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Harvard Law Review Published monthly, during the Academic Year, by Harvard Law Students SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. S2.60 PER ANNUM 35 CENTS PER NUMBER Editorial Board George E. Osborne, President Henry H. Hoppe, Case Editor Charles M. Thorp, Jr., Note Editor Harold F. Plindel, Case Editor Clifton Murphy, Note Editor Carl H. Baesler Harold J. Laski, Book Review Editor James A. Fowler, Jr. George F. Lx^jington Leo Gottlieb Stanley Morrison Isaac D. Halpern Arthur D. Platt Harold W. Holt H. William Radovsky Cloyd Laporte Sigurd Ueland Victor Levine Clarence J. Young In the closing days of the battle of the Argonne, Captain Reuben B. Hutchcraft, Jr., io6th Infantry, was killed in action. He was leading a reconnaissance patrol, and, encountering a machine-gun fire from which the character of the terrain afforded no adequate protection for his men, he led them in a successful charge on the machine-gun nests which were put out of action. He himself, however, was killed. Captain Hutch- craft graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1907, and received the degree of LL.B. cum laude from Harvard in 191 1. From 1909 until 191 1 he was an editor of this Review. After his graduation from the law school, he practiced law in Kentucky, his native state. He was twice elected to the Kentucky legislature, and was a member of the state Tax Commission, and a professor in the law school of the University of Kentucky. With his intellectual abihty, his enthusiasm, his devotion to the public welfare, and his engaging personality he was a man who could ill be spared by his commonwealth and his country. Forgery of an Interstate Bill of Lading as a Federal Crime. — By the Pomerene Act approved in August, 1916, Congress undertook to regulate the effect of interstate bills of lading. That this statute in its main provisions is constitutional is hardly open to doubt, since the decision of Atchison, Topeka &° Santa Fe R. R. V. Harold} This case held a Kansas statute unconstitutional which provided that the innocent holder of the bill of lading should be vested with rights not ava ilable to the shipper. Not only the provisions of the ^ 241 U. S. 371 (1916).