The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-06

prevent pOSBlUle OlbOruer LO-uAy af a contingent of 1.200 to 1,400 vet erans reported en route here from Cleveland. was awaited.
 Approximately $50 veterans from Pittsburg district left yesterday and last night for Washington, D. C., while struggling groups totaling about 500 passed through here from other cities. There was no disorder.
 Boston. June 6.-UP)-An or ganization meeting on Boston Com mon resulted in virtual abandon ment of Bostons' participation in the bonus march" to Washington.
 John F. Doyle. who called the meeting, withdrew with the declar- atIon that he had received informa- ton from federal authorities that communists were backing the march. As result. only eight vet erans set out for the capital.
 Hammond, Ind, June 6-(UP)-- Two hundred members of Chi cago bonus army hoped to board a Michigan Central freight train here to-day for the east. The men had been stranded here when the Penn sy1vania railroad refused to allow them on freight trains.
 Dallas, Texas, June s-(UP)- Led by Queen Mary" Arnold, 23- year old wife of one veteran, 300 ex-soldiers were riding railroad trains east of here to-day. on their way to Washington. Nine po- As,tz kx h he from boarding a Texas and Pacific freight train. The veterans voted for "passive resistance" climbed atop the box cars and sat htere un- til the train pulled out.
 Cleveland, June 6.-(UP)-An army of 420 ex-service men. out of more than 1000 who massed here Saturday. sought trucks from the Maple Heights, q suburb. to-day for their trip to Pittsburg en route to Washington.
 Akron, Ohio, June 6.-UP)-A planned to leave for Pittsburg to- erans of Foreign Wars from the COuIlby anu SOIhpthhbCs. Ib' group came here from Cleveland yesterday in trucks.
 ConnellsvilIe, Pa, June 6-(UP) State police were asked to come to Connellsville today to guard a. gainst possible disorder as all east bound trains over the Baltimore <: ohio railroad were tied up to halt the march" of about 400 war veterans to Washington.
 Since 2:15 a. m. no trains have moved east from here. About 400 veterans from Akron, O., McKees- port and Duquesne. Pa, were stranded in the yards when a cattle train on which they came here was stopped to feed and rest the stock. Although the time for the train to resume its trip has expired no move to start 1t was made.
 The veterans were orderly. most of them remaining in the yards to seizure the first opportunity to continue their journey.
 March On Capitol
 Washington, June 6 - UP) - An advance guard of the veterans bonus army marched out of itl encampment along the Potomac today and in a ragged. wavering line toiled up Capitol hill to wage a peace-time battle.
 The platoon assigned to ligisla- tive work today left behind a woe- ful camp, sodden with a nights rain, but military discipline, en- forced by the veterans themselves, was bringing order out of chaos. This morning bugles brought the 2,500 veterans out of their straw mattresses in Anacostla Park, lead- CTS parked out orders almost for gotten in the IA years that have elapsed since the end of the war, and military drill was instituted to occupy the time of the men.
 Tattered, unshaven squads moved out, some uot of step and some responding awkwardly to Squads righ" and "Aabout face" to build shelters out of the lumber supplied by Police Chief Glassford. Morale was lifting; war-time> songa such as "Hail. Hail, the Gangs All