RIOT IN CAPITAL

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1932, Page 7

RIOT IN CAPITAL

AMERICA'S BONUS ARMY

RESORT TO VIOLENCE

VETERAN SHOT BY POLICE ,

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United Press Association—By • Eleclrie ,T«tt»

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(Received 29th July, 11 «uro.)

WASHINGTON, 28th July. A group of the bonus-seeking United Slates veterans, the so-called "Bonus Army," on Thursday resorted to violence, after being evicted from the building they were occupying in Lower Pennsylvania avenue and chased .the police some distance* throwing bricks. Shooting broke out between the police and the veterans two blocks from the Capitol. One unidentified veteran was shot dead and another seriously wounded in the rioting. ' • Troops were ordered out at Ihe direction of President Hoover. From Fort Myer squadrons of cavalry were rushed from Virginia- into die city and headed for the White House. ' Meanwhile, dowii near the Capitol the police strove to keep order among the veterans, who were in an ugly mood'after having' been fired upon by the police officers. * ' BULLET THROUGH HEABT. A bullet through the -heart 'was the on© that killed, when the police opened firo upon the veterans Who -were advancing toward .them. A group of comrades took the man to hospital in • / patrol wagon, accompanied by two policemen, but ho was dead when they reached the hospital. There was ao mark of identification. Another marcher is in a serious em* aihon with bullet woundi in the seek and lower abdomen. His recovery k doubtful. Several other marchers were treated for lesser injuries. "' ' Col. Patrick Hurley, Secretary of War, ordered the cavalry from !Y>rt Myer to bo rashe'd into the city at a'ftwt pace, saying that ho had been informed by the President that tho Civil Government of tho District of Columbia had reported to him that it was unable to maintain law and order. SHOOTING JUSMFIBD. After hearing the report fro*K Officer George 'Shinault, who said that he nred the first shot, Mr. PelhamD. Glacstord, Chief of Police, said that shooting which killed was justified. Several police were injured, one, Private Scott, being reported to have died from a blow by a flying brick. Thiß report, which could not bo verified immediately, aroused the police to anger in the minutes before tho rioting that led to tht shooting. • -i' All the prisoners will be turned over to tho civil authorities. CoL Hurley said, adding: "This brushes aside the question of'martial law." . White Houso officials said' that information had come to them from secret serrico agents that the veterans who led the attack upon tho policemen were entirely a Communist group. The ttatfe> m merit was made" without amplification, by one 6f the President's, secretaries. i Tho troops arrived in the troubled area" at 4.45 p.m. with orders "to clear" away the veterans. /< Tho "Bonus Army" ot theVßoniw Expeditionary Force "as it grew to be termed in tho United States,-marched upon Washington early last month. Th» men came from all corners of the country and commandeered train* and all manner of conveyance. The total at one time swelled to 50,000, according to reliable estimates, but how many of the men remain in the Capital now is problematic. In many instances the marchers were closely shepherded by cohort* of motor-cycle police who. advised thMa. I where to camp and what to do. The early arrivals camped in the' reserves and overflowed into the suburb* of Washington. Tho men announced that they were determined to stay, until the bonus was. granted, even if it meant camping until next year. Their desire is for cash payment of gratuities for war service which are, not planned to be met until some time in the future. If the men's demands'1 are granted it would mean that service certificates bearing a face value of 2,390,000,000 . dollars would be paid in cash note or by 1945, whilo loans totalling 11,248,000,000 dollars, which have been made already, would be cancelled.