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Show ITS PLAii BONIS f Ltd ft! CAP IT AL CASrCV VII.LE, III., May 21 'U.R) Hurried preparations for breaking "Camp Bonus," where World war veterans veter-ans hat I held a- Baltimore & Ohio freight train since yesterday, yes-terday, were made today as six companies of state militia approached from the north. The freight which the men had captured after use of army strategy, strate-gy, was released today after Sheriff Sher-iff Jerome M unie had promised the men to provide trucks to carry them to Washington,-Ind. The former 'service men are en-route en-route from Portland, Ore., to Washington to plead for immediate payment of soldiers' bonuses. They arrived in St., Louis Friday aboard a Wabash freight which they captured in Council Bluffs, la. Since then they have advanced JO miles, all of which they walked. Militia Is Seen One company of state militia passed through here shortly before 7 a. m., apparently bound for East St. Louis, where the guardsmen ordered mobilized by Acting Gov-, Gov-, crnor Fred G. Sterling, intend con-I con-I centrating. j The veterans lined the tracks and J gave the guardsmen "the roya i razzberries" as they sped past. They jeered and waved derisively I at the khaki-clad militia who stared : solemnly from train windows. ! CASEY VILLE, 111., May 24 (U.Hi ! A former millionaire, whose for-j for-j tune was wiped out by the 1929 ! stock market crash, is among the j World war veterans enroute to ' Washington to plead for immed-i immed-i iate payment of the soldiers' bonus. i William "Billy' Leet, Omaha, Neb., carries with Kim newspaper j clippings "to show what Wall : Street has done to us veterans." ! Another clipping tells of his wife ' obtaining a divorte and $45,000 alimony. ali-mony. ; "I have been unemployed two years, and J sure need the cah on J my bonus t-eri if icat e," Leel sa id. : He deserted a bread line in Pnrt- land, Oregon, to join the pilgrim- j age to Washington. |