Evening Star Newspaper, July 25, 1932, Page 4

TAA g RADIGAL VETERANS CLUBBED BY POLICE Nine Arrested—Street Fights Mark Attempt to Picket White House. ___ (Continued Prom First Page.) reinforcements were rushed up and the men turned back. The veteran s who resisted w pounced upon by two officers, uck him first with their fists, lubbed him with their nightsticks 'he shouting, milling tarongs then moved slowly eastward on New York avenue to Thirteenth street, and thence south, where the second fight broke street another veteran resisted rts to shove him off the side- ¢ and onto the street. When he : at a burly detective, two other 5 jumped into the fight and one ©! them got a neck lock on the veteran | and turned him over on his head. Three officers jammed him into a taxiceb which took him to the police ta His shirt was torn off in the Seizes Policeman’s Gun. > this encounter was going on, veteran grabbed an officer’s rlster and sped down F S a dozen policemen at his The sudden fights had attracted s of pedestrians to the scene, off after the policemen g veteran n near Twelfth street. the relinquished the revolver. and 1 meekly back to a patrol box, he was taken to the po- n had this engagement con- ore David Budd, who said he t teran, slugged a Wash- pher in the eye. as arrested, and Francis the photographer, said he prefer charges of assault. ob then was shoved down Thir- treet to E. where Eicker was erTest The radical leader had 1bed into a tree over & small park and was telling his followers, mrades, this is only the beginning,” M. White and De- ker climbed up after ‘m and succeeded in quieting him. Cautioned Not to Fight. The two policemen were cautioned by Capt. Ho'mes not to fight Eicker in the treetop, 2s they might be thrown out and injured. Eicker resisted arrest d for a while refused to leave his but after Officer Baker got a glzhold on him he decided to climb Pace, chief of the “red which are billeted at Thir- teenth and B streets southwest, had n taken into custody. Pace had not sisted arrest, but, being the leader of demonstrators, was charged with tinc a_riot. He was arrested by ective Sergt. Howard E. Ogle and Headquarters Detective J. Postilitis, ‘We were just out for a walk, that's 1,” said Pace after he had been as- d to a cell in the station house. r we are waiting for bond, which will be put up by the International La Defense League,” he added. The purpose of the demonstration, Puce_explained, was to get in front of the White House, where a committee ld be named to present President Hoover with a petition, demanding thet he cail Congress into #xtra sesion to approve a bonus bill. Want General Relief Bill. “In fact,” Pace said, “we are seeking a 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- if you call it such, for some re- i2f ‘measure.” Pace asserted he was the leader of he group, which he sald was made uj of veterans from Chicago, New Yor ard Detroit. He admitted that some of the orders for activity came from Emanuel Levin. irman of the National Prcvisional arch Committee of the Work- ervice Men's League, a Com- munist organization. Pace said he arrived here this morn- rom Detroit, where yesterday he time. an Foster, candidate fcr President of > United States on the Communist aid he was called to Detroit by the crnational Labor Defense League to tell cf conditions in Washington. - said he was promised full support he league in staging the White d:emonstrations. > league has promised to feed us we are in Washington and m until some relief bill is ' the Jeader said in conclusion. did not know for what he Eicker, Budd, John Dimitri, ter McKinney, Oak- being herded into ns, Police Chief Glassford the scene and commended officers for the manner in which v had handled the demonstration. and McKinney, both were h inciting a riot. McKinney had in his bonus certificate worth 1 nothing had been{ le identificd him as one of the| 5 of the radical group, and said from Oakland, Calif. oncentrated attempt of the chers to get into the pro- Ted along Treasury pse, nearby. About carrying with them o ice as many onlookers, the Fifteenth street bar- Ticr 85 the police were quelling the dis- turbance at Thirtenth and E streets. Ellipse Mob Dispersed. v had formed into a compact mass » opposite side of the street ll‘Lm; House when about 15 motor en whirled up and they bed lustily as the police started dispersing them ord's leadership. ~ Gen. and his men followed the mob d in the Ellipse and the of the B. E. F. aggling back along Ivania avenue to their billets. this dispersal a plain clothes snatched a large club from MacRea, 50, who said he was sh War veteran. A few minutes MacRae approached Gen. Glass- and complained that he was a > and that the police had taken i away from him. He showed Glassford a card showing had received treatment at Providence ital for a back ailment, and the f drew from the man’s pocket containing medicine for his ormed, however, by several police- | men that the man had developed a limp | only after he had been relieved of the assford paid no heed to the Police were greatly handicapped by thousands of spectators who crowded the streets to watch the shouting demonstrators. Unable to distinguish between Washingtonians 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's Administration Bullding at Pifteenth street and Vermont avenue. They ap- peared from the other direction, how- ever, having formed their line at Thir- teenth and B streets. A few minutes after police, under the direction of Supt. Glassford, had driven L3 - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1932. Je spectators away from the Pennsylvania Sheniie side of the White House a shout was heard in the vicinity of Fifteenth t. A motor cycle poiiceman rode up to Glassford and told him the veterans were marching north on Fourteenth street, The police chief was left with only a score or s0 of motor cycle police to stop the demonstrators, several hun- dred officers having disappeared through Pranklin Park in an effort to drive t spectators back to H street. ‘With the men at his commend, 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 is Held By Officer. Comdr. Pace, dressed in a blue suit and brown slouch hat, was taken in custody at the outset by a detective who | booked a finger in the veteran's belt * address as 210 Thirteenth street south- west. David Budd, who said he was en- 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 lnn thzuAu\‘rem:: ‘uk‘:‘out 100 persons, mogtly spectators, but_here and there a member of the B. E. F. After clearing Pennsylvania avenue, Gen. Glassford ordered the entire area bounded by H street, Constitution ave- nue, Pifteenth 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 B. E. F., and all seemed to be on hand just to see what was happening. Among the sprinkling of B. E. F. men in the crowd there appeared to be no leadershipr 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 Whlte; House under the leadership of John Pace, but this concentration failed to materialize, and upon his arrival on the | scene Gen. 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 | Elliree 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 and District officials 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 on the south side of Pennsylvania ave- | 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's office. Prom 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 gent in at the order of National Comdr. Walter W. Waters. commander said the re-enforcements were ‘“visitors,” but EMBERS of the “left wing” of the bonus army, turned back from an|aqded it would take officers longer to attempt to picket the White House today, scuffied with the police in a series of fights from Fifteenth street and New York avenue to Thirteenth | and E streets. Top: Scene in front of the Treasury, at Fifteenth street | «if by any chance violencs shovld result 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, by the police. left: The police subduing one John Jace, leader of the demonstration, at the right. of the rioters and taking another leader out of in front of the White House grounds. Center: Radicals arrested Lower a tree. Ome of the officers got a strangle hold on the man and brought him down. —Star Stafl Photos. T and marched him along in this fashion until the veterans were definitely in re- 3 treat. Both of the men taken into custody struggled flercely with the police and one had his shirt ripped to pleces 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 the police had booked nine men at the first and third precinct station houses. On the police records the names and | addresses were: Frank Thomas, & logger, of Portland, ‘Orw,, who came here with the outfit headed by Walter W. Waters, now com- | mander in chief of the bonus army. carry out 240 men, one by one, than 40. = a statement today, Wators declared from the attempt to force us from the National Capital, it will be begun by our opponents. Policy Is Mot Changed. “The policy of the B. E. F. toward | the effort to evacuate its members from | Government-owned buildings and bufd- | ing sites has not been changed by the fact that the task of eviction has been | passed from the authorities of the Dis- | trict of Columbia to the Federal Gov- 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 BORAH'S DEBT PLAN MEETS CRITICISM iCongress Leaders Declare *Him in Minority— Hoover Silent on Proposal. _(Continued Prom First Page) ‘mluc circles. It is considered as the | first speech aiming to bridge the guif | between Europe and America on the | controversial matters of debts and dis- armament. Heretofore the impreasion | abroad was that the chairman of the nomic and monetary conference_such as was recommended by Senator Borah was proposed yesterday by former Mini- ster of Pinance Pierpe Flindin fn & radio speech. \ M. Flandin's address was prepared | before Senator Borah's statement was | published, but it was considered an | answer to the Borah proposal, nevers theless. It was reljroadcast ‘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 | dcne the warping. and to abolish the | cause would be “less simple, but more | equitable.” “Nelther the last American tariff,” he | said. “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 Senate's Foreign Relations Committée | effort on the other side of the Atlantic ernment,” Waters declared. “What this | eventualities. - A milling crowd of about 3,000 per- sons, mostly s, had 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 George Represas, a dishwasher, native of Spain. Ji 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 Ry ork. Sylvester Mclginney, who gave his Alberi Gershowitz, a tailor, of New | to leave Washington, where it is a thorn ty. in the #id~ of that administvation. “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 inta 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 Tstenflon to delay or obstruct public works. “But we do not expect it will offer was definitely opposed to any revision unless Europe agreed to drastically cut its armaments. The fact that the Sen- | 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.” 4 Mr. Borah's address over the radio | has revived the hopes of every European country and is considered as Nkely to | help to create a feeling of confidence in the future in Europe. Ever since 1924 Senator Bo:c has been considered by European nations as the “dictator of America’s foreign policies.” Whenever European or Amey- ican statesmen put forth some ideas ye- lating to & 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- sidered as the final authority in Ameri- ca’s relations With 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 cannat comment or say something encouraging about the debt question, Senator Borah's address does reflect the point of view of many thinking people in the Repub- | lican as well as ae the Democratic | camp. It is also believed that the Sen- | 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- jon that something ought to be done about the debts, but had never made any clear statement as to what and how 1t should be done, until last Saturday. | The moment seemed to him propi- tlous because, it is said, for the first time since 1919, France had indicated that it does not make the question of | 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| Prance s concerned without adequate | security. This gesture of France, to- | gether with her willingness to raduce | the German reparations to practically 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 TARIFF CUT. | | | PARIS, July 235 (P —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 that to men who were not dismayed | by the Hindenberg line? “If the agency employed to evict us chooses to use force, it will meet only passive resistance. The B. E. F. realizes tnat 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- | 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- | | sylvania and Missouri avenues. 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 (#)—“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 Telegraph said. “His cograge and candor will receive un- stihted recognition in this country and elsewhete.” “What Borah says 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 sald it was too early “to read into Senator Borah's words a determination of the American people to face the debt problem in & 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 @ 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 | 2 new world conference to consider war ‘ debt revision. A spokesman said the American initiative would have tre- MISS E.LISABE.TH DUPUY DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Daughter of Late Rev. Thomas C. and Frances Dupuy Smith Was Native of Virginia. 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