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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MARCH 8, 1931—PART ONE. NEW U, 5. CRUISER “T0 BECIN SERVIE Second Chicago Last of Eight 10,000-Ton Craft Authorized in 1924. By *he Associated Press. MARE ISLAND, Calif,, March 7.—For the second time in naval history the Chicago will join America's fighting craft. | This time the Chicago is cruiser | Gen. Goethals Is Rejected as Co-ordinate Chief in Charge of Supply Service in France. UNITY OF COMMAND No. 20, last of the eight 10,000-ton cruisers authoriz>d by Congress in 1924. | It ‘will be commissioned at Mare Island | Navy Yard Monday. | Forty-five years ago her namesake went down the ways across the conti- | nent to mark the passing of sail-driven | fighting craft. The new Chicago will stear: to the front of the Battle Fleet as soon as she has completed tests and her “shake down” cruise. She will replace the bat- tleship Texas as flagship for Admh‘ul‘ J. V. Chase, commander of the Battle he eight new_ cruisers—Chicago, | Salt Lake City, Pensacola, Chester, Louisville, Northampton, Augusta and Houston—more than double the cruiser | tonnage of the Navy. When Congress d the bill authorizing conctruction | he Navy had but 10 cruisers with a of 70,500. The eight new boats add 80,000 tons, bringing this division closer to the cruiser complement of other primary sea powers. Long Congress Debates. Interwoven with fights over raising the elevation of guns, congressional de- bate on the naval constructior. bill, in- cluding the cruisers, continued through- | out the year before it was passed | Detamber 24, 1924. Argument over gun | tion was in connection with the treaty of 1922 and was intended to| bring the range of United States craft on a ith Great Britain, ,J’,‘,"S... treaty the type of the 10,000-ton cruisers was specified, re- sulting in their being known as "mty-tyge" light crulsers. Although au! in 1924, funds ‘were not available until 1927. Their cost was limited to $11,000,000 each, ex- clusive of armament. ‘Their main armament consists of nine 8-inch guns mounted in three inclosed turrets, two forward and one aft. The pleces are capable of bombarding the miles away. Other Guns Carried. addition, the cruisers carry four In B-inch 25-caliber anti-aircraft guns, | . ht anti-aircraft machine guns, two iple 21-inch above-water torpedo tubes, two 3-pound saluting guns, two 1-pound boat guns and a 3-inch land- iece. pvm by four propellers, each 12 feet in dismeter, the cruiser A. T. Mahan, naval 1893 to 1895, when she was re- | modeled as 8 protected cruiser. The ad- vent of dreadnaughts drove the Chicago from active service. strategist IS HELD ESSENTIAL | Baker Warns Against All Citing American Victories and Communiques Ignoring Reverses. CHAPTER LVIL RECEIVED a letter from Secretary of War Baker in July sutl.ns it had | been proposed that Gen. Goethals be sent over to take charge of the Service of Supply, with the idea that he would have co-ordinate author- ity with me and be in control of sup- piles from the source at home, thence across the Atlantic and uwp to the zone of the armies, being directly under orders from Washington. | The theory was that this arrange- ment would enable me to devote my time exclusively to military operations. The Secretary wished to know what 1| thought of the suggestion. | I much appreciated the Secretary's| desire to relieve me of every burden that might interfere with the direction of operations, but there appeared to be an ex: ated view concerning the personal attention required in handling these detalls of administration. Against Divided Authority. As a principle of military organiza- tion, the suggestion did not meet with my approval. The command had been organized carefully with just this situa- tion in view, and the supply system was fulfilling its functions as an essential part of the organic military structure as far as the conditions of delayed ma- terial and of limited and inexperienced personnel would permit. I was in control through the General Staff, which in turn was handling di- rectly a multitude of questions imme- distely vital to military success. The ystem, to be successful, could have no_divided authority or res&omlbmly. The man who directed the armies wes the one to control their supply, through a military commander respon- sible to him alone. This military principle, under the peculiar circum- stances surrounding our activities, could not be violated without inviting faflure. It was applied in the British armies and as far as possible in the French. In each of the allied armies the general in charge of the services of :‘w lyh’ nes of communication and the forces was subordinate to the commander in chief. In our case it only remained to invest the command- “}f general of the supply system with all necessary authority to enable him to take the initiative under my general direction. One enmrle borrowed from my ex- perience will fllustrate the soundness of the principle. During the battle of the Meuse-Argonne our situation at the front was such that the 8. O. 8. had to be liberally stripped of every avail- able man and all means of - tion, animals, trucks, raflroad rolling stock, that could possibly be spared. Hits at Plan's Proponents. Assistance was given cheerfu’l ., but it was done in compliance with my orders. One can imagine the possibii:ies of failure if it had been necessary to re- quest these things from an official of my own rank responsible not t we but | My Experiences in the World War BY GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING, Commander in Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces. ice during June through July and August, and have told them frankly that we are considering an enlargement of rogram which may require for a time at least the uninterruptec: service of all the ships we have been i1sing. 1 we are able in July and August to match the performance of Juae, it will mean other half-million men France, as the June embarkation fig- ures from this country show slightly more than 279,000 men. Our own ships carried during that month something more than 100,000, which is, of course, doing better than our part as wve orig- irally calculated it. “I think it highly important that neither Gen. Foch nor the British and Prench governments should as- sume our ability to carry out an en- larged program until we ourselves have studied it. There is no disposi- tion on the part of the United States to shrink from any sacrifice or any effort, and yet experience has taught us that great as our capacity is in industry, it takes time to build new factories, tools and terfals for any large increase in in- dustrial output, and I am especially concerned that there should be no dis- appointment on the g;n of our allles. “I would very much rather they ex- pect less and to receive more than to expect more and be disappointed in the result. One of the happy effects of the recent accelerated shipment of troops has been that we have out- stripped our promises, Raw Men Sent to Fragee. “The Operations Committee of the general staff is pressing forward the necessary studies. They involve, of course, questons of clothing, small arms, ammunition, transportation and aining. On the latter subject I am beginning to be fairly free from doubts; the troops which we have recently sent you have admittedly been of an uneven quality, chiefly because we have made up deficiencies in divisions about to sail by taking men from other di- vislons, with consequent disorganiza- tion of those divisions from which men were repeatedly taken and, when we t to & place where we could no nger carry out this process, fairly raw men had to be used to keep di- visions from sailing short. | safe if we have a million men in train- ing in the United States at all times. That will enable us to feed them out l% you at the rate of 250,000 a month and bring that number in by draft at the other end, which will always give us an_adequate supply of men who have had as much training as they in | can profitably secure here in the United tates. “The finishing touches in any event will have to be given in France, and I think you will find that men who have had four months' training here are pretty nearly ready for use in as- sociation with your veteran and e: erienced troops, and that no pr onged period of !:umrun training, for infantry, at least, will be found neces- sary. makes the problem very simple from the point of view of the draft and the training camps. “All accounts we receive in this country of the conduct of our men are most stimulating and encoureging. Appurenll:; the common \ opinion is that we have rendered valuable, if not indispensable, service already, in a -p‘urely military way, in the great bat- tles. | “I was a little afraid that too en- | thusiastic comment might create feeling of resentment on the part of our allies. Their men, of course, have tood these attacks for a long time, | and it would only be human if they | resented the newcomers getting too | much attention at the expense of or- | ganizations which are battle-scarred | and have had their valor tested in | great conflicts; and I have little | feared, too, that if our people here | at home were fed too many stories of | success they might get the notion that this great task i5 going to be easy for Americans and be ill-prepared for any reverse, no matter how slight. “Refer to Slight Repulses.” “For that reason I have exercised good deal of self-restraint in my own discussion with the newspapermen and n such public addresses as 1 have made, seeking always to couple up the British and the Prench with our American sol- ' diers and to make the whole war a matter of common effort, rather than of our own national effort. This has | been especially easy, because the spirit | of America is now very high. The | possible way to relieve you of unneces- sary burdens, but of course to leave you with all the authority necessary to secure the best results from your forces and to supply all the support and sistance we possibly c “As the American troops in France become more and more numerous and the battle initiative on some parts of the front passes to you, the purely military part of your task will neces- sarily take more and more of your time, and both the President and I want to feel that the planning and executing of military undertakings bas your personal consideration and that your mind is| free for that as far as possible. | “The American people think of you | as their ‘fighting general,’ and I want them to have the idea more and more brought home to them. For these rea- | sons, it seems to me that if some plan | could be devised by which you would | be free from any necessity of giving at- | tentlon to services of supply it would help, and one plan is that direction which suggested itself was to send Gen. | Goethals over to take charge of the | services of supply, establishing a direct relationship between him and Washing- ton and allowing you to rely upon him | Just as you would rely upon the supply departments of the War Department if your military operations were being conducted In America, instead of in | France. “Such a plan would place Gen. Goe- thals rather in a co-ordinate than a | subordinate relationship to you, but of course it would transfer all of the sup- ply_responsibilities from you to bhim, and you could then forget about docks, railroads, storage houses and all the other vast industrial undertakings to which up to now you have given a good | be very glad to know what you (‘hink about this suggestion, Use Gen. Bliss More. “I reslize that France is very far ficult means of communication, o you | may prefer to have the supply system | be grateful if you would think the prob- i lem over and tell me quite frankly just what you think on the subject } presentation of finter-allied questions t, seéems not unlikely at present that I shall myself come over to Euro) in connection :x“-h ‘;‘I’rlde&lhrm mil tary pre m. we t our abil- so the thing dcwn“:nl ’up'cm eo-opera it be a good deal simpler to put the whole qu:l‘h 3 Il-g‘h'l:l lflfll'.: and henc':l cabinet definite agreement of €0-0 and action. Cablegrams are of course inconclusive and unecertain, 1 constantly find that even letters fail to carry just the spirit in which they are dictated. “When 1 write you, of course I know that our personal relations and knowl- edge of each other are too cordial and entire to allow any sort of misunder- standing, but I haven't the same ac- quaintance with the British and French cabinet officers, and with them the presumptions do not obtain which are always implied in our correspondence. T confess I am somewhat moved to this idea of the necessity for my going by my desire to go; it is a.tremendous in- spiration to see our forces and to look at the work which you and they have done. “Cordially “(8igned) NEWTO! yours, N D. BAI 3 “Secretary of War.” In reply, by rn messe! T wrote Secretary mufl part as follows: “I realize that a very large under- uklnf has been in the 80 to 100 division program, and that to carry it out is pfing to require very great sacrifices on our part. But, as you say, the war has gone on long enough and should be brought to a close as early as it is possible for us to do it. Must Act Early. “The main reason for an extreme ef- fort on our part next year is the stimu- lating_effect that our immediate entry into the war in a large way will have upon our alljes, If we should not dem- onstrate ou? wish thus to bring the war to a speedy end our allies might not hold on over another year, and we shall need every ounce of fight they have left in them to win, not that we kave not the men and the resources at | home. but that if left to_carry on the war alone, even on French soll, we would soon come to the limit of our akt:imy to bring them over and supply them. “June 23d, when M. Clemenceau was at my headquarters, I had an oppor- tunity to speak about the use of our troops. I d him they were being wasted and that instead of the allies being always on_ the defensive, an American Army should be formed at once to strike an offensive blow and turn the tide of the war. He was very much impressed at such boldngss, as he had heard only of our men going into French divisions as platoons or at most as regiments. Soon after ti Petain was called to Paris, and, I have heard, was told my views. Anyway, Petain soon began to take another view. You know he has always opposed the formation of Amerk units under their own commande Now both he and Foch favor it. * * ¢ “Our troops have done well for new troops. and the part they have taken has encouraged our allies, especially the French, to go in and help put over a counter offensive. This offensive, be- tween Solssons and Chateau-Thierry, was planned some time ago, to be un- dertaken especially in the event of the Germans attempting to push their line south of the Marne; or to the east be- tween the Marne and Rheims. * * * Our Army Superior. “I have had to insist very strongly. in the face of determined opposition, to get out troops out of leading strings. ou know the French and British have lways advanced the idea that we hould not form divisions until our men had three or four months with them. We have found, however, that only a sbort time was necessary to learn all they know as it is confined deal of your time and, as you know we | to trench warfare almost entirely, and all think, with superb success. I would | I have insisted on en warfare train- ing. To get this training, it has been necessary to unite our men under our which is now being done rapidly. “Our officers and men are far and from the United States and that our away superior to any now in Europe. reliance upon cables makes a very dif- | High officers of the allies have often dropped-derogatory remarks about our poorly trained staff and high com- as one of your responsibilities. I would | manders, which our men have stood as long as they can. Even Mr. Tardieu sald some of these things to me a few The | days ago. I replled, in rather forcible BIDDLE MARRIAGE RUMORED AS NEAR New York Paper Predicts He Will Wed Divorced Mrs. Schulze. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 7.—When Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, jr., were divorced at Newburgh-on-the- Hudson yesterday, one of the famous matrimonial alliances of the country was dissolve ‘The marriage of the former Mary L. Duke, heiress to the huge fortune which the late Benjamin §. Duke made in tcbacco, to ony J. Drexel Biddle, social l-ad t Nevport in 1915, was one of the outstanding wed- | WASHINGTON BEAUTY PRAISED OVER RADIO | William J. Hobbs of Chamber of Commerce Tells Advantages of Environment. “Washington is not only one of the »b«t planned, but is probably one of the | best kept citles in the world,” Willlam | J. Hobbs, associate secretary of the ‘Washington Chamber of Commerce, told & radio audlence of Station WMAL last night. | _The beauty of the city and Wash- | ngton’s environment, cultural atmos- | phere due to many libraries and institu- tons of learning and research, make the Capital “an educational center of the | first magnitude,” Hobbs seid. Hobbs, busincss director of Greater | Washington, the chamber’s monthly * publication, devoted his taik to the tell- ing cf features in the edueation number y of his magazine, the June issue, to be widely ¢istributed throughout the coun- | try to show Wachington's advantages as the national center of education. She is still in use in Hawall christened the Alton after the Illinols , she was humbled to the status of a floating barracks for the submarine station at Pear] Harbor. to the department at Washington. ‘The officer or group of of rs who proposed such a scheme to ihe Secre- tary could not have had the success of | the h command in France very deep- | 1y at heart, or else were ignorent of the | sl country is thoroughly unified and is | waiting only to be shown how it can make further effective sacrifices and efforts. “It occurs to me in this connection | that it might be wise for you in your | “The plan inaugurated by Gen. | March of hnvln, replacement divisions | in this country from which deficiencies | could be suppiied without robbing other | divisions and disorganizing them seems | to me to solve the problem, and the President and I will censider your reply | language, that we had now been pat- together, and you may rely upon our |ronized as long as we would stand for heing guided only by confidence in your | it, and I wished to hear no more of judgment and the deep desire to aid | that sort of nonsense. Orders have you. | now been given by the French that all “One other aspect of your burdens | of our troops in sectors with the French dings in Newport annals, Miss Duke's | father's fortune was estimated at $200,- 000,000 when he died in 1929, Anthony J, Drexel Blddle, jr., is the head of one of America’s oldest fam- | ilies of wealth. The first of the family |, in America arrived with Willlam Penn. Cholly Knickerbocker, society editor of the N'w York American, prophesies | today that the next Mrs, Anthony J Drexel Biddle, jr.. will be Mrs. Thomp- son Schu'ze, daughter of the late Wil- liam Boyce Thompson, copper magnate and director of the Federal R-serve | Bank of New York. Mrs. Schulze and | Theodore Bchulze were divorced several | years ago. | he Duke-Biddle alliance was | CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Chlarity dance, Tau Sigma Deita So- rity, Le Paradic Club, 10 p.m. ‘FUTURE. Luncheon, Alpha Delta ternity, University Club, {12:30 pm. Phi Pra- tomorrew, ag ‘When tl celebrated it was compared for financial | and soclal significance with the mar- riage of the former Mrs. William K Vand-rbilt end the lat> Oliver Hazard Perry Be'mont and the marriage of Gerirude Vanderbilt and Harry Payne Whitney. Another alliance of two wealthy fam- {lies was the marriage of the former Edith Rockef<ller, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, with Harold McCormick of | 's divorce proceedings were the culmination of repeated reports of | difficulties. Mrs. Biddle indicated a | financial settlement has been reached. There are two children, Nicholas and Mary who are at present with their mother. An unknown co-respondent figured in the ce! 3 I would say this regardless of the per- son in command. Our organization here is so bound up with operations, training. supply and transportation of | troops that it would be impossible to | make it function if the control of our | service of the rear were placed in Washington. “Please let us not make the mistake of handicapping our army here by at- tempting to control these things from Washington, or by introducing any co- ordinate autbority. All matters per. taining to these forces, after their a rival in France, should be under the General Staff here where they are be- ing and can be handled satisfactorily. “I haye been more or less puzzled about this question of sending over Gen. Goethals. I thought he was in charge of transportation over there, and that he was considered necessary in | that position. So it is difficult to see just why he should have been proposed for this place. I do not wish to appear | unappreciative of any suggestion from | you because I know that it is your de- | sire to do the best possible to help, and have saticfied myself by a knowledge of this fact. I do think, however, that | Gen. Harbord can handle it as well or better than anyone I know. Besides, | I bave every confidence in Gen. Har- bord and know that he is going to pull | in the team. I should have put Harbord in some time ago, but his division was in the lines. Now it goes to a quiet .:tc.to.r"nnd his services can be spared. proved a life-saver to many an individual who was floundering in a sea of debts and despair. It has been the means of pulling them out of debt and helping them re- establish their credit stand- ing. Let us loan you the funds to pay your bills or for what- ever other worthy purpose you may need it. You have 2 year to pay it back in small monthly or weekly amounts. Ask us for the full details. N;I:flrfis “ Ba%rlic Under Supervision U. S. Treasury 1408 H STREET N.W. e ‘Tomorrow: Pershing recounts epi- sodes, amusing and otherwise, of a tour | of the 8. O. 8. with Harbord. (Copyright. 1931, in all countries by the North American Newspsper Alliance. World | rights reserved. including the Scandinavian. Beproduction in whole or in part - | | MAY WIRTH TO FEATURE divisions which come to you in August | communiques, from time to time, 10| the President feels can be somewhat | would be placed under our own officers, | basic principles of organization A reply to the Secretary wa. cabled at once. I urged him not to p-imit any violation of the foregoing princiiles and asked him to awwit my letter, which | he advised he would do. o real answer. however, was the assignment of Gen. Harbord to command the rervices of supply. Nothing further was done by the Becretary of War wikL refer- SHRINE CIRCUS MARCH 16| Former Partner of Lillian Leitzel to Start Tour of U. 8. Follow- ing Performances Here. ence to sending Goethals. | Miss May Wirth, co-featured in the| “rThe jetter from the Secretary con- | ears with the late Lilllan Leitzel, y = P Jerial artist, will be the headiiner with | pg the supply ‘system 18 given here in “I have Cifeus, to open in Washington March ave the feeling that thic war has 16. | tion on our part or any sacrifice can Miss Wirth will arrive in Washington | speed its successful termination even appearance, after which she will begin | are therefore now having s 258 " extensive Spring and . Summer | o show the things heceasary ¢ be done s S | volving 60, one 80, and the other 100 SISTERHOOD PLANS DANCE | ¢!tisions by the first of July. 1919, |cut we wili, in consultation with the New Officers of Adas Israel Wom- War Industries Board, determine how en's Group to Be Honored. existence or possible to be ciated can | | supply the necessary material, snd the | Congregation Sisterhood will be|way of heavy artillery and trans given a dance Tuesday evening at|tion from the British and French. It | The new officers are: Mrs. Morris| those governments a frank ext.bition of Gewirz, president; Mrs, Joseph Kamin-|the possibilities and to arrange for con- Schlossberg, second vice president; Mrs. | to the increase in our effort which you Falk Harmel, recording secretary; Mrs.(and Gen. Foch recommend. Schlossberg, treasurer, and Mrs. Joseph | British government to continue the troor. 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N 913 and September will, I am sure, show highly benefizial Its from this policy. “In the meantime we have discov- ered two things about training in this country which apparently nobody knew or thought of before we went into the war; firet, that, while it may take nine months or a year to train raw recruits into soldiers in peace time, when there is no inspiration from a existing struggle, it takes no such length of time now when the great dramatic battles are being fought and men are eager to qualify themselves to participate in them, We are cer- tainly able to get more training into a man now in three months than would be possible in nine months of peace-time training. “And, second, we have learned that to keep men too long in training camps in this country makes them go stale and probably does as much harm by the spirit of impatience and restl ness aroused 1t does d by the longer drillin ‘The men in our train- ing camps are champing at the bit, and this applies, not only to the officers, who naturally want their professional opportunity, but to the men as well Indeed, one of the difficulties in Amer- ica is to make people content with the | iem here for any | lot which keeps len{th of time, so impatient are we all military and civilians alike, to get to z ince, where the real work is being ne. “As a consequence of these discov- eries 1 feel that we will be perfectly refer to slight repulses suffered by our men; but of course I do not want our | men to be repulsed merely to balance the news. “July 1 I wrote the President that 1,019,000 men had embarked for France, There had been so much speculation about numbers that it seemed necessary to tell the facts. The Ameriean people are accustomed to de- manding the facts and there was some impatience manifested with the depart- ment for its continued policy of silence on this subject. I realized when I made the statement that in all like- lihood I should have to discontinue further reference to numbers, at least further specific references. ““The Germans, French and British, of course, make no such announcements, and our allies will not like to have us | adopting & different course. There are | doubtless good military reasons for not being very generous with information of thix kind, which finds its way to |the enemy and enables them to make | more certain calculations. Still, if the rate of shipments we have maintained | for the last two or three months can | be kept up for another six months, 1 | am not very sure that exact news car- ried to Germany of the arrival of Americans in France might not be helpful to us, rather than harmful. The German government cannot fail to be impressed by this steady stream of fresh soldiers to the Western front. “The President and I have had sev- eral conferences about your situation in Gazing Globe I You Should ’ See Before Deciding Ernes 3 Blocks North For Home Bird Bath Closed & Pottery Strawber Visitors Always Welcome at Our Show Room Hours, 9 to 6 Sun Dial t Bros. Columbia Pottery 1109 Bladensburg Road of 15th & H N.E. and Garden ry Jar Must Be Seen to Be Appreciated Jardiniere Sundays lightened s by 8 larger use of Gerl. Bliss as diplomatic intermediary. The | President is adopting as a definite rule | of action an insistence upon inter- sllied military questions being referred to the permanent military representa- tives. Our difficulty here has been that the British representative would present something for consideration without the knowledge of the French, or the French without the knowledge of the British, | | | decision we would sometimes find that | the other nation felt aggrieved at not being consulted. “As each of the allled nations is represented at Versailles, the President is now uniformly saying with regard to all inter-allied military questions that their presentation to him should come through the permanent military rep- resentatives who, 1n a way, are a kind | of staff for Gen. Foch and ‘undoubtedly | maintain such close relations with him | as to make any proposition which they | ascertained. “As the President deals in matters of military diplomacy with Gen. Bliss, it would seem that he could with pro- priety relieve you of some part of the conferences and consultations which in the early days you were obliged to have | | and that American division command- ers would be given command of their own sectors. This has come about since my insistence forced the French to agree to the formation of an American field army. - “I entirely agree with what you say regarding Gen. Bliss as a diplomatic intermediar; However, very little of my time been taken up with that sort of thil use with British and French. As vou know, 1 have the highest regard for Gen. Bliss and our relations have been | the most pleasant. I think he is ad- | consider one upon which his views are | mirably fitted to represent the President in many of these perplexing diplomatic questions that come up. He has excel- lent judgment, and is very highly re- garded by the allled official world. * * ¢ Against Co-ordinate Authority. “On the subject of Gen. 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