Show POLICE ASSERT THEIR ABILITY TO HANDLE VETS Leader Declares s Army Intervention Intervention Intervention Inter Inter- Overemphasized Seriousness B Br Associated Press Frai WASHINGTON July 30 An 30 An en ento end to the military phase of f the capitals capital's making history-making veterans Incident t today to to- day found police taking over the jo job again and insisting they could have hav handled it had they been left alone alon Pelham D. D Glassford police super super- superintendent superintendent declined to retreat from h his stand that the invasion by military had overemphasized the seriousness of the situation He reiterated that an m order to him insisting that the bonus seekers be removed from federal federa property brought all the trouble He made no apology for being 1 Ie Ic with veterans He denied h hever he ever had admitted police were help help- less It was on that admission Di DIstrict District DIs- DIs of Columbia commissioners said sail In a statement to the president that tha they based th their ir requests for arm army armyo troops o I Mr Hoover however took a dl different dif dif- ferent position He said i in hi a letter letter lette to district commissioners that the ve vet crans erans were undoubtedly led to believe believe believe be be- lieve that the civil authorities could coul be intimidated with impunity of attempts to conciliate them by la lax enforcement of ot city ordinances anc and laws in many directions A result of the dispute was reports that Glassford would resign He Hede de denied de- de nied them though Despite the arguments police wen went to work First they raided a meeting of radical bonus marchers arresting many escorting a group out of ot th the District of Columbia and holding 3 36 for or questioning Unconfirmed reports were that tha these heso men had been taken into custody cus tody ody at the suggestion of ot Secretary Doak of the Ithe labor department in a general drive against aliens alien However However How How- ever that may be the 36 spent hours at the labor Jabor department answering questions Then all but 17 were re reo leased Among the 17 were severa several negroes one of ot them John William Ford ord 38 who said he was from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City and claimed to be the vice vie presidential candidate of the tho Com Corn party ROUNDED UP VP After the labor department nt questioning questioning ques ques- squads of ot police includIng plain slain clothes men who s seemed emed t to know enow the men for whom they were looking began a R new series of minor raids about the town Nearly me men called vagrants were rounded u up by jy policemen and marched into Inu Maryland with the warning that the they of had better stay out Washington This move was decided upon police said because of the threat by radical members of the bonus army army- army accused accuse of having incited the trouble trouble trouble-to to sta stan stay in n the capital regardless of orders A Aone As one detachment of them was t token take ken across the District of ot Columbia line linea a radical shouted at his police escort Well be back And well we'll be waiting for tor you a policeman retorted Glassford had predicted that eviction evIc evic- tion of the from rom federal federa property simply would turn them loose on the town and make the police po lice Job harder Although Major General George Georg Van Horn Moseley deputy chief o of staff still said military phases of or the trouble trou trou- ble ale were over infantrymen stood b by orders During the night capital police concentrated concentrated con con- on the residents of its parks park and downtown streets Insa Ina general genera roundup several hundred vagrants were gathered without violence anc and sent out of town over over the Baltimore road Bonus marchers who had not lei left previously were caught in the hunt hun and started homeward All AU persons person found sleeping i in the parks were taken taken tak tak- en to a central concentration point poin examined by immigration officers fo for tor possible deportation and by police t to determine their actual homes home and sen senon sent on their way Immigration officials detained a few ew Many were taken en from the district dig dis dis- dis in trucks and transferred t to Maryland state trucks tracks at the state line V V |