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The Washington times., 1932-09-12

another reporter to the Twelfth
Street area.
The writer found the Twelfth
Street area still occupied by be-
wildered men, women and little
children.
Cavalry Troops Approach
Their wretched belongings had
been gathered into bundles. One
man this writer talked to had
been sleeping for a month on a
bare floor in a deserted building.
The one mattress and blanket
owned by this miserable family
were shared by the wife and two
small kids.
AS this writer passed among
these people the hoofbeats Of the
slowly advancing cavalry could
be heard.
This writer remained there and
was present when the United
States cavalry arrived. If those
bonus marchers hadn't been
evacuated by the troops, in God S
name how would a proper respect
for the English tongue lead one
to another description?
He Is Wrong Again
No, Attorney General Mitchell
is wrong again. 1t is apparent
he has been sadly misinformed-
or miSdirected.
Now, as a matter of fact, there
were nine bonus army units en-
camped in the so-called Twelfth
Street area. 1t is. this area
which the Attorney General de-
scribes as being occupied prin-
cipally by Communists, headed
by Pace"
Attorney General Mitchell is
wrong again. This area was not
occupied principally by Com
munists," and the police records
will not bear Mr.. Mitchell out.
OF the nine units in this area
only one was of Communists,
commanded by John T. Pace.
The other eight were ex7service
men, and wl:e not radicals. But
the Attorney General ignores
this, and Jumps the whole area
as radical.
A police check-up at the time
of the attempt to picket the
White House by the Communists,
on July 81, disclosed that there
were only 210 radicals then in
the city. This was the peak
number the radicals ever reached.
The Attorney General himself
states that there were, after the
adjournment of Congress, from
5000 to 5000 bonus marchers in
Washington. Police figures Of
ficially place the radicals at not
to exceed 210 at their peak, a
very small percentage.
Other Police Records
There are other police records,
official figures, with which the
Attorney General also appears to
be unfamiliar.
1T is probable" says Mr..
A4GCL1CA4, III II1S ICpOIG W GLlS
President, and given out by the
White House, "the bonus army
brought into the city of Wash
ington the largest aggregation of
criminals that had ever been as
sembled in the city at any one
time"
There is absolutely nothing
whatever in the official records
of Washington to sustain ,nis
deadly blow by the Administra-
ton at the integrity of the ex-
service men of the bonus army.
On the contrary, the two
months, June and July. when the
bonus army was in Washington,
were marked by no increase in
The Washington times., 1932-09-12

doubtless also there we're more
out-of- town pickpocketS in attend
ance at the Inauguration of PreSi-
dent Hoover than there were radi-
Gals and criminals among the
bona fide ex-Service men who came
to Washington in their misery and
despair to collect what the Gov
ernment had already promised to
pay them.
COntradicts Himself
Although charging that "a
much larger proportion of the
bonus army than was realized at
the time consisted of ex-convicts,
persons with criminal records,
radicals and nonservice men,"
Attorney General Mitchell hast
ems to add-with due regard,
doubtless, to the delicacy of the
political factor involved-"on the
other hand, very considerable
number we're genuine ex-service
men of good intentions and clean
records"
On page one of this statement
the Attorney General says:
"A considerable number of
the marcherS were not in mill
tary service during the world
war"
But on page three he takes a
verbal handspring, and with a
remarkable exhibition of grand
and lofty word-tumbling, he says:
"On the other hand, very
considerable number were gen.
uine ex-Service men of good
intentions and clean records"
FIRE CAUSE UNKNOWN
Speaking of the routing of
the bonus marchers and of the
burning of their ShackS and half
demolished buildings in lower
Pennsylvania Avenue, on the
afternoon of July %, and later
in Anacostia, the Attorney Gen
eral says:
"The cause of the outbreak
of the fire in the Pennsylvania
Avenue area is not known"
If the cause of these fires is
not known to the learned Attor-
ney General. he must be the
only person in Washington thus
drenched in colossal ignorance of
a commonplace.
That fire in the Pennsylvania
Avenue area was started by the
soldiers.
Shade Trees Destroyed
When it was discovered later
that a great number of mag
nificent shade trees, some Of
them doubtless hundred years
old, had been killed by these
fires, the authorities were glad
to SHIFT THE BLAME FOR THE
CONFEDERATION ONTO THE
BONUS MARCHERS. Attorney
General Mitchell is more in
genious-he suspects the eX-
ploding gas bombs.
The troops burned these
ShackS in order that to their
glowing embers the bonus
marcherS could not return. That
was we'll known to everybody
on the scene at the time.
Attorney General Mitchell
says of what he calls the Com
munist camp" on Twelfth st.
S. W., just south of the white
marble Department of Agricul-
ture, that it was not disturbed
by the troops, but was volun-
tarily evacuated by the march
erS."
Attorney General Mitchell is
again in error. This writer, after
leaving the Pennsylvania Avenue
area, proceeded in taXicab with
The Washington times., 1932-09-12
SENATORS FLAY
HOOVER RAP
At B, {. F.

Two members of the Senate,
one a Democrat, the other an
insurgent Republican, greet e d
President Hoover's Justice De-
partment report on the bonus
army with severe criticism here
today. while former officials of
the bonus army condemned the
document as false"
Senator rookhart (R) of
Iowa declared the Chief Execu-
tive deserved a vote of cenSure
at the hands of the American
Legion, assembled in Portland to-
day, for issuance of the report.
He said Mr.. Hoover's conduct
was being condemned from coast
to coast.
Fletcher Voices Critisism
Senator Fletcher CD of Flor
ida, criticized the Chief Executive
for failing to handle the march
ers properly. He said:
"No doubt there were some
hangerS-On in the bonus army,
some men who did not belong
there, but on the whole they
were. fine, outstanding lot of
men who had fought for their
country.
"TO make sweeping charges
that the bonus boys were a lot
Of criminals is a gross in
Justice.
eff the President had talked
to the marchers, explained to
them why he could not ap-
prove immediate cash payment
of the bonus, / believe all
trouble would haze been
averted. At any rate, there
was no excuse for sticking bay
OnetS in them"
Outrage, Says BrOOkhart
Brookhart expressed the pre-
diction that the American Legion
would take care" of the PreSi-
dents statement and declared
that were Congress in session, he
would demand an investigation
of the bonus march. He added:
Il think it outrageous for
these boys to be branded as
criminals and trouble makers.
They were genuine soldiers.
Anyone who saw them here
knows that"
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the Senate had defeated the
bonus bill.
The vast open space was packed
with members of the bonus army.
They had been standing there
all day patiently, hungry, foot.
sore and weary, but with the
fire of hope burning in their
breasts. They believed to the
end that the Senate would give
them the bonus that might lift
them out of the slough of des-
pair.
Then came the devastating
word. The bonus bill was beaten.
The Senate had turned a deaf
ear to their pleas for succor in
their extremity.
Took Blow Like Men
And did they take the blow
like men? I'll say they did. At
the very moment the i'll tidings
dashed their forlorn hopes, the
electric light was turned on,
which each night floods the great
WHlCe QOIuS Oh Gle CdpAGO1 Will
a silvery radiance.
The tired eyes that had burned
with glad expectation all dSy,
were raised to where the flsG
stood out in all it's beauty against
the soft white of the majestic
dome.
Five usand heart-broken
men, without a word of COM
mand, simultaneously, instinc-
lively, came to salute. Every
hand was at a tattered cap.
Their voices rose, and sWelled
into a mighty chorus as they
sang:
"My country, tits of thee,
Sweet land of liberty"
The Washington times., 1932-09-12
Rep. Patman
DenOunceS
Mitchell
BY WRIGHT PATMAN
Member Of Congress from Texas,
Author of Bonus Bills.

PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. IL
CUSJ.-1t matters not whether
a few members of the bonus
army allegedly had criminal
records.
The principle involved is the
right of peaceful assembly to Pc
tition Congress in a just cause.
If it is true the gathering was
composed of criminals, then the
bonus army represented a great
reform movement, because the
members were peaceful and law
abiding in Washington.
was there.
Attorney General Mitchell
should commend them rather
than condemn them for their
actions.
Evening star., 1932-10-29
ODD FELLOWS STAGE
BICENTENNIAL Event
Program includes Three Episodes
From Lives of George and
Martha Washington"

District of Columbia Odd Fellows last
night celebrated the Bicentennial OF
George Washingtons birth with pro-
gram at Mckinley High School which
included Three Episodes From the
Lives of George and Martha Washing
ton" presented by the Columbia Play
ers The episodes" were written by
Mai. r. B. Lawrence for the Bicen-
tennial Commission.
The program, arranged by Mrs. Mary
p. Pollock, chairman of the Rebekah
Assembly, opened with a concert by
Mithras Sanctorum, No. 100, Band,
under leadership of its director, L. H.
Kidwell. Vocal solos were presented
bv Alice Neal, Alice Louise Hunter, Mrs.
S B. Daugherty and Bernice Shepard.
Felicia Lambert played violin solo.
In addition to the three episodes, the
Columbia Players presented the quarrel
scene from Sheridan's "a School for
Scandal" Players taking part in the
playlets included Frank Jamison, Au-
fora Poston. Martha Garner Turner,
Charles l.. Maxwell Margaret Graham,
Sue Stamates, Esther Shapiro, John
Mahany, Everett Gianiny, Dorothy
White. Peggy Fountain. Charles Nc
Culloch, Allen Foster, Harold w. Far
rington. Miles Magargel. Mary Ellen
Cato. Josef Bourne, Delma Smith, Jane
Garlick and Paul Alexander.
Evening star., 1932-10-29
|BORAH LIKES SMITH
FOR AID TO c. 0. P.
Senator Sees Former Gov.
ernor in Campaign for
RepubIicanism.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
WILDER, Idaho, October 29.-Sena-
tor William E. Borah turned aside from
discussion of economic problems in
an address here last night to say he
liked" Al Smith
Continuing what he has described as
a campaign for "Republicanism," the
Senator asserted that Smith is helping
out the Republican party" He added.
Il think Roosevelt knows it. He can't
help know it."
Borah said Smith referred to him in
MS recent Boston speech as an Idaho
potato" who handed President Hoover
gold brick in the special session"
The comment on Smith came near
the close of his speech on world eco
| nomlc problems, in which the Idaho
I Republican discussed reparations, tariff
reconciliation of silver in the Orient,
| reduction of interest rates to farmers,
| lowering of taxes-all of which he de-
scribed as part of a general program
| for business recovery
! Senator Borah remarked that with
Smith prosecuting the drys and Reed
defending them, my advice to the drys
Is to seek bail at once and apply for
| change Of venue"
Former Senator James A. Reed Of
| MAooOuil, ociloCIdI, SdlO Tie 1QdllOdQ
was substantially supporting Mr. Hoo
ver's candidacy" Reed said he did not
indorse the doctrine that prohibitionists
are fanatics and bigotS."
| MY longtime friend, Senator Reed
OF Missouri, Is now defending the drys,'
Borah said. "Ex-Gov. Smith denounced
them as bigots, cranks and hypocrites
and told them they belonged in the
Hoover camp. Reed. with his usual
| gallantry, says he thinks Smith went
a little strong. He thinks there may be
possible exceptions to the rule an
nounced by Smith"
Evening star., 1932-10-29
DRY LEAGUE CLAIMS
PROHIBITION SAVING
$10O, 900, 900 Outlay Averted in
District, Says Reply
to Crusaders.

Prohibition, instead of costing s8,000,-
600, as charged by the Crusaders. has
saved the District S100,000000. state
ment of the Anti-Saloon League today
said.
The prohibitionists said:
Accepting their figure of 100000
as the amount that would have been
paid in license fees by saloonkeeperS II
the District had not gone dry. it is easy
to believe that S12 would have been
spent over the bars for every dollar re-
turned to the Government in taxes and
fees"
The statement further charged that
in 1913 the District was supporting 805
retail liquor dealers. 25 wholesalers. 4
breweries and 26 dealers In malt liquors
1t was charged there were IA saloons
within block of Thirteenth and Cliff
ton streets.
The statement adds. "It is absurd to
contend that the pint-peddling boot
leggers carry on anything like the vol
ume of business formerly carried or
by saloons"
Evening star., 1932-10-29
"BEST BRAINS" POLL
FAVORS ROOSEVELT
Straw Vote Published by Forum
Magazine Gives Thomas Second
Place and Hoover Third.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 29.-The Dem
ocratic National Committee last night
issued a statement calling attention to
poll of the best brains" appearing
in the November issue of the Forum
magazine and showing Roosevelt in the
lead.
The statement said Roosevelt received
16 votes, Thomas, 10; Hoover, 8, and
Foster, 3. 1t lists among the Roosevelt
voters H. L. Mencken, Clarence Dar-
row, George N. Shuster. Struthers Burr
and Sidney S. LenZ. the bridge expert
Roger Babson and Will Durant were
listed among the Hoover voters, while
the statement gave Oswald Garrison
Willard and Elmer Davis, among others
as Thomas voters.
Names of all the persons voting were
not listed in the statement.
Evening star., 1932-10-29
BEER BY CHRISTMAS
SEEN BY HUEY LONG

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex, October Ex-senator
Huey p Long, Democrat, Of Louisiana,
in an interview here yesterday, pre-
dicted beer by Christmas If Roosevelt
is elected
When Roosevelt's elected" the King
fish of Louisiana politics said. "the
cave-in will start. It's hard to believe
how quickly the whole structure OF
prohibition will collapse Then all the
States, except about six, will repeal
their own laws and we'll see plenty
of drinking for a while.
After that sentiment will go the
other way again and predict that
after six years, we'll be having better
prohibition than we've had the last six
Perhaps about six States will be wet
and the others, particularly in the
South and Middle West, will be dry, ex-
cept for maybe lighter drinks, like
wines and beer"
Long stopped of here en- route tc
New Orleans after completing speak
ing tour through the Dakotas. Nebraska
and Kansas in behalf of the Demo
cratic national ticket. He predicted
those States would be in the Demo
cratic column at the election next
month.
Evening star., 1932-10-29
PRESS POPULAR|zES|
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Public Better Informed of
Progress, Frank B. Noyes
Tells Doctors.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, October 20
Day by day the newSpaper-readlng pub
lie is becoming better informed as to
the research work and discoveries OF
scientists, the International Association
of the Interstate Postgraduate Medical
Association was told last night by Frank
B. Noyes. publisher of The Washington
Star and president of the Associated
Press.
After telling the medical men of the
establishment by the Associated Press
of a special science department, Mr..
NoyeS said:
And so I say that rejoice that we
have found way to make widely known
not only the martyrdoms. but also the
triumphs of your noble profession"
Outlines Past Difficulties.
In telling of the past difficulties in
reporting scientific news, Mr.. NoyeS
said:
The average Associated Press re-
porter could not deal with Einstein or
with discoveries in medicine and sur
gerry competently.
.On the other hand. it is almost i'm
possible apparently for most scientific
men to write in manner intelligible
to the layman.
Will llllo SlludlIOll ldSAlS llAIl 4Ai 9.
Kent Cooper, the general manager of
the organization the Associated Press,
who has charge of its operations, de-
cided to establish a science department.
He also decided not to have scientists
attempt the work, but newspaper men
especially fitted to translate accurately
into English the curious Latin and
Greek and the more curious English
that scientists use in their esoterlc
communications one with another
MIR. Howard w. Blakeslee, one OF the
ablest men on our staff, was placed In
charge as science editor.
profound Change" Noted.
''He has made, I think, an amazing
success of his department.
If the volume of letters of apprecia-
ton of the service both to the medical
profession and the reading public can
be accepted as indicative, profound
change has taken place in the attitude
of the physician and the newspaper
man
Many Of the great men of medicine
now revise articles prepared by our
science department to see that no
blunderS are made.
An interesting phase of the develop
ment is the surprise expressed by pro-
fessional men that science can be writ
ten of simply, accurately and dramati-
cally. like other news, and also that these
science stories reach immensely larger
numbers of scientists than do their own
scientific articles on the same subjects
written for the express purpose OF in
forming fellow scientists.
Therefore, I especially bespeak from
each professional man or woman here
further sympathetic aid in this great
work of reaching common understand
ings, to the large advantage of all of US"
Evening star., 1932-10-29
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MONTREAL, october 29-The Mont
real Star commented humorously yes
terday on the situation arising out Of
its publication Of letter purportedly
written to a Canadian by James A.
Farley, Democratic national committee
man, which the Republican National
Committee said disclosed" that the
Democratic National Campaign Com
mittee had appealed to foreign inter-
estS for finances to help overturn the
Republican administration in the United
States
The paper said the Democratic party,
in sending letters to the members OF
prominent New York social clubs, in
cluCed letter to a Montreal business
man who was a member of one of the
clubs.
Democratic National Committeeman
James A. Farley, in New York Thurs
day, described the Republican assertion
as an utterly untrue statement"
The Stars statement, which the edi-
tor said lis the papers last word in
the matter" follows:
"A little girl in New York last week
missed by beat of her long mascara
eyelashes the opportunity of place in
the sun alongside the brave little Dutch
boy (Who saved village from deStruc-
| ton by stuffing his little hand in a
hole in the dike). BY keeping her eve
on the mailing list and her mind on
political possibilities she might have
saved those United States from f1utter
| Of excitement; the Democratic party
! from terrible disaster, and the Mont
| real Star from lot of bother. How
| ever. the telephone company is col
| lecting tolls by the handful, so some
body's happy over it.
1T all began when the Democratic
| party, needing a little money to help il
while it cleans Hoover g. Co. out of Of
flee. got hold of the membership lists
Of some of the prominent social clubs
of New York and included them in the
| list of people to whom they addressed a
circular letter appealing for funds.
! "a well known Montreal business man
who goes to New York very often is a
member of one Of these clubs. The
| typewriter operator might have noticed
that the address which went with his
name was in Montreal, which is not in
| the United States (for which she would
probably have rendered thanks had she
| thought OF it,, but her thoughts were
| elsewhere, and the Montreal man In
| question duly received letter asking
him to help the Democrats along with q
| little check.
He thought it funny and told the
Evening star., 1932-10-29
M i S | C.
Excellent Recital
Given at Washington Club.


A REPRESENTATIVE audience
n heard with appreciation the
II enjoyable recital given last
1 \ evening by Minna Nlemann,
pianist, and Dorothy Seegar,
soprano. assisted by Greta Won Bayer
and Frederick Bristol. at the Wash
ington Club. The program had the
variety that holds interest and IS
proof of the musicianshlp OF the
performers.
Miss Seegar, who began the pro-
gram gave a cameo-like lnterpre-
tation to all her numbers in we'll
placed voice of sweet quahty. Inns
placement did not continue quite TO
the top of her register, however, ex-
cept in her opening number. GUAM
do ii rivedro" (Donaudy) and the
Las locas por amor by Turnlo;
The "Chanson de Marie Antoinette,
bv Jacobson, and the "Primavera
of Glauzounoff, which replaced the
aria from Madame Chrysantheme,
had grace and lightness of de-
livery that is particularly suited TO
her voice. The English group was
the most satisfying as to tonal
quality. a happy adjustment she was
not quite able to find in the for
eign numbers. In the English group
was Mary Howes lovely 20 Mistress
Mine" which the audience greeted
with special applause in apprecla-
ton of its quaint charm and which
Mrs. Howe who was present, rose
to acknowledge.
Frederick Bristol, an artistic and
supporting acconpanlst. gave
SYNOPSIS of each foreign song Miss
Seegar sang. which left one. per-
haps. in two minds as to the advlsa-
bilitv of such announcements.
Miss Niemann began her part OF
the program with a short prelude
bv Dohnanvi and Barcarole OF
Chopin given in free, flowing style.
The poetry of the Chopin was
echoed in the adagio sostenuto OF
the Rachmanioff Concerto for Two
Pianos which had marked feeling.
Miss Niemann has plant technic
which is more than adequate and Is
most at home in lyric expression.
ANY lack of virility is made up by
the quality of her touch. In the
Bach "Chorale" that was substituted
for two numbers in the second
group, and in certain parts OF the
allegro ScherZando of the concerto,
there was a fine sorority of tone
that should have developed into
brilliancy in the technical passages
if properly directed. On the Whole.
the Rachmaninof &C Minor Concer-
to-" PLAYED with warm tonal back
ground bv Greta Won Bayer on the
second piano, was the outstanding
number of the evening for the big
ness of the undertaking.
There were MANY demands for
encores and MANY beautiful flowers
to testify to the pleasure of the au-
dience. which filled the hall to the
very limit. A. E.
Evening star., 1932-10-29

sist telling me that he thinks this cleo
ton speaks better for the American
people than any other incident that
has occurred within his knowledge.
Il look forward eagerly to seeing you
on Sunday, for I may not be up when
you reach the White House Saturday
night. Root tSecretary of State Elihu
Root will be in on Sunday and We
will talk over together the Cannon
business. 1t would, of course, be we'll
if there was some first-class man to put
in his place as Speaker; but we cannot
think of putting in some cater-cornered
creature like Burton Representative
Theodore E. Burton Of Ohio, and
moreover, if it is evident that four
fifths of the Republicans want Cannon
do not believe it would be we'll to
have him in the position of the sullen
and hostile floor leader bound to bring
your administration to grief, even
though you were able to put some one
else in as Speaker. Jim Sherman (Vice
President-elecD will Loyalty stand by
you and do everything he can for you
Root will undoubtedly go to the Senate
and will be a tower of strength for
your administration.
Ever yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
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