Evening star., 1924-02-22
AWARDS LUS|TAN|A
| VICTIMS S1,0D0,0|)D
Mixed Commission Approves
Fifty-Seven American
Claims; Denies Forty.

The German American Mixed Claims
Commission late yesterday handed
down a decision awarding about
81 .OOO, 900 damages to fifty-seven Ameri-
cans on account of claims resulting
from the sinking of the British liner
Lusitania. Forty claims were denied
in the decision.
It was the first group of Lusitania
claims to be settled. Last Novembe'
the commission handed down an opin-
ion determining the measure of dam
ages, when it was revealed that the
number of Lusitania claims totaled
27S, involving S22,600,0OO. The COM
mission had dismissed 3,190 claims
totaling about s345,000,0OO, for the re-
coyery of insurance premiums paid
by Americans for protection against
war hazards, on the ground that. un-
der the treaty of Berlin, Germany
incident to the very existence of a
state of war"
Edwin. B. Parker. umpire. in his
decision held the German govern
ment must pay the first money to
Americans in eighty-eight separate
property damage and otherwise.
Judge Pnrker's Decision
The decision was finally mad> Sy
Judge Parker, owing to difference
between the American commissioner,
Charles L. Anderson, and the Ger
man commissioner, Wilhelm kiessel-
bach.
The largest award was in the case
of Mrs. May Davies Hopkins GilmeT
and May Davies Hopkins. who were
allowed claims totaling S130,00o. Mrs
n n - n
disaster, was the wife of the presi-
dent of the Newport News Shipbuild-
ing sand Dry Dock Company. Mr.
Hopkins, her husband. was forty
with 127 other Americans on the big
liner. She has since remarked.
Names of claimants and the amounts
awarded follow.
Henry W. Williamson. $4,000: Ellen
Williamson Hodges. $4,000: Patrick X
John Slattery. $4,000: Charles Rob-
fnson. $1,000; Mary Anne Baker, S15.-
600
Margaret Levinis Kellett, $4,000;
Stewart CranSton kellett. $4,000.
Mrs. May Davies Hopkins Gilmer.
$4,000; May Davies Hopkins, $4,000;
Arthur Courtlandt Luck, two awards
ktotaling $4,000
Frances Laphan Field. $4,000: Sam
uel James Ferguson. s10.000: ThirZe
Ann Foley. $4,000: Ruth Vain
9Iachardy, $4,000.
Roy Atkins. $4,000: :. Stanwood
Menken. administrator Of estate of
Alice Il. lesson. deceased 80 23'5
Emily Duncan Tesson, $4,000: Hettie
II. Allen. SI.aa0: Hettie ID. Allen. ad
ninistratcr of The estate of Dorothy
ID. Allen. deceased, s1.26..
sSo,Gr0 f.:r Cu-o 4 Page.
Arthur Grettou. individually. and
an eNtcrtriX OF th. estat.- of
Thomas Barker. deceased, $500;
Robert Dyer. two awards totaiing
5000: Cora \. Page, individually
$4,000; Cora \. Page. as -eHecutrix
ceased. SS,092; Ellen Candlish. in
dividually, $4,000. and as admins
tratriN Of the estate of Arthur Can
dish. deceased. S6S2.
Terrence Joseph Condor. SO, ,n0u. in
diyidually, and as administrator ot
the estate of Della Condor. S65l 80
Dorothy Conner Dugear. two awards
totalinE Sl2.16n: Frederic Warren
Pearl and wife Amy Lea Pearl. S1l,-
900; Frederic Warren Pearl. s19.714:
BESSIE Films Bloomfield, Si5.000.
Belle Saunders Naish., tsy awards.
s13.2S0; Mrs. Irene :. Jacob. $2o.00n:
Mrs. Dorothea :. Greenbaum. So 600:
Minna T.. SchWarcz, S32. 400: Miliicent
Harwood Hartt. as executriX of the
estate Of Charles Harwood Knight
deceased. $1.1.0
Daniel Virgin Moore. two awards
s11,a56: Roger Howell Davis, sG 500;
and as guardian Of Davis Emyrs
Davis. $1,000: Elizabeth lane Brem-
mer. two awards, 5000; Mrs. Bertha
v TrumbulI, $4,000: Priscilla G
TrumhuIl. $4,000.
Levi l.. Griesemer. 50 900: Mary
R. Hodges, $4,000; Anna E. Mills, in
riNIdually $4,000, and. as administra-
trix of the estate Of Charles Neitch
Mills deceased. sa,oo0: Blanche
Frances salt, $1,000: Charles Henry
salt. SI5.d0u.
Mrs. Florence I.arke. $4,000; Win
nifred Houghton Brown keay, S10,-
900: Angus NJ. Brown. $4,000: Will
liam ii. III. Brown. jr.. 5000: Charles
r.. Worden, individually. $500; as an
executor of the estate of Jane Wor-
den. deceased, $3.50.
Hepzibah Vernon Butler $4,000; Og-
den Haggerty Hammond. two awards,
SlI,97o; Mary Stevens Hammond,
$1,000; Millicent V. Hammond, $4,000;
ogden IagsertE Hammond. jr., $4,000;
ogden Haggerty Hammond and John
Henry Hammond, executors of the
estate Of Mary Picton stevens Ham
mond. s31 1,14J.
Edward Dingley. two awards, So
20; James Fl. Brooks. $4,000: Robert
Mckechan, $1,000: Elizabeth McKen-
nan, two awards, $4,000; Robert Ran
kin. sI,362.
James Tilly Houghton, two awards.
lZSa2; Oscar F. Greb. two awards.
s..0S0: Mrs. Virginia Leney Gamble,
two awards, s26.700; United States
Trust Company and George McKes-
son Brown, executors of the estate of
Catherine Wolfe Loney, deceased.
s15,450; Mary r. Chamberlaine. ex'
ecutrix of the estate of Allen ID. Lo-
ney, S1,235; Samuel Elliott Home, in
dividually. $4,000. and as adMinistra
tor of the estate of Mary Agnus
Hume, deceased. $1.341: James Con
molly, individually, $500 and as ad-
1nihistrator of the estate of Micha eli
Connolly, deceased, 1914.