Evening star., 1932-06-06
"Red, White and Blue" Group
Will Turn Out Tomorrow
Night, With Communists
Demonstrating Wednesday
1000 EXPECTED IN CAMP
HERE BY NIGHTFALL
Police Check of War Service of
Each Man Shows 80 Per Cent
Served 0verseas-Units Button.
hole Individual Congressman
With Appeal.

Swelling ranks of the monde
script bonus army were being
marshaled today for the big
push" on the Capitol in quest of
bonus legislation, with unco-ordi-
mated plans calling for a "red.
white and blue" parade tomorrow
night and a strictly red" demon
stration on Wednesday.
With reinforcements arriving
almost hourly from all directions,
the happy-go-lucky soldiers of
misfortune were digging in with
the avowed intention of fighting
it out on the bonus front if it
takes all Summer.
indications were that approx
mately 1000 veterans from a score
of States would be bivouacked
here by nightfall, and Associated
Press dispatches told of an eSti-
mated 5000 more headed this way
by box car, truck, hitch-hike and
on foot.
Undaunted by nocturnal
drenching, reduced rations or slim
prospect of success next Monday
when the House votes on the oues-
ton of diScharging the Bonus
Committee, the former doughboys
continued their preliminary sor-
ties on the Nations citadel of
legislation, preparatory to the
double-barreled drive.
They met with some degree of sue
cess In bufton-holing individual legis-
lators IN and out of the halls of Con-
gress.
$50 Ejected From Building.
Capitol police elected from the House
Office Building about $50 bonus march
ers, who sought to interview Repre-
sentative Bacharach of Atlantic City.
The police said they objected to the
leadership Of the group, which they said
was threatening" Some of the march
ers, who said they were World War vet
Grams, reached Bacharach's Office and
were met by his secretary, Robert
Bcurke.
The veterans said they came from
Atlantic City last night by bus and
truck
Fifty Metropolitan policemen were
assigned today to assist Capitol police
IN maintaining order at the Capitol and
Senate and House Office Buildings The
request for help was made by Kenneth
Romney, sergeant-at-arms of the House.
The police will be kept on duty at the
Capitol until Congress adjourns.
Reds Continue Plans.
In the meantime Emanuel Levin and
Samuel j. Stembar, leaders of the Pro-
viSional Bonus March Committee of
the Workers Ex-Service Mems League,
a Communist organization. went ahead
with their original plans for a monster
demonstration at the Capitol Wednes-
day. A permit for this demonstration
has been issued by Vice President Cur
It's and Metropolitan Police.
Unfavorable publicity and constant
surveillance by men reported to be
Government agents resulted in aban-
Comment today of the leagues head
quarters at COS I street.
At conference between Glassford
and George Oman. newly elected COM
mander in chief of the army, at noon
today, a line Of march for the Tuesday
night parade was approved. The vet
erans will not enter the Capitol grounds,
according to the agreement reached.
Parade Route Outlined.
Leaders of the bonus marchers to-
day declared the parade tomorrow night
will not pass the White House or 20
through the Capitol Grounds.
The line will form, it was announced,
at Seventeenth street and Constitution
avenue. with the Drum and Bugle Corps
Of Victory Post. American Legion. in
uniform. in the lead, and with about
600 local Legionnaires following.
The parade will proceed east on Con-
stltution avenue, turn north at Fiji
teenth street and turn east again on
Pennsylvania avenue, continuing to the
Peace Monument. where it will disband.
AS Capt. W. G. Stott Of the Police
Department was expressing concern over
the impending shortage of food, tele-
graphic word came Of an offer by the
Farmers Holiday Association of Des
Moines, Iowa, to supply carloads" of
food free, provided transportation was
donated.
Capt. Stott said the food supply will
hold out today and tomorrow II there
are no more arrivals. He announced
the police will not force the veterans
from their temporary barracks in the
southeast and southwest until written
orders to do so are received from the
District Commissioners or Health Ofi-
Ger Fowler. The latter has insisted the
buildings be closed because of insani-
tary conditions.
DR.. Fowler, after making an inspec-
tion Of the Anacostia camp this morn
ing. said there Is grave danger Of
typhoid breaking out in the camp II
the conditions are allowed to remain
as they are.
He made several suggestions to lead
ers Of the veterans about cleaning up
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