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DREISER TRAGIC ONLY IN WRITINGS Novelist, Difficult to Reach, Found With Taste for Poker and Dancing. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 14 —Theodore Dreiser looms on the horizon as a lonely, solitary figure. Fo “euod He is difficult to meet anu little of his personality is known. One might sup- pose that he spends brooding days in a city hermitage. In reality the novel- ist of tragic realism plays poker, likes stage dancing and is fond of getting his friends together for discussions of any argument. “You get to the place where you have to shield yourself,” he said in his apart- * ment, within sound of Broadway taxi- cabs. “Otherwise how would you ever get time to sit down and work out things? “In a way, neglect and poverty are fortunate. They take away the privilege of frittering away your time. I find what little material wealth I have is an annoyan-e. Lives In Comfort. About him were ev'dences of com- | fortable, almost luxurious, living. His duplex studio-living room contains a grand piano, a desk, a divan; on the walls are modern paintings and a life- sized portrait of the author; on either side are filled book shelves. Drelser reads omniverously. He is flooded with books—"All,” he said, “commend:d to the skies. It seems to me there must be 1,000 masterpieces each year.” Art interests him deeply. He goes to the gallories and lik-s to meet ‘the artists, be close to them and get their reactions. He loves music, too; is a dis- criminating playgoer, and occasionally sees a motion picture. Other Interests Stated. “My othcr interests,” he sald, “ate economics, sociology, biology, history and biography. “But I like most to talk with people who possess fine minds. It is wonderful what they give you,” he revealed this Dreiser’s gloomy face relaxed a bit. He rarely smiled. His eyes are blue-gray; his hair, brushed back from his hli[_‘ , sloping forehead, is gray. In his hand was the whi handkerchief which he forever holds, folded lengthwicze into a ribbon, twist- ing and wadding it. B He has learned to discipline himself. “For years I have got up at 7:30 or 30 in the morning to write. I shut myself in a room upstairs, and while I writing I am ‘out’ to everybody.” Now and then he has a late night, but no longer does he go to night clubs, “I used to go to them a great deal, but there was not enough originality in em. As for literature, he had one com- ment: “Always people will love a g - wine work of ari.; He does not think anything “needs to be written,” and, concerning his own work, he says am interested only in reaching my fol- lowers and doing the few things I would like to do. INQUIRY IS BEGUN INTO INN MURDER Anne Arundel Prosecutor to Take Up Killing of Baltirore Boxing Promoter. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 14.—A. ‘Thecdore Brady, -State’s attorney for Anne Arundel County, today will start an investigation of the death of Charles Valentine, or Valentina, described as a fight moter, who was shot in the Polly , & road house on the Furnace Branch road, Anne Arundel County, ‘Thursday night. s, fncluding three girls, man's brother, Lewis, and Michael Julian, a former boxer, known as Kid Julian, are held pending a corcner’s inquest, wihch will be_ con- ducted tonight by Magistrate Harry Melvin at Linthicum Heights. All ex- cept Julian, who was at the central district police station, Baltimore, were locked up in the Annapolis jail last night. A search is under way for a man known as a New York gunman as the slayer of Valentine. ‘Three other men, their identities and their parts in the killing guarded care- fully, are being sought, and Baltimore police are looking for Sam Sternick, #aid to be the owner or operator of the resort. 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'FOCH IS SURPRISED !St. Mihiel Is Transferred Marshal Makes Effort to Change Plan. CHAPTER LXIL N attack by the French 10th Army, begun August 29, was undertaken to force the re- tirement of the enemy from the Ves'e and Aisne Rivers. On its relief from the Vesle August 7 the 32d Americen Division (Haan) was assigned to the 10th Army and entered the line Avgust 28, immediately undertaking a series uf local operations, in which gains were made in the face of very heavy fire. Ravines end numerous caves in the region provided ideal cover for the defending troors. The general attack of the Army the following day met but slight success, the enemy resisting desperately along kis entire tront, but on the 30th, by a flank attack from the south, the 32d Division captured Juvigny, pushing a small salient into the German lines. Hard fighting continued August 31, but by the end of the day the 32d had reached the important Sofssons-St. Quentin road, where it was relieved September 2. ‘The 32d Division had advanced nearly three miles, and its success contributed - greatly to the forced withdrawal of the German line to the Aisne River. St. Mihiel Transferred. As prearrangzd between Gen. Petain and myself, the sector from Port-sur- Seille (east of the Moselle River) to | Watronville (north of les Eparges), 42 {miles in extent. then occupied by the | entire French 8th Army and a part of | the Prench 2d Army, was transferred to my command August 30. szlient, which wes between these points and embraced the permanent fortresses around /Toul. We had three divisions in line on tke south face of the sector, | but the mass of our battle troops would | DeE” not take over the trenches until the | night before the attack. | As we have seen, there had been a | great deal of discussion leading up to | the understanding regerding tke St. Mihiel offensive. August 16, prelimin- | ary instructions had been issued by me and these had been supplemented from time to time by verbal directions, and now everything was moving smoothly toward readiness for the attack. In my conversation with Marshal Foch as late as August 25 he had suggested the ex- tension of our front on the west of the salient. Two French corps in the sector had been assigned to my command and arrangements for the transfer to the ea of auxiliary troops and_ services | had been agreed upon, with no hint that !Bch was not in full accord with our plans. August 30, the day I assumed com- mand of the sector, Marchal Foch, ac- companied of staff, came to my-residence at Ligny- en-Barrois, and after the usual cordial exchange of greetings presented an en- tirely new plan for the use of the American Army. Foch Makes New Plans. ‘The marshal began by saying that the German armies were in more or less disorder from recent attacks by the allies, and that we must not allow them to reorganize, and that the British would continue their attack in the direction cf Cambrai and St. Quen- tin, and the French toward Mesnil. Then, much to my surprise, he pro- pcsed that the objectives in the St. Mihiel operation be restricted and the attack made on the southern face only, and that upon its completion two cther operations be undertaken by combined Americans and Prench, a number of our divisions going under French com- mand. His plans, defining the opera- tions after St. Mihiel, were as follows: (a). An attack between the Meuse and the Argonne executed by the 2nd French Army, reinforced by a few American divisions (four or six), to be Pprepared at once and launched as soon as possible after that in Wcevre. (b). A Prench-American attack ex- | tending from the Argonne to the Souin road, to be prepared also without any delay so that it may be launched a few days after the preceding one. This |attack will be executed by—on the | right, an American Army acting on each side of the Aisne—on the left, the 4th Prench Army extending its action to the Souin road. “I realize,” Foch said, “that I am | presenting a number of new ideas and that you will probably need time to think them over, but I should like your first impressions,” which I did not hesi- | tate a moment to give. Saw American Army Destroyed. “Well, marshal” I replied, “this is {a very sudden change. We are going | BY GENERAL’S STAND | to U. S. Command, but | Late | | The front included the St. Mihiel | Gen. Weygand, his chief | sult | forward as already recommended to | you and approved by you, and I can | | ot understand why you want these | | changes. Moreover, I think that to 5. | make an attack in the salient with | limited cbjectives would ccst little less than to cjnrry out_the original ldes,! which I think would put us in much | r position.” | be.‘t";;‘hs‘vi is true,” he admitted, “but the ! fate of the 1918 campaign will be de- | cided in the Aisne region, and 1 wish | to Jimit the Woevre (St. Mihiel) attack |so tne Americans can participate in i(he Meuse oflennvmll’hich will pro- dure still greater results.” " | “But, Marshal Foch,” I sald, “here on the very day that you turn over a | sector to the American Army, almost {on the eve of an offensive, you ask me | to reduce the operation so you can take away several of my divisions and as- ! sign some to the French Second Army and use others to form an American army to operate in conjunction with *he French Fourth Army, leaving me with little to do except hold what will become a quiet sector after the St. Mihiel offensive. This virtually de- stroys the Amlerlcu&, Af\rrr:ly" we have n trying so lon orm.’ M;{lmrl";fll Foch :u‘zested that if I could give a satisfactory solution which would permit the execution of the op- erations in view he would be glad to carry it out, but he did not think it possible; that he had studied the ques- tion carefully and had sincerely looked for some way to avoid dividing the Ameriean Army, but that he did not believe it could be found. Suggested Shifting Operations. “One way,” I suggested, “might be to ! withdraw the Americans. from other sectors and put them in with their right on the Meuse and let them ex- possible.” Prench divisions later, sent to one or both of the requested me to send reserve divis} toward the Al while the !Lmhleluuekwumw.m | tion, saying, however, that he was dis- said that later, having made studies | and general preparations for the at- tack, I could go and take command when the army was formed. Referring again to the St. Mihiel op- | eration, I argued that there would be’ Jess risk if we should attack on both | si€~y of the salient. Marshal Foch seer,”d to think there was danger of | our »coming too deeply involved in thau sector, although in conference in July he had stated that clearing the salient would bring us within reach of the Briey Basin and permit action on a larger scale between the Meuse and the Moselle. | However, he now clung to the idea | that the objective should be the line | Regnieville-Thiaucourt - Vigneulles, and | that the attack should be made only on | But I did not think | the southern face. it wise, at this eleventh hour, to make changes in our solution of the prob- lem. I was willing to accent the limited cbjectives, but I held out in favor of | the secondary atlack from the west. | Objected to Gen. Degoutte. \ Supporting his plans further, Marshal | 5 Foch suggested that for the operation in the Aisne he could put bgth Gen.| utte, who was thoroughly’ familiar | with that region, and Gen. Malcor, who was also acquainted with the country | and was chief of artillery of the Fourth | army, at my disposal to assist, with the | aid of an American staff, in preparing the Alsre operation while I was en- geged in the Woevre. This wes only’a roundabout way of | attempting to assign Gen. Degoutte to| command our troops. Many officers who had served under him on the Vesle felt that he had unnecessarily sacrificed American troops, so for both reasons I disapproved of the suggestion. ‘The marshal then re-stated his pro- posal and suggested that if the two American g;mzm‘:. ;x:: k;lelng m; group ass! to the French Secon Army and the other the proj Amer- ican Army on opposite sides of the Argonne, would eventually join hands, he_could. see only advantage in this. ‘The further we proceeded the more apparent it became to me that the re- | of any of these proposals would be | to frustrate or at least seriously delay forming a distinctive American Army. | In this event it was certain that de-| spite the contribution of our splendid | units, whatever success might be at- tained would be counted as the achieve- ment of the French armies and our par- ticipation would be entirely secondary. | I asked why these Americans which | Marshal Foch proposed should go to the Alsne, where they would replace French | divisions, should not go to replace | French ‘divisions in the Prench Second Army, then between the Metse River | and the Argonne Forest. Insisted on Our Army. In other words, Why should not the | "™ Americans take over the whole sector | then occupied by the French Second Army west of the Meuse, thus making | the French troops relieved available to | reinforce the French Fourth Army. I repeated what I had often said, that the American Government and people expected the Army to act as a| unit and not be dispersed in this way. I pointed out that each time we were | about to complete the organization of | our Army, some proposition like this was presented to prevent it. 3 | “Do you wish to go to battle?” Mar- shal Foch broke in. “Most assuredly,” I replied, “but as an American Army and in no other way.” He argued that there would not be time, whereupon I said: “If you will assign me a sector I will take it at once.” “Where would it be?” he asked. “Wherever you say.” I remind:d him tnat the French had | insist>d on our shipping to France only infantry and macnine gun units, and had made the distinct promise’ that they would supply us with artillery and other auxliary troops when needed. I pointed out tnat he himself had made ripeated and urgent requests for these limited shipments, and had promised that we would be furnished whatever necessary to complete our organization until our own auxiliary troops should arrive. 1 then demanded that he fulfill thes> promises, Americans, Not French. Marshal Foch adhered to his proposi- posed to consider any suggestion that would keep the American Army to- gether. My reply was that I was quite ready to send divisions west of the Argonne Forest as an American Army, but not to serve in the French Second Army. Foch then asserted that this would not lave the French Armies enough troops with which to attack, ignoring my argument that the question was as broad as it was long, and that he could transfer French as easily as he could American divisions. After making two tentative sugges- tions, first, that we should operate east of th: Meuse River, and second, west of the Argonne Forest, both of which he rejected, I proposed flatly that the front of the American Army be extend- ed to include the sector b:tween the Meuse and the Argonne. Foch ad. mitted that this had his original idea, but he still pleaded lack of time. The discussion was somewhat hcated and much of it was carried on 50 rapidly that it could not be translated. He continued to reiterate his demands for the adoption of his plan, but I had learned that it was necessary to be very firm in dcaling with him, and I finally said, in effect: “Marshal Foch, you have no authority as ellled commander-in-chief to call tpon me to yield my command of the American Army fo hav: it scattered among the allled forces, where it will not be an American Army at all.” He was apparently surprised at my resentment of his attempt to confine American effort to subordinate roles, “I must insist upon the ar- to which I replied, as we both rose: “You may insist all you please, but | I decline absolutely to to {:“rr plan. While our Army will fight wher- ever you may decid®, it will not fight R‘HG;V_ as an independent American T pointed out to him that T had de- him to assist in AngAmerican machine gun nest. cown, insisted upon it, and that we had all been criticized for parceling out our trcops here and there. I drew Marshal Foch's attention to the messag> Presi- dent Wilson had sent to the embassies in Washington, stating that the Ameri- can Army should fight as such and on the western front. Left Memorandum Behind. He said he was disposed to do what he could toward forming an American Aimy. He then picked up his maps and ‘papers and left, very pale and apparently exhausted, saying at the door as he handed me the memorandum | of f his propcsal that he thought that after careful study I should arrive at the same conclusion he had. The impression this meeting left on my mind was that Marshal Foch wes inclined to aid in the formation of an American Army, but that upon reaching a certain point he had al- Jowed himself to be persuaded to take th: view that after the reduction of the St. Mihiel sallent it should be plit up as proposed. With the added support of American divisions making the second army largely American, he no doubt thought the French would then be able to push forward and cut Ciiermmy's vital lines of communica- tion. I was willing to use our forces wherever seemed best, but not under French commanders. The plan sug- gested tor the American participation in these operations in conjunction with the French with a considemable number of our divisions under their command |was not in any sense acceptable to me. The proposal to divide our re- cently formed First Army into several groups, mainly to assist French armies, icould not be entertained. It was | directly contrary to my belief that an American Army, under its' own flag, | could best serve the allied cause. ” | An enormous amount of preparation | had already been made in our area in | the construction of roads, railroads, regulating stations, hospitals and other installations looking to the use and | supply of our armies on a particular front. Moreover, the inherent dis- inclination of our troops to serve under |allled commanders had already grown | to open dmpfimvnl. and if continued | under the changss proposed would | have been entirely ~destructive to American morale. * % % % | Tomorrow: Pershing delivers ulti- | matum to Foch on dispersing United States troops among allies. | e s (Copyright. 1931, in all countries by North | American Newspaper Alliance. World rights | reserved. including the Scandinavian. =Re- | broduction in whole or in part prohibited.) DOG JOINS CANINE HERO LEGION BY RESCUING COUPLE IN BLAZE Almo Honored for Leading Pair in Smoke- Filled Hotel to Fire Escape at Window. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 14—Almo, a German police dog, is now a member of the society of America’s dog im- mortals. One night Almo led his blind master and his frightened, confused mistress through the winding, smoke-filled cor- | ridors of a burning hotel in Oakland, Calif., tc a window where there was a fire escape. He then refused to go down until they Lad preceded him. For this he has been elected to mem- bership in the Legion of Hero Dogs, sponscred by Mrs. Diana Belais, founder and president of the New York Anti- Vivisection Society. ‘A silver trophy is to be shipped across the continent to Twelfth Legion Member. Almo is the twelfth member of the Legion of Hero Dogs. With two or three exceptions-—dogs who were elected be- cause of unusual intelligence—every member of the Legion has saved a hu- | man life. Rags, for instance, saved hundreds of lives on the Western battle front in 1918. Just a little taffy-ctlored mon- grel who had been picked up by a sol- dier A. W O. L. in Paris, rags devel- oped a remarkable profiglency at carty- ing messages for the 1st Division of the A. E. P He was wounded and his pic- ture, autographed with his paw mark, hangs in the British Museum. Rags is now living out his old age at the Army pest at Governor’s Island. There is Tweedy, a wooly white poodle. Tweedy belongs to a little boy 5 years old. One day a new ice box was delivered at their house and Tweedy’s young master crawled inside. The door slammed shut and they prob- ably wouldn’t have found him until he was smothered—if it hadn’t been for Tweedy, who kept running to the ice | box, barking and whining and scratch- ing at the door. v Spaniel Saves Two Lives. Bob, & springer spaniel, who belongs | to Blanche Shoemaker Wagstaff of Mount Kisco, N. Y., a poet, has on his long record the achievement of having saved another dog from drowning. At the same time he helped pull his mistress out too. Another member is Alec, a New- foundland, who went walking in the woods one day near Tarrytown, N. Y., with his 75-year-old master, David Coyles. Mr. Coyles fell and broke his leg. Unable to walk, he lay in the rain and cold for several days, while Alec divided his time between watching over him and frantically trying to get help. | Help came toc late, but it wasn't Alec’s | fault. | Tip, & mongrel, kept vigil too when | his master, Robert Dean, of Adams, Mass,, was lost in the wilderness of Grelock Mcuntain Caverns in Massa- chusetts. Rita, a schnauzer, and Beauty,, a police dog. saved their master’s lives by waking them up when fre broke out in the night in New York apartments. And Daisy, another police dog, was taken into the legion for her skilled and faithful service—leading her blind mistress to and from work. The first to fly in a dirigible balloon | was Henry Cliffard in 1852. It had a 3-horsepower steam engine. Your EXPERT Fuel Adviser You go to your family doctor for medical advice because you have confidence in his ability. Our custom- ers come to us for advice be- cause, through nearly a cen. tury we have proved our ability to select for them the IPART OF 1 T. MADE TWO-WAY ROUTE |14th-to-16th Stretch Change | Listed—New Market Park- ing Regulations. The District Commissioners yesterday | changed I street, between Fourteenth and Sixteenth streets, back to a two- way street. It has been a one-way | street for several years. Before the one- | way signs are taken down, however, a new traffic light will be installed on the northwest corner of Fifteenth and I streets, in order to control the move- ment of west-bound traffic at this in- terzection. ‘The Commissioners also adopted reg- ulations forbidding parking at any time on the south side of Bancroft place between Twenty-second and Twenty- third streets, on either side of Buchanan street between Arkansas avenue and Fourteenth street, and on the west side of Mozart place from Columbin road to Euclid street, for various local reasons. Several changes were made in the parking laws in the neighborhood of the new Centsr Market at the request of the New Center Market Co. The one- ‘hour zone was extended from Fourth to Pifth streets, from Massachusetts avenue to K street, and from L to M| streets in this area. | ‘The Commissioners awarded to Prank J. Rose contracts for the construction | of the Meade street and Fifty-first place | service sewers in the northeast section | for $1,327.75, and the Wade road service | sewer between the St. Elizabeth's Hos- pital and Sumner road southeast for i $2,825.75. | RAIL TAX EXEMPTION BILL FORW., B. & A. UP| Measure to Be Discussed Agninl Tuesday by Senate Finance Committee at Annapolis. By the Assoclated Press. ANNAPOLIS, March 14.—The Senate Finance Committee yesterday decided to consider the question of exempting the Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis ‘ Railroad from taxation in exccutive | session, at its next meeting, which prob- ably will be on Tuesday afternoon. Decision of the committee was ar- rived at in unique fashion, when m:m- bers of the group were excused from the regular session of the Senate to discuss the proposal. Soon aftcr the, Upper House convened yesterday, Senafor Mc- rece| icn from | President Walter Mitchell to hold a 5- minute session of the influential finance group in an anteroom while the order of introduction of bills was bsing con- sidered by the Senate as a whole The bili under question was intro- duced by Senator Frick, Democrat, Bal- timore City,” last week and asked that the railroad, which at present is in the hands of a receiver, be exempted from all State and local taxes for a period of four years. Persia Registers Soviét Pact. GENEVA. March 14 (#).— Tsian government has r o “‘3;55 the League of Nations a treaty of neutrality 1 concluded with $ ’};7. the Soviet Republic in ] power) sanc- tioning it. 3 good joke on both parties if these fellows had been right all these years and get a chance to prove it. You watch this young Lafolette. You're going to have a lot of deal- with him in years to come. One thing, these progressives won' have to be very good to be the best. BILL TO MAKE CAT PROPERTY ADVANCED Measure Penalizing Theft of Feline Goes to Third Reading at Annapolis. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, March 14.—Tabby the Cat occupied the attention of the Mary- land House of Delegates yesterday, and it began to appear that stealing a cat would become a crime. The bill sponsored by the Maryland Cat Club to make gats of equal value with dogs as legal prope:ty in the eyes of the law was advanced to the House third-reading file over the objections of the Democratic floor leader, James J. Lindsay, jr. The bill, introduced by Delegate T. Warren Rice of the sixth | Baltimore district would punish the theft of a cat by imprisonment up to theee months. Absconding with a dog has been a crime, .according to the Maryland stat- utes, for many years, as it was in the old common law, but cats have been Little Orphan Annies as far as the courts were concerned. DE MENT DENIED WRIT FOR JAIL RELEASE Judge Mattingly Decides Defendant in Stabbing Must Stay = in Prison. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., March 14. —A writ of habeas corpus to secure the release on bail of Paul E. DeMent, 56, of Branchville, Md., cha with the murder of Chaude L. Hughes, a neigh- bor, was denied by Judge Joseph C. Mattingly in Circuit Court here - day Tnoon after evidence the case had been heard. DeMent is said to have fatally stabbed Hughes with a penknife about three weeks ago during a “back-fence” argu- ment which grew out of trouble between their sons. Attorneys for DeMent asked for the writ on the that the murder 8! prisoner to jail to await action of the April term of the grand jury. 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