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SFTH PRYER NG HYMNSFORBENERT “Down East” Choir Presents | Air Program at Constitu-- 5. tion Hall Concert. SE * Beth Parker, of radio fame, and his little group of “Down East” Avmn sing- ers, reprgl.nud one :lf;heir "Eun'c}ny ning Gatherings” o, before a capacity audience lllg night at Constitution Hail for the benefit of the Central Union Mission. ‘The entire .cast which presents the Sunday night radio programs took in the show. The audience sang with Seth the hymns in his hymnal, ab- sorbed his homely philosophy, and laughed at the antics of the fast-talk- Peters and her croak.ng-voice Typleal of Broadeasts. ‘The pr 'was typical of the reg- tlar tho';:lrlia broadcasts, and only the jone was absent. The stage sitting room’in the Parker home at Jonesport, with old-fashioned chairs, oil lamps, handwoven rugs and the little melodeon. Homer Rodeheaver and his trombone started the show, by rehearsing the sudience in some of Seth Parker hymns. When he had worked up suf- ficlent atmosphere and enthusiasm for an old-fashioned hymn sing the lights went out and Seth Parker and his Jon cast took the stage. And then for two hours Seth and his popular characters alternately sang, recited and ‘wisecracked in that characteristic phil- osophical New England way. Share Comedy Honors. Lissie Peters and Cephus, however, shared the comedy honors. Lizzie also demonstrated how to recite the books of the Bible in 1712 seconds. Mrs, Albert J. Lord of Meriden, Oonn., mother of Phillips Lord, who created Seth Parker, was the guest of honor at the performance. Rodeheaver 1int iced her and she was given a ovation. Seth Parker will bring his cast back %0 Washington on March 16 for anot) er performance at Constitution Hall. This show also will be given for the benefit of the Central Union Mission. e — TROTSKY SAVES DATA ON REVOLT OF REDS But Secretary Holds Bnfiing of Other Notes Is Great Loss to History. By the Associated Press. ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 3.—De- struction of private papers of Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian Bolshevik leader, when his villa on Prinkipo Island burned Sunday, was an irrepa- rable loss both to Trotsky and history, his secretary, Jan Prankel, said today. ‘The secretary, Trotsky, Mme. Trotsky and their son struggled desperately ‘while the ceilings of the burning villa crashed upon them and- managed to save the manuscript of the completed first volume of a history of the Rus- sian revolution and notes for the suc- ceeding unwritten volumes. The flames, however, devoured all the material for a projected book on ¢on- temporary European and Asiatic states- men. This 1 consisted largely of Trotsky’s correspondence . with the , letters which cannot be own crushing loss, Trotsky is scql in the request of his friend, Upton Sinclair, California writer, that he translate Sinclair'’s books into Turkish. He has chosen a young wrenddsughier of Abdul Kadir. the ast of r, e last sultan of Algeria, to aid him in the TUBERCULOSIS CLINICS CONTINUE AT MANASSAS Examinations to Go on Today, To- morrow, Thursday and Friday. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. MANASSAS, Va., March 3.—Continu- ing the active campaign being waged | against tuberculosis in Prince William County, doctors and assistants from the State rtment of Health returned to the county yesterday, and, -with Mrs. Ruby Ryman Haydon, county nurse have opened a free clinic in Parish Hall, Manassas. More than 50 children were examined, some of whom will return for X-ray ex- amination. The young people’s exami- nation will continue tomorrow and Fri- day, while examinations of adults, in consultation with the family physicians of the county, are being made today and ‘Thursde; on y. . C. W. Bcott of the department of health is the elinician here, Mrs. C. W. | Scott, ; Miss Emma Taliferro, | X-ray nurse; J. E. Keyes, technician, while Miss Sara Lee Coleman, supervis- ing nurse in Northern Virginia, who: chief work is in the tuberculor prev tion fleld, and Mrs. Haydon, coun! nurse, are co-operating with the e perts. WIFE FINDS MAN DEAD . BY SIDE OF SLAIN GIRL Murder and Buicide Believed Cli- max to Husband’'s Promise to Quit Drinking. By the Associated Press. SANTA BARBARA, Calif,, March 3.— The bodies of K. B. Tracey, 23, and Ruth *“Blondie” Miller, 22, were fourd by Mrs. Katherine Tracey, when the returned home yesterday to ascertain whether her husband had kept a promisz to quit drnking. Police said evidence indicated the man had slain the girl and then com- mitted suicide. Mrs. Tracey told officers her husband | »=a promised that-if she would take her 2-year-old son and year-old daughter and stay, with friends four days he; would “straighten up. ! MASONS TAKE DEGREES | Prince William Lodges Join Ceremonies at Quantico. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. QUANTICO, Va, March 3.—Masons from other lodges in Prince Willlam County gathered in the John Lejeune Lodge, D’t:. 350, A. F. and A. M., herei last night to assist in the third degree.| ‘Those taking part in the work were | . E. Z. Zalanska, worshipful master of | Lejeune Lodge; John Broaddus, wor- shiptul master; Richard C. Haydon,| senior warden; Wilson N. Wenrich, | Junior warden; J. Lott Bushong, junior | deacon of Manasseh Lodge, No. 180, at in - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, My Experiences in the World War British Send U. S. Troops to Attack in Spite of | Objections Raised by American Chief. OUR SOLDIERS ASKED FOR BALKAN FRONT Foch Told That Lack of Plan Is Causing A. E. F. to “Fritter Away” All Its Resources. CHAPTER LI hind the British front were there for training and were not to be used except in an emer- gency, the British made continuous effort to get them into their Lnes. They planned an attack by the Aus- tralians for the 4th of July and re- EGARDLESS of the distinct un- | R derstanding that our troops be- quested Maj. Gen. George Read, com- | mander of the 2nd Corps, then still in | training, to permit some of the troops of the 33d Division to take part. At first the British suggested four companies, but later they wanted the number increased to 10. As the use of Americans at this time was directly | contrary to the arrangement, naturally it did not meet with my approval. Attack Is Carried Out. Having learned that such a combined attack was planned, I spcke to Marshal Haig about it when I saw him in Paris July 3, and he entirely agreed with my point of view. It seems that Gen. Read, afterward, in accordance with my in- structions, told Gen. Rawlinson that I | did not want partially trained troops | to participate, However, cur troops had by this time become fully committed to it. Although the British chief of staff had consented to leave our troops out, when he learned from Rawlinson that it would compel them to defer the opera- tion he informed Read that no change could be made without orders from Field Marshal Haig, who, he said, could not be reached, and so the attack was carried out, as I learned the next day. The incident, thougy relatively unim- portant in itself, show’d clearly the dis- pesition of the British to assume con- trol of our units, the very thing which | 1 had made such strong efforts and had imposed so many conditions to prevent. Its immediate effect was to cause me to make the instructions so positive that nothing of the kind could occur again. The fact that Gen. Read and his of- ficers and men were keen to get into the battle went far to excuse him. It seems needless to add also that the splendid behavior of the troops in the operation was a decided argument in favor of leniency. This division also afterward displayed the same eagerness to get at the enemy in several hard- fought engagements during the trying days of the Meuse-Argonne. Balkans Want Americans, My diary records: “Chaumont, Tuesday, July 9, 1918. Have spent last few days on reorgani- zation of services of supply, consultin, with Gens. Atterbury, McAndrew, Ha- good and Eltinge. “Yesterday saw Col. Walker, Col. A. D. Andrews, chief of adminis- trative section, general staff, us yesterday and told me that the As- sl:clned Press, of which he was then ad, we needed its services to call upon him. Gen. Perelli arrived as chief of Italian mission. Had call by Frederick Palmer and Casper Whitney. “Today d! corps and army or- ganization and sector occupation with McAndrew, Fox, Conner and Fiske. Have recommended shipment of 120- 000 tons of steel, besides copper, iron, lead and lumber promised the British, Inefficient loading of transports and causing some confusion. “‘Bulgarians reported tired of war. Allled commander on Balkan front tel. egraphs request for American troops.” Bulgarians Tired of War. An appeal for American troops on the Bulgarian front came through Gen. Bartlett, our representative there, as indicated by the following cablegram: | “Commander in chief allied forces on | Balkan front desires I report that Bul garians are tired of war. gary is in unstable condition and her troops on this front are not the best. Line of least resistance to decisive vic- | tory is now through Balkan ways. With additional help of one American divi by S s pe Wadso o3 joe moy f"“‘s'\,e yee we\\. i mo¥ o me 20 9:‘ sgz""z 'Ob:. 1 ! o en 'bu‘t cher® Yifer i d\‘"fl e‘}""g,h"" Manassas; Charles: Armistead Sinclair and G. Walker Merchant, past district teliffe, M. Meriwether head of motor transport, and “Melville Stone took luncheon with was American first, and that if arrival. of troops without equipment | &5 Husky fighting men from Australia. BY, GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING, Commander in Chief of the American Expeditionary' Forces. One of the engagements in which the Anzacs fought side by side with the Yanks was a littie ty on July 4, 1918. sion without artillery, Bulgaria can be defeated and Germany attacked through Austro-Hungary, ~ where Jugoslavs would aid allies. American division should arrive with as little delay as possible for action before snowfall. ‘All Greeks, Serbians and Slavs in the American Army should come to Balkan front to encourage Greeks and Serbians and to discourage Bulgarians. Declaration of war by the United States against Bulgaria would greatly increase discouragement in latter country, which now considers United States her friend on final peace congress. All British troops are now leaving Struma section, having been replaced by three Greek divisions. One of every four British infantry battalions is now leaving Bal- kans for another front.” July 10 I went to Bombon, Gen Fcch's headquarters, to discuss the em- ployment of American troops. This visit to Bombon, like all my calis on Foch, was by appointment. The discussion regarding their immediate use of the troops turned on the questicn of reliev- ing those still with the British. Asked for Sector. I told Gen. Foch that it had been my intention, when circumstances would permit, to withdraw our divisions to the American zone for the organization of our own Army, and I suggested that he should have this done at once before they became en“fid‘ ‘when the transfer might leave the British in an embar- rassing position, My idea was that our divisions could be assembled for service temporarily were needed most, perhaps confronting the Chateau Thierry salient, where we already had the 3d (Dickman) and the 26th (Edwards) in line, the latter hav- ing recently relieved the 2d (Bundy). “We should look further than this and decide upon a permanent sector called to my tentative understanding with Gen. Petain that the American sector should include tne St. Mihiel salient, and to the fact that we had done a great amount of work behind that front, such as the construction of railway sidings, yards, depots, airdromes and a regulating station, which was nearing completion. & I went on to say that with American units scattered all along the western front, assigned to no partic ‘zone for future operations, we postponing the doy when an American Army would be able to render its greatest help to the allied cause. I stressed the point that we were frittering away our resources for lack of a plan and were not able to utilize the full capacity of our facilities. Wanted St. Mihlel Salient. Instead of thinking of the future, even the jmmediate future, we were merely temporizing. If we were to do our part to the best advantage we should have & definite place on the front which could be served by our own lines of com munication. I again pointed out that the British were compelled to remain in the north, and that the Prench were covering Paris and the area west of Verdun, and that it seemed logical that we should hold to our original idea as to the lo. cation of an American sector. Also tha without delay,” I added. Attenticn was | | | going to be still more American than |parison. When Weygand expressed any of you. America must have. her | himself, it was quite tain that Foch place in the war. America has the right | would take the same view. Both during to have her army organized s such. | the conference and afterward the~ cm= “The American Army must become | phasized the opinion, which we ali held, |an accomplished fact. Moreover, the | that every effort shoul be made to win | cause of the allies will be better served | the war in 1919. |by an American Army under its own Foch sald the French and British | chief than if its units are dispersed. Armies and people were tired of the “Therefore, it is necessary at the war and that the minimum result re- earliest possible date to constitute an |quired of the campaign in 1919 would American Army side by side with the |be to free Northern France and at least | French and British armies, and it is | necessary to make the American Army | as large as possible.” Superior Number Needed. | Gen. Foch remarked that it might | be possible by the end of July to con- stitute an American Army with at least 13 divisions, Asked about the artillery for some of our units whose artillery | 1:ad not arrived, he sald Petain would | arrange that. He talked a great deal | that day, and went on to say that to bring victory to the allles it would | be necessary for them to have an in- contestable ‘numerical superiority. Gen. Foch laid particular stress on | the view that the strength of the Brit- {ish and French divisions should be maintained and. the number of Ameri- can divisions increased as rapidly as possible. Temporarily, he said, as long | as the present battle lasted he was go- |ing to ask the American Army to belp |the French Army by the loan of the divisions that had not yet received their artillery. He wanted them placed in quiet sectors or sent to complete their training in areas behind the lines where they would be available, if nec- | essary, to assist the French troops in | be the railroad net to include the lateral | front of them. | railway from Mezieres via Cambrai to- I sgreed with the idea of putting ward Valenclennes and the north. If newly arrived divisions in the inactive | this line were cut, it would throw the portions of the line, and we left the |bulk of the enemy's traffic on those | detafls of assignment to be discussed |through Liege and would force a con- | by Weygand and Conner. | siderable portion of the army back | “with my objective always in mind, I|against the rocky and heavily wooded |again suggested that the assembly of | Ardennes. This would cause the enemy |an American Army as a temporary |much embarrassment and compel him | measure might take place in the vi-|to relinquish the territory in Northern cinity of Chateau Thiery, to which France and at least a part of Belgium. | Gen. Foch promptly replied that this, The strongest reason advanced at He then re- | the time in support of their general that all three allies should utilize all available divisions in co-ordinated at- tack. ‘The thought was expressed, especially |by Weygand, that a certain spirit of emulation among the allied armies | would be necessary to co-ordination and | that the attacks should be launched in | the same general region, with interde- pendent objectives, a conception which would accord with the principle of con- centration of effort. With the British front extending to | the vicinity of Amiens and the French | from there to the vicinity of Rheims, | the location of the Americans, because of the Ezm and railfoads serving them, | would to the east, but co-ordination |of attacks would forbid them going farther east than the sector Rheim:s Argonne. This division of the front, | both Foch and Weygand thought, would correspond to the forces available in | 1919, and also to the peculiar necessi- ties that governed the location of troops of the various nations. ‘The objective, it was stated, other than the enemy forces, would naturally | occur between the 20th and 31st of that | | month, and indicated that he expected | |the 1st and 2d Divisions to take part. | | He also said an offensive would prob- | ably be made by the allies in Septem- | ber to reduce the Marne salient, if it | had not already been reduced. He men- | tioned the possibility of an operation season the fish, s and in the region of Amiens to free the v | rafiroad through that place. vegetables with Foch and Weygand Alike. The impression this conference left LE A & |on my mind was that, although he had | {l} spoken of an earlier’ date, Gen. Foch| N | was not really favorable to the forma. 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MARCH 3, ! 1931, conception of an allied offensive was that thé spirit of emulation would be aroused among the armies thus fighting side by side. It was argued that this feature would b= misred if the Amer! cans should attack in the Lorraine, while the British and French attacked in_the north. ‘While nothing definiie was then de- cided, the exchange of views, although rather general, covering the probable operations to be undsrtaken during the Fall and in the following yesr, did fur- nish several factors to in the study regarding the employment of the American Army. Leaving Foch's headquarters, T went to the headquarters of the 2d Division, northeast of la Ferte-sous-Jouarre, 0 bestow decorations, One of the men to receivé the Distinguished Servics Cross swam the river to present. ‘This was Marine Gunner (later Lieut) Henry L. Hulbert, 5th Regiment, United States Marines, afterward killed in action while his division was aiding the Prench in the Champagne, October 4, 1918, This gallant soldier had also received the Croix de Guerre with palm and the Navy Cross, and in 1809, at Samos, the Medal of Honor, * % * xx ‘Tomorrow: Pershing presses for of- fensive and objects to sending our troops to Archangel. orved. inciyd de Reproduction in whol GROUP NAMED TO WORK FOR MOTHERS IN NEED Golden Rule Campaign Beeks to Rescue May 10 Observance o From Commercialism. By the Assoclated Press, NEW YORK, March 3.—Mrs. Frank- | satd, “never had any serious trouble of ny kind.” lin D. Roosevelt, wife of the Governor | & of New York State, appointed yesterday | a National Golden Rule Mother'’s Day Committee which will work for the|g assistance of mothers in need. Mrs. | Roosevelt spoke at an advertising club | i luncheon. st practical assistance of Golden Rule Sunday, heretofore observed between Thanksgiving and Christmas. “It is to meet the need which has become acute this Winter,” sald Mrs. Roosevelt, “that the Golden Rule Foundation is making a special appeal through the National Golden ule Mother's Fund Committee.” Charles Stelzle of the Golden Rule Foundation, who presided at the luncheon, said the aim of the paign would be to rescue Mother's Day from commercialism. ACCUSED WIDOW | Mrg. Myrtle A. Bennett, 35-year-old widow accused of murdering her husband, was to take the witness@stand today in a yesterday as Adkins, fatal shooting of John G. Bennett, fol- lowing a bridge game quarrel Septem- ber 29, s Reed, former United States Senator |m: and chlef of defense counsel, were mofst, | chairmran can calm herself. | nett | counsel be placed on the stan examination of the other witnesses, sion she return: Mother’s Day, May 10, i to combine | 08, the homage of other years with_the | fore | his tified Bennet! arm and in the back, could have been MUSIC CONTEST OFFERS PRIZES TOTALING| $5,000 ’ National Federation Sponsors Competitions t{ Discover Youthful Talent, T0 TAKE STAND Bennett Weeps as? NEW YORK, March 3.—The Na- S tional Federation of Musiz Clubs yes- Mother Testifies in Bridge |terday anouncea purses t-taling #5,000 Slaying Trial. for its twentieth annua! young artists’ contest. The girl displaying the most out- — standing operatic voice will receive $1,000, auditions with the M itan and Chicago opera mmplnl:zfogdfltv | York debut under professional manage- |ment and an engagement with American Opera Co. 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