U.S.A. EX-SERVICEMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 July 1932, Page 7

U.S.A. EX-SERVICEMEN

RIOT AT WASHINGTON

POLICE SHOOT TO KILL [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Received July 29, 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 28. A group of bonus-seeking United States veterans, to-day, resorted to. violence after being evicted from, the building they were occupying in Lower Pennsylvania Avenue. They chased the police for some distance, throwing bricks. A later message states that shooting broke out between the police and veterans, encamped on Pennsylvania Avenue,?two blocks from the Capitol. One unidentified veteran was. shot dead and another seriously wounded.

Troops were ordered out at the direction of Mr Hoover. From Fort Myer, squadrons of cavalry rushed from Virginia into the city and headed for White House: Meanwhile, down near the Capitol, police strove to keep order among the veterans, who were in ugly mood after having been fired upon by; the police officers. : , s ?. ■ LATER, k . A bullet through the heart was one that killed, when .the police opened fire upon the veterans, who were advancing towards them. A group of comrades took the man to hospital in a patrol waggon accompanied by two policemen. He was dead when he reached there. He had no marks of identification. , y f, Another marcher is in a. serious condition, with bullet wounds in the neck and lower abdomen. His recdv- . ery is doubtful. Several other marchers were treated for lesser injuries. Col. Patrick Hurley, Secretary of War, ordered the cavalry from Fort Myer, to be rushed into the city,at a fast pace, saying he had been informed by the President that “the civil government in the district of Columbia had reported to him it is unable to maintain law and 1 order/’ • * After 1 hearing the report from Officer George Shinault, who said he fired the first shot, Pelham D. Glassford, Police Chief, said the shooting which killed, Was ■ justified. Several police were injured, one, Private Scott, being reported as having'died from a blow by a flying brick. This report, which'could not be verified immediately, aroused the police to anger in the minutes before the rioting that led to the shooting. All the prisoners will be turned over to the civil authorities, Mr. Hurley saying: “This brushes aside the ques- i tion of martial law.” White House officials said that information had come to them from secret service agents that the vet- - erans who led the attack upon the policemen were entirely a Communist group. A statement was made without amplification by one of the President’s secretaries that the troops arrived in the troubled area at 4.45 p.m., with orders to clear away the veterans. COMMUNISTS AND BANKS. ’

“WHISPERING” PLOT DISCOVERED CHICAGO, July 28. What appears'to have been a nationwide plot to undermine banks, is revealed by Federal agents, who raided tho hotel room of George Rowland, an alleged Communist, at Pontiac (Michigan), and found a- number of documents detailing a “whispering campaign” against the banks throughout the Middle West. . It is understood that the technique of the so-called Communists ’consisted of clandestinely telephoning to heavy depositors declaring 1 various banks to be unsafe, and expected to close. It is believed that such tactics were responsible for heavy withdrawals in June, from a number of Chicago banks, many of which failed.