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August, 1921 MARINE REVGe 347 FIRST MEETING OF NEW SHIPPING BOARD New members of the United States shipping board photographed at their first meeting in the board's: conference room, new navy building, Wash- ington. From left to right, around the table, they are: Meyer Lissner, Admiral W. S. Benson. former chairman; T. O'Connor; A, Lasker, chairman; George E. Chamberlain; F. I. Thompson and E. C. Plummer England to study world shipping con- ditions, and in 1900, when the Atlantic Carriers' association was formed, he was made executive official of the asso- ciation, a post he has held ever since. In 1898, when the Spanish-American war broke out, Mr. Plummer retired from the newspaper field and became a paymaster in the navy. Since that war he has been in admiralty practice, spending his winters in Washington. He is a Republican, represents the Atlantic coast, and is serving a 3-year term, Meyer Lissner PRACTICALLY every good-govern- ment movement in Los Angeles and southern California in the past 20 years has found Meyer Lissner in the fore- front. This work has gone hand-in- hand with his practice of law, and has kept him more or less in the political arena. In the course of his law career, Mr. Lissner, who was born in San Francisco, June 16, 1871, has been presi- dent of the Los Angeles board of pub- lic utilities--from 1909 to 1911--and from 1915 to 1919 he was a member of the California industrial accident Commission. The editorship of the California Outlook took much of his time between 1914 and 1917. For sev- 'ral years he also was chairman of the Republican state central commit- tee. Mr. Lissner is a Republican and Pacific coast member of the shipping board. His is a l-year term, expiring June 8, 1922. George E. Chamberlain EORGE FE. CHAMBERLAIN, Portland, Oreg., had been senator from Oregon 12 years when placed on the shipping board by President Hard- ing, and is probably closer to the Presi- dent than any other man now on the board. Senator Chamberlain was born in Natchez, Miss., Jan. 1, 1854, and shortly after being graduated from Washington and Lee university in 1876 took Horace Greeley's advice "Young man, go west". Senator 'Chamberlain had been in Oregon scarcely 'four years when he was elected to the legislature, and between then and 1909, when he was sent to Washington, he was in office most of the time. Senator Cham- berlain was re-elected in 1915, but suc- cumbed to the Republican landslide in 1920. He is a Democrat, is one of the Pacific coast's representatives, and has a 4-year term. F. 1. Thompson DITING and _ publishing have claimed Frederick I. Thompson, Mobile, Ala., ever since he assumed the editor's chair of the Aberdeen (Miss.) Weekly when he was only 17 years old. - phia, This was in 1892 and for three years he guided public thought in Aberdeen, where he had been born on Sept. 29, 1875. In 1895 he went to Memphis, Tenn., on the Commercial-Appeal Weekly. Since 1909, Mr. Thompson has been chief owner and publisher of . the Mobile Daily and Sunday Register, while in 1916 he acquired an evening paper--the News-Item--in Mobile. In 1912, Mr. Thompson was a member of the Democratic national committee. Mr. Thompson has a 2-year term on the board and represents the Gulf re- gion. He was named on the shipping board selected by President Wilson late in 1920 but which was never con- firmed by the senate. : Galveston, with its subport, Texas City, led all ports of the United States in wheat exports during the fiscal year just ended, according to figures announced by the local cotton exchange and board of trade. The figures are: Galveston, 86,645,551 bushels; New York, 51,517,000 bushels; Baltimore, 32,897,396 bushels; Philadel- 22,475,264 bushels; Boston, 3,- 592,571 bushels. The aggregate shipped from Galveston during the 12-month period was an increase of nearly 400 per cent over the exports of the previous year.