Show JAPAN JAr AN Will 8 BUILD HUGE H G FLEET fOR AMERICA Million Tons Shipping Coming From Orient I by New Agreement I Problem Now Sailors I By International News New Service Mardi March 29 V V An additional twenty nine or thirty steamships I aggregating tons are arc to be put in war service f for the thC allies es by In the tile I United d States it was learned t tonight from state department sources through charter neg negotiations with Japan Although this big merchant fleet with the new purchase e by hy the United States State of or twelve e Japan Japanese vessels s a ag aggregating aggregating ag- ag gr tons ton A will make a tot total 1 of deadweight ht tons of ot shipping available for tor service Ja Japans Japan's Ja- Ja Japan pans pan contribution may reach rench a million tons for tor Japan Is to build ships for America I With negotiations now near conclusion conclusion conclusion sion for tor transfer of tons of shipping by charter Japan already Is counted on for tons of ot which Is 15 to be built bunt on American order with American steel which was the tho basis of ot an agreement announced yesterday yesterday yes yes- es for the purchase of a a. dozen ships In service ser Fu Furthermore rth Japan pan probably will swell Americas America's shipbuilding program appreciably through new agreements to deliver dell completed ships In exchange for American v steel It was reported tonight that the new trade board Is contemplating these new nel negotiations to expand shipbuilding In Japan the labor problem comparatively Is ne negligible It is understood that the Japanese government has Indicated a disposition to further a n. new agreement for another tons of ot shipping to tobe tobe tobe be built In Japanese yards for America The pending negotiations for Cor or charter chart charter char char- t ter r contemplate a tentative selection of or twenty-five twenty steamships of deadweight ht tons c each ch or thirty of Ito toS to'S I The navy department and the shipping ship ship- I ping boan face ace a problem In manning these vessels particularly It was wasI 1 learned tonight as an unexpected drain drainon on merchant marine personnel Is I caused by the th refusal of virtually every ono ong of or the Dutch seamen and officers to man mart the ships seized l from Holland A more serious situation however confronts the shipping board boar In the shortage e of at materials for tor the American ship yards ar s at the time when everything should be read ready for the shipbuilding drive this spring and an l summer In Insufficient Insufficient Tn- Tn sufficient of or coal and coke havo curtailed steel production so 80 much that plates and other parts are not at hand In adequate quantities nor likely to be unless some oine special effort Is made mad Shipping board officials conferred toda today with the tho war Industries board and will c confer tomorrow with the United d States fu fuel 1 administration Even ryen the heavier summer production of steel will balance the winters winter's loss 1088 only In part for tor some Rome of or the big big- mills have been operating not more than 30 or 40 per cent of or capacity That ex extraordinary cx- cx efforts must b be made mode Is Indicated b by urgent urs requests request tonight from Admiral Bowles assistant general general gen gem eral manager of the tho Emergency Fleet corporation who Is In charge charlo of or the Hog flog Ho Island construction and complains that lack of or material In quantity Is la hampering work there |