The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1921-07-21
Uncle Sam is Generous

Among the 341, 347 active compen-
sation 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
ingenuity and courage which survive
in these former service men both
blinded and MANNED.
Henry A. Bitter (C-165 1897 Cor
poral, Company C, 352nd Infantry, SO
Division. Bitter was injured in Toul
Sector, France, on the 10th Of No.
vember, 1913, 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 order
ed. While advancing through q smoke
screen under orders, with hand gre
made to be thrown at an imaginary
enemy, the pin in the hand grenade
became loosened and the hand gre
made exploded, causing injury that
resulted in the amputation of both
hands and loss of sight of both eyes.
He was awarded $500 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 enter
ing the service he had been a regis
tered pharmacist. He was given vo-
cational training and recently has no.
tilted the Federal Board that he had,
with his brother acting as associate
and personal attendant, completed the
formula for proprietary medicine.
Pearl Perry (C-285 11O) Private,
Field Artillery. The premature ex-
plosion of hand grenade at Verdun.
October 8, 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 5000, COM
pensation from the date of discharge,
there was also made to him the in
surance award of $3.50 month re-
troactive to the date of his injury
He was q truck driver before joining
hospital where he had received treat
ment for q minor accident contains the
information, che wears artificial arms
and drives his auto"
Charles Joseph Bronner (C-35a
1867 Seaman LIST Glass, U. S. N
Bronner received his injuries in Italy,
August 10, 1919, while on q recrea-
ton party with some sixty other sail
ors from his ship, the U. S. S. j. Fred
Talbot. While going through the
trenches near the battlefield Monfal-
cone, 1stria, looking for souvenirs q
hand grenade or some similar explo-
sive was discharged and blew off both
hands and blew out both eyes. These
injuries were judged as received mot
in line Of duty, but not the result 81
his own misconduct" and he was
awarded 1920 compensation and at.
tendant allowance, and on the $4,000
insurance which he had applied fol-
and had been granted he is receiving
a monthly payment of $11.5O. I'M
mediately upon discharge from the
Navy, Bronner applied for Vocational
Training and was given course al
the Red Cross Institute for the Blind
at Baltimore, Maryland, the Federal
Board paying him $4,000 a month and
the Bureau Of War Risk Insurance
continuing to pay $140 during the
course. Bronner has successfully ad.
justed himself to his apparent unsur.
mountable handicap by the use Of ar.
tificial arms terminating in compli.
Gated attachments with which he can
carry heavy articles, serve himself
and hold cane for his guidance about
the school.