The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-17
INDICT ONLY 3
AND BLAST RED
BONUS PLOTS
Jurors Ignore Judges Plea,
Refuse to Put Blame
on Communists.

BIZ Scripps-Hoicard Ncrspapcr Alliance
WASHINGTON. Aug. 17-Three
overseas veterans, including a
wearer OF the Distinguished Service
Cross, remained in district Jail here
today as ironic refutation Of the adj
ministrations charge that Com
munists' inspired the bonus army
disturbances, which led to their
evacuation by federal troops.
They will be tried in October on
charges OF assault with a dangerous
weapon.
The indictments were returned by
the grand jury ordered by President
Hoover TO investigate alleged Com
munistic inspiration of the bonus
marchers on the day Of the July %
battle
In instructing the jury. Justice
Oscar Luhring expressed the hope
they would find that Reds rather
than former soldiers instigated the
so-called riots.
No Reference to Charges
The grand jury report made no
reference to charges by Hoover, War
Secretary Patick Huley and Ma jor-
General Douglas H. Macarthur,
chief Of staff, that Communists led
the bonusers, and threatened in
surrection' and overthrow of the
government.
The inquiry lasted two weeks, and
the jury listened to evidence from
district commissioners, Police Chief
Pelham Glassford and his men,
government agents who spied on
the camps for two months, and by
ISLANDERS.
Witnesses who asked to be al
lowed to testify for the veterans
were not summoned.
Communist Suspects Released
Meanwhile, every bonus marcher
arrested in a roundup OF alleged
Communists has been released by
the police and government agents
The trio now in Jail are almost
the only members of the $4,000
bonusers left in. the capital. They
will remain in jail until October,
unless they can raise $4,000 bond.
All were indicted for alleged as
saults in the brick fight that oc-
Cured four hours before the ar.
rival Of troops. All denied they
we're Communists, or sympathized
with communism.
The apparent explosion of the
red scare" came simultaneously
with renewed charges by admins
tration spokesman that radicals"
necessitated the Presidents call for
troops.
Representative Royal c. Johnson
(Repu S. D., told an American Lee
gion post at La Crosse, Wis, Mon
day night, that he could prove the
bonus army had dynamite, guns
and ammunition in its camp The
war department and local police de-
MED this
Magazine AssaiIS Veterans
The Republican, which is pub
hShed weekly by the national Re-
publican committee, summarized
Hmleys official justification of the
use of troops.
1t declared less than one-third
we're veterans although Major
General Frank T. Hines, veterans
administrator, has records showing
that 90 per cent or more had been
in the army.
An editorial entitled Plotting
Against the Republic linked reds"
among the bonus marchers with an
alleged soviet attack on the banks.
The three indicted are John o
Olson of Nebraska, Bernard Mccoy
Of Pennsylvania and Broadus Faux
ner of Kentucky.
Olson served overseas in the Six
teenth infantry, first division, and
was decorated with the D. S. c. by
General Pershing for extraordinary
heroism in rescuing wounded COM
rades under fire at Cantigny
In Trouble Over Flag
Mccoy enlisted in the navy. and
once was orderly to Rear Admiral
William "a Moffett, chief of the
navy air service He lost an eye
from the explosion of a shell being
unloaded from an Austrian ship
captured at Heligoland Faulkner
served thirty months overseas in the
Three hundred eighth labor bat
talon, and was gassed
Olson, who lived at the AnacoStia
camp, was on his way downtown. he
said when some veterans came
across a lot carrying an American
flag.
The police rushed at them, and
tried to tear away the flag he
said Just say went into action,
that's all And I'd do it again if I
see the American flag being
mauled"
Mccoy said he also rushed in
when the police attacked the flag,
only to find six bluecoats sitting
on him almost Immediately. Faux
ner said he was arrested while try
ing to get his mail, and that he
simply grabbed a cops stick" be-
fore he was hustled into the patrol.