Evening star., 1932-06-03
Will Bear No More Respon.
slblIIty After Money on
Hand Is Gone.
WON'T ASK CONGRESS
FOR AN APPROPRIATION
$73 in Cash and $27O Worth Of
Food Remain for Benefit
of War Veterans.

! PoQce Chief Pelham D. Glassford an
nounced this afternoon that the polica
Department no longer would assume re-
I sponslbility for feeding the bonus
marcherS' here seeking immediate paw
ment OF their adjusted service certit-
Gates, after cash and food on hand and
donations expected to be received have
been exhausted.
Gen. Glassford previously announced
| that when the District could no Longer
care for the veterans he would olive
them 4o hours in which to leave the
Capital.
AT the same time, Glassford declined
10 comment on reports that he has laid
plans Tor calling upon Marines. Fort
Myer Cavalry troops or the National
Guard to assist in policing the thou
SANDS OF veterans reported en- route here
to join the $500 already here.
S73 Cash on Hand.
There is now on hand s73 in cash
and S270 worth of food Receipts total
Ing S542, taken in at the Gayety Thea
ter midnight show last night, we're in
cluoed by Glassford in this figure. Other
funds included a $500 check from the
veterans of Foreign Wars, promised this
afternoon, ana receipts from benefit
athletic entertainment to be staged at
Grlfhth Stadium next Wednesday.
Gen Glassford, when asked If lie
would call upon Congress again for a
FEDERAL appropriation, replied:
L shall not. 1 do not contemplate
asking Congress again for money
Lumber sufficient to build shelter for
AZ men was delivered today to Anacos-
Ia Park, where already more than 300
men from Camden and PHILADELPHIA
nave been sent by GlaSsford due to lack
OF housing facilities
Barracks without walls will be
built in Section c OF the Anacostia
parkway, between the Eleventh Street
Bridge and Boiling Field southeast. on
ground under the jurisdiction of the
once OF Public Buildings and Public
PARKS. 1t was on this site that Gen.
Glassford intended to erect tents to
house the bonus marchers. Secretary
OF War Hurley, however, refused to
lend the Police Department the neces-
sary tents.
500 More Nearing City.
More than 400 veterans from Phila-
delphia and Camden, York. Pa. and
Duluth, Mimi, pulled into Washington
last night to join the 1000 or more al
read here. Eight hundred others were
nearing the city this afternoon from
Baltimore and Perryville, Md. accord
ing to advioes received by police
Four hundred of these left Baltimore
by truck this morning. The 400 at
Perryville were expected to come either
by freight trains or by automobiles late
today
Every jobless veteran who belongs to
the bonus army will be housed in
the Anacostia Parkway, according TO
present plans of police. Evacuation of
the vacant buildings in which the men
have been quartered for the past week
was ordered today by Health Ofhcer
William A. Fowler, due to lack of proper
Stott. Police Department property offl-
Ger. who is assisting Gen. Glassford in
handling the influx of veterans, esti-
mated today it would cost dollar
man to furnish shelter for them. AT
| that rate he said. it would cost some
! body" $4,000 to house the number OF
men expected to come here.
More than 300 of the veterans who
! arrived last night slept out in the open
! in the Anacostia Parkway and we're
| lolling about in the shade there today
! several OF IIlS Sdlluell lIltll Cd4lSu uPoAl
Representative Bachrach of New Jer-
sey this morning to complain about be-
| ing made to sleep out of doors. Bach
rach called Capt. Stott, who Informed
the New Jersey Representative every
thing possible was being done to care
| for the veterans. but that housing IA
cilities have been exhausted.
Where the money will come from to
build the barracks for the men is not
| known.
Arrives as Live Stock"
Forty-eight veterans, travelling in
boXcar and consigned as live stock"
arrived in Washington from Minnesota
last night.
They were shipped here on a bill of
lading from Canton. Ohio. in Pennsyl-
vania Railroad car No. 36865.
On the bill of lading was written.
| and in the lower corner was Scribbled.
"55 vets"
Seven failed to show up.
! Meanwhile the veterans still billeted
at Eighth and l streets southeast were
moving with machipelike precision to
get favorable congressional action on
the bonus bill.
| Following an enthusiastic meeting. at
which the procedure under contempla-
| tion was outlined, members of this
group descended upon the House pre-
pared to get the views of each Repre-
/ sentative on record on the issue and to
urge that they sign the Patman petition
! to get the bonus measure up for vote.
| A written statement covering the
attitude of each member of the House
was the goal sought as the veterans
started out, spokesmen emphasizing
| that for the present, the Senate was
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