Evening star., 1944-09-29
Office 10 Assist
Veterans Here
Opens Monday
Spoee Is Provided
In D. c. Municipal
Center Building

eranS' AdminiStra ton to serve
Washington veterans and their de.
pendents will be opened for business
at BIS am. Monday in the Mu-
nicipal Center Building, 300 Indiana
avenue NV, Brig. Gen. Frank T
Hines, veterans administrator, an
nounced today.
Gen. Hines also announced the
staff Of the new regional office which
will be headed by H. L. Dickensheets
who has been connected with vet
erans' affairs since leaving the serv-
ice after the World War.
A contact unit, headed by Logan
j. Purcell, has been established in
the new office to assist veterans or
their dependents in filing claims for
benefits provided by the Veterans
Administration.
Will Decide Claims.
Claims will be adjudicated in the
new office and eligibility for benefits
also will be determined there. Ches-
ter F. Naumowicz will be chief of
the claims adjudication division.
A medical division, headed by Mai.
Spencer v. Meade, will make ex-
aminations at the office to deter
mine the need for disqualification
and will provide limited out-patient
treatment for men, with service-con-
nected disabilities whose illnesses do
not require laboratry or X-ray
studies. Maj. Meade has been asso-
clated for number of years with
Veterans Administration hospitals
and the central Office here.
j. M. MacCammon, chief of the
vocational rehabilitation division of
Washington's Office, will be con-
nected with continuance of educa-
ton under the CT Bill of Rights and
vocational rehabilitation of veterans
OF this war with service
disabilities.
Jones to Be Chief Attorney.
Maj. Horace T. Jones, who has
been with the central Office for many
years and is well known to District
veterans, will be chief attorney in
the new office, serving veterans and
their dependents throughout the
Metropolitan Area on questions hav-
ing to do with guardianship and
other legal matters.
The main entrance to the build
ing on Indiana avenue is the most
convenient for reaching the new
offices which are on the street level
on the Indiana avenue side. Claims
for benefits for District veterans
and their dependents also may be
mailed to the new Office, addressed
to the manager Regional Office
Veterans Administration, 300 Indi-
ana avenue NV.
Meanwhile. E. C. Graham, chair
man of the District Committee Oh
Services to Veterans and War
Workers, announced appointment
of his full Executive Committee and
subcommittee chairmen to direct
the activities of the civic group
making plans to assist returning
servicemen and war workers.
At the same time, he disclosed
he and his three vice chairmen wilt
discuss with the Commissioners
early next week the committees
space and budget problems in con-
nection with the establishment OF
an information bureau.
Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee, which
met yesterday, now includes Mr..
Graham and his three vice chair
men. the three members of the
State Veterans Assistance Commit
tee, and John Hasley, chairman of
the Civilian War Services Board:
Mrs. Verna D. Linzell, CWS execu-
tive officer; Miss Josephine Brown.
chairman of the CWS Family Sc
curity Committee, and Fred G.
Macarow, vice chairman of the
Washington Board of Trades Post
war Planning Committee.
Frank D. Norton, chairman of the
State Veterans Assistance Commit
tee, was elected chairman of the
subcommittee charged with making
a survey of existing services for vet
erans and demobilNed war workers.
Miss Brown, who drew up plans
AoA IllC 1llAOi IldllUll UuISdu, Will De
chairman of the Information Bu-
reau Subcommittee. She was in
structed to revise the bureaus pro-
posed budget for the period from
November l, 1914, to June 30, 1945.
Harold Brooks, one of the three
vice chairmen of the full commit
tee, was named chairman of the
Co-ordinating and Supplementary
Facilities Subcommittee, which will
study the report of the survey group
to determine If there are any gaps
in existing services and to make rec
concentrations to plug the gaps.
The Executive Committee also
voted to recommend the inclusion
OF representatives from three more
groups on the overall committee,
which now numbers "a members.
The three additional groups include
the Volunteer Office of the District
the Health Security Administration
and the American Women's Volun-