Show SHIP BOARD HEAD WARNS FOREIGNERS Interference With Development Develop Develop- ment of American Merchant Merchant Mer Mer- chant Marine l by Propaganda Propaganda ganda gauda Will rill Be Resisted By AI d Tress Press WASHINGTON ASHINGTON July 1 Warn WarI Warning Warn Warn- V V ing foreign interests not to attempt to interfere with the development development devel devel- of the American meri n merchant marine Chairman Benson of the shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping board declared today that the board was determined to build up anI an American merchant marine as contemplated contemplated con ron I by the Jones shipping Dg act despite threats and and propaganda by br such interests to defeat the law The United States said Admiral Benson is In fn In Its effort to pla o c within tho the ownership by United States citizens tho the control of at least leasta a a. part of its traffic In imports and exports If Ie It should b by any possible means be bo held that the departments of tho the government Jo lack such authority as aswill aswill aswill will insure their being able to protect American n interests In such control a ad additional additional ad- ad authority will bo be asked aske- askeby by bythe bythe bytho the tho administration and will undoubtedly undoubted undoubted- ly 1 be granted by Congress Let SI Sleeping Do Dogs LI Lie Foreign carriers and and those In the United States Interested more In tho the foreign than American Institutions will wIllI do well to let Jet sleeping dogs lie I Admiral Bensons Benson's warning was sounded in a talk to representatives o of Pacific coast chambers of I and trade bodies an and American railway I representatives which have been disturbed die dis b by threats to divert tra trade o to points on the Pacific coast cause because of or orthe the tho section of tho the merchant marine act net permitting a preferential rate over foreign for for- eign carriers within the United States on merchandise moving In export and Import In American vessels Such a threat the tho chairman said sald Is futile and Idle Sincerity Ii III Doubted If It such a a. threat Is sincere and tho the attempt Is made to so 80 divert the business business business busi busi- ness Admiral Benson Bonson continued the Uthe shipping board will wUl allocate American ships S to move moc the tho business The rhe shipping shipping shipping ship ship- ping board and tho interstate commerce will follow tollow this action by hy other steps stops which would further protect protect protect pro pro- the tho interests of the tho United States against such foreign 11 efforts to defeat tho the purpose of the tho merchant marine act Nothing could more surely surel bring about the the enforcement of this section of ot the la law than adoption b by foreign carriers carriera of their threat to divert business business busi busi- ness from American ports American Tonnage IK Is Ample As S this section Is 18 to be used only where there hero is an ample Am American rIcan tonnage to handle the export and Import Import import im Im- Im- Im port commerce to any particular port In In a t foreign country or a possession of ot th the United States we cannot conceive con con- cehe how an any one olle who has studied this law can assume that tho the shipping board would make any InY general application application application cation o of this section There Thoro will certainly certainly he be no enforcement of the tho provision provision pro pro- vision Islon without concurrent action which I Continued on page H. H t SHIP BOARD HEADS WARNS FOREIGNERS Continued from page 1 will fully protect all all American Am In int In- In t crests I The transportation act ha hau haa given gh-en to the interstate commerce commission authority in emergencies to to direct tr ti traffic t le or establish embargoes against m movements of or freight It also has authority to to establish minimum rates on on an any commodity moving subject to the interstate commerce act within tho the thoI I 4 United States halt Truffle Traffic Not to io Be lie The commission IB Is aware of or the ne necessity necessity no- no for tor preventing the dl distorting of or traffic upon the railroads of or the thc United States such as would be accomplished accomplished pushed by an effort b by foreign carriers to divert tho the export and import traffic tra- tra fic fie now moving between Pacific coast I ports port ort United States and the thc orient either cither to British Columbia or to ports of or the Atlantic Admiral Benson Denson said that in fn the trans Pacific trade trado at this this' time timo there thero seemed to have been specific and successful suc ces ful efforts to prevent American vessels from securing return cargoes es esat at certain points while ships of other othor nations have come with full loads Application Application Ap Ap- Ap of ot the section of the merchant merchant mer mer- chant marine act prescribing preferential rates might be Invoked In he be said to require equal consideration in cargoes oes from such Buch discriminating ports porta for tor United Stat States s vessels owned either b bj by private citizens or b by tho the shipping board |