The Coldwater

CLAYTON, District Judge.

This cause is submitted on the motion of the United States for process Of attachment and monition against the American steamship Coldwater, and also upon the motion of the respondent to dismiss the libel.

On July 27, 1922, the American steamship Coldwater, owned by the United States, controlled by the United States Shipping Board under Act of Congress acting for the United States, but the ship being under charter to the Carolina Steamship Company, a private shipping corporation, arrived in the United States with a cargo from Nordenham, Germany. The cargo consisted of…