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A DETERMINATION, ORDER AND DIRECTION CONCERNING THE TRANSFER, RELEASE AND SURRENDER OF CERTAIN RIGHTS IN AND TO CERTAIN SHARES OF THE CAPITAL STOCK OF NEW ENGLAND WASTE COMPANY, AND OTHER STOCKS, BONDS AND SECURITIES, TO ADOLF LEVE, ET ALS.

1. By virtue of the authority vested in the President by an act of Congress entitled "An Act to Define, Regulate and Punish Trading with the Enemy, and for other Purposes," approved October 6, 1917, and known as the “Trading with the Enemy Act," and the amendment to such Act in "An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes," approved March 28, 1918, and the amendment to such Act embodied in "An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes," approved November 4, 1918, to make certain orders such as that herein contained, which authority has been delegated to me by Executive Order No. 3016, signed by the President on the third day of December, 1918;

2. Whereas, evidence has been presented that Adolf Leve of Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, and five certain corporations, viz., the New England Waste Company, W. Wolf and Sons, the American Linters Company, the American Products Company, and the Oversea Trading Company, all corporations located and having an office for the transaction of business in said Boston, either, each or all of them, may be indebted to W. Wolf and Soehne, a German co-partnership of Stuttgart, Germany, the fact and amount of which indebtedness cannot be definitely ascertained until a full and final accounting between the said Adolf Leve, the said five corporations, and the said W. Wolf and Soehne after the treaty of peace between the United States and Germany, and the said W. Wolf and Soehne after investigation having heretofore been determined by the Alien Property Custodian to be an enemy not holding a license issued by the President; and

3. Whereas, pursuant to a request of the Alien Property Custodian, said Adolf Leve, his wife Claudine H. Leve, and said five corporations, heretofore filed certain reports with the Alien Property Custodian, as from the records of his office will more fully appear, but under protest and subject to certain reservations stated in said reports; and

4. Whereas, pursuant to the demands of the Alien Property Custodian, but under protest and subject to the reservations stated in said reports, certain shares of stock of the said five corporations, and certain other stocks, bonds and securities, a full list of which immediately follow, were transferred and surrendered to the Alien Property Custodian, and are now in the possession or control of the Alien Property Custodian, viz:

997 shares of common capital stock of W. Wolf & Sons in name of Claudine H. Leve.

1 share of common capital stock of W. Wolf & Sons in name of Adolf Leve. 463 shares of common capital stock of American Linters Co. in the name of Adolf Leve.

4,001 shares of common capital stock of New England Waste Co. in name Adolf Leve.

5,997 shares of common capital stock of New England Waste Co. in name of Claudine H. Leve.

$70,100 St. Louis, San Francisco Ry. Co. Prior Lien 4 per cent Bonds in name of Claudine H. Leve.

$79,450 St. Louis, San Francisco Ry. Co. Adj. mtg. 6 per cent Bonds in name of Claudine H. Leve.

$140,200 St. Louis, San Francisco Ry. Co. Inc. mtg. 6 per cent Bonds in name of Claudine H. Leve.

50 shares common stock of J. S. Young Co. in name of Claudine H. Leve. 300 shares preferred stock of S. A. L. in name of Adolf Leve.

100 shares Cleveland, Cinc. Ch. & St. Louis Ry. in name of Claudine H. Leve.

44 shares Savoy Oil Co. in name of Claudine H. Leve.

25 shares G. W. Helme Co. in name of Millicent Leve.

50 shares Continental Gas & Oil Co. in name of Felice Leve.
44 shares of Savoy Oil Co. in name of Claudine H. Leve.
50 shares Electric Property Corp. in name of Felice Leve.
3 shares Olympia Theatre in name of Claudine H. Leve.
25 shares Arlington Mills in name of Claudine H. Leve.
25 shares Arcadia Mills in name of Claudine H. Leve.

50 shares Sears Roebuck & Co. in name of Claudine H. Leve.

50 shares Goodyear Tire Co. in name of Claudine H. Leve.

97 shares common stock of Am. Products Co. in name of Claudine H. Leve.

1 share common stock of Am. Products Co. in name of Adolf Leve.

1 share common stock of Am. Products Co. in name of Lewis P. Sladen. 1 share common stock of Am., Products Co. in name of George E. Lund. 97 shares common stock Overs ea Trading Co. in name of Claudine H. Leve. 1 share common stock Oversea Trading Co. in name of Adolf Leve.

1 share common stock Oversea Trading Co. in name of Lewis P. Sladen. 1 share common stock Oversea Trading Co. in name of George E. Lund. And also a dividend of ten per cent (10%) in the sum of One Hundred Thousand ($100,000) Dollars, declared by the New England Waste Company at a meeting of its Board of Directors held April 7, 1919. payable on April 15, 1919, in United States 41% Liberty Bonds to stockholders of record on April 8, 1919, which said dividend has been paid to the Commonwealth Trust Company, of Boston, Massachusetts, as Depositary for the Alien Property Custodian, and is now in its possession.

5. I hereby in the public interest make the following

DETERMINATION, DIRECTION AND ORDER.

The Alien Property Custodian may, and he is hereby authorized and directed, to transfer, dispose of, release, surrender and quitclaim to said Adolf Leve, said Claudine H. Leve, Adolph Leve, as the duly appointed and qualified guardian for Millicent Leve and Felice Leve, the two minor children of said Adolf and Claudine H. Leve, and to Lewis P. Sladen and George E. Lund, all of said Boston, as their respective interests may appear on the foregoing list, all the right, title and interest which the Alien Property Custodian and said W. Wolf and Soehne, or either of them, have acquired. or may acquire, by reason of said demands for said stocks, bonds and securities, and the transfer and surrender of the same to the Alien Property Custodian, in and to 9998 shares of the capital stock of the New England Waste Company, 463 shares of the capital stock of the American Linters Company, 998 sharles of the capital stock of W. Wolf and Sons, 100 shares of the capital stock of American Products Company, 100 shares of the capital stock of Oversea Trading Company, and the remaining stocks, bonds and securities mentioned in said list,

upon such terms and conditions as the Alien Property Custodian, or his duly authorized agent, may deem proper, including, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such terms and conditions as will secure the payment by said Adolf Leve and said five corporations, or any of them, to the Alien Property Custodian, or his successor in office, of any indebtedness now owing, or hereafter, on such accounting, determined to be then owing, by said Adolf Leve, and said five corporations, or any of them, to said W. Wolf and Soehne; and including the power to secure the aforesaid indebtedness of Adolf Leve, if any, and said five corporations, or any of them, to W. Wolf and Soehne, by causing the said stocks, bonds and securities mentioned in the list aforesaid, or any part thereof, so released to said Adolf Leve, Claudine H. Leve, Adolf Leve as guardian of Millicent Leve and Felice Leve, Lewis P. Sladen, and George E. Lund, as aforesaid, to be held as security for the payment of the said indebtedness, if any, under such form of trust agreement, or otherwise, as may seem proper to the Alien Property Cutodian, or his duly authorized agent; and including the power to make such arrangements as the Alien Property Custodian, or his successor in office, deems expedient, to prevent said shares of the capital stock of said five corporations, or any part thereof, from passing into German hands, or into German control, for such period as may seem proper to the Alien Property Custodian. or his successor in office.

6. My reasons in the public interest for the foregoing determination, direction, order, rule and regulation are: (a) The evidence presented shows that. the interest of the Alien Property Custodian in said stocks, bonds and securities may be merely the right to hold the same as collateral for the payment of such indebtedness, if any, of Adolf Leve and said five corporations, or any of them, to said W. Wolf and Soehne; (b) that said Adolf Leve has offered to pay, or cause to be paid, after accounting, whatever sum, if any, is found to be due from him and each of said five corporations, or any of them, to said W. Wolf and Soehne, and has offered to secure the payment of same; (c) that the most effective method whereby the indebtedness, if any, of said Adolf Leve and said five corporations, or any of them, to said W. Wolf and Soehne, in so far as the same can now be determined, can be speedily and safely liquidated is by the transfer, surrender and release of said stocks, bonds and securities, and the right, title and interest therein of said W. Wolf and Soehne, and of the Alien Property Custodian; said Adolf Leve thereupon agreeing to pay, or cause to be paid, said indebtedness, if any, and to secure the payment of the same.

Done at the District of Columbia this 28th day of May, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Nineteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Forty-third.

FRANK L. POLK.

A DETERMINATION, ORDER AND DIRECTION CONCERNING THE DISPOSITION OF A CERTAIN RETROCESSION ARRANGEMENT BETWEEN THE FIRST REINSURANCE COMPANY OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, AND THE MUNICH REINSURANCE COMPANY OF MUNICH, BAVARIA.

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By virtue of the authority vested in the President by an Act of Congress entitled An Act to define, regulate and punish trading with the enemy and for other purposes, approved October 6, 1917, known as the "Trading with the Enemy Act," and the amendment to such Act in "An Act making appropriations

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to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and prior fiscal years on account of war expenses, and for other purposes," approved March 28th, 1918, and the amendment to such Act embodied in “An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years on account of war expenses and for other purposes" approved November 4, 1918, to make certain orders such as that herein contained, which authority has been delegated to me by Executive Order No. 3016 and signed by the President on the third day of December, 1918, and

Whereas, evidence has been presented that a retrocession arrangement for life insurance was entered into between the First Reinsurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, and the Munich Reinsurance Company of Munich, Bavaria, under which arrangement there was automatically retroceded to the Munich Reinsurance Company a certain proportion of all insurance on lives assumed by the said First Reinsurance Company; and

Whereas, the Alien Property Custodian has determined the said Munich Reinsurance Company to be an enemy not holding a license granted by the President, and has seized all the right, title and interest of said Munich Reinsurance Company arising in favor of the said Munich Reinsurance Company by reason of the said arrangement;

I hereby make the following direction, order, rule and regulation:

The Alien Property Custodian may and he is hereby ordered and directed to dispose of any and all rights accruing to the said Munich Reinsurance Company against the said First Reinsurance Company under the said general retrocession arrangement subsequent to April 6, 1917, by discharging the said First Reinsurance Company of all obligations to the said Munich Reinsurance Company thereunder, and receiving a similar discharge from the said First Reinsurance Company to the said Munich Reinsurance Company of all obligations accruing in favor of the said First Reinsurance Company thereunder, but without disposing of any rights and/or obligations of the Munich Reinsurance Company in respect to the individual insurance contracts retroceded by the said First Reinsurance Company to the said Munich Reinsurance Company prior to April 6, 1917, under the said general retrocession arrangement.

My reasons, in the public interest, for the foregoing direction, order, rule and regulation are:

(a) That the aforesaid general retrocession arrangement between the said First Reinsurance Company and the said Munich Reinsurance Company was terminated at and abrogated by the declaration of war between the United States and Germany except as to the respective rights and obligations of the said First Reinsurance Company and the said Munich Reinsurance Company as to the insurance on lives retroceded by the said First Reinsurance Company to the said Munich Reinsurance Company prior to April 6, 1917 under such retrocession arrangement.

(b) That the only property or claim of any value taken over by the Alien Property Custodian by virtue of the aforesaid requirement and seizure is the obligation in favor of the said Munich Reinsurance Company in respect to insurance on lives retroceded by the said First Reinsurance Company to the said Munich Reinsurance Company prior to April 6, 1917, under such retrocession arrangement.

Done in the District of Columbia this 28th day of May in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Nineteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Forty-third.

FRANK L. POLK.

AN ORDER REJECTING THE BID OF WM. L. WALTHER, GEORGE ROSSEN, CLEMENT H. BETTS AND ROBERT H. GOODWIN FOR TWENTY SHARES OF THE CAPITAL STOCK OF THE ASSOCIATED OPERATING COMPANY OF NEW YORK OFFERED FOR SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION ON MAY 13, 1919, PURSUANT TO THE TRADING WITH THE ENEMY ACT" AND AMENDMENTS THEREOF.

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By virtue of the authority vested in the President by "An Act to define, regulate and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes," approved October 6, 1917, known as the "Trading with the Enemy Act," and the amendments to such Act embodied in "An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, and prior fiscal years on account of war expenses and for other purposes," approved March 28, 1918, and the amendment to such act embodied in "An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years on account of war expenses and for other purposes' approved November 4, 1918, to make certain orders such as that herein contained, which authority has been delegated to me by the Executive Order 3016 and signed by the President under the third day of December, 1918, I hereby, in the public interest, make the following determination and order:

The Alien Property Custodian having offered for sale at public auction in the city of New York, State of New York, at 11 o'clock A. M. on the 13th day of May, 1919, 20 shares of the capital stock of the Associated Operating Company, a New York Corporation of the par value of $100 per share, out of a total authorized and issued capitalization of 50 shares of the par value of $100 per share, which said property was held by the Alien Property Custodian, at which sale Wm. L. Walther, George Rossen, Clement H. Betts and Robert H. Goodwin were the highest bidders, having bid the sum of $5,000 which was the highest bid received for said property.

It is therefore ordered, that the Alien Property Custodian be, and he is authorized, and shall have the right to reject all bids at said sale, including the bid of the said Wm. L. Walther, George Rossen, Clement H. Betts, and, Robert H. Goodwin, and to resell such property in accordance with the provisions of the said "Trading with the Enemy Act," as amended, and the Executive Orders and proclamations issued pursuant thereto.

The reason for the foregoing order is that the price bid for said property by the said Wm. L. Walther, George Rossen, Clement H. Betts, and Robert H. Goodwin, to wit: $5,000 is inadequate and not the fair value of the property offered for sale.

Done in the District of Columbia, this 10th day of June, 1919.

FRANK L. POLK.

AN ORDER FOR THE SALE OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOUR (124) SHARES OF THE COMMON CAPITAL STOCK OF THE LA SALLE PORTLAND CEMENT COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, AT PRIVATE SALE, STATING THE REASONS THEREFOR IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST.

By virtue of the authority vested in the President by an Act to define, regulate and punish trading with the enemy and for other purposes, approved October 6, 1917, known as the "Trading with the Enemy Act," and the amendment to such Act embodied in "An Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1918, and prior fiscal years on account of war expenses and for other purposes," approved March 28, 1918, and the amendment to such Act embodied in "An Act making

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