The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-26
MILK FOR TOTS
is BIG PROBLEM
OF BONUS ARMY
Shortage Threatens We'll
fare of $50 Children;
| Delay Won on EyictionS.

~ united Press
WASHINGTON, July 26.-Steam
Shoyels and Wrecking crews today
menaeed the ramshackle billets Of
oonus army veterans.
The treasury department directed
contractors to begin Wednesday to
oemolish old buildings occupied by
800 World war veterans on the site
OF proposed new government struc-
lures along Pennsylvania avenue
near the capitol.
Police promised to see that the
veterans do not interfere with the
Wrecking crews.
A treasury order for 800 veterans
70 evacuate government property
expires at 4 p. m. today, but Police
Superintendent Pelham Glassford
indicated no attempt would be made
TO enforce it at once.
The eviction order was to have
been effective last midnight. The
slXteen-hour extension was granted
while Glassford and treasury Off
Gals devised new strategy.
Under the new line Of action the
contractors will proceed gradually
to tear down the structures on the
building sites.
Milk Shortage Is Peril
The veterans in a given building
will not be disturbed, Glassford said,
until the Wrecking crews are ready to
90 to work on that particular struc-
ture.
A new police survey placed the
Bonus army's present strength at
1000 compared with more than
$4,000 when congress was in session.
A milk shortage is endangering
the health Of families of bonus cru
baders.
E. H. Myers, supply officer of the
main camp in AnacostEa, estimated
there were $50 children in camp, re-
curing 100 quarts Of milk daily.
Two local diaries contributed 300
quarts Of milk today to feed the
bonus army children. Mess SER
geants estimated that the supply
now was sufficient to last three
days.
Wen 20 out in the field and milk
Some ones COWS if there's no other
way" Meyers said. wen take it off
doorsteps, too, before we let these
kids go hungry"
Ladled Out to Children
The milk is kept in a crude
wooden ice-box sunk underground
in the camps supply tent. 1t is
boiled for sterilization in a tin con-
tainer placed over a slow fire.
Children in rompers, beach paja-
mas and little smocks line up before
Che tent for their daily ration
When their babies are too small to
get the milk for themselves, their
mothers call for it.
Flies buzz around little heads and
the hot summer sun warns the milk
almost before it is ladled out.
Tow-headed, blue-eyed Doris
Bradley, age 3, stood on tip-toes and
peeked inside the mess tent.
Il want my milk" she piped.
+ might As Well Starve Here"
"Are you hungry Doris" she was
asked.
mo" she said, but her mother
~aid she would be if the milk supply
continued to fall off.
Mrs. George D. Hogan, q slim
woman from Birmingham, Ala,
with a boyish haircut and timid
blue eyes, pulled at the place where
a buckle should have been at the
knee Of her soiled white Knockers.
i've got two babies" she said.
aMyrtle. she's 3, and Edith's 10
months. They've got to have three
quarts of milk a day to get along
o. k. I get one here-that is, If the
mess officer continues to get some
and an Anacostia woman usually
brings me two at night. But now
she's only bringing me one.
4 Left Wing" Faction Sulks
GO home? No, indeed; might as
well starve here as in Birming-
ham"
With their leaders all in Jail, the
~left wing" of the bonus army,
dwindled to about 100 men, sulked
in their billets and discussed
whether they would risk trying
again to picket the White House.
Their attempt to march to the
White House Monday resulted in
free-for-al scuffles between police,
veterans and passersby.
The veterans did not get within a
block of the White House, which
was guarded by hundreds of police.