Evening star., 1932-07-29
SECOND OUTBREAK
BRINGS OUT ARMY
Police Abandon PIayfuIness
When Two Are Shot
and Bricks Fly.

1t was the second outbreak of rioting
at the Pennsylvania avenue bonus camp
yesterday afternoon that brought the
decision by the District Commissioners
to call for military aid to help the
police control the menacing situation
along lower Pennsylvania avenue.
It was Immediately after this out
break. in which two men were shot
down bv police and bricks few thick
and fast, that the Commissioners de-
cded that the situation was out OF
hand and asked Secretary Hurley to
send troops.
The shooting occurred while the po-
lice were in almost as ugly a mood
as the bonus marchers themselves.
Throughout the morning, while Treas
ury agents and their police guards were
conducting a more or less pink tea
eviction of about 100 Texas veterans
from the old armory building which Is
to be the first structure razed in the
camp area, there had been joking and
general good feeling between the police
and the bonus marchers and the Tex
ans we're submitting mildly to being put
out of their billet.
CtdTt OF
Trouble started, however, as soon as
the first truckload of veterans from
Camp Marks arrived on the scene one
giant colored man attacking police and
being overpowered only after six or
seven policemen had thrown him to the
ground.
Just a moment later the bricks
started flying back Of the Texans bill
lets, as the main body of the Anacostia
veterans, who had walked ovaE, swung
into action
After hearing that Private Edgar
Scott. injured in this engagement. was
likely to die, the attitude of the police
seemed to change radically. The play
fulneSS that had marked relations be-
tween the police and veterans earlier
in the day was gone, and police started
handling troublesome veterans roughly,
sending several unruly ones off to Jail.
It was about 2 o'clock when the
argument that eliminated in the shoot
ing occurred.
Two veterans engaged in an alter
cation in frcHs of the camp supply
building, and were Immediately sur
rounded by a bowling mob of about
100 Police rushed to the scene and
sought to stop the argument. Gen.
Glassford, with two policemen at his
heels, ran up the STAIRWAY along the
side of the building to the second floor
to get a better view of the trouble
They were Immediately followed by
about 30 veterans who rushed the stairs
and treated Glassford'S two AIDES
roughly when they sought to stop the
rush.
Bricks Begin Flying.
About this time bricks started flying
between groups down on the ground:
officer George w. Schinault. on the
outskirts of the milling mob. near the
foot of the stairway. was getting beat
ing from the veterans. Bricks were
flying about him. He drew his pistol
and fired. William J. Haska, bonus
marcher from Chicago, dropped with a
bullet in his chest.
Off1cer Miles Zamenaciack, who was
on the second floor with GlaSsford,
rushed halfway down the stairs and
Joined in the shooting. A third police
man, j. o. Fife, who was in the midst
of the brick fighting on the ground
drew his pistol and started running
toward the rear Of the building, whence
most of the bricks were coming About
25 feet from Fife bonus marcher drew
back to hurl a brickbat at him, and
holding his pistol in both hands, Fife
fired several times. The veteran, Will
r. Boyd, hit in the shoulder, spun
around several times and dropped
Above the din, which made the pistol
shots sound like popguns, came the voice
Of Gen. Glassford:
Drop those guns" he shouted to the
policemen. The tumult died almost i'm
mediately, and as police patrol wagons
backed up to take away the wounded
men, the veterans, muttering, wandered
away.