Evening star., 1932-08-12
TROOP CASUALTIES
EQUAL TO B. {. F.
DURING EVICTION
Not One Serious Injury Dur
ing Gen. MacArthur's
Movements.
MAJORITY OF CASES
WERE FROM TEAR GAS
Of Five in Hospitals Requiring
More Than First Aid, Three Were
Marchers, Two Soldiers.

With the bonus arn1y's eviction sur
viving chiefly now in the controversy
over the manner in which it was ef-
fected, survey of casualties by The
Star today reveals that the few in
juries were about equally divided be-
tween the evicted and the evictors.
There was not a case of serious in
jury from the time Gen. Macarthur and
his troops took over the job of policing
the B. E. F. until the last ragged
marcher left the District. and of the
five cases where more than first aid
hospital treatment was given three
were members of the B. E. F. and two
were Fort Myer soldiers, 1t was dis
closed by study of hospital records
Of Thursday, July %.
Gas Causes Most Damage.
The greatest proportion of injuries"
reported at hospitals during and after
the eviction of the bonus marchers
from their billetS in Washington and
from Camp Marks, on the AnacoStia
fats, was tear gas cases, which, ac-
cording to hospital attaches, needed
little more than fresh air and a little
aromatic spirits of ammonia to bring
dOOuI q complete cure.
Three members of the B. E. F., in
jured as they were elected with tear
gas, saberS, gun butts and the dogged
advance of youthful enlisted men,
stayed overnight Thursday in Casu-
atty HoSpital-one, Dewey KlotZ of
Kansas City, Mo, suffering with a
saber wound on his ear, bruises from
being charged by a horse and several
teeth knocked out by a gun butt: an
other, Robert Sandburg, New York
bonus marcher. who was picked up un-
conscious at Third street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue, suffering from burns,
cuts and tear gas, who was nnaSie to
say how he received his injuries, and
Wylie. Harre1, Reading, Pa, member of
the B. E. F., who was suffering from
tear gas poisoning in his left eye.
Knocked From Horses.
The two soldiers who needed more
than perfunctory hospital treatment
were both cavalrymen, who were
knocked from their horses by bricks
thrown by bonus marchers as they
charged the stubborn marchers at
Third street and Missouri avenue. They
were Pvt. Albert Martini of the Sd
Cavalry, Fort Myer, who received a
painful wound in the head, and Corpl.
Kermit Quick OF the same outfit, who
also was hit in the head,
But one more wound was caused by
the cavalrymen'S sabers-a slight cut
on the arm of 14-year- old Harry Wal
ters of 1926 G street southeast. for
which he was treated at Casualty Hos
pital. Young Walters, according to his
family today, did not know he was in
Jured until Red Cross nurse at the
scene Of the eviction bundled the boy
into car and had him taken to the
hospital.
Injured by Gun Butt.
A gun butt welded by trooper and
one of the cavalrymen's horses ac-
counted for the superficial wounds for
which Philip Mittlan, ST. Louis bonus
marcher, was treated early Friday
morning, following the eviction, at
Emergency Hospital. Mittlan was re-
leased from the hospital after first-aid
treatment.
Several of the troopers were burned
en- the hands by tear gas grenades
when they held them too long, but none
OF the burns was regarded at hospitals
as serious.
One woman with the bonus army was
slightly injured-Mrs. Elizabeth Newton
OF Dallas, Tex, who was run down by
one Of the cavalrymen's horses and was
suffering from tear gas when taken to
Casualty Hospital First-aid treatment
was given her and she was discharged.
That constitutes the hospital record
OF the soldiers eviction of the B. z. F.,
which followed the two riots in which
one bonus marcher was shot dead. an
other mortally wounded and a police
mans skull fractured.