Shanghai Municipal Council, was continued by the local authorities yesterday but apparently without any definite clues as to his whereabouts being discovered. A number of persons were interrogated by detectives in an effort to trace Mr. Porter's movements since he disappeared last Thursday. Every possible lead is being followed as the search continues. battleships of 35,000-tons each, the North Carolina and- the Washington, are under construction and two more are appropriated for in the 1939 Naval Supply Bill passed by the Senate to-day and sent to the House for conference to settle minor differences, In addition, the pending $1,121,000,- 000 Naval Expansion Bill, on which the Senate will start work shortly authorizes three more battleships.
—United Press.
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