Show I lAX I FINANCING t IN INI INI SHIPPING BOARD I I AFFAIRS I k f 1 F ormer r er As Assistant t t to to c Chairman Chair Chair- JP t ji pay P. P Continues Continues' u man arnan an Payne His His' Revelations NEW NEV YORK Noy Nov 18 Of 18 Of a total of ot in United States shipping board the only o 30 OO o hail be n. n q Q up Up-tO Up o last las September t J Ulen special assistant to John Barton P Payne former chairman of ot the shipping board testified before the congressional l com- com Investigating board affairs here toda today Brigadier General Frank T T. Hines farmer fprmer of ot transportation for tor the army seemed to take I special pe ial delight in blo efforts to collect lle tl shipping Ping board money from the war department Mr Gillen said Mr Gillen declared there was very little trouble with the navy Mr GUlen Gillen testified that the claim situation situation sit sit- was a very bad condition and that claims were not charted or analyzed analyzed ana- ana as to their nature They totaled 1 into billions of dollars he said Referring to the wooden ship construction construction construction con con- program of the board Mr Gillen testified that these contractors were induced to accept business on on- onas assurances assurances assurances as as- that there would be three ships built a year on each ways These as assurances assurances assurances as- as which Mr Gillen declared were given by Edward N N. Hurley former chairman of the board did not materialize material material- ize and contractors for wooden ships lost lest money Mr 1 G Gillen Ilen saidA said A shipping board settlement for 9 0 on a food administration claim of ot against the board was held up by the comptroller of the treasury on the grounds that the board had no right to make such a settlement I Rear Admiral William Villiam S S. Benson now head of ot the shipping board Mr 1 Gillen characterized as the strongest cleanest character he had ever met |