Evening star., 1932-06-27

or to care for them while here tenn
porarily."
Police Funds Exhausted.
The specter of hunger hung over the
bonus encampments this afternoon as
the Police Department commissaTy
funds we're exhausted and no replenish-
ment appeared in prospect.
The last of s13.053 was checked out
this afternoon by Capt william G
Stott, police property officer, who has
been handling the veterans commits
sary, and he announced only enough
food was on hand to last through to-
morrow.
Police Chief Pelham D. Glassford in
a warning issued to the veterans last
week, declared the Police Department
no longer would provide for the thou
SANDS OF veterans encamped in the
Capital after existing supplies had run
out.
'The money is gone and unless more
comes from somewhere we can't dc
ANYTHING" Capt. Stott declared.
Exhaustion of the B. z. F. treasury
came as veterans arrested six alleged
Communists. beat two of them Sc
verely and transported them across the
Msryland-Discrict line with the warn
ing not to return again.
Both Members of League.
The two were Herbert Young of New
York and Joseph Vacillotti of Passaic
N. j., both members of the Workers
Ex-service Mems League, a Communist
organiza ton. They were arrested" by
the veterans as they distributed Com
munist papers attacking leadership OF
the B. E. F. and attributing the resig-
ration of Commander in Chief Walter
w. Waters to "rank-and-file" action
The dissension-torn national head
quarters Of the B. e. F. late today
denied responsibility for the action
taken by individual members against
the Communists. and said national Of
1cerS could not be blamed for what
might happen if the Reds continued
to stir up trouble in the bonus army
George Kleinholz, acting as national
commander in the absence of Thomas
Kelly. who replaced Water pending an
election, denied the national organiza-
ton had any knowledge of the action
against Young. Vacillotti and the others
Louis P. Watcher. no address; Thomas
w. Plunkett. colored, 905 l street
league headquarters; william Odlen, a
Russian, of Philadelphia: William Melt
zer, New York, and Clarence Boyington,
Buffalo, N. Y.
A successor to Waters is to be chosen
by the rank and file" at a national
convention of the B. E. F., tentatively
scheduled to begin July 4, according to
w. S. Keyser, Cleveland veteran ano
chairman of the Convention Arrange
ment Committee. Some 500 delegates
from every State in the Union will bt
-. -
They will select a national COM
mander
Seek to Draft Waters.
Efforts to draft Waters were being
made by his supporters. but a counter
movement to defeat him and place
either George Altman, another Oregon
veteran, or Mike Thomas, camp COM
mander at Anacostia. in the post, vas
being made by the more radical ele-
ment
To forestan an attempt by Altman
twice depoSed officer Of the B. z. F.
to organize a parade for tomorrow
afternoon, Acting National Comdr
Kelly issued an order" to camp and
regimental commander advising that
the national headquarters lis not spon-
soring any parade or demonstration TO
and no member of the B. E. F. should
participate in any such parade or
demonstration"
AS funds reached low level, delega-
tions totaling more than 300 arrived to
swell the depleted ranks of veterans
Nearly 200 came in this morning from
San Francisco and were sent to Camp
Bartlett on Alabama avenue southeast.
One hundred others arrived from
Brooklyn, N. Y, yesterday, almost at
the same time as 81 came in from Sagi-
nav, Mich. and East st. Louis. III.
A reserve fund of 81 900, which Glass
ford had been holding out as insurance
against damage to Army and National
Guard equipment loaned the veterans,
was released by him yesterday.
Still endeavoring to evacuate the vet
Grams. Gen. GlasSford yesterday sent
letters to several Congressman, outlin-
ing his plans for returning the men
agreed to carry them at a rate of l
cent a mile. He asked the Represen-
tatives to render a wholehesrted effort
in this endeavor," and was rewarded
early today by a check for S72 from
Representative Frank Murphy Of Ohio
to pay the return fare of Is Steubenville
veterans
Glassford hopes the American Legion,
Veterans of Foreign Wars. Disabled
American Veterans and other civic and
patriotic organizations Throughout the
country will donate funds for the trans
portation Of the veterans TO their own
cities.
AS tribute to Father Francis j.
Duffy, wartime chaplain of the Fight
ing 69th" Division, fisgs at Camp Marks
and other camps were ordered at half
staf today.
Illinois is the twenty-third State in
araa