TO PAY VETERANS’ FARES
BILL TO GET RID OF WASHINGTON'S “UNWANTEDS.” Washington, July 6. In a determined effort to break up the “bonus army’’ now besieging the capital, thousands strong, the House Ways and Means Committee to-day ap-
proved unanimously a 100,000-dollar fund to send the veterans home. That President Hoover approved of the measure was revealed when he transmitted the 100,000-dollar Budget estimate to Speaker Garner shortly before the Ways and Means Committee acted on the proposal. Under the resolution the Veterans’ Administration would advance railroad transport and 75 cents per day travelling to each veteran. If the loan Is not repaid it will be deducted from his adjusted compensation certificate upon
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 174, 8 July 1932, Page 9
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113TO PAY VETERANS’ FARES Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 174, 8 July 1932, Page 9
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