OCR Text |
Show : -oo Cancel Contracts For Wooden Ships . In Portland Yards PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 25 Cancellation Cancel-lation of contracts for the building of twenty-nine wooden ships, representing represent-ing a value, if completed, of $159,525,-000 $159,525,-000 was ordered In the Oregon dis- , trict today for the Emergency Fleet ' corporation which revoked all orders for wooden ships not already under way. One ship yard immediately discharged dis-charged its working force of 2000 men and announced that it would close. Thirteen thousand men are employed employ-ed in wooden shipyards In the Oregon district. nn . |