The S.S. Marine Shark, twelfth DP boat to arrive at a United States port with refugees admitted under the DP Immigration Act, docked New York today from Hamburg. Its 549 immigrant passengers included 312 Jews. Representatives of the United Service for New Americans and EIAS were at the pier to ### the Jewish immigrants.
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