Show WORLDS WORLD'S SHIP CONSTRUCTION RECORD MADE MADEI I Washington Sept 4 Deliver t Delivery o ot of merchant ships bv h American shipyards In August exceeded all previous records rec- rec or s for or this country Chairman Hurley Hur nur- lev ley lc of or the shipping board was ryas advised ad toda today by Charles M. M Schwab director general of ot the Emergency Fleet cOr Sixty six ships aggregating 3 15 dead weight tons were turned out four Forty of ot the ships of ot an nn a aggregate gate dead weight tonnage of or S were steel and the remaining twenty twenty- two were wood or composite August production of or American yards ar s board of officials officials of- of was leas a world record shipping monthly r record roc rec- cord c- c said The line previous ord of or dead weight ht tons ha has lug been mado made by British yards lust lua t June Completion of or th eho sixty six ships I Iwas It was said will permit the thc return to to- the coastwise and South American of some fast vessels vc that rec recently were transferred to trans-Atlantic trans service to I meet war demands August deliveries put the tho total tonnage tonnage ton ton- nage built hullt for fOl the tho shipping board be beyond beyond beyond be- be i yond the thc mark marli The first firs million tons was delivered In May lay am and i the tho total production to September 1 was leas dead weight tons Increased deliveries b by American yards added to those of ot the allied countrIes countries coun coun- tries places new construction well wel almond ahead of ot destruction by hy submarines For Kor time the first six months of this year the allied and neutral totaled gross tons tonti while production was gross tons Because of ot Its effect on the tho general I drive In shipping situation the tho British Flan Flanders ers Is being followed with particular particular par pal Interest by bv shipping board of or- or Valuable French coal fields are I being wrested d from flom the Germans and antl It Il was said tolla today that if Ir the these e can be worked much of or the tonna tonnage e now engaged engaged en en- In carrying coal ceal from Wales ales to France can be diverted to other oilier pur pur- poses London Sept 4 British British merchant shipbuilding completed and entered for fors service s In the month of ot August amounted to 1 l 4 gross ross tons This announcement way was made by the thc admiralty admi- admi r ralty ltv tonight lon |