Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1928, Page 28

28 ) L . THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7. 1928. | Italian consul, Russian Red Cross, Jew- ish Welfare Board, and finally come back to me. I take them to the Wash- | ington French, German or Italian em- ]bn&fiy. then to our {and finally back to the bureau. It | seems an endless amount of red tape. |, “Many amazing incidents have come » Us ! to light In this procedure. The most interesting is the \story of a Warsaw woman, who was asked by a letter to file her claim with the American consul. Clears 'she was overjoyed and spread the news among the neighbors that she was about { to receive $10.000 from the American Veterans’ Bureau State Department | Away Diplomatic Obstacle | to War Claims. i The tangle of diplomatc red tape due to the strained relations between the United States and Soviet Russia. and which had prevented the payment of hundreds of death claims of American | soldters ki Ve | t by & special order just enacted by | Veterans' Bureau. Approximately $4.000,000 s due such/ beneficiaries. Already 800 payments on | approximately 2.000 claims have been made through the co-operation of the Veterans' Bureau. the Jewish Welfare Board, the American Red Cross and the Russian Red Cross. | Negotiations between the welfare so- | ciety officials and the Veterans’ Bureau have gone on during the whole 10 since the armistice. At present. accord- 3 ing to George C. Cohen. Washington field representative of the Jewish Wel- fare Board. about 30 claims are com- Ing in every (wo weeks. Ruling Causes Hardship. After the armistice the State Depart- ment ruled that such claims need n be paid until Russia was recognized by the United States. This worked a hard, ship on many innocent persons, cially because of the starv: tions in the Soviet republics. surance claims ranged from $5.000 to $10.000. in addition to dependency compensation, and adjusted service compensation. These claims now will be met if the legal beneficiaries present affidavits to the French or German consul. who le- 1 galizes them with stamp and seal. Before this order was enacted the Veterans' Bureau had advised claim- snts that it would be necessary for| them to go to a country where there is an American consul. But in most cases | this was impossible because the So\'iel‘ Republic has fast rules against emi- | gration. In several instances suffering | persons eluded border patrols and escaped into a neighboring country | where they appeared before the Ameri- | can consul. But ev.n so, they failed in their mission becavse the consul would require the presene of two witnesses who could prove tke claimant’s identit “One woman,” stid Cohen. “journeyed from Kief, in southern Ukrainia, to| Rovno, Poland. a distance of about 1,200 | miles. She filled out the proper docu- ments before an American consul and | be accepted them. Meantime, she took | lodging at a Rovno rooming house whose address she gave in the applica- tion. First payment, a check for $2.600, was sent to that address, but the woman already had returned to Kief. The rooming house owner opened the letter, forged a power of attorney and cashed the check. | Much Work Necessary. | “As part of our routine. we had sent her a separate letter telling that the check was on its way to Rovno. She cabled back that payment on the check should stop and I informed the Treas- ury Department accordingly. A day | later the check came through the chan- nels of the American Express Co. They | cabled the Soviet police to arrest the man and he was found with $1,600 on his person. The woman, however, | was later paid the full $2.600. The ::%:0“-! cashed the forged check lost “When we started this work we wanted to make it complete. First we went through the files of the Veterans' ' Government. It happened she lived in a double apartment. That night, when she returned from the consul's office she found the neighboring family mur- dered and their apartment ransacked. The bandits picked the wrong apart- : poor woman worried so much over the tragedy that she died before the American Government could come | to her assistance. “The amounts involved are so large that it i ¢ over there real dead. I conclude ihis from the large number of claims filed by parents whose sons are alive in the States but who haven't heard from them for several Estranged Wives, ‘Because so many estranged wives are seeking their husban . the burcau d aison in a c If an address of her lost ure is to notify him that he is being sought, and if he ca to answer he may do so. 1 making the routine search for the parents of & soldier who was recorded ‘missing in action’ we were informed by the parents that the boy was safe at home in Russia. They wrote that e had been captured by the Germans, but {later escaped to Russi of wandering he made legal status to In order to clear himself n of the American Government he must appear before an American consul. But the parents say he cannot do this because he does: 2 to take him out of Russ ¥ an American citizen and wishes to re: turn to this country “We recently received an appreciation of our work from a soldier’s father in Russia, He wrote a strained English. This is part of the letter: “‘Honourable Gentlemen: Having learnt the great sympathy you enjoy |among the local population in helping them out with advise without distinction of the religion they may be, I have the honor to apply to you in this matter.” “Relations of the Jewish Welfare Board with Russtans first began in the World War. In every camp there wer Russians of the orthodox Cathol Church who did not fit into the activi- ties of the Knights of Columbus or the Y. M. C. A. Peculiar cnough, a wealthy member of their church gave the Jewish Welfare Board $100,000 to do social work among the Russians. We em- ployed Russian welfare ris for that work." Detailed as Attache. Col. Edward Carpenter, Coast Artil- Ca Fort McPherson, G I detailed_as mi to Germany and S tion at Berlin, effecti: in June. to going abroad he will report to the chicf of staff, War Department, for temporar; 'Overcoming I ' Bad Breath|} Here are ways and means for re- | ieving this embarrassing condition, f due to constipation. The bowels | must move daily; D | the intestines | mustherelieved of | their waste matter 1 in order to enjoy | good health. Irregular elimination many Yimes | produces bad breath. The poisons “ must escape somewhere—cither in | a natural movement, or the offensive | form. 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