RIOT IN WASHINGTON.

Wairarapa Age, 30 July 1932, Page 5

RIOT IN WASHINGTON.

BONUS-SEEKING VETERANS RESORT TO VIOLENCE. ONE MAN SHOT DEAD BY POLICE. MOUNTED TROOPS CALLED IN. WASHINGTON, July 28. A group of the bonus-seeking United States veterans, the socalled "Bonus Army,” on Thursday resorted to violence, after being evicted from, the building they were occupying in Lower Pennsylvania Avenue and chased the police some distance, throwing bricks. Shooting broke out between the police and the veterans two blocks from the Capitol. One unidentified veteran was shot dead and another seriously wounded in the rioting. Troops were ordered out at the direction of President Hoover. From Fort Myer squadrons of cavalry were rushed from Virginia into the city and headed for the 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 police officers.

A bullet through the heart was the one that killed, when the police opened fire upon the veterans who were advancing toward them. A group of his comrades took the man to hospital in a patrol wagon, accompanied by two policemen, but he was dead when they reached the hospital. There was no mark 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. STRONG MEASURES TAKEN. Colonel Patrick Hurley, Secretary of War, ordered the 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 had reported to him that it was unable to maintain law and order. After hearing the report from Officer George Shinault, who said that he fired the first shot, Mr. Pelham I> Glassford, Chief of Police, said that shooting which killed was justified. Several police were injured, one, Private Scott, being reported to have’ 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, Col. Hurley said, adding, "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 the attack upon the policemen were entirely a Communist group. The statement was made without amplification by one of the President’s secretanes.

The troops arrived in the troubled area at 4.45 p.m., with orders to clear away the veterans.