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Letter from Edgar Hinde to Harry S. Truman
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United States Post Office
CLASS
IN REPLYING
Independence, Missouri
MENTION INITIALS AND DATE
November 9th., 1937
Senator Harry S. Truman,
#240 Senate Office Bldg.,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Harry:-
Your letter in regard to Mike Tomashek received yesterday and
I have spent the time since receiving it sleuthing around and trying to
get some dope on the situation.
I have interviewed several of his acquaintances as to their
knowledge of Mike's service name but to date have found out nothing.
The only information that I have gained is that he was in the
navy. This morning I went out to his widow's house and had a talk with
her. She is an old woman and has no information which is of any value.
However, in an old account book we dug up there was pasted a
return from an envelope as follows:-
3-2154
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
I figured that possibly the number which is typewritten above
the return is his case number. I called the Veterans' Bureau in Kansas
City Missouri this morning and asked them if they had any dope on this
man and they advised that they did not. I also asked them about this
number 3-2154 and they advised that it was probably the Case number,
but an old one and these cases had been given a new number.
I am sending this to you today and thought maybe this number
might be the key to his file. In the meantime I will keep after addi-
tional information. We have no records of Pension Checks which come thru
the office, as they are handled as ordinary mail, with the exception
than they are deliverable to the Addressee only and incase of death
the date of death is endorsed on the envelope and returned to the Pensio
Bureau. The carrier on this man's route had no recollection of ever
delivering this man a pension check.
If I can get any more information I will send it end immediate
ly. I really believe from appearances this old lady needs whatever she
can get in the way of a pension.
Kindest regards.
The "Harpies" had a Tea last night and Gabriel took the prize.
He cut the gangevery way but loose. Won about $20.00. He claims the only
reason he won, was that it was amtsturre week.