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Show WILL PUSH SALE OF ffifiICi VESSELS CHIPPING BOARD PLANS CAM. i PAIGN TO PLACE CRAFT I ON THE MARKET. Operation of American Ships on Former For-mer German Trade Routes to All P2rt3 of the World Has Sanction of Board. U'a.- hingtnii.- I'n-paniiimis fur the -!.! "f government-owned si col nior-' nior-' ' : 1 " 1 ships H ill Infill id mice, Chair-in.ui Chair-in.ui ISfiison of (lie shipping board st-ned on August Hi. Plans for an ox- tensive lldvci'l isillg campaign to place the vessels on the market is under way, 1 r r said, and actual disposal of IIumii will siart (it .soon as t ho necessary neces-sary derails have been completed. II also was stated Unit mi netivn campaign to" sell flio wooden siiips would he launched. Definite plans, however, si Ml are under eonsidorat inn. Kids for tlie vessels will he enter-laincd enter-laincd as they stand, the chairman said, at minimum prices of !?ll0 a deadweight ton for coal burners and $170 a deadweight ton for oil burners i built on the Great lakes, to $175 for coal burners and .flSo for oil-burning vessels of over 10,000 deadweight tons. fin-chasers must, agree, Chairman r.eiison said, to maintain such routes and services as the board considers desirable. de-sirable. Operation of American ships on former for-mer Gentian trade routes to all parts of the world has the sanction and support sup-port oC the shipping board, Chairman lienson declared in announcing co-operative working agreements reached between 1 lie American Ship and Commerce Com-merce corporation of New York and the Hamburg-American line. He declared de-clared 1 Iiat the shipping board -would look forward to seeing one of ils constructive con-structive plans carried out. "There is no German money in the American end of the business nor is there any agreement for German investment in-vestment in any American companies," be added. |