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Show Chairman of Shipping j Board to Be Honored j UALTIMOUE. Ap'll 5. The core-1 mony of conferring ujion Admiral William Wil-liam Shepard Benson, chairman of the United Slates shipping board, the decoration of the Order of St. Giegory tho Great, of which he has been made a knight of the grand cross by Pope Benedict XV, will take place in the Baltimore cathedral on Sunday, April 11. Admiral Benson is the lirst American Amer-ican to receive this highest degree of knighthood in the Military division of the Order of St. Gregory the Great. Cardinal Gibbons will officiate at the ceremony of investiture. It io expected ex-pected that in addition to sovernl 'members of the Catholic- hierarchy and numerous lesser dignitaries, there will be present many of Admiral Ben-1 (Son's fellow officers of the unAn. and "Important officials of the various gm-j gm-j ernment departments in Washington. !v tin |