Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1927, Page 14

14 MISSING WORLD WAR VETERANS STILL SOUGHT BY COMBINED FEDERAL AND WELFARE AGENCIES WASHINGTON | side her State. and consequently can not he hespitalized there. One woman, who is declared to be 3 | fake, has traveled from the | Coast to Minnesota, saying she has a hospital and she is going to see him. | Agencies Have Agreement. | there. Guif |and Mexico, son, wounded in the war, who is in a|staved in concerned. i D. C, NOVEMBER -2 1927 —-PART 1. avs | private in Company L, 305th Regt re- | ment, and Edward G. Mason, first Italy | sergeant, Company D, 55th Regiment, he says, and muny of | Tth Division. listed as missing really | Lleut. Col. K. J. Hampton of the | nce and dropped oul of | Graves Registration Service says that | as their relatives are |there are now 1,627 unknown bodies | of American service men and 3,187/ e metit in locating men reported | unlocated men listed. in. the- records. | The Veterans of For have located former service me ported as missing in Denmark those still far ight as NURSES' ALUMINAE HONOR FIRST HEAD granted a diploma of the Victorian Order of Nurses. , . Miss Taylor re- turned to America in 1915 and died in January, 1916, and was accorded the highest respects of the American Red Cross and the American Government. A portrait of Miss Taylor, surmount. ed by a bronze wmemorial tablet, was unveiled by Miss Kelly and Miss Kolt student nurses of the class of 1927, - ‘Erstwhile “Buddies™ Aid in Quest Along Dim Trails Since Armistice. as mis :im says, the | A compilation on October 1 showed | . based on experience, that u | Vete t their | that there were 63 unknown bodies | t will not be sent on to|anmual conventions pe ctures of | in the Brookwood American Cemeter community merely beeause | these poreons in a prominent place in | near London, England; 22 in Flanders | he Wants o go there without first |the covention hall, in the hope that|Field, at Waereghem, Belgium; 461 in Meuse-Argonne, at. Romagve- | investigating to whether. or not |Some of their “bud may be | the J | that home. | to throw light on their where sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France | , at Seringes-et issues a warping | The American TLegion, 1614 in the Oise: against particularly thosc | [rom its he it In Nesles, Al 116 st | with t to Western | sends out bulletin, Mihiel, a Meurthe-et. | climates for th, wi of the Mose the Somme, | ot suffic J Red (¢ 3 France; 2 in the ununit demetery, near’ Par Memorial s \isne-Marne seliean, | J. Taylor, first pr Alumna sciation Homeopathic Hos nesday evening in Hall at the in which the ¢ i aff and | s joined. an agreement among social Mrs. Mary Long, president of the class of 1928, received the gift of a fully equipped classroom and refer. ence library, the donation of the alum. |nae association, behalf of the School of Nursing of the Natlonal Homopathic Hospit Short addr | the memory of Miss I by Mrs. Blanche Wilec i of 1 }National Homeopathetic Hos- | pital Graduates Pay Tribute to Reha J. Taylor. | another Sutton veterans, : with men cirey description; ~ disappeared A colur rn ut 139 in MOTHERS ASK NEWS in the el Hunt for Lost Loved One Often Ends at Grave Overseas. An cation figures show that there unknown in the eight pe cemeteries in Europ hospital v that many of the men mo ng' since the armist .} id friends in reality have | be last resting place in one of | na rave of the le markers samy and t bled Veterans Aid held We Southwest, as the ne are financial back She advix W. I md- dis 3 t ) wais in Wash said created in the mers without and are unable to work that they stay near home | counts the value of climate curative treatment : ¢ that are now particularly perplexed with this type of problem are Phoenix 1.6 America nders of the 1 fo! mining ook at ast one? of spoa n one A8 G eks Did you fir it was a cas throt present. rd of t Subbubs—No ht o we The searchl the country sweeping over pivot, to pick up Washington as its traces of veterans of the World Wi who have’gone out into the 1’0 Missing Men, Some have been m ing since the Armistice was hut most have departed ir sinca their return to the U and nine years after the war's finds their relatives and friends seek ing hint of their whereabo N lly the most concerned inquirers are mothers who want to re knit the ties of love with their be Some of the appeals come from tho; who just want to et yach w their erstwhile “buddies” and talk ove old times, while some are from cred itors who claim debts against the ob. ject of their search In this quest are a group of that have continued their mini tions into the balmy days of peac Departments, Ited Cross, the Veterans' Bureau, well as the organizations of the men who ht—the Disabled Amer| he American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign | Wars. Then, too, there is a pathetic | aspect of the problem, when the quest | for the missing veteran ends in a| newly-discovered grave overseas. through the persistent plugging of Graves Registr Service, following | a dim trail through the years. Case of Frank Vincent. In the forefront of inte ssing veterans is that of Frank| ent, disabled war veteran, las heard of from Kansas Cit 0., Octo- ber 15, 1920, and who has $15,000 in compensation and automatic insur- ance due him at the Veterans’ Bu Mr. Vincent was injured April 1917, while a member of Wyoming National Guard b; ac-y cidental charge of his rifle | tal Lake, Wyo. As a result of th his right forearm and left leg mputated. As the law stood at firs 1is application for aid was disallowed, but later a statute was enacted that made his claim valid. Mr. Vincent was 5 feet 7 inches tall, with dark brown hair, blue eyes and fair complexion, and if still alive would be 38 years old. All the el- forts of the Veterans' Bureau to find this man have proved futile. | On October 15, 1927, Vincent had| been missing for seven years, the period the law permits to be declared dead. - His relatives last May initiated proceedings with this end in view in the Franklin County Court in Ne- braska, and when the seven years had elapsed his mother, who is more than 80 years old and crippled from paralysis, was paid a sum of insur- ance by the Veterans' Bureau. Al- though he has officially been declared dead, there is a possibility that he may rsturn to claim the money ac- cumulated at the bureau. Women Aid in Search. It is an interesting paradox that while women veterans of the World War are seldom if ever missing, wom- en are doing much of the work ini picking up the lost trails that lead to 1he whereabouts of the m ng men. 7'wo Washington women, in particu- lar, are aiding in the lion’s share of the work—Mrs. Inez M. Pugh of the Veterans’ Bureau and Miss Polly Sut- ton of the Red Cross. 1 Mrs. Pugh has been with the Vet- erans’ Bureau since its very inception, having started in 1915 in the Bureau | of War Risk Insurance, which insured | merchant ships and later sailors, and . in time came to be expanded into the Veterans’ Bureau. Fifty-five missing men have been tocated for relatives and friends through the efforts of Mrs. Pugh and the Veterans' Bureau. Letters still continue to come in, from two to five a week; seeking light on }:-etcrans that have di out of sight. Mrs. l‘gp;;li points out that unde the law, all information in the file relating to cases of veterans is confi- dential and addresses are not made public. Accordingly, the resources of the bureau are limited in this connec- tion to cireularizing its 54 regional of- fices and 50 hospitals and to search- ing 1ts files, forwarding letters to the veterans themselves, but not disclos- 1ng their whereabouts to the seeker. If a man is a beneficiary of the bu- reau, Mrs, Pugh says, so that he ha: regular contact with the bureau, through correspondence relating to in- surance, compensation or adjusted compensation, a clue is given, but if | not the bureau is powers to help. Russian Veteran Traced. At the national headquarters of the American Red Cross the complex problem of throwing light on men who have gone out into the night of oblivion is in the hands of M ton, who has charge of correspond- | ence dealing with veterans, their fam- ilies and a multitude of problems. One of the most sting cases was that of a Russis had en- | listed in the American Army and who | had served overseas, ouly to be ve- ported missing in action. The Red Cross tried tc get in touch with his | parents, but as they were illite peasants, no response came. With the aid of a representative of the Rus- sian Red C the American ¢ trace this a farmer in Rus The true s had heen caped from and made his way Just six weeks u llies the | { | that the Russian ner and had ¢ n prison_camp back to Russin. the nine-year-old | mys red up and the man located on a farm in Russia. He is| anxious to get back to Ame and as he is not a discharged soldier he is still in the Americ army and wiil | | zet transpor M. PUGH | me to the search for men reported | Red Cross Cc of the Veterans' Bureau, who devotes her missing during and ce the war. and Tuscon, Ari and Deming and Alberqueque, N. Mex For four years n has been tryin to a former service nmu pardian insurance . Her family sing into court t ypointed. Several thousand dollay are awaiting her. Sh said to live comfortably and is well dressed, | the Red Cross has traced her Mexico and to ranches in the | west and up the Pacific | Seattle, but just too always one jump ah | ome men ave the Red Cro he tates have a guardi outh- st | but exact stat = = adds that the f e Loard for the first time in many s Yet anothe se where the “Angel | Mercy” was able to reknit the f bonds w that of an Americ r who had many end the couple had a_child born to them before he was ordered back to the United States, His wife lost trace of him entirely, but it was found that the h d been trying to tion for her to come to but official red tape the United at had proven too much for him. Thro P e husband’s mother, the Red reunite the family happi n has disappeared utt without a clue recently and this h proved to be one of thz most baffing cases the Red Cros: to deal with, He left his home in_ the Kentucky ntains to go to a héspital in Cin- ati and thereafter vanished from W, Missing Since World War. Only one case is now on record with | the Red Cross, of a veteran who has been missing since the World War and the Red Cross is engaged in seek- to locate him. He is James I M. Jensen (Jenson), 37 vears old. five feet ten inches in height, weighing 1 pounds. He is blond, of fair complex- ion, with blue eyes. Those knowing of "his whereabouts or history are sked to notify the Salt Lake City, Utah, chapter of the Red C As a kind of court of last resort, in the Red Cross Courier, the organiza- tion’s semi-monthly organ, there printed a column, giting a description of missing men and women, on the in- side cover of the last D This s done so that the 3,600 Red Cross chap- ters over the country may clip this out without destroying the magazine and paste the information on cards to have it available in case any of the of the column should apply to a chapter for aid. There is yet another aspect of the problem with which the Red Cross has to deal—that of the transient veteran, who is missing for a time, into the light again and disappear into the of uncertainty again. Na- tional headquarters of the Red Cross ceps @ confidential Jist of such vet- erans, who are traveling over the country. Some of them have escaped from insane and other hospitals, and some veterans have been living off Red Cross chapters for two ye getting aid and pushing on to get more aid at a still farther point. Ono man, who has gotten a large amount of newspaper publicity, tells the chapters a story of looking for his parents whom he has not seen for years. Red Cross officials say he asks for money to carry him to them, but this has occurred so frequently that their suspicions have become aroused. Dangerous Lunatic At Large. One person who is at large is de- clared to be a dangerous lunatic of pleasing personality, who sclects the biggest hotel in town, but is unable to_pay his bill and is put in jail. He tells of his war service, the story goes, and he is put in touch with the Red Cross, which sends him to a hospital, only to have him escape again, This man is sald to have aveled from the West C t to the Coast and back to the st. | Many of these transient veterans swailowlike, migrate South in the Winter and return North in the Sum- | mer. Most of them give correct names, but some bave stolen dis- America’s Finest Pianos Since 1842 Chas. M. Stieff, Inc. 1340G St., N. W. Full Line of Brunswick Panatropes & Records 4. C._Conliff, Mgr. TORNAD INSURANCE RATES Only $2.00 per $1,000 for a three- year ‘policy on brick or frame | dwellings or on ordinary business buildings in_ D. Maryland. | Tornado damaz heavy. Get || our coverage in a reliable com- | | | | be Continental over §70,- can't 000.060. Thos. D. 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