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Show Columbia River Freshet! Stops Launching of 14 Ships. 74 LEAVE WAYS I i i Total Deadweight Tonnage Ton-nage Sent Over Yesterday Yes-terday 400,464 Tons. PHILADELPHIA. July 5. Launch -ings of additional ships on the Fourth of July were reported at the Emergency Emergen-cy Fleet corporation here today, raising rais-ing the grand total to seventy-lour. Of these forty-two arc steel and thirty-two wood. The total deadweight tonnage was increased by the aded ships to 400,-16 i. of which 287,46 1 is steel and 113,000 wood. Names of the additional wooden vessels announced as having left the ways were not given. There wore seven of them. The rema.inlng three were of steel. They wore the Western Star, a transport of S.S00 tons, launched launch-ed at the yards of J. F. Guthrie and company, Seattle. Mrs. F. O. Flsk was sponsor. From the same yard the Western Cross, a cargo carrier of S.800 tons also went overboard. The West Galeta, another cargo carrier of 8,800 tons, was launched in the yards of the Los Angeles Shipbuilding Ship-building company, San Pedro. A telegram was received at tho Fleet corporation headquarters from the district supervisor of the eleventh district at Portland, Ore., stating that fourteen additional ships were ready for launching there on Independence Day, but ah unexpected freshet in tho Columbia river had prevented the shipbuilders from sending them over. |