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Bonus March — Part 2
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Reports from Salt Lake City state that one Lovis
on, now residing at 1014 Vest 17th Street, Cheyenne,
oming, -who claims to be Cuartermaster of the Bonus
Expeditionary Force, has recently been soliciting memberships
in this force at Cheyenne, Wyoming, for which he charges a
fee. Police records show he was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming,
September 5, 1932, on a vagrancy charge and released the fol-
lowing day.
These reports indicate that two hundred marchers :
from San Francisco and intervewing pointsvere expected in 4
Denver, Colorado, about November 22. Thirty vere exzectcd to
join this gronp at Denver and the entire group iw:s to then
lezve November 23 for Washington. It is stated thet the
tventy-cight persons who arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, on
Hovember 19 are sid to have left on freight trains. Twenty
persons from Salt Lake City, who are believed to be strictly
residents of Salt Lake City, left on November Zl. The aujority
left by truck, but a few were in sutomobiles. This purty of
twenty is ssid to be commanded by Chick Rolfe, s2id to be an
ex-service man.
Reports from Pittsburgh under date of Novenher 21
indicate that a meeting was held on November 11 to make prenzr-
ations for a Hunger March to Washington on Pecember 5, “nd to
feed and shelter one of the main colume of marchers from the
‘est, which is to arrive Pittsburgh December 1. One Tom
Meyerscough presided and Fred Kerns ke. A comnittee of
thirty
burgh. These reports state that the 2 chers are
to vide in trucks instead of automobiles, so us not to give the
parade the appearance of prosveri
‘nother meeting was held November 13 in order to raise
funds to finance the hunger march. Thore sttendine +) neeting
comprised what is culled "The United Front Committee", about one-
thin] of which were negroes and three were women. One truck for -
the hunger march had been secured, uccording to reports.
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