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Show I I NEWS BRIEFS . 4 REAR ADMIRAL DIES. I WASHINGTON Rear Admiral Sea- ton Shroeder, 73, retired from 1909 to 1911, commander of the Atlantic fleet, Is dead at the naval hospital. V MXOTT RE-ELECTED. HAMPTON, Va, Dr. Charles D Walcott was re-elected chairman of tho national advisory committee on aeronautics at its meeting at Lins-field. Lins-field. OLDEST MINISTER DIES. HOUSTON, T x. The Rev. Joseph Matheson Evans, S5. pastor of Evans j Memorial Presbyterian church here, .nd said to bo the oldest minister in I the United 9tates actively engaged pastor of a church. Is dead here He had told friends he had preached about 20,000 sermons and made up-' wards of 10,000 converts. NEW CHAIR FOUNDED. ATLANTA. Ga Tho office of dean of men, the first to bo established in any Georgia college or university ha been rceated by the Georgia School of Technology and Professor Floyd Field named for the new chair, It was announced an-nounced today. WAR GRAFTERS SETTLE CHICAGO, net SO Although set- rtlement of tho government's claim for J4S2.000 against the firm of BrlffgB ft Turvlas, growing out of tho purchase of surplus war material, said to have aggregated nearly $20,000,000. was nnounced from Washington Thurs-flay Thurs-flay ntgl, indictments against members mem-bers of the firm still are pending here The company settled tho salvage claim lor $600,000, which Included interest Four officials of the company are under un-der Indictment on charges of having defrauded tho government by making fraudulent Income, war profits and excess ex-cess profits tax returns. |