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Show MARTY KRUG, former manager of Omaha club in Western leasuo, hard-hitting iniieldei', who will play with Salt Lake this year. ; i - JA i9r!?' " : r r , v A i ' 5 A i ''''"'- y f ' ' j - i- 4 Mm ships PL! m SEAS Merchant Craft Now Sailing Sail-ing Everywhere First Time Since Clipper Days. WASHINGTON", March 9. For the first time since the days of the famous "clipper" "clip-per" ships, American merchant craft now are plying the seven seas, carrying products prod-ucts of tlie United States to the farthest corners of the earth and bripginy home both essentials and luxuries. The shipping board announced today that the American merchant marino fleet built up under the spur of war's necessity neces-sity now represented nearly one-fifth of all ships clearing from American ports, as compared with 9.7 per cent before the war. Trade routes not traversed by American Ameri-can craft for more than fifty years once more are invaded, with new routes established estab-lished to China, Australia, New Zealand, India, the Dutch East Indies, the west coast of Africa and ports on tlie Mediterranean. Mediter-ranean. Ships flying tlie Stars and Stripes also are running regularly to South America, Amer-ica, Great Britain and continental Europe, Eu-rope, as well as to Canada and Mexico. The fleet now engaged in overseas commerce aggregates 1,961,239 gross tons. Of this total, 315.925 tons are employed in trans-Pacific trade. When the army and navy return to the shipping board the 353 ships which they arc operating, the commercial fleet under un-der the American flag will be increased by 1,1S3.251 gross tons, with many hun-areds hun-areds of thousands of tons building or under contract. |