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[ue ‘‘Your fine organ- ization capacity and high ability proved of tremendous in- fluence in the suc- cess of our shipping : efforts in the war.’’ —Hurley MMMM es Sn = ITH the passing of the year W 1918, the shipping control committee, created during the war emergency by the Unit- ed States shipping board went out of existence. This was the first tangible demonstration of the beginning of the restoration of nor- -mal peace conditions; a step coinci- dent with the gradual release of antDs for commercial uses. When sending in their resignations the members of the committee stated: “In view of the very material re- duction in the movement of military traffic to France, and the general eas- ing down of that situation, and the fact that the altered conditions re- garding shipping will poobalyly free a good deal of tonnage for icom- mercial trades, this committee feels that -the time has come when it should be relieved of the duties dele- gated to it by the resolution of the Ulnite d States shipping board dated Feb Tie 18 The shipping control commit- tee allocated the vessels owned by and under the control of the shipping board to cargoes and trade routes so as to wuse_ the available tonnage to the maximum efficiency in the most essential trades. It also had entire charge of the operation of the fleet of cargo steamers engaged in x Men Who Ruled World’s Tonnage FRANKLIN—GUTHRIE—RA YMOND a0 TA transporting military material to the American army abroad. At one time 1356 vessels of 7,224,862 deadweight tons were under the jurisdiction of the committee. The work of the com- mittee had been thighly organized and such of its duties as remain after the first of the new year were divided among other executive divisions of the shipping board. The division of operations, for instance, will have general supervision of allocating ton- nage to the private lines which are to use it. The shipping committee was com- posed of P. A. S. Franklin, president of the International Mercantile Ma- rine Co.; H. H. Raymond, president of the Clyde and Mallory lines, and eS P. A, S, FRANKLIN 82 nA mT MII aul HUIUUUUCUUUALU UO ho ‘“‘Your work was done so quietly that I doubt whether you will ever receive the complete recogni- tion it so justly deserves.”’ —Hurley ALWIL Sir Connop Guthrie, the English rep- resentative in the United States of the British government’s shipping in- terests. It was purely a war organi- zation and originally intended to co- ordinate the shipping of the allied nations in order to put the full power of ocean service behind the war. CCEPTING the resignations, the shipping board paid tribute to the highly efficient and patriotic service of the committee “in its’ successful conduct and discharge of duties that have been most difficult and involved, and of the highest importance in the successful prosecution of the nation’s military plans and operations.” Espe- cial regret was expressed over the resignation of Mr. ‘Franklin who has been a close advisor of ‘Chairman Hur- ley and officials of the shipping board upon the many and de- tailed problems of ship opera- tion. Mr. Frank- lin had become to be looked upon by the shipping board as such an at- thority on ship operation as Charles M. Schwab was on shipbuilding and steelmaking. Ac- cording to many reports the ship- ping board would have desired to retain the sefv- ices of Mr. Franklin even though the work of his commit- tee had been completed. The fact that Mr. LE eee ae ah Bee Se