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...ejected remain untouched and unworked after five weeks. 3) Every veteran arrested as a rioting Red has been released for lack of evidence; three veterans indicted for assaulting police had good overseas records; not one criminal record has been turned up among the B. E. F. 4) Police Superintendent Glassford had cleared the Government buildings and a truce on rioting had been declared an hour before troops were called. 5) Empty dynamite boxes had been used .to build Anacostia shanties. 6) Out of 8,000 members of the B. E. F. the Veterans Administration found only 500 who were...
Divorced. Brigadier-General Pelham D. Glassford, superintendent of Washington, D. C. police; by Cora C. Glassford; in San Antonio, Tex. Grounds: desertion...
...cops hell!" a veteran shouted. His massed companions pressed in upon the police, now flailing with their clubs. The fighting spread with quick contagion. One policeman had his head bashed in. Veterans trampled him. Blood streamed down others' faces. Veterans swung scrap iron, hunks of concrete, old boards. General Glassford rushed into the melee, was knocked flat by a brick. Before he could get up. a veteran snatched off his gold police badge. A riot call brought 800 extra police to battle several thousand...
...peaceful, men! Be calm!" shouted General Glassford. "Let's not throw any more bricks. They're mighty hard and hurt. You've probably killed one of my best officers...
...street fighting gradually subsided. A legless veteran inside the Government building loudly challenged the police to remove him. He was ignored. General Glassford withdrew his forces. The B. E. F. cooled off, recovered its head. Commander Waters, who had kept out of the fray, nervously declared: "The men got out of control. There's nothing...