COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H. R. 5892 and H. R. 8180 TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF FEDERAL AID TO P127-82 44078 MARCH 2, 1954 Printed for the use of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs STANFORD Pages of all hearings are numbered cumulatively to permit a UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1954 COMMITTEE ON VETERANS' AFFAIRS EDITH NOURSE ROGERS, Massachusetts, Chairman BERNARD W. (PAT) KEARNEY, New York E. ROSS ADAIR, Indiana WILLIAM L. SPRINGER, Illinois JOHN P. SAYLOR, Pennsylvania PETER FRELINGHUYSEN, JR., New Jersey ALBERT W. CRETELLA, Connecticut OLIN E. TEAGUE, Texas W. J. BRYAN DORN, South Carolina GEORGE S. LONG, Louisiana HARLAN HAGEN, California D. R. (BILLY) MATTHEWS, Florida CONTENTS Baker, Col. Walter J., commandant, Michigan Veterans' Facility_ Cole, Col. Walter E., commandant, North Dakota Soldiers' Home... Page Kennedy, Miles D. (See American Legion.) Lodge, John, Governor of Connecticut, letter from. McCarthy, Carl S. (See Veterans' Administration.) Mailliard, Hon. William S.---- 3668, 3673, 3677, 3678, 3679, 3680, 3682, 3684 Patterson, Edwin B., counsel of committee- Quigley, John L., commandant, United States Soldiers' Home, Chelsea, 3674, 3675, 3676, 3677, 3678, 3679, 3680, 3682, 3683, 3684, 3686 Rogers, Hon. Edith Nourse, chairman_ Daley, Timothy F., Office of Legislation 3657, 3662, 3664-3671, 3677-3681 McCarthy, Carl S., Department of Medicine and Surgery. . Williams, Chester W., chief, division of soldiers' welfare, and comman- III |