Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1932, Page 3

r THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1932 TRODPER TS S *NAN-T8 OF THEN |Gives Hunger Marchers | |Water and Gas, Tows Truck, Finally Serves as Taxi. | e || Becuritp Ssorage | By a Staft Correspondent of The St | ALEXANDRIA, Va., Der . 3 Al o 1140 Fifteenth Street Established 1890 as the Storage 6—Tt has become traditional with the Vir- | ginia police force during its brief ex- istence that an order is something to Department of the American Se- curity and Trust Co., and still | 1] closely affiliated with that Com- A Safe Depository for Over 42 Years With an exceptional record for careful and responsible hervits i Bandbay. paskavey shipping and storing valu- able and fragile articles and S S T TR T effects. PUUGEMEN ‘.AUGH! “Hunger Marchers” WTH HUNGER Y Marchers Use New Weapon { by Injecting Humor Into L Threatened Riot. (Continued From First Page.) quite melodious. H ples, as extemp fur-coated *co-e hundreds of voices On the way to Wachington, On the way to Washington, The capitalists all say Thai they're going to raise our pay; That's a lie, you know, you liar you. On the way to Washington, On the way to Washington ‘The cepitalistic we're O. T An? dess ¢ll it can to cheer us on ¢ are som> sam- y sweatered or ed by sweatere and caught up by u know, you liar ycu. Christmas 3 Tree the hunger insidc-out The line of march of some 3,000 radicals who paraded through Washington streets today by permissicn and under d while a delegation of 20 prescnted petitions at the Capitol. jasm High-Pitched. | haite be carried out strictly to the letter, ;cgnrdlr;ss of cost or personal discom- ort. Members of that unit have loyally pany. upheld the tradition on numerous oc- C. A. ASPINWALL, President casions, but never have any of the 95 bluecoats adhered more closely to a| command than did Trooper R. H. Lester yesterday. | Lester and Lieut. W. C. Thompson, ¥ weary from many hours of continuous duty since the hunger marchers entered Virginia, were sitting quietly in _the field Eeadquarters hurriedly set up here | T# New Sets for Your ;fi Sunday, patiently waiting to be relieved | s0 they could get a much-necded rest 6 c Ordered to Convoy Truck. The stillness was shattered” suddenly by the feverish ringing of a telephone. Check your sets and escort of the police, en route to Constitution and Pennsylvania avcnues, where they | A truck loaded with 18 hunger march- get new bulbs NOW —Star Staff Photo. | ers, the voice at t"~ other end of the | line reported, had just passed through Wreaths | Fairfax County en route to the Capi- With Electric c tal and was spzeding into Alexandria Candles ....... Lieut. Thompson, who commands the » | Central district of the State force, C. h.UDDlMAN c | grdered Lester fo escort the truck and A. A 0. | its occupants to the District line. The . Music Charlottesville youth, Wwho is_per- SLG S Il S L e e ml)?ently nssigned he‘;e‘ climbed into a %} of enthusiasm. ce car and roared away. 4 | [ %5 o BERATAR R NRN 4 | uni- and | & thiace. muss b | o ol i s ; | " Four hours passed without a word : R 4 | from Lester and worried officials asked sy ko | | members - comprising the State police e detail herc, 60 in number, and tke local SAHY fonl A | officers to ctart a search for the missing e trooper, fearing he might have met and | with foul play. Tells of Tribulations. ! The word had hardly gone round, | however, when Lester, exhausted, trudged ‘into headquarters and reported that his assignment had been carried out—at the same time unfolding a tale spread before of many trials and tribulations in con- | cooklng WIth voying his charges safely to the south- | erp limits of the Capital. | K The hunger marchers’ truck, a dilapi- ’ | dated vehicle, which had faithfully singing of the ba : 5 ‘ ‘ gathering twi- N Y < ¢ % F ; They ass musicians ¥ Al ‘ soul-stirring music, melodies i : send men to their deaths - : | | machine guns. The transition | sudden from the joyous, irre- pep meeting for dear old cheering ceases. | th d, t roas has new zest when It is wil such 2gains b il range rumors are aflost in the ne ught city. Taxicabs come to the hillside with sounding horns bear- ing extra war correspondent: Most of the hunger marchers themselves | don't w what is going to happen. Battle Lines Formed. | borne its load of 18 occupants here | from the South without faltering, but } now plainly showing signs of the strains of its labors, ran out of water near the and member cf the British Parlisment. s | posiog . i of Alexandria and over- band lines up in marching array rcad, their faces toward ihe | 1 dome. The massed police, fac- ing them not 20 feet away, come to attention. The thin, spectacled, “gen- eral” of the hunger marchers appears out of the ranks and takes his pesition iront of the band. They strike up | ‘Scarlet Banner” again. face is set, emotion- able. “Right face,” he commands. “Right face,” the crder echoes for a quarter of a mile along the line es subordinate leaders iake t| up. The marchers obey with precision. “Forward march.” The linc is mov- ing. Clubs are drawn. Gas is ready. In a second there will b: There are a few hundred 2 well-drilled “army” of nearly 3,000 Some may be armed. Some cf them have fixed safety razor blades in the toes of their shoes, the police say, to that when they kick they will cut— perhaps sever arteries. The line with its chaotic forest of banners sweeps forward. The front ranks are within a few feet of the police, These have been ordered not to start anything—to let the first violence come from the hunger marchers. The small army of newspaper reporters on the hillside scurriss for shelter. Like ‘West Pointers. “Right turn,” sounds the clear voice of the “generals” They almost tread on policemen’s toes in carrying out the order. It is executed with almost as much precision as if this motley host had been the West Point Cadet Corps. Before observers realized what had hap- pened the hunger army had reversed | and was marching in the cpposite di- rection. The “general” was laughing. The marching thousands were laughing | uproarcusly. They themselves had not known what was in the minds of their There was a contagion of The police were laughing. correspondents were leaders. laughter newspaper Iaughing. In the twinkling of an eye tr had been turned into comedy. Tre sub- | Jim> had become the ridicuicus. Even the rising moon over the leafless caks was laughing. Even the smoke cloud over the rairoad yard was laughing with wider patches of rd sunset. They were cheering again for dear old Tex- tile. Even the tension-relieved police must have felt a tender spot in their hearts for their old rival college and | had impulses to join in the cheering nd_singing. i F Tnere wes no job here for the morgue | wagon. There would be no club-cracked | heeds and ac s-of brutality. It{ wasn't bittc: laughter. It was honest| laughter. Blood doesn't mix with it.| Death can abide it in the neighbor- | gedy s what's known as “kidding | the cops It was a perfectly ex: s from the Capitol grounds. A hair’s bre d. One n sToR: | might have I | laticn 5R_ANY | And. han my- Aotk the one led the BRIL meetings. 10c up Also invalid ro! UNITED STATE airs for rent or sale | T RAGE CO.. 418 10th | Metro w humor. eign to TO! kept their famil They cold night wat hillsi 1 ave been sorry their clubs. 1 human set of f 21 | worry those long re the | New Y dn't help but b e humor of the 1,%% | none of your story-book | something out of real life clemental stuff of laughter ock | roots of laughing go as deep as the roots of weeping. The joke was-on them. But they ughed at the hunger marchers and hey lavghed with them. There was an Imost instantaneous letdown of tension, police were no longer anticipating . The hunger marchers remained ce, but they had compensated for it by a bit of rare entertainment. The college spirit against dear old Tex- tile had abated markedly. 1 But one wonders what might have happened if the joke had been the other way—if the police had indulged persons who | IN such horseplay against the hunger ay have claims arainst “The Departmental | marchers. “Reds” aren't reputed to be . oS giBL the” same | good at taking a Joke. mus o W llman. ' Re. | g & X eeiver, with the legal proof thereof. within; The marching stopped. The “army’ three months from this date or they may massed in the street, the chaotic ban- g (Simec) F. G AWALT. DUrS Taised high. They were state- Acting Comptroller of the Currency. ments of the causes Textile'is pl’flcnd. ALLEN c. cLARK. | AND PART LOADS 1% Y’ ASSOC.. INC Local Movine Also TRIPS_ Philadelphi DAILY e. Phone Nat. 146 TIONAL DELIVER w York A Currency. | Septem| 3 Notice is hereby given to A delegation, it marched toward the Capitol. Levinson Resents ‘Levinsky’—Garner Sees No Difference David Levinson of Philadelphia, presentative of the hunger 1 called on Speaker Garner at the Capitol this morn- ing and informed him that “the jon will be here in an inson was asked what dele- nd replied “the hunger ma hers.” Is that so, Levinsky?” Garner asked “My name is Levinson 7" Levinson retorted. difference?” ccuntered with a lau ner previously had demonstrators pe parade on the Capi and had made no change in his decision, although he said he would receive a _representative delegation in his office. not ing to be fighting for—free gas and clectricity for the unemployed, freedcm of the Filipinos, recognition of Russia $50 for every unemployed man and oman from the Federal Government a dollar a day for all jobless sailors, no more foreclo of mortgages and a dozen other “causes”—about as con- fused a mess as ever was mixed up in the brains of any army. Darkness had fallen. Tne motley host | was gathered in a great mass around a street light. A sea of expressionless, gray broad-cheeked faces was turned upward. Over this sea flashed, with' a ~ EDUCATIONAL. _ Learn another LANGUAGE now=—— Trial Lesson REDUCED RATES FREE During December BERLITZ School of Languages 3932 1115 Connecticut Ave. Tel. Decs Clarses Limited to 8 Students. ‘The parade passing up Thirteenth street, between New Ycrk avenue and K street. —Star Staff Photo. picked to present the marchers' petition Star Staff Photo. wierd effect, phers’ flashes. | overhead. A | They listened, with vociferous cheer- | ng and booing, to rather typical “Red” | oratory. Far into the night it continued ~this _ enthusiastic bolshevik _camp meeting. But it continued, on the whole, good-humored, both on the part of the hunger marchers and of the police. There was just one incident— perhaps just another touch to the cos- mic joke that had been played. It may have becn that somebody—a policeman or a newspaper man—standing on the the lights of photogra- An airplane drifted far hillside above the sea of upturned faces | stone | accidentally dislodged a _loose which went rolling down. Instantly the | ocator charged he was being stoned nd demanded police protection. It is hard to believe that he intended the protest_seriously. As for the police—they were well cnough satisfied with the turn events had taken. They didn't want any un- toward accident to_spoil everything now. So Inspector Burke ordered his men and the newspaper men back apout 20 feet from the edge of the bank and the policemen their backs to the crowd. So there was {no further chance for any accidental “stcning”—for the papers in Moscow to print black headlines about this morning. The boys and girls of ‘dear old Tex- tle could sing and cheer to their hearts’ content. And far into the dark- ness they continued, with the refrain echoing over the hilisides. were turned with | shown above talking to Anna Burlak, leader of the woman's brigade of hunger mare “liar” by a member of the cabinet. ers and probably the only woman having the distinction of being called a | 5 Miss Burlak led a radical delegation here on May 10. last, to demand that Secretary Dcak release Edith Berkman from prison for having participated in the Lawrence, Mass., textile strikes in February. e accused Doak of by calling her & Department. FARMERS ARRIE T PLEAD CAUSE |Midwest ~ Marchers Carry Own Food and Bedding for Stay Here. More than 60 farmers from the z\dld- | dle West who arrived here last night to urge upon Congress measures for relief of destitute farmers were to be joined today by other contingents which | were expected by their leaders to swell | their number to about 250. The farmers have made arrangements to hold & convention at the hall of the Typographical Union, at 423 G street, beginning tomorrow. The farmers came to Washington in | trucks and automobiles, bringing food | supplies and bedding with them and arranged for their housing at several points over the city and at the Wash- ington Tourist Camp, in East Potomac Park. Find Own Quarters. Three truck loads have arrived, each vehicle carrying about 20 members. Arrangements for the quartering of as many as 250 at the tourist camp | had previcusly been made in confer- | ences between Lem Harris, the leader | of the organization, and Capt. F. D. | Hoover, director of the Welfare and Recreation Assoclation, who has super- ‘\"mon over the tourist camp. | Capt. Hoover said the farmer groups | planned to stay in Washingtoh until | Saturday, when they expected to re- | turn to ‘their Midwestern homes. | Urge Demands Be Met. | The trucks of the farmers bear signs | declaring: “The farmers’ demands must | be_met. Harris has eral months the farmers’ the drafting tion. Under search, Inc., he has maintained an of- fice in’the Mills Building for this pur- Pose. | Among the first arrivals at the tourist | camp were J. T. Green, A. J. Jones. E. F. Nolze and Adolph Latzel, frem Tilden, Nebr. They told officials of the camp of the desperate plight of many farmers in the Middle West, who are losing their homes and who lack suffi- cient food and clothing, due to inability to dispose of crops. \LITTLEPAGE TO ADDRESS D. C. OLDEST INHABITANTS | Annual Banquet of Association to Be Held Tomorrow Night at Raleigh Hotel. been in Weshington sev- making arrangements for march and planning for of proposed farm legisla- | Thomas P. Littlepage, president of the Chamber of Commerce, will be the principal speaker at the annual banquet of the Association of Oldest Inhabi- tants of the District of Columbia, to be held tomorrow night at the Raleigh Hotel. There will be a reception at 7 o'clock prior to the banquet, which is scheduled for 7:30 o'clock. A quartet from the Potomac Electric | Power Co. will sing. John Clagett Proc- tor, vice president of the association, will preside in the absence of the presi- dent, Theodore W. Noy master will be Fred Emery, president of the association. Several been invited to attend. IT'S THE THING TO DO . . . to Ireland, England, LEVIATHAN - to travel with the American standard of living France and Germany Apply to your local agent. He knows travel values, or to Company's office 743 ROOSEVELY STEAMSHIP CO.. Inc., Gen. Agents 14th Street N.W. Tel. NAtional 1645 selling out” labor’s interest t ending the protest meeting in his office in the Labor the name of Farm Re- | manufacturers and he retaliated —Star Staff Photo. CITES ‘FLOATERS INHUNGER MARCH Travelers’ Aid Head Calls 300 Youths Part of Eco- nomic Storm. and jetsam of the economic storm ihis country is passicg through, and in nor- mal times would be going to high schocl and playing the sports of more foriu- nate youths who have stayed at home, Mrs. Margaret Ford, head of the Travelers' Aid, declared at a confer- ence of social wcrkers yesterday. The confecrnce was held to discuss the problem of handling transient men and boys. Way to Crime. “The open road,” she declared, the shortest path to delinquency and crime. Most of these boys haven't had 2 chance—having been forced out of school and home because of the de- pression and the financial worries of their families. They have been taking to the road in increasing numbers dur- ing the past year, to ‘bum’ their way from coast to coast, their only food that handed out by soup kitchens. By the time they have been on the ‘bum’ a few months and have suffered cold, hunger and other discomforts, anything, however bad, attracts them.” School facilities, she said. have not yet been utilized sufficiently for half grown boys and girls. She advocated increased opportunities for recreation and urged control, as far as possible, of the leisure time of adolescent youth. Influences Lasting. “Influences that touch boys between the ages of 14 and 20 often make a lasting impression on their lives,” she ctated. “The public Tesents hunger marches and radical demonstrations, yet it does not understand that when it refuses to bother with the problem of homeless youth, it is personally re- sponsible for the spread of crime. No boy starts out to be bad. He drifts into evil, because he sees no better way ahead.” Mrs. Ford concluded by saying, “for- tunately for Washington, there are a large number of compassionate citizens who realize the great stress put upon our youth today. and these men and women are banding together to save homeless boys and girls from hopeless, futile wandering. Working with the Traveler's Ald, these people are mak- ing definite plans to cope effectivly with | transient youngsters and give them a fighting chance to become worthwhile members of the community. If other cities will take similar steps, these runa- way children can find homes and happi- ness oncg more.” ! As the result of an operation a 13- | year-old boy, who was born blind, h: | just gained his sight at Adelaide, Aus- |tralia, and his first remark was, “I often ‘used to wonder what things could look like, but blow it all, when I see them they are just about what I thought they would be.” Brighten-Up for the and the toast- | vice | distinguished guests have | refreshen with Many colorful T is easy to JAP-A-LAC. En-m.l? Qh-stodryfllm(Qchpun. Get a'.regular 60c Pint Can 45c | | NOW~—for only .... w T LUM III-I-I | Wth & K NW. WEst 2370 LS Lester, escorting the van, hurried to filling station several miles away, procured water for the steaming truck, and once more got his party underwa; The truck had hardly moved, however, when it ran out of gas, and Lester was forced to make a second trip to the | filling _station—this time purchasing gasoline out of his own pocket to safely carry his charges into Washington. Tries to Tow Truck. The march got under way once more, and the procession was making steady progress toward its goal when the truck finally quit altogether, and no amount of effort on the part of Lester or the marchers could persuade it to start up again. Still undaunted, Lester attached a tow chain to the truck and started down the road with the ponderous ve- | hicle in tow of his tiny police roadster. Johnsqns Hill presented a serious ob- | stacle, however, and Lester called a halt —fearing an attempt to negotiate the | long incline with the truck in tow would tear the rcar out of the policg‘ car. The marchers, impatient at the delad, vere becoming surly when Lester finally hit upon a plan to finish his task. Bundling five of the occupants of -ths | truck into his roadsterr he set out at high speed for Highway Bridge, where | he deposited his load and hastily re- turned to the truck. 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