Evening star., 1932-12-01
GARNER REFUSES
MARCHERS PERMIT
Reynolds and Benjamin Told
Parade at Capitol Will
Not Be Allowed.
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pared to place a heavy police guard
around the Capitol and White House.
One hundred officers will be detailed to
augment the regular Capitol police
force, and another squad of the same
size will be stationed around the White
House. Under present arrangements,
the Capitol force will patrol the in
terror of the building and the metro
politan officers will be stationed in the
Capitol grounds.
Expect to "CalL"
Benjamin and Reynolds informed the
Speaker that despite his refusal they
expected to call" upon Congress.
The two previously had made an
effort to see Vice President Curtis, but
were informed by telephone the Vice
President would not receive them. The
Vice President and the Speaker are the
only authorities who may grant permits
for parades or demonstrations on the
Capitol grounds.
Benjamin and Reynolds left with
Garner a formal statement outlining
three demands. The first was that the
congressional program should be organ
ized "in such manner that the prob
lem Of bread shall be placed before the
question of beer"
they also asked that the marchers
be provided with food, lodging, place
of assemblage and that "the necessary
provisions be made" to permit them to
present on Capitol Hill their program
and demands"
Drawing Slowly Nearer.
Meanwhile, the increasing army
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the Capital. The delegations coming
from the West, North and South, are
travelling In battered trucks and auto
mobiles, bumming their food, shelter
and gasoline along the route.
The two main columns from the North
and West were in New York and
Youngstown, Ohio, respectively, this
morning, ready to make the next jumps
on their way. About 500 were reported
in the Greater New York area, and
500 more In the vicinity of Youngstown.
Other struggling groups, numbering al
together between 600 and 700, were
stretched over the East and Midwest,
pressing on toward the points outside
Washington where they will converge
and advance into the city by divisions.
In Ohio the marchers received frigid
receptions by the public and by OIL
gasoline. Last night at Youngstown the
marchers faced the prospect OF going
hungry, but at the last minute a small
band of their Communist sympathizers
took pity on them and brought them
food. Likewise at Steubenville, where
160 are scheduled to arrive today, the
mo welcome" signs have been hung
out by city authorities. Mayor ]. G.
McMaster, 250-pound giant, refused the
request yesterday of an advance
guard" for food for the main body and,
when the march leaders insisted on
service, the mayor threw them out of
his Office bodily. Today he assigned SO
extra policemen to keep the marchers
moving through the city.
Protest Use Of Troops.
At Trenton, N. j., four truckloads
Of marchers from New York and New
England piled out on the steps of the
city hall and held a meeting guarded
over by 20 policemen. There was no
night in rented hall, Gov. A. Harry
Moore having refused to lend them
State armories. Mayor B. La Barre is
sued statement saying the trek to
Washington was for ''thc sole purpose of
harassing the President, Congress and
interfering with the orderly conduct
of the Federal Government"
From the West 100 marchers pulled
into Scranton, Pa, last night, riding
in d1apidated se0ans and trucks. They
stopped overnight and left early this
morning on the next leg of their jour-
ney here.
From New Haven, Conn, the Associ-
ated Press carried word that the Ma
tional Religion and Labor Foundation
his dispatched telegram to President
Hoover asking him to pledge that
under no circumstances viii you call
out the Federal troops" to deal with
the naarchers after they have arrived
here. The foundation, recently orga-
nized to Coordinate work of religious
and labor leaders, includes Norman
Thomas, Prof Jerome Davis, Yale
Divinity School, Rev. John Haynes
Holmes and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise on
its advisory board.