Show 12 YANK W ON TO O l lD NAT t By WHIT HADLEY 4 1 of The Telegram 5 YORK YOUK WH April 9 President jP r g will personally sro 10 to the sen- sen 6 Within a few tew weeks to hear the 11 t- t official recital before belore congress of lur neglect of disabled American I ta r State of-State Hughes and Sec Sec- c P 01 Commerce Hoover have have- MJ asked to accompany the chief c Uve n. n this occasion which Is set for tor e week in May ay a a senator present the facts unearthed by f f American j legion and will close 7 1 H- H address with a description of or t cases not hitherto pub pub- bed i fe rh object It is explained at Amerl Amerl- 30 an ru legion headquarters hero hert is to e official and public conscience that remedial legislation will be iro t a and annually for tor next four years will be lib appio- appio ted C correspondent Is In I tion Uon to publish several se of the nal naJ hardship cases which will be beilly illy laid before belore the president and reas They follow ack F F. Gilkerson of ot Columbus O. O with tuberculosis contracted nee nce He Is receiving no com com- Uon from the government al al- I gh entitled to 90 a month 1 received instead a letter from public health service at offering to treat him if It he would jo o Marion Ind He lIe wired back saying he would go at once M I ho t was dying Jle JIe has heard noth noth- iK I I Louis a mentally disabled I soldier ex-soldier of ot Cascade Mont has be begun be- be i gun action against the government in the tho United States district court of ot I Montana through a guardian ft d for tor him by the tho American legion entered the army April 27 lets Because of or severe wounds his bis I became Impaired and he was Sent to the New Jersey State Ho lIo l- l Wl for tor the Insane Discharged from the service and amI the he was sent to Cascade in ber 1919 and although insane waB turned loose without money home ome or friends I After Arter wandering around half naked h made his way to Great Falls where he was found lound lying In InU U the gutter e gutter half starved and emaciated ow twenty one months later Doni Don Bon i zula IB a state charge housed with th th crIminally Insane Is denied gov- gov assistance and no one can find find- out why Frank Jacobson of ot Mc Ore to work and Is In need of food tOd and hospital treatment He lIe was wasA former imer Seventeenth A private company compan V fth regiment marine corps He a wound in the abdomen Is still unhealed i Recently he was arrested for rob rob- Ipg a grocery store in his home I wn He had stolen two loaves of His compensation had been rom i 80 a month to 28 28 without ij and without examination HT omas F Moss ward 10 Soldiers Soldiers' t OD California tIles Hies these charges bl h have been officially verified by American legion have been in the hospital five fl mo i. i I have a wife wite and three J. J have had Red Cross I oj latles and doctors write to to Wash Wash- j in n and at last they have allowed I. I 10 0 a month compensation They 49 was for myself and 1 was I InY wire wife and three kids J. J I enlisted I was 31 6 feet 2 I weighed pounds pounds' and 8 perfect health In less than my weight dropped to wui 7 stricken with Influenza during dur dur- 1 ing the actual battle of Verdun Final Final- I. I wa WM placed on a train and atter Ir days reached Vichy Trance France A later the doctor said if II I could to the station he would send me meI I reached home after terrible r r t ant jant stay at the hospital on 9 IC Ut neither can my wife and on 1 a month I Thomas OBrien O'Brien former tt Sixty fifth aero squadron has tuberculosis In order to live ll to work two or three days a sitting In a wb wheel el chair Al email compensation he manget man man- I to get out of debt Rapidly growing worse wore he a aln applied for 1 to a hospital last October I. I v T Today daY he is still working and waiting sent to a sanitarium to die e J once vision lies flat rIat on his back I With pulmonary tuberculosis contract contract- Wh e sleeping in a rat Infested I Is in St. St Margaret's Margarets I ta at Kansas City V i is Ja still waiting for tor word from I Ii i Washington which will provide comI com com- I p Uon with which his wife and andI I three children can buy bread butter butteri i and anil clothes Ills His claim was filed I In 1920 1820 but he has received no money as yet yet- In the meantime wile wife and children I nr tw lne taken care of 01 by charity charlt |