Evening star., 1932-07-30
DISTRICT EXPELS
BONUS REMNANT
Police Raid Parks and Ban
ish 800 StraggIers
of B. EFF.
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parted. five school buses furnished by
Montgomery County, Md, picked up IT'S
veterans and their wives and children.
who had been billeted in the vicinity
OF Seventh and Pennsylvania avenue
southeast, and carried them out OF
Washington. The buses will go as far
as Emmittsburg, Md, near the Penn
sylvania State line. Johnstown is the
destination Of this group.
The concentration Of the 500 weary,
ragged and sleepy men in Judiciary
Park created one Of the strangest
scenes Washington had ever witnessed.
Lined up in the park facing police
headquarters across the street, the men
were kept in military formation until
the immigration officers and police Of
ficials had questioned them.
Guarding the men to prevent escape
we're about a dozen policemen, armed
with tear gas bombs. The ofhcerS were
scattered out strategically, prepared to
hurl the gas bombs in the event OF
concerted attempt to rush the police
Gordon.
Conndent that order had been re-
stored and that Washington was vir-
tually free of the bonus army, military
authorities prepared early this morning
to withdraw al troops ordered out at
the direction Of President Hoover to
drive the veterans off Government
owned property.
Before Gen. Macarthur issued the
evacuation order, the Cavalry returned
to Fort Myer. The Infantry, removed
from the temporary bivouac on the
site of Camp Marks. in AnacoStia, was
quartered in barracks of the Quarter
master depot in the vicinity of Eight
eenth street and Virginia avenue.
The general exodus of the veterans
from washington started shortly after
day break Yesterday, and by nightfall,
the only ones remaining were those who
seemed at loss as where to go. Most
Of these it is believed were in the group
rounded up in the public parks.
Military Phases" Over. .
Throughout the day, veterans in large
professions and in small groups treked
toward the District line, where trucks
provided by Maryland authorities pick
through the state Maryland authori
ties estimated they hauled 5000 bonus
marchers northward toward the Penn
sylvania line.
When it became apparent that the
veterans had departed Maj. Gen. V. II.
Moseley, deputy chief of staf1, an
nounced that the military phases OF the
LrOuDleS were over
Although police have not been for
mally instructed to keep any OF the
veterans from returning to the District,
a small group OF 25 were turned back
at the boundary line by moral perSua-
sion. Police told them there were no
accommodations for them in Washing
ton and that under no circumstances
would they again be permitted to squat
on Federal-owned land.
The Army considers its job fin
ished. Any new emergency arising
in the future, it was said, would con-
stitute q new situation under which
the Army would act only under direct
orders from the President
The final act of the troops was
''mopping up" CT the last Of the bonus
camps late yesterday, when the trouble
sector along lower Pennsylvania avenue
was given its second barrage OF tear
gas and the few remaining shacks re-
duced to ashes.
500 Soldiers in Attack.
The final attack on the Pennsylvania
avenue area was conducted by approx
imately 500 Infantry and CaValrymen'
backed by tanks and machine gun units.
The troops, using tear gas and the nat
sides Of Sabers freely, went through the
camp, mopping up there the last YES
tiges of the bonus hillets and the nonus
army. $50
The only engagement with the vet
Grams was in the area bounded by
Maine and Missouri avenues, -Four
and-a-hali and Third streets, where q
scattering Of bonus marchers who hao
SUNK into their shelters after the bat
tie with the soldiers the day before
was dislodged. II.
Combed first by the Cavalry which
routed bonus marcher5 and spectators
alike with Sabers, the way was cleared
for the Infantry, each sololer WIN
dozen neW-Style tear gas grenaoes
strung to his belt. At Four-and-a-haiii
street and Missouri avenue boos ana
jeers greeted the doushooys, ana lney
replied with tear gas which quickly
routed and diSorganized the meager
opposition Behind the bombers other
Infantrymen set fire to the bonus
rnarchers' shelters, and as the troops
moved on to the camps in southwest
Washington, f1remen, hastily canea 10 ~
the scene, stood guard over the nres 70
nreyent their spreading to residences
in the neighborhood. -.....
Demolish Radical Camp.
Prom there, clearing the streets OF
snectRfors all the way, the troops moved
10 thirteenth and B streets. soutnWest
u,here the radical left wing Of the nonus
marchers had been encampsd under Lhe
iaadership of John Pace, now unoei
arrest. The camp was deserted, Dul
infantrymen entered it and Win Ilne
butts demolished it. fearing 10 set
afire because of large buildings NEARBY
Then the troops moved Two BLOCKS
farther on to Thirteenth and u sUeets
southwest. where a second camp OF tne
left wing, evacuated by the troops Ihe
day before, was set aflre.
This completed, Brig. Gen. Perry y
Miles, in command OF the movement
announced that the troops WoIK Was
done and the troops were dispersed c
Alaeir camps, leaving small guards at the
former bonus camps.
The new-style tear gas grenadeS Is
sued to the troops yesterday gave eVl-
dence of the speed with which the
military meets emergencies. Thursday
afternoon the soldiers. using old-style
''tin can" bombs, were troubled by bonus
marcherS picking up the bombs ano
throwing them back. The old tin cans
burned slowly and we're not too hot To
pick up. Those used yesterday became
too hot to be picked up almost as soon
as they were tossed, as was evidenced
by the only serious casualty OF the
afternoons naneuver. Fred Williams. q
Fort Myer Cavalyman, was badly
burned when one Of the rev grenades
ignited on his belt. He was treated at
Emergency Hospital and sent back to