
the funds of the Shipping Board and of !
the United States Fleet Corporation.!
On August 1, 1919, Mr. Tweedale was:
m..de treasurer of the Fleet Corpora?
tion, and up to that time the law had
not b1--'*'" complied with. Mr. Tweedalo
started to get up his records cou?"
ageously and efficiently. In October,
1919, he filed two months' accounts of
the Shipping Board under the law, for
the months of July and August, 1918,
and every month thereafter he filed an
additional two months' account. The
board is still sixteen months behind in
its accounts."
Mr. Tweedale then quoted the figures
in connection with the vouchers sub- j
mitt.ed to Comptroller Warrick.
Mr. Twecdale said that Judge Payne |
established one comptroller's office for j
both the Shipping Board and the Fleet j
Corporation and placed Mr. Tweedale ?
in full authority of all funds, and since !
then there has been a distinct and ;
.systematic effort under way to j
straighten out accounts. This work i
however, has been seriously impeded !
because of the necessity of sending out ?
agents int?.- the field- to examine the
hooks of yards, opeiators and banks,
in order that the beard might obtain :
a basis fit settlements.
In sumiring up his testimony, Mr.!
Gillen sai 1 that the basic trouble in ?
the administration of the Shipping ;
Board and the Fleet Corporation was
that the government did not get nun
big enough to handle the finances and
establish ,*. proper system of account- :
ing. The government had taken Charles i
M. Schwab to construct ships. He got ;
contracts and pushed them. It had i
ti-ken P. A. S. Franklin to direct the i
operation cf the program.
Does Not Charge Fraud
"But no man with the accounting
ability to take care of the operations j
had been found," said Mr. Gillen. "*,?
the government had gone to Judge
Gary, for example, and told him it
wanted his very best comptroller, a
?nan with the ability and experience
necessary for its work would have been
found."
As it wan, Mr. Gillen added, the gov?
ernment permitted a business twice the
size of the Steel Corporation to be run
in an impractical ar?d chaotic manner.
The witness emphasised that be did
not charge fraud against any officials
of the Shipping Board, and went so far I
as to say that in his opinion most '
American contractors and operators
dealing with the government did not'
attempt to defraud the government, but
that they themselves were frequently
the victims of the lack of system.
Mr. Gillen summarized his testimony
by saying his main criticism was
that proper men for proper jobs will ?
m ver be obtained until the Senate
?-.hares equally in the responsibility of!
their appointment und does not make
confirmation of appointments in the
perfunctory manner in which it is made
in many cases.
Congressman Kelly asked Mr. Gillen
whether appointments to the Shipping
Board prior to that' of Judge Payne
might not have been made among men
? i" higher caliber. Mr. Gillen refused
to commit himself on that point.
"That isn't a fair question, Mr.
Kelly," he said. "I receded my ap- j
pointment from the President, and I !
am an honorable gentleman and, what's !
riore, I am a Republican."
Entering upon a detailed explanation
of the lax methods of accounting in
vogue Mr. Gillen said that in its con
?
struction work the Fleet Corporation
had to take care of and disburse the
irum of $3,204,000,000. It was neces?
sary to have accounts of cash loans to
shipbuilders and of moneys paid ?to
ship owners on requisitioned vessels,
of which there wore 451.
Separate accounts for labor and ma?
terials should also have been intro?
duced, he said, and books should also
nave been opened on such operations as
that at Hog Island, Philadelphia.
Meanwhile, in Washington, contracts
were being entered into, while at Phil?
adelphia an enormous construction pro?
gram was going on. Mr. Gillen said
that the board had no men to devise
:> simple method of accounting for all
these operations. In addition, he testi?
fied, it opened booksin the thirteen
construction districts 'with no central
accounting clearing house. The defects
of this lack of system, he said, became
apparent when contractors and operat?
ors began presenting claims for set?
tlement. Judge Payne, rn assuming
office, the witness saitl, called attention
to the large number of claims on ships
trat had been taken over, but on which
'here were no records to base settle?
ments.
? Scores of Millions Lost
Those ships which had been requi?
sitioned at sea upon the entrance of
the United States into the war, the w:t
ness said, were not subjected to in?
ventory until months nfter they had
been in operation, with the result that
many claims had to be made on the
basis of the operator's word. In set?
tling such claims overpoyment of scores
of millions of dollars were made, until
all claims were stopped and subjected
to settlement on the basis of negotia?
tion, he testified.
Mr. Gillen expla:ned that in order to
curtail the chaos in claim settlements
Joseph Cotton, a member of the board,
and Rear Admiral Washington L.
Capps, general manager of the Fleet
Corporation, laid down a rule limiting
the government's liabilities in the cases
of requisitioned ships. Th's rule, he
said, saved the government $150,000,
000. He said the requisition program
called for an expend ture of $800,000,
000, and that the construction division
bad no records of inventories in the
vards and no record of payments made
by owners for labor, etc.
One of the claims settled without
eny scientific and correct basis for
such settlement, Mr. Gillen said, was
that of a Norwegian company. On
this the government paid $34,500,000,
There was considerable talk about the
Shipping Board, at that time, that the
claim could hove been settled for 8
much smaller sum. Auditors were sent
to Norway to make an investigation
and, under the application of the Cot?
ton rule, Mr. Gillen said, it was dis?
covered that the government had over?
paid to the Norwegian contractors
$2:1,000,000.
As a specific instance, Mr. Gillen
mentioned the oil tanker William Jef?
ferson, which was under construction
at the Union Iron Works. When taken
over this ship was about 93 per cent
complete. Tha owner of the William
Jefferson had contracted to pay
$1,035,000. He had paid on account
$672,000 and in the final settlement
received $2,570,000, the witness said
or more than double his contract price
Mr. Gillen added that the government
paid over $300,000 additional to com?
plete the ship.
Violated Cotton Rnle
The. trouble with this settlement, Mr
Gillen said, was that it was made ir
Washington and in violation of the
Cotton rule without the knowledge o1
the Fleet Corporation and in total dis?
regard of the absence of yard data.
Another settlement made with ?
Christiania group of Norwegian ship
ping men, Mr. Gillen said, was on i
claim to the amount of $42,000,000
This was ultimately scaled down t?
$34,000,000. The sum that should hav?
been paid, it developed Jater, the wit
ncss said, was $11,000,000. He calle?
the method of settlement in this cas?
horse-trading.
Mr. Gillen said that contracts wer<
gambled on in Norway and illustrate?
it as follows:
Suppose a contractor had a contrac
culling for ?lfiO a deadweight ton
Pending the settlement he sold it fo
SI72 a deadweight ton. This proc?s
of driving up the figures would con
tinue until, in some cases, the las
holder of the contract would put ii
a claim for $320 a deadweight tor
These figures, Mr. Gillen said, wer
obtained by putting auditors on th
contractors' books.
In the settlement of the claim of th
Mitaui Company, a Japanese coneerr
for ships commandeered at the yard
of the Skinner &. Eddy Corporation, a
Seattle, Mr. Gillen testified, the gov
eminent also paid profiteer prices. Be
cause the Japanese company had con
tracted at a price of $285 a deadweigh
ton, he said, it was permitted to pas
that figure on for settlement to th
Shipping Board.
?Sir. Gillen mentioned a third Not
wegian grouD of ship owners whic
presented a claim for fifteen steam?
ships commandeered by the United
States. The claim amounted to $14,
157,000. By the application of the Cot?
ton rule this claim was scaled down to
$2,506,387. The Norwegians refused to
accept, this sum, and appealed to the
State Department. The State Depart?
ment upheld the Shipping Board.
In the case of several French claim?
ants, who had turned over twenty-nine
ships to the Shipping Board, a bill of
$60,000,000 was presented. The French?
men were allowed $7,677,179. The
Stato Department was appealed to, but
upheld the Shipping Board. Since then
the Frenchmen have accepted $3,000,
000 as part payment, but still persist
in fighting the award.
Italian claimants asked $3,000,000 for
two ships and were awarded $700,000.
In this case the State Department also
refused to change the award.
Pusey & Jones Case
Describing what he called the famous
Pusey ?St Jones case, Mr. Gillen went
into details in narrating the alleged
method whereby the Shipping Boarii
took over contracts to the value of
$94,000,000, placed by the Canard Com?
pany in this country for the British
government prior to the entrance of
the United States into the war.
These contracts, he said,, were let to
the Pusey & Jones Company through
Christian Hennevig, who is said to
have been the sole stockholder of the
; Pusey & Jones Company and its aev
: eral subsidiaries. He had been ad?
vanced $3,000,000 by the Cunard Com?
pany before the contracts were turned
'? over to the Shipping, Board, and at the
time of settlement the board proceeded
to deduct this sum from its allowance
to Hennevig. The allowance made by
the board was for $7,107,000. Accord?
ing to Mr. Gillen, Hennevig tried to
collect a profit, not only on the work
of the Pusey & Jones Company, but
also on contracts of the subsidiary
concerns to which parts of the con?
tracts had been sublet. Ho was foiled
in this attempt by Judge Payne, act?
ing under the cotton rule, Mr. Gillen
declared.
:Mr. Gillen said that Robert A. Dean,
attorney in charge in negotiation of
settlements, was a man who iacked re
sistance. He said he had the highest
commendation for Mr. Dean's honesty
and that he knew him to be a hard and
conscientious worker. But, r.eveithe
les8, Mr. Gillen said, he lacked resist?
ance in dealing with claimants. The
claimant, he said, had all the nerve
possible in pressing his points and was
able to get the better of Mr. Dean be?
cause the latter lacked intimate knowl?
edge of the contract terms and the law
governing respective cases. This was
before Judge Payne took charge and
the Cotton rule was enforced. Since
the application of the Cotton rule, Mr.
Gillen said, all points in doubt are in?
terpreted in favor of the government.
Mr. Gillen also testified that for two
years following the organization of the
Shipping Board, owners of ships com?
mandeered by the United States in
?917 were permitted profits far
;p excess of what was permitted other
industries. He said that ships, regard?
less of age and depreciation of original
value, were taken over on a basic con
fact of rental value of 15 cents a dead
weight ton a month. In addition, an
allowance for profit, interest on in?
vestment and depreciation was given,
based on war time earning value o?
S175 a deadweight ton, instead of the
normal $75. This, he said, allowed the
owners to make a profit of 57^ pe?
cent.
Mr. Gillen said that ships thirty
years old made these profits on con?
tracts with the Shipping Board. It was
in compuring these figures with what
Great Britain allowed that he made the
point that American owners received
230 per cent more than did British own?
ers for their ships. The British figures
he said, were established in 1914, on
the basis of pre-war valuation and con
t'nued throughout the war. The Ship?
ping Board, he said, fixed its rates on
the basis of valuation existing in 1917,
which was $100 above the 1914 figure.
Mr. Gillen said he knew of one ship
bought by a New York firm for $200 ?
000 on which alterations of $475,00C
were made and which earned more than
$600,000 in six months.
"This ship was later sunk by a sub?
marine," the witness said, "and th?;
government paid the Insurance.''
Must Accept Losses
Questioned by Congressman Steel or
the matter of the disposition of ship:
now owned or controlled by the board
Mr. Gillen said that the government
should sell its ships at market price;
and that, despite the fact that m
profits have been made in the operatioi
of government ships, the govorr.men
would have to go on operating those i
cannot sell. He added, however, tha
under the present valuation of tonnag?
it is impossible for this country U
operate an efficient merchant marine
He said the price should be cut $12!
a deadweight ton and, by establishin?.
a fair value for tonnage there wo?il<
be created a sound investment market
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Fiuir=TrSmmed Ta51or=mades
?au iuiltra=faslh5onable models and materials
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in the Salon of the Spec Sal Costumes Department
on the Third Floor
for shipping organizations. The pro3- i
ent rates, he said, were not fixed by
the Shipping Board, but by Congre::*.
"The American people fail to real-1
ize," said Mr. Gillen. "that they have i
amortized more than $2,000,000,000 of j
' the value of these ships built as a war j
emergency, when a bridge of ships was
I demanded. A los3 must be accepted, ?
? due to the emergency under which they,
! were built, the same as it is for unused j
\ powder."
The market for ?hips to-day, said the
witness, is not. what it was last De?
cember, due to economic conditions.
At that time if the ships could have
been sold at a fair price between 300
and 600 of them would have been ab- ,
sorbed by the American market.
"Uncle Sam must bravely meet the
conditions," concluded Mr. Gillen, "and
sell his ships at market prices, the
same as Secretary Houston is advising
Americans to do with other commodi- ,
ties."
Mr. Gillen will resume the stand
this morning.
New Shipping Board
Takes Up Work Dec. 1
From The Tribune's Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. Nov. 17.?The new
Shipping Board will organize on De- ;
cembcr 1, Admiral W. S. Benson, who '
has been reappointed chairman, an- ;
nounccd to-day.
Admiral Benson has sent word to the
five members requesting them to meet
on that day. He received word to-day
that the Pacific Coast members?Ches?
ter II. Powell, of San Francisco, and
Joseph N. Teal, of Portiand, Ore.?wi.l
arrive in Washington before the end I
of November. The other new members,
Charles Sutter, of St. Louis; Guy D.
Goff, of Wisconsin, and Frederick I. '.
Thompson, of Mobile, Ala.? are in '
Washington. The seventh member -
John A. Donald, of New York?-is now
serving with Admiral Benson as a mem?
ber of the holdover board.
The new board will prepare to func
tion at its first meeting. The first ques?
tion that will come up is that of allocat?
ing the work among the seven mem- ;
bers, delegating to each supervision of
a special phase of the work.
The first general task, Admiral Bon
son said, is to determine- upon policie ;.
The board will go over the policies an-,
r.ounoed by Admiral Benson since th?v
passage of the Jones shipping act and
decide whether there shall be any I
change.
Wonld Enforce Jones Law
"The Jones act will be taken up in
detail by the new board as one of its
first tasks, to see that nil its provi?
sions are looked into and to prepare for
steps to carry them out," si.id Admira.
Benson. i
The enforcement of section 28, which
piovides for preferential rates on rail
water shipments, and which is now sus?
pended until January 1, and other sec?
tions of the act whieh are not being
enforced at the present time will be
among the first problems the board
will take up, the chairman said.
The new board plans to make recom
mrndations to Congress, with a view
to securing new legislation co help
American shipping, Admiral Benson as?
serted.
"There will be a general discussion
cf the whole shipping situation," said
the chairman, "and the board will de?
termine upon suggestions it might
want to make to Congress for the ben?
efit of the shipping of the country."
Among the plans for . legislation
which Admiral Benson will urge is the
establishment of free zones at the prin- j
cipal American ports to facilitate the
entry of cargoes, and especially their ;
rechipment, without the necessity for ;
immediate customs inspection and stor- !
age in bonded warehouses. Delega- ;
tions of business men from Norfolk
find other points appeared before Con?
gress last session and urged legisla?
tion creating such zones.
Admiral Benson said the proposed
agreement between the United States
Mail Steamship Company and the North
German Lloyd Line will be placed be
fore the new board for its approval.
1 he.re is a provision in the proposed ;
contract that requires its approval by
the board before it can become effective.
The agreement between the Harriman
Company
Line may not be submitted for
proval,
Benson
the chairman
has given the
'?aid.
Adafij
personal approval, but the fu'i v li"
is not required to act on it unl*,?^1
harnman company-asks to hav* 5v
I ?ng Board vessels allocated to it *"
Erskine Wood, admiralty coUBL >
the board, resigned to-dav ?#!\Iir
November 30. &> succe??,? h? ?r<
appointed either to him or to Mr r "
v. ho is retiring as general c-- ' -
become a member of the
Admiral Benson said
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?Wjr bo?r?.
?amiral r-onson sai'J that Mr r ?
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