Evening star., 1933-05-21
B.E.F. WILL HONOR
TWO SLAIN IN RIOTS
Rift Temporarily Forgotten
Today as $500 Plan Ar
Iington Visit.

Differences between the so-called left
and right wings of the bonus army will
be temporarily forgotten today while
the approximately $500 veterans en-
camped at Fort Hunt unite in me-
mortal services at the graves of Hushka
killed in the bonus riots of last Sum-
mer
Under plans agreed upon last night.
the veterans will join delegations of
Gold Star Mothers, American War
Mothers and Veterans Of Foreign Wars
post commanders in Arlington National
Cemetery about l pm.
If the bonus marchers can raise the
necessary funds, it was decided at the
session, wreaths will be purchased by
the committee in charge and placed
on the graves of the two B. E. F. men,
berS and at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier. A campaign to raise the price
of the wreaths was begun by Ralph
Voight. Tommy Tomlinson and John
L. Sullivan. right wing members of
the committee.
Plan Trip in Buses.
The arrangements agreed upon call
for the veterans to start leaving Fort
Hunt at 9 am. in busses to be provided
by the Veterans Administration. On
the Memorial Highway they are sched-
uled to meet the Gold Star Mothers
here from Delaware. Pennsylvania and
New Jersey-and proceed to the ceme-
terry, picking up the other delegations
along the way.
Voight, Tomlinson and Sullivan, all
Folders of Distinguished Service Crosses,
will be at the head of the parade. A
bugler to be chosen by Mike Thomas,
leader Of the right-wing faction, will
blow taps over the graves.
Efforts were being made last night to
OBTAIN the services of the band of Vic
tory Post, American Legion.
Examination of the records following
the session disclosed that the Thomas
group, which had comprised less than
200 men when it entered the camp
after several days and nights spent on
Washington lots, had grown to about
1000. The other faction, on the other
hand, had shrunk from mere than
1000 to less than 500.
Training Will Start.
Tomorrow the fort will become
training camp for Citizens Conserva-
tion Corps recruits, with more than
1000 veterans signatures on enlist
ment cards for work in the forests
Those who do not sign up for service
in President Roosevelt's reforestation
army by the time the deadline arrives
will not be permitted to remain in
the camp.
Thomas, who, after conference with
the President. induced the veterans to
join the conservation corps, still was
undecided last night as to his own plans
He said he was considering remaining
out of the reforeStation army and de-
voting all his time to building up
strong organization to carry on the
fight for payment of the bonus.
While the veterans were executing an
about-face from their previous attitude
of disapproval Of the Presidents offer
to take them into the conservation
corps, the Government was preparing
to hold out fatter pay envelopes as an
incentive for harder work by members
of the reforestation army.
Effective Next Week.
The scheme of rewarding initiative
within the Conservation Corps with
something more than the regulation
81 a day already has been approved
come effective next week.
In each of the 1850 camps which will
be created to take care of the $1,000
men eventually to be enlisted 10 group
leaders will be selected and their pay
raised to $45 month In addition, 16
assistants will be chosen and their en-
velopes filled with $36 each month.
To date total Of 118 work camps
have been established on Federal and
State timber lands to 10000 men en-
listed Eighty-one were occupied dur
ing the last week.
The increase in enrolment an
nounced yesterday is attributed di-
rectly to President Roosevelt's order of
May IS directing that 275,000 men
should be placed in forest work camps
by July /. To obtain this objective it
will be necessary to send men to the
Army conditioning camps at the rate
of 8,540 men per day until June 7,
when the last of the men to be selected
for forestry work would be enrolled ac-
cording to present plans.
1t was explained at the conservation
headquarters that this rate of enroll
ment is greater than the average for
the United States during the World
War for both Army and Navy COM
bined. The Army's part is to enroll
the men to build the camps and move