The man through whose hands passes every federal law. In his care are the orig. of the 53,601 federal laws. His name is F.D. Van Valin and his office is the State Dept. at Wash.

John W. Robbins of the Comptrollers General's Office holds the secrets of 1,000,000 Americans. These secrets are in the form of packages containing the belongings of soldiers and Robbins task is to find surviving relatives and restore the packages to them

Lt. Col. A.F. Awl, Head of the Mail Sub-division of U.S. Veterans Bureau, who handles daily nearly 100,000 pieces of mail written in 41 different languages

Busy Senate official. Washington, D.C., Dec. 28. One of the busiest officials at the Capitol these days is Col. Edwin A Halsey, Secretary of the U.S. Senate, who is ironing out final details for the opening of the Senate on January 3, 12/28/38

How a bill become a law. At the same time that the bill is sent to the committee, it is also filed in the document room, so that interested parties may obtain a copies for inspection. John H. Smith of the House Document room is shown here filing a bill *Abstract/medium:; 4 x 5 i

H.M. Vandervort, Deputy Com. of Pensions, 6/6/21

Frank A. Brigfeld, 1/2/24 Frank A. Birgfeld Chief clerk and superintendent of the Treasury Dept, succeeded Wilmer G. Platt Evening Star 02 Jan 1924, Wed · Page 2

Decoding Chief at the State Dept. Washington, D.C., July 31. David Salmon, Chief of the Division of Communications and Records at the State Department is kept very busy decoding all the messages for the president that are coming thru the State Dept. from the China Japan hostilities. The messages are

C. Newburgh GED EMLOYEES ON sic THE GOVERNMENT DEPARTEMENTS IN WASHINGTON WHO WILL BENIFIT sic BY THE RETIREMENT BILL. C. Newburgh, age eighty three for thirty three years in the Civil war section of the pension office.