Show r. r HOPE FOR PASSAGE OF OE SHIP SHIPBOARD BOARD BILL Senate Tentatively Adopts Committee Amendments on Merchant Marine Washington on May 10 Without Without a a. record vote and virtually without de debate tie tie- e- e bate the tho Senate tentatively adopted today committee amendments to u the tho House bill providing for a permanent merchant marine policy Senator Jones of Washington In charge of or tho th measure hopes for lor Its passage B before tho the end of ot the week Among monr amendments a adopted those providing for tor a a. private ownership ownership ownership owner owner- ship policy but authorizing tho the permanent permanent per per permanent manent shipping board which the bill creates to soil sell the tho merchant fleet built bunt by the tho government during tho the war as soon as practicable consistent with good business methods and the the- objects obJect and purposes to be bo trained by this act Another would authorize tho board to set aside annually during the ne next five Jve years derived from rom the sale or operation of ot vessels to be bc used In the construction of new yes ves sels eels As agreed on so far tar the bill bin would create a permanent shipping board of ot seven members of or whom two would be from the Atlantic and Pacific coasts respectively and one each from froni the gulf coast middle le west and great lakes region reelon |