The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-07-28
Hundreds Hu7~I Bricks at Cops
i'm Pitched Battle as Bonus
Army EUiCtiOnS Are Begun
Fight Starts After Veterans
Are Removed From Old
Armory to Be Raced.

ordered TO the Scenes
The shooting occurred at
the entrance of one of the
buildings from which treas
ury agents earlier in the
day had evicted about 100
veterans.
An attempt was made to
rush the entrance.
The policeman guarding
the doorway fired the shots.
One man, believed to have
been a veteran, was carried
away, apparently wounded.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, July 28.-
Several hundred bonus army
veterans rushed police lines
today behind government
property which treasury
agents had repossessed this
morning, seized an ammuni-
ton dump of bricks from de-
molished buildings, and began
a wild barrage.
Disturbers we're carried off so fast
in police patrols that it was i'm
possible to tell how many arrests
were made before the brick battle
ended. 1t lasted about ten minutes.
Several policemen were hurt so
severely they had to go to hospital
Several others we're cut and bleed
ing as were a number of the
marcherS.
Battle Near Capitol
Superintendent Glassford an
nounced this afternoon that police
and treasury agents would hold the
government building, a former ma
tional guard armory, "repossessed'
from bonus army veterans, but that
there would be no attempt al
further evictions today.
The battle of bricks took place
near the stately Capitol building.
A general mobilization of police
was ordered at the riot scene. I'm.
der command of Brigadier-Genera
Pelham Glassford, police chief, hun.
dreds of bonus marchers convergec
on the point of the disorder.
Many had arrived when the sur
prise rush against comparatively
weak police lines in the rear o.
the disputed area put the bonus mer
in possession of the bricks.
An effort was made to raise the
Anacostia drawbrioSe to prevent
Commander George R. Thompson''
5000 men, living on the Anacostis
flats, from joining the melee. ToC
many already had reached the
bridge and it was impossible tt
raise it.
"Arms" Are Seized
Commander Walter Waters hac
counselled the Pennsylvania avenue
squatters early today to leave the
prescribed buildings without dis.
order, and most of them followed hi;
advice.
Bonus "MP's" disarmed their owr
men at the AracoStia camp. The
seized arms" we're clubs.
Authorized leaders of the bonu;
army offered every assistance to po-
lice authorities in quelling the dis.
turhance.
Glassford took personal command
of his bluecoated troops. He occu-
pied the lea of shanty in company
with squad of police.
A brick hit GlaSSford IN the chest
Policemen were bowled over here
and there by the lumpy missiles.
Scores of men were seized anc
hauled away during the skirmish
ing.
Some estimates of the number o
persons gathered at the riot scene
were as high as 5000.
Brick Hits GlassfOrd
GlasSford, Waters and othel
bonus army leaders sought privacy
in one of the veterans novels for E
conference when the fighting was
ended.
Glassford went in minus his golc
badge of office. The brick hac
knocked it of.
office.
In the Waters GlaSsford confer.
ence, the former blamed the so.
called cleft wing" for the riot. Wa
tiers said he could not control tht
men.
GlasSford warned him that the
bonus army situation was becomins
increasingly serious and that police
could not be expected indefinitely t.
restrain themselves.
Acknowledgement William Mitchell
today announced that the veteran.
must Immediately evacuate all fed.
eral property or suffer the full
penalty of the law"
The eviction plan was worked out
it was understood, partly in the con.
ference held at the White HOUSE
Wednesday with President Hoover
at which War Secretary Hurley
Treasury Secretary Mills and As.
sistant Treasury Secretary HEATH
were present.