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THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN Santa Fe, New Mexico, Friday, October Tage f'otr STRICTLY BUSINESS By McFeattert Those Concrete cents (Chinese currency) cent In American mq Mlse Isabel Hembr nurse, explained th U.S. Vessels lie in! Bombed man Rear Admiral Emory 8. Lend and th other member of the maritime commission to order 100 of them and don't think the rear admiral got his title by NOT knowing boats. Having a Baby Costs 10 Cents In China Boats Are Far mortality rate In Bhana mission to open a Buttn at ten cents per baby fv al purpose. From a Joke Building Permits SHANGHAI.

Wh Babies com; cheap at Taiku hospital, an American board mission Institution at Taiku in Shansi province. A 'Chinese mother can bring her baby Into the world for th price of a registration fee, which la ten A building permit was issued at the city clerk's office to OrAl's Mill and Carpenter 8 hop for the erection of a store building at 125 Wat Palace at a coat of $2 800. The department of encouraging simplifies and style of ms, Jfictt, aid to defense. i HONOLULU, Oct. 34 UPV American merchant ahtpa carrying war supplies to the Rett aea art be In regularly bombed by German war plane but their aim bad only one freighter baa been sunk.

although three have been damaged eeverely, a returning teaman revealed today. The Nazi dont aeem to be able to hit a bull astern with a baza fiddle," said John 6towe, Brooklyn, N. quartermaster of a freighter which docked here en route from Bues. That's the only thin that saved our Urea, for we were bombed four times the night we arrived at Buea whlla a barge loaded with bombs and percussion cape was lying along-alde us." Maritime regulations forbid publication oi the name of to we 'a ship but be revealed the Steel Seafarer waa the vessel sunk by German bomba. The Steel Inventor, be added.

struck a German mine and waa badly damaged. Two other freighters were bit and sent to drydock. Exploding bombs frequently Mt- WASHINGTON Behind the major effect of national defense, which got most of the publicity. Is a minor one which almost invariably causes a roar of layman laughter and a disgusting snort about -Whrt the heck are those guys in Washington up to anyway?" It's the construction of eoncrete ships to relieve the shipping shortage. The United State maritime commission now has bids on hand for 100 such ship and before you Join the snorters." let me present the case for concrete ships.

Since nobody contend that eoncrete ships ever will replace steel ones, or that a fleet of concrete freighters would ever be more than supplemental in an emergency, there's no need to go into any great debate On It. In the first place, the 100 ships now proposed art oil tankers or bargee without motor. But they are ships, nevertheless. A floating freighter of 8.000 to 8.000-tots, between 300 and 400 feet long, with a 40-odd foot beam Is no rowboat, even If it doe have to have a tug or so alongside to get It places. An official of one shipbuilding firm (the Newport Concrete Shipbuilding Co.) who built concrete ship tat the World war claims these barges will cost onlly about hall what the steel ones would.

He also told me he bad put Into his bid sn agreement to deliver the first con-' ere ter In 120 days from date of con tract and a ship a week thereafter from a shipyard with only eight ways for as long ts the government wanted to take "If he could Uve up to that, and onlv half of the 40-odd flrmi also bidding on the proposed 1P0 tanker could match It, think what would have to happen to our potential ell thorite If lueh a shipbuilding pro-era had been started last soring to reolac th motonhlp tankers turned over to Great Britain. A for concrete ships, they ere nothing new. There were about 3S built during the World wr t-d although the building of 13 by th U. 8. shinping board at a cost of some $30,009,000 has been described often as a fiasco, the 26 built far the army proved aomethlnr else again.

Eor Instance, the trim little fiver steamer. Gen. D. H. Rucker, completed in 1919, plied the Potomac for nearly 20 years between Port Hamilton and the Navy Yard.

and It probably would be in sendee yet If it hidnt caught fire and burned 'not the concrete, of course, the wooden superstructure). An interesting Uem In connection with the General Rucker i that In 1937. after It had I en in sendee 18 years, the army officially (reported the total cost of repair and maintenance of its hull bad been 835. When the commentator recently deplored the talk of concrete tankers but suggested helpfully that tank cars might be loaded on railroad barge on the Inland waterways to relieve the possible petroleum shortage In the east, he overlooked the fact that soma of the big railroad barges cn the Mississippi are of concrete and at least one of them has been In service far more than 30 years. A number of other concrete ship and barges did their stint for years, rven one of the old shipping board's 13 mistakes (resulting, according to some opinions now from faulty designing, hasty construction, and an attempt to build them too large) still is in use as a moored fish reduction plant at Point San Pablo near Richmond, Calif.

Contrary to general conception, concrete hulls are only a few inches thick and inside the concrete are thick web and lacings of steel wife." The thing 1 that this reinforcement may be made from scrap a big saving In steel piste and 60 per cent or more of tha labor required may be unskilled and drawn from a market that nearly always Is overflowing. Concrete hulls are slightly heavier than steel ones, but lighter than wooden bulls. That, in part. Is the case for what some skeptics have derisively described as th floating bathtubs. It was good enough to cause Chair tered the decks of anchored American vessels with splinters, Stow said.

Be added there were no casualties among the crews, although 48 persona were killed In Sues during on six-hour bombardment by German and Italian planes. RARE ART SHOW ANNOUNCED PHILADELPHIA UP) Christian Brtnton, noted Westtown critics and collector, win give a public showing of his valuable European art collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art In November. Brlnton explained: Seventy Is the time of life when a man who collects treasures should share them with the world." If yet suffer frwci Oottlnf tp VfHrhta, JlackRCM, Jtenrouooott, Lee Anew (Mi worn est, due to o-orftto n4 non-oyiitmle Kidnev Btedder lrs-rkee, yoo should try Cjrotrx whtrfc Is firing jowui help to thousand e. Printed fusrsnt, Bionty hark vnltao completely asuefactory Aak yomdrunat ter Cyaiat today. Breakfast special hot cakes and eoffe 15c.

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