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SUMMER RATES PREVAIL Due to unequalled warm spring weather, Great Lakes navigation is under way in substantial volume unusually early. "Summer insurance" rates are in effect.' The Welland Canal is open and cargoes are moving. The paper carrier, .Chicago Tr-i-bunej was the first upbound vessel to transit the Welland Canal, - ¦*»-bound. She cleared -ThoriM? Ssfirid for Chicago. The bulk "freighter, Cheyenne^ of the Mohawk TfaHs]j>oi»-tation fleet, was the fir* dPthe -Pert Colborne winter fleet -1fi> <cwthr :<Wie sailed for head of lakes to OTHERS DOWNBOUND The Imperial Oil tanker Acadia.- n lite waijvilie first downbound vessel "through"' me canal. She had a cargo for Hamilton, and was followed by her sistJr, Talaralite, bound for Toronto. MonawK "T"»qr another Mohawk Transportation vessel, headed for Duluth, was the first to enter Port Weller and make the complete upbound transit of the Welland Canal. She wintered at Toronto and was overhauled by Dominion Bridge Co. Starbuck cleared Port Colborne; light, bound for Fort William, and; the Saskadoc cleared for a U.S. Lake ; Erie port to load coal for head of i lakes. Freighters of the Colonial Steamships fleet got under way to-; day, clearing Port Colborne for Fort William. BREAKER STANDS BY The icebreaker Mackinaw, is standing by in the Straits of Mackinaw, between Mackinaw City and Lansing shoal, to lend aid in keeping channels open for the upbound fleet to Lake Michigan. Four vessels of the Paterson Line fleet, which wintered at Goderich, and two of the Scott Misener fleet, left Godera^for head of lakes. ContrcKmm Awarded H For New Ferry Boat — Halifax, U.S., April 2.—{BUP) —Contract for a new Halifax-to-Dartmouth ferry boat, to replace the Governor Cornwallis, burned at Christmas time, has been awarded to the Pictou Foundry and Machine Company, Limited, it was announced here to-day. The new craft will be 165 feet long, all steel, three-laned and will cost $404,000, plus deliver charges of $2,500. FOR LAKE BOATS Kingston, April 6. — Cicada Steamship Lines, Limited, has announced the following list of appointments of captains and chief engineers in the fleet for the 1945 season: Upper Lake bulk freighters—Ash-croft, Capt. J. F. Davis, M. tf. O'Brien; Collingwood. Capt, E. Griesbach, M. Debman; Ponnacqna, Capt. James Reoch, C. Eericne; Emperor, Capt. J. A. Brown, A. J. MccMStie; GJfifl£a4gs, Capt. D. W. Burke, George Price; GoderMi. Capt. J. J. Dube, James Douglas"; Hagaxty. Capt. Roy Burke, W. H. Taylor* I .emovnfa Capt. C. E. Robinson, F. "Lumley; Present. Capt. E. Walkinshaw, D. G. Pruder; st-prifipojifl, Capt. T. S. Patterson, J. M. Kennedy; Wgslmjjujjt, Capt. A. F. Maclennan, F7B. Bohnell. Upper Lake package freighters— Huronic, Capt. T. R. McLeod, J. B. Polding; Renyovle, Capt. W. J. Holler, .H.MylerT Self-unloaders—Coalhaven. Capt. L. G. Bird, A. vT'Sat'hT Colliec, Fire in Lime Cargo Vancouver, April 2.—(CP)—Fire in a cargo of lime aboard the 250-ton coastal freighter ss. Bervin was extinguished by firemen' late yesterday after an eight-hour battle, Capt. J. A. Glenn, A. E. Ha'rdman;1 Glgftgig, Capt. T. W. Adam, K. Buchanan; Midland Prince. Capt. Percy Beatty, W. J. Nich6Us; Qslgr, Capt. R. Belcher, R. M. Bunnell. Package freighters — Bfettlefoyd. Capt. A. J. Gallowav, W. L'. Hurdef; geay.gfiQJB>f Capt J. E. Bernier, F. H. Gilbert; Qfll^VUlfr Capt. A. Allen, Joseph Brooks; Canadian,, Capt. E. Corcoran, J. A. Adams; City, nLHamittag. Capt. J. A. Le* pine, J. M. Clark; City of Kingston,. Capt. J. A. Ferguson, M. J. Sher-man; City nf Montreal. Capt. N. Legault T. Wicnolas^itv of To-rpnitK). Capt. M. J. Corkeiy, A. P. Norris; City of Windsor. Capt. A. Francis, Iff G. amitn: .Edmonton, Capt. H. J. Clarke, T. W.' Verity; Fernie- Capt. Alex Wilson, P. J. Rutherford; Kenora Capt. G. S. Capt. E. J. Shannon, R. w. Howes; ~ ~ Kirk, J. A. Capt. E. 9. owning; Weyburn. Capt. Roy Anderson, A. J". O'Brien; Winnipeg. Capt. H. A. Patterson, W. J. Coburn. Lower Lake bulk freighters— Acadian. Capt. A. Wilson, Charles Gray; itarrie. Capt. H. Laliberte, E. Henrv: jjlsjtL. Capt. B. Maalsnaes, A. W. Shackleton; Fairmount, Capt. W. J. Hore, H. McUoaff: Grain-mater, Capt. J. W. Sparrow, J. Fef-rier; Hastings Capt. E. A. George, A. E. TThnsp: rcjnroourjf Capt. J. R. Lamarre, Georfce W. Clark: Ma-hea_tjj, Capt. A. J. Story, C^wuig-: Meaford, Capt G Le-febvre, M. M. Murphy; Pgngt^ne, Capt. A. Bonin, D. F. Lbckwood; Sir^gae, Capt. G. E. Stephens, L. R. Rousseau; Starmount. Capt. J. R. G. Toupin.K. G. Kelly; Xeaktour. Capt. Paul Morinville, R. Gibson. Eastern division passenger steamers—Tadoussac. Capt. A. Delage, N. Crepe"aul Quebec^ Capt. C. H. Burtch, Napoleon Peloquin; jjf. T -nyrvny Capt. A. Duchesne, Omer Peloquin; RMielieu, Capt. C. A. Bodensieck, "George Bourret; R^U3i4S-£»Bfie, Capt. P. J. Cherry, J. A. Robillard. Western division passenger steamers— Qryjjga, Capt. W. Webster, J. F. Henry; Kingston, Capt. B. A. Bongard, GeoTgtTYf. MacDonald. Northern division passenger steamers—Norotvjr. Capt. William Taylor, J. W. WTMcLeod; HanVoruc Capt. H. R. Beaton, James NejI6n. fa POLICY DECLARATION U.S. Solid Fuels Administration ( issued a declaration of policy, effec-' tive April 1, which may affect the 1945 coal movement on the Great Lakes to a considerable extent. The declaration is not an order and may be subject to modification. It concerns coal for locomotive fuel uses and would prohibit lakewise movement of eastern coal for this purpose in favor of mid-western coal. About 3,000,000 net tons"of coal was shipped through Lake Erie ports in 1944 for U.S. locomotive f\x<g£: If thijjfeclaration is inten" also shjppff eastern coal for dian ra«roads it affects about 000 additional tons or a total 000,000. CARRIES COAL The honor of first arrival S,™son in ^"alo harbor goes to the 420-ioot freighter, Calumet, which entered, coal laden from Toledo The first vessel to clear Buffalo this year was the 525-foot freighter Lehigh, of Bethlehem Transportation which sailed light for Detroit WINDSOR AREA BUSY *»Windsor's earliest shipping Sea-o°> w °" £!cord °Pened officially with 28freighters- passing en route to the ftS?°f the ^skes anS-to coal distributing ports on the Great Lakes SeSren U.S. Steel Co. vessels cleared for are and coal stored at Calcite Mich. LEAVES WITH FLAX The James.. Watt has left Fort William TorSuperior with 192,0001 bushels- of flax. Ten other vessels are in port waiting to load grain cargoes. They are Lavaldoc, Mantadoc, Fort. WilUloc/ uanatttg, FTV. tJtassey, Rich^rd__Eeiss7"^lE_Eieiss. ArTC_Bygrs, Geoxge_JHilldman and MaTfrewsjon. Eleven other vessels were reported in Thunder Bay ready to enter port. They inclucje Visc.ounj; Bennett, Rg^altoji, Frank Wilkinson,, C. H. Houscn, '"Quej£& Laketon, Al-ta"doc, Ralph Misener and New Brun-doc. WILL USE VESSELS Transport Controller T. C. Lock-wood said the Grain Transportation j Committee hopes to use water transport rather than rail in handling the 460,000,000 bushels of wheat to be j moved from the head of the lakesto ! Eastern Canada during the ne; eight months. This would help alleviate a lem caused, by a serious shprtagi railway box..cars. FAR B*LOW A VERA! freeing of Great Lakes ays is reflected in the fact that y five ice bulletins have been lf-4 this spring by the Hydrograp.hic •ices, as compared with an average of eight during the last 13 years.