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Investigation of the Veterans' Administration INVESTIGATION OF THE VETERANS’ ADMINISTRATION COUNSEL’S REPORT AND SUMMARY OF THE EVIDENCE FOR THE COMMITTEE ON WORLD WAR VETERANS’ LEGISLATION HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. Res. 192 A RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF THE VETERANS’ ADMINISTRATION WITH A PAR- TICULAR VIEW TO DETERMINING THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION OF VETERANS’ ADMINISTRATION FACILITIES Printed for tHe use of the Committee on World War Veterans’ Legislation UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 83186 WASHINGTON : 1946 COMMITTEE ON WORLD WAR VETERANS’ LEGISLATION Seventy-Ninth Congress JOHN E. RANKIN, Mississippi, Chairman J. HARDIN PETERSON, Florida EDITH NOURSE ROGERS, Massachusetts A. LEONARD ALLEN, Louisiana PAUL CUNNINGHAM, Iowa JOHN S. GIBSON, Georgia BERNARD W. KEARNEY, New York JAMES DOMENGEAUX, Louisiana MARION T. BENNETT, Missouri CLAIR ENGLE, California ERRETT P. SCRIVNER, Kansas WILLIAM O. STIGLER, Oklahoma JAMES C. AUCHINCLOSS, New Jersey A. €. J. CARNAHAN, Missouri CHARLES W. VURSELL, Illinois TOM PICKETT, Texas HOMER A. RAMEY, Ohio WILLIAM J. GREEN, Jr., Pennsylvania LEO F. RAYFIEL, New York WALTER B. HUBER, Ohio Ida Rowan, Clerk Joe W. McQueen, Counsel CONTENTS Page Foreword v Introduction I Testimony by— Adams, Dr. Roy D., secretary, special medical advisory group 49 Baird, Col. John H., Assistant Medical Director, Veterans’ Adminis- tration _ — 9 Bradley, Gen. Omar N., Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs 86 Cohn, Mr. Milton D., Disabled American Veterans 22 Cutler, Dr. Max, member, medical advisory group 45 Deutsch, Albert (witness subpenaed) 8 Griffith, Dr. Chas. M., Medical Director, Veterans’ Administration _ 54 Haley, Col. Frank, Military Order of the Purple Heart 24 Head, Dr. Jerome, consultant, thoracic surgery, Chicago, 111 72 Hightower, Dan, Fairbanks, Alaska 15 Hines, Brig. Gen. Frank T., Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs 63 Ijams, Col. George E., Assistant Administrator, Veterans’ Adminis- tration 61 Ketchum, Omar B., Veterans of Foreign Wars 21 Kidd, Raymond C., Director of Supply Service, Veterans’ Adminis- tration 61 Kraabel, T. O., the American Legion 18 Lorenz, Dr. William F., member, medical advisory group 51 MacEachern, Dr. Malcolm T., member, medical advisory group. _. 46 Maisel, Albert Q. (witness subpenaed) 8 Murphy, Dr. Charles P., Veterans’ Administration 52 Myers, Doe, Rochester, N. Y 9 Philbin, Hon. Philip J., Member of Congress, State of Massachusetts.. 2 Piersol, Dr. George Morris, chairman, medical advisory group 42 Stansfield, Harry, Investigation Division, Veterans’ Administration.. 38 Tripp, Louis H., Director of Construction Service, Veterans’ Admin- istration 58 Verdel, Col. Louis F., Veterans’ Administration 26 Wolford, Col. Roy A., Assistant Medical Director, Veterans’ Admin- istration * 13 Exhibits — Analysis of exhibits A to ZZ, inclusive (chart) _ 4 Assaults by attendants upon patients submitted to Department of Justice 67 Assaults by patients reported to Department of Justice, 69 Branch office areas (map) Facing 84 Dates of correspondence received by Congressman Philbin (chart).. 3 Deaths resulting from assaults by patients 68 Medical inspection, Northport Hospital, department of mental hygiene, State of New York, Dr. Bascomb B. Young, acting medical a inspector. _ 28 Monetary benefits to veterans and dependents on June 30, 1945 84 New organization (chart) Facing 84 Old organization (chart) Facing 82 Patients remaining in all hospitals (chart! 81 Status of full-time physicians, nurses, and attendants. 57 Survey of United States Veterans’ Administration hospitals by Ameri- can College of Surgeons 47 Report on inspection of Veterans’ Administration facility, White River Junction, Vt., Hon. Sherman Adams, Member of Congress (not a member of the Committee on World War Veterans’ Legislation) 75 IV CONTENTS Reports by subcommittee— Pa^e Allen, Hon. A. Leonard 75 Auchincloss, Hon. James C 75 Bennett, Hon. Marion T 75 Carnahan, Hon. A. S. J 75 Cunningham, Hon. Paul 74 Domengeaux, Hon. James 75 Gibson, Hon. John S 75 Kearney, Hon. Bernard W 74 Ramey, Hon. Homer A 74 Scrivner, Hon. Errett P 1 74 Vursell, Hon. Charles W 75 Service to the veteran— Administrator, the 86 Care and treatment 80 Compensation and pension 83 Construction 82 Decentralization 79 Employment 78 Hospitals 75 Mentally ill, the 76 New organization 85 Old organization 82 Special medical advisory group 42 Veterans’ organizations 16 Veterans’ organization reports 25 FOREWORD This volume is a summary of the evidence introduced in the investi- gation of the Veterans’ Administration, authorized by House Resolu- tion No. 192, for the benefit of the Committee on World War Veterans’ Legislation in the preparation of their report and is not to be consid- ered in any way a report of the committee. The testimony introduced in the current investigation has covered some 3,000 pages, which is bound in seven volumes. The summary of the evidence covers the period from May 15, 1945, to approximately October 1, 1945. Joe W. McQueen, Couosel. INVESTIGATION OF THE VETERANS* ADMINISTRATION INTRODUCTION The Committee on World War Veterans’ Legislation was authorized in January 1924, and since that time has been a standing committee (House of Representatives) of the Congress of the United States. The investigation conducted by the Committee on World War Veterans’ Legislation was authorized by House Resolution 192,' Seventy-ninth Congress, first session, under date of March 27, 1945. (Record, pt. 1, p. 61.) The resolution authorized the committee acting as a whole or by subcommittee to conduct an investigation of the Veterans’ Administration, with a particular view to determining the efficiency of the Administration and operation of Veterans’ Administration facilities. The Veterans’ Administration is an independent governmental agency, responsible and accountable direct to the people of this coun- try through the Congress of the United States and the President. The Veterans’ Administration was authorized and established as an independent agency under the direction of the President in July 1930, by Public Law 536, Seventy-first Congress, which further authorized the President by Executive order to consolidate and coordinate under a single control ail Government agencies having to do with the admin- istration of laws relating to the relief of and other benefits provided by law for former members of the military and naval forces. By Execu- tive order there was established the Veterans’ Administration and consolidated therein the Bureau of Pensions, the United States Veterans’ Bureau, and the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. 1 The Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs is charged with the control, direction, and management of all agencies and activities comprising the Veterans’ Administration and all final decisions or orders of any agency of the Veterans’ Administration are, on appeal, subject to review by him. The Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs is chairman of the Federal Board of Hospitalization, which Board is advisory to the President in all matters having to do with the need for, the loca- tion of, and expenditures on account of increased Government hos- pital and domiciliary facilities. The Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs is also chairman of the Veterans’ Placement Service Board, which Board was created by the Seventy-eighth Congress to coop- erate with and assist the United States Employment Service, so as to provide for veterans the maximum of job opportunity in the field of gainful employment. The Veterans’ Administration is responsible for extending relief to veterans and dependents of deceased veterans of all wars, and persons and dependents of deceased persons who served in the Military and Naval Establishments of the United States during other than a period of war, provided for by the various acts of Congress. These laws include, in addition to pensions, benefits in the form of Government insurance, hospital and domiciliary care, vocational 2 INVESTIGATION OF THE VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION rehabilitation and education, the guaranty of loans for purchase or construction of homes, farms and business property, and readjustment allowance for veterans. The Director of the Veterans’ Bureau, Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, was in July 1930 named as Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs. He has served well and his long tenure ofoffice as Director of the Veterans’ Bureau and Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs, having served the veteran, the dependent of the veteran, and his Government for almost a quarter of a century, reached into the term of four Presidents of the United States. On August 15, 1945, he was succeeded in office by Gen. Omar N. Bradley. The Veterans’ Administration is at this time the largest independent governmental agency in the United States. It has been estimated that the Veterans’ Administration was on June 30, 1945, carrying approximately 20 percent of the work and supervision that it would be called upon to assume in taking care of the veteran and his dependents, dating back through World War II, World War I, Spanish-American War, Civil War, Indian wars, Mexican War, and one dependent (by special act) of a veteran of the War of 1812. This committee, on September 17, 1945, under authority of House Resolution No. 192, and after due consideration of the testimony then at hand, submitted an interim report pertaining only to inadequate space and personnel. THE TESTIMONY lion. Philip J. Philbin, M. C. The committee called as the first witness on May 15, 1945, the Honorable
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