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Show i Counsel of Shipping Board' I Klmer Schlesluger of Chicago (portrait herewith) has been appointed general counsel of the United States shipping board, by Chairman A. D. Lnsker. A. survey of the legal side of the shipping bourd's affairs which Mr. Schleslnger must supervise indicates indi-cates that there nre 000 law cases pending In district nnd state courts of the United Stntcs against the tlcct corpointlon nnd the shipping board. Involving claims totalling about $50,-000,000. $50,-000,000. There are also 1,700 cases In the admiralty courts pending ugalnst tho shipping board and the fleet corporation, Involving sums In exccs of 50,000,000. Mr. Schlesluger Is forty. Ho n horn lu Chtcugo. Ho wns graduated frpni Hnrvard unherslty lu 1001, entered en-tered thr Harvurd law school the same jenr, nnd took his law degree In lOW. ' - The plan of reorganization of the shipping bouut pioWiles that there will be live leu presidents of the Emergency Klcct corporation, threa of whom will be In chnrge of opcrntlons, ono the chief counsel, and one In chargo of shIl of .ships nnd salvuge of materials. The three vlco presidents In charge of ojierqtlons will he J. Hurston Smull, slilp broker of Now York; William J. Lou, shipping represeiitntlve of New York; ami A. J. Frey, ship operator of Los Angeles. |