Evening star., 1932-07-07
COMMITTEE 0. KS
S10O,0I]D FUND FOR
EVACUAT|NG B. E.F.
House Appropriations Group
Approves Hoover Request,
Made in Message.
TROUBLE AT ANAC0STIA
PREVENTED BY POLICE
Glassford Personally Halts Fight
Threatening General Melee
at Bonus Camp.

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Responding to a request by President
{ Hoover, the House Appropriations Com
mittee today approved 100000 fund
for TRANSPORTING the army of bonus
seeking war veterans back to their
homes.
This action came as police intervened
to prevent what appeared to be immi-
nent trouble at the bonus marchers'
camp at AnacoStia. A threatened dis
turbance quickly subsidized when police
stepped in
The legislation to take the former
service men away from Washington will
be reported at once by Chairman Byrns
to the House for action after diSpoSl-
ton of the relief bill. Tho Senate has
already passed bill to authorize loans
to the veterans for their return home.
Would Provide Transportation.
The 100000 would be spent to pro-
vide railroad transportation and sub
sistence at the rate of rs cents day,
for each honorably discharged war vet
eran encamped here. Advances not re-
paid would be deducted from the face
value of the bonus certificates.
President Hoover made his request for
the appropriation in a special message
Yesterday. after Capitol leaders urged
quick acticn upon receiving reports OF
threatened rioting.
In reporting the appropriation bill
to the committee today. Chairman
Byrns said: Congress should not ad-
journ and leave this burden of the So
called bonus eXpeditionary force upon
the people of the District of Column
bia. If this bill passes, and l have
every confidence that it will, :ne
100000 will be available to provide
transportation and subsistence for the
bonus marchers, who are new here to
get back home.
1T will then be quite proper for the
District Commissioners to announce to
the bonus expeditionary force that funds
have been made available for them tc
return home and if they do not avail
themselves of the opportunity, the Dis
trict authorities will no longer feel
obliged to support them in camp here"
The timely intervention Of Police
Chief Pelham d. GlaSsford is believed
to have prevented a free-for-aN be-
tween conservative and radical factions
of the bonus army.
Stepping into the midst of a fight
between a colored and white veteran,
which developed while an alleged COM
munist veteran was attempting to or
ganize a mass meeting on the Anacostia
fats, Gen. Glassford stopped the en-
counter, shouting:
Just a minute, just minute, there,
you men. We're all veterans together,
and I don't want to see any veterans
fighting veterans.
''Has Right to Speak"
THAT man, John Pace (the speaker
has a right to speak, and express his
views here. He is not a member OF
your camp, and any Of you who don't
agree with him had better go back to
camp and play base ball. :"
The trouble started when Pace, COM
mander of group OF radical veterans
from Detroit, attacked National Comdr.
Walter w. Waters of the Bonus Ex-
peditionary Force, and called him a
"Mussol!ni" and publicity seeker.
The Anacostia veterans, who had
been milling about the tmQrovised
speakers platform, began shouting.
"Hooray for Waters" Then, all OF
the conservative eX-service men started
booing Pace and his crowd of Workers
Ex-Service Mems League members.
GIassford Gives Address.
Several veteran police made an effort
10 get the Anacostia contingent TO re-
turn to its camp, several hundred yards
away, when the fight started between
the colored and white veterans. Several
blows had been struck by the men and
several other veterans had joined the
melee when GlaSsford stepped in and
took command After calm had been
restored, and several hundred veterans
had returned toward their camp, Glass
ford went over to them and delivered
a brief address in an effort to prevent
trouble.
While he was speaking many others
deserted the radical speaker and went
back to their shelters
Pace, who had obtained a police per-
nit TO address the veterans, followed
Harry Reed Of Chicago on the platform.
Reed said the mass meeting was for
the purpose of discussing better
methods of fighting for the bonus" He
attacked present policies under the
Waters regime as a total failure"
mo one MuSsolini should dictate to
US" Reed told the assembly. The rank
and file veterans should dictate TO their
leaders.
Pace, taking up the same theme, said
Waters had been stuck up into the
limelight and made a Mussolini, another
dictator" This statement started the
fight.
Ostracized by B. T.. +.
Pace, who only last Saturday was
introduced to veterans assembled at
the Capitol by Comdr. Waters himself
since has been repudiated by the bonus
army leader and oStraci2ed from the
B. E p. A member of the Workers
Ex-Service Mems League, he decided to
retaliate by attempting 10 split the
army and organize 'left wing" organ
ization. 1t was with this in mind that
he obtained a permit to speak today
and also authority TO hold parade
down Pennsylvania avenue tomorrow
morning.
The meeting on the Anacostia mud
fats came as the morale of the fast
diminishing bonus army reached new
low level and heavy guards of veteran
p,lice had to be thrown around the
arny's commissary at 654 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast.
There was hardly any food to guard,
however, as all that remained in the
comnlissary this morning were a few
sacks of Farm Board wheat, requisi-
toned from the Red Cross, and a few
hundred loaves of stale bread donated
by local bakery.
Face Short RatiOns.
The 500 pounds Of meat brought in
by plane Yesterday from New York was
exhausted last night. and the men
faced short rations today.
Guards were stationed last night at
the Bureau Of Engraving and Print
ing and the citvs gas and electric
companies. according to Asst. Supt. OF
Police L. l. H. Edwards, when a report
reached police that an effort would be
made to put the city in darkness. Of
ficials of the Potomac Electric Power
Company said this morning that extra
guards have been on duty at its plants
since arrival Of the bonus army siS
weeks ago. Extrn precautionary
measures also have been taken at the