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Show I Businessmen and Committee C Chairman to Outline Policy j at Washington n V I H 0 WASHINGTON. April 15. Data, ' bearing on problems of the shipping 1 r. board In its operation of and disposi- , h I liori to private ownership of the gov- E .yl ernment's merchant marine was sub-Jr f: mltted today to business men of the IE country and chairmen of congros-! cj f j sional committees who began a two pi : days' conference here with members r U. of the board. Two former chairmen of the board. I I Secretary of Interior Payne and ltd-.'K ' ward N. Hurley of Chicago, were K among those present- The men ad- vising: with the board represent the h I country's greatest commercial and in- . dustrJal interests. H j Particular importance attaches to g the point of view of the leaders of in- tj dustries In the middle west, officials 3 of the board declared. There people 3 j have not become accustomed to think! 3 in .terms of ships, and It is especially j 3 desired that they be awakened to the! rj ' necessity for an American merchant' J(j K j marine to transport the nation's com-'y I j merce. I |