Evening star., 1932-06-06
5000 VETERANS
ON MARCH TODAY
Resentment Against "Reds''
Heard as Delegations Con-
verge on Capital.
By the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
some shabby and many hungry, moved
on Washington today from all over the
country.
They hitch-hiked, commandeered
freight trains as they could, rode in
trucks and went on foot-any way to
get to Washington.
The first organized group from Phila-
delphia set out on foot today. Police
estimated there were about 2O1 men in
the unit. Each man was required to
show his honorable discharge papers
from the Army.
At Pittsburgh police mobilized at
dawn today to insure order when the
500 men approaching that city from
the West and North arrived. Four units
Of marchers were escorted quickly
through the city yesterday. Many had
no time to eat. so quickly did they
move on. At Williamsburg Pa, how
ever, merchants donated food.
Trains Are Delayed.
The Baltimore & Ohio trains were
delayed an hour or SO in McKeesport
yesterday when veterans set the brakes
to allow comrades to Chamber aboard
State police at Greensburg were asked
to take the men off the freight al
Connellville, but they did not arrive
in time to aid. Railroad officials had
no difficulty clearing the cars, but when
the train had pulled out in the darkness
the "marcherS" also departed with it
Several hundred veterans from the Mid
die West were taken from a train in
Pittsburgh early today. They spent
the remainder Of the night in a park
under police guard.
About 500 veterans camped today in
the railroad yards at Connellsville and
enjoyed a swim in the Youghiogheny
River. They detrained from freight
cars as they drew into this terminal
They were orderly and no effort to
interfere with their movement was made
None Of them knew how or when they
would move on to the Capital.
Fifty marchers from the Veterans
Hospital, Dayton, Ohio, and other Sec
tions are held up at Frostburg today
for lack Of transportation. Chief OF
Police Baker and James Morton, a
garage man, arranged to take them as
far as Cumberland, but they refused the
protfer. saying they wanted to be carried
straight through to Washington. They
sent several of their number who are
travelling in their own car to Cumber-
land to ask Mayor George Henderson II
trucks cannot be sent up from that city
to take them to Washington. The vet
i Grams cooked their own meals at Junior
Order Park where they spent the night
At Clarksburg, W. Va, almost 200
, men who are travelling by automobile
spent the night and morning in the
veterans auxiliary hall Food was
served them by the auxiliary.
Two hundred and fifty marchers
were given box car transportation by
the Pennsylvania Railroad from Old
| Robey, Ind. yesterday and were due
! in Washington today. At Kansas City
2i0 men outmaneuvered police and
boarded freight train, passed through
St. Louis and reached Roodhouse III
while 500 others mobiliZed at Wichita
A Brawley. Calf, unit of 80 or more
men abandoned motor transportation
at Huma, Ariz, and continued on by
| train.
Opposition Is Heard.
| Opposition to this method Of urging
bonus payments appeared frequently
! today among veterans themselves. The
i lcdQCI VI OOO az OdIiao IColSllCd a.
their commander, when they refused tC
leave the railway yards after being
| warned to do So A New York minis
| ter who manned a machine gun in the
war led the men in prayer for success
on their journey.
In Boston a contemplated march was
Cancelled. At Lincoln. Nebr.. the Execu-
tive Committee OF the Nebraska Amer
lean Legion characterized the bonus
army" movements as "un-American
and revolutionary"
Railroads were resorting to various
/ plans to discourage efforts to draft
freight trains. For the most part the
railroads sought to avoid any display
of force. At Greensboro. N. c., the
! journey OF 200 marChers was inter-
rupted when the railroad company side
| tracked a train on which they were
riding. Other railroads were delaying
movement of freight trains when it ap-
peared the marchers would demand &C
| commodationS.
Group Breaks Away.
About 400 of the 900 men who were
baked at Cleveland in their attempt tc
| commander a freight ride to Washing