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Show 5,043 Voluminous Case Histories Full Of Pathos, Pain And Tenacious Hopes Project Sponsored By WPA, National Archives Brings Mass Of Interesting Data And Records To light BY SELMA MILLER Tramp, tramp, tramp goes a shadowy legion five thousand tfrong, through the files of the Veterans Administration Faculty, Twelfth Avenue and E Street Back of each of the Sh3 voluminous case histories of veterans on file there is the story of a man who shouldered arms for his country nearly twenty years ago and who has since been the recipient of a grateful government's solicitude. Hit. Fttali.it J. UH1U h. A. LITTLEFIELD Focusing attention on veterans administrator of ths Veterans' rbirf medical officer at ths ease records and all other archives plbd. which is of d ia a L'tak; Veterans hospital. Below Is a capacity, Facility top crater, of the Facility as the result of ' d supervises all matters pWtain-surve- y view of ths exterior of tbs hosview la ths pa beats library at pital on the bench overlook, the hospital, oas af ths most now in progress at this tag felt Labs City. Below, popatar si ths maay 7 era! chu,truit during the WoriJTwaTat seeas in tbs sargieal ward si the Instita Fmndrc the wPh.nr,u.nlt.,SKS! Camp Uoa. hospital. by a mass of interesting data on rec- orda and the men they represent has been assembled, according to ' E. A. Littlefield, manager. la Hospital 13 Mestbs For that sheath of papers and documents filed as case record Number 2.5S2, Just one of 3.042 similar folders, there is a man in a hospital bed upstairs by the name of Finnra 1 .ester Mock, who has been In the hospital longer than any other man, or thirteen months. Foi years old and ed and cheerful. Muck enlisted in i the tar for democracy, but for him there vias no valorous service on the fifing line. Not until twelve veers after the Armistice w as he called upon to go into action against ap enemy." His has been an uninspiring fight against arthritis but the battle has been as and courageous as anv fought over there For over thirteen months, his knees drawn in an upright position and his arms rigid as stone, ha has fought off a living death. For five years before coming to the hospital he had been in a sim-- j liar condition, yet this Job of vet erans clings tenaciously to the hope of being a file to move about normally again and the doctors re- -mp treatment Any single man with j Philippine Insurrection, one from: Bureau in Washington, Nov, 29, i fall and winter of 193415 approxl-iU- . 8. Veterans Bureau. Dr. Biack a hundred cent improve- NearneyW fen inego, ana connected disabilities the Canadian array, two were Kent in his caseper 190 wives of disabled ret being the first aubdiatrict man ashington, U assisted by in the past year imately e e inand two part-timfive tired enlisted men, five were from having no dependents and an The combined value and earn 'erans' and widows of veterans were1 ager. Reads To Pass Tims a come source and dentist. from of $30 any physicians thepeacs time forces and two were ,ing of the estates of incompetent1 given employment on a survey of j jjr Leslie J. Paul became sub A former miner of Butte, month! v or more Is Ineligible for CCC workers. (yhle lhe Facility is only a veterans undyr guardianship, for child health made throughout the district manager April L 1924, and Mock, who recently saw his Ue our yPar, old, it repre- hospitalisation. i minor children of Incompetent vet-0er 5,043 Claims Oa File regional manager Oct. 1, 1925, wife and two children of that city organisation which had lu Permanently disabled veterans! s The movement which gave Utah which position he held until n1ere are 6043 claims for com-- ! ran and for Incompetent mothers for the first time In a year, reads mception In 1919. are examined every five years and of veterans was $409 thor- vetnber of 1930 when Mr. and fathers fire attractive and on file at the proof Facility, wild west stories to while away' a offere thoft temporarily disabled once a According to T for the red fiscal modern brick ediliot year ending Joseph Graham, ad- M18 Knur nmdin. yld, rebent manager, was apfloors and year. ta thl1 typelf structure was launched here In 1925 by vetnotatT r? '.Indication officer. These date from, July 1, 1936. Frank Ume when he will no of which a basement. These are hospitallza-The guardianship! erans for thief department and their friends. necesseta attorney Luh the War not but vvorld do e . Vocatkmal Work Started a man in cnains. medical treat- - Elmer C Leuck is laboratory tgch- uon and atora and congressmen aided in oo- all riled a minr cases. 1 in charge of this work, nician. has equipment and icces- - clais hPave Simultaneously with the launch- Ten and hundred for Lake Buir mTt an1 the provision of facilities Salt and it thousandlne w' SrcnertprTvaUJohnklvM tainuig City raferred of tbe medical phase of the personnel necessary in the 111- - soriro valued at approximate y 0her regtonal offM, io accommo-- ninety four veterans had cerufied Gus P. Hackman, secretary of the tenshaw of Company "E, 31Cth rk- - rehabilitation of the benefits and their $12,000, and is reputed the best indate those who have of caim to the treasury department for felt Lake City Chamber of Com- red changed Ammunition Tram, during the war.1 adjudication and award. This an was chiefly Instrumental in injured through vocationalhospitals between thedpncegi of thpsp l g7- have hPen ment of bonuses or adjusted service launched by the Fedhospital patient. A swing Ublishment serves all of Utah and Pacific Coast and Omaha, Neb and. rated since the F1 on- cert if irate, on Aug 31 accordingr inducing the citv 10 donate the land- training wasFor Vocational EducThere are 9,000 X ray negatives on rejewed pral McColm ing bridge In the Verdun sector of'- portions of surrounding states. 26.803 acres finance to extent William in upsed rev h wh Ac, cata. France in September of 1918 averages three In "f'n undp thp direction of Joe er These received through his of- - on which the Pacibtv stands vrtna vi'-- rs Aided ate. a patient remainlnir . th, local insurance man. Of PMltef f.het0n. 'Oldvetwran1 As a result of Congress enacting pictures in five years. beine inactive and unreviewed fire to checks and bonds a total the spring of 1931 the Orndorff- Calmer, of $5. VS 1,24 7 90. Ten million dol Construction Company of Los An- Bees were established In the old incioiivn in i (wi nrniidinff ho Important Ismce that enactment. a between 1919 An important department of the who had approximated total geles, Calif . was awarded the con Vi'i!wg Thirteen hundred and ford of ars w as the l dtabzation for all soldiers when vocational rehabul the of certificates paid The tract for the erection of the hospi- - an j face is that of for fi,elr country, hospital claims y,e reviewed (ouRht a result ht ha a record of Ax op, . d War v,;erans are not the Here patienu are treated with compensation monthly "through t he average certificate face value wa tal and it was completed and form . World War erations and fourteen trips to the bT Facility. electric lights and by water ap- - Facilitv L216 of these havuic dis 93981 and the average settliment allv dedicated July 24. 1932. with 4 4X and were I fourth Ills vialt Is trained and placed This hospital the late Secretary of War George veterans txhoae' of the Civil, fepanish-AmerWorld per man was for $507 66. plied to the body in a number of abilities' suffered in the m kinds of govern Jotwofvdrioua the local hospital He hu H Hern, then governor of I tah, room anU aU other military ways, each in a different Veteran Fmplnye ar For the month of August. four others, two of them In France. as master of ceremonies ment expense. j beneficiaries Truman E. Burke Is and Aline G Beikerman of officiating a Mr. 479 received total per j payees The men were placed as appretr IronicaHy, too, Hurtenshaw, a aide. rrrcnrwi we$i 1951.W9 23, these representing not sonnel officer and secretary to the The Facility today represents a to-er rancher of Uuh famed th Dr. Curtis records allow that all only veterans but wives living manager, has been engaged in vet- - tal valuation of $498os7.79, inciud-- .- tiers in establishments of ail kinds jn addition to adminiaterinf 1 sent to school, the COUBt.ryuSan general affairs of the establish--..1 cancer patients ar transferred to apart from them, children and oth- - erans work longer than anv one ing co6t of buildines and equip- and some were practically ejgp at fi,e Facility She Joined the ment. Other buildings estimated Universitv of Utah and the Utah - 'r Uittlefield as manager cancer centers, usually bawtelle. er dependents. hrnne and mentof deck of a sun V..h.n for the filing organtatmn In 1921 whm offices to cost $130 000 are contemplated Agricultural College at Logan California, or Hines Facility at Of those rece Hi arm a,so responsible never suffered Thi phase of the work Chicago, where there are the neies- - 977 are totally in the Boston Building Har for construction in the future claLms listing in this work. Prof. J R. has been rendered practically uta Bearn son erf the University of Utah centered In the east wing of the rison M. Gould is in charge of sup- Work la Utah Laaarhrd less by the bow(main fk)or Charles E. Rafferty is and John M Raish is utility, jjr. Hubert E. Gram bl mg of the served a liaison officer of that plies will contact officer and Joseph Graham officer. Ray Alston field secretary armv medical corps, sent here in school. The old Civic Center build joint which of him from becoming highly skilled tn cbar-- e 0f adjudication of the American Red Cross .. treatment ... the fall of 1919, bj the U. S. Public in (,n Regent Street was headquawWil- - lease. General cases of tuberculosis at is as an electrician, for which ha wa r1alma yhe finance officer ter for gome of the classes and tov for each child. Of the total. Mierates with the staff, his work be- - Health Service, to supervise exam daTtrained by the government in vua ,l(un McCabe (Tank D. Anderson are - according io Palmer, there are veterans of to u,e hospital at Liver- men draw full rate compensation big that f World War veterans for contacting inInatjon tional education classes. in charge f more, California and those requlr- - for ta chipf attorney connected disab-in- the hospital and If their milies hospualization and medical treat- - hundreds of veterans following are in need, furnishing them aid ment launched veterans work in professions and trade In felt Lak Manager's Owa Story guardianship cases. operation to Tucsotk Arisona. illties or $30 a month. Am interesting as any story to of that work. between 21.000 and $23, Mental case go to the hospital at Home Checks Received birertly through the Red Cro ftah He opened offices at the t,,Jr Faril found among the case records 990 a month to operate the Anton Clawson Is chef of the state Capitol and in November of Fort Lyon, Colorado, and Fort The Facility has no record of of of Manager Littlefield himself. thlt is Facilitv for the and approximately $8000 Sheridan, Wyoming. responsible that year vhen the service was di pensions paid in this district to himself He distinguished delectable food served patients and vided into the Division of Veneral Liability Fixed Jfum bring spent for food nd sup- The hospital oq Oct. IS had 100 veterans of the vet- - Disease and the Bureau of serving In eighteen di - peraonneL A War Defiirw-- t flanlr as erarv and commander of it edge- Risk Insurance Relief btation. he . or vneir ueiinn-tMnra-, ai udujr iverasc, luiu, iucu.u, M,iMMitulsllui valor. for two medal ,He In charge of the form- : aaa jfor each hospital patient, thia being- vada Colorado, Wyoming. Mon- - these receive their check directly wood Camp of that organisation, mid covering opera- tana Washington. California, Ohio .from Washington. Claw'son is known in hospital, ho- - er. placed in the French Amy inJanuai7,iaU He was succeeded bv Dr A OUCAGO, Vov. 7 (AP) Fed vet-bfor circles y tel and to a national 1917, and served until uctooer oi tkm eKpcnses. of that and New Jersey were represented! guard The oldest claim A. Robinson in March of 1920 but era! Judge James H. WUkerson that year, when he JoinedHI theto Hosplud Proper oa Three Floor in Beaver. Utah, his culinary skUL 1, were'eran residing the d.vis.on eyentuallv became a patients. Of these, todav that ni.nol, stockhold- American force in fan The three upper floors of the World War veterans, six were 0(1 who vas diwhargfd from the army of Volume of Health. IM0 Library part of the first the of the hospital the being of the defunct Central RepubUfc constitute claim the diatinctionf his 1.200 filed 1918 and two FacUHy with stocked The was Baldwin C. find S. Dr. 28, War, the Aug. library Utah man to be decorated. He en- proper, the surgery with two ma- from the Indian war, one from the1 with the old War Risk Insurance choice books and the most popular state supervisor of the War Risk Bank and Trust Company are Salt hi Bureau the Veterans room the tered occupying magazines and papers, to In charge Relief Station and held the office iBble for a ahare of the 90.000.000 of- - jor operating Lake City In 1322 M contact of Mrs. Jane K. VanderpooU who top one. Surgical patients are hous1, of 19Ai. - which may total fiCPT. ed in the ward directly below the to also recreation aide- - She provide when he was iBlOMay succeeded bv Dr. B. ths - W rtkeraon ala S12.500.000. and the medical patients Judge From July. 1932, when service means surgery s W. who until held office the by Black, reading Hospital opened, to the mid- on the floor beneath. of a rolling rack Two talking pic - March 31, 1924. In August of 1921. held the Reconstruction Finance to 3,529 staffed this division of medical year. diThe dle of October toe U. S. Health Bureau waa merg Corporation to be a Constitutional turn! are presented under her treated, investi- by dietitian, a chief nurse, two rection weekly in the - miniature ed with other agencies to form toe agency. patients had been rereaL Of these. feed nurses and nine staff nurses, records of and floor on the theater gation ground World four laboratory technicians, four-ten- t of S 675 were veteran these programs are augmented male orderlies and five cleriWafT The irnialmler were divided from to tbs time and Deroret by talent from The 1838. Uairersal gerrtre Kew) (Copyright, 246: cal and other employee, in addition a follows: toe citv. The majority of patients, aix? Indian ia War, Civil war, 10; other diphysician. HUDDLE buffalo, the yak and the bison will ar ambulatory and find rooms 30; Boxer Dr. Curtin chief medical officer, UNRAVELING THE toes in version in the recreation Philippine Insurrection. Saturhuddle for read protection. Many parent toe hospital proper where they playj Rebellion, two: CCC worker. M3: b a specialist in narvoua of and a and football articles hi aoldlera mental diseases and each day evanlng retired enlisted men. one But toe buffalo, yak and bison cards, read, visit with friends and medical staff to a specialist In some want to know whaj their sons can huddle of allied governments. U. differ from toe intercolle- relative er writ letter. huddle. a is In 10. O. learn David Dr. field. Bririgforth PWA In VfPA and There are two CCC emptove. a a a $ SO Tor The BeU Christmas Story. giate football huddle in that the Utah to which veterans Camp senior surgeon and Dr. Edward G. LOo Operations Performed in need of bison and their buffalo, if ' the yak ratboys Well present medical and there pareata, i surgeon Mm summer period a Dovay the sent, Best Ch ristmas Poem. During employment ire heads to the enemy. come ant af to haddle they one were 2,005 opemion prcfonned ing officer. Dr. Warren U Lindcamp at Nephi and a a a a a leaned and heart death haves! 195 to in thiag. and the a Specialist ! say 8L George- by the hospital staff The Christmas News prize story and poem contest to now a Lacking television, we mint draw at Contact internal medicine. Dr. Cyril F. Officer Charle Raffety from all cause. a mental picture of toe above parafa protectioa haddle Tha to and chief All who desire may enter. The prize winning story to Curfi 3. Sherman roentgenologist open. Dr. Foster in charge of placements and his ta tha British graph in order to discern the su- Is wifi be published in the annual Christinas edition medical officer of the Facility How pathologist Dr. Leslie J. Paul is aqaivaleat records show that from April 30, and poem of eevered af tha ctoria buffalo, Oa perior intelligence ar Bqaoro general consultant on part time 1934, when enrollments commencbison. and Deseret The of yak News, which come out shortly before on genitourinary wagoaa. concentrating ed. to Julv 31 of this year, there a a a a diseases. The ear, eye, no and Christmas. t90 for veterans certified had been to no forcible This rap against If ohjeet to IRfarioa of education. throat physician to Dr. Thomas F. When bolding the mir- employment In these camps, to Dr. Ar- fcnowfcdge aad tha protecdoa Welch, also on part-timRULES ror to we must admire which numbet66 had been accept'' nature, tadirMaaL up thur Gindrap to the dentist Mist af tha ed. a a view a that itself, any to presents and nurse chief exceed 5.000 Words in length. must not The Carrie Cooper story One ProMrai Job Major a a a The huddla to to only thing in Miss Donetta Cox, dietitian. Mias The poem must not contain more than 100 lines. On a much larger scale to the la trariag tha history af IngerimU is medical tech- football that a man can stand up Margaret of for veterans work w h all Jobe are red No7-(Atha Both story and poem may be Written about a Christma addle, providing P) nician and Miller H. Turner to, without getting knocked down. Bad BAS FRANCISCO. carried on by Ray R. Adams, Vet" groapa ta the kaat eaeaataa While Lawrence TibbeC laboratory assistant but any wholesome them will be acceptable; .. . theme, erans Replacement Representative, aad Isolate Therefore, yon should send your as the hunchback Jester lathe MN Get Clhdeal Treatment All manuscripts must be sent to the Christmas Conte; aa ia tadividaai rath-e- r at the National ioas Between 9AM to 9,600 Veterans boys to 'a college in which the hudtbaa a aa . lacory mated vilService; 55 Wed Broadway and with eervfcoconnected disabilities dle la raoogntoed as a major apart Editor, car of Tha Deseret News, Salt Lake Gty, Utah. wile ZtnZk in box where or clinlage. U It to tha Blatter af ash operating in cooperation with thatwere rendered Manuscripts must b in the mall by midnight. Nor. 13 total of A totter 19.629 Service. veralUe to ed' It placehe gets hie Then, ical treatment from the opening of ptoaralgate tovriai Him Juf7-183mads afi.a-Jbetveen. meats thrmutb . went JCntrantg the median March,. (Jesirtag to have their manuscripts returned to the toe boslpftar itr 4 twaaty-fi- r I9a, vrhee ofthe work commenced middle of this month. These had will include postaga. other, hatowiB hay leader and art patron.- eollapo-ethis year, according always Whisper, tbea w win say that and August and died last night from been given approximately 24.000 aa alphabet Which Entrant are requested to write under a nom de plume, haddle haa to Mr. Adams. The majority of what physicians ' said was a examination. Medical, surgical, a good start ta -Ufa If goa can . the football on were these and to place their true name and address on a sheet fit vindicated iteetf. government read tboroaghljr dental and therapeutic, services project . heart aHment tit the municipal a a 7a a - 1 of various kinds but soma were in wera provided tbeao aa well as paper Inside a scaled envelope attached to the manuscript. opera house. One thing we doubt about the private industry. Aproximately 60 Her body was removed. and drug and prosthetic appliances. Tha huddle to nothing new In huddle Writ the nom da plume on the outside of the envelops and The veteran Americanism.' cent of those la its animal tha to lift am among quadcontinued placed per higher Joseph Murray pharmacist tha performance common record of were on and Boone, and on the Brat page of tha manuscript for also laborer, Before Roger projects biped. rupeds with the accepted being y abtgera. interruptad Clark show w do batter when wa the remainder being skilled work-jj- tt each veteran must and mort of the audience unathe aa the skirmishers. m of various type. During certify JnaMlUjr to pay log such ware of the tragedy. - deploy I -- 104-be- -' j 9 full-tun- ! a. No-thi- ... Uttie-oughl- T'f iLil.lI! y - 1 v U-- 1 maim-mere- ' -' offic-lnow- .u Phjrsto-Theiap- y f IdsfearnTanas phvsio-therap- ''ue v th i- ion, iT" physio-therapy- n rcln ( for" g e j rult tht in Spantsh-America- Bpanlh-America- n " 0-- n Spnish-Ameriea- One Word Led To Another v By Arthur If Spanish-AmCrica- frNor. bed-sid- e ( Bugs ?) Baer Christmas Story And Poem Contest Rules Announced $25 FonThe Girl Collapses In Audience, Dies a. As Tibbilt Sings jssft.jsa an & ptpr nt , It - -- a. Va '-. f I 4 5 V 6 k w 41 w - - I re vJX n -- r b sab, I 4 v |
