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Show i HURLEY PUNS : TO BUILD MORE I WOODEN SHIPS I Construction Will Start as. Soon as Possible in Yards J Already Started and Efficiently Effi-ciently Managed. j 1 SEATTLE COMPANY MAKES NEW RECORD 3 Foreign-born Officers to Be ii Employed on Merchant o e Vessels in Order to Man Fleet Now Building. e, 1 WASHINGTON. May 1. -Expansion of the shipbuilding programme to provide for the, construction of 200 additional wooden vessels of -1500 to 4700 deadweight tons was announced tonight by Chalr-r Chalr-r man Hurley of the shipping board. This 1 will Increase to 680 the number of wooden s sliipH completed, building or planned. jfhe vessels, which will be either of the Dougherty or liallln type, will he con-g con-g airurted In shipyards already cstabllsed j and will be allotted, Mr. Hurley said, ,j among yards which are most efficiently ij managed. Construction of the ships will " I'O siartetl as soon as vessels now building build-ing are off the stocks. B The board also decided today to authorize au-thorize the construction of twenty-five I new seagoing tugs, Increasing to too the ' number of such craft now building for t lie board. Tho tugs will be employed InTcoast traffic, replacing those diverted Jj overseas. J Ships liuilt at Lake Ports. il Tt also was made known today that with tile reopening of navigation on the Great J Lakes, thirty-four vessels built there since II last fall wore brought to the Atlantic and il now are en route to Atlantic ports or are l loading, preparatory to their maiden voy-V voy-V ages. They aggregate approximately 100,-1 100,-1 000 tons. t Of twenty-three ships In lake yards r scheduled for completion this month, six's six-'s teen are so far advanced that they have i begun to take on crews and cargoes. 3 These new vessels, with an aggregato I tonnage of 50,000, have been allotted by the bureau of operations of the shipping board to the New England coal-carrying j trade. i A new American wooden ship construction construc-tion record was reported to the shipping 1 board today by the Supple & Ballln com- 1 pany or Portland, Ore., which claimed tho ! i assembling and placing of seventy-nine I frames in a new vessel in a total work- ' Ing timo of forty-four hours. 1 Many Men Needed. The shipping board plans to omploy foreign-born officers. if necessary, to man the new merchant fleet now building. build-ing. Henry Howard, bead of the board's recruiting service, today told a conference of shipowners and leaders of seamen's unions that It might be necessary to take foreign officers, because many licensed American officers have left the sea and will not return. Tlic shipping board's training schools have enrolled 762 men, studying for officers. of-ficers. Many hundreds of other men are in training to be seamen. The board expects ex-pects to establish soon training ships at Newport News, San Francisco and Seattle, and probably at New Orleans. It Is figured fig-ured that not less than 4000 additional sailors will be needed each month to operate the new merchant fleet. The shipping board has opened recruiting recruit-ing offices in a chain of drug stores throughout the country. Approximately 7000 officers will begin soon the enrollment enroll-ment of young Americans who desire to go to sea. Must Have Cargo Space. WASHINGTON, May 1. "American military forces in Kurope constantly are on the Increase," Secretary Baker today told a conference of shipowners and leaders lead-ers of seamen's unions. "The Increase In cargo and troop ships cables us to augment our forces abroad steadily. " he said. Mr. Baker said a vital necessity of continuing con-tinuing the American military effort lay in the provision of adequate cargo space, lie commended the purpose of the conference. con-ference. Which is to promote plans for recruiting men to man America's new merchant marine, and paid a tribute to sailors on cargo ships, who. he said, take as high hazards and perform as patriotic pa-triotic service as any other men of the nation. |