Evening star., 1932-12-09
Demonstrations at Capitol
and White House Banned
by Police.
FREE FOOD AND LODGING
WON'T BE FORTHCOMING
! 500 Marchers Already in Washing
ton, Close Check-up by Police
Bureau Reveals.

Maj Ernest w. Brown, superintendent
of police, announced today that demon
strations will not be permitted at the
Capitol and White House by the radical
left wing of the Bonus Expeditionary
Force, now returning to Washington in
small groups.
The Police Department, according to
Maj. Brown, will handle the veterans in
virtually the same manner as it did the
hunger marchers. Free food and lodg-
ing will not be provided, he said, and
unless the veterans can provide their
own subsistence they will be arrested as
vagrantS, or escorted to the District
lire and warned to keep out of
washington.
Maj. Brown pointed out that informa-
tion in possession of the Police Depart
ment indicates that the same Com
munist elements that inspired the So
called hunger march are the motivating
spirits behind the second bonus march.
The march, however, is being promoted
by the Veterans Central Rank and File
Committee, headed by John Pace, who
commanded the left wing of the B. E. F.
500 Already Here.
A close check-up by the Crime Pre-
NCAAbAOL ohA eau OA tAAC 0CPdAL-
ment shows that approximately 500 of
the veterans already are in Washington.
Bonus march leaders have predicted
there would be from 1000 to 5000 here
next week, when a four-day conven-
ton is scheduled to be held.
All entrances to the District are being
closely guarded by the police, extra de-
tails have been assigned to the Capitol
and White House, and reserves are be-
inn hnld in for lAv-
that might develop with the coming of
the veterans.
Maj. Brown has ordered all COM
manding officers to caution men un-
der their command to watch for bonus
marchers. Each officer was told to
learn the destination of the veterans
and then call the Detective Bureau
at once.
Plans of the bonus marchers call for
mass meeting Monday in a rented au-
ditorium. The following day a mass
demonstration at the Capitol is pro-
posed. At that time the veterans in
| tend to renew their petition to Congress
| for immediate payment Of the bonus.
Wednesday, the marchers plan to go to
| Arlington Cemetery to pay tribute to
bers of the B. E. F., who were killed
July % when Federal troops drove the
veterans out of Washington.
Final Mass Meeting.
The final event on the program Is
mass meeting Wednesday night. After
that march leaders have assured police
the veterans would leave Washington.
Police have been told the veterans
would stage an orderly and peaceful
demonstration, but coupled with the
promise are four demands: That police
stop interfering with the men coming
into the city, that Congress appropriate
funds to feed and house the veterans,
! that police cease interfering with vet
Grams soliciting aid, and that veterans
be permitted to distribute literature.
Although march leaders have de-
clared that groups of veterans are now
in Hagerstown, Md, and Gettysburg.
! Pa. awaiting orders to advance to
Washington, police investigation
| failed to locate them. The march
leaders also claimed that scores of other
veterans are en- route to Washington
aboard freight trains.
The veterans now in Washington are
being housed in building occupied by
| the Veterans Rank and File Committee
| in the 900 block of I street and in a
house in the 1900 block of D street
northeast.