Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-12-06
POLICE PREPARED
AS MARCHERS NEAR
All to Be on Duty or in Re-
serve Military Units
Are Held Ready.

1
Just another parade.
Little does Gen Glassford fear the
preliminary events-the arrival Of the
| marcherS and their mass meeting to-
night in the Washington Auditorium.
II any trouble develops, he said, it will
come when the demonstrators are re-
CURED to drop their banners and
| placards as they enter the Capitol
Grounds. He had planned to avoid
this eventually by permitting the
marchers to take the banners to the
Capital building if they wanted, but
! Vice President Curtis decreed that the
rules forbidding such demonstration
IN the Capitol grounds must be obeycd
Gen GlaSSford and his executive
stan worked late yesterday putting fin
lShlng touches on the police plans and
| altering various details to conform to
last-minute changes in the arrange
mentS OF The committee in charge Of
the demonstration. These sudden
changes on the part OF the committee
VeXed police officials, but every rea-
sonable request of the representatives
OF the marchers was granted.
The changed plans call for demon
| STATIONS tomorrow at the White House
! and the headquarters of the American
| Federation Of Labor as we'll as at the
| Capitol. Previously, police officials had
| been informed that the Capitol would
be the only objective of the marchers.
Herbert Benjamin, who is making ar
rangementS for the demonstrations
however, said the marChers wanted to
! go to the White House to present a
| petition for unemployment relief to
| President Hoover, Immediately after
! leaving the Capitol. A visit to the
! American Federation of Labor head
quarters was planned, he announced. to
present petition of protest against
, that organizations opposition to un-
! employment insurance, and particularly
its condemnation of the march to
| Washington.
Aside from q fOurpage mimeographed
memorandum of instructions issued to
| the entire force, Gen. Glassford has
given secret orders to a number of the
officers who will have pivotal positions
during the demonstrations. The nature
of these orders he declined to reveal.
but they are understood to concern the
use of tear gas bombs should such
action be necessary.
Detail Capitol Patrol
officials of the Capitol police force
also have worked out a detailed plan of
cooperation with the Metropolitan
police in patrolling the Capitol grounds
and buildings. The Metropolitan Of
fiCers will be in charge of the grounds
around the Capitol under supervision of
Inspector O. T. Davis and Lieut.
Fleischman of the Capitol force
Capt. A. ]. Nash, head of the Capitol
force. VIII BE- in charge inside the Capt.
tol building, with a detail of Metropoli-
tan officers augmenting his regular
staff The Capitol dome will be closed
! IN JricitNrc n
and the east plaza will be cleared of
automobiles
The detail of officers inside the Capt.
tOl will be under supervision of Lieut..
James Laughlin of the Capitol Eorce
The reserve force will be in command
of Lieut.. John Curry
Thu route of the procession Monday,
as well as plans for parade upon ar
rival of the demonstrators today were
approved late yesterday at conference
between Benjamin, Gen. Glassford and
his staff.
The line of march Monday will be
from John Marshall place and C street
to Pennsylvania avenue to First street
to the northwest roadway of the Capitol
grounds and thence to the cast plaza
where representatives of the marchers
will present petitions to Congress for
employment relief
From the Capitol. the demonstrators
will march to the White House, leaving
by the southwest roadway in the Capt.
tol grounds to First street southwest
north to New Jersey avenue to Massa-
chusetts avenue, west to H street, TO
New York avenue to Pennsylvania ave
nue. to the White House. Here the
marchcrs also will wait until appointed
delegates make demands on President
Hoover for employment relief.
Will Go to A. F. of l..
Leaving the White House the dem
onstr2tors will go to the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor Building at Ninth
street and Massachusetts avenue via
Jackson place, Seventeenth street, I
street and Massachusetts, avenue.
After the demonstration at the Amer
lean Federation of Labor Building. the
plans call for another march to the
Washington Auditorium, where a mass
meeting is to be held. The route tC
the Auditorium will be from Ninth and
K streets west to Twentieth street, and
south to the Auditorium.
The parade to the Capitol Is schcd-
uled to start at IL O'clock
Despite mechanical difficulties, the
two main columns Of the caravan of
motor trucks carrying the demonstrat.
ors will arrive today, police have been
assured, The delegation from the north
will be the first to reach Washington
BENJAMIN told police officials this grouu
probably would cross the District line
about 3 o'clock
The second group, from the West Is
not expected before O'Clock. This
delegation will come into the CITY via
wisconsin avenue and the Northern
group via Bladensburg road.
Officers to Form Escort.
Special squads of motor cycle officers
will meet both delegations and escort
them from the District line to John
Marshall place and C street. The
caravan from the North will leave
Bladcnsburg road at New York avenue
and proceed east to Fifth street and
south on Fifth street to Louisiana ave.
hue and thence to John Marshall place
At Florida avenue this delegation will
abandon the trucks and march afoot
The Western group will proceed south
on Wisconsin avenue to Massachusetts
avenue, to TWenty-seCond street. to N
= street and east on this street to Fifth
{ thence south to Louisiana avenue tc
, John Marshall place, Demonstration,
in this group Will leave the trucks AT
Fourteenth and M streets and march
afoot over the remainder of the route
A third and heretofore unknown
group winch originated in Gastonia, N
> C." also is expected late in the after
/ noon, according to information received
by the police This delegation is saic
i to be small in comparison with the
? others, and will come into Washington
over the Richmond-W Washington High
, way.
f Police have arranged to park The
trucks of the demonstrators on Johr
/ Marshall place between Pennsylvania
avenue and D street in close pr0ximit,
to the abandoned buildings in which
the marchers are to be housed. one
OF these buildings is the historic First
presbyterian Church, where Grover
= President Another ic tbo coI.,Is