Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-14
List Benefited by Measure
Coolidge Vetoed Made
Public by Rankin.
PASS ON COMPENSATION
PLEAS OF ENLISTED MEN
191 From District Included in
Names of Emergency Officers
Put in Record.

The names of 191 District of Column.
bia men who are drawing compensation
from the Government under provision:
Of the emergency officers retirement
bill passed by Congress over the veto
OF former President Coolidge are in.
cluded in a list by States made public
today for the first time by insertion
In the Congressional Record by Repre-.
sentative Rankin, Democrat, of Missis.
sippi, member Of the World War Vet
Grams committee.
Eleven District men are included ir
another list Of several score of these
benef1ciaries who are now employed or
salaries by the Veterans Bureau. These
are:
winthrop c. Adams, medical director
salary, $4,000; monthly retirement pay
$3.50.
Joseph v. Byrne, chief of certified
accounts division; salary, $4,000;
monthly retirement pay, $3.50.
James w. Donnelly, medical super
visor; salary. $500; monthly retire
ment pay, SIPS.
Martin j. Ferguson, contact repre-
sentative; salary, $2,700; monthly re-
tirement pay, $3.50.
Thomas Foster, consultant In G. M
to council on appeals; salary, 5000;
monthly retirement pay, $3.50.
Edmund Lee Harrison, rating special.
ist (medicaD; salary, $4,000; monthly
retirement pay, $125.
Edwin M. johnson, physician; salary
$4,000; monthly retirement pay, $3.50.
Bernard A. McDermott, medical mem.
Der, Emergency Officers Retirement
Rating Board; salary, $4,000; monthly
retirement pay, $125.
Charles Edwin Schaeffer, technica
assistant: salary, $4,000; monthly re.
tirement pay, $3.50.
George Coleman Skinner, chief of di.
vision; salary. $500; monthly retire.
ment pay. $3.50.
Harry Linden Wilson. survey clerk
salary, $500; monthly retirement pay
$165.
The compensation received by thest
emergency officers, as disclosed by Rep.
resentattve Rankin. runs from a LITTLE
over 500 to $312.50 a month. Mer
given the benefit Of this legislation re.
ce1ve pay, in most instances. for life
that Is, they go on the retired list O,
the Army, with all the pay privileges Of
such position. Few veterans bill.
were more strenuously opposed thar
this, but, in spite of the veto by Presi.
dent Coolidge, the measure became Q
law.
There are many former disabled
World War officers who are drawing
salaries of from $4,000 to $4,000 undeI
the Veterans Bureau in addition tc
their monthly retirement pay. Regard.
ing these Representative Rankin said:
These are the men who are passing
upon the applications of the enlisted
men who are now disabled, many Of
whom are being denied compensation
when they are just as much entitled
to 1t, and in greater need thereof, thar
these htgh-Salaried officials who are
drawing these enormous pensions under
the head of retirement pay
THE Veterans Bureau can refuse
reduce or even cancel the compensa.
ton Of an enlisted man: but one OF
those retired emergency officers drawing
these compenSations, even though ht
be drawing salary of six or eight
thousand dollars a year, as some oil
them are, is assured that only Congress
can reduce his retirement pay.
Before we turn all of these activities
over to the Veterans Bureau We hac
better take some steps to equalize the
compensation which veterans are now
receiving"