Evening star., 1932-08-01
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B.E.E.''SC COLONY
WithhoIds Public Statement
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Gift to MarcherS.
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we're among those forced out Of Camp
Marks last Thursday night, moved into
the new site yesterday. They brought
a large squad tent of the pyramid
type, three small tents and an odd
piece of canvas that they rigged up
as lean-to.
They Immediately set about making
the camp as honey" IS possible, not
even overlooking such things as Home,
Sweet Home" signs. The business OF
naming the refuge was left to Waters.
however, the pioneers content ng
themselves with labelling only one
street" which they christened Gov
Ritchie avenue" This, they said, VIII
be the camps main stem.
After a breakfast of oatmeal and
coffee. the campers began "tidying-
up" campaign.
Although their food supply consisted
of less than two loaveS of bread, they
were not worried. they said. because the
Baltimore American Legionnaires had
promised to send three truckloads OF
food to the camp today.
Meanwhile. Enoch O'Neal, colored,
owner of a farm near Oxon Hill, Mo,
had promised to see that they did nos
go hungry O'Neal, B. E. F. military
police, gave shelter to 33 bonus march-
erS at his farm. he said, after they were
expelled from Washington.
According to Mai. Edward W. Lam
bert, in charge of the camp. every effort
will be made to keep out radicals and
other undesirables. To gain admtttance,
he said, applicants must show discharge
papers or other conclusive evidence
| that they actually saw service during
the war.
The early arrivals, under direction OF
Lambert, began clearing road through
the heavily wooded tract.
The nearest water supply, about half
a mile away, will be tested by Anne
Arundel County health authorities.
Meantime, efforts are being made to
improve a small pond nearer the camp
| in the hope it can be made to provide
safe drinking water.
Establishment of the camp drew pro-
tests from residents of the surrounding
territory, one of whom declared the
| bonus army should be prevented from
/ taking possession Of the tract unless
| they are taxpayers or have visible means
of support.
The two women in the camp are Mrs.
Bullion, who halls from Egg Harbor,
N. j., and Mrs. Bryant Duke, Beaumont,
Tex. The population also includes a
pair of day-old pigs, christened O'Nea1
| and Lambert.
| The smoking problem was solved
when the owner of a nearby farm gave
! the campers a large supply of tobacco.
! which they crupbled and began using
to roll their own"
Mrs. Edgell, in an interview with a
representative of the Associated Press,
| at her Catonville home. explained she
! decided the tract to Waters because
Maryland has always been a land Of
sanctuary and haven for the
oppressed" She considered her act a
patriotic duty" she said, and she Is
| willing to place more land at the bonus
seekers disposal if necessary.
'I wasn't interested in the bonus
question, whether it went through or
not" she declared, but after what
happened in Washington last Thursday,
I felt it was patriotic duty to see that
these poor people had some place
to CO."
The marchers saved the country IA
years ago, she added, land the Ameri-
can people should do something for
them now. They have no home and
are being chased from one place to an
other
The deed Of land is her first move to
help the bonus army. She has offered
to let them have more later. In the
meantime she is entertaining at her
home II of the marchers who were ex-
PEELED from Washington.
Mrs. Edgell let it be known she is not
imbued with Communistic doctrines.
"I am no Communist" she said. I'm
an Eastern Shore woman, from Talbot
County My ancestors fought in the
Revolution, the War Of 1912 and in
1861-and voted for Hoover"
Mrs. Edgell is owner and director OF
a Catonsville nursing home for the aged
and infirm.