SHIPS NEEDED
TO BRING BACK
YANK TROOPS
LONDON, Jan. L8 (by Associated
Press),—There will be no shortage of
cargo tonnage for supplying world
needs during the first half of 1919, in
the opinion of Edward N. Hurley,
chairman of the United States Ship
ping Board, it is passenger space for
transporting troops home that is oc
cupying attention of the allied ship
ping controllers. No nation can have
as much of that as it wants now.
After conferring with industrial and
shipping heads in England and France
and viewing a large part of the battle
areas of France and Belgium, Mr.
Hurley stated that it would take at
least six months, possibly more, for
France and England to rehabilitate
their industries to the point where
large amounts of raw material will
be needed.
It is pointed out that it would be
useless to send industrial machinery
and raw materials to France until her
destroyed factory buildings are made
ready to receive them.
Almost the entire British industrial
system now is a huge munitions-pro
duction machine, virtually idle. Until
it is transformed to its pre-war state
raw materials would be a burden. It
will be necessary to import some ma
chinery for the transformation, but
not enough seriously to tax cargo
space for the next seven month, Mr.
Hurley believes.
The thirty-two German passenger
vessels in German ports have been
the center of most of the allied ship
ping discussions on this side for
weeks. Americans want all of them
they can get to send home roughly
1.700.000 men as soon us possible.
England must send home to t'anaOn
about 300,000. to Australia about 2m),
000. to New Zealand about 7,<;(>■) or
more, and bring to England thorn.; is
from Mesopotamia, Paleitbi, and
ether places. Obviously the Amcii
ran problem Is the greatest, ana It £
is understood that, in pressing for |
eliips, Americans generally have in- f
slated that the United States, with i
less than two years of war, Is in a bet- |
ter position to assimilate its return- f
ing troops than is England, whose in- I
dustrlal conditions have been more l
than disrupted.
With the rapid increase in Ameri- !■'
can tonnage, it is expected that more |
than 10 per cent of the American I
j forces will go home in American j i
I ships. It is the desire of American
i army officers and shipping interests f
that as many as possible of the bal- §
I ance be carried home in German pas
1 senger vessels, thus releasing a large ;
number of British bottoms.
If the demands of Americans, heard .
here, (hut the troops be sent home as |
rapidly as they were brought over,
becomes insistent, it will take more
ships to send them back than to bring
them over. They were brought over
under the stress of necessity, and in
some Instances ships were loaded to
the extent of discomfort. Loss of
tonnage caused by lighter loading.*
however, will be partially made up
by greater speed. Fast vessels will
not be compelled to conform to con
voy speed, and the elimination of zig-|
zuggiing will save much time.
While a great many men nre being j
sent home now, and the number will j
constantly increase, it is not believed j
the real homeward movement will be j
inaugurated before February 1.
Whether then it will be on the sug
gested basis of 300,000 a month de
pends almost entirely upon decisions }
of the allied shipping conferences,
which began soon after the armistice
was signed.
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COAL CONSUMERS MUST
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Consumers must huy their
Winter supply at Coal durnj>
the Spring and Summer lor
storage it Production is to be
maintained nt. a
maximum and the
country enabled
to avoid a serious
Coal shortage
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AN OPPORTUNITY IS OFFERED YOI
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To Share In the Immense Wealth Which Every Season Is Taken From Local
Waters By the Canneries.
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Local Company Organized to Engage in the Salmon Industry and Keep the Profits at Home
LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR YOUR FUTURE INDEPENDENCE
The Hinchinbrook Packing Company has been or
ganized at Cordova for the purpose of operating a two
line cannery on the site now occupied by the Ohm Fish
and Packing Company.
The new company has taken over the Ohm Fish and
Packing Company and will use the boats, gear, buildings
and other equipment of the latter company.
Gus Ohm, V. J. Swanberg and William H. King are
the organizers of the new company.
Everyone in Cordova knows of Gus Ohm. He started
at Cordova with a dory and fished for the local market.
By using sound business methods he prospered and soon
had a number of other fishermen working for him. Busi
ness men of the city became interested and he was given
capital to operate on a large scale, and finally the Ohm
Fish and Packing Company was formed, with him at
its head.
Now Mr. Ohm is convinced that although he has
made a success of the company there is more money to
be made in a salmon cannery than in fish packing, and
with the two men who have been closely identified with
him in the Ohm Fish and Packing Company he has de
cided to take over the la,ter plant and turn it into a
salmon cannery.
But to do this will require a large sum of money.
The new company will have a good start in possessing
the boats, buildings and equipment of the old company,
but money will be needed to buy ;uiditional machinery
and equipment.
The usual plan in such enterprises is to seek outside
capital—to go to the States and place the proposition
among men who are always on the lookout for such be
ginnings of successful industries.
But in this case the men interested have decided
that instead of going Outside for capital, and eventually
turning the largest part of the profits to people not of
the community, they will first offer people of Cordova
an opportunity to become interested.
The people here know something of canneries. They
know of the past successes of this industry in this imme
diate vicinity. They know that despite cries from the
cannerymen every year that their plants are on the verge
of ruin, yet every plant in the district is being enlarged
and improved and employs more men every season.
Fish packing is not a gamble, as is gold mining or
oil mining. The fish are in Prince William sound, and
when they are taken out they have a ready sale. The
industry yet is in its infancy.
Naturally it is impossible to guarantee a large return
on the stock, but people of Cordova who have seen the
canneries rise and prosper about the city can not doubt
the success of the new cannery.
Shares of the Hinchinbrook Packing Company have
a par value of SI.00 each, and will be placed on the mar
ket at par. All stock will share equally in the profits of
the company. Any quantity, small or large, will be sold.
No exaggerated statements about the company will
be made. A large and profitable fish-packing company
which has every assurance of continued success is being
turned into a cannery because the men in charge believe
a greater success can be made. A man will be in charge
of the new cannery who has spent practically his entire
life in work connected with fishing and fish packing, and
who has made a success in this very community. Every
possible supply for the canneery w'ill be purchased here
and local help and fishermen will be employed. The
profits will go to people of Cordova. Thus instead of
the largest part of the money going outside the city,
Cordova will reap the benefits in supplies purchased, sal- |
aries paid and profits distributed. I
This is an open statement of the new company and i
its aims. uj
Remember there has never been a salmon cannery 1
in this district that has failed. 1
Look Into This Matter; Get In the Fish Game I
I Mr. V. J. Swanberg is at the Windsor Hot el, Room 9, and will be glad to give you detaile ed information regarding the cannery. 1
Call personally or by telephone, or drop him a letter, and he will call upon you. I