The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1929, Page 3

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, PICKETT PALACE TONT Show DOORS OPEN Concert GHT 7:30 7:45 at 8 News, Comcdy and Vaudeville DOROTHY FRED DOBLE “ Story by Mary Roberts Rinehart Clog and Tap Dance BIG COMEDY FEATURE Big Comedy Feature FINDERS KEEPERS” Starrin LAURA LA PLANT Given Under the Auspices of THE AMERICAN LEGION AUXIL IAL 10-.)0—1,ogns 60 cents YOFF—DAGNY HAGERUP R—Banjo Specialty g B o T e o O g COMING THURSDAY WITH- winROGERS Attractions At Theatres ? TAKE A CllANCE | | BILL, COLISEUM — -3 : Manager Charles Tuckett, of the Coliseum, put over a ‘“take a chance? bill' last night and drew 2 largesaudience. He is not ad- vertising the name of the feature but says it is a good one and made a splendid impression. [ 3 | FEATURE, VAUDEVILLE, | | MAKE HIT AT PALACE [+ The vaudeville and comedy fea- ture presented at the Palace last night under the auspices of the American Legion Auxiliary, went over big and made a big hit. The same bill is on again tonight, and no doubt as large an audience will witness the show as did last night. The orchestra gave a good concert of old-time war selections, that were popular, “Hinky, “Where etc., starting at 7:45. Then there were two good news reels and a comedy. The vaudeville came on —Darothy Stearns Roff and Dagny Hagerup, in costume, with clog and tap dancing, which went over good and called for an encore; and Fre Dobler and his banjo. He played various popular selections, assisted by the orchestra and also a char- acteristic. Five numbers were giv- en and the audience insisted on more, and he gave an encore and, then said “good night,” or he would have been playing yet. Laura LaPlante in the comedy, “Finders Keepers” kept the audi- ence in a regular laugh riot. She reaches the heights of comedy when | she impersonates a private. The scenes are laid in a military train- ing camp and everything is new comedy and a s»lendld cast assists her. =|. DOUBLE FASHION | BILL AT COLISEUM | e 1 “Fashion for Women” is the name of the feature to be presented at the Coliseum Thursday and Fri- day and in conjunction with this will be a real fashion show staged by Gordon’s. WILL ROGERS COMING {I- 1 TO PALACE TOMORROW | 5 g ‘Will Rogers in “The Texas Steer” is the comedy feature at the Pal- ace beginning tomorrow night and ing for the remainder of the . This is a screen version of the famous old Charles Hoyt stage suceess in which a Texas cattle- man is elected against his wishes, to Congress. It is made up-to-date cspecially for Rogers and is all fun from start to finish. Louise Fazenda, Ann Rork, Lilyan Tashman, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Hardy, George Marion, Sr., Dinky,”, Do We Go From Here,”, MARSHAL FOCH PASSES AWAY AT HOME, PARIS Military Genius Bows to Supreme Commander After Long lllneses (Continued from Page One) Germany and the cessation of hos- tilities. Gave Germans No Rest Foch gave the Germans no rest « | but struck unceasing, terrific, sledge hammer blows—now here, now there—at various points on the line. With the British, French and Belgians, he stopped the enemy advance toward the English Chan- nel; - with the French and Ameri- cans, he blocked the way to Parig, Then the Germans began to retire, and, following the American victory at Chateau Thierry, the long bat- tle line from Switzerland to the sea receded daily northward and eastward toward the Rhine. Each of the five big battles that were fought under Foch's direction in the closing days of the war, was/ 's0 timed and placed that each army supported the other, all forming and all working as smoothly as the ' parts of a well adjusted automo- (bile engine. All were directed to- ward the same end—to wear down ithe enemy’s strength. Hindenburg fought with a bludgeon, a broad- lightning like thrusts at vital spots. Quintuple Conflict The quintuple conflict, the great- est in all history, Allies recaptured in three weeks the ground that had cost the Germans four months of hardship and super- human struggle as well as 1,000,000 |men to attain, was at its height on November 2. its status was somewhat as fol- lows :The American army, with Sedan as its objective, was attack- jing on both sides of the Meuse. One French army was battling, in lmnjuncuon with the Americans,| left of the Aisne for Mezieres. Another French and British army was pressing forward between the river Oise and the’city of Valen- ciennes, with Maubeuge and Mons as their goal. Belgians were driving ahead in Flanders for Tournai and Ghent. South of the Oise, between that river and the Aisne, another French important railway junctions at Ver- vis and Hirson. Roughly, this con- stituted Foch's “vise” in which the enemy was being squeezed. Germans Forced to Yield The Germans held on desperate- ly, but, even “as the stars in their forced to yield. that eventful day when the enemy, sword. Foch wielded a rapier with in, which the! The British and: army battered its way toward the| course fought against Sisera,” were And then came ! practically routed by the supeflor} strategy of Foch, sent its embas- | sage praying for an armistice. It| onger continue the war.” “Hindenburg Line” Pierced The famous “Hindenburg Line” supposed by many military experts |to be impregnable and which not a J‘tmn are exhausted and wc can no i rrew believed eventually would bring | about a stalemate, had been pierc- ed by Foch’s legions. The German |dike was broken. The enemy, | moreover, had suffered tremendous {loss and the Allies’ casualties were | comparatively light. Foch's speed and decision, his scientific calcu- lation, were too much for the Germagns, despite their boasted | prowess as warriors. i An American correspondent, re- ferred to the wanton slaughter per- | mitted by the German commander, “Did not your own General Grant | believe that battles could not be {won without sacrificing men?” “That is true,” admitted the American. “If you would win you lare obliged to sacrifice men.” “Do not misunderstand me,” quickly replied the Generalissimo, a twigkle in his eye. “It's the Ger- mans that I sacrifice. I never throw away my own soldiers. Military Genius . No wonder the poilus and the officers under this wonderful mili- tary genius obeyed him. Although taciturn and impetuous he always seemed to act with “clear thinking | impulsiveness” following by a dash |and headlong attack that assured victory. | Speaking to a group of officers q an indispensable part of the whele one night, Foch is reported to have said: “First find out your enemy’s weak there. That is a commonplace of | tactics which is self-evident.” “But, General,” broke in an of- ficer of artillery,” suppose your |enemy has no weak points? That {sometimes happens.” “Certainly,” replied Foch, “and {in that case you make a weak ‘llloint." i Again and again he would quote ,Joseph de Maistre’s aphorism, “a \battle lost is a battle which one be- Ilieves to have lost, for battles are not lost materially.” And he would add: “Battles therefore are lost | morally,: and it is morally, there- | fore, that they are won.” Keynote to Career Thus the premier soldier gave the keynote to his successful career as a fighter and leader of men. Given a good cause he believed his armies and himself to be invincible. For years before the struggle with the Central Powers began, Foch had been preaching “preparedness” to |France. He had been for four |years Director of the Ecole de | Guerre, France’s great school of war. He had been a subaltern— like Joffre—in the France-Prussian war of 1870. Foch's career could be summed lup in the word “prepare.” Born October 2, 1851, at Tarbes, a little city in the Pyranees, close to the Spanish border, his boyhood was |mot characterized by brilliancy as a student. In a class of 70 at the Ecole Polytechnique, which he en- |tered in 1871 just after the Franco- Prussian war, he graduated 45th. But he was a hard worker with a wonderful memory and great per- Mack Swain, Lucien Littlefield, Wil- {was then, according to a corres-|sistence. ligm Orlamond, Arthur Hoyt and Bud Jaimison are featured in the pondent for the Paris Matin, that Matthais Erzberger, one of the, I He served for the next years as an artillery officer, passing through ing cast. Richard Wallace German plenipotentiaries, extending various garrisons until 1884 when wugduecmmsnmumk the producer for First National T, » his hand to Foch, declared: “Marshal, we are at your mercy., .0\!1‘ reqerved of men and ammuni- he was admitted to the Ecole de Guerre as a student. Twelve years later, as Major Foch to which Foch laughingly replied:‘ point and concentrate your blows ' +PH-)~H—I+H—|+H-H»H—!-H—4—!—H"H’H+‘H'PH+FF+FH—H-H—H4 % -I—P—I~I-+-I—I—X—‘-I—H+—l+r+l—-l-l+1—l—l-+ 1929, 1L INDBERGH AND ANNE AFTER THEIR CRASH o EX NI» d )+ ' { B/ nA "g’;img P Paramount Ne.os - Associa Slightly ruffled and holding his Injured right arm, Colonel Lindbergh turns to speak to his f Anne Morrow, leave V: ico City, after thei ne crashed in landing w Ar— W - wheel missi Mexican oificers @ccompanying them. ( B STORY OF IDRERGH'’S A SF- | tions was to permeate the French TH!L D10 Cf {DBERGH’S CRAék my with the war college " B ,\ 53 'Tfi‘fl ‘the offensive—the offensiy h 3 costs’.” E Y fi ! First Battle Foch was in command of the ventieth Army Corps, with head- ry Y v rters at Nancy, at the begix 1] 2 (j j? 1 ) ‘[ ; of the war in 1914, and of e L 02( l'[n’g / an of that other r, Marshal Jof- was said to be the subordinates French sold "rr‘, his record nost consistent In the first battle of the Marne Furh's army of 120,000 men held | the line from La Fere Champenoise e e —a——————— iy sl MEX, FEDERALS [ — to Mondement. They were op- posed by 200,000 Germans, including > > et GONTINUE TO | Benefit Dance of the Germ~n army. At times the pressure was so g it seer u the thin French line bre | '\h,t)?“ll !I \] I‘ Aldes came up with re- ports that the right and left wings " |had been compelled to give ground. | R(‘ sel Leader Ret ‘ cats Smash Ther T4 that: casertiier Further—Decisive Bat- 1929 March 23, nothing to do but smash them in the center, tle May Be Fought GOOD MUSIC 3 ded Foch, adding:| MEXicO CITY, March 2 With up the Moors!” “h{‘ main body of the re 1 ¢ Dubois with the Moroc- (a step nearer the American border, | Moonlight Serenaders riflemen struck so hard in the |having rct from Escalon, 30 miles northws into the St. G()lm | Mexican g south of Chal-|this mo: covered by an airplane | anothe; reconna; that two German |ax armies had failed to make a junc tien and left a gap in th line near Vitry-le-Fra Tmmedi- ately the French commander thrust ; a huge wedge of infantry suppe d by heavy artillery into this gap a: mf | to Jimi Government interpreted ement of Gen. Escobar as of rebel disinte, ion ng the revolt is as good and finally baitle in : : | cente the thrown that the Prussian Guard wa back Refreshments Will Be Served Insurgent Icerted Gen. | purely str will draw the |further from the meet them in a deci the porthern countr Gen. Celles contin thodical prepcrations Superyision Mrs. Fred Peterson ais. ted 1h‘ s further and and tail skid. had them well established before |the Germans awoke to their over- sight. The result was a German panic retreat in which the in- Everybody Welcome 2d his me- to crush the vaders suffered heavily ’rcbclzs. He has arrived at Torreon Gentlemen $1.00 and is . personally aring his | First Blow army of 30,000 for further northern advance. British in in first Later Foch aided tn I ting through to blow at The rebel fo; numbering ;:ummr! cox the enemy from ge Cal ¥pres " NOTICE at Jiminez. wrges the reb- banks of millions |ca {7 0f Pesos with the intention of flee- ing to the United States with the y has regpen- Beauty Parlors jlad to see all of her and customers. Miss 1 coess in €18 With looting and ble for Hh and will be jold friends An an spite of inferior gtreng 1916 he was partly re B i i ihe Daitlc as bR }c,_ut. In such event extradition Lindsey, permanent wave specialist } i Eliay "7 {will be asked as ordinary crim-|is now permanently connected with Serhh baed active seryide 48 “'“‘h i L,he American Beauty Par'ors de An 1 1917, at the aze of 66 y T s thotgght. the fightins ¢ Royal Honeymooners Reach Home were qver. '(‘ t n k one of the most im of the French gover the French militar; Supreme War Co made mem when Com Plill&h French, 1 ican commanders Pershing and Diaz T the Am tain, the leadership of Ferdinand Foch, was to achievements | “It touches | one of the remarkable of the war. He said me deeply.” This feeling Foch w of the armistice presented to hi the American | Distinguished Service Medal, “as la token of the gratitude of tho} American people for your achieve- {ments and for the great services you have rendered to our army.” Accepting the decoration, the Marshal said: “In s of triumph as well as in dar hours, T will never f cal day when General Pm at my dis was G A cloud of dust as the ship flattens on grnund upside down. (ANl pictures Paramount News—Associated Press), he returned to the war coileg A, wrote of him: “i as the an instructor. Later he won 4lgreat teacher who, m any | coloneley, and in 1907 becar other man in the ne i " | brigadier general. During his serv= | sragteqgne oot 1o | After his victory in the first bat- ice as a teacher and late which, it '”fl 1— 4 tle of the Marne, Foch was pro- Earels moted to be Grand General in the | mander of the Fren: sehool, General Foch ber of technical books. these, werks on the sub, the present war. g - |officers sat at Foch Ecole de Guerre and cd with them unbounded d Legion of Honor. King George of the England conferred upon him the vied WaY | Order of the Bath. He made lon and nrarshal of France in Au 1918, Count I‘o!l.e Bernadotte, nephew of the king of Sweden, lqd fare, both of which were “ltaith. He was an cothusiast and his wife, the former Miss Estelle Manville, of Pleasantville, lated into German, E his pateiotism and ! " orotakiies % e N. Y., heiress to the asbestos millions, upon their arrival i Halien, were entitled | merged into & splencid ctfort of in-| we are now ready to alter or Stackholi, Sweden. To the left is Prince Oscar Bemadottg' War,” and “The Conduct of War. | tellect “in" which hi Major Robert M. Johnson, U. 8. pwhm On¢ of his father of the bridegroom and a brother of King Guit&i. (laternational Newsreel) ts de-make up your furs. great ambi- Emporium, Goldstein’s adv,