Shipments =- Grant Goddard M. F. Bigelow Oetober JM 9D Browning 12 October 18, 1948 Re insurance claim for from case No. 3311, we request one 12 cannot gauge 30 give you inch full choke barrel pilfered the bill of lading as you . This whole thing looks like lading in this office until imports matters here around before this time Charley may know. Charley If send back here, may time to find it. papers sent us by have a mess to me. shortly after Mareh of this been filed We did not request bills of we began pulling all the year. The bilis of lading anywhere they are in it will prebably the in batch of cost the bond us St. Louis office. file papers I about $50 I am judging only from the condition of Ellis — we started taking over. — worth bond had of — file In addition, from all we can determine, case 3311 appears not to have been in the Beaverglen shipment exported November 13, 1947. In addition, from the consular invoice and FN invoice, case 3311 contained not barrels but is shown as being one of six cases each of which contained ten 12 gauge standard 30 ineh full hollow matted rib guns. I suppose a barrel could have been swiped off a gun. Suppese you will have to determine whether it was cheek the form of the improperly made out. original It would claim to be desirable if Charley can lay his hand on the bill of lading. If the matter is as badly mixed up as it seems te be, it would be my feeling to waive the claim rather than waste so much time trying to untangle it. The only reason you may hesitate whether such action insurance company. would Should our glen mention shipment that out to not waive the claim in some way compromise records of Antwerp of ease 12/20/47; No. 3311 entered might depend upon us with the it in a Beaver= show into bonded warehouse 1/8/48, warehouse bond No. 2813; case withdrawn, Pebruary 5 under -warehouse withdrawal No. 110. Our bond file does not contain any of shortage but Ellis could well have failed to report it memo to us. Only other comment I would make ‘is why it is necessary there should be such a considerable lag in the following up of a claim. There is, of _¢ourse, much greater possibility of confusion. Something for us to bear in mind in the future. —