Evening star., 1932-07-25
address as 30 Thirteenth street SOUTH

address as 2fo Thirteenth street south
west.
David Budd. who said he was en-
camped at 2217 Pennsylvania avenue.
Gen Glassford arrived on the scene
with a large squad OF motor cycle
policemen and plain-clothes men in
patrol cars just at noon and ordered
Pennsylvania avenue cleared OF auto
mobile traffic.
A few minutes before police had
routed from the stone wall in front of
, the White House on the Avenue about
| 100 persons, mostly spectators. but here
| and there q member Of the B. E. F..
After clearing Pennsylvania avenue.
Gen. Glassford ordered the entire area
bounded by H street, Constitution ave-
| nue., Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets.
| cleared of pedestrians and automobile
traffic.
The crowd which had gathered in
! Lafayette Park was orderly and ap-
| peared to be made up Of at least 10
| curious to one member Of the B. E. F.,
and all seemed to be on hand just to
see what was happening. Among the
sprinkling of B. E. F. men in the crowd
there appeared to be no leadership and
no knowledge as to what was TO take
| place.
The plans of the 'left wing" formu-
lated yesterday called for a concentra-
| ton of the radicals at Fifteenth street
and Constitution avenue at IL 80 O'Clock,
thence to march to picket the White
House under the leadership Of John
Pace. but this concentration failed to
materialize. and upon his arrival on the
scene Gen. Glassford said his informa-
ton was that the radical group was
trickling into the crowd in Lafayette
Park and other points about the White
House to avoid attracting attention.
Early this morning, warned that there
would probably be a demonstration
about the White House, an extra guard
Of Metropolitan police was thrown about
the grounds and along Pennsylvania
avenue and the White House was closed
| to visitors Park police patrolled the
Elii0se and kept what few Of the bonus
marchers they found in the park mov
ing but no attempt was made to keep
them off Of the street around the White
House.
Federal and District officials were
scheduled to meet this afternoon to
outline the next move in the efforts
to evacuate the army from Federal
property Eviction notices posted on
the property affected, the building sites
on the south side of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. between Third street and John
Marshall place from Maryland to Mis-
souri, avenues, Third to Four -and-a-
Half streets. warned that the veterans
must leave by midnight tonight.
This may he modified, however, at
this afternoons meeting. United States
Marshal Edgar Snyder said this after
noon he had no orders to carry out
the eviction plan and that he could
not do so unless authorized by law or
ordered by Federal court.
| The conference will be attended by
Glassford, representatives Of the District
Commissioners, corporation counsels Of
office and United States Attorney Leo A.
Rover. The meeting will be held in
District Attorney Rover's Office.
From a new source, the Library Of
Congress, came another move to evacu-
ate the veterans. Building Superin-
tendent William c. Bond planned today
to take necessary legal steps to evict a
group of veterans and their families
from Federal-owned buildings at Second
and A streets southeast. Bond wrote
the veterans letter on July 18, asking
them to evacuate by noon OF Friday,
July %.
The veterans still were in their bilIets
this afternoon, however, and had been
REINFORCED by division of 200 sent IN
at the order of National Comdr. Walter
| w. Waters. The commander said the
re-enforcements were visitors" but
added it would take officers longer to
carry out 240 men, one by one, than 40.
81 statement today, Waters declared
'if by any chance violence should result
from the attempt to force us from the
National Capital, 1t will be begun by
our opponents.
Policy Is riot Changed.
1.-THE policy of the B. E. F.. toward
the effort to evacuate its members from
Government-ownsd buildings and build
ing sites has not been changed by the
fact that the task of eviction has been
passed from the authorities of the Dis
trict of Columbia to the Federal Gov
ernment," Waters declared What this
! buck-passing has done has been to
bring into the open, where even the
blindest may see, the fact that this
recent series Of evacuation orders is a
bald-faced attempt on the part of the
administration to force the bonus army
to leave Washington, where it Is thorn
in the sid> of that administration.
IF the Treasury Department sincere
ly wishes to permit demolition work to
begin and the B. E. F.-occupied sites
affected by the order going into effect
at midnight tonight, it has other build
ings available to which it could move
our men, women and children. If 1t
will do so, the B. E. F. will readily
cooperate with it; we have no desire
or intention to delay or obstruct public
works.
| But we do not expect 1t will offer