Police And Citizens Halt "Hunger Marchers". Police and citizens of Cumberland, MD., armed with long range tear gas guns and other equipment, who succeeded in preventing 1300 self-styled "Hunger Marchers", comprising the Western Division, from entering the city. Instead, the marchers permitted themselves to be escorted to a farm on the outskirts of the city where they wandered about in disorder before proceeding to the capital.

Associated Press · [ca. December 1932]

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