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Show ACTION IS TAKEN TO INCREASE PENSION WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. Major M. C. Butler, who was shot to death' by H. C. Spanncll at Alpine, Texas, July 20, was held today by the senate to 'have died a lieutenant colonel. Butler's nomination nom-ination for promotion had been confirmed con-firmed before his death, but his commission commis-sion had not been forwarded. By a bill j passed today in the senate, the president was authorized to issue the commission dating July 1. This operates to increase his widow's pension. |