The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-06-11
VETERANS PLAN
BONUS PLEA AT
PARTY PARLEYS
Committee May Be Sent to
Chicago. Conventions by
Washington Army
BY JOHN REICHMANN
United Press STAFF Correspondent


WASHINGTON, June II. - The
bonus army today turned its eyes
toward Chicago and the national
conventions.
Leaders Of the army were con-
sidering dispatching a committee
to Chicago to demand that Repub-
licans and Democrats adopt plat
form planks calling for payment of
the $4,000, 100000 bonus to World
war veterans.
Commander-in-Ch Chief Walter w.
Waters and Harold B. Foulkrod,
the bonus army's legislative COM
mittee chief, tentatively approved
the proposal. It was to be con-
sidered more fully by the executive
committee today. The decision may
depend somewhat on the outcome
Of Mondays bonus vote in the
house.
The army as a whole apparently
has no intention Of abandoning its
siege Of the capital city, even If the
house defeats the bonus. On the
contrary, the 10000 already mere
are setting down TO stay and the
leaders are calling up more and
more reinforcements.
Start Enlistment Drive
An enlistment drive was begun
which Commander Waters claimed
soon would have $4,000 more vet
Grams on the way to Washington.
Special recruiting squads we're
started out to concentrate new
marchers in st. Louis, Camden,
Philadelphia and Southern points.
The ragged and weather. beaten
veterans gradually are bringing Or
der out of chaos in the crude camp
which sprawls over dusty acres of
Anacostia Park, on the outskirts Of
the city. The men are shaping
themselves into groups, improving
their Shelters, fashioned from
sticks. old tin, discarded canvas,
packing boxes, and brushWood.
They find time to pitch horseshoes
and play ball and to clean the faces
that accumulated thick coating of
CRIME on the trek across country.
Company streets have been
formed. Troops from the various
states in some instances have
formed common mess.
$4,000 Added to Fund
The army's funds had been
swelled to above $4,000 with the re-
ceipt Of $4,000 from the Rev. Father
Charles E. Coughlin of Detroit, head
Of the Little Flower Radio League
Trucks from Hoboken and Balti-
more trundled up to the doors of
the armys commissary on Penn
sylyania avenue and disgorged tons
Of food. Famine seems far away.
Likewise, the problems presented
by the recent red" scare and the
danger of an epidemic Of disease
were being ironed out. Comman-
der Waters expressed the belief that
no one should be barred from par
ticipating in the bonus demonstra-
ton because of political beliefs.
Some of the incoming veterans,
however, have indicated they would
not abide by camp rules and dis
cipline. They will be given a camp
of their own, two miles away, at the
old Bennington race track.
Camp Set Aside
Camp Simms, a little farther
down the Potomac, has been set
aside for men not in good physical
condition. There they will find
shower baths and a swimming pool.
If disease breaks out, infected per-
sons will be sent to Camp Foote,
far down the Potomac, overlooking
Mt. Vernon.
Some wartime practices are being
revived. A chain of downtown cigar
stores has installed boxes accepting
contributions for the purchase of
tobacco for the veterans. A group
Of women is arranging a series of
dances by which they hope to rea-
lie $500 for the marchers.
District of Columbia authorities,
unable to persuade the army to dis
band, chung to slight hope that
it would dissolve slowly.
Three Governors replied to tele-
grams asking them to discourage
the marchers. Each executive
claimed to have tried to discourage
the bonus march from its incep-