Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-30
Disabled American
Veterans

A conference of Washington veterans
will be held in the board room of the
District Building next Wednesday eve
ming at o'clock on the subject of
employment of former service men.
The meeting will be under the auspices
OF the District of Columbia Department
of the Disabled American Veterans and
invitations to attend have been sent
to department officials and units of
the United Spanish War Veterans, Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars and the Ameri-
can Legion.
E. C. Babcock. national commander
of the Disabled American Veterans;
John Arthur Shaw, representing the
Secretary of Labor, and Maj E. T.
Hitch, regional manager here of the
veterans administration, will be among
the speakers.
Through a plan worked out In July
by the Disabled American Veterans,
the veterans administration and the
Department. Of Labor have all Federal
State, county. municipal and civil en-
ployment agencies throughout the
country endeavoring to find placement
for unemployed disabled. The three
speakers will explain the part being
played by each Of the three organiza-
tons and it is expected there will be
a large attendance among the veterans
here, particularly those In Government
employment
L. n. Sothorn, past department COM
mander of the Disabled American Vet
Grams here. will discuss the meeting
over Station WMAL tomorrow at $50
o'clock.
Judge Robert S. Marx. D. s. c., of
Cincinnati, first national commander.
was Washington visitor last week and
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eran officials here.
Work is already under way In draft
ing the legislation that will be pressed
by the Disabled American Veterans at
the. coming session of Congress for
amendments to the law governing the
veterans administration.
At present the organization Is con-
centrating on the national employment
plan, but as soon as Congress recon-
venes there will be presented in an
omnibus bill all proposals the organiZa-
ton desires the coming session to act
upon.
Among the points to be stressed are
items calling for reduction of interest
charge on bonus loans, additional hos
pital facilities, a permanent Medical
Corps in the veterans administration,
less interest on liens on reinStated in
surance policies, immediate cashing of
bonus certificates, presumption of per-
manent and total ratings after a given
period of temporary total ratings in
crease by SIS of the monthly allow
ances for attendants of badly manned
men, pensions for widows and orphans
of all deceased veterans, dependency
allowances for men Of permanent
ratings, that all need clauses be elm
mated from legislation for the disabled.
that home treatment with maintenance
allowance be provided for certain
classes, that scale of disability allow
ances be increased and that the
veterans administration be compelled
to rule on insurance claims within six
weeks or have court order issue.
E. G. Babcock, national commander
with the Executive Committee, met
Thursday night and. with other things,
discussed at length the progress of the
employment program now under way.
The membership campaign will be
started for the District on September /
and will continue through December
81. with several prizes being offered.
All members are requested to call at
the department headquarters, oi5 In
vestment Building. for details.
The first meeting following the Sum
mer recess of Ace-RasmuSsen Chapter
viii be held at the Soldiers, Sailors
and Marines Club, Eleventh and L
streets, next Thursday at pm.