The service was later indefinitely suspended because the United States Maritime Commission reduced the Line's subsidy to a figure which the owners considered as insufficient to cover the running expenses. Subsequent arrangements between the owners and the Maritime Commission improved the prospects of the future resumption of the company's Oriental service and President Coolidge left San Francisco for Manila and Hongkong where she arrived on October 18. When the vessel was starting out on her homeward voyage from Manila, the company's head office announced that she was to call at Shanghai.
Capt. K. A. Ahlin commands the liner, while Mr. D. E. Collins is her chief officer, Mr. F. J. Wilkinson chief engineer, Mr. H. E. de Grandpre, purser, Dr. W. M. Wildman surgeon and Mr. J. Robinson, chief steward. Stopping here for less than a day the liner sails today for Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the last passenger tender leaving the Customs Jetty at 730 am 3
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