Evening star., 1932-07-30
Plane Is Rushed
tODistrict for
w aters.
CITIZENS MAKE
SEIZURE THREAT
Hordes COnverging
on City Reported
in Ugly Mood.
By the Associated Press.
ArCT0UN

BY the Associated Press
JOHNSTOWN, Pa, July So
Faced with a rising tide OF hos
tilitv from JohnStoWn'S cltlzenry,
staff leaders of the bonus army"
retreating from Washington, TO-
day telephoned w. w. Waters,
commander in chief, and asked
him to come here at once from
washington to aid in handing
the situation.
Tattered and hungry veterans
continue to trickle into this city
of steel. The mountains are re-
ported to be honeycombed with
others. Many of them are IN an
ugly mood.
Chief of Staff Carter told
waters an airplane is being sent
Immediately to bring him TO
Johnstown. Waters was told that
the situation required his pres
ence.
As the staff officers gathered around
a conference table copy of this mcrn-
ing's Johnstown Democrat was spleao
before them.
BE Ready to Act"
They read and re-read an editorial
headed BE Ready to Act"
The editorial said that If any con-
siderable number of men congregate IN
Tohnstown the Governor shou1o DC
ostad IN take immediate charge OF the
situation" ao5 that If
The newspaper recommended tnat IL
there is any delay IN the mopllZdtlG1Ii
of state forces "a commlttee SHoulo
T3roceed to take charge OF the CITY gov
p,oH,oe,1+ in fine event that the admins
tratirI, encourages the unemployed to
locate here" 4ho+ oil
"unemployed from other parts OF W ~
country who remain in Jotfnssossal.as.sa
more fhan "a hours, should pe appFe-
hen6ed and placed in a Concentration
camp under guard. ,,ord
The newspaper would dra1t euaLu
from the Veterans of Foreign wars, ens
American Legion ana otner o4'iN'7'''
eligible fer guard duty Ii. ,-a
Carter told Waters State ponce are
misdirecting the veterans 10 geV tnen'
" Iiit Sond % of 30 from Los Angeles ar
rived at daybreak, dirty, tireo anu
famished.
Ask Miners for Food.
MANY have stopped in oepressIiSon-
deeoIated coal camps for rest, puI CIieS
found no food there Tor tne PoFet
stricken miners don't have enough 4ooo
for themselves. of . No
fnl1n6af10n
+ionNwide semi-military organization 10
roniace the shattered bonus eXpeol-
+i6narv force was laid, while ragged
yeterans tr1ldeed into the city by nun
dreds amid the citizenrys protests.
More than 900 tattered 'marcheIS
rooted from Washington by Regular
ARMY troops slept beneath the stars IN IN
wooded Island PARK, ) Hll4eS 0U' VI VIZ
city. last night. ..,.- ..,.o--o
And while they slept citiHns congre-
goted at a half dozen massed meetings
sdonted resolutions denounclng mayor
eddie McClcskey for having invited tne
aTnnv to Johnstown and laid plans TO
carry their fight to high State othclais
Dawn found hundreds Of other vet,
Grams arriving in Johnstown, weary ana
seeking shelter and 1000. .,..,.;o.
TbeV overwhelmed the commiSsarlat
set ,llp in a vacant storeroom IN tle
heart of the city, while sldss OF Mayor
McCIoskey scurried among the "toTes
and markets for additional Gupples.
Leaders among business men, cH-
nressinq fears that a situation fraught
With dramatic possibilities IS fast de-
veloping, called upon McCIoSAey w
ston the march on Johnstown.
The red-headed former prize fighter
elected mayor last Fall over the oppo<-
sition of the powerful Chamber Of
Commerce Republican organization
heatedly defended his action:
McCioskey explained that he had not
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