Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-07-28 | Page 9 | Chief of Vets' Bureau Lauds Hospital Site

Tuesday for the he veterans veterans veterans' 0 Ground Breaking D hospital at Twelfth avenue avenue ave aye nue tic and E street Major General Frank T. T Hines with the shovel administrator of veterans' veterans affairs o at Vf Washington ashington D. D C C. and former Salt Lake man was on hand to do his part Edmond A. A Littlefield left Salt Lake regional manager of the United States veterans bureau accompanied General Hines on his inspection of the hospital site x f j v r p fr Z y J 1 J fr i t 5 Iw 4 r S 'S SS S S 4 1 4 c S S 4 u 4 S fk w 4 i S S 43 t c 3 I L d tik 6 Y 5 CHIEF OF VETS VETS' BUREAU HOSPITAL SITE Former Utahn Recounts U. U S. S Labors to Help Disabled Soldiers Sailors Salt Lake has provided what is pr tactically practically an ideal site for the 47 1000 1 00 veterans veterans' hospital on which construction construction con con- Is now being started according ac cording to Major General Frank T. T Hines lines administrator of veteran vete-nn af af- fairs airs from Washington D. D C. C and former Salt Laker General HInes made his first visit to the site on Twelfth avenue and E street Tues Tues- day General Hines was as accompanied from rom Cheyenne Tl Tuesday by General Gener l lGeorge George H. H Woods chief Inspector of or federal h hospitals who continued on ono onto onto to o Los Angeles General Hines will leave eave Tuesday evening for Portland Ore Joining Admiral C. C E. E Riggs chief of the bureau of medicine and surgery In Pocatello The three officials officials of of- have Just completed an Inspection In In- of or several proposed sites for fora a veterans' veterans hospital in Wyoming General Hines commenting Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day on the work of the veterans veterans' administration ad an ministration of which he was made the he head Jul July 1 I pointed out that the number of disabled veterans is constantly Increasing and that the hospital in Salt Lake might be enlarged enlarged enlarged en en- at some future date His bureau Is now mailing 1039 checks each month to veterans or their widows widows' for compensation Insurance In or pensions The bureau has hasan hasan hasan an appropriation of and ands andis is s supporting 51 veterans' veterans hospitals and 11 soldiers' soldiers homes Already General Hines said ald more than bonus loans amounting amount ing to have been made to soldiers from a special fund approprIated appropriated ap ap- ap- ap by congress He feels too that most of or these loans have been used to great advantage by the former former for for- mer soldiers These latest loans have raised the amount outstanding on all bonus certificates to While In Salt Lake General Hines and his wife visited his sister Mrs C. C L Thatcher of Ninth East street General Hines expects to return return return re re- re- re turn to Salt Lake in about 10 days Edmond A A. A Littlefield regional manager of the United States veterans veterans veterans' veterans veterans' vet vet- erans' erans bureau accompanied General Hines on his visit to the hospital site sUe