Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-09

AdJutant Will
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has yet been undertaken.
Colonel Charles II. Forbes. director
Of the United States Veterans Bureau,
in a statement to Paul J. McGahan, the
department publicity officer for Penn
! sylvania, has declared that every effort
is being made to carry out the decen.
tralization program for the bureau.
There has been transferred in the
headquarters of the Third District, en-
from the bureau at Washington total
Of 81 .O43 cases. On file at the Phila.
delphia Offices Of the district were 10.-
731 cases. making total of cases in
the district of 81 PA.
The decentralization program pro-
vided by the Sweet bill calls for the
| transfer Of active and pending disability
cases from the central Office in Wash
ington to the fourteen district offices
throughout the county. These cases
are sent to the district wherein the
claimant resides. To date, 261. .46i
cases have been transferred to the dis
trict Offices. OF this number, 69,595
cases were decentralized during the
week ending April 90 as the result Of a
drive inaugurated for this purpose:
On April 10 there were 2S4 ,4S5 dis
allowed cases in the central Office. These
disallowed cases are forwarded to the
district offices upon request, and these
requests are arriving at the central Of
| flee at the rate of 500 or 900 day.
| Therefore. 1t can be seen that the de-
Capitalization of these cases is contin-
uing daily. There were on April lS
~. .603 disallowed cases in the district
Offices.
On the same date there were 1865
insurance cases in the central Office
which will remain permanently in the
central Office in Washington. Of this
number. 152. GAL have been allowed
In addition to the cases which have
flee in Washington, these district Offices
had on hand 1924 original claims
| filed in those Offices.
Lieutenant Joseph 8. Ferguson Post,
No. 1893, will hold its regular meeting
next Tuesday night in the Third Regi-
! Inent Armory. The Women's Auxiliary
will meet on the same night. Many re-
cruits are being received in both organ
| izations, and the committee in charge of
| the recent dance and bazaar report that
| it has secured more than sufficient funds
to pay for the colors to be presented to
| the post.
The next meeting of Delaney Post,
No. 20, will be held this evening, at
the post headquarters, 657 North Twen-
ty- second street. A radiophone will be
installed in the Post Memorial Home
1t is hoped to have it ready for next
social evening, Friday, May 10. These
| weekly social evenings have furnished
the members and their friends with
great deal of enjoyment. Next Friday
evening an elimination dance will be
held and the winning couple presented
with handsome prize.
The post will turn out Memorial Day
with the Second Legion District. Ar
completed in a few days.
Angelo Cozzi and Jesse Relser. mem
bers Of Henry J.. Schmitt Post 1S0,
will leave here Saturday morning and
hike TO New Orleans, where they will
attend the third national convention of
the Legion. which opens in October.
The mixers will carry letter from
Mayor Moore to the Mayor Of New Or
leans. Mayors of all cities through
which the Legion men pass will add
to the Mayors letter a note of their
own. Another letter from the COM
mander of Post 1S9 to the chairman OF
the convention will also be taken.
The American Legion and the City of
Philadelphia will both come in for n
large share of boosting by the Young
men as they have arranged to give talks
on these topics at the towns they pass
through.
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