iWAR RISK INSURANCE BUREAU CATCHING UP i i Settlement of 127,151 insurance . claims, for death and total permanent disability, and representing a total value of $1,135,052,173.45, is announced an-nounced by Director U. G. Cholmeley-Jones Cholmeley-Jones of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance. In-surance. Only 5,110 claims arc pending, pend-ing, and in these cases the clnimnnts arc beneficiaries in mnny instances residing in foreign countries where disturbed conditions render communication, communi-cation, impossible. It now requires only nbout five days from receipt of final evidence of death in an insuranco case for tho issuance of the first check, and frequently cases hnve been handled oven more rapidly in the Compensation and Insurance In-surance Clnims Division of the Bureau. Bu-reau. I In cases of total permanent disability, dis-ability, men havo been examined, tho award made, and the first check placed in their hands, all within a very few hours.