Stone County enterprise. [volume] (Wiggins, Stone County, Mississippi) 1916-current, 1923-02-08
CLAIMS OF $4,000 SOL
DIERS ARE REJECTED
Conference in New Orleans Re-
cnetly Reveals Interest
ing Facts

entered the Military Service OF
the country from Mississippi
during the world war, thousands
suffered from wounds and dis
abilities, and 1,735 lost their
lives. This is one of the many
interesting points heard in re-
ports submitted at the First
Annual Service Conference held
in New Orleans last Saturday
and Sunday, January 9th and
2Sth, which was called by Colo
mel Dallas B. Smith, District
Manager, U. S. Veterans Bureau
together with State and Nation
al Officials of the three big Ser
vice Mems Organizations, at the
headquarters of the Veterans
Bureau.
National Officials of the three
organizations of the Veterans
attended the conference with a
view of having the District Con-
ference plan adopted by all the
fourteen (14) Districts in the
United States into which the
Veterans Bureau has been
divided under decentralization.
A pledge of cooperation from
the Service men to make the
Conference successful was
voiced by Mr.. Rudolph J. Vein
mann, Chairman of the Ameri-
can Legion Rehabilitation Com
mittee for the District, and it
was more than lived up to by
Mr.. Judson Shead of Alabama,
representing the Disabled
American Veterans from this
District in the National Coun-
sells of his organization and Cap
tain Robert Handy, Inspector
General of Veterans Of Foreign
Wars who came from New York
representing Colonel Tillinghast
Huston, Commander in Chief of
that Organization, and Mr.. w.
P. Hepner of Atlanta, Direction
of War Service for the southern
Division of the Red Cross.
Medical and Hospital Direct
crs of the Bureau in their con-
terence told the ex-service men
that there was no foundation
for the charge that large num-
Der of "Gold Brickers" were at
tempting to secure compensa-
ton to which they were not
entitled. Very small numbers
of these were encountered, it
was said.
Claim officers in their con-
ference pointed specifically to
the fact that officials of the
Bureau in all it's offices have
authority to administer oaths
without charge. They also en-
phasize the fact that eX-service
men have until 1926 to present
claims for disabilities incurred
during the war, and in special
cases with the consent of the
Director of the Bureau, one
year later.
All the sub-district offices of
the bureau from the three states
were in attendance at the con-
ference, and this territory was
most ably represented by:
Mr.. w. S Shipman, Manager
of Jackson, Mississippi Sub-Dis-
trict Office together with Sub
District Medical Officer, DR..
Nolan Stewart, Dr. Ira L. Par
sons and Mr.. A.Mc C. Taylor,
Sub-District Training Officer.
In the Rehabilitation Com
mittee it was reported that out
of 9432 men admitted to voca-
tional training, 5841 men were
still in schools; and of these l.
169 are from Mississippi. 1929
had been returned to civil life
completely rehabilitated and are
self supporting; 1855 training
cases had been interrupted but
not ended on account of sickness
and various other reasons; 586
men had voluntarily discontinue
ed training; 78 had died; 43
completed special training
courses. $4,000 men who applied
for training and compensation
were found to have no legal
status for their claims.
The placing of a full time
contact representative in the
Veterans Bureau hospitals to
follow up the campaign to obtain
compensation for all patients
until all of the 733 patients
cases had been cared for was
announced. Another report
showed that in the three states
of Alabama, Mississippi and
Iouisiana, only 19 former sol