Evening star., 1932-07-29

workers. who had just been released
from their duties.
Arriving at the scene of the fighting,
| the troops formed in the Avenue, which
was closed from Second to Four -and-a-
half street.
Cavalry Drives Spectators Back.
After a brief conference between po-
! lice and Army officials, the cavalrymen,
with drawn sabers, we're ordered to
drive back the thousands of onlookers.
This was done, a 14-year-old boy suf-
fering a saber cut on the arm in the
process.
After the crowd had been driven back
several blocks, a detachment Of infan-
/ trymen laid aside their rifles and donned
gas masks
| One group approached the front of a
! partly demolished building in which a
/ large number of veterans we're housed
and hurled a dozen tear gas bombs.
/ The veterans were driven out through
/ the rear of the building and were met
/ there by a second barrage of tear gas.
/ Under this second attack they retreated
/ from the area.
The gas spread throughout the i'm
mediate vicinity. affecting scores Of po-
, lice and spectators.
Huts and Tents Fired.
After policemen had hauled down and
| folded up some American flags waving
/ over the crudely constructed veterans
! shelters, infantrymen with long flaming
brands in their hands went from hut to
hut and tent to tent leaving behind
them flame and ruin.
The veterans retreated out Of the area
into which the bombs had been tossed,
but they formed a solid line on Maine
avenue between Third and Four -anda-
half streets. They set up fierce chorus
of yells and threatened to advance on
the Infantry, which had followed them,
1t was not clear Immediately whether
the troops alone started the conf1agra-
] tionS, but it did not seem to matter to
/ officials whether some of this had been
done by veterans or not. The only
concern Of f1remen was TO keep the
/ fire from spreading.
AS the flames completed the job on
! the Pennsylvania avenue encampment
/ the troops moved across the small park
and the cavalrymen took their station
along the line of another encampment
For slightly more than half an hour
the siege lasted. the affair appearing
washed up fairly well at Cos pm.
There we're more spectators than
veterans, it seemed, inside the new
park rendezvous, as the Calvarlymen
awaited orders, silent and grim.
Some of the veterans were daring the
cavalrymen to get of their horses, but
there was no clash.
Behind towering colored man carry
ing an American flag. group of the
bonus marchers surged across the street
between two of the cavalrymen who
we're holding the line.
Marchers Form Behind Flag.
The man, dressed in riding boots anc
trousers. held the flag aloft and threw
his head back shouting he would not
move. He was the point Of triangle
behind which hundred or more Of the
marchers quickly grouped themselves.
After the cavalrymen had tried un-
availingly to push the man back, al
but planting their horses feet upon him
they gave up that gesture and put their
horses squarely into the crowd, five oi
them breaking pell nell through snc
literally throwing the flag bearer and his
followers back on the pavement beyond
the flying hoofs of the horses.
Just beyond the line of cavalrymer
the marchers stood, men and womer
both hurting taunts at the indiviGua
riders.
The troops laid their second gas at
tack on the small bonus camp neal
-Four -and-one- half street and Maryland
avenue southwest shortly after evacuat.
ing the area between Four-and-one-hali
and Third streets.
Here the first casualty among the
troops occurred when Corpl. 4. Quick
of Fort Myer was struck in the heac
with brick.
Two other soldiers were injured
They we're: Lieut.. r. B. Carhart. %
of Fort Washington, who suffered hano
burns when a tear gas bomb exploded
in his hand, and Pvt Albert Martini
%. of Fort Myer, who was knocked
off his horse when hit in the head BY
brick thrown by veteran.
Mrs. Elizabeth Newton, %, of Dallas
Tex, wife of a veteran, was knocked
over by horse of one of the troopers
and was taken to Casualty Hospital
She also was overcome by tear gas.
Several hundred veterans we're driver
from their billets by the gas fumes after
they had hurled the bricks at the sol
diers. Thousands of spectators als(
were driven several blocks south o.
Maryland avenue by the fumes.
The Cavalry charged the encamp-
ment. advancing under cover of a teal
gas attack, and were met by a volley
of bricks hurled by the veterans.
Use Flats OF SaberS.
They used the flats of their saberS
freely in pushing the crowd back into
line.
One man fell and a rearing horse
leaped over his body. Several seizec
the reins of the horse that Cavalry
captain was riding and attempted tc
drag him from the saddle, but other