Evening star., 1933-05-23
BONUS MARCH ENDS
las Jobs AND TRIPS
HOME CLAIM MEN
Approximately 400 En- Route
to Other Cities as Rest
| Take Up Forestry.
FREE TRANSPORTATION
| AND FOOD ARE GIVEN
One Goes to Alaska, Another to
Los Angele-Big Body Going
to Conditioning Camps.

With approximately 400 bonus
enrolled in the Civilian Conservation
Corps for forestry work, the bonus ex-
peditionary force Of 1888 today passed
out of existence.
Those sent home were given free rail-
road transportation and rs cents a day
for food by the Government, the money
being provided out of general funds Of
the Veterans Administration and not
to be deducted from adjusted service
certificates.
OF those who left Fort Hunt, Va, to
return home-the bonus marchers who
spurned President Roosevelt's offer Of
work in the forests for 81 a day-about
300 were evenly divided between New
York. Chicago and st. Louis, the re-
mainder going to the South and Far
West.
One Philadelphia resident, John Al
f1eri, who came here at the last mo-
ment after refusing to be associated
with the bonus march, was given q
railroad ticket to. Los Angeles. Vet
Grams Administration officials explained
their only check on the homes of the
marchers was from convention regis.
tration cards" and, II these were false
ly filled In, many men might have been
given transportation to cities other than
their homes. Alfieri registered as a
delegate from California. One veteran
was sent to Alaska.
$500 Being Organized.
The more than $500 ex-R E. F. who
accepted the administrations offer Of
jobs were being organized today into
companies for assignment to reforesta-
ton training camps. They will be di-
vided into three groups, according to
tentative plans, land sent to Fort
Humphreys. Hampton, Va. and Fort
Meade, Md, to be prepared for. the
forest work.
AS soon as the registration of the
Fort Hunt, the men will be turned
over to the Army and the Veterans
Administration will be relieved of its
responsibility. Many Of the men may
be evacuated from the abandoned Army
post by nightfall.
Meanwhile, the Communist
cleft wing" Of the bonus army laid
plans for another siege of Washington,
probably in July. Emanuel Levin and
Harold Hickerson, repudiated leaders
of the Veterans National Liaison Com
mittee, with headquarters at 1410 II
street, announced confidently the next
march on the Capitol would be the
greatest yet.
Hines Issues Statement.
Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, veterans
administrator, issued a statement last
night, Simultaneous with the departure
of the homeward bound marchers, as
suring that all honorably discharged
veterans whose disability claims are sub
ject to review will be continued las
service-connected conditions unless such
service connections upon the record are
clearly unwarranted and unjustified."
Accordingly, the statement said, "an
honorably discharged veteran with the
requisite wartime service who is suf-
fering from disability Of 10 per cent
degree incurred during such service,
not the result of misconduct, may be
assured of pension"
Gen. Hines said his statement was
prompted by desire to correct certain
misconceptions regarding the manner In
which regulations pursuant to the econ
omy act were being applied and Ito al
lay q growing fear expressed by vet
Grams that their status as war veterans
suffering from service-connected disa-
bilities were being too rigidly pre-
scribed"