Evening star., 1936-06-08
PARLEY IS SLATED
ON BONUS CASH|NG
AND DISTRIBUTION
Burke to Confer With Vet
erans' Leaders on
Final Details.
FIRST DELIVERIES SET
FOR NIGHT OF JUNE IS
Certifying Officers to Be Avail
able at Various Points
Throughout City

With only one week to go before
the bonus is to be distributed next
Monday night, Postmaster Vincent C.
Burke planned to go into conference
this afternoon with veterans organi-
zation leaders to work out final details
for distribution and cashing of bonus
bonds.
This was to be the second con-
ference with veterans leaders, who
spent an afternoon with the post
master some time ago, going over
preliminary plans.
In the meantime. the veterans or
ganiZation leaders have had time to
get in touch with their various posts
throughout the city and determine
many factors in the bonus situation.
At this afternoons conference it
was expected the postmaster might get
some idea of the total number of
veterans who may want to cash their
bonds, and where they would like to
go to have their bonds certified.
Maximum Service Planned.
The postmaster has laid down the
policy of extending the maximum Of
service to veterans throughout the
city, consistent with the staff he has
available for the purpose out of the
personnel of the City Post ONCE.
While the valuable bonus bonds
and checks, sealed in heavy manila
envelopes, are pouring into the City
Post Office by the hundreds of
thousands from the Treasury De-
partment, none of them can possibly
be delivered until the night of June
Is, Postmaster Burke emphasized.
Veterans should not think. for in
stance, that because the bonds are in
possession Of the post Office. they can
be delivered now.
Veterans have been asked to re-
main at home on next Monday night
to receive from their mail carrier
the envelope containing their bonds
and the extra check carrying any
amount less than $50.
Emphasis Is being laid this week
by the postmaster on the necessity Of
getting acquainted with the postman
on the route, or of getting some third
| party, who is known to both the
poStman and the veteran to agree
to identify the veteran and sign a
card to this effect. The postman can
deliver the envelope only to veterans
known to him or to veterans who are
properly identified.
Certifying" Officers Available.
The postmaster through veterans
organizations plans to set up arrange
ments for sending certifying officers
to many points throughout the city
to help the veterans get money for
whatever bonds they are ready to
cash. These certifying officers will
be sent to veterans headquarters,
Government departments, or business
houses, where a sufficient number OF
veterans wish to have their bonds
certified in order to receive Govern
ment check in return. The checks
| for bonds will be written in the City
Post Office and mailed out shortly
after the bonds are surrendered.
Meantime, the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing and the bonus section
of the division of loans and cur
rency of the Treasury. which worked
Saturday and Sunday in double
shifts, were ready to pour thousands
more completed and sealed bonus
envelopes into the City Post Office
today. This flood is expected to con-
tinue daily now throughout this week,
in preparation for the big deliveries,
starting next Monday night.