Union Jack Is Flown For Barmaid at Hotel LONDON—A number of people telephoned a hotel here to ask what was the occasion for flying the Union Jack in front of the building. The manager admitted the flag was flying to commemorate a spe cial occasion—of sorts. A certain barmaid who was always late hap pened to arrive at work that par ticular day a feu minutes early. The manager turned to the handy man and said. ' 7'his is a special occasion. Run up the Union Jack" The handyman took him at his Word. Scraps From Sea Feed Steel Plants LONDON—All over the world, the sea is yielding harvests of steel. Hungry furnaces use millions of tons of scrap metal each year Roughly half of each ton of new steel is born of scrap. Since World War II, a signifi cant percentage of this scrap has come from ships—ships sunk by battle or storm, or worn out by long service and junked. At dockside ' boneyards,'’ shipbreakers raze obsolete mer chantmen. liners, and war ships. Hut the real bounty comes from Davy Jones' locker. In derelict-littered harbors and along coastal sea lanes prowled by submarines a decade ago, marine salvage today is big, risky, and lucrative business. Lured by high scrap prices, and armed with underwater cut ting lurches and war-learned demofition techniques, salvage masters tackle torpedoed ships at depths where once they would have remained forever in limbo. Lloyd's of London lists nearly 000 ships lying at salvable depths in the Atlantic alone The war loss section of a recent in ternational directory of mer chant ships carries the names of .3,940 sunken vessels, and this list does not include German and Japanese losses.

62.5%