Evening star., 1932-07-01
HINES OPENS DRIVE
TO FIND Jobs FOR
BONUS MARCHERS
Veterans Administrator Asks
Regional Offices to Survey
Situation.
B. {. F. WARNS ITS MEN
TO ML0OK CAREFULLY"
Camps Again Face Hunger as Food
Bought by GlassfOrd Is
Exhausted.

tne thousands OF World War veterans
encamped here, the Veterans Admins
tration revealed today it had initiated a
movement to find jobs for the unem-
ployed ex-soldiers.
A. B. Hitler. executive assistant 10
| veterans Administrator Frank T. Hines.
informed Ihe Star that Gen. Hines had
requested managers of the regional Of
! hces OF the Veterans Administrator
throughout the country to survey their
respective fields with a view to finding
employment for the bonus army.
| Such a movement, if successful. prcb-
aoIy would break up the bonus army of
occupation here and result in the men
returning to their homes. Hitler de-
cIared Gen. Hines had undertaken the
movement "on his own initiative"
Will "LOok Carefully"
National headquarters Of the p EF
| apprised Of Gen. Hines efforts to find
IoDs' advised the men to look care
tuHy INTO the positions before leaving
the Capital to determine whether the
oners OF employment were legitimate
Gen. Hines request to the regional
managers to survey the EMPLOYMENT
nelos In their districts is in line with
eHorts OF the veterans administration
70 md jobs for all World War veterans ="
Hitler said. For the past several wears
tne veterans administration has been
! attempting to obtain employment for
! veterans cut of work. BELIEVING s,,ch
a movement Of veterans into the
| capital shows a more urgent need for
employment, this administration is IN
! creaslng Its efforts to find work for
| former service men" ~
Food supplies worth $3.50, bought YES
/ teroay out of Police Chief Pelham n
GIassiords personal funds practicalIv
were exhausted this afternoon and the
iS,OOO or more veterans once more faced
hunger.
Demonstration Tomorrow.
| To protest against adjournment of
congress, National Comdr. Walter w
| waters today ordered a "demonstra-
tion' by the veterans at the Capitol at
o'clock tomorrow morning The
| order, which declared the demonstra-
tton was to be held "to protest ad-
journment before adequate provision is
made for the B. E. F." instructed all
members Of the organization to drift
up to the Capitol by twos and threes
/ and not in mass formation.
Banners viii be displayed in the
| demonstration, permits for which are
being requested from Metropolitan and
| Capitol police by Comdr. Waters. As
| surance was given that the movement
would be orderly
| At the same time Waters revealed a
parade would be held July 4. the route
and time to be announced later.
Dysentery Investigated.
John E. Noble, Health Department
! bacteriologist. was making laboratory
tests today in an effort to determine
whether dystentery discovered in the
camp is of an epidemic or Simple"
| type. His tests are expected to be ccm-
pleted within the next "a to 36 hours:
At the same time it became known
! that several of the children at Camp
Marks in Anacostia are suffering from
whooping cough Two of the children
have been isolated from the others.
Only enough food was in the B. E. F.
commissary this morning to feed the
men breakfast and possible scant
rations for the afternoon meal. Appar-
emily unworried. the veterans pin their
faith on a Federal appropriation for
| food. Several bills now are before Con-
gress for this purpose.
Communists Speak.
Striking out at a new tangent. Com
munist World War veterans last night
held an open-air mass meeting at Eighth
street and Market space, where speakers
fayed the leadership Of Commander in
Chief Walter w. Waters and criticized
Police Chief GlaSsford
A permit for the meeting was issued
to the Workers Ex-Service Mems
League and the National Provisional
Bonus Marchers' Committee, Com
munist organizations by Gen. Glass
ford. Similar meetings are to be held
tonight and every night until July 6, at
o'clock.
William I Stember, an official Of the
Workers Ex-Service Mems League, at
tackled the B. E F. and announced his
organization had prepared a definite
program for rank-and-file veterans"
He said a demonstration would be held
at the Capitol, probably some time next
week
Announcement that Nicholas Mavriks,
16-year-old violin virtuoSO, Of New York
will give concerts at Camp Marks on
the nights Of July 2, 3 and was made
at the B. E. F. national headquarters.
Traffic officer J. E. Bennett, assigned
by Glassford to bonus march duty ad'
vised all men of the B. E. F" he would
be able to cash Government compensa-
ton checks at the Office of Police Capt.
William G. Stott. Discharge papers
must be brought with the checks, he
added.
Others on Way Here.
Despite warnings that no food is
available to feed them, veteran con-
tingents continued to pour in today,
some 400 TO 500 arriving from the West.
More than 1000 men have arrived in
the past 36 hours, with approximately
5000 others on the way. "A delegation
Of 30S from Clarksburg. w. Va, arrived
early this morning at the Potomac
freight yards, from where they were
sent to Camp Bartlett on Alabama ave-
nue. southeast. About ITS from Chicago
came in shortly afterward and were
sent to Camp Bartlett.
From Texas Associated Press dis
patches told Of a delegation of 1000
from California stranded there by lack
OF gasoline. Royal W. Robertson, Call
fornia commander, was said to have
appealed to Dallas authorities for 1000
gallons Of gasoline and oil for his so
trucks and automobiles.
As a partial solution Of the acute
food problem two lotion trucks with
fresh beef were sent from New York
this morning by large meat packing
firms. Packers there offered to supply
the entire army with meat free Of
charge, provided the veterans furnished
transportation from New York to
Washington. AS no trucks are avail
able here bonus leaders issued appeals
for the donation Of transportation. To
preserve the meat after It arrives spe-
cial refrigerated store houses are being
erected by the veterans at Camp Marks.
To prevent panhandling, Comdr.
Waters issued orders yesterday that