Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-05
VIRGINIA POLICE
GUARDING BRIDGES
State Officials Confer in Mid
dIeburg as Contingent OF
MarCherS Passes.
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Hy stan Correspondent of The Star.
ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va,
December 5.-Virginia State police, rm-
Ger the direction of Supt. T. K. Sexton,
today guarded the bridges into Wash
ington ard various strategic points in
Arlington County to prevent the return
Of the hunger marchers" to Virginia
in case of trouble IN the District OF
Columbia. The State police also were
watching yesterdays march route for
stragglers and forcing them on to Wash
ington as broken vehicles were repaired
and placed into operation.
Caught yesterday unprepared for the
diversion Of the Cumberland contingent
of the marchers from Maryland into
West Virginia and then into Virginia,
approximately so State police had been
marshaled along the route before the
narchers reached Washington and about
IS others reached Arlington County
during the night.
officials Meet in Middleburg.
As soon as they learned that the
marchers were coming Through Viz
ginia, Sexton, accompanied by T. Nc
Call Frazier, director of the division Of
motor vehicles. and Adjt. Gen. S. Gard
ner Waller Of the Virginia National
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the State. They were in Middleburg last
night when the marchers passed
through and there conferred with Col.
E. Austin Baughman, commissioner OF
motor vehicles of Maryland. Frazier and
Zen Waller spent last night in VIM
sestcr, while Sexton came here.
Frazier and Gen. Waller were coming
to Alexandria today.
The State police were quartered in
the National Guard Armory at Alex
andria and today we're placed on
regular shifts The four policemen on
guard at the Key Bridge this morning
arrived here during the early morning
hours from the extreme southwest por-
ton of the State. One said that he
had driven 1863 miles in order to reach
here after he received orders at $3.50
o'clock yesterday afternoon.
County Police Mobilize.
There were Is State police stationed
at the Highway Bridge this morning.
Each of the police had an automobile
and while the only weapons in evidence
were pistols, it was understood that the
automobiles contained tear gas bombs
and some of them heavier weapons.
The entire Arlington County police
force was called cut yesterday after
noon by Sheriff Howard B. Fields. -Four
men, Hugh C. Jones, w. H. Thompson,
Ray Cobean and Edward Duncan, acted
as a guard for the Southern contingent,
which passed through Arlington County
shortly before the arrival of the Western
contingent and the others all went to
the Arlington-Fairfax County line at
Falls Church to guide the latter con-
tingent down the Lee Highway to the
Key Bridge.
There were 10 truckloadS from the
South, under guard by State police, and
these we're escorted to the Highway
Bridge without difficulty. They were
there taken over by District of Columbia
police for the remainder of the trip.
Most of the Southern contingent was
colored.
State police said that they counted
SO broken-down cars along the Lee
Highway as they came through this
morning and they are anxious to have
these out of the State as quickly as
possible.