Police are entering the first of a score of old buildings appropriated by Bonus Seekers to clear them out.
[crowd yelling]
In many of the old buildings, which are about to be torn down, the eviction proceeded with little trouble.
In some spots, the Bonus Seekers fortified themselves, too strongly placed for the police.
Fifteen hundred men of the Regular Army answered the President's call.
Calvary, tanks, and infantry.
The President declared [inaudible] many of those remaining were communists or criminals,
with few veterans among them.
[tank engines roaring]
[inaudible] at the foot of Capitol Hill was burned to the ground.
All shacks and tents were destroyed after the occupants had taken away their belongings.
Some of the departing campers set the dwellings afire with their own hands,
causing a ball of smoke to swirl upward toward the Capitol itself.
At night, the troops crossed the line of [inaudible] and cleared Camp [inaudible],
which blazed for hours.
A beacon that the fight was over and all was once more quiet along the Potomac.
From Washington by the Army, the last of the Bonus Seekers set out for Johnstown, Pennsylvania,
where they have been given refuge.
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Commander W.W. Waters decided on the Johnstown Camp, but he explained.
At Johnstown, the 9,000 Bonus Seekers immediately threw up tents and shacks for themselves and families.
The food problem is acute,
but donations of groceries and money are keeping the vets in stew and coffee.
[people chattering]