Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1931, Page 14

THE CAUNCHNG DATE FOR2STEANERS First of Six New Ships in U. S. Merchant Marine De- velopment. ‘The first and second steamships in & fleet of six now building for the United Mail Steamship Co., & subsidiary of the Upited Fruit Co., will be launched at the Newport News Shipbuillding & Dry Dock Co.’s plant August 15. These ships are the Talamanca and the Segovia, 20-knot vessels. The twin launching is in line with the determina- tion of Congress and the American people to build up a privately owned and operated American merchant ma- rine, so that American goods may be carried in American bottoms and so as t) strengthen the American fleet in time of national emergency. The construction of these modern vessels_has been jmade possible by the Jones-White marine act, passed in 1928, designed to overcome the differential between American-built ships and ships built in foreign yards. The act makes it possible for ship owners to borrow from the United States Government up 0 75 per cent of the cost of construc- tion at 3'2 per cent interest and also. awards 10-year mail contracts, provid- ing for payments on a mtileage basis to American.~ shipping companies, who build in American yards and operate under the American flag. Superior in Three Respects. The Unit>d Fruit Co. accepted the provisions of the Jones-White act, and 25 an initial step immeditely started | construction of six th:roughly modern ships, three of which are building at Newport News and_three at the yards of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corpo- ration, Ltd., at its Fore River plant in Quincy, Mass. In speed, depth and beam the new vessels will exceed all other ships of the great White Fleet; only two of the Iatter are longer. Their dimensions will Be 447 feet over all, 430 feet on the load water line, 60-foot beam and 34 feet 8 inches from keelson w0 upper deck. Their displacement, at 24 feet draft, ! will be in the neighborhocd of 11,000 tons. At normal service draft it is ex- cted that the new ships will maintain | a speed of 18 knots, with a maximum of | 20 knots. Approval Given Vessels. | The Shipping Board, American Bu- | reau of Shippipg and the Navy De- partment have passed on the design | and_construction of these new ships. | Tentative dates for launciing, outside | of the twin launching scheduled, are October 24, when the Antigua will b> put oversides;: November 14, the Quiri- | gua; November 30, the Chiriqui, and December 12, the Veragua. The names for the new ships were selected by Victor M. Cutter, president of the | United Fruit Co. Talamanca is a dis- trict between Costa Rica and Panama, | Y fcrmerly the habitat of the Talamanca Indians, makers of the finest prehistoric pottery found in America. via is & river between the repubiics of Nicara- gua and Honduras, flowing inoqfi'.he Caribbean at Cape Graclas a Dibs; Chiriqui is & river and province in the Republic of Panama; Antigua is the name of the ancient capital of Guate- mala; Quirigus is the site of Mayan culture in Guatemala, and Veragua is a province of Panama. WIFE SEEKING DIVORCE FROM PORTER H. ADAMS Buit in Reno Charges Desertion Against Former Aviation Group Head. By the Associated Press. RENO, Nev., June 27.—Porter ‘™. Adams, former president of the National Aeronautic Association, has been sued for divorce here by his wife, Dorothy Johnson Adams. . She charged her husband deserted her in May, 1930. They were married at Brookline, Mass., April 29, 1924. Porter H. Adams, chairman of the Executive Committee, governor at large and vice president of the first district of the National Aeronautic Assoclation, had been in active charge of affairs of the association in Washington until Jast month, when he went to Boston, where he is said to bs in a hospital jer- going . treatment for an illness from which he has suffered for several years. In May, 1930, when he was charged with desertion, Adams was said to be in a sanitarium in Arizona. He re- turned to the National OCapital last Summer to resume leadership of the National Aeronautic Association, in co- operation with Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, national president. APPLES FREIGHT CUT Carload Rates Slashed by I. C. C. in Tri-State Area Here. | Rates on apples in carloads from Vir- ginia, West Virginia #nd Maryland to | certain Southern points were ordered | reduced yesterday by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The apple rates ordered reduced were to_Gadsden, Ala, and Chatta- | nooga, Knoxville and Johnson City, | Tenn. The decision was on a com- | plaint filed by the Southern Tariff As- sociation on behalf of Southern ship- pers. Pinland has started a campaign for decreased government expenditures. Subscribe Today ‘It costs only about 1% cents per day and 5 cents Sundays to have Washington's best newspa- per delivered to you regularly every evening and Suriday marn- ing. Telephone National 5000 and the delivery will start immedi- ately The Route Agent will col- lect at the end of each month: OPEN THIS WEEK &2 Mothers and Children to Be Registered for Outings Tuesday and Wednesday. ¢ Chairman J,ohn Joy Edsou of the Summer Outings Committee of tne As- sociated Charities announced yesterday that the two camps for children: and mothers, Camp Good Will in Rock Creek Park and Camp Pleasant at Blue Plains, D. C., are ready to receive their first groups of campers this week. 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