Evening star., 1932-07-23
DeadIine Now Fixed at Mid.
night Monday by Treas
ury Department.
TIME TO GET TICKETS
HOME ALSO NEAR END
Bureau to Cease Issuing Trans
portation Tomorrow Night-5sO
Seek Certificate Loans.

Lieut.. Col. U. S Grant, Sd, officer in
charge of public buildings and public
grounds, disclosed today that he had
asked the District Commissioners to
move the bonus army off Government
reservations which are under his
Jurisdiction
Col. Grant told The Star that he
brought the subject Of eviction OF the
men to the attention Of the Commits
SlonerS, both verbally and by letter,
several days ago. pointing out that a
portion of the Mall in the vicinity OF
Third street and Pennsylvania avenue,
Camp Meigs and Camp MARKS on the
Anacostia Flats, where the bulk Of the
Bonus Expeditionary Force is encamped,
were loaned to the District Commission
ers as an emergency measure. That
emergency, in the opinion of Col. Grant,
has now passed. and he desires the
army and return the Federal-oWned
areas to his Jurisdiction.
The Commissioners Thursday ordered
all these areas evacuated by August 4,
but yesterday rescinGed the order aft
er Gen. Pelham D. GlassfOrd superin-
tendent Of police, had pointed out in
a letter that he had been advised b.
the Corporation Counsel and United
States attorneys Office that this method
Of eviction was illegal. The Commits
sioners in a statement to the press
yesterday said that they alone were
responsible for the eviction order.
The Government this afternoon or
dered the bonus army to get of Of
Pennsylvania avenue and out Of two
sites in Southwest Washington by mid
night Monday. This virtually would
clear veterans out Of that area.
In addition to the Avenue encamp-
ment, the evacuation Of which was held
up by the District Commissioners yes
terday afternoon just a few hours be-
fore it was to become effective. the new
order takes in the squares bounded by
B, C, Twelfth and Fourteenth streets
southwest and C, D, Twelfth and Thir-
teenth streets southwest.
The notice, which came from TIE
Treasury Department, which wants the
property tenanted by the veterans TO
signed by Ferry K. Heath as acting
Secretary. and Immediately after its
PRONUNCIATION it was given into the
hands of Edward R. Whitman, an at
tcrney from the supervising architects
Office. for delivery to headquarters of
the veterans.
Areas Ordered Evacuated.
The order was prepared by Whitman,
in conference with Frank Birgfeld,
chief clerk Of the Treasury and Vernon
cl Of
the District. 1t puts the occupants on
official notice to vacate. and if they re
fuse, they become. in the eyes Of the
law. trespassers on Federal property.
The areas ordered evacuated are
Pennsylvania avenue to Missouri avenue,
Third to Sixth street, the area bounded
by B and c. Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets southwest. the site o. tne De-
partment Of Agriculture eXtenSlole
building now under construction ana
the area bounded by c and D, Twelfth
and Thirteenth southwest, the site OF
the new central heating plant, Whlch
is under contract.
The order which was written IN
three different forms contained the
same language on all three, except Tor
location of the area to be evacuated.
One of them read as follows:
ITO Whom 1t May Concern:
Notice is hereby given to all persons
to vacate at or before midnight of Mon
day. July 25, 1882. all land and premises
belonging to the United States and un-
der the Jurisdiction and control CT the
United States Treasury Department IN
the area bounded by and D streets
and Twelfth and Thirteenth streets
southwest, Washington, D. c.
Work to Be Pushed.
The Treasury Department plans to
go forward with various kinds of oper-
atiors in the public building program
on these three sites. On the south side
of Pennsylvania avenue from Third TO
Seventh streets the old buildings are
to be torn down. the cellars filled the
land graded and the areas properly
fenced off. Power shovels are already
operating on tie site Of the eXtenSible
building in the Southwest area, ard the
Treasury plans to ask for bids and lev
a contract shortly for excavatlon>Ipn
the Central Heating Plant site. ~<C6n-
tracts for the boilers and the tunnels
and steam distribution System for the
heating plant have already been let.
The avenue site is occupied by the
sixth regiment, composed principally of
Southern veterans. and in addition to
caring for approximately 1,500 men, is
tenanted also. by about so women and
as many children, the veterans having
spread out from the three partly-de-
molished buildings where they were
first housed there, and erected numer-
GUS, 'shacks.
.The Twelfth and D sector is oc-
'cupied by the second regiment. COM
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