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wg? nae LPAA, ‘Fomented Trouble, Threw Bricks, Upper Darby Veterans Told; Conshohoeken War Hero Insists Waters Ordered Defiance | Communists who flocked to) Washington “by the hundreds” fomented Thursday's rioting, four | members of the bonus army said here last night on their way-te the new encampment at Johnstown. The brick-throwing in the first engagement with police on Wash- Ingten avenue was done by radienis, ‘one of them said. “Responsible elements of the ibonus army did everything they could to heip police separate the Communistic faction,” the veteran, James J. Kibbie, of Emmetsburg, In., told members of Archer-Eppler Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, at a meeting of the post in Upper} Darby. “There seemed to be several hun- dred radicals” he said, “most of .them well dressed and seemingly well supplied with money, Who ap-| proached the boys al every oppar+ tunity to advocate resistance, *Bght- ing against aggression’ and the like. Says “Exkremists’ Threw Bricks | "I was present when the police attempted to drive back the crowd, and some of this extremist element among the veterans started to throw the bricks. That brought on all the rest.” Frequent questions by interested | members of the post punctuated Kibbie's recital and those of his companions. One of them, Val Kaieris, of Versailles, Pa., had been treated at the Delaware County Hospital, following his arrival, for ‘a wound in his heel, which he said was Made iy a troaper’s bayariet. The other two were George ‘Knack and George Vesdaputor, of 'Fort Dodge, Ia, Commander Bale ‘said the men would be fed and clothed by members of the post before continuing their journey. Their statements. the men Were told before the meeting, would be — mused Capitel Riot, | “4 Bonuseers Reveal Here checked and made a matter of Tec- .ord. Stenographers were on hand to take their testimony. Orders defylng the Washington police were issued by W. W. Waters, tomimander of the Bonus Expedi- tionary Forces, according to Francis “W. Connelly, of Conshohocken, a hero of the World War and holder of the Distinguished Service Cross. He is a member of the benwus-seck- ing force. Connelly, who was treated at a Washingion hospital for gashos on the head ufter being clubbed and gassed during the rioting on Thirs- day. Hves at 127 West 4th avenue, Conshohocken, He telephoned his family there yeslerday. Wolers hada placed him in charge of 300 Penn- sylvania bonuseers on Sunday. Told to Hold Mouses “Hold those houses, no matter what happens," he quoted Waters. “Don't fight the police if it can be avoided in any way possible, but for God's sake don’t let them put you out.” 1 Connelly headed the Consho- 'hocken contingent of twenty vet- -erans at Anacostia, many of whom ‘were stationed in Government buildings ordered evacuated. Dur- ing the World War he crawled out of a tank and repaired it under heavy five while a sergeant in the Tank Corps. The other Conshohocken men ;Were uninjured Thursday, he re- RATTRAY JOSEPH ANGELO ported. They plan lo remain in; Washington until future policy Is, decided upon, and may zo to: Johnstown. | Opposes Officer He Saved Joseph Angelo, of Camden, holder’ of the French war medal, the Croix de Guerre, and the Distinguished Service Cross, who dragged his wounded colonel to safety In the midst of bursting shells in the Ar-; gonne, found that officer ranged on. the other side of the economic No Man's Land in the Washington dis-/ turbance. ' , Colonei Georee Smith Patton.) war-time commander of Lhe a04ih Tank Brigade, on Thursday headed the cavalry charge that rouled An- gelo and the other bonus seekers. Colonel Patton called Angelo “the bravest lad in the American Army” when he and the doughboy made their escape from the mud-hole to which Angelo had drasted him. Angela lives in Delair Park. He ap- peared before Lhe House Ways and: Means Commit:ee to urge the bonus. Velerans’ Account Awaited Charies J. ONeill, Philadelphia” County commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. said last night his attitude toward evenls at Washing- ton ‘was the same as al the start pf the bonus army's encampment. | “We believed in their going ta! Washington and my own post, the Liberty Bell, 203 East Tioga street, has been fceding forty-one veterans | at Washington.” he said. “We didi not believe in their. consorting with ‘ radicals. : “The only reports we have been getting are those from public sourtes and we wilt walt for an ac~ count from our own people before! we decide whither the oMtctals | should be blamed or commended." | MORN TE 4 Ta AT