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Deferred Payment Plan for Trips on Cunard Line The Cunard and associated lines recently announced that arrange- ments had been formally concluded with a number of Morris Plan banks and companies throughout’ the United States for financing Euro- pean trips and pleasure cruises over its services, The deferred payment plan, as it is called is a great deal more comprehensive than that inau- gurated by Cunard in 1932. Under the new plan all major expenses, such as railroad and steamship fares, hotels and sightseeing expenses, etc., of a WBHuropean trip or pleasure eruise may be financed. A down payment of approximately 25 per cent of the total cost of the trip is required before sailing. Sub- sequent payments over a period of a year do not start until 60 days after sailing date. Special provision has been made for school teachers and educa- tors, whose salaries do not usually recommence until after the summer season, whereby their first payment is not made until Oct. 1, irrespective of date of sailing. The plan is ap- plicable to all classes and types of accommodation, although it is anti- cipated that it will prove most popular among those sailing in cabin and tourist class. In commenting upon his com- pany’s announcement of the de- ferred payment plan, H. P. Borer, general passenger manager of the Cunard line, said: ‘‘The public’s re- sponse to the original deferred pay- ment plan inaugurated by us in 1932, was so great that we have little doubt of our new and greater plan meeting with the immediate acceptance of the traveling public. There is no doubt that with condi- tions improving, a great deal of con- fidence has returned and there is a natural pent-up desire for travel.’ The United States engineer office, Vicksburg, Miss., has awarded con- tract for the construction and delivery of one barge for bank grader at a cost of $33,247, to the McClintic-Marshall Corp., Bethlehem, Pa. This barge is to have a length molded, 120 feet; width molded, 60 feet; and depth molded, 7 feet. To Work 40-hour Week As the result of a ruling by Atorney General Homer S. Cummings on April 6, navy yard employes were placed on a 40-hour week schedule. It is said that over 42,000 workers are affected. Navy yards have until this time worked an average 44-hour week. Some technical and professional em- ployes are not affected. 38 From now on navy yards will work eight hours a day, five days a week. This will bring the navy yards with- in four hours a week of the time now permitted in private shipyards. The latest ruling of the national recovery administration increased hours of labor in private shipyards on govern- ment work from 32 to 386 hours a week. Melius Elected President Frederic N. Melius, on April 11, was elected a director and president of the American Diamond Lines Inc. as successor to the late John E. Dock- endorff. He is also president of the United States Freight Co. and Uni- versal Carloading & Distributing Co. V. J. Sudman was also elected a di- rector of the American Diamond Lines Ine. and president of the Black Dia- mond Steamship Corp., its operating subsidiary. M. J. Hanlon, marine su- perintendent, was elected vice presi- dent of the Black Diamond Steamship Corp. Alfred J. Jupp Dies Alfred J. Jupp, a vice president of the Lunkenheimer Co., Cincinnati, died suddenly in Roosevelt hospital, New York April 10, while on a busi- ness trip, Born in Cincinnati June 25, 1875, Mr. Jupp entered the employ of the Lunkenheimer Co. in May 1890. In 1896 he was made New York repre- sentative, returning to the home office in Cincinnati in 1913, He was active in the Manufactur- ers’ Standardization society and also contributed the greater part of his time during recent months to code work in the valve and fittings in- dustry. Capt. Ole N. Christie Dies Capt. Ole N. Christie, for fifty years an employe of the Merritt- Chapman & Scott Corp., New York, died on April 4, at the Amityville, L. I, hospital, at the age of 77, of pneumonia, Captain Christie, who was night superintendent of the corporation at the time of his retirement two years ago, had commanded various derrick vessels of the Black Horse fleet in New York harbor since his young manhood and had a host of friends throughout the maritime fraternity. The new freight steamships, S. S. ANGELINA and 8S. S. Manurewa for the A. H. Bull Steamship Co., New York, launched at Newport News Shipbuild- ing & Dry Dock Co., Feb. 16 and March 16 respectively, are both fitted with a Sharples centrifugal oil purifier for lubricating oil for the turbines. MARINE REVIEwW—May, 1934 Joint Service Inaugurated Via Panama Canal All of the operating details having been satisfactorily worked out, an agreement was concluded on April 23 between the Panama Pacific line and the Grace line which will make avail- able a fast weekly service between New York and West coast ports via Havana and the Panama canal. The agreement also provides for the joint use of the International Mercan- tile Marine Co.’s Chelsea piers, 61 and 62, at the foot of West Twenty-second street, for all departures from New York. The sailing of the Panama Pacific liner PENNSYLVANIA from New York on May 5 will inaugurate the new joint service from this terminal un- der the terms of the agreement. The first Grace liner to sail under the agreement will be the SANTA LUucrIA on May 11. Thereafter the three turbo-electric sisterships, VIRGINIA, CALIFORNIA and PENNSYLVANIA, will alternate in a weekly service with the four new Grace liners, SANTA Lucra, SANTA PAULA, SANTA ROSA and SANTA HLENA. All seven liners are_ specially equipped to carry a large quantity of refrigerator and air cooled cargo as well as general cargo. Freight will be solicited for the joint account of the two lines although separate offices. will be maintained. The joint operation of the two lines from the Chelsea piers follows an ad- justment of fares recently agreed upon by the lines and made effective on April 8. First to Cross Lake Erie The first vessel to cross Lake Erie this year was the freighter Crescent Ciry on March 28. The vessel, belonging to the Nichol- son Steamship Co., was loaded with automobiles from Detroit bound for Cleveland. Severe ice conditions were encountered. After considerable delay from the time the vessel was first sighted she finally was safely docked at the Fifty-sixth street pier, Cleve- land. This is the sixth year that Capt. Clyde Tobin of the Crescent Crry has opened the season of navigation for vessels carrying automobiles. The CRESCENT Crry had on board 250 auto- mobiles. A. L. MacGregor, secretary and assistant auditor of the Pittsburgh Steamship Co., died suddenly at the Hotel Hollenden, Cleveland, on March 27. Mr. MacGregor was 70 years of age. He joined the Pittsburgh Steam- ship Co. in 1903, then newly organized, as assistant auditor. He became sec- retary of the company a number of years later. He is survived by five children.