RESORT TO VIOLENCE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 204, 29 July 1932, Page 7

RESORT TO VIOLENCE

UNITED STATES VETERANS. CONFLICT WITH POLICE. TROOPS ORDERED OUT. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 29, 9.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, July 28. A group of bonus seeking United States- veterans to-day resorted to violence. After being evicted from tho 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 the veterans encamped on Pennsylvania Avenue, two blocks from the Capitol. Olio unidentified veteran was- shot dead and another was seriously wounded.

Troops were ordered out at the direction of President Hoover. From Fort Myer squadrons of cavalry wero rushed from Virginia into the city and headed for White House. Meanwhile down near tho Capitol tho police strovo to keop order among the veterans, who were in an ugly mood after having been fired upon by tiie officers.

DETAILS OF FIGHTING

POLICE FIRE ON VETERANS.

Recoived July 29. 11 a.m. WASHINGTON, July 28. The man who was killed in the conflict with tho veterans was shot through tho heart when tho police opened fire upon the veterans who were advancing towards them. A group of his comrades took the man to hospital in a patrol wagon, accompanied by two policemen. He was dead when they reached there. He had no marks of identification. Another marcher is in a serious condition with bullet wounds in tho neck and lower abdomen, and his recovery is doubtful. Several other marchers wero treated for lesser injuries. Colonel Patrick Hurley, Secretary of War, ordered tho cavalry from Fort Myer to bo rushed into the city at a fast paco, saying ho had been informed by tho President that the Civil Government of the District of Columbia had reported to him that it was unable to maintain law and order after heading a report from the officer, Mr George Sliinault, who said he fired the first si lot. Mr Pelham D. Glassford, the Police Chief, said that the shooting which killed tho man 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 tho police to anger in the minutes before the rioting that led to tho shooting. All tho prisoners will lie turned over to tho civil authorities, Colonel Hurley saying: “This brushes aside the question of martial law.”