Evening star., 1932-07-20
Leaders Arrested as Seven
Attempts to Break Through
Police Lines Fail.
HEADLEY PREVENTS
FIGHT AT TREASURY
Butler Makes Ardent Appeal to
Camp Marks Veterans to Con.
tinue Fight for Demands.

The radical left wing of the Bonus
EXpenditionary Forces, 200 strong, made
a futile attempt to picket the White
House today, being turned back and
ultimately disbanded after a series of
scuffies with the police.
John Pace of Detroit, leader of the
group, and two of his ieutenants were
arrested in one of the melees and
charged with disorderly conduct and
parading without a permit.
The veterans group, in defiance of
police officials, who refused to grant
them a permit to parade, started to-
WARD the White House about 10 am.
but got no nearer than two blocks of
their destination. Every effort of the
men to break Through the police Gordon
thrown around the Executive Mansion
was repulsed.
An hour later the veterans returned
10 their billets at Thirteenth and B
streets southwest, disheartened and
1atlgued from a two-mile trek under
blistering sun.
Seven Attempts Made.
Seven times at seven different points
the forces of Pace threatened to resist
police and break through the barrier
OF interference, but each time the men
turned back rather than precipitate
disorder. At each point. however Pace
and several of his committeeman had a
brush with the police, but the only
SemDlanCe OF an outbreak occurred at
eighteenth and D streets. where the
In anticipation Of trouble strong
ponce guard was thrown around the
white House and the gates to the
grounds were closed to the public. More
than 100 policemen, about 80 feet apart.
completely isolated the Executive Man
sion from pedestrian and vehicular
traffic from Fifteenth to Seventeenth
street and from H street to Constitu-
ton avenue. Normal traffic conditions
were not restored until the veterans
had returned to camp.
Food Supplies Low.
In the meantime, the right wing OF
the bonus marchers, encamped at Camp
MARKS, began to toresee the gangs of
possible hunger as food supplies virtu-
ally reached the vanishing point. Mai.
Gen; Smedley D. Butler, retired, a guest
at tne camp, spoke to the men at an
assembly again this morning in an ef-
fort to invigorate their spirits and en-
courage them to continue their fight for
the bonus.
The march Of the radical wing to the
White House was made after Brig. Gen.
Pelnam d. GlaSsford, superintendent of
police, acting on orders of Police Com
missioner Crosby, refused to grant Pace
permit for parade.
Pace assembled his followers in front
OF their billetS and told them of the
action of police officials. and said the
plans to go to the White House would
be carried out This announcement was
greeted with vociferous cheer
Glassford Is Present.
Pace explained, however. that in view
OF the lack of permit to parade, the
men would have to go as individuals"
and not in formation. Gen. Glassford
heard the announcement. and told the
veterans that as long as they did not
proceed to the White House in large
groups or attempt to follow any estab-
lished line Of march, they would not be
moleSted.
Gen. Glassford made it clear that il
there was any indication of a procession
or picketing, the veterans would be
turned back before reaching Fourteenth
and B streets.
squad of 40 uniformed policemen.
in command of Lieut. John Flaherty.
was stationed in the basement of the
Department Of Agriculture near the
headquarters camp, with instructions to
carry out orders to prevent parade.
Several police cars. equipped with tear
gas bombs. cruised around the neigh
borhood as a further warning that an
attempt to parade would be repulsed.
A few minutes after Pace had shouted
his instructions the veterans broke for
nation and in small groups of two
three and four, struggled out B street
to Fourteenth street, and headed for
the White House.
Stepped at Treasury.
simultaneously. the 40 officers in the
basement Of the Department of Agri-.
culture Building emerged and marched
behind Lieut.. Flaherty to Fourteenth
street, taking short cut to the White
House across the Monument Grounds
The veterans continued up Fourteenth
street. the struggling lines stretching
out for more than two blocks.
TEe veterans met no resistance until
the vanguard Of the broken procession
reached the southeast corner of Fiji
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