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Show ai. .. ,, . , ., fcANY APPEALS FOR MINERAL RELIEF AID 1 137. WASHINGTON, July 25. Comedy and -r""rat;e(ly vie ivhh each other in tho mass -" ' elflims lileil against the war minerals yp ill'.'f commission. Curious and intei est-I est-I j ig are some of Ih'1 siraime claims which ave floated in. Tho commissioners will ftve to puzxle lon.g over sonnj of the -juries proKonted in al'iidavits before .-.Oding a real conneetion between the JJalnt and the law. Tears, honest, old-ihsiiioii6d old-ihsiiioii6d tears, have been .sin.d by the Oj3inniissioners ovi-r some of the really kjjkrcjirt -breaking letters. Lauiia, many of VTvi'm. have broken Ihe niouoionv of three .'onths of Rt-liuiing work :tnJ indiina-Jloii indiina-Jloii over soino of the frank nttoinnis to 1 jt- a lit tin government money wit hout 1 -iVsil,1o excuse, U-mxl, tc-lniicai or other-vW other-vW 'Isti, and have put sice into many an iherwiso dull day. A large number of claimants wen? auto-- auto-- tatliill.v ruled out bv viitue of the fn'L luit they based (ludr claims upon I he laiui fact tiro of fcrros. t he commission oldiug tlmt the law docs not cover tho "mmifaelured product. Due claimant .'anted to bo repaid for horses, trucks Vui building purriuis.'d f..r Ou estab- shnient of a transport scrvl-c. S.-v-yUml claimants based thoir plaints upon mm y or credit advanced to persoim w ho '?re tryimt to follow the government's iNfl-Mtiest for v;u- material, and several ah-j c ft t tempt r. l to collect prtvn te ac-A ac-A Stints from chiimants, ihrom-h lihng ac-,D3 ac-,D3 OlllltH with the relief cnnmiPsioa. As the law docs not dcliuitoly state that he wtir production musi hac been "in t e Vnited .States. " scrri Cuban ciainis ' tvo been tiled, the eniiie records am! 1! eorrespotHb'uce beinu' iu Spanish, mio who claimed S2l..'iM losses oxidaiued VtNjie "liMil kept no books' and that i?1 He conimissiou ould have to m- ept h:s lemory for the correctness 01" the claim. |