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Show If SILT LIKE BUSINESS ! Ml GETS MEDAL i! UNDER PROTEST I: f Secretary Baker awarded a distin- ' guished service medal to D. C. Jack- : ling of Salt Lake City, after the board I: ! of awards had ruled that such an ; award could not be made legally, Col- oncl Thomas M. Spauldlng. a member I of the board, today told a house in- I vestigating committee, according to :t the Associated Press. ijL Jackling was granted cqn tracts.. for w the construction of the government ni- fi trate plant at Nitro, W. Va., and sub- I let the contract, Colonel Spauldlng I I said. He was not connected with the t military forces. |