Evening star., 1932-07-20
Leader. Arrested as Seven
Attempts to Break Through
to White House Fail.
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from a Dlock away.
March Around Area.
Shunted away from the Treasury. the
men struggled north on Fifteenth street
to H street, turned west and headed
for Lafayette Park with Pace still at the
head of the procession. At Madison
place, the veterans made another at
tempt to turn toward the White House.
but were again turned away, and filed
past the Veterans Administration
Building at Vermont avenue and H
street, shouting. I'VE want the bonus. y
Again at Jackson place. the veterans
tried to turn south toward the White
House and again the police drove them
on. For the fourth time, the men made
q futile effort to turn south on Seven
teenth street, and then proceeded to
Eighteenth street. going south to Penn
sylvania avenue and coming back as tar
as Seventeenth street The veterans
met the same Waterloo at this point,
retraced their steps and turned south
on Eighteenth street. At each inter-
section police turned them back with
scuff1e, but when Eighteenth and D
streets was reached the men gave indi-
cations of rushing the police lines.
Leader Is Seized.
Policeman E. w. Wright, at the direc-
tion of Inspector L. I. H Edwards, as
sistant superintendent of police. grabbed
Pace as he resisted and showed him into
a waiting Police Department car.
Other officers grabbed his two lieu
tenants. BeckWorth E. Johnson, 80. OF
Big Rapids, Mich. and Walter F. Eicher,
and pushed them into the machine with
Pace The three were taken to the
third precinct station. where the charges
were placed against them. They were
then lodged in a cell. Bail was fixed at
sl25 each.
Four hours after the arrest Of Pace
and his two companions, delegation
of IA veterans headed by Lewis B.
Smith. called at police headquarters
and demanded the release of the three
men. The delegation conferred with
Capt William G. Stott, property officer
of the department. who asserted the
men would not be given their freedom
unless the prescribed bond Is first
posted.
Without leader. some of the men
dropped out of the procession. The
remnants of PAGES army, however, con-
tinued down Eighteenth street to Vir-
and thence to Fifteenth street. where
police drove them across the Monument
grounds and back to their camp.
Police Trail Veterans.
Several score Of policemen including
Inspectors Edwards. E. w Brown and
T. H. Bean trailed the veterans and
kept them moving. If anv OF the men
slowed their pace, the officers got be-
hind them promptly and showed them
into quicker steps. Most Of the men
took the treatment good naturedlv.
Only a few ATTEMPTED to argue with
the policemen and they were threatened
with arrest
Apparently oblivious to the excite
ment in the vicinity Of the White House,
President Hoover went about his duties.
and received his scheduled callers One
of them was Senator Couzens of Michi-
gan. who like all other visitors. was
required to identify himself before be-
ing admitted to the White House
grounds.
Will Remain Here.
Before the veterans began the trek to
the White House Pace declared in a
spesch to his men it was the intention
of his followers 10 remain in Washing
ton despite the efforts to get them tc
leave.
Our task now is to force President
Hoover to call special session Of Con-
gress to give us the bonus" he said
We've got to g. to him. He's not
coming down here to us"
We propose to walk up toward the
White House as individuals. There
will be no parade, no picketing, nc
banners, no flags. We will go to the
White House and look around as indi-
vduals On sightseeing trip. We're
not going there to raise hell"
Gen. Glassford stepped up to Pace
as he finished his speech and an
orders as prohibiting the veterans from
going anywhere they wanted on sight
seeing tours as individuals.
But he added, Il don't know what
orders 1 will get later
l52 Seek Transportation.
One hundred and fifty-two bonus
marchers had applied at the Veterans
Bureau this morning for transportation
loans on their adjusted compensation
certificates. it was announced by the
Veterans Administration at noon.
This brought the total applications for
loans to 3,648 OF these. railroad fare
has been furnished 1926, while auto
mobile travelling expenses have been
given SOL The latest figures on the
assistance rendered by the Red Cross
indicated that 1879 wives or children Of
veterans have been sent home.
Meanwhile the vanishing food supply
threatened the harmony that thus far
has characterized relations between the
police department and the right wing
of the bonus army. Walter w. Wa
tiers, commander of the B. E. F.. in an
address before an assembly at Camp
Marks this morning took vigorous ex-
ception to Gen. Glassford's order
against withholding food from the left
wing of the entrenched forces.
Waters referred to an article he said
appeared in an afternoon paper yester-
day indicating police would raid" the
B. E. F. commissary to force food dis
tribution. He declared Gen. Glassford
hasn't earned the right to dictate tc
the B. E. F. and he isn't going to-
Waters at the same time expressed his
thanks to Glassford and the police.
Pace Draws Rations.
Waters order regarding food was
issued yesterday morning and was lev.
eled against the contingents headed
by Pace and Roy Robertson Of Califor-
mia. He said they had organized as
independent outfits and were not en-
titled to B. E. F. assistance. Glassford's
answer to that was that any food do
mated to special outfit could 60 to it
but that supplies he himself purchased
or we're otherwise contributed to the
general mess fund should be so used
It developed today that despite the
dispute, Pace drew rations for his men
last night and that food had been laid
aside this morning from Roberson's
associates.
When the mornings supplies were
given out the larder was bare, except
for some flour. The rations were only
enough for today. Confidence was ex-
pressed, however, that more would be
forthcoming.
Sends Message to Glassford.
Later in the morning. Waters sent