Evening Star Newspaper, August 2, 1928, Page 10

0 e FIVE DEAD, 12 DYING INSTILL EXPLOSION Burning Oil Takes Toll of Workers in Blast at llli- nois Plant. LAWRENCEVILLE, TIl, August Five men are dead and a dozen more reported dying from inhaled fames and burns suffered yesterday. when the explosion of an old steam ofl still of | the Indian Refining Co. endangered lives of nearly 100 workmen The dead were Jack Freese, 43 Louis Hensley. 50: C. F. Gaddy. 45! Arlington D. Jackman, 21, and Edward | Hinton, 59, all of Lawrenceville and wvicinity. | Doctors said several men who vir- tually became human torches when caught in the path of blazing oil. may be blinded by severe wounds. Six four were taken to the company's h pital at Vincennes, Ind., 10 miles aw The blast occurred while the re- s volunteer fire brigade was fight- small fire in a nearby still. When cond alarm was turned in e s obeved company orders and flaming of ploding burned were d alarm Actual damage to the refinery was said. did not exceed $1.000. Group Hability insurence was carried for em- ploves, refinery officials said men McCARL IS REVERSED ‘ BY JUSTICE GORDON THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, PREACHERS ARE NOW INSURED UNDER D. C. COMPENSATION ACT Choir Singers, Organists, Janitors and Other Paid Church Employes Protected. Lodges Also Required to Insure. Preaching may not be rated a haz- ardous occupation, but if the pastor shouts himself hoarse during & sermon and has to go to a hospital. he might fil: a claim with the new District Work- men’s Compensation Commission for medical expenses and remuneration while incapacitated. T« soloist in the choir or the organ- ist also could claim compensation, pro- vided they were injured in the perform- ance of duty and are paid salaries for singing and playing. If the church tre: merely nominal salal a month to handle the - posit them, he, too. is entitled to com- pensation if injured in the line of duty. The janitor comes more normally into the class of workers who are subject to mishaps, and, of course, he would be cared for under the compensation law. In fact, every person who is paid to do anything in or about or in connec- fon .with a church must be insured under the compensation law. and all the churches in the District have had to take out policies for all such persons. New Expense for Churches. This is a brand-hew expense for churches. Quite small congregations, or t congregations with small salary ave had to pay $100 or more for ance. The more persons given re- r is given a v neration by & church, the more there | are to be insured and the larger the premiums. Lodges have had to meet the same exaction of the law. It is stated that any one who employs oth or any or- trict a different arrangement was made 1lmln for the Protestant, Hebrew or other churches because of the difference in the way Catholic Church property and personnel are managed. Ownership of all Catholic Churches is vested in the | bishop of the diocese, In this instance | in Archbishop Curley of Baltimore. In |other churches each congregation owns |its own property and employs its per- | sonnel. Are Subject to Law. ‘The Catholic Churches in the District are insured under the law, but the in- surance is provided for by the arch- {bishop of the diocese under what is xnown by the commission as the self- insured plan. This plan is not limited [to Catholic churches, however. About 40 large concerns have adopted the self- insured plan. They had to satisfy the | commission of their financial ability te pay compensation out of their own funds without resorting to insurance | companies. The amount of church, hospital, school and other property in the Dis- trict owned by the Catholic diocese is considered by the commission ample to guarantee payment by the diocese of the compensation provided under the law for any priest. nun or other person given salarles or other remuneration by Catholic Churches. Claims must be sub- mitted to the commission in the regular way and passed upon as with other churches. | As stated, the self-insured plan is in |effect with 40 or more large concerns. | If one of their employes is injured the lpmcedure would be the same as with | ary rating. He or she might get as low as $8 a month compensation aside from medical care. ‘The beneficiaries of any bishop, min- ister, priest, rabbi or other religious leader who might be killed in the per- formance of duty would be entitled to $7,500 at the maximum, whether paid in regular installments or in a lump sum;, the commission passing upon each case and fieng the compensation according to all the circumstances. This is true of other church employes as well as of lodge and all other employes. Since churches do not pay taxes there was some surprise in religious circles when notices came from the commis- slon that they must insure their em- ployes and inquiries were received as to whether churches would not be exempt from the law, but the commission con- strued the language of the law as mean- ing that all employers of whatsoever na- ture must insure their employes, and thereupon the churches met the new demands with the promptness that has characterized the mass of employers in the District ‘The commission has not found any inclination deliberately to dodge the ob- ligations of the law. There have been some honest misunderstandings, which have been straightened out. Due atten- tion is being given to the possibility that fake claims may be filed under the law and compensation may be contested in of the plan is, therefore, in the prelimi- or that the provisions for medical care the courts and the whole working out D.. C. THURSDAY, will cost employers in the District many thousands of dollars each year more than they were accustomed to pay out under the former system, whereby in- jured employes sued for damages under the common law or accepted voluntary settlements for injuries. Just how much the insurance will cost employers | is not definitely ascertained, but it will run well into six figures. | Formerly if an employe were injured he might bring suit, but in most in- stances the lawyers employed by insur- | ance companies, or by employers who did not have private policies covering accidents, were much abler than the| |average iawyer hired by an employe, | | with the reswlt that damages would be | |held down and the lawyer would get| part, which further reduced compensa- | tion to an employe. | Now and then the public reads in the press of an award for damages to an | {injured employe by a jury of a sum, | which scems large, but these are ex-| And the public which | | ceptional cases. i and-so has brought suit | veads that, So0-i for $25,000 or $50,000 for injuries may | not follow the suit through to see how much or how little of that sum eventu- | |ally is obtained. | | Reference here, of course, is to dam- | age suits by employes. Persons injured in ways other than in their capacities as employes still have right to sue at | law for assumed damages. [ Some time must elapse before the full | effect of the new compensation law can be observed, and then whatever revisions | seem reasonable may be proposed and an effort made to he law amended. | AUGUST 1928.° SOAP PLANT BURNS. $100,000 Blaze Fed by Grease| Sweeps Chicago Factory. CHICAGO, August 8 (#).—A $100,000 fire swept the renderfng plant and soap | works of the Hine Brothers Soap Co. in the stockyards early today. | A large quantity of grease used in | soap manufacture was fast fuel for the blaze, endangering surrounding build- ings. More than 100 firemen were re- quired to subdue the flames, while squads of police were kept busy hold- ing back a large crowd from the danger zone. 2, Responsible RED TOP CABS IHlTlALl 5c CHARGE WEST 84 TORAGE ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF S MODERN WARE - HOUSES SEPARATE OPEN STORAGE REASONABLE RATES PRIVATE LOCKED PHONE M. 6300 FOR ESTIMATES 920-922 E Street N. W. MOVING—PACKING—SHIPPING—FIREPROOF STORAGE the smallest employer in the District, \who has one employe to compensate. Medical expenses would be paid, and up to $25 a week for dependents of the {injured employe, according to his sal- ganization or firm, etc., must take out compensation insurance, and the com- mission has construed this to mean that ;rhurchrs‘ lodges, benevolent lnsn\llllnns‘ and all other associations must comply with the law. Thousands of dollars are required to insure all church and lodge employes in the District. Hitherto there has neenl #5.000 Still Due on Veteran's In- surance Turned Over to Estate Administrator. Tolmanized Collars ‘Wilt Slowly. 6 Dupont Circle. Justice Peyton Gordon has rendered an opinion reversing the action of Con- troller General McCarl and releasing a fund of $5.000 held in the United States ‘Treasury since December, 1921. Peter Lch, a Worlc War veteran. having & $10.000 war risk policy, died and | shortly afterward his mother, the sole beneficiary, also died, leaving six per- | sons entitled to share in the benefits of | the policy. Three of these beneficiaries were known and the other three had been lost sight of and had not been heard from for some years. ‘The Veterans' Bureau distributed one- half the fund to the known benefici- aries and by McCarl’s ruling held the remaining $5.000 under the claim that the act of March 4, 1925, amending the veterans’ act did not apply. Under the amendment the bureau was author- ized to pay over to the administrator of the dead soldier a lump sum to be distributed by him under the provisions of the laws of the State in which he was appointed. N Justice Gordon holds that even though a portion of the fund was being distributed among certain beneficiaries the amerded act does apply and the bureau is directed to pay over the remaining fund to Ogden Stevens, ad- | ministrator of the dead soldie | LOCKOUT IS AVERTED. Worker Rejoins Union, Saving| 500,000 From Strike. JICHESTER, England, August 2 .—The threatened lockout of 500,000 hands, announced on July 27 by little hazard connected with working for these organizations, so that the expense comes as a new burden For the Catholic Churches in the Dis- The New Pedestal Style Table and 66- inch Buffet. Very cttractive Suite. You learned to $215 10-Piece Walnut-Veneer Dining Suite A handsome suite, constructed of genuine walnut ve- s 1 78 neer. 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