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WASHINGTON, Apl, # (AM.P:).
The - House '.of '. Reprcsentdtivtis
has unanimously approved a Dill
providing for the Issue ef -medals
and other devices of honor -for
merchant seamen . Rear- Admlraf
T.QMrl Vioap) nf -.Hi o Wfl r- RVilnnlrifl
Administration, recommended the
legislation, pointing out- that - in
the first year of the war the rate
of seamen's casualties , in killed
and .missing was nearly 4 per
cent., compared with one per
cent, in the armed services.
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