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Show VETERANS' BUREAU REVIEWING CASES All case of disabled World war veteran which were disallowed under term of law enacted prior to the Reed-Johnson bill of 1024 are balng reviewed by the United States veterans' vet-erans' bureau, according to word received re-ceived from Washington. This general gen-eral review Involves hundreds of thousand of cases. The review Is being be-ing made in response to a suggestion presented by the national rehabilitation rehabilita-tion committee of the American Legion. General Frank T. nines, director of the bureau, ha set up special section sec-tion of the bureau te review these cases. Special attention will be given to see If they are entitled to further consideration and action under the Reed-Johnson bill. The review ha already covered more than 60,000 such case. Favorable Favor-able action has been taken or I In contemplation in some 0,000 cases, tea per cent of the number reviewed. In 1,859 cases approval of awards foi payment has already been granted. Among the cases which bad previously pre-viously been disallowed are numerous death cases. Others are disability cases disallowed prior to the decentralization decen-tralization of (lie veterans' bureau In 1921. No communication or other Information In-formation had been received concerning concern-ing them since that time end they had been held lnnctlve at the central office of-fice of the bureau at Washington. When It Is found In reviewing these cases that the claimant Is entitled to further benefits, letters ar at once Bent to all addressee of record In an effort to learn the present whereabouts where-abouts of the claimant. Upon receipt of Information concerning him, the case Is then sent for examination of the claimant and for final action to the veterans' bureau office In the claimant's own district. Benefits have already been granted. In the cases on which favorable action ac-tion has been taken upon review, under un-der practically every new feature of the Reed-Johnson bill. Results so far achieved Indicate that this general review re-view will be highly successful and will remedy many Injustices which had previously been worked on disabled veterans. It la pointed out that If not more than ten per cent of the cases are found to be entitled to favorable action under tlie Veterans' act of 1924 (the Iteed-Johnson bill), much will have been accomplished In the Interest of the dlsubled. |