The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-07-28
BO11llS-Seeker Shot
Dead By Policeman,
Troops Are Ordered Out to
Maintain Order at Hoover's
Direction
SEVERAL OTHERS ARE HURT
Rioting, in Which Brickbats
Were Hurled, Followed
Eviction Order

Washington, July %. - (R - One
unidentified veteran was shot dead
and another seriously wounded IL,
rioting between bonus-seekers and
police near the capitol Thursday, and
troops were ordered out out at the di-
rection of President Hoover.
A bullet through the heart killed
one man when police opened fire up
on veterans who were advancing to-
ward them.
A group Of his comrades took the
man to a hospital in a patrol wagon
accompanied by two policemen. He
was dead when he reached there.
There was no mark of Identification
about the body, and attaches at the
hospital said that his comrades were
so excited they could not get his
name from them.
One In Serious Condition
Also, Everett Carlson, 40, a bonus
marcher from Ohio, Is in q serious
condition at Casualty hospital with a
bullet wound in the back and lower
abdomen. Doctors said his recovery
was doubtful.
Several other bonus -nlarchers we're
treated for lesser injuries inflicted b.
brickbats They included an Indian,
Chief Mountain Heart, AZ. who was
cut about the chest. and John Wynn
dom. 80, Of Cleveland. O.. who was cut
about the lip and cheek.
Secretary Hurley ordered cavalry
from Fort Myer to rush into the city
at fast pace, saying he had been in
formed by the president that 1.-THE
civil government of the District OF
Columbia has reported to him it is
unable to maintain law and order"
After hearing report from Officer
George Shinault, who, said he fired
the first shot, Phelham D. Glassford
police chief. said the shooting which
killed the veteran was Justified"
Several Police Injured
Several police were injured. one,
Private Scott, being reported to have
died from a blow by flying brick
that hit him in the head in clash in
the morning. This report, which
could not be verified Immediately,
aroused the police to anger in the
minutes before the rioting that led to
the shoo<,S.
The second squadron Of the third
cavalry from Fort Myer was drawn
up on the mall at the rear OF the
white house waiting for orders.
Glassford, who was a personal wit
ness of the shooting, continued az
immediate investigation of 1t with u
view to turning his information over
to the district attorneys office.
Brickbats hurtled through the air
and police nightsticks swung into ac-
ton in the forenoon short while
after some of the former service men
had been evicted from their shelters.
The veterans. described by Walter
w. Waters, their commander-in-
chief, as members of the radical
wing of the bonus expeditionary
force, suddenly began hurting bricks
at the police.
The officers backed away, all the
while using their clubs.
Several officers pulled their pis-
tolls for use if necessary but no shots
were fired.
Get Temporary Order
Within a short time they had Sc
secured at least temporary order.
This developed short while after
the complete evacuation of all vet
Grams from government property.
Every policeman available was or
dered to the lower Pennsylvania
avenue section to guard against any
contingencies.
Meanwhile, thousands of veterans
from other encampments marched to
the scene, some of them picking up
bricks and stones en- route.
In the melee, Pelham D. Glassford,
superintendent of police, was hit by
a brick and his badge was torn off
his coat. Later, it was restored by
one Of the veterans.
Waters, in a conference with
Glassford, told the police chief the
men were out of his control. Some
of the former soldiers were reported
to have pulled revolvers, but none
ha'' been fired.
->olice said the brick throwers had
come -cross the street from an ada
cent ball park. Waters claimed they
were followers of John Pace, Detroit,
twice arrested leader Of the radical
wing of the bonus seekers.