Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-02
VETERANS BUREAU
TO PUT ON NIGHT
SHIFT OF CLERKS
Two Long Lines of Ex-Serv-
ice Men Seeking Loans Form
Before Opening Today.
81, 100000 ISSUE
PLANNED BY TREASURY
Senator Barley Moves to Extend
Benefits to All Holders
of Certificates.

As the second big rush for the vet
Grams bonus loans brought long lines
again this morning TO the Veterans
Bureau, plans were made for putting q
force Of clerk-typists on duty tonight TO
push the work of turning out checks.
Col. George E. Ijams, director of the
bureau, completed arrangements for the
first night shift to start work at $3.50
this afternoon and continue until IL
o'clock.
Six hundred new employees, obtained
from Civil Service rolls, will be added
temporarily, it was explained, half of
whom will be assigned to the day shift
and half to the night shift, with expert
enced workers. The day shift of 500
will work from $50 to $3.50 o'clock,
when the night shift Of 500 win begin.
Would Widen Benefits.
Meanwhile a move was initiated in
Congress today to make recently issued
certificates eligible for loans.
Senator Barley, Democrat, Ken
lucky, introduced in the Senate a reso-
luton to amend the present law, which
prevents loans from being made on GER
tiflcates until they are two years old.
The amendment would allow loans 70
be made any time.
Barley asked for immediate consid-
GRAFTON, but Chairman Smoot of the
Finance Committee asked to have the
resolution referred to his committee.
Smoot promised to call the committee
together today to consider the proposal
Barley, however, refused to agree to
this procedure and gave notice he would
suspend the rules and take the measure
up as soon as possible.
Long Lines Form.
Veterans from many corners of the
country poured into the city to form
early this morning a crowd that was
estimated to be the largest yet assembling
outside the Veterans Bureau since the
bonus drive began. Both lines, how
ever, were handled with speed and had
largely melted away by IL o'clock.
One line extended from the Vermont
avenue entrance of the building around
the street corner and past the
entrance to the Washington regional
of1ice at 1910 I street. Another line
from the region office doors extended
westward around the corner OF the
Lafayette Hotel and southwark on SIX
teenth street virtually to st. Johns
Episcopal Church at Sixteenth and II
streets.
Meantime the Treasury Department
today threw on the market its March
financing, including about 5000 1000, 900,
to start supplying funds for the
veterans bonus. It was explained that
this sum would be only beginner, and
more funds would have to be obtained
later by new securities. The total
March offering of the Treasury was
$1,4o0, 100000 in three different issues.
Banks Do Not Respond.
Implication that the banks of the
country are not responding to the au-
thority granted by Congress in making
loans to veterans under the new law
was contained in a formal statement by
Gen. Frank T. Hines. administrator Of
veterans affairs. There had been pre-
vious informal suggestions that many
banks would not lend to veterans on
their certificates.
Gen. Hines in his statement said that
under the amended law, as under the
original bonus law, "all banks through
out the country can lean money to vet
Grams on the basis of their oonus GER
tiflcates.
THE more banks throus~-.1t the
country extend loan privileges to vet
Grams" said Gen. Hines, the sooner
will the present problem o. -eterans'
loans be met, since such active CO.
operation On the part Of the banks
would expedite the making of loans to
veterans who find it necessary to take
advantage of the loan privileges, in that
1t would afford to the veterans a ready
means in their home community to
secure loans where otherwise they would
have to apply to the regional Office in
the State in which they reside"
Average Loan S422.
Careful check today on the figures
from Saturdays business disclosed the
information that the average loan to a
veteran on Saturday stood at $422.
The figures showed that 1926 checks
issued on Saturday had a total value
of more than half million dollars
$550,00O
While most of the veterans line this
morning came from Washington and
immediate vicinity, there. were many
who had come long distances to get
their bonus mere From Seattle, Wash,
a group of tired men, who had left
February 8, arrived last night in box
car.
They were very jubilant of the whole
crowd as they approached the bureau
this morning. They had come over
the mountains in cabooses, had given
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