Esther Subitz, a Jewish woman from Wilkomir, has just won a victory in a case filed against the American government, after a fight which lasted ten years.
Mrs. Subitz had a son in Chicago who was killed in France during the World War, a soldier in the American army. The son carried government as well as private life insurance, but both the government and the private life insurance company refused to recognize the mother as his beneficiary, the reason for the refusal being the fact that the son had changed his family name to Frank.
The Lithuanian consul in New York took the case to an American court, which awarded Esther Subitz $6,000 of the insurance money.
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