581 and 582, Title 38, United States Code, and who prior to the passage of Public No. 2, 73rd Congress, has been granted retirement with pay, shall, subject to such other regulations as have been or may hereafter be issued, be entitled to continue to receive retirement pay at the monthly rate now being paid him if the disability for which he has been retired with pay resulted from disease or injury or aggravation of a preexisting disease or injury, incurred in line of duty during such service and is shown to have been heretofore properly rated: Provided, That such person entered active service between April 6, 1917 and November 11, 1918: Provided further, That the disease or injury or aggravation of the disease or injury directly resulted from the performance of military or naval duty and that the causative factor therefor is shown to have arisen out of the performance of duty during such service. March 31st, 1933, THE WHITE HOUSE. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT [No. 6093] EXECUTIVE ORDER VETERANS REGULATION No. 6 ELIGIBILITY FOR DOMICILIARY OR HOSPITAL CARE, INCLUDING MEDICAL TREATMENT WHEREAS, Section 6, Title I, of Public No. 2, 73rd Congress, entitled "An Act To maintain the credit of the United States Government" provides: "In addition to the pensions provided in this title, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby authorized under such limitations as may be prescribed by the President, and within the limits of existing Veterans' Administration facilities, to furnish to veterans of any war, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, domiciliary care where they are suffering with permanent disabilities, tuberculosis, or neuropsychiatric ailments and medical and hospital treatment for diseases or injuries." NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by said law, the following regulation is promulgated: I. The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, within the limits of Veterans' Administration facilities, is authorized to furnish to honorably discharged veterans of any war, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, domiciliary or hospital care, including medical treatment, to the following persons and in the specified order of preference: (a) To veterans who are suffering with injuries or diseases which were incurred or aggravated in line of duty in the active military or naval service when in need of hospital treatment for such injuries or diseases; (b) To those veterans who served in the active military or naval service for a period of 90 days or more who are suffering with permanent disabilities or tuberculous or neuropsychiatric ailments, which incapacitates them from earning a living, and who have no adequate means of support. II. No clothing shall be furnished to any person admitted to a Veterans' Administration facility and while a member thereof except under the following conditions: (a) Where the veteran is indigent and the furnishing of clothing is necessary to protect health or sanitation; (b) Where the veteran requires special clothing made necessary by the wearing of prosthetic appliances. III. Reasonable traveling and other expenses of the veteran to a Veterans' Administration facility may be paid in the discretion of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs only when the veteran is granted prior authority to report to a Veterans' Administration facility for treatment of injury or disease incurred or aggravated in line of duty in the active military or naval service. Upon completion of such treatment as may be prescribed and regular discharge by the Veterans' Administration, reasonable traveling, and other expenses of the veteran, from the Veterans' Administration facility to the place from which hospitalized may be paid in the discretion of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. In the event of the death of any veteran prior to discharge, transportation expenses for the return of the body to place of residence or the nearest National cemetery may be paid in the discretion of the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs when deemed necessary and as an administrative necessity. IV. No person shall be entitled to receive domiciliary, medical or hospital care, including treatment, who resides outside of the continental limits of the United States or its territories or possessions. V. The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby authorized to provide such rules and procedure governing domiciliary or hospital care as he may deem proper and necessary. VI. Pension for disability the result of injury or disease incurred or aggravated in the line of duty in the active military or naval service, and emergency officers' retirement pay, of any person who is being furnished hospital treatment, institutional, or domiciliary care by the United States, or any political subdivision thereof, shall not exceed $15 per month, provided that where such person has a wife, child or dependent mother or father the difference by which the amount to which such disabled person would otherwise be entitled exceeds $15 will be payable to the wife, child or dependent mother or father, as may be prescribed by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. Where any disabled person having neither wife, child nor dependent mother or father, is being maintained by the Government of the United States, or any political subdivision thereof, in an institution and shall be deemed by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs to be insane, the pension for such person shall thereafter not exceed $15 per month so long as he shall be maintained by the Government of the United States, or any political subdivision thereof, in an institution; provided, however, that in any case where the estate of such person derived from funds paid under the War Risk Insurance Act, as amended, the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended, the several pension acts and/or this Act equals or exceeds $1,500, any payments of pension being made will be discontinued until the estate derived from such funds is reduced to $500. The provisions of this paragraph shall also be applicable to pensions for disability the result of injury or disease incurred after active military or naval service, except that the amount payable while the veteran is in the institution shall be $6.00 per month instead of $15.00 per month. VII. Where a disabled person entitled to pension under Public No. 2, 73rd Congress, or emergency officers' retirement pay is a patient in a Veterans' Administration facility, or where for any other reason the disabled person and his wife are not living together, or where the child or children are not in the custody of the disabled person, or in the custody of the widow, the amount of the pension may be apportioned as may be prescribed by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT March 31st, 1933, THE WHITE HOUSE. [No. 6094] EXECUTIVE ORDER VETERANS REGULATION NO. 7 ELIGIBILITY FOR MEDICAL CARE FOR VETERANS OF ANY WAR WHEREAS, Section 6, Title I, of Public No. 2, 73rd Congress, entitled "An Act To maintain the credit of the United States Government" provides: "In addition to the pensions provided in this title, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs is hereby authorized under such limitations as may be prescribed by the President, and within the limits of existing Veterans' Administration facilities, to furnish to veterans of any war, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, domiciliary care where they are suffering with permanent disabilities, tuberculosis or neuropsychiatric ailments and medical and hospital treatment for diseases or injuries." NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by said law, the following regulation is promulgated: I. The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, within the limits of Veterans' Administration facilities, is authorized in his discretion to furnish to honorably discharged veterans of any war, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, suffering from diseases or injuries incurred or aggravated in the line of duty in the active military or naval service, such medical, surgical and dental services as may be found to be reasonably necessary. Such veterans may also be furnished with such supplies including dental appliances, wheel chairs, artificial limbs, trusses, and similar appliances, including special clothing made necessary by the wearing of prosthetic appliances, as the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs may determine to be useful and reasonably necessary, which dental appliances, wheel chairs, artificial limbs, trusses, special clothing, and similar appliances may be procured by the Veterans' Administration in such manner, either by purchase or manufacture, as the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs may determine to be advantageous and reasonably necessary. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT EXECUTIVE ORDER VETERANS REGULATION NO. 8 YEARLY RENEWABLE TERM INSURANCE WHEREAS, Section 17, Title I, of Public No. 2, 73rd Congress, entitled "An Act To maintain the credit of the United States Government" provides: "All public laws granting medical or hospital treatment, domiciliary care, compensation and other allowances, pension, disability allowance, or retirement pay to veterans and the dependents of veterans of the Spanish-American War, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, and the World War, or to former members of the military or naval service for injury or disease incurred or aggravated in the line of duty in the military or naval service (except so far as they relate to persons who served prior to the Spanish-American War and to the dependents of such persons, and the retirement of officers and enlisted men of the Regular Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard) are hereby repealed, and all laws granting or pertaining to yearly renewable term insurance are hereby repealed, but payments in accordance with such laws shall continue to the last day of the third calendar month following the month during which this Act is enacted. The Administrator of Veterans' Affairs under the general direction of the President shall immediately cause to be reviewed all allowed claims under the above referred to laws and where a person is found entitled under this Act, authorize payment or allowance of benefits in accordance with the provisions of this Act commencing with the first day of the fourth calendar month following the month during which this Act is enacted and notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9 of this Act, no further claim in such cases shall be required: Provided, That nothing contained in this section shall interfere with payments heretofore made or hereafter to be made under contracts of yearly renewable term insurance which have matured prior to the date of enactment of this Act and under which payments have been commenced, or on any judgment heretofore rendered in a court of competent jurisdiction in any suit on a contract of yearly renewable term insurance, or which may hereafter be rendered in any such suit now pending: Provided further, That, subject to such regulations as the President may prescribe, allowances may be granted for burial and funeral expenses and transportation of the bodies (including preparation of the bodies) of deceased veterans of any war to the places of burial thereof in a sum not to exceed $107 in any one case. "The provisions of this title shall not apply to compensation or pension (except as to rates, time of entry into active service and special statutory allowances), being paid to veterans disabled, or dependents of veterans who died, as the result of disease or injury directly connected with active military or naval service (without benefit of statutory or regulatory presumption of service connection) pursuant to the provisions of the laws in effect on the date of enactment of this Act. The term 'compensation or pension' as used in this paragraph shall not be construed to include emergency officers' retired pay referred to in section 10 of this title." NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by said law, the following regulation is hereby promulgated: I. Yearly renewable term insurance in cases where the insured has disappeared and such insurance is being continued by payment of premiums as required by law may be converted into any form of level premium life or endowment insurance provided by the Government. Application for conversion, together with remittance to cover at least one monthly premium shall be filed with the Veterans' Administration within 31 days from the date of notice of this right. If any such insurance is not converted within the time prescribed all rights under such insurance shall cease and terminate. II. When an insured under yearly renewable term insurance is receiving insurance benefits on account of a total permanent disability award and such award is terminated, the insured shall be entitled to convert the amount of such yearly renewable term insurance (commuted value of the remaining unpaid installments) into any form of level premium life or endowment insurance provided by the Government. Application for such conversion, together with a remittance to cover at least one monthly premium, shall be filed with the Veterans' Administration within 31 days from the date of notice of this right. Any yearly renewable term insurance in such cases that is not converted within the prescribed time shall cease and terminate. Paragraphs R-3141 and 3142 of Regulations & Procedure, Veterans' Administration (United States Veterans' Bureau) are hereby amended accordingly. III. Payments under contracts of yearly renewable term insurance (including automatic insurance) which have matured, and under which payments have been commenced prior to March 20, 1933, or on any judgment heretofore rendered in a court of competent jurisdiction in any suit on a contract of yearly renewable term insurance (including automatic insurance), or which may hereafter be rendered in any such suit pending in court on March 20, 1933, may hereafter be made. IV. Further payment of benefits on account of the death of an insured to whom yearly renewable term insurance (including automatic insurance) benefits have been awarded and are being paid in accordance with paragraph III of this regulation shall be made in accordance with the World War Veterans' Act, 1924, as amended, and precedents in effect thereunder. V. Except as stated above, no payments may hereafter be made under contracts of yearly renewable term insurance (including automatic insurance) and all pending claims or claims hereafter filed for such benefits shall be disallowed. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT March 31st, 1933, THE WHITE HOUSE. [No. 6096] EXECUTIVE ORDER VETERANS REGULATION NO. 9 PAYMENT OF BURIAL EXPENSES OF DECEASED WAR VETERANS WHEREAS, Section 17, Title I, of Public No. 2, 73rd Congress, entitled "An Act To maintain the credit of the United States Government" provides: "That subject to such regulations as the President may prescribe, allowances may be granted for burial and funeral expenses and transportation of the bodies (including preparation of the bodies) of deceased veterans of any war to the places of burial thereof in the sum not to exceed $107 in any one case." NOW, THEREFORE, by virtue of the authority vested in me by said law, the following Regulation is hereby promulgated: I. Where an honorably discharged veteran of any war dies after discharge a flag to drape the casket, and after burial to be given to the next of kin, shall be furnished in all cases. II. Where an honorably discharged veteran of any war dies after discharge, a sum not exceeding $75 and not exceeding the actual cost, |