Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-14 | Page 5 | Private Funds Pledged to Aid of Bonus Army

PRIVATE FUNDS PLEDGED TO AID OF BONUS ARMY Forces Prepared to Stay in Capital Indefinitely Commander Says 11 A oel t d 4 Press uL PITTSBURGH July 14 14 Walter Walter W W. Waters commander of the war veterans veterans veterans vet- vet erans encamped in Washington says funds available from a private source will enable the vets to remain in the capital indefinitely In an Interview last night Waters disclosed that a cantonment sufficient to care for the bonus seekers would be set up on p private property soon through the fund pledged to him He said a playground dairy farm and hospital would be included in the camp to be erected Failure of congress to pass the bonus me measure sure has not disconcerted us ushe he said on his visit visit visit-to to Pittsburgh to address addres meetings of war veterans We will stay tay until jobs are obtained are obtained for us usand and the bonus is granted Many of us have no homes to which we may go Bonus Forces March MarchAll All Night in Capital WASHINGTON July 14 UP UI Weary veterans who had kept kept- up a shuffling march about the capitol capito through a night of frayed nerves and tense situations gave way way thankfully today to comrades comrad who promised to keep the bonus demonstration goi going g until adjournment of congress Many of the men In the stumbling ragged line had been without sleep for 36 hours Some of them fired by bya a determination to keep on their feet until they dropped stayed In the ranks Others yielded their places to reinforcements that moved in from the camps where bonus marchers march march- ers rs have been quartered since their invasion of the capital Coffee doughnuts and sandwiches were passed around at intervals Forbidden Forbidden For For- bidden to sleep on the capitol lawns wh where rc the sprinklers were wetting the he grass the men who could keep marching no longer sought out near nearS by jy places where they could sleep undisturbed un un- un disturbed A score slept soundly on or the he steps of the peace monument at atthe atthe the foot of Capitol Hill bothered not nota 13 a whit by the s stares of passers