Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-12-08
EV|CTED MARCHERS
SLIP BACK TO CITY
AFTER N|GHTFALL
81 Claiming to Be Veterans
Await New Invasion
Planned Next Week.
5000 EXPECTED HERE
WITHIN NEXT FEW DAYS
Rank-and-File Committee Members
Sheltering Men 0usted by
Police Yesterday.

Driven from the District by police,
"a men who claimed to be World War
veterans, are reported to have slipped
back into the city during the night and
to have found refuge in homes occu-
pied by members of the Veterans Cen
trail Rank and File Committee who
are assembling in washington Tor
second bonus march.
The men came to Washington with
the northern column of the hunger
march and attempted to remain
when the marchers started the home
ward trek. Police gave them two hours
to find quarters and when they failed,
escorted them to the District Line and
turned them over to Maryland authori-
ties.
During the night, however, the men
are said to have separated into small
groups and returned over various routes.
Inspector L. I. H. Edwards, assistant
superintendent of police, went out early
this morning in an effort to locate them.
Expect 5000 Next Week.
The Rank and File Committee has
established headquarters at 905 I street.
from which the proposed second bonus
march will be directed. Leaders predict
5000 veterans will be in Washington
next week for a four-day convention.
Police say 200 already are here, and are
being sheltered in the headquarters
building of the committee and in a
house in the 1900 block of D street
northeast, where officers of the Khaki
Shirts of America moved after deserving
q building on North Capitol street.
The Rank and File Committee is an
offshcot of the radical left wing of the
Elyy,ndificy,o Y-xr EOrao drfyofl from
Washington last Summer by Federal
troops. John Pace, leader of the left
wing B. e. F. forces, is said by police
to be in command Of the new move
ment.
After a conference with the leaders
of the march, Maj. Ernest w. Brown.
superintendent of police, announced
that the Police Department would adopt
the same policy toward the veterans
that was followed during the encamp-
r12-1t OF the hunger marchers. No eff
fcrts will be made to house or feed
the E1.c-c.,S, he sa.d, and they win be
rou-f.-cd to lecve the District unless
they provide their own subsistence.
Sone Now in Hagerstown.
Lsoda-s of the bonus movement
claim that large delegations veterans
are ZEN route to Washington and will
arrive before next week. Some OF them,
they said. already have reached Hagers-
town, Md, and Gettysburg, Pa. Others
are reported to be aboard freight trains
in the Middle West
As far as police could learn, no ar
rangements have been made to feed and
shelter the veterans. March leaders,
however, have announced that demands
would be made on the Federal Govern
ment to provide food and housing ac-
commodations.
Efforts are being made by the veter-
ans, it was said, to rent building in
the 5000 block of Fourteenth street,
which was used as food warehouse
by the hunger marchers.
Business Men Protest.
Maj. Brown, incidentally, announced
he had received a resolution from the
Executive Committee of the Columbia
Heights Business Mems Association de-
nouncing the renting of that building
as a commisSary or other use by the
hunger marchers. The resolution de-
clared that the use of that building by
the hunger marchers was decidedly
harmful to the reputation of the Dis
trict of Columbia"
Emanuel Levin, one of the hunger
march leaders, said about 900 bonus
seekers were elsewhere in Washington,
staying at the homes of friends and
sympathiZers.
Levin reported last night that he and
Samuel j. Stembar, also identified with
the left wing of the B. E. F., had been
ordered to leave the city by police
This was denied, however, by In
spector Edwards.
Shortly after the last of the hunger
marchers pulled out, enough food to
take care of the entire army of 5000
for at least day was found discarded
in the railroad yards beside New York
avenue northeast.
The food-canned goods, potatoes
and onions-was discovered by railroad
police, who turned it over to employees
and others on request.
Representative La Guardia, lame
duck Republican from New York, who
visited the internment area Tuesday
night, told the House yesterday that
the hunger marchers should not have
been bottled up in New York avenue by
police.
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