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GHOST SHIPS BEING
PUT IN COMMISSION;
PICKETS ARE PICKETED
By Jack Stinnett
WASHINGTON. June — Notes
from the Capital scene:
Imagine the surprise of the
gents in the Maritime Commis
sion the other day after spending
hours on press releases telling
how the last of their ghost fleet
of World War merchant ship5
had been put back into commis
sion, then discovering one skele
ton still in the closet.
The original story said that the
motor ship West Grama, last ot
that old fleet, which slid down
the ways for convoys to the Al
lies more than 20 years ago, was
being towed from its berth in the
James River, near Norfolk, Va.,
for recondtitioning at Mobile.
Ala.
The West Grama's log was
combed for romantic items. Then
Maritime discovered the steam
ship West Hematite was still tied
up at New Orleans.
It isn’t hard to understand how
the Maritime press relations di
vision almost jumped the gun.
When the commission set up shop
five years ago it took over from
the old shipping board a ghost
fleet of 136 vessels — row after
row of old tubs that had been
gathering barnacles and rust in
ports all over the country. The
commission junked or chartered
€3. Then, to avo.d gluthng the
shipping market, it quit selling
them and came into the present
we rid crisis with 113.
In recent months, the commis
sion has been getting rid of these
ghosts. It really doesn't matter
much whether the West Hematite
(5.621 gross tons, with a speed of
12 knots) or the West Grama is
the last ghost to ride the waves
again. It matters a lot that ail of
that old World War merchant
fleet which wasn’t junked now is
back in (or is being recondition
ed for) service.
PICKETS PICKETED
The American Peace Mobiliza
tion pickets who have been walk
ing 24 hours a day in .3 hundred
yard long oval i.i fr; of the
While House have been having
-troubles.
On two occasions soldiers, 3nd
on another ceca ion, a Marine
have charged into t'>eir midst
w.th list's flying,. momcntarly dis
rupting the “perpetual peace vig
il. ( e soldier and the Marine
got arrested. After those inci
dents. all was quiet along the
Potomac until Abe Tikotsky start
ed picketing the pickets.
Tikotsky came from Spring
field, 111. He is an electrician, a
member of the AFL Electricians
Union and was in the American
Merchant Marine during the
World War.
He said his one-man campaign
I against the White House picket
i line just came to him all of a
: sudden when he read a story
about it in the newspapers and
got mad. He says his picketing
will be as nearly “perpetual” as
his job will permit. “FI keep at
it all my spare time until my legs
give out,” he explains.
FISH'S IDEAS TAKE”
About a month ago, when the
House of Representatives voted
down legislation (171-117) for a
j blackout rehearsal in Washing
; ton. Rep. Hamilton Fish, the ir
repressible anti - administration
congressman from New York
kept the House roaring with
laughter for minutes with his
mock “substitute bill.”
Spreading the satire thickly,
Mr. Fish suggested sandbags for
the Capitol, White House, and Su
preme Court, gas masks for con
gressmen, air raid watchers on
the Washington monument, and
air raid sirens on all public
buildings "with exception of the
D pariment of Labor."
Now, with Fiorello LaGuardia
in the saddle at the Office of Ci
vilian Defense, almost everything
Mr. Fish suggested in his mock
legislation is being considered.
The District of Columbia local
Council of Defense already has
before it a report recommending
acquisition of air raid sirens and
special equpiment for combating
incendiary bombs. Another re
port being prepared will outline
pians for evacuation of civilians.
Plans have been completed to re
move 60'.!,000 rare and priceless
!-terns from the L.brary of Con
gress. Thousands of Washington
ians will register shortly as vol
unteer in a civilian defense set
up not at all uniike London's.
And air raid shelter possibilities
ir. the build.ngj on Capitol Hill
have been surveyed.
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Finnish Reserves
Are Called Up
HELSINKI, June 20 — Finnish
reserves were called ino active
service at midnight last night
and the Government sharply cur
tailed civilian train traffic soon
| afterward to facilitate military
preparations.
A Presidential decree made all
reserve officers into regular army
officers, and stated that all army
and navy cadets are to be grad
uated immediately and will be
come lieutenants. It was announc
ed previously that year’s active
service was a requisite for new
officers.
The Finnish people are calm,
quietly obeying measures to safe
guard their independence as they
did in 1939 when the war with'
Russia was started. Finnish news,
papers discussed what was called
a Russian-German crisis. The Hel
sinki Sanomat observed that
“causes, independent of our con
trol, may give events a turn and
can jeopardize our sovereignty, •
peace and liberty. To this extent
we are forced to defend them
with everything in our power.”
"FRANTIC MOBILIZATION”
LONDON, June 20 — An Ex
change Telegram dispatch from ^
Stamp-Sized
Letters For
British Fighters
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CAIRO. Egypt, June 20 — Let
ters for the 50.000 British sol
diers, sailors, and airmen in the
Middle East are being reduced to
the size of postage stamps to save
weight and bulk in the mails.
Ordinarily these 50,000 letters
would weigh three-quarters of a
ton. By photographing them on
film and packing them in small,
lightweight containers they are!
reduced to 13 pounds. On arriv
al here they are enlarged to four
by five inches then rushed to the
postoffice to be sorted, folded and
gummed prior to dispatch to their
final billets.
The new method also saves the
long tortuous sea voyage. Writ
ers are limited to about 700
words. British claim this necessi
tales shorter letters. Others say
they never were very good letter
writers.
Gothenburg, Sweden, quoted a
message from Stockholm saying
travellers from Russia and Fin
land have reported “frantic mo
bilization” along the railway line
from Moscow to Leningrad. The
line is reported blocked by troops
and material.
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FLIC H T ENDS AT S I N C A PO R E—Wheta the 42-ton California Clipper arrived (above) at Singapore harbor the plane was
Inaugurating a fortnightly schedule between U.S. and British Malaya. The flight, on which the Clipper carried no regular passengers
but did bear mail and 13,800 first-flight covers for American stamp collectors, marked the pushing of trans-Pacific air service to Its
farthest westerly point. Capt. W. J. Barrows of California commanded the Clipper, which was then prepared for a return flight to U.S.
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