Show SOLDIER OlmER DENIED fARE fOR WifE U. U S S. S Will Not No Rei Reimburse bu s 's fo for Money Spent Spen WASHINGTON Nov No 3 Soldiers 3 Soldiers who paid for the transportation ion of European brides to this country must stand the expense themselves s according accordI according accord accord- ing to a ruling by Comptroller r General I McCarl The government he he held will not reimburse soldiers for such outlay The ruling was vas handed down in the I case of Christopher P Piazza azza f formerly orthe of or the army ambulance service who asked for Cor reimbursement ment from the government government govern- govern i ment for passage passage paid by him for the transportation i to this country of his wife he married In 1919 while in service in Italy Provisions of th the e law under which 1 13 3 European wives wives' o of f I I soldiers were brought to this country I at the expense of the government prior r to June 5 51 1920 20 Mr McCarl held do nb not t apply where a soldier has already pal pall paid d for his wife's passage I Such wives we transported h he e said because the enlisted m men mep eft we were i financially unable to Hear bear the cost t i i thereof and were tra transported sported on th the e i credit of or tile the United States to avoid i. i id d Ithe i i f the appearance of wholesale desertions desertion s I of American American of Jf their European Europea n j I brides The reimbursement of a sol sol- j I who it t his ow own n eXI expense ense transport transport- ed his European Europea bride to the United Unite ted tedI d I t f r States Is within vi thin neither the reason nor I the language of the law law |