Show Millions of Dollars for Disabled Veterans Veteran V five Fifty thousand World war vet vet- veterans veterans erans and their dependents had re- re received re received I reI additional benefits approximating ing twenty-nine twenty millions of dollars under the provisions of the Reed Reed- Reed Johnson ling Johnson bill sponsored sponsored by the Amen Ameri- American can Ameri-can can Legion and its amendments up to the beginning of or the year ear 1920 1926 ac- ac according ac according I Ito cordin cording to advices advises from Legion servi servIce service j i Ice officials In Wa Washington Approximately of the persons benefiting under the law Jaw had hadI I never before received compensation from the go emment In any form I and the others profited on account of increased ed payments Hundreds of or thousands thousand of cases I that were wre lying untouched In the Vet Yet Veterans Veterans erans bureau owing to the Inadequacy of the law previous to the passage e or of orthe the Reed Johnson bill on June 7 1924 are now bein being reviewed Veterans or their dependents have already benefited as follows l tubercular tubercular veterans were awarded awn rIled I In compensation mentally I Incompetent veterans were compensated compensated sated at a cost of depend depend- dependents dependents of or disabled veterans numbering received additional ai- ai nl lo ances and 1 dependents of dead veterans received Increased al- al allowances al allowances amounting to 1154 lir SO for forthe forthe the care of or D H veterans and nearly n a million dollars In compensation was awarded to SOO veterans suffering from so-called so wilful misconduct diseases |