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Show - - "Box Car Battalion" Arrives At Capital To Ask For Aid 0 Quiet Campaign In Behalf of Disabled Buddies Is Being Planned. WASHINGTON. Feb. 16 (U.H),i The "box car battalion," a ragged j "band of 25 jobless World War vet- j erans, prepared today to open a j quiet campaign which they hope , will aid in bringing about better care for their disabled soldier buddies. No demonstration suca as that i staged recently at the capitol by former service men demanding passage of a- veterans' relief measure, meas-ure, are contemplated by the little group which arrived here last night after riding freight trains all the way from Seattle, Wash. 40 Brop Out Instead, according to Robert E. Taylor, their nason agent, they intend in-tend to lay their plans before Senator Sen-ator Dill, Dem., Wash., and ask him to "go ahead and see what he can do about them.1' The veterans plan to remain about a week and then "boat their way" back to Seattle the same way they came. '"We arrived quietly and we will leave quietly," Taylor said, adding that "we represent the breadlines , of Seattle." i The "box car battalion" the i group received this name in Butte, i Mont., and it stuck had 127 mem- ; bers on leaving Seattle three weeks ago. . Forty diopped out at Spokane Spo-kane because of severe colds, while inability to withstand the hardships occasioned by lack of warm clothing cloth-ing and food forced others to turn back later. There were only two pairs of gloves among the 25 men when they reached the capital. They took turns in using the gloves, members of the group said in recalling some of the hard times encountered on the long trip. |