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J 4W APPROVE SHIP TRANSFER. Washington, Jan. 8 (AP).—The United States Maritime Commission today approved the sale and transfer of registry of the 6,517-ton steamship San Lucas to the Canadian International Paper Company. The San Lucas was owned by the Pacific-Atlantic Steamship Company of Portland, Ore. The ship will be used by her new owners to transport paper products from Canada to the United States and Great Britain. Reds Get Tugs Sea-Battered Seattle, Jan. 25 (AP). —Thirteen Montreal seafarers were here today after a tempestuous two-month voyage bringing the stout little tug Bonsecours for delivery to the Am-torg Trading Corporation, Russia s Government trading agency. They said the jinx of having 13 in the crew followed the Bonsecours all the way from the St. Lawrence Gulf, forcing her to fight three heavy storms during which she was battered and swept by heavy seas until crew quarters were flooded and the men had to grab snatches of sleep in the pilot house and engine-room grating. The tug Bon Voyage, also sold to Amtorg, which ! left Montreal with the Bonsecours, was expected to berth here today. The tugs will be taken over by Russian crews within the fortnight and will steam for Vladivostok, where they will be used as icebreakers and in general harbor lervice. They were sold by Sin-cennes McNaughton Tugs Ltd. All Shipping Under Control of Admiralty London, Jan. 31.—(CD-Prime Minister Chamberlain announced in the house of commons to-day that the admiralty will become responsible for all Britain's merchant shipbuilding and repairs effective to-morrow. In announcing an arrangement similar to the one adopted in the later stages of the last war, Mr. Chamberlain said Sir James Lithgow would be controller of merchant shipbuilding and Sir Amos Ayre director of merchant shipping. BARGE BOGGED BY ICE IN CHICAGO—Here's one boy that walked home from a boat ride, and he didn't need his water wings. When his barge became ice locked in Chicago river, crewmen walked ashore to get firemen's aid in freeing it.