The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-04-25

that compensation for the loss OF
the use of both eyes and one or more
limbs shall be $4,000 per month.
A. Effect of Willful Misconduct on
Payment of Disability Compensation
No compensation shall be paid If the
injury, disease, aggravation. or re-
currence has been caused by claim
ants own willful misconduct; pro-
vided, that no person suffering from
paralysis, paresis, or blindness shall
be denied compensation by reason OF
willful misconduct, nor shall any per-
son who is helpless or bedridden as
result of any disability be denied
compensation by reason of willful
misconduct if his claim meets all 9TH
err requirements of valid claim.
5. Presumptive Disabilities: An ex-
service man who is shown to have or,
if deceased, to have had, prior to
January l, 1925, a ro-phychiatric
disease, spinal meningitis, an active
tuberculosis disease, paralysis agi-
tans, encephalitis lethargica, or amo-
ebic dysentery developing ten per
centum degree of disability or more
shall be presumed to have acquired
his disability in the service between
April 6, 1917, and July 2, 1921, or to
have suffered an aggravation of a
preexisting neuro-psychiatric disease
and spinal meningitis, tuberculosis,
paralysis agitans, encephalitis leth-
argica, or amoebic dysentery in the
service between said dates, and this
presumption shall be conclusive in
cases of an active tubercular disease
and spinal meningitis, but in all 9TH
er cases the presumption shall be re-
buttable by clear and convincing evil
dence showing that these diseases
were contracted at period not cover
ed by the service.
6. Compensation in Cases of Tuber-
culOsis: Any ex-service man shown
to have had tuberculosis disease of a
compensate degree, and who has been
hospitalized for period of one year,
and who, in the judgment of the Dir
ectOr, has reached condition of COM
plete arrest of his disease, and who
shall be discharged from further hos
pitalization, shall be rated as tenn
porarily totally disabled, and such
rating shall not be decreased within
a period of six months.
Any ex-service man shown to have
a tubercular disease of compensate
degree, and who has been hospitaliz-
ed for period of one year, and who
in the judgment of the Director will
not reach condition of arrest by
further disqualification, and whose dis
charge from disqualification will not
be prejudical to the veteran or his
family, and who is not, in the judy
ment of the Director, feasible for
training, shall, upon his request, be
discharged from disqualification and
rating temporarily totally disabled
the rating to continue for the period
of three years; provided, however,
that nothing in this provision shall
deny the veteran the right, upon pre-
sentation of satisfactory evidence, to
be adjudged to be permanently and
totally disabled. Any ex-service per-
son shown to have had a tubercular
disease of compensate degree, who
in the judgment of the Director of the
Veterans Bureau, has reached a con-
dition of complete arrest of this dis
ease, shall receive compensation of
not less than $4,000 per month; pro-
vided, however, that nothing in this
provision of the law shall deny a
beneficiary the right to receive a
temporary total rating for six months
after discharge for one years periot
of disqualification. No payments un-
der this provision may be made prior
to July 2, 1926, and the payments
Hereunder shall commence on July 2
1926, or the date the disease reached
condition of arrest, whichever be
the later date.
Z. Compensation for Insane Veter.
ans Maintained By The Government
and Having No. Dependents: Wher.
any veteran having neither wife
child. nor dependent parent shall, af.
ter July l, 1924, have been maintain