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...designed to put more merchantmen operating from the U. S., under the U. S. flag; it required only five out of the seven votes of the U. S. Shipping Board to dispose of the 300-odd Government-owned ships remaining from the Wartime U. S. Emergency Fleet. Some Congressmen had tried to require the Board's unanimous vote, or six-out-of-seven. President Coolidge is anxious to oust the U. S. from the shipping business. To a provision doubling the pay of U. S. merchant mariners who join the Naval Reserve, the President had objected, but accepted it finally...
Lieutenant Commander William Clifford Barnes, who has held an assistant professorship in the Department of Naval Sciences and Tacties during the past year at the University, left yesterday to become navigating officer of the U. S. S. California, fleet flagship, now in Pacific waters...
While Commander Barnes was at the Naval War College, Admiral W. S. Pratt was president. Recently, Admiral Pratt was given command of the battle fleet, now on the Pacific, and shortly afterwards, Commander Barnes received orders to proceed to the West Coast to take a post as navigation officer under Admiral Pratt. He left yesterday for San Pedro, California...
...Commodore had sailed into Japanese waters with a U. S. fleet of four warboats; and a year later he returned to conclude the first treaty ever signed by a Japanese Government with an Occidental power. Prior to Perry's first visit the attitude of the Japanese Shoguns or Tycoons...
...stated, with justifiable complacency: "Shareholders of the White Star Line, who now number about 15,000, will have observed with interest and satisfaction that the results for the past year not only confirmed my forecast but showed it was more than justified. . . . After providing for the depreciation of the fleet and paying the dividend on the preference _ [preferred] shares, we recommend a dividend of 6% on ordinary [common] shares and balances carried foreward...