The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-25
ARREST BONUS
LEADER after
POLICE CLASH
Veterans Are Hurled Into
Cutters as Cops Resist
Left Wing March.
WHITE HOUSE GUARDED
Officers Gun Grabbed From
Holster; Exhorter of
Rioters Freed.


Pace, leader of the left wing
bcnus marchers, and eight others
we're arrested on charge of incit-
ing a riot this afternoon. Police
charged Pace urged his followers to
break police lines and go to the
White House. despite police orders
Police we're not as patient as in
the similar attempt last week and
pushed the veterans back forcefully
in some cases sending them sprawl
ing into the cutters.
Police shunted the would-be
pickets away from the White House
p at the intersection of Pennsylvania
and New York avenues and Fiji
tenth street. The treasury depart
ment is at that corner.
There were about seventy-five
msrchers in the bannerless parade.
I'VE want our bonus" some
shouted.
I'VE demand an extra session of
congress to give us our back pay"
Pace demanded.
Half as many police as marchers
were in the street at the treasury
corner. The veterans moved half a
block up New York avenue and
away from the White House, but
broke across the street and started
back toward their objective.
Grabs Cops Gun
Scattered fights and disorders ex-
cited lunch time crowds at the in
'tersection of Fifteenth and F streets
in the center of the fashionable
shopping district. Plainclothes men
chased an unidentified marcher who
was alleged to have yanked a gun
from a policeman's holster. The
man was believed to have escaped.
Trouble in the shopping district
came when police sought to compel
the marchers to use the street in
STEAD of the sidewalk.
marcher who refused to walk
in the street was hurled from the
sidewalk by plainclothesman.
There we're shouts of protest from
the marchers. Three plainclothes-
men seized the recalcitrant parader
and his comrades closed in to de-
fend him.
A Negro in a blue shirt was the
first of the rescue crew. A plain
clothesman seized him and removed
him from the fracas. The chase
after the man alleged to have
seized a gun started from that
melee. The man darted among the
crowd with perspiring plain
clothesmen running after him.
Squad Cars Called
Downtown streets echoed with the
sirens OF hurrying police cars. A
taxi backed up to the west executive
avenue entrance to the White
House grounds and discharged a
policeman and a parader. The lat
ter was hustled into patrol wagon,
One bonus marcher. short with
a fighting jaw, stood in the crowd
at the corner of Fifteenth and New
York avenue, shouting:
"One, two. three. four, five, six,
seven, come and get me"
Police finally came and got him,
taking him to the city Jail He gave
them lively fight and when sub
dued his shirt was gone.
General Pelham Glassford. super
intendent of police, as usual during
the bonus demonstrations. took up
his station in front of the White
House and directed operations from
there.
Take it easy he told his men.
"Everything's all right"
Motorcycle squads were sent out
to patrol the immediate vicinity IF
the White House, police lines were
drawn around the area, and two
patrol wagons were stationed near
by for use in emergency.
Leader Climbs Tree
Walter Flicker, co-leader with the
arrested John Pace. went up a tree.
The tree is at Thirteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue. From his
perch Flicker exhorted men without
earShot to stand fast for the bonus.
A crowd observed, with some amuse-
ment. the efforts of police to per-
suade Flicker to descend.
Two detectives climbed the tree.
With their free hands they closed
Eicker's mouth. SPECIFICS. the left
= wing leader descended. leaving the
detectives in the boughs, a detail
of three policemen welcomed Eick-
er back to earth. put him in taxi
cab and took him to jail Pace was
arrested at about the same time.
About 100 policemen surrounded
the White House. Gates were closed
and locked. The disturbance did
not get nearer than a block to the
White House grounds and was much