Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-03-19 | Page 3 | Bureau's Right is Challenged

RIGHT IS CN Authority Au to eo Pass Pea on Morals Morals Mor Mor- Morals als of Beneficiary ary in inI i iWar I War R Risk k Questioned CHICAGO March Starch 19 AP The AP-The The I right fight of ot the 1 Veterans Veterans' bur bureau nn to pass on the morals of a soldiers soldier's war insurance beneficiary is IN the question to be decided In federal court ourt here The point Has lias been raised by bp Mrs Corrine orrine Hanna of Chicago O widow of ot Major Mark MarIe W. W Hanna Jr a Kansas who was killed inaction Inaction in inaction action in hY France ance For more than a year Mrs Stirs Hanna has been seeking to tb t force the gov government to resume payments to heron her heron heron on her husbands husband's war risk Insurance policy policy- Three years ago the g goVernment removed her as beneficiary and stopped the payments payments payments pay pay- ments basing the action on statutory statu stat statutory tory charges investigated ed by the veterans' veterans bureau as provided pro for forin in n. n the morals provision o of the in insurance insurance insurance in- in laws Mrs Hanna demands she claims is due her as beneficiary 01 of the policy and the government is endeavoring to comp compel l her to return the 2000 she already has collected On April 20 when her claim comes up in federal court It is possible possible possible pos pos- sible she x will take the stand as a government witness since a subpoena subpoena subpoena sub sub- poena has been issued at the request re request request re- re quest of ot the district attorney in charge of the rite case who will attempt prove with her own evidence that she was guilty of th the offenses charged during the time flora she received received re received re- re the 2000 So far marshals have failed tailed to serve the subpoena her attorney having advised her that this Is Js not no the time for tor her to submit to interviews Interviews in In- In In the office of the district district district dis dis- attorney Thomas W W. Hanna Fianna father o of th the dead soldier and Earl Wagner Vagner o of Kansas Kansas City City a convicted bank robber robber robber rob rob- ber are charged by Mrs Hanna Hann a as having conspired to divert the payments payments payments pay pay- ments of ot insurance to Mrs Hanna The charges resulting in stopping the payments to her Were based o oher on her friendship for Wagner Vagn r she says was Introduced to her a aa as asa asa a wealthy clubman They became becam engaged but she broke with him shortly before his conviction Her He payments stopped before he wen went to the penitentiary However after after after af af- ter she Rhe filed flied her petition Thomas Thomas Thoma W W. Hanna and other interested Individuals in In- In filed flied a petition of charging her with immoral acts naming Wagner Vagner and I t to other othe men