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Show NEW ASSISTANT WAR SECRETARY Dean of Columbia University Given Indefinite Assignment at One Dollar a Month. WASHINGTON, April .Secretary .Secre-tary Baker today announced tho appointment ap-pointment of Frederick P Koppel, dean of Columbia univorsity, as an assistant secretary of war with the indefinite assignment of advising and helping the secretary in any way possible pos-sible and the nominal salary of ono dollar a month. Mr. Keppel is a Republican, Re-publican, a lawyer, and is widely known in college circles. He recently volunteered to servo in any capacity for the war without pay, and Secretary Secre-tary Baker decided to make him his assistant. The small salary was provided pro-vided because of a legal prohibition against employment of federal officials offi-cials without pay. Mr. Keppel, who expected to assume as-sume his new duties today, is secretary secre-tary and editor of the American Association As-sociation for International Conciliation Concilia-tion and Chevalier in the Legion of Honor of Franco. He is forty-two years old and lives in New York. Mr Keppel will take over some of Secretary Baker's work, which has increased in-creased enormously recently through a big correspondence, a multitude of requests for conferences and the necessity ne-cessity of making personal trips of inspection in-spection to various parts of the country. coun-try. It has been physically impossible for him to attend to all, even by spending nearly every night in his office of-fice and assigning certain duties to Assistant Secretary Ingraham, and to his private secretary and office staff. |