Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-06-03 | Page 3 | Veterans Form Big Problem in Washington

VETERANS FORM I BIG BID PROBLEM IN WASHINGTON i E Hundreds More Expected 1600 Now Being Cared For 8 Br nr Pre Press WASHINGTON June 3 A 3 A critical situation shaped up today as hundreds more bonus seeking bonus seeking war veterans poured into the city and had to be quartered in open fields for tor or lack o of billeting space To the six hundred who vho have been quartered in vacant buildings for the past ast few days and the 1000 or so reported re- re ported tod being cared for individually by jy local charities charitie were added two new ew delegations last n night with more expected by freight train and truck during unrig tod today y Brigadier General Glassford the superintendent of or police had sought tentS cuts from the war department but met net with flat nat refusal from Secretary Hurley A crew of ot carpenters was organized from among the jobless vet vet- veterans erans rans today to build wall wall less less lumber Jumber shelters m in n open fields in An Anacostia costia Nearly men mostly from rom New Jersey Jer Jer- sey cy and Philadelphia but including a n contingent of 50 from Minneapolis were vere taken to the fields in trucks and police patrol wagons last night to sleep under the sky Funds for tor feeding the men were low and nd w with th thousands of en striving to o get here from all quarters of the country the local authorities were desperate The objective of or the bonus seekers was still distant By this morning only members of the house had signed the petition requiring petition requiring through names lames through which it is sought to compel a vote vole on legislation to pay ply the he of bonus principal outstanding Reports of or communistic influence back of the veterans' veterans march apparently apparently apparently were leading to a split in n the thc in inS in invading ading forces The strong strong- Pacific Pa Pacific coast contingent which was first to arrive told Glassford they would refuse to have anything to do with groups coming under auspices of the Workers' Workers Ex Service Ex-Service Service Mens Men's league eague Officials of the latter claimed the hc communist objective was merely to or organize anize a mass demonstration nex next Wednesday without any intention o of among the veterans 44 I