Evening star., 1933-04-02
4lO,0Do,0DD SAVED
BY VETERANS CUTS
Roosevelt Calls on Loyalty of
Ex-SoIdiers to Share
U. S. Sacrifices.
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disabled in battle. A new rating shed.
ratings, compared with the present
schedule of unrestricted ratings be.
tween 10 per cent and 100 per cent
was decreed.
The new ratings and rates for serv.
1ce-connected disabilities are: Ten pei
cent, So monthly; Is per cent, $40; SC
per cent, $40; rs per cent, $50, and
100 per cent, $50.
Payments Eliminated.
The new order eliminates all pay
ments for temporary disability and the
present free disqualification for such
disabilities. 1t restricts to one year
after discharges service connected dis
ability on so-called presumption" that
1t was incurred in service. Veterans
organizations estimated this would re-
move from the veterans administra-
tion rolls about one-half Of the 340,-
600 World War veterans now receiving
payments for such disabilities.
Through restrictions on "presump-
tions" tn service-connected deaths, pen
sions now paid to some widows and
orphans of veterans who died after the
war, will be cut from the rolls. Veterans
organizations estimated the number Of
such widows and orphans affected
would be about one-third Of those now
receiving such allowances. but there
was no official confirmation of this
estimate.
The order included no pension pro-
visions for widows Of veterans dying
from non-service connected disabilities
Spanish War widows in this class will
have their pensions reduced from $50
. month to SIS.
Henceforth, disqualification and domi-
ciliary care will be limited to existing
veterans hospitals, eliminating several
thousand contract" cases housed in
private hospitals.
Veterans organization leaders esti-
mated some 1000 of the so-called
emergency officers would be removed
from the rolls by a restriction upon
payments for their disabilities to those
directly connected with military service.
There now are about 5000 OF this
class of officers receiving compensations.
To assure that more Of the Govern
ment's veteran allowances will be spent
at home, so per cent reduction IN al
lowances was decreed for pensioners re-
siding outside the continental limits OF
the United States, Hawaii, Alaska and
the Canal Zone.
The direct effect which the cuts will
have upon the administrations field
stations has not been determined.
Construction Stopped.
Gen. Hines said last night that vet
erans' hospitals authorized by Congress,
but on which work has not been started,
would not be built unless the need for
them was imperative. The same policy,
he said, would be applied to additions
to hospitals. Structures nearing COM
pletion would be finished.
It appeared certain last night that
some field stations would be closed en-
tirely, for with the diminished patients
and tenants in hospitals and homes the
present services of the facilities would
not be required.
There were no indications, however,
as to which would be closed or have
services cut Veterans administration
officials have indicated, however. that
any hospital closed would be kept in
repair and good condition in looking
toward the time when the average age
Of veterans increases and more homes
for INDECENT veterans are required.
be $50 ,0o0, 900 annual savings on ad-
justed service certificates, which were
not affected by the economy act.
The administration annually, through
congressional appropriations, has been
building up fund to pay the certih-
Gates at their maturity in 1945. Since
many veterans have borrowed upon
their certificates and are paying per
cent interest into the fund, the ap-
propriations viii not be necessary next
year.
Scored by d. A v. Chief.
An attack on the new regulations
Immediately was made by William Con-
ley of Los Angeles, national commander
of the Disabled American Veterans. He
predicted "an early national revulsion
when the effects are understood"
''Propagandists for many months" he
added, "clouded the whole issue through
misinformation that all savings were
to be effected by taking away benefits to
men who have become disabled since
the war"
He said drastic cuts" were to be
made in allowances to those whose
disabilities are directly and admittedly
traceable to war services"