“BONUS ARMY”

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 192, 29 July 1932, Page 7

“BONUS ARMY”

VIOLENCE AT WASHINGTON MEN IN UGLY MOOD. FIRED ON BY POLICE. (United Press Association— By CableCopyright.) (Received zu, 10.35 a.m.) Washington, July 28. A group of bonus-seeking United States veterans to-day resorted to violence. After being evicted from a building they were occupying in lower Pennsylvania Avenue, they chased the police some distance, throwing bricks.

A later message states that shooting broke out between the police and veterans eucampcd on Renunsylvania Avenue two blocks from the Capitol. One uniiffintifled veteran was shot dead and another seriously wounded. Troops have been ordered out at the direction of President Hoover. From Fort Myer, squadrons of cavalry wc.-e rushed from Virginia into the city and headed for White House.

Meanwhile, down 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 officers.

A bullet through the heart killed one man when tho police opened fire upon the veterans, who were advancing towards them in a group. A comrade took the man to hospital in a patrol waggon accompanied by two policemen. He was dead when the hospital was reached. He had no marks of identification. Another marcher is in a serious condition, having bullet wounds in the neck and the lower abdomen. His recovery is doubtful. Several other marchers were treated for lesser injuries.

Col. Patrick Hurley, Secretary for War, ordered cavalry from Fort Myer to be rushed into the city at a fast pace, saying that he had been informed by the President that “the civil government of the district of Columbia has reported that it is unable to maintain law and order.”

After hearing the report from an officer, George Shinault, who said that he fired the first shot, Mr. Pelham D. Glassford, police chief, said that shooting which killed was justified. Several of the 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 few minutes before the rioting, and that led to the shooting. All the prisoners are to be turned over to the civil authorities, Col. Hurley Baying, “This brushes aside the question of martial law.” White House officials said that information had come to them from secret service agents that the veterans who led tho attack upon rhe policemen wore entirely of the Communist group. Tho statement was made without amplification by one of the President’s secretaries. xhe troops arrived in the troubled area at 4 45 p.)n. with orders to clear away the veterans