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Show ADMIRAL BENSON TO TAKE PLACE OF PAYNE WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Rear Admiral Ad-miral Benson, chief of naval operations opera-tions during1 the war and now on tho retired list, has been selected'by President Wilson to succeed John Barton Bar-ton Payne as a member of the shipping ship-ping board. Admiral Benson's nomination will not be sent to the senate until Chairman Chair-man Payne winds up several pressing matters now before the board ' before talking over the office of secretary 6f the interior in succession to Franklin K. Lane, whoso resignation is effective effec-tive March 1. It was said at the White House that this probahly would take about a mouth. |