Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-09-23 | Page 11 | Policy Outlined for Sale of U. S. Fleet

prices. Immediate disposal of the smaller vessels Is recommended, however, without restriction as to purchasers. chairman of the committee. Recommendations Recommen-dations of the committee, it was said, will be submitted to the association's council of forty-five members for adoption adop-tion and presentation to congress as a proposed guide in the enactment of legislation. legis-lation. Believing that the immediate sale of all ships to private operators is "not only undesirable, but impracticable," the committee com-mittee recommends that the large steel vessels be toid only as the development of private firms might warrant, with the sale of such snips confined to American firms and made at current world market ; POLICY OUTLINED FOR SALE OF U. S. FLEET WASHINGTON. Sept. 22. A merchant marine policy contemplating gradual relinquishment re-linquishment to private operation of the larger vessels of the government-built fleet and immediate sale of the smaller vessels lias been formulated by tlie executive ex-ecutive commit! ee of tho National ,M?r-i ,M?r-i chant Marine assoctii tion, it was announced an-nounced today by Edward D. Burling.