Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-03
REDS MOVE
ON CUMBERLAND
Militia, Police and 300 Extra
Deputies Await Marchers
From UniontoWn.
BY WILLIAM w. CHANCE, JR.,
STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.


UNIONTOWN, Pa, December s.
Twelve hundred Communist hunger
marchers left here today for Cumber-
land, Md, where National Guard
troops. extra details of State Police
and 300 extra deputies were ready to
shunt them through the city without
a stop.
Travelling in ~ battered automobiles
and 81 dilapidated trucks, the march
ers are due to arrive Sunday at Wash
ington. They were delayed half day
in this Pennsylvania mountain town,
however, due to the arrest last night
Of four of their members
Those arrested included two Indi-
annapolis colored men. who pulled razors
on two Pennsylvania State policemen
and had to be dubbed into submission
before they could be taken into custody.
Mob of zoo Dispersed.
In another brush with police, 200
marchers attacked City Policeman Har-
old Holmes as he placed one of their
comrades under arrest. He was driven
back into a downtown department store
show window and his prisoner taken
from him. Two deputy sheriffs, Edward
and John Brady, came to his rescue
and the three officers dispersed the mob.
The prisoner, meanwhile, had escaped.
The razor attack on State Policemen
]. C. Gleason and George D. Maughton
occurred when the two colored men,
John Jones and Joseph Smith, together
with Wilbur Wilson, co,ored, also OF In
dianapolis, drove their truck through a
police Gordon and failed to heed stop
signs by police. Jones and Smith
slashed at the two officers, but inflicted
no wounds. They were subdued with
Ronald Seggi, Detroit Communist,
also was arrested last night when he
attempted to solicit money on a down.
town street corner
Mayor Frees Prisoners.
All the prisoners were released this
morning by order of Mayor W. c. Hat
field to leave the town with their COM
rades.
The motley hunger army rolled slowly
through the Pennsylvania mountains
toward Cumberland this afternoon as
Mayor George Henderson Of the Mary
land town modified small army OF
Militiamen, State and city police and a
Vigilante Committee of 300.
Company G of the 5th Regiment
Maryland National Guard, was ordered
to mobilize last night by Gov. Albert
c. Ritchie. He had been appealed to
by Mayor Henderson, who feared trouble
might break out when the hunger
marchers arrived in Cumberland
Henderson refused fatty to assist the
marchers in any way and served notice
on them they would not be permitted
to linger for a moment in his city.
The marchers had planned to spend the
night there.
Instead, they probably will spend to-
night at Crystal Park, resort about
miles west of the city A large dance
pavilion and a score CT smaller shacks
would provide some shelter from the
biting mountain air.
"War Plans" Detailed.
Present plans of Mayor Henderson
contemplate the routing Of the army
through only corner of Cumberland
as a precaution against trouble. In
conference last night with Capt Harry
FlOOk, CCLliildllucl VI lie NlllIld COM
pany; Capt. Edward NICK. johnson,
commander Maryland State Police;
/ Sheriff Hugh Hotchkiss and Police
Commissioner Harry Matheney, de-
tailed war plans" were mapped to
meet any possible emergency.
The city police we're organized into
two tear gas squads and two riot gun"
squads and ordered to duty for con-
tinuous service from o'clock this
| morning The entire city Fire De-
partment also was ordered to report
for continuous duty. beginning this
morning, and all fire hose inspecta-l
and made ready for instant use aga
the marchers.-
The "a men and three officers
National Guard Company G
through an intensive tear gas Is
battle"
At Uniontown, Federal agents were
active among the hunger marchers and
arrested two members of the army,
Jimmy Evans alias Leony Damiona, a
Boston radical, and Charles Virick,
alien, wanted by the Labor Department
| for depOrtation They were taken IN