OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17844, 29 July 1932, Page 5

OUTBREAK OF VIOLENCE

U.S. BONUS ARMY AN UGLY SITUATION PRESIDENT CALLS FOR TROOPS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received July 29, 11 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 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 was seriously wounded.

Troops were ordered out at the direction of President Hoover. From Fort Myer, squadrons of cavalry rushed from Virginia into the city, and headed for the White House.

Meanwhile, down near the Capitol, police, strove to keep order among the veterans, who are in an ugly mood after having been fired upon by officers. A bullet through the heart was one that killed when the police opened iiro upon tho veterans, who were advancing towards them. A group of comrades took the man to hospital in a patrol wagon, accompanied by two policemen. He was dead when they reached there, lie had no marks of identification. Another marcher is in a serious condition with bullet wounds in the neck and lower abdomen. His recovery is doubtful.

Several other marchers were treated for lesser injuries. Colonel Patrick Hurley, Secretary of War, ordered cavalry from Fort Myer to be rushed into tho city at a fast pace, saying he had been informed by tho President that the “Civil Government of the District of Columbia lias reported to him that it is unable to maintain law and order.”

After hearing a report from Officer George Shinault, who said he fired the first shot, Mr. Pelham D. Glassford, the police chief, said tho shooting which killed was justified. Several of the police were injured, one being reported as having died from a blow bv a falling brick. This report, which could not be verified immediately, aroused the police to anger in tho minutes before the rioting that led to tho shooting.

All the prisoners will he turned over to tho civil authorities, Mr. Hurley saying: “This brushes aside the question cf martial law ”