Show I I 1 I I I I I OCEAN TONNAGE TUNNAGE DEMAND CROWS GROWS Fleet Gorl Corporation ora ion Forced Forced to Decline Cargo of Lumber By By HARDEN HARDEN COLF-AX COLF COLFAX COL 1 Correspondent of The T Standard CorY Copyright We 1926 Con Consolidated o ld Press Press Ass AssocIation cla WASHINGTON Oct For 2 2 For the tInt time lime si post war oar boom collapsed In n 1920 1 20 Ih the demand r for ocean tonnage Is so h b lavy af a American ports that hat cargo carro rates are advancing lYnch Sam an n cip operator Wringing his hand In distress while the major of a mammoth fleet built at at hi high cost to meet war war 01 needs rotted rolled at anchor In la quiet Quiet has more o ot his hie vessels steaming l thi seas today than for for years ears ThIrty live more ships are In commission than at any ny time In Int t WI e years year r Despite the tha gal al aIes s to t owners oC o choice holce ess vessels durin during that thaI period the UnIte States Shipping board hoard is prepay Ine log Ing to o recondition 25 to SO 20 others other from Its reserve It IL will place them In servIce service It If conditions justify DECLINE CARGO rhe The Emergency Flee Fleet corporation atton thIs week waS forced force 1 to Ie- Ie dine le-dine cline chine a 0 a cargo the occur occur- occurrence occurrence occur rence of o Iho kind in many a a ong lou louday day W II 50 vessel vessels od n assigned to relief roles the th cor- cor cor found itself this thil week lh only throe three and these In waters irater f far or r removed from the lie gulf bellee whence came cam the call for tor a bottom to transport lumber lumberto lumberto lumberto to Brash The lumber will be b moved mO on a IL delayed voyage by various aMft but the condition Is significant sI The Th North Atlantic conference recently announced an Increase In rates rate Similar action action has been taken by lutes lilies line operating out of Dr Gulf pott ports Thus far no Increases have been male made on 01 shipments from South Atlantic or Dr Pacific port porta Th higher freight rate te rates are not applicable t all commod commodities Sties Cotton for tor Instance h 13 of tremendous Importance to the south Is payIng the same oc ocean tn rates cs tos formerly There Ther Is no boom In shipping Th The American merchant marine problem Is 1 no not solved The plc pic tur pic-tur ture Is not one o of vivid splashes of color but that ia-that shows a brightening of ot the dull grey erey of depression which has marked the Industry for many man months How long ions the themore more appY appy con con- condition dillon dilion wIlt will ells exis 13 uncertain but It Is not too much t to say that the tho present situation In ocean oc transportation alon far tar flung coast of tho the United States Stales I h 1 the best since war post Inflation turn turn- turned turned ed cd to deflation Ocean freight rates rAleS have been low since the tho armistice left a vast of or on alt all the seven sea seas It has been the tb exceptional line lino which has bas made money That Thatis Thatis Is true tru of o all Cia Th hall of congress have reverberated with the cries o ot of anguish 0 over the losses of Undo Uncle Sams Sam's shipping operations although these the have halo beep bEen only ony relative to what hat many private corporations hilve have baTe at t the lh same Earn time COMMERCE STABILIZED World V competition for has kept rates tates down It Is ts a fact th thit t ocean shipments nh are carried at prices only in advance of those thos prevailing before betor tho ho howar wilt war Foreign vessels clue du main main- mainly mainly ly Iy tp t lower wage their theli crews cres operate cheaper che p r than ships under tho th United States thus flag las thus con cony con trolling rates But the th world commerce Is more gt this year el r than since tince t the e catastrophe ot of 1914 1 14 Grain cotton cot cotton ton lumber r petroleum petrol um are rush rush- Ine Jog from the United States In heAvy quantities s adding to the normal export demand d mand whIch calla for ships The Tb decrease as In bulk export since inco the th first of July ha has been heavy Enjoying a domestic prosperity which is making new cw records In Inmany inmany many lines Unes the tb United States St Is drawing more mor heavily upon Its wealth of o products to supply the needs of o foreign orel n nations which themselves In most most- most cases eu case are In ina Ina Ii a better position since t they ey are able to buy East coast shipping hu has tr been disrupted In recent weeks by the demand of ot the British Isles for lean orAnn-lean American coal This of o course courso will end with settlement of the thelong thelong long drawn out strike MOVING COTTON Cotton low In price is moving to foreign shores In almost on- on un unprecedented quantities after hay hay- haying Ine hav-Ine Ing lagged in early months this year ear In August bales ble Were exported contrasted with In 10 the lh same ume month of 01 and the movement contin conlin- continued throughout September Wheat has bas been going out of the country heavily in the th last throe three 2 el of o Ial gisin were exported In August com corn compared pared to In tho 1925 month Flour shipments ed Id I'd barrels bartels In the same com paris Eves I apan apan Is It I buy buy- buyIng buy In Ing American wheat this Hal ear So So Sor are r of ot H sit t wood woo l lum hum lumber ber her Iron Iroll ore coppe sled pro p p-o- p products poI ducts machinery and n it hist h t of other |