The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1921-07-14
treasury Department, Bureau Of
War Risk Insurance
NIsk Insurance

War Risk Insurance
Among the 341,347 active COM
pensation and insurance claims on file
IN the Bureau of War Risk Insurance
there are three cases on which a COM
pensation award for double perman-
ent-total disability is being paid, the
only three coming under that provi-
sion of the War Risk Act. Each case
gives evidence of the degree of ingen-
uity and courage which survive in
these former service men, both blind
ed and manned.
Henry A. Bitter (C-165389) Corp
oral, Company C, 352nd Infantry, 8
Division. Bitter was injured in Toul
Sector, France, on the 10th of Nov
ember, 1918, by accidental explosion
of hand grenade. His company was
assigned to gas training at a French
training camp. On the last day at gas
school, maneuvers were ordered
While advancing through a smoke
screen under orders, with a hand
grenade to be thrown at an imaginary
enemy, the pin in the hand grenade
became loosened and the hand gren-
ade exploded, causing injury that re-
suited in the amputation of both
hands and loss of sight of both eyes.
He was awarded 5000 a month, and
on his $4,000 insurance the monthly
payments of $3.50. An attendant
was furnished him and he was fitted
with artificial hands. Before entering
the service he had been a registered
pharmacist. He was given vocational
training and recently has notified
the Federal Board that he had, with
his brother acting as associate and
personal attendant, completed the
formula for proprietary medicine.
Pearl Perry (C-2S5 100 Private,
Field Artillery. The prematuer ex-
plosion of hand grenade at Verdun,
October 3, 1918, entirely destroyed
both hands, right eye destroyed, and
hearing impaired, and he was under
hospital treatment from date of in
jury until August 2, 1919, when he
was discharged. Besides his double
permanent-total award of $500, COM
pensation from the date of discharge,
there was also made to him the insur-
ance award of $3.50 a month retro
active to the date of his injury. He
was a truck driver before joining the
Army and a recent report from hos
pital where he had received treatment
for minor accident contains the in
fromation, che wears artificial arms
and drives his auto"
Charles Jsoeph Bronner &C.
35S 1860 Seaman 1st class, U. S. N
Bronner received his injuries in Italy
August 10, 1919, while on a recrea
ton party with some sixty other sail
ors from his ship, the U. S. S. ]. FREQ
Talbot. While going through the
trenches near the battlefield Monfal
cone. Istria, looking for souvenirs, {
hand grenade or some similar eXplos
i've was discharged and blew of bott
hands and blew out both eyes. These
injuries were judged as received mo
in line of duty, but not the result OF
his own misconduct" and he wa
awarded $3.50 compensation and at
tendant allowance, and on the S2OO'
insurance which he had applied To-
and had been granted, he is receiving
monthly payment of S11.5O. I'm
mediately upon discharge from th'
NAVY. Bronner applied for VOcationa
Training and was given a course a
the Red Cross Institute for the BIND
at Baltimore, Maryland, the Fedora
Board paying him $4,000 mOhOi
the Bureau of War Risk Insurance
continuing to pay s14O during th'
course. Bronner has successfully al
;usted himself to his apparent unsur
mountable handicap by the use o.
artificial arms terminating IN com
dictated attachments with which nj
can carry hevay articles, serve INN
self and hold a cane for his guidance
about the school.