The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1920-04-02
Your War Risk Insurance.

| announcement is made bv Direct.
or R. G. Cholmeley-Jones Of the Bu
reau of War Risk Insurance that the
insurance division of the bureau il
virtually at the end of it's period OF
congestion and consequent dissatis
faction ard vexatious delays result
ing from the great volume Of work
suddenly thrown upon it by the de-
mobilization of the armed forces
during the past year.
| Former service men whose insur-
ance has lapsed or has been cancelled
are encouraged to take advantage of
the very liberal provisions for rein
statement of War Risk insurance by
the payment Of two monthly prem
iums with the application and sat
isfactory statement of health. They
are assured that from now on, re-
ceipts for premiums will be sent TO
them within few days from the date
of the original receipt of the remit
tance. Instead of the form para
graphs and unsatisfactory form let
| ters which formerly it was neces-
sary to use to answer the flood OF
mail, they will be replied to with real
! letters in insurance cases which re-
quire detailed and specific answers.
The number of unpOsted premiums
| in the bureau, which last October
was approximately $4,000 has just
been reduced to an average of 10,-
900 or less than one days work.
Unanswered mail in the insurance
division shows a reduction of approxi-
mately 6O% from the daily balance
of five months ago. Probably 1t will
be two or three weeks before it will
be possible to answer all the letters
as quickly as it is now possible to
mail out receipts for premiums, but
| it is matter of only a few weeks be-
fore the answering of all ordinary
| inquiries in reference to insurance
matters within four days of their re-
ceipt in the bureau will be the regu-
lar practice.
While some difficulties due to fail
ure of service men to furnish serial
numbers and other necessary inform
alton always will be inevitable, very
serious handicaps in the addressing
of the men hvae just been overcome.
Throughn a special appropriate
made by Congress, the bureau mas
been enabled to put it's entire list OF
former service men on addressograph
plates. This prevents errors that
previously occurred through repeat
ed copying from the millions OF rec
ords with typewriters.
Former service men desiring 70 re-
instate War Risk Insurance which
has lapsed or been cancelled, or to
convert their insurance in cases where
It is now in force, should apply to
any post of the American Legion,
Ithe Veterans of Foreign Wars, or 9th
or organizations of former service
men, Army, Navy and Marine Corps
recruiting stations, State Insurance
Commissioners, any home service sec
tion of the American Red Cross, Sal
walton Army, Knights of Columbus,
Jewish Welfare Board, 7. NJ. Z. A,
or to other fraternal or welfare or
oanizations or agencies which are IN
nosition to furnish blanks and the
necessary information. Or, II they
prefer to do so, they should write di-
rectlv to the Insurance Division, bu-
eau of War Risk Insurance, WASH
ington, D. c., in all eases furnishing
the following six points OF lntorma-
tion for the Identification OF their
cases in the records:
!. Full name. (including first, MD
die. and last name) and complete ao-
dress. A.
2. Rank, rating or grade at the
time of original application for IN
surance.
3. Army or Navy organization at
time of original application for IN
surance. e
4.The number of Insurance Cert't-
cate or Government Life Insurance
Policy, if known: ~
S. Army Serial Number, if in the
Army. ;.
6. Date of discharge, if discharg-
ed.