Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1928, Page 7

THE FEVENING STAR. WASHINGTON., D. ©., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 925. 1928 BELL INSURANCE W, T.U1. INDORSES] CLAININ TANGLE| POLICE INCREASE Application of General’s Wid- | Resolution Also Backs Sug- ow for Lump Sum in Con- | gestion for Greater Dry flict With Law. Law Power. A resolution mendation indorsing the recom- The stion of whether the 66-year- < chelpsed made last September by g ©ld widow of the late Maj. Gen. George | o, {"payiy B, Hesse, superintendent of Bell, jr, commander of the 33d yoice, to increase the police and de- Division overseas, is to receive her|tective force and give police the same husband's Government fnsurance n a |POWer in the prohibition enforcement | as it has in the enforcement of other | lump sum, as she desires, or whether |85 } : . b cho mast ake 3t at (he Tate of $5750 1AWS in the District, was adopted by A month, as the Veterans' Bureau has decreed, probably will be taken to the courts for a decision, it was learned here today. Mrs. Bell at Rockford, Ill, has been making a fight to obtain the remainder of her money in a lump sum. but the Veterans' Bureau here, according to General Counsel Maj. William Wolff Smith, has c 1ly gone over all the facts and the law in the case, and as determined th: der the pres*nt umstances the money must be paid at the rate of $57.50 per month, in the law and intent ‘The bure: however, aid, already had indicated be agreeable o a friend: A L to try the case, and vossible under the law would be glad o pay the lump sum. Mrs. Bell's Income Cited. Mrs_ Bell. accordin dispatches nt on ¢ Congress. $87.50 a moy Governmen ey from the V ns' es $30 a month b the insurance Bureau, she rec cause of the Sp: service of her husband. Already, it was explained at the bureau, she has been receiving the equivalent of $5 per month. since April 12, 1926, al- though part of this was paid in a lum sum later in 1926 when decision was reached by the bureau she could not be paid at once the entire $10.000 in- surance of her husband's Government policy. The facts in from the offi Bureau today an original $10.000 term insurance policy with the Government. In May of 1926 he applied for conversion of this polfcy into an ordinary life policy which would have made his insurance payable at death in a lump sum. This he received. effective as of June 1, 1926 He died October 28, 1926, medical records show, from “pernicious anemia” of a duration of eight months and three days, according to his own doctor's qiagnosis. Status Fixed by Records. When investigators looked into the request for payment of the entire $10.000 insurance fund at once th the case as revealed | the Women's Christian Temperance Union late yesterday afternoon. resolution brought up toward the close of the final session of the qua terly convention in the First Presby- | an Church. | ‘he remainder of the afternoon ses- | | st as devoted to addresses, reports | ecial services. An address on Impressions of Temperance Condi- tlons in France” was delivered by Mrs | Charles V. Burnside, and an address | on “Impressions of Temperance Condi- | tions in the British Isles” by Mrs. | Cabot Stevens. Reports on the Con- | ference on the Cause and Cure of War | were made by Mrs. D. W. Lum, dele- gate. and by Mrs. Albert Stabler, alter- | nate. Reports on the recent W. C T. U. { conference in Richmond, Va by Mrs. N. M. Pollock, pres- he W. C. T. U. of the Dis- umbia; Mrs. George A. Ross nd by Mrs. H. E. Rogers. ration of the work of the ance Legion Was given ren. under direction R. T. Stout. director, assisted fiss Adelaid Bor { “The afternoon n was opened | with song service, led by Mrs. R. W | Reed, following which Miss Rebecca | Rhodes led the deleg: n the “Salute to the Flag” and t ledge of Al- legiance to the Flaj { A report on the advantages of in stitutions was made by Mrs. E. C. Din- widdle; prayer was delivered by Mrs T. B. Jarvis and new directors werc | troduced by Mrs. Lauretta E. Kress | Mrs. R. W. Reed sang a solo. | R e i Time Extension Favored. The Senate commerce committec made a favorable report today on the bill passed by the House last monti extending for one year the time f commencing work on the George Was ington-Wakefield Memorial Bridge, t be constructed across the Potomac River from Dahlgren, in King Georac County, Va., to Popes Creek, in Charles County, Md. niles of the Veterans'| 0w that Gen. Bell had | | All easy ways are downhill, although | you may not motice it till you try to | climb back. found, according to Maj. Smith, that | these medical records placed the case of a veteran permanent- | tally disabled for a period prior the date of his conversion of policy from term to ordinary life. Under this tion, Maj. Smith explained, it d be impossible for the bureau to 3 for the ordinary life pol- <y in one lump sum, as the bureau sould not consider the new policy ef- iective because the general was in fact suffering from permanent and total dis- wbility when he applied for the change, uthough it was entirely likely that he vas not aware of it. In answer to a question as to whether he was injured or ill at the ame he applied for the lump-sum ordi- aary life policy, the general replied, Issue for Court to Decide. decision upholds the position, Mrs. Bell or be paid at the rate of ily for 20 years, making 13,800, f the contention for lump-sum payment & upheld she will receive the balance >f the $10.000, or what will be left after subtracting from that total the smount she has already received under he present arrangement. The case has been under long con- sideration by bureau. Ma). Smith ton was made of the case at Chicago and the papers are all here now. The decicion of the bureau against a lump-sum pay- ment has been confirmed by the board ! review and by Director Frank T. ‘lines himself, Maj. Smith said. SET FIRES FOR FUN. 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