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TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 17,
1987.
Japan Plans Huge Increase
In Subsidies For
*
Its Shipping
BY HENRY WOOD
San Francisco, March 20..
THE Japanese communications department has pre- pared for submission to the new cabinet and the next session of the Diet, the most ambitious scheme in its history to aid foreign trade and Japanese shipping, according to an announcement just made by the Institute of Pacific relations.
The announcement followed a prolonged survey, by the Institute of the entire shipping situation in Japan and that of other competing countries such as the United States and Great Britain.
According to the Institute's announcement the new project of the Japanese communications Department provides for shipbuilding subsidies of 150,000,000 yen during the next five years, and provides for the building of faster and superior vessels, and abolishment of the scrapping clause which figured in earlier improvement plans, and the extension of banking and credit facilities to shipping
concerns,
Aside from Japan's deter-to be following the course of the cou- mination to gain and hold a diet for naval supremacy and espe
cially In Japan. The two, it declares, major position in world ship cannot be dissociated. Japan is sub- ping, the Institute's survey sidizing a shipping, the survey declares that the present activity points out, to an extent where other nations feel that without similar In Japanese shipping must in-
alds they cannot meet competition. evitably be linked up with the military programme and the drive for expansion both on the mainland of Asin and the waters to the south.
The survey finds that Japan can already claim supremacy in tonnage of three very important world routes, namely the New York, the Indian and the Australian runs. The programme about to be submitted to the new Japanese government is expected not only to maintain but to increase that superiority?
On the run to New York via the
noge of 10,000. All of these can be
As a consequence their pending en- trance into an even more extensive subsidy policy is hardly calculated to correct such evils as over tonnage and traffic rates that are far lower, rates entirely out of proportion to operating costs.
The Institute calls particular at- tention to the recent declaration of the Japanese Department of Com- charseterized munications when it Japan's shipbuilding industry as the "vanguard of advancing Japan."
The Institute finds that at the end of August last year, Japan had 100
2023, with a total tonnage of
212,384, under construction.
Professor Otto Schmidi, famed
Russian polar explorer, who is one of the ten Hussian scientists who have started an air expedition to the North pole, where they intend to and by parachutes and live in camps for n year to make studira, They will be rescued in 1938 by 'plane,
SONJA,
LILY PONS HUNGRY
IN HOTEL
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New York, Apr. 10. ILM players Lily Pons, Sonja Henie, and Ty- rone Power were marooned
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Only an international conference Jepan now has 18 new fost cargo ships of an average deadweight ton- on shipping, the Institute finds, might
into race for the building up of mercun converted almost overnight armed, auxillary cruisers for accom- tile. marines, which far exceed the panying the feet or for independent world's needs, but which in turn con- stitute définite adjuncts to the navies naval operations.
of every country involved.-United Press.
In addition, now regular services have been opened to the Pacific coast, to Bombay, to Iraq and to South America. Säilings from Japan and Sium have also been increased.
The N.Y.K. line, the Institute finds, has started a new express freight ser- -
Hollywood
vice to Europe via Suez canai, operat- Children
ing five modern vessels of some 9,000 tons, deadweight and with` mux!- mum speed of 20 knots which is sufficient to enable them to be used In conjunction with the fleet.
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-SAYS MOTHER Hollywood, Apr. 1.
An index to how much it
troit skyscraper hotels to- day,
At dawn the night staffs- waiters, bell-boys, chamber- maids, lift-boys-began the strike.
Two thousand five hundred' guests were marooned; heat was turned off; telephones went "dead"; lifts were stalled on the bottom floor; no break- fasts were served; no mail was delivered; no beds were made.
FOOD LOCKED UP Ice-skater Sonja Henle tried for three hours to get some coffee, then deelded to walk twenty floors to the
kitchen for it. But there she found that the ice-boxes containing food supplies had been padlocked by
Kera.
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The Institute finds that in ocean going ships of 2,000 gross tong or | more Japan now ranka second only to Great Britain with the United States ranking sixth. In ships making 12 takes to bring up youngsters in ienots or over per hour, the United Hollywood was seen in Mrs. Lily Pous, marooned on States in that category is only fifth- Nancy Wilson's suit to increase the twelfth floor of Detroll's Hotel
In addition to her own national mercantile marine, the Institute Onds her alimony from film director Statler, greeted the strike news with that Japan has 450,000 tons of Cary Wilson from
a burst of operatie temperament. $250 10 foreign vessels under charter.
"I don't sing here to-morrow,” she $1,000 monthly on grounds sald, flouncing on to her bed. "I The Insitute expresses its convic- their children are "backward" o back to New York. tion that statistics of commercial shipping as expressed in tonnage, because of the low family mileage, dividends and wages cannot finances. be the sole basis by which to judge an industry with which a nation's political and military policies are 50 closely identified.
I I don't cat Boon I gel too thin. If I walk up and down twelve floors I get too thin. x 1 Worry too
much
I got too thin. Oh, but Lam so hungry," York follies girl, sald in on. affidavit A manager arrived with an idea. that while Wilson was unable to pay "Miss Pons, we've found that strikers
Blonde Mrs. Wilson, former New
The world war demonstrated that more than $250 at the time of their will serve any one in the hotel who the mercantile marine of any country divorce in 1929, Hollywood has now is
Is one of Its most important clements risen above the depression and Wil- tt. You're fil. Miss Pons, so very
of defence and offence, first near-son is again "living in luxury." riers for accompanying the fleet, and second, armed with small calibre guns, as a defensive measure against submarines and smaller fighting craft.
and
he gald.
"Wonderful," replied Lily. "Bring u menu, any menus," Meanwhile Nancy, 10, and Cary
union leaders said that if But the uni Jr., 11, she charged, are "backward Miss Pons was I she should not eat
unable to mingle with other nearly as much as she ordered.
will Eventually children of equal station, and
there was # com- continue to be backward and under- promise and a meal. Miss Fon's The commercial shipping conflict developed until more funds are managers had to walk twelve flights of to-day, the Institute ands, seems available." United Press.
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