Evening star. [volume], March 25, 1937, Page A-7, Image 7

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NATION PREPARED.
GEN. MARCH SAYS
Army and Navy at “Highest
Point of Efficiency,”
He Declares.
■? the Associated Press.
The Army’s World War chief of
•taff, hopeful this country never again
will be involved in such a conflict, be
lieve* it is better prepared now than
ever before for a clash of arms.
Gen. Peyton C. March, 72, retired,
expressed this opinion this week. Few
men have been afforded background
for passing judgment equal to his
service in the Spanish and World
Wars.
"Our Army and
Navy are at the
highest point of (
efficiency they /
have been in my | i
time,” he said. i
Plans for.mobi- 1
lization of re- |
sources in the 1
flies of the War
and Navy De
partments consti- m
tute another rea- fl
son for his view- ■
point, but aside I
from these Gen. I
March said he
c o n s i d e red of
Gen. March.
great importance the present Congress.
"There are ex-service men, some
former officers, in the House and Sen
ate,” he said. "They don't want war,
but they realize what war is and the
necessity for speedy action. We would
not be in the position we were when
we declared war on Germany. Can
you realize it took Congress 45 days
to enact the draft law?”
Equal ot Any Nation’s.
March said the technical equipment
of the Army is, as far as is known, the
equal of any nation's.
"Of course," he added, ‘‘you can
never tell what the other fellow has
up his sleeve. Every war has brought
out new weapons.”
He believes in a highly mechanized
Regular Army, which might be moved
rapidly to any part of the United
States but said the country in time
of war must fall back on the draft.
"A small, highly trained Army
would not be enough when others
have large, highly trained forces.
"The Army should build up to and
beyond the limits of the national de
fense act to about 300.000 men and
officers.”
March lives in an unpretentious
home on a quiet street off fashionable
Connecticut avenue.
When the Washington base ball
team plays here he usually attends,
always occupying the same seat be
hind the home plate. Occasionally he
rides horseback.
Published One Book.
His weight and waist are the same
As when he was fullback on the La
fayette College foot ball team in the
early 80s.
He has written and published one
book, “The Nation at War," and has
put down on paper other recollec
tions of the experiences.
“They are locked in my safe,” he
said. “I may publish them—I may
leave them for Mrs. March to dis
pose of after my death."
One, he said, deals with his meet
ing with Gen. Paul von Hindenburg
of Germany in 1921. The details are
in his safe, but he said Von Kinden
bu.g told him in discussing the World
War:
“Our one miscalculation was on
the speed with which America moved
soldiers to Europe. We did not think
you could do it.”
That was March’s job—the United
States’ answer to Germany's last
great “push.”
The American chief of Stall
turned transports into ferries, as
signed three soldiers to each berth,
let them sleep ir shifts. Wave on
wave of Americans poured into Prance
to relieve exhausted allies, and the
German drive was turned back.
12 WOMEN WILL MOVE
2,500-TON POST OFFICE
By the Associated Press.
ST. CLOUD, Minn., March 24 —A
dozen young women will help tug St.
Cloud's 2,500-ton granite post office
down the home stretch to new moor
ings tomorrow.
Supplanting the two horses which
have pulled the building three blocks,
Supervisor E. W. La Plante said the
women had consented to tug the
bulky structure past one cross street.
The idea, he said, is "to prove the
task is not a matter of strength, but
rather the mastery of power."
The old building will be used as a
city hall, while its former site will De
used for a new post office.
CATHOLIC PEACE
PARLEY TO OPEN
Representatives From Colleges
and Other Organizations Will
Hold 3-Days Session.
Representative* ot many colleges
and other organizations throughout
the country will participate in the
eleventh annual conference of the
Catholic Association for International
Peace, to be held at the Mayflower
Hotel Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day.
Speakers will include Senator
O’Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming,
whose subject will be “Faith or Fear
—the Basis of Peace”; Prof. Charles
O. Fenwick of Bryn Mawr College,
president of the Association for In
ternational Peace, and Michael Fran
cis Doyle, chairman of the confer
ence. A high light of the meeting
will be an "international” dinner
Monday night.
Local institutions to be represented
include Georgetown, American, Cath
olic and George Washington Uni
versities, Trinity College, National
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DEBATE TO BE TONIGHT
Y. M. C. A. and New York Uni
versity Teams to Compete in
“Y” Auditorium.
The right of the Federal Govern
ment to fix minimum wages and
maximum hours in industry will be
debated tomorrow night by teams
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Washington Y. M. C. A. in the audi
torium at the central "Y” building.
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Jack Kelley, while Bernard Halfond
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N, Y. U. The debate starts at 8:30
p.m. and is open to the public.
L. W. De Gast will act as chair
man, while judges will be Walter
Bastian, former president of the Dis
trict Bar Association; Henry Gllli
gan of. the Board of Eucatlon and
W. I. Cleveland, District manager of
the American Automobile Associa
tion. The New York debaters will
be guests of the local team at dinner.
VACATIONS PLANNED
Employes of Grocery Firm Are
Affected by Order.
Annual vacations with full pay for
all regular grocery and produce ware
house employes were announced to
day by the Sanitary Grocery Co.
The company now grants annual
leave with pay to its personnel in all
warehouse, office and stores and mar
kets. Some 2,600 persons are bene
fited.
WIFE OF NOTED DENTIST
DROWNED ACCIDENTALLY
Mrs. Kathryn I* Stephan Helped
Her Husband In Work for Hard
ing and Other Notables.
B/ the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, March 24.—Coroner
S. R. Gerber today gave a verdict of
accidental drowning in the death of
Mrs. Kathryn L. Stephan, 48, who, as
assistant to her dentist husband, Dr.
John F. Stephan, did dental work for
many world-famous patients, includ
ing President Harding. John D. Rocke
feller, Marshal Foch, Cardinal Mercier
ad Mary Garden.
The body was found by her husband,
who heard water running in the bath
tub and went to turn it off. He re
ported that Mrs. Stephan had been
suffering from a heart ailment recently
and apparently had fainted in the tub.
The Stephans were close friends of
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TOPIC SCHEDULED
Former Judge James A. Cobb,
Charles Edward Russell and Rev.
Robert W. Brooks will lead a discus
sion on “Race Discrimination in the
District of Columbia” at a meeting
of the Capital City Forum at 8:15
pm. tomorrow at 1502 Fourteenth
street.
“Democracy in the Soviet Union”
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