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Kings Point Merchant Marine's invasion of the Soldiers Field Varsity diamond will top the list of sports activities for tomorrow as the baseball, track, and Tennis squads all swing in to action if the bad weather lets up sufficiently...
While Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity takes on the Merchant Marine, the B team will complete the diamond twin bill in an encounter with the Army Base Officers...
With the postponement of the Torpedo Boat game, Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity nine has an open week until Saturday's engagement with the King's Point Merchant Marine Base. The subs will take on the Army Base Officers (P.O.E.) at the same time on the Freshman diamond...
Congressman Richard J. Welch (R., Calif.) wanted to know why scarce steel was being used to build 30 merchant ships in U.S. yards for the Dutch Government. To this logical question he got a logical answer. Said the Maritime Commission's Vice Admiral Emery S. Land: when the ships are completed they will be assigned to the United Nations shipping pool and used for whatever service the pool considers necessary. Only after the pool is disbanded will the Dutch get their new ships...
...Dutch, whose prewar merchant fleet was the world's seventh largest (1,532 ships, 2,972,871 tons), had shown their usual perspicacity by placing their orders early. During the war the Dutch have lost 50% of their trim ships, including the crack liners Statendam, Veendam. New ships will be needed to haul reconstruction materials and rawmaterials to Holland. In the teeming Netherlands East Indies the only means of communications between the many islands is by coastal steamer...