Show Commercial Ships Have Big Tonnage Washington Washington Moro More than one half the gross comme commercial cial ship tonnage under the American flag was privately private private- ly Ij owned on April 1 It was disclosed in fi figures ures compiled by the shipping board for tor the first quarter of at 1926 Thirty one additional ships passed into private hands bands during the quarter their tonnage being These transfers trans trans- fers hers brought the tho tonnage of the privately pd privately owned merchant marine up to 70 I |