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Show SEES7ESE EDITOR'S KOTE: This newspaper, through special arrangement with the if ashington Bureau of Western News-paper News-paper Union at J6J6 Eye Street, N. If'., it ashington, D. C, is able to bring readers read-ers this weekly column on problems oj the veteran and serviceman and his family. fam-ily. Questions may be addressed to the above Bureau and they icill be ansicered in a subsequent column. A'o replies can be made direct by mail, but only in the column which will appear in this newspaper news-paper regularly. New Vet Hospitals President Truman has approved , the construction of three new veterans' vet-erans' hospitals and the transfer oi the site of another to immediately expand the VA medical service, according ac-cording to an announcement by Gen. Omar N. Bradley, veterans' administrator. admin-istrator. The site for a tumor clinic of 600 beds at Hines, 111., has been transferred trans-ferred to a site adjacent to Northwestern North-western university at Chicago, so as to be in proximity to the medical school. New hospitals authorized are a 500-bed 500-bed general medical and surgical hospital in Indianapolis for eventual expansion to 1,000 beds; construction construc-tion of a 1,000-bed general and surgical sur-gical hospital in Boston and a new 500-bed general medical and surgical surgi-cal hospital in Omaha, near the Nebraska medical school. Since Pearl Harbor, more than 325,000 World War II veterans have been admitted to veterans' hospitals, more than a third of these treated for service - incurred disabilities. Seven per cent are disabled from tuberculosis, 23 per cent from neuro-psychiatric neuro-psychiatric conditions and 70 per cent from general medical and surgical surgi-cal disablements. Questions and Answers Q. I would greatly appreciate If you would aid me in getting information infor-mation about my husband, who was reported missing in action on Leyte from November 9, 1944, until February 5, 1945, when he was final- Iy reported killed in action. I have received no details from the government govern-ment as to what actually happened, and I have not received any of his personal effects so far. Also packages pack-ages mailed to him after his death have not been returned. I thought if you would insert this question in your Veterans' Service Bureau column col-umn I might possibly be able to get some details from a veteran who happened to have gone through the action on Leyte and would know my husband. He was Pvt.- Ross I. Sensi-baugh, Sensi-baugh, Company C, 21st Infantry. Mrs. Moema Sensibaugh, 2715 Patee street, St. Joseph 38, Mo. A. I would suggest that ybu writs a letter' addressed to the commanding command-ing officer of his company and also a letter to Casualty branch, Adju. tant General's office, War department, depart-ment, Washington 25, D. C. And I hope that some veteran will read your question and write to you. Q. As we are parents of a son who served In World War I, and as we are Gold Star parents would like to be informed how to go about receiving re-ceiving a pension? Mrs. R. A. W., Tannersville, N. T. A Writ (it on tn VofoTSTiB' ministration unit office at Pough-keepsie Pough-keepsie or office at Albany. Q. I would like to know why some young men in the service can get out on 4 months service and some on 8 months, while others are in 3 and 4 years and still serving. Miss E. H., Gayville, S.. D. A. Some get out in less than two months as a matter of fact, mostly due to disability for physical ailment. ail-ment. Q. My son has been in the army since September 11, 1944, and overseas over-seas for over a year with the 77th division and now with the 74th military government in Japan. We need him m our farm because our 16-year-old son can't carry the increased spring work alone and my husband and I can't do any more than we are doing. Is there any possible pos-sible way to get our soldier son's release for bis much needed help at home? Mrs. R. E. II., Isa-quah, Isa-quah, Wash. A. There are a good many thousands thou-sands in your position, but there are still many thousand men in the service serv-ice much more eligible for release than your son. However, if he can make out a hardship case, he should apply to his commanding officer for a release on those grounds. Q. I entered the army in April, 1942. My father died and I was discharged August 20. I remained in four and a half months. Can I get the Bill of Rights? A Worried Farmer, Bowman, Ga. A. If you received an honorable discharge and had at least 90 days of active service you are entitled to benefits of the G.I. bill. Q. My son died In Germany January Janu-ary 5, 1946. We want his body brought back to the USA and to have this done, who should we get In contact with? Will we have to bear any of the expense and do you have any idea when our boys' bodies bod-ies will be brought home? Mrs. E. C. R., Sanger, Texas. A. Legislation is now before congress, con-gress, providing for an appropriation appropri-ation and method of bringing the bodies of American soldiers, sailors and marines interred In military cemeteries abroad, to this country. |