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Show ! 1 BAftlKERS INVITED TO : I SEE Oil II 0010; i T " V ft Investing Public Urged to Look i I I With Favor Upon U. S. Ship- j; Is ping Securities j IM WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Leading '(. bankers of the country were invited': j'K today by Chairman Payne of the ship-! i'lS I)m board to serve on a committee to j llm intorest tne investing public in the. im valuo of shipping securities. Mr !' iff Payne said the board was confronted h fm wiUi the problem of selling shipc, tiiep JtM aggregate valuo of which, $2,000,000,-1 i Iff 000, was many times the purchasing) Iff. power of the private shipping inter-! w est:; and that consequently, It was de-j1 fff sirable to educate the people 10 an ' IS appreciation of the relation of the;; Iff merchant marine to commerce and in fff dustry. Iff Tiio personnel of the committee foils foi-ls Henry M. Robinson of Pasadena, fW Cal., chairman; Charles D. Dawes,1 ;K Chicago; Geo.rgo Carrfort Clarke.1 'IK Charles HKygnn, R. E. Morris, Fred Iff? Straussc, G. H. Kennicott, Allen B. , , W Forbes, F. W. Allan, Mortiraei- L.I t3f Schiff, J. S. Alexander nd G. AV. Dav-'( Jdson, all of New Yorlcr Festus J. ' ; , Wade, St- Louis; Daniel G. Wing, Bos-;, ton; Edward L. Robinson, Baltimore;' J E. D. Morris, Philadelphia; N. H. Lat- ' imcr, Seattle; F. H. Goff, Cleveland; ; Herbert Flolschhacker, San Francisco; i J. E. Boudln, Jr., New Orleans, and E. : ' C. Hulbert, Chicago. i m nn . |