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MAI VETERANS
USED BY POLICE
Nine Arrested—Street Fights
Mark Attempt to Picket
White House.
β (Continued From First Page.)
reinforcements were rushed up and the
men turned back.
The veteran <, who resisted w-e
pounced upon by two officers, wh«
struck him first with their fists, and
then, when he fought back desperately,
clubbed him with their nightsticks.
The shouting, milling throngs then
moved slowly eastward on New York
avenue to Thirteenth street, and thence
south, where the second fight broke
out.
At F street another veteran resisted
police efforts to shove him off the side
walk and onto the street. When he
struck at a burly detective, two other
officers jumped into the fight and one
c: them get a neck lock on the veteran
an 3 turned him over on his head.
Three officers jammed him into a
taxicsb which took him to the police
station. His shirt was torn off in the
struggle.
Seizes Policeman's Gun.
While this encounter was going on,
s third veteran grabbed an officer's
gun from his holster and sped down F
street, with a dozen policemen at His
heels. The sudden fights had attracted
thousands of pedestrians to the scene,
and they took off after the policemen
and the fleeing veteran.
Overtaken near Twelfth street, the
Veteran relinquished the revolver, and
ν led meekly back to a patrol box,
from whence he was taken to the po
lice station.
Hardlv had this engagement con
clu Jed before David Eudd, who said he
is a District veteran, slugged a Wash
ington Times photographer in the eye.
The man was arrested, and Francis
Hoffman, the photographer, said he
vould prefer charges of assault.
The mob than was shoved down Thir
teenth Ltreet to E. where Backer was
arrested. The radical leader had
climbed into a tree over a small park
there and was telling his followers,
•'Comrades, this is only the beginning,"
when Policeman R. M. White and De
teetive J. B. Baker climbed up after
him and succeeded in quieting him.
Cautioned Not to Fight.
The two policemen were cautioned
by Capt. Holmes not to fight Eicker In
the treetop. as they might be thrown
out and injured. Eicker resisted arrest
and for a while refused to leave his
perch, but after Officer Baker got a
ttranglïhold on him he dsclded to climb
êcwn.
Meantime. Pace, chief of the "red
forces," which are billeted at Thir
teenth and Β streets southwest, had
b?en taken into custody. Pace had not
resisted arrest, but, being the leader of
the demonstrators, was charged with
inciting a riot. He was arrested by
Detective Bergt. Howard E. Ogle and
H?adquarters Detective J. Postilitis.
"We were just out for a walk, that's
εΠ." said Pace after he had been as
signed to a cell in the station house.
"Now ve are waiting for bend, which
Will be put up by the International
Labor Defense League," he added.
The purpose of the demonstration,
P. oe explained, was to get In front of
ths White House, where a committee
would be named to present President
Hoover with a petition, demanding
thr.t he call Congress into 'xtra ses'ion
to approve a bonus bill.
Want General Relief Bill.
"In fact," Pace said, "we are seeking
e general relief bill for the unemployed
more than we are bringing pressure to
bear for the full payment of the bonus.
"We are going to stay here and agi
tate, if you call it such, for some re
lief measure."
Face asserted he was the leader of
ths group, which he said was made up
of veterans from Chicago, New York
ard Detroit.
He admitted that some of the orders
for activity came from Emanuel Levin,
chairman cf the National Provisional
Bcnus March Committee of the Work
ers' Ex-Service Men's League, a Com
munist organization.
Pace said he arrived here this morn
ing from Detroit, where yesterday he
addressed a mass meeting with Nor
man Poster, candidate f:r President of
ths TJnitsd States on the Communist
ticket.
He said he was called to Detroit by
the International Labor Defense League
to tell cf conditions in Washington.
Hs said he was promised full cupport
cf the league in staging the White
Kou-e demonstrations.
' The league has promised to feed us
as long as we are in Washington and
thot means until some relief bill is
passed." the leader said in conclusion.
He said he did not know for what he
v. _s arrested.
As Pace. Eicker, Budd, John Dlmitri,
Detroit, and Sylvester McKinney, Oak
land. Calif., were being herded into
patrol wagons. Police Chief Glassford
amved on the scene and commended
hi; officers for the manner in which
they had handled the demonstration.
E'mitri and McKinney. both were
charged with inciting a riot.
Police raid McKinney had in his
p -seisicn a bonus certificate worth
SI 553. of which nothing had been
d.ewn.
They identified him as one of the |
leaders of the radical group, and said
k' wes from Oakland. Calif.
The lait concentrated attempt of the
benus marchers to get into the pro
h'bitsd area occurred along Treasury
p'ece and the Ellipse, nearby. About
100 veterans, carrying with them a
f" :v:d of twice as many onlookers,
st •earned p^st the Fifteenth street bar
ri r as the police were quelling the dis
till Ijance at Thirtenth end Ε streets.
Ellipse Mob Dispersed.
They had formed into a compact *nass
<">. the opposite side of the street frcm
th* White House when about 15 motor
evele policcmen whirled up and they
cheered and booed lustily as the police
<'i mcunted and started dispersing them
under Glassford's leadership. Gen.
Cr-sford and his men followed the mob
r it dispersed in the Ellipse and the
3 concerted move of the Β. E. P.
«r. Jed with their straggling back along
Pennsylvania avenue to their billets.
During this dispersal a plain clothes
t> iceman snatched a large club from
Robert MacRea, 50. who said he was
a Spanish War veteran. A few minutes
1? : r MacRae approached Gen. Glass
ford and complained that he was a
cripple and that the police had taken
his cane away from him.
He showed Glassford a card showing
h? had received treatment at Providence
Hospital for a back ailment, and the
police chief drew from the man's pocket
a bottle containing medicine for his
back.
Informed, however, by several pollc?
ir.tn that the man had developed a limp
only after he had been relieved of the
club, Glassford paid no heed to the
complaint.
Police were greatly handicapped by
thousands of spectators who crowded
the streets to watch the shouting
demonstrators. Unable to distinguish
between Washlngtonians and bonus
marchers in some cases, a number of
onlookers were shoved into the line of
marchers by police before they could
make their identity known. Many of
the spectators appeared to be sympa
thetic with the marchers and shouted
encouragement to them. It was ex
pected the veterans would march on
the White House from the Veteran'»
Administration Building at Fifteenth
street and Vermont avenue. They ap
peared from the other direction, how
ever. having formed their line at Thir
teenth and Β «treets
A few minutes after police, under the
direction of Supt Glassford, had driven
€ *
Scenes as Police Turned Back White House Pickets
spectators away from the Pennsylvania
avenue side of the White House a shout
was heard In the vicinity of Fifteenth
street.
A motor cycle pci :eman rode up to
Qlassford and told him the veterans
were marching north on Fourteenth
•treet. The police chief was left with
only a score or to of motor cycle police
to stop the demonstrators, several hun
dred officers having disappeared through
Franklin Park In an effort to drive tne
spectators back to H street.
With the men at his ccmmmd. Glass
ford rode to Fifteenth street and New
York avenue, where the veterans were
turned east on the latter thoroughfare
without trouble. The veterans crossed
In the middle of the block, however, and
started back toward the White House,
when they were again met at Fifteenth
street and driven off.
Pace la Held By Oflcer. ,
Comdr. Pace, dressed In a blue suit
and brown slouch hat, was taken In
custody at the outset by a detective who
hooked a finger In the veteran's belt
MEMBERS of the '"left wing" of the bonus army, turned bactc irom an
attempt to picket the White House today, scuffled with the police in a
series of fights iron Fifteenth street and New York avenue to Thirteenth
and Ε streets. Top: Scene in front of the Treasury, ot Fifteenth street
and New York avenue, where traffic was stopped by the encounter and
police orders to clear the two blocks on Pennsylvania avenue, from Fifteenth to
Seventeenth, in front of the White House grounds. Center: Radicals arrested
by the police. John Jace, leader of the demonstration, at the right. Lower
left: The police subduing one of the rioters and taking another leader out or
a tree. One of the officers got a strangle hold on the man and brought him
down. —Star Staff Photos.
and inarched him along In this fashion
until the veterans were definitely In re
treat.
Both of the men taken Into custody
struggled fiercely with the police and
one had his shirt ripped to pieces be
fore he was tossed into a patrol wagon.
Other members of the veterans' group
Immediately began to scatter as police
rushed reinforcements and officers
went through the throng ready for any
eventualities.
A milling crowd of about 3.000 per
sons, mostly spectators, bad gathered In
Lafayette Park when police closed the
gates of the White House and threw a
heavy cordon about the grounds.
The members of the "left-wing"
group were trickling Into the throng
by two's and three's, but their number
could not be accurately estimated as
the large crowd of curious stood by on
the north side of Pennsylvania avenue.
After the demonstrations were over
the police had booked nine men at the
flrst and third precinct station houses.
On the police records the names and
addresses were:
Frank Thomas, a logger, of Portland,
Oreg., who came here with the outfit
headed by Walter W. Waters, now com
mander in chief of the bonus army.
Albert Gershowltz, a tailor, of New
York City.
George Repres&s, a dishwasher, a
native of Spain.
John Pace, so-called Communist
leader, of Lincoln City, Mich.
Walter Eichler, another so-called
leader and member of the Communist
party. Detroit.
Louis Priovolos, a Greek cook, New
York City.
John Dmetrick, chauffeur, of New
York.
Sylvester McKinney, who gave his
address u 310 Thirteenth street south
west.
David Budd, who said he vu en
camped at 2217 Pennsylvania avenue.
Oen. σ: ass ford arrived on the scene
with a large squad of motor cycle
policemen and plain-clothes men in
patrol cars just at noon and ordered
Pennsylvania avenue cleared of auto
mobile traffic.
A few minutes before police had
routed from the stone wall in front of
the White House on the Avenue about
100 persons, mostly spectators, but here
and there a member of the Β. E. P.
After clearing Pennsylvania avenue.
Oen. Glassford ordered the entire area
bounded by Η street. Constitution ave
nue, Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets,
cleared of pedestrians and automobile
traffic.
The crowd which had gathered In
Lafayette Park was orderly and ap
peared to be made up of at least 10
curious to one member of the Β. E. F„
and all seemed to be on hand Just to
see what was happening. Among the
sprinkling of Β. Ε P. men In the crowd
there appeared to be no leadership· and
no knowledge as to what was to take
place.
The plans of the "left wing" formu
lated yesterday called for a concentra
tion of the radicals at Fifteenth street
and Constitution avenue at 11:30 o'clock,
thence to march to picket the White
House under the leadership of John
Pace, but this concentration failed to
materialize, and upon his arrival on the
scene Oen. Glassford said his informa
tion was that the radical group was
trickling into the crowd in Lafayette
Park and other points about the White
House to avoid attracting attention.
Early this morning, warned that there
would probably be a demonstration
about the White House, an extra guard
of Metropolitan police was thrown about
the grounds and along Pennsylvania
avenue and the White House was closed
to visitors. Park police patrolled the
Elli"°e and kept what few of the bonus
marchers they found in the park mov
ing. but no attempt was made to keep
them off of the street around the White
House.
Federal ana District omciais were
scheduled to meet this afternoon to
outline the next move In the efforts
to evacuate the army from Federal
property. Eviction notices posted on
the property affected, the building sites
ι on the south side of Pennsylvania ava
' nue between Third street and John
Marshall place from Maryland to Mis
souri avenues, Third to Four-and-a
Half streets, warned that the veterans
must leave by midnight tonight.
This may Le modified, however, at
this afternoon's meeting. United States
Marshal Edgar Snyder said this after
noon he had no orders to carry out
the eviction plan and that he could
not do so unless authorized by law cr
ordered by a Federal court.
The conference will be attended by
Glassford, representatives of the District
Commissioners, corporation counsel's of
fice, Public Buildings and Public Parks
office and United States Attorney Leo A.
Rover. The meeting will be held in
District Attorney Rover'3 office.
From a new source, the Library of
Congress, came another move to evacu
ate the veterans. Building Superin
tendent William C. Bond planned today
to take necessary legal steps to evict a
group of veterans and their families
from Federal-owned buildings at Second
and A streets southeast. Bond wrote
the veterans a letter on July 18, asking
them to evacuate by noon of Friday,
July 22.
The veterans still were in their billets
this afternoon, however, and had been
re-enforced by a division of 200 rent In
at the order of National Comdr. Walter
W. Waters. The commander said the
re-enforcements were "visitors," but
added It would taks officers longer to
cariy out 240 men, one by one, than 40.
Si a statement today, Wat:r:; declared
"if by any chance violence should result
' from the attempt to force us from the
S National Capital, It will be begun by
I our opponents.
Policy I» Not Changed.
"The policy of the Β. E. F. toward
the effort to evacuate its members from
! Government-own«d buildings and bu.'ld
i ing sites has not been changed by the
fact that the task of eviction has been
passed from the authorities of the Dls
i trict of Columbia to the Federal Gov
j ernment," Waters declared. "What this
I buck-passing has done has been to
bring into the open, where even the
blindest may see, the fact that this
recent series of evacuation orders is a
bald-faced attempt on the part of the
administration to force the bonus army
to leave Washington, where it is a thorn
in the ?id< of that administration.
"If the Treasury Department sincere
ly wishes to permit demolition work to
begin and the B. E. F.-occupied sites
affected by the order going into effect
at midnight tonight, it has other build
ings available to which it could move
our men, women and children. If It
will do so, the B. E. F. will readily
co-operate with It; we have no desire
or intention to delay or obstruct public
works.
"But we do not expect it will offer
BORAH'S DEBT PUN
MEETS CRITICISM
Congress Leaders Declare
Him in Minority— Hoover
Silent on Proposal.
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ma tic circles. It Is considered as the
first speech aiming to bridge the gull
between Europe and America on the j
controversial matters of debts and dis- j
armament. Heretofore the Impression ;
abroad was that the chairman of the
Senate's Foreign Relations Committee j
was definitely opposed to any revision
unless Europe agreed to drastically cut f
its armaments. The fact that the Sen- ι
ator from Idaho did not make this point
a condition "sine qua non" has raised
hopes of the people In Europe that .
America is now in the frame of mind of !
"talking business sensibly."
Mr. Borah's address over the radio !
has revived the hopes of every European j
country and Is considered as Mkely to '
helD to create a feeling of confidence
in the future In Europe.
Ever since 1924 Senator Boix'.i has
been considered by European nations
as the "dictator of Americas foreign
policies." Whenever European or Amer- ;
lean statesmen put forth some ideas re
lating to a closer co-operation between
the two continents, the first question
asked in London, Paris and Berlin was
"What will Senator Borah's reaction
be?" In Europe Senator Borah is con- J
sidered as the final authority in Ameri
ca's relations Vlth foreign countries.
Hence, his speech on Saturday, In- ;
evitably created a profound impres
sion in the world chancellories as well
as a powerful reaction In public opin
ion abroad.
In diplomatic circles the Impression is
that while the administration cannot
comment or say something encouraging
about the debt question. Senator Borah's
address does reflect the point oi view
of many thinking people In the Repub- j
lican as well as ·*» the Democratic ;
camp. It is also believed that the Sen- j
ator from Idaho has not made his
speech without ascertaining that public
opinion in the United States is ready
to change Its point of view regarding
the debt question. Hence, the con
clusion that America is ready to talk
debts soon after the electoral campaign.
Propitious Moment Seized.
As a matter of fact, the chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee has sprung nothing new on the
world. Since 1925 he was of the opin
ion that something ought to be done
about the debts, but had never made
any clear statement as to what and how
it should be done, until last Saturday.
The moment seemed to him propi
tious because, it is said, for the first
time since 1919, France had indicated
that it does not make the question o£
security an essential condition to dis- .
armament. In the adjournment reso
lution of the Geneva Disarmament Con
ference, France has gone on record as
favoring disarmament without standing
by the Briand note to the League of
Nations in August. 1931, whereby the
French government insisted that there
can be no disarmament as far as
France Is concerned without adequate ι
security. This gesture of France, to
gether with her willingness to reduce ι
ths German reparations to practically 1
nothing, is said to have decided Sen
ator Borah to show the world that, in
his opinion, the United States should
now abandon its attitude regarding
debts and assist Europe in its endeavor
to solve the world depression.
FRENCH PREFER TARIIT CUT.
PARIS, July 25 IJP).—Reduction of
tariffs instead of an international eco
other sites, because the administration
does not want us here and reeks in
every way to discourage us. How can
a discredited national administration
do »hat to men v.-ho were not dismayed
by the Hlndenberg line?
"If the agency employed to evict us
chorees to use force, it will meet only
passive resistance. The Β. E. F. realizes
that in its position it cannot meet force
with force, and will do nothing to en
danger that position and the respect
which it holds Nation-wide."
In addition to re-enforcing the vet- ί
erans at Second and A streets south- |
east. Waters shifted some 2,000 men (
from Camp Marks and Camp Bartlett
in Anacostia to the sites along Penn- I
sylvanla and Missouri avenues.
nomic and monetary conference such
as was recommended by Senator Borah
was proposed yesterday by former Mini
ster of Finance Pierre Plimdtn tn ft
radio speech.
M. Flandln's address was prepared
before Senator Borah's statement was
published, but it was considered an
answer to the Borah proposal, never
theless. It was rebroadcaet to the
United States.
Admitting the "warping" of the rep
arations and war debts mechanism had
brought about serious monetary dis
orders. M. Flandin said tariffs had
dene the warping, and to abolish the
cau.,e would be "less simple, but more
equitable."
Neither the last American tariff," he
Mid. "nor the new British tariff pro
tected the United States or Great
Britain against unemployment. · « ·
"However preoccupied American pub
lic opinion may be with its own prob
lems, I trust it will associate itself with
this work, which is Indispensable for
the re-establishment of the world's
business."
Le Temps said the chief significance
of the Borah declaration was that it
testified to the existence of at least an
effort on the other side of the Atlantic
to adopt political and economic necessi
ties to the present hour.
BRITISH PRESS LAUDATORY.
Change in American Views Seen In
Borah's Proposals.
LONDON, July 25 (JP).—"Borah's
conversion," as London newspapers
called the Senator's suggestion for a
conference on war debts, was hailed
here today as "a considerable straw in
a wind that is beginning to blow" In
the United States for debt revision.
"Europe will welcome wholeheartedly
so notable a conversion as Senator
Borah's," the TelegTaph said. "His
courage and candor will receive un
stinted recognition in this country and
elsewhete."
"What Borah says," the News
Chronicle commented, "is generally
what the mass of Americans Is think
ing. It Is therefore supremely wel
come that he now publicly declares In
favor of a conference."
The Daily Express said it was too
early "to read into Senator Borah's
words a determination of the American
people to face the debt problem in a
realist way," but it added that "Borah
Is a shrewd man and a fairly consider
able straw in the wind that Is begin
ning to blow."
There was no official comment, but
George Lansbury, head of the Labor
party, characterized the Borah proposal
as a fine pronouncement on behalf of
the general well-being of the world.
BERLIN IS GRATIFIED.
Borah Conference Plan Given Foreign
Office Approval.
BERLIN. July 25 (&).—The German
foreign office expressed gratification to
day over Senator Borah's suggestion for
a new world conference to consider war
debt revision. A spokesman said the
American initiative would have tre
mendous moral effect.
MISS ELISABETH DUPUY
DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Daughter of Late Rev. Thomas C.
ancl Frances Dupuy Smith Was
Native of Virginia.
Miss Elisabeth Dupuy. daughter of
the late Rev. Thomas C. and Frances
Dupuy Smith of Virginia, died yester
day after a long illness.
Bom In Prince Edward County, Va..
she was a descendant of the Hugenot
refugee. Bartholomew Dupuy. She was
educated in Fulton Synodical College, in
Missouri, and resided for some years in
St. Louis, Mo. She had been a Wash
ington resident many years.
Miss Dupuy began writing early In
life, and had published a book of short
stories at the age of 18. She '.vas the
author of several volumes of poems,
among them "The Dragon Yoke, "Riv
er of Dreams," and others, and had
done seme magazine work.
During the War she entered Govern
ment service and was employed at the
Veterans" Administration until incapaci
tated by ill health.
CASCADESINSPECTED
An inspection of the adjusted cas
cades in Meridian Hill Park is being
made this afternoon by Lieut. Col. U.
R. Grant, 3d., director of public bulld
ing-c and public parks, and his assistant,
Mai. D. H. Gillette.
Col. Grant announced the landscape
architect who aided in designing the
cascades, Horace W. Peaslee, coo Id not
be present, owing to a death in hi*
family. ' , ·
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