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SHIP PLAN INDORSED BY EDGE — (Continued frdom Page Four.) . tiéns whose maritime losses were Greater than ours. “Our submarine losses.” said Senator tor Fdge, “did not exceed, I belie™ 600,000 tons—probably the Icss was considerably less than that. Make it, for the purpose of illustration, 00,000 tons of shipping. “Most of the shipséwe lost were old and were built at a time when the cost of construction was much less tran it is to- Say we should be able to put in aim for our losses ut the rate of $16 Our claim weuld amount to $50,000,000. “We were offered $28,000,000 ap- proximately for thirty of the Ger- man ships. It is now proposed that keep those ships and put $75,000,- 69 into them for repairs. Should we freep the ships they would stand us, in addition to what they cost when we fitted them for transport service or rendered them seaworthy for ex- clusively cargo service, about $1U3,000,000. THE $75,000.000 MUST BE ADDED TO TAXES. “All we could ask in the way of eparation would be, say, $50,000,000. | velieve if we kept the shipe they would have to be valued, and that whatever valuation might be placed or them above the $50,000,000 we are ertitled to for maritime losses would save to be paid in cash to the other cruntries whose losses were greater chan ours. “It must be taken into considera- hon, too, that the $75,000,000 it is proposed to spend for reconditioning ‘he former German ships must come out of taxes, because the Shipping Reard has no funds to be used for (hat purpose. The resulf would be, = S EVANGELINE BOOTH IS SNOW BOUND TOUT THES Be Trai ROSTON, tries and community volunteers eom- storm. All emp Army Passengers on Stalled is in New England. March $.>-Raiiroads, Indus- and the Boston to assist the tr ous in many yea sengers were ma bined efforte again to-day to restore| and towns where 7 the passenger and freight tranmporta-| since saferdag. and in some tion facilities that wefe cut off in| Roce? the parsed Northern New England ty Saturéay’s! | In Commander | called upon by thé as anne ? ae THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAROH 8, 1930. rr rs. Hundreds of pas- | $ rooned in small cities trains had been stafles | day. Beverages of other Nations and Periods Peasants of Finland Have Their Kaija The'dist today By) inctive American beverage ©) GINGER ALE eee ae thought when one seeks a ginger ale of character and quality— The distinctive, delicious flavor of this true it as ginger ale perfection. Produced in a bottle built for two—to be served at restcuran and the home. HARVARD COMPANY, Lowell, Mass. NEW YORK DISTRIBUTORS: SEGGERMAN BROTHERS 91-93 Hudson Street if_we keep the ships, which I am sure w6 will not, that we would have to pay a considerable part of that 278,000,000 taken out of taxes. over to ‘her countries to partially make up| aelt submarine losses. | here isn't any doubt about the nate upholding ‘the resident’s greement as to the distribution of @ reparation money collected from Germany for maritime losses. This is » phase of the situation which has not been put up to the Senate. It seems to me it should be enough to vetde the question of Government operation without further argument.” Senator Edge does not purpose to push his resolution authorizing the Shipping Board to sell all its ships unt{] the Senate ts in position to de- termine, from information at hand, what the policy of the United States should be in relation to the merchant | marine, but he does intend to do all a his power to dispose of the mat- r before the adjournment 6f Con- ures. | POWERFUL .“INTERESTS” OP- POSED TO SALE PLAN. Tf, as appears to be inevitable, Con- gress authorizes the Shipping Board to sell all its ships and create a hoard or commission to attend to the sale and wind up the shipping bus' ness of the United States, The Ev ning World's plan to rel of @ terrific burden will begin to | 1aW results immediately. With no ps to operate and no ships to id the Shipping Board will have ceased to be of any use. The next step will to dispose of the plant and materials, which should bring a return of at least $200.000,000. This added to $1,000,- 000,000, which sum should come from the le of the completed i} ships, and $500,000,000, which should be the selling price of | ships in process™of completion, || would establish a Governme , eredit of $1,700,000.000. Also, e taxation | is lieved of the certainty of calling on the taxpayers for at least $200,000,000 a year, which would be, on estimates compiled by expert: rable to Govern- |, ment ow ip and operation, the loss the country would have the result of such ownership and operation. MW However, the job of separating the Government from the ownership and operation of ships will not be a trifling accomplishment. Powerful interests are back of the Government owner- ship and operation plan, There is a big fight ahead, but the taxpayer will get a fair show, because the | fight will have to be in the open, and | misrepresentation and politigil man- ipulation will be subjected to the light of publicity. aces ‘ CLOSED SHOP TERMINATED. Labor Peace Too Costly, Says Jer- sey Bullding Material Firms, Declaring that the sort of peace of- fered by labor leaders is too costly, thirty prominent builders’ materials | firms of Hudson County, N. 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