11 (See, 1) Statesman, SaU in, Ore, Sun'., Apr. 22, "50
C?OI MONDAY AKD FRIDAY 12:15 TO 9 P. M. - OTHER DAYS '9:30 fi.lA. lO 5:30 P.M.
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' v ...Glu.N m Chairman
C n V Ti""ue (DTpX) said Sat
lirrf sv the House Veterans Affair
Cini:'ee has found hundreds of
r ..:,. uhrr nvernmcnt benefits
piled up for incompetent veterans
re pavwa on (O oisiam rcaum.
tailed for a law to turn
Wk to the U. S. Treasury tin-
ii. pit Veterans Administration pay'
ments to Incompetent veterans
H.-iih unless the money
can be inherited by I widow, child
or deoendent parent.
1 "A. ii l nren " he told news-
man "Demons who have ' little
' mwvllini with a hosnitalized Vet
r-ia ant reaoinff thousands of dol-
W urns his death money the
veteran couldn't use, but was paid
because of his war services,
TiramMt l.li(t he Would Wh a
'bill which would allow government
recapture ot v a compensation pa
nunii from an Incompetent vet'
Mtata after his death, but
not that part accruing from Inter
est, investment or oiner sources.
That would be when thera jis no
' widow, child or dependent parent
to inherit tne estate. ,
I'iim Cited
'Trague said committee invest I
. otnri have come across such
. cases as these:
. L A World War I veteran who
has spent most of his time in
iiaii tine hii discharge and
who is worth at least a quarter
or a million dollars oecause a
guardian Invested some of his VA
nnvmpnta in what turned out to be
a rich oil field in East Texas. He
has several living brothers and
nistors. Under Teague'a proposal,
his inheritors would not get that
tinrt of the estate made up of
actual VA compensation.
1 k mentally ill World War I
veteran under free VA hospital
care since 1919. VA payments and
earnings thereon have pushed his
estate above $30,000. His relatives,
when last reported on more than
20 yeart ago, included a brother
and four sisters in now Commu
nist Poland. '
Ka Lent Heir
J. A World War I veteran hos
pitalized for life at the Gulfport,
VA.. hotDiUl with an es
tate above ftt.ouo and no legal
i A W? Wnituli7ed World War
I veteran who died with VA-built
iu4i of roHtt now frotes by
court order. The estate will go to
at brother and sister in Poland if
thjw ran nrnvD their relationship:
Aikjiraiu it will nrohahlv ha naid
to aunts and uncles and mere dis
tant IT S relative.
& k Wnttaliied World War 1
veteran whose growing 1113.000 es
t i mnr than half accounted
for by VA payments. His sole heir
. . a .. r Muij ia
. c-n rirht, , ,
f u 1 1 nl Dot
6. A 3-yearld War II veteran
who killed ha mother ana was
iitod In a date hospital for
te criminally .Insane. Continued
; VA disability compensation oene
i Ms are expected to bring hi es-'-
tte to more than $100,000 in his
- L'etime. Hii helra would be broth
; ers and sisters or their descen-
dants. "
. The House committee hat found
I one instance of a veteran under
aiiardianshin who ia worth $1,325,
O. Most of the money - comes
from non-VA fund and the vet
J cran is in a private hospital, but
. be continues to get VA disability
I anit inuiranre Dsvmenta. '
; Wartime veteran can get up to
- $;ai a month compensation for
' aervice-incurred disability and also
' m-v rMwiim disability oayments
. of up to $57 J monthly from World
. U ar I eoyeranatat Unurance, J neir
compensatioo is discontinued If
V Ihn nijw a VA hosnital and their
,1 estate exceeds $1,500. but not If
I they go to a state hospital.
I Tribute Paid
f To Ernie Pyle
" IE SH1MA 0B - Poppy seeds I
were dropped from a plane Satur-i
day on the snot where War Cor
respondent Ernie Pyle was killed
by a niachinegun bullet in World!
Warn.
Soldier of a Korean military!
advisory group in Taegu, sent the!
poppy teed to Okinawa. They ar
rived too late to be planted dur
ing ceremonie held last Sunday I
at the monument marking the spot!
f Pyle death.
First U. Hugo G. Jorgenson of
Rigby, Idaho, flew aa Army light
plane over the tiny island near
Okinawa today. S I C. Johnny V.
Naron of Brownwood,' Tex., sprin
kled the poppy "w08 from the air.)
... pyle was killed April 18, IMS.
0 Persons Buried
Alive in Cave-in
r.nivinA Knain un Twenty 1
mfum mamheri of three CVDSvi
famllie. were buried aUv Satur
day in earthquake-weakened caves
n the bank of the Veiro River.
Cuxua avnrkera due for hour
without recovering any of the vic
tims. , ' " 1 .
- Thi area waa the scene of a
icvere quake on Thursday,
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