Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 6, 1921, Page 5

4 % Me TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1921 SERVICE CLAMS ARE CUT DOWN DURING QUARTER Number Reduced Nearly 30,000) by Compensation Bureau De- spiie Flood of New ~ Claims Pouring In A reduction of 29,476 in the number ef pending compensation and insur- ance claims of former service men and women has been effected during the last three months of the fiscal year ending July 1, 1921, it is announced Union college, Schenectady, N. ¥ today by Director C. R. Forbes of the} Master of arts on Maude Adams of “Peter Pan” and other by the college. John W. Da others who received the honorary reau of War Risk Insurance. This veduction in the number of claims on Which final action ts still to be taken has been. accomplished notwithstand. ing the fact that new claims have been reaching the bureau during that period ut an average rate of from 700 to 800 “ day, and that these new cases ro. ceive at Once as complete action as is possible on the data presented. On April 1, 1921, there were pending before the bureau 99,401 claims for compensation and 5,788 insurance claims; on July 1, 1921, the account ands 67,000 pending comp:nsation pending insurance hile during that period of & now claims have been filed with the bureau. A determined drive toward the goal of a current bas's in handling the claims of former servfce men has been instituted in the bureau. To this end weekly chart is prepared and posted in each of the units of the compensa- tion and insurance claims division where action on the claim is initiated, and on this appears the number cf waiting claims anportioned to that sec- tion and the estimated account as it should stand at the close of the weelt. Many of the units are now running ahead of their schedule of reduction of cases awaiting action, Ajl_cases which have been pending for six months are now handled by tel. etram, the wires going to the claim- ent himself, to the district office of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance which is nearest to him, to some one of the welfare organizations . co-operating with the bureau, or to any source (rom which infermation necessary to the adjudication of the claim may be ob- ‘tained. An intensive program is being car- ried out in the ‘medical. division through the introduction of 50 addi- tional doctors who «vere calied from the district offices of the United States London’s First Woman Minister| sony er tee ren | | Miss Maude Royder. movement to induce the Church of England to admit women preachers to Its pulpits, hes been permitted to conduct a. week day service in St. Paul's and St. Botolnh’s churches, w c the public health service to aid in th despite the protest made ficive and, aa alreault the medical aj] Bishop df London. ‘The appearance vision has succeeded, from May 15 to| f # weman in = pulpil bee nen | poe he services. Miss Roy- July 1 in handling approximately | ‘Tewds to ¢ 000 cases. The experience in han-| G¢0 Was attired in a surplice and a @ling war risk cases so afforded these Soctors, temporarily detailed from Field service, wil} be of further as- close fitting head dress of dark blue. Sight. auduben lexistatiobaduuy have | Ristanc® Hnd Value to the work of the establishment | o€ regional najudicating war risk claims when'foffiees with authority) for complete the doctoms shall have returned to the !action on cases am nccomplished fact. Maudé Adams Receives Degree conferred the honorary degree of its 125th commencement. successes is the first woman so honored former ambassador to England, was among} degree. The heroine iti: FOURTH HISTORY 16 _PASSEDINUL ;|Many Deaths Reported and Other Casualties but Majority Are From Drowning and Auto Accidents 10, July 5.—America passed A the sanest and safest Fourth of July [in the history of the country, reports: Deaths for the Che Casper Daily Cribune SERGEANT GETS CONGRESSIONAL WEDAL AS HERO 'Man Who Remained at Head of | Detachment While Being Riddled With Bullets 1 Wins Highest Award Wms icitOn: W, O'Neil. of New York eity who jserved as a sergeant in Company D [166th Infantry, has been awarded the July 6.—Richara jeongressional medal of honor for con spicuous. gallantry. and__interepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the enemy of the Ourcq river, France, on July 30,4018, it was announced today at the War depart ment. ‘The citation savs that Sergeant O'Neill, in advance of an assaulting attacked a detachment of about 5 of the enemy and though wounded many times remained in command of his men. He finally was forced by weakness and loss of biood to be evacuated, but he insisted upon being taken first to the battalion command. er to transmit valuable information jrelative to enemy positions and the [disposition of the American forc jMost part were from drowning, al ‘though firecrackers caused a few. Chicago and Boston reported 12 dead, each; in Chicago five were drowned and the rest killed by auto- | mobiles. | Milwaukee reported 11 dead, six of |Whom were drowned. Nine were drowned at New York, four killed at Detroit, three each at Orleans from Brownsville, Pa., and New land two dead were reported Pittsburgh. Scores of cities reported smail cas ualty lists, mostly from drowning and automoblie accidents, Mrs. marketing and cooking and wears-ne glasses. camera, Rosella Cohen of Trenton, too. Keeps Young at 107 j casualties indicate. F] oh a f N. J., is 107, but she does her own She understands the movie . Fleet Chiefs Rear Admiral Edward Eberle has been appointed commander-in-chiet of the Pacific fleet with rank of ad- miral. He succeeds Admiral Hugh Rodman Vice Admiral Hilary P. Jones as. sumed charge of the Atlantic fieet with rank ceeding Admiral who becom of admiral July 1, suc Henry B. Wilson es commandant of An. napolis Naval academy. TWO OFFICIAL REPRIMANDS NOW PART OF ADMIRAL SIMS’ RECORD For the second time in his carecr as \n officer of the United States navy, Rear Admiral Will S. Sims was last month offict. reprimanded by superior officers. conveyed to him in a etary Denby letter from Sec- reproving him for two aragraphs of his recent London, where he had gone on leay f absence to receive an honorary legree from an English university In one of these utterances Sims de- jared that Sinn Fein sympathizers in this country are enemi: America and Great Britain ued the many resolutions adopted in he United States in support of the| “Irish republic” to the influence of, ut he termed “Jackass voters.” In! the second paragraph of the speech whieh has drawn the official con. mination of the administration at ‘ation presented by the excess of low the Kinglish speaking peoples will yet » united in a comradeship which will rable them run glol “to 1911 Sin President Taft for a spe in Lon- don in which he said that if the Brit ish empire w er seriously men. the , ‘every man every drop of blood cross the sea.” The rear admiral is of Car n birth, rtment deplores th fact that it is necessary to rebuke a fa officer in public, but you have 4 the Secretary Denb; nd sald. |b “The department. expressed its strong and unqualified dimpproxs. of your conduct in having again de livered a highly a foreign country, he rebuke was |p ne White of both [taken by the navy nd atirit- | to comment sald: “I was re was coming peans. I am administra tio The fact ed—at least, Hous improper speech in and you are hereby reprimanded.” ‘fpeech was the direct cause o admiral's leave being revoked an called home by order of the of navy. The day the repri 1 was made Sims was a call He declared th. mention of the the action to be department. Aske on his reprimand, Sim: no r primanded. I got what to me. I spilled the sorry to have caused the many embarrassment I didn’t know it was load so much.” ISecrecy Would| Would Defeat Program On Disarmament WASHINGTON, July “5—Shigeo Sapehiro, professor of law in Kyoto Imperial university, Japan, who ts in| this country in the interest of limit ation of armamen announced today that he had conferred @ the subject | with Senators Borah, Republican, Ida ho, author of the disarmament reso- lution, appended to the naval appro. priations bill and Kenyon, Republi- can, lowa Professor Sapehira declared that in his judgment it would be “a grave error” should the proposed disarma ment conference be secret, “because of the vital interst taken in the sub- Ject by the British and Japanese people as well as those of the United States, if the impressions I have re- ceived here are correct.” I suggested my feelings on this sub- t ta both Senators Borah and Ken yon, he died, and “felt greatly en couraged by thelr apparent attitude.” Professa Sapehiro raid the move went for limitation of armaments had *he backing, political and active, @ @-apanese business intersts, and that ardent approval™ uid been shown by he masses in Japan upon the many 2ecasions that he had addressed them The American Drug Manufacturers’ *ssociation proposes to raise a fund of 10.000 to finance a project for a Shinese translation of the United) States Reais art Vsgsz¥ In India lanres | heir skins. are hunted for The skins when tanned Are made into women’s and children’s thoes, purses and handbags, and are »xported. —_—— ery 1,000 bachelors there iminals, while among m Among tre 38 ied men Kore. an “Envoy” Although t heen recogni country hington already President te he Korean republic hasn’t ized by the United States has sent Soon Hyun to as its ambassader, He called to pay his respects Harding. UNSCRUPULOUS PERSON STOLE THE MARSHAL SAYS -THE Hous SHORTAGE 1S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE LATEST CRIME — IN DESPERATION SOME PAGE FIVE G.0. P. CHARGED WITH MAKING CLAIMS STRONG Democratic Senator From Florida Launches Attack on Republi- can Majority and Ad- ministration WASHINGTON, July 5—The Re- |Publican majority in congress and the administration were charged today by Senator Fletcher, Democrat, Florida, with making false claims of economy. ‘The Florida senator declared in the senate that a few hundred nominally paid employes of the government had been discharged in the name of econ- omy while congress proceeded to create additional fedetal judgeships and fo start investigations necensitat- ing employment of clerks and other ass Senator Fletcher criticized the legis: lative policy of what he termed “the unwieldly Republican majority” and said theree months of the extra ses- sion of congress had produced little constructive legislation. Referring to the budget bill as one of the few worth while pieces of legislations he said “that perhaps there is sufficient hell—and maria in it to bring resylts.” > H. O. Barber has returned to Lane r after looking after business) im- rests here over Saturday and Sume day. JOBL TIBBETTS SMOKE Housel SAUNA AANS ORAS Loans and Discounts Overdrafts U. S. Bonds to Genre Cre fateh . , Famiture and Fixtares Interest Eamed Not Collected. Premium on Bonds U. S-Bonds . ° eNO HEN TEN HTN Stock in Federal Reserve Bank and Other Seater’ (ATEN AN RESOURCES Cash on Hand’and Due from Banks . $361,025.72 Due from Treasurer of United States . 6,250.00 60,492.98 AMANNINESNY $1,227,203.66 2,378.36 125,000.00 8,501.69 54,039.50 18,880.74 18,338.00 1,000.00 427,768.70 $1,883,110.65 TTT ATTEN MENA 1921 Capital Stock Surplus and Undivided Profits . Circulation Deposits Total ONLY NINETEEN MONTHS OLD A Bank of Strength and Service TE IMR AZ ALTE The National Bank of Commerce JUNE 30, LIABILITIES AU TTA TN .$ SMITTEN OTE 125,000.00 33,236.70 118,400.00 1,606,473.95 $1,883,110.65 EN