The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-02-04
Nelus Of Veterans

l The regular meeting of tfhe mem | bers of the Anderson-Dunn-Koc Kochiss ! Post of the American Legion. of when plans for the forthcoming min 1 1 strel show will be considered. | Announcement was made recently by the Civil Service Reform League | of New York that a determined fight will be made to defeat the proposes constitutional amendment allowing ex-service men preferment in all New York state civil service examina- l tions The preference of veterans in such examinations is already in force | in Connecticut, and each ex-service man is allowed points above his | regular mark. | In a recent announcement by the | Bureau of War Risk Insurance, World War veterans are warned not ! to pay for medical treatment medi- 1 cine prosthetic appliances or dental | treatment when they have a legal l have been reported where physicians have not only collected fees for such | work from eX-service men but have
 also collected such charges from the | government
 Officers of the John Peteus Post, V. F. w, of Bridgeport, one of the
 very few posts of colored veterans.
 
 state and national bonus bill.
 The formation of state depart
 ment of Veterans of Foreign Wars
 makes Connecticut the twelfth state
 to have such an organization. Several Bridgeporters are promi-
 nent in the state ranks of the Veter- ans of Foreign Wars, including Cor
 don J. Goodwin of 142S Main street
 who has been appointed war risk liasison officer for the Department of
 Connecticut by State Commander Herhert McCuen of New Haven In
 addition to MT. Goodwin. Joseph J.
 Devine is judge advocate of the state
 department; John Kelly is a member | of thee ouncl of administration; Bert , w. Wheeler is depaTtmental inspector
 of staff, and Henry $. Moore is aide to the chief of staff, Joseph Casey, of , Hartford.
 Local veterans were unusually in
 terested in the January % issue of
 Stars andS Stripes" in which ap- l peared a commendable bit of poetry : by Lieut.. Norman shannon Hall, : prominent newspaperman and Le-
 gionaire of Bridgeport.
 National Commander Frederick l w. Galbraith, Jr., of the American : Legion, before attending the state 0 convention of the Woman's Auxiliary r paid an official visit to the Public = Health Service Hospital at Arlington, e suburb of New Haven, and person e ally visited with the 432 eX-service
 men now under treatment. l Keen interest is displayed in the e case of Nicholas Lacobelle, a veteran of B months service with the Sixth y Infantry of the Fifth Division, who e claims to have received unusual mis- = treatment at the hands of his former = employer. Nick while in the service II 1 was presented, he claims, with a Si " check and sundry articles of towels i, 1 toothbrush, etc., and when he re. u ceived his unconditional release Sat
 urday night found the cost of tho Il articles as well as the s5 check de n ducted from his salary. The matter n is to be presented before the Ameri $ can Legion who will probably investi
 gate.
 The plan advocated by Nationa Commander Galbraith at the recen S organization of the Connection Woman's Auxiliary of the American S Legion of consolidating the Bureau o
 War Risk Insurance, the Board O 4 Vocational Training and the Public
 Health service will be considered anC acted upon at an important nationa committee meeting in Washington or Feb. ', and g.
 Notice of the impending payment.
 of personal taxes for 1921 have littl' 5 effect upon local exservice men, wht
 according to government provisions
 are exempt from payment of eithe & personal Or poll taxes.
 Vermont Legionaires do not favo
 exemption from taxation and hay
 refused endorsement of the eXemp E. ton of veterans from paying pol Y assessments. They base their actiol I on the principle that it is their dut.
 to pay taxes the same as any othe % body of citizens.
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