Evening Star Newspaper, July 17, 1932, Page 2

A2 ¥ VETERANS CLASH AT WHITE HOUSE Tense Situation Is Created as B. E. F. Moves on Ex- ecutive Mansion. (Continued From Pirst Page.) public parks not far away, and de- bated whether they should stage a big demonstration at the White House. As an anti-climax to a night of wild excitement, a large detail of police broke up & Communist meeting at Fifteenth and H streets, in front of the Union Trust Building, and chased from the scene 30 “Reds,” under the leader- ship of John Pace, Detroit veteran. The sudden raid, led by Capt. Jere- miah Sullivan, assistant chief of the Police Department crime prevention division, caused hundreds of persons to congregate on the corner and it was with rome difficulty that order finally was restored. Gen. Glassford arrived on the scene astride his motor cycle just as the last of the spectators were being herded up and down H street. The general pre- viously had ordered 10 motor cycle po- licemen to make a tour of ali the Bonus Expeditinary Force camps to check-up on reports that thousands of veterans were marching upon the heavily guarded White House. Shortly before a group of veterans began picketing the Veterans’ Adminis- tration Building on the north side of Lafayette Park shortly after midnight, but police quickly dispersed the band. About 25 marchers gathered for this brief demonstration. The police, while not expecting any further demonstrations during the night, prepared to meet any eventuality. Gen. Glassford mingled among the groups endeavoring to discourage the veterans against another demonstration. When Congress adjourned without ng on the demands of the veterans »r the bonus, Samuel J. Stember of the Workers’ Ex-Service League, which is directing the destinies of the so-called radical “left wing” of the bonus army, ennounced that his organization pro- posed immediately to start a campalgn for a special session to consider vet- ns’ legislation. This campaign, he d, would include picketing of the White House. Outbreak at White House. The outbresk at the White House started when police officers attempted to break up a band of marchers parad- ing with flags back and forth in front of the Executive Mansion. One little man, with only one arm, resisted arrest o strenuously that it took five husky officers and Police Chief Glassford to haul him into an automobile and to send him to the third precinct. The ho said his name was of Manhattan, N. Y., was stopped by lice in front of the entrance to the White House near the corner of Pennsylvania and East Execu- tive avenues. Kalb insisted he was within his rights, but police seized him and while he was being held Inspector L. I. H. Edwards, assistant superin- tendant, snatched the flag from him. The New Yorker kicked and struck out with his fist. One officer was kicked as a whole squad closed in on the diminutive fighter. Another snatched s ey es from his nose as he Was being borne to the ground fighting. Before police got him into a de- tective'’s automobile, they had to drag Kalb nearly half a block while he fought viciously. Kalb refused to step into the ma- chine, and he was lifted bodily and shoved into it by Gen. Glassford and his five officers. At the same time three olicemen brought in another marcher, atrick Joseph Hannigan, 41-year-old Los Angeles veteran. Hannigap did not Put up such a fight as the &fdot Kalb. Mr. Zero Arrested. The fighting drew hundreds of spec- tators to the scene, and Pennsylvania avenue for two blocks was jammed with milling throngs. Urbain Ledoux, well known Mr. Zero of New York, a social worker, also was arrested. Mr. Zero, too, Tesisted arest, and his portly figure was forcibly hurled into a taxicab which car- ried him to the third precinct. As he grappled with the officers, Ledoux kept shouting: I stand upon my constitutional right to walk on the public sidewalk.” After the three had been taken away, Police Chief Glassford, taking personal command of the situation, ordered the street cleared of all pedestrians and automobiles. The order was reluctantly followed by the marchers and the citi- zens who had congregated. A detail of e was called and cleared first the ith side of the Avenue and then the Lafayette Park side, pushing spectators back into the park and up to H street. Gen. Glassford said that the order to kce{f the Avenue clear between Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets was issued by the District Commissioners. At the third precinct station, Ledoux, Hannigan and Kalb were charged with parading without authority. An extra charge of disorderly conduct was placed against Kalb. Crowds at White House. Meanwhile, at the Capitol, a report that President Hoover was gxpected to t before adjournment ught out a large crowd of spectators police rigidly enforced their instruc- to keep the crowd across the plaza. The crowd lined the curb on the east side of the building, completely shutting off the view of the marching veterans. er, Roy Robertson’s so-called marchers” continued on with valking, with a drooping and bat- tered American flag in the foreground Members of this California outfit were forced to march through a gaunt- let of men and women eager to get a glimpse of the President. After waiting for more than an hour, the crowd be- gan to thin out. Meantime, the police and Secret Service men were exceedingly active be- neath the steps of the Senate wing. They, too, were waiting for Mr. Hoover and had planned to block the entrance o this side of the building when the presidential party came into sight. The private elevator allotted to Senators Was kept in waiting on the ground floor of the building and the gallery visitors were kept on the move. Shortly be- fore 11 o'clock the word was passed that the President would not go to the Capi. tol, as planned, and a large bodj Secret Service men immediately took their departure from the Capitol for the White House. The police strength, however, not reduced and as soon as one bonus marcher would stop in his tracks he was ordered to continue to mov&dn. Shout for Bonus. Shouts of “We want our bonus” rang out at intervals as the Californians kept up their slege. Occasionally they would break into a song and every few min- utes a husky-lunged veteran would let out a cowboy yell, Shortly after the crowd began leav- ing the Senate wing of the bufllding the word was fiashed to the bonus marchers that Congress had adjourned. Stepping out from the milling veterans, Robertson announced that he would quit immediately. He called four lientenants to his side and gave them orders to stop the march. He ordered all of his men back to their camp. “I'm quitting, for I see no good to be done now,” Robertson said. “We are , going back to our camps and remain . there. We are not going to the White House, as had been reported during the night. !, “We will hold a meeting at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, at which time we } will decide whether to return to our ! homes or take up picket duty at the { White House. The latter, however, is ! very doubtful, for I understand that bunch up there now are Communists and we will have nothing to do with them. “I understand Mr. Zero was among { those i‘tested at the White Hol’ to- » <4 was | night. T am sorry, but I cannot do anything for him at this hour. My men and myself are completely tired out.” At a wave of Robertson’s hand the men quit marching and fell into mili- tary formation in the middie of the plaze. At his command they marched quietly off the grounds to the camp. Robertson’s outfit began marching away from~the Capitol at 11:45 o'clock amid shouts from the ranks of “On to the White House.” Robertson yelled to his men that “we are not going to the White House. Replies from the ranks came thick lng. fast, among them being, “Who said 50? As they were marching by the House steps a spectator dropped & half-filled fiask to the pavement. Members of the contingent began to scatter ranks in the direction of the noise, but police stopped them and made them continue on_the march. Hardly had this outfit passed the Capitol Grounds before the police were confronted with another problem. About 150 veterans led by shouting marchers continued the siege. After parading up and down in front of the Capitol twice they were stopped by Inspector Headley. He asked them why they did not leave with Robertson’s outfit. Their leader replied he was going to continue on with the march, and demanded that Headley step out of the way. The in- spector immediately sent a motor cycle man for Robertson to disband the group. He returned to the Capitol Grounds with the announcement that Robertson was holding a meeting with men on Pennsylvania avenue between Third and Fourth streets and that the men were planning to march on to the White House. Headley informed the Inspector mlre}eers that they would have to dis- band, and they left. Waters and Aides Arrested. The disorder at the Capitol broke out suddenly shortly after 10 o'clock yester- day morning, when Gen. Glassford, ar- rested Waters and his chief of staff, Doak E. Carter, and two minor aides as they led a surging mass of men across the Capitol plaza, driving through police lines and pushing asice police. As the sea of men ran pellmell across the broad plaza toward the Capitol steps, Gen. Glassford sped to the scene on his motor cycle from in front of the steps leading to the Senate Wing He arrived at a bandstand just below the main entrance steps almost simul- taneously with Waters. Jumping upon the vlatform, he shouted: “Just a minute there, you men, just a minute, You have no right on this plaza.” Nevertheless, Waters and his thou- sands of followess continued their rush to the bandstand. There Glassford asked Waters what the sudden action | meant, and when the B. E. F. com- | mander jumped upen the platform with | Carter, Glassford and Police Inspector | Albert J. Headley grabbed the two men and arrested them. i’ The arrests caused a tense situation, and Glassford, sensing pending trouble, had Waters and Carter spirited into the Capitol building under guard. Glassford Addresses Veterans. He then addressed the milling throngs: “The Vice President has ordered me | {o keep this plaza clear, and when I get | orders, T carry them out. I don't want any trouble, you men don't want any| trouble. But I have your leader, Walter | Waters, under arrest, and When you ‘men move back across this plaza, may- be I'll release him.” Angered, the veterans immediately set up shouts of: 2 “We want Waters: we want Waters Several men in the front ranks shouted, “Let him go, or we'll go in and get him " For a moment it appeared a Tiot would start, but Lauretta D'Arsanis, a New York nurse, jumped upon the | bandstand, grabbed a megaphone and | started a song | Soon the thousands of veterans were singing, “Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here,” along with the mud-bespattered | Miss' D'Arsanis. 1 ‘Meanwhile, Waters was asked to meet Police Chief Glassford at a side en- trance to the-Capitol to discuss the next move. He refused to go, he said later, declaring he wouldn't meet Glassford “unless you knock me out and drag me to him.” He was persuaded. however, to return to the plaza, and once outside the building, demanded heatedly to know “What's been going on in my absence; | what have you told these men?” Ordered Back to Building. Glassford ordered him back to the building, and when he finally was| brought out again he refused to meet | Glassford across the plaza, shouting to the police superintendent: “If you want to see me, you come| to me. I'm not going to you.” | Glassford, almost 100 yards away, | shouted to Inspector Headley: | “If that man's under arrest, you bring him here.” Headley and a number of large po- licemen grabbed Waters, Carter and the two other veterans by their belts and propelled #hem across the plaza to where Chief Glassford was standing. Glassford then took the men to a spot beneath a huge elm near the Maryland avenue entrance into the THE 'SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JULY ‘17, 1932—PART ONE. Scenes as Police Broke Up White House Demonstration into custody. Police last night arrested three bonus marchers who attempted to picket the W scuffie on the side walk outside the executive mansion which preceded the arrests are shown above Upper right, police subduing Nathan Kalb. a one-armed New York veteran, who put up a spirited fight. Bel plaza yesterday where veterans' leaders were arrested after 5,000 had started a rush up the steps. hite House after a group of 100 had refused to disperse. Upper left, Urban Ledou: ‘Two scenes of the “Mr. Zero,” is being taken ow, general view of the Capitol Star Staff Photos plaza, where he questioned them. First Glassford interrogated the two | subordinates, asking them why they had jumped upon the bandstand after Waters and Carter had been arrested. When they replied that they were with their chief “to the last ditch,” Glassford dismissed them, saying their excuse was “good enough.” | “Now, what have you ‘Waters?” Glassford asked. “When I started across the plaza and waved to my men, I had no intention of inciting a_riot or causing trouble,” the bronzed Portland veteran respond- ed. “I was only going to hold another demonstration such as we have had here before. If that was a violation of | law, then the other demonstrations we have had here also were against the {)‘f and I should have been arrested efore.” Men Are Released. His reply satisfied Gen. Glassford | and he and Carter were released, to the cheers of the veterans. Waters and Glassford shook hands | and the young leader strode across the plaza, mounted the bandstand once more and addressed his followers. Hold ing up his hand in the Fascist salute, | Waters told how he had resisted arrest, | had refused to meet Gen. Glassford unless he was knocked eut and how he had gained permissicn for the men to | occupy the plaza and the center steps | | of the Capitol. to say, | ?| “I have agreed not to occupy the ! Senate and House wing steps,” he | shouted. “I compromised with Gen. | Glassford, but it was an honorable compromise and I'm not ashamed it. Gen. Glassford has always met us half way and as long as he does, I will go my half, but no more.” Waters was_still angry and was shaking visibly | as he addressed the throng. The permission for the men to oc- , cupy the plaza and the center steps, coupled with Waters' release, restored order and the men soon were singing i and cheering as in their previous dem- | onstrations at the Capitol. After the | | men had assembled on the steps and i in the roadways below Waters appeared on the main portico and again spoke to his “soldiers.” He told them he was | going to see President Hoover and Speaker Garner to discuss the occupa- tion of Washington by the bonus army and the prospects of obtaining money with which to feed the men. Waters Sees Garner. He saw Garner a few minutes later but was denied an audience with Presi- dent Hoover, he said. After the Gnr- | ner interview, to which newspaper men were barred, Waters announced that the Speaker had told him he would “make every effort” to prevent adjourn- ment of Congress until money had been appropriated to feed the bonus army and the bonus bill had been passed. Garner denied this to newspaper men and said he merely had told Waters he would take his request before his colleagues for consideration. Garner's statement was corroborated by Repre- sentative Connery Democrat, of Mas- BY TRAOMAS R- HENRY. N one tense moment the roar of the hurricane changed into a song A blonde woman, in a blue-and- white nurse’s uniform, and with mud-caked bare legs stood on the edge of the bandstand in front of the | Capitol with a megaphone in her hand. She looked down over an anger-swept ocean of scowling faces. From those faces a mad roar was coming in gusts, like a wild wind from the sea. She raised the megaphone to her mouth. It was just enough to distract the attention of the angry faces for an instant—and that instant may have meant the difference between peace and rioting. The assembled ranks of the B. E. F. balanced on the brink The woman, who suddenly had appeared from nowhere, like an angel in a mir- acle, stood between the surging sea and the handful of police and scared news- paper reporters behind her on the band- stand. A wave in front was washing over its edge. reaching voice. Gen. Glassford was call- ing for police—for all the police within Teach of his voice. The surging tide of men stopped for an instant there at the edge of the bandstand. A few singing vaices joined in here and there. The next gust of the angry roar was a little weaker, Over and over she repeated the Lot S AR bl S e sachusetts, Wwho was present when Waters and a committee of B. E. F. members interviewed the Speaker. ner had promised him he would “use all his influence to prevent adjourn- ment of Congress and also use all his influence to buy food for the B. E. F." This statement was untrue, according to Garner and Connery. Demonstration Ends. Waters' final address to the veterans ended the demonstration and all those except the “death marchers” left the plaza and returned to their scattered camps throughout the Capital. As the the arrest of Waters. He said the com- mander-in-chief had violated . regula- tions prohibiting a demonstration, and that when he asked Waters why he had broken the regulations, Waters said he did not know the men were following him across the plaza. Glassford ap- parently did not see the young com- mander beckon to his men and shout, “Come on,” when he led the sudden rush through police lines. “I asked;him,” said Glassford, “if he intended t¢ be peaceful and would see to 1t that his men would remain peace- ful. When he gave me his assurance to this effect, I ordered his release.” At the height of the disorder, police roughly estimated the number of veterans on the steps of the Capitol and on the plaza at 10,000, including Rob- ertson’s “death marchers.” Some 3,000 to 5,000 charged ugh the police lines with Waters. A She began to sing. in a high, far- | ‘Waters also told his men thet Gar- | demonstration broke up, | Glassford explained to newspaper men | Lone Woman Saves Day Unknown Nurse Appears Like “Angel” to Calm Tense B. E. F. Thousands With Songs in Capitol Bonus Crisis. chorus, and more and more voices joined her. In a minute or two the high tide of | anger had begun to ebb in song s 8,000 voices finally joined in: | “Hall, Hall, the gang's all here ! So what the hell do we care now It was a song that everybody knew, | that everybody could sing. But the | gusts of anger still came intermittently. | “Reds” Donlon, the B. E. F. master of | ceremonies, appeared at the woman’s | side to help in leading the singing. | They turned to other familiar songs. |In a hoarse roar came the old army | ballad with it's emotion-stirring music, behind which many of these men had | hiked many long miles a few years ago. “Oh, the old gray mare, she ain't | what she used to be.” d then the | climax as the massed voices sang: “My | Country, 'Tis of Thee.” |~ Still ‘came the gusts of anger in the | brief intervals between the singing. But | they grew weaker and weaker. The danger was over. | The woman came out of the crowd. Nobody remembers having seen her be- fore. She gave her name as Lauretta D'Arsanis and said she had been work- |ing for some time as a nurse at the | Anacostia camp. | *“"They used to call me the ‘“flower of | | 8t. Theresa.’” she said. “I had a little flower shop in New York, but they | closed me out. So I came down here to help out, because I have dedicated | my life to St. Theresa. I am a regis- tered nurse.” In another age her appearance at the critical moment might have been de-| | scribed as a miracle. Her voice stopped | the tempest-driven tide of the B. E. F. in by far the most critical epis>de since | +his heterogenous group of former sol diers and sailors has been in Washing- ton. | The men were apparently in a state of | high nervous tension when they| marched from all the camps around | Washington to the Capitcl grounds yes- | | terday morning for the big demonstra- tion ordered by Commander Walter W. | Waters as a farewell to Congress. By 10 am. they were gathered about 8,000 strong, in a dense mass across the street | from the Capitol. It was intended as a | supreme effort to keep the House and ! Senate from adjournment. But at that | time the men were peaceful enough. | The street was clear. Along its center | | The first watchers on the bandstand saw was when Commander Waters and his aide, Capt. Doak W. Carter, stepped out of the mass across the street, waved | their hands and yelled “come cn.” Ap- parently no general order had been given, but the move was just enough to relezse the spring of nervous tension which gripped the men. The 8,000 surged forward. They went through the thin line of police as if it had been a line of paper. Across the plaza they swept like & great, threaten- ing monster. Evidently the move took Gen. Glass- were deployed a thin line of policemen. | Just what happened is not at all clear. | | ford by surprise, but he acted quickly. | Waters and Carter were seized and | placed under arrest just as the advanc- |ing mass was nearing the bandstand The surprise move halted the advan: | The two men were held on the pla | form for a moment and then taken in- |side the Capitol. 1t took a couple of | minutes for the news of what had hap- | pened to spread through the crowd. | There was a saving interval of confu- |sion. Then, as if the 8000 had but one voice, came that weird, tempest- Like o ‘We want Waters; we want Waters. Gen. Glassford hastened back to the bandstand. The roar grew louder. The men in front began to climb on the platform while the few police on hand pushed them back. Nobody knows what might have happened. It was at this instant that “the flower of St. Theresa” made her unexpected appearance. But it remained a precarious situa- tion. The men sang—resumed that dis- concerting cry, “We want Waters.” Leaders assured the police that if their “general” was produced safely the crowd probably would quiet down, but that they could not answer for the con- sequences otherwise. Waters was brought out, escorted by | a policeman. The face of the slim | curly-haired leader of the B. E. F. was set in an unaccustomed hardness of anger. | “Here's your man.” Gen. Glassford | {sald. “You wanted him. Now what are | you going to do?” Angry Roar Resumed. Waters turned to his followers. “I think I'm entitled to know what's been said here in my absence,” he said angrily. “Youre under arrest” he was told and taken back again. Again, louder than ever, arose that angry roar from the ocean of faces. But the first impetus was spent. The girl started singing again. _Donlon joined her. By degrees the rest joined menacing roar, “We want Waters'" The singing held the attention of the men while Waters was escorted by police- men out of the Capitol and across the street, where he and Glassford argued the matter out. ‘When this became generally known | the tide rose again. ~The woman shouted through the megaphone: “Be quiet, I can tell you now youre going to get Waters in a few minutes. I know you are.” X And a moment later Waters himself appeared on the platform and an- | nounced that he had won his fight with | | the police. He was at liberty. ‘They | | had consented to occupying the Capi-| tol plaza and the central steps. | ‘Waters spoke as a complete master | of the situation. He told his follow- ers he made “a gentlemanly concession to the police to keep certain trafli lines open. Also, he said, he had| agreed not to occupy the steps on the | Senate and House sides of the build-| ing “on condition that everybody else be'cleared off them.” He had agreed, | he said. to keep a lane open up the steps “so the white-collar workers can get down without having to bump into any of us rats.” He was trying to ar- rln[eds conference, he said, with the ent. Tension Still High. The nervous tension of the crowd | still was high. Across the plaza sound- ed a fire siren and there was an in- stant’s commotion. ? “Don’t worry,” Waters shouted. “It's probably the Black !,'h coming after | Capitol steps. her. Only, at intervals, still arose that | me, but it's not going to get you fel- lows. When he ordered the advance across | the street. he said, he thought he was within his rights. The B. E. F. had been permitted to occupy the Capitol steps before. “Believe me,” he said, “I'm not going | to_meet Gen. Glassford more than half way. Tl go that far with him i | it’s decent.” There can be little question that the hold of the curly-haired Oregon vet- eran on his forces was immensely| strengthened by the incidents of the morning. There were rumors that his| power was tottering. If so, the little| touch of martyrdom caused by his ar- | Test restored it. Today he was the| man of the hour. | Again the men surged forward and as many as could crowded onto the The street still was | filled. And then began a long session of | what & hardened cynic of a newspaper | man who had been on the bandstand referred to as “this Salavation Army stuff.” “But” he continued, “it was| the Salvation Army stuff that saved us | for a few minutes there.” Donlon—his voice broken by the dust | of Camp Marks—stood on the top steps | and led the singing. Beside him, smil- ing, stood the bare-legged “flower of | St. Theresa.” They sang over and over again the old songs of 1917. “The Old Gray Mare,” “Over There,” “Keep the Home Fires Burning” “The Long, Long Trail” “All Wé Do Is Sign the Pay | Ro! were repeated over and over! again as & means of reducing the high' nervous tension that this morning| might have easily resulted in a critical | | moment in history. There were other songs—of back home. “Back Home Again in Indiana,” “California, Here I Come.” “Oregon,” “Carry Me Back to Old Virginia’—all seemed to have a soothing effect, Terrible Pathos Felt. But there was something more than! | “Salvation Army stufl.” The songs' were out of tune. The voices were cracked. But the effect on one stand- ing in that crowd was undescribable. There was a terrible pathos to it all. | The setting, the ragged clothes, the faces furrowed by hardship and hun- | ger, the weeping women, the woman | bonus marcher with a month-old baby at her breast, the undernourished boys | | and girls in the arms of their fathers— |it all blended with those old songs, those interludes of profanity. It was a | wild, weird melody rising from the depths of the forgotien—an unearthly symphony of war, love, suffering and ! death. There in it the wail of the new-born, the 'aps” played over a coffin. And it all was coming from those impenetrable depths, unutterable feel- ng trying to burst through the bonds; f_expression. ‘Waters came out on the portico and announced that the President had re- fused to see him. Again the angry roar replaced the singing. “It shows how much use he's got for us” the commander said. “He don't care if we and all the other un- employed starve to death so long as he's got something to stuff under his own belt.” “They ask me why I don't try to get you fellows to go home when Congress adjorns. They have brought pressure on me to do this. I will not do so for good reasons. In the first’ place, many of you have no homes to go to. d those of you who have—al you could links. Monthly Publicity Reports Provided For Loans by R.F.C. Senate Yields to House Insistence on Section in Relief Bill. By the Associated Press. Here is the text of the section of the emergency relief act relating to pub- licity on loans of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, which the Sen- ate finally accepted yesterday at the insistence of the House: “The Reconstruction Pinance Cor- poration shall submit monthly to the President and to the Senate and House of Representatives (or the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House of Representatives, if those bodies are not in session), a report of its activi- ties and expenditures under this sec- tion and under the Reconstruction Finance Corporation act, together with a statement showing the names of the borrowers to whom loans and advances were made, and the amount and rate of interest involved in each case.” The Senate yielded only after leaders had presented their viewpoint that the reports could actually be made avail- able to the public generally only by further congressional action. Speaker Garner, who has insisted vigorously on the publicity clause, would say only: “The language speaks for itself.” Bouth Trimble, clerk of the House, with whom the reports are filed, re- After Congress adjourns it will be his duty to interpret the law. D, C. BILL SOLVES FINAL DIFFICULTY Shorn Gas Holder Project Is Vehicle for Home Loan Funds. A District of Columbia bill, which did not become a law itself, occupied a | prominent role in the closing hours of Congress last night by serving as the vehicle for passage of an emergency appropriation to carry out tke home loan bank bill over which the Senate :nd House had wrangled most of the ay. After the home loan bank bill had gone through. the House passed and sent to the Senate a resolution appro- riating $300.000 to put the measure to operation Select Street BIlL Desiring to bring the session to a close and fearing a parliamentary ob- the resolution should be read on three successive days, Senate leaders decided to attach the emergency appropriation to some bill which had passed the House earlier in the session. Accordingly, they called up from the calendar a bill to authorize the clos- ing of a portion of Virginia avenue southeast, which had passed the House June 30. This measure was intended for the Washington holder in the Southeast section. Senator La Follette, Republican, of Wisconsin, told Chairman Jones of the Appropriations = Committee he was strongly opposed to the passage of this bul. He pointed out that since the bill was reported to the Senate, the Public Utilities Commission had been informed it would not be necessary to provide the | new gas holder at this time. The bill had Southeast. Text Written Out. Several members euggested that Ta | Follette’s objection could be met eliminating the entire text and tit of the strest closing bill and sub: tuting the language and title of emergency home loan &ppropr: | resolution. This procedure was ~ !lowed, but the amount of the emer- | gency appropriation was reduced from 1 $300,000 to $250,000. | propriation was passed by the Senate | and accepted by the House, but with | no part of the gas holder measure re- tained in the bill. MYSTERY SURROUNDS INJURIES TO YOUTH Clarence M. Gaskill Brought to Hospital and Leg Amputated After Accident. Believed to have been involved in an automobile accident in nearby Mar: land, Clarence M. Gaskill, about was brought to Sibley Hospital in a critical condition last’ night. One of the youth’s legs, badly crushed, was am- putated shortly after his arrival in an effort to save his life Mystery surrounded the manner in which Gaskill met with his Hospital authorities reported the youth was brought to the institution in an ambulance. Addresses given by the i jured man were checked by hospital al tendants and police, but they failed to locate any one who knew him Police continued effcrts early today to learn how Gaskill was injured. BLAST KILLS 3 SAILORS VENICE, Italy, July 16 (#).—Three ensigns in the Italian navy were killed and 13 eallors wounded in the ex- plosion today of a 6-inch gun aboard the 10,000-ton cruiser Triest. The accident ocurred in the Adriatic | during maneuvers just as the gun was being loaded. co would be to stand around the street corners chiseling nickels for coffee.” He announced his plans for a new | , political party “so we can forever keep such people as Herbert Hoover out of this place.” The bitterness against the President is very strong in the B. E. F. He seems to have been set up as the symbol of all their misfortunes. “March of Death” Continues. There were other highlights in the morning's drama—not the least of them supplied by the stentorian-voiced Comdr. Albright of the Oklahoma del- egation of the B. E. P. He was can- didate for Congress when he decided to throw in his lot with his fellow vet- erans and jumped a frieght for Wash- ington. “I've been beaten,” he said, “by a country school teacher named Wil Rogers. I wired, congratuliting him, and he wired me back that he's coming to Washington to fight for the bonus until hell freezes over. So I gave way to a good man.” ‘Then Waters appeared again and an- nounced that he had had his conference with Speaker Garner and that there was a possibility Congress would stay in session. Then the crowd began to break up, swarming back to their camps | for_dinner. But all the time, never stopping for a minute and taking no part in the main demonstration, went the 400 Cal- ifornians across the street in their end- less chain “march of death.” Nething could stop them—not even the threat of a riol. Not even hunger could break those slow, shuffiing, grim, footsore ny fused to commit himself for the present. | jection would be raised on the ground | construct a new gas | i been objected to by civic groups in the | Thus the emergency home loan ap- | injuries. | DRAFTING OF LAKES TREATY PROCEEDING iSigning of U. S.-Canada Ac- | cord Not Expected Till ‘ Late in Week. Department officials say seems |likely Canada and the United St | will sign until late this week at the | earliest. | This treaty, which will cover not only the stretch of 181 miles in the St. Lavwrence between Lake Ontario and Montreal, but all the other waterways | connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean, is designed to link the world’s most_important unit of inland waterways transportation with salt water by a 27-foot channel which will put Duluth and Chicago into direct communication, by large ocean steamers with all the great ports of the world The Welland Canal, which connects Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, is owned by the Canadian government. This is 25 miles long and is under recon: tion which will give it & deptn eet. By the Associated Press. Drafting is proceeding rapidly on the Great Lakes seaway treaty, but State Both Have Short Canals. Both Canada and the United States | have short capals to enable shipping from Lake Superior to make its way into Lake Huron by avolding the Falls |of the St. Marys River, which block | shipping there as the Niagara River hinders the passage by the natural channel from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. | The American canal about the falls jof the St. Mary's River is only a few housand feet long, and the Canadian nal is about 115 miles in length. But annual freight tonnage find be e two lakes h the Suez | i of the fre | between Lake Supericr and coal moves from Lake Huron ake Superior and the other products lgo into Lake Huron territory |~ The Canadian and American engi- neers who have been stud: he at | Lakes seaway for many ¥ e Gulf of St. La re the river of that name m the sea, is estimated at 1,870 miles. Total Shoreline 5.400 Miles. ‘The total length of the shorelin Great Lakes he rivers whic make uj this immense gater system is 5400 miles. It was thése waterways which made possible the settiement of much of both the United States and Canada before there were highways, in- land canals or railways The first locked canal in North Amer- { fca was built in 1783 to avoid the rapids of the St. Lawrence between Lake St. Prancis and Montreal The first canal in the United States e cf ch was buil cf the Connecticut River at South Had- ley Falls, Mass., but instead of locks it {had inclined planes over which small boats were dragged in movable caissons | to different levels. SEVEN DIE IN “QUIET” RUMANIAN CAMPAIGN 20 Parties Present Candidates for Election Tomorrow and | By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST. July 16—The cam- paign for tomorrow's parliamentary election closed tonight with compara- tive quiet, only seven persons having been killed throughout Rumania Twenty different parties have pre- sented candidates to the voters, Who will cast their ballots tomorrow and Wednesday. |~ The recent resignation of the Jorga cabinet, leaving the country's finances in a muddle, led King Carol to appoint an_interim cabinet with Alexander Vejda-Voyevod as premier and to’dis solve Parliament Since the last parliamenta: tions, in June, 1931, when a heavy vote was polled for Nicholas Jorga, Kin Carol's intimate friend, economic an financial conditions in Rumania have changed greatly. Political observers are inclined to believe that Julius. Maniu's National Peasant Party will get 50 per cent of all votes cast and that M. Maniu will return to the premiership. | The Communist party of Rumania has been branded illegal and denied participation in the elections. The King has ordered that the new Parliament assemble July 30. | elec- COLORED BOYS HURT | SERIOUSLY BY AUTOS | | Victim, 9, May Have Skull Frae- ture—Driver Held After Strik- ing Other Child of 4. Two colored boys were seriously in- jured when knocked down by automo- biles last night Nine-year-old Fred Johnson. 2000 block of Tenth street, was treated at Freedmen's Hospital for a broken leg and possible skull fracture. Police said the driver of the car which struck him was Leroy E. Henson, 23, colored, 700 block of Girard street Jacob P. Bailey, 4, of the 4000 block jof P street, was struck while plaving in | the street near his home He was treated at Freedmen's Hospital for several head cuts. M. Ruben, 1300 block of H street northeast, was driving the car which struck the boy, according | to police. He was detainec at No. 2 | police station when he reported there | after going to the hospital. CHARRED BONES FOUND IN CONEY ISLAND FIRE ! By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 16.—The finding of several charred bones today by fire- men searching the debris of Silver's baths, destroyed Wednesday by uhe Coney Island fire, caused police to lieve Mrs. Fannie Belford, 75, per in the flames. The aged woman left her home Wed- | nesday, saying she was going to Silver's baths. She usually spent some time in the steam room there, and it was approximately in the locaon of the steam room the bones were found. Police sald Mrs. Belford was the only person renorted to them as miss- ing after the Are. g e FOUR BELIEVED DEAD AS RIVER BOAT SINKS By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn. July 16.—At least four persons were believed to have lost their lives tonight when a privately owned cruiser blew up and rank in the middle of the Mississippi River here. Emmanuel Wolf, a witness, pulled an injured unidentfied girl out of the water and took her to a hospital. He said the boat was owned by Kenneth Hill, cperator of the excursion steamer Jalley Queen. hed !