New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
a,lotments in Many Cases
to Dependents of Sol
diers Never Yet Paid
Inquiry To Be Demanded
.,ae Percentage of Money
Paid Out by Red Cross Is
10 Cover Up Such Errors

dependent families OF American SOL
,..~s have been made to suffer many
s.,dships through failure to receive
.uotmeuts aad allowances from the
garesu of War Risk Insurance
An Investigation of the methods of
i. bureau as rejected in homes in
rsv York City, prompted by the letter
.h.rsipe dishonesty and inefficiency in
-. bureau sent recently to Secretary
- tho Treasury Carter Glass by
r,omas Robinson Dawley, jr, formerly
.ornected with the bureau, shows:
Allotment checks have repeatedly
,..n sent to the wrong persons.
. Checks returned to the bureau be-
cause they were in excess of the proper
..o,nts were not acknowledged for
months.
Z Families whose honesty prompted
,ssm to return the checks that were
.reessiye failed to receive the amounts
due; in many cases the monthly allot-
n.uts ceased with the return of the
erroneous checks.
l. Many alotments have never been
mid. despite the fact that soldiers
serving in France had the amounts de-
duet.d from their army pay regularly.
To Demand Investigation
For obvious reasons, the names and
addresses of the families that have
h.en neglected are withheld at this
tine, but their grievances are being
,,unerated by the American Red Cross
,ad a full insevtigation by Tresury
DEPARTMENT oftic ials is, to be demanded.
The following are authenticated d
cases:
After months of inquiry as to why
ber allotment had ceased, woman in
Brooklyn was reported by the Bureau
Of War Risk Insurance to he dead. A
letter from the bureau demanded the
return of checks that had never been
received. During all this time her son
in France was having S15 month de-
dueted from his army pay. The govern
ment owes this woman more than $500
IN the mean time she has depended
upon the civilian relief agency Of the
American Red Cross.
Decided He Owed Government
Another woman, the grandaunt of an
enlisted man, and who is unable tc
work and without any other means of
support. never received money from
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance
After six months of letter writing she
was notified by her nephew's captain
that he had made an allotment to hel
Of SIS a month several months before
through the quartermaster, who
handled this subject before the bureau
vas formed. When the War Risk bill
vent through ne made another aliot
nent through the bureau
Then suddenly the aged woman re
eelyed both the S15 from the quarter
after agency suddenly discovered the
duplieation and concluded the private
owed the government S75.
After deducting for the allotmen
ana for his Insurance the soldier hat
- month For the error of the bu
feau the private is now compelled tx
glye up this So for twenty-five months
80, that he will get no pay for NOR,
'aan two years. His grandaunt re
ssised no money from May to August
Inclusive, got SIS in September ane
sS IN October. Not a word has beer
ieafd from Washington since tha-
VINE. The Red Cross is supporting
tie woman.
covered up by Red Cross
me Home Service section of tn,
'Asd Cross is giving from 50 to Is Del
'eat Of its money in covering up tn,
emissions Of the Bureau Of War Risl
Insurance
VI atty cases handled by this branch
'he Red Cross, thirty-six were di
sssay due to the failure Of the burca,
" pay soldiers dependents.
ohe woman, also resident o
DseoKiyn, who is the mother of tw,
.nidren and entitled to s47.5O month
.s''sd to receive one cent for year
'aea got s400 in lump sum.
Inc aged parents of another soldie
.a'uid have received s25 month, bu
Msy' too, had to wait a year, then 90
/ 800. .
Vne father received blank forr
~" the bureau several months afte
= son had been killed in action. Tn
's'm' used to determine if the famil
"s entitled to an allowance, later wa
srhed blank, with tire notation
a'''sd In action, June ls, 1918" Th
Ms~anes still continues, although tn
.stsau stopped payments to anothe
is's,S wife on the prctencc that h
~, been discharged from scrvic,
s.'e letters censored by his com
-sse'hg Officer were received rcgularl