Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-03-17 | Page 19 | Passenger Vessels May Carry Freight

PASSENGER VESSElS I I MAY CARRY fREIGHT Service By Int International News WASHINGTON OTON March IB Requisition steamships steamships steam steam- tion lion of or great lake passenger IH j ships for lor conversion to freight ht servIce sery- sery tonight ht Is 15 under itts vis ice It R learned I States consideration h. h by the United I i shipping board Officials of oC the hoard board declined hecl Ined to tomako j of the thes the's s 's vessels make mako e public the names but admitted that thata tentatively selected a list had been compiled of oC several of oC th the the- big lake liners to be he u used ed either cither I carriers entirely or partly ns rS s cargo of the hoard board decision The impending Is part of an un agreement with Director General McAdoo c. made a few Cew weeks when the tho board hoard requisitioned ten a ago o I of the l lake ke car cargo o steamships tor for transAtlantic transAtlantic trans- trans Atlantic service to replace those car cargo o ships with other carriers that would share shUe some sonic of C the burden of the rail rail rail- ways The car cargo o tonnage requisitioned aggregated aggregated ag ag- ag tons dead weight The board officials declined to say whether the replacement would approximate that tonnage