The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-06-16
MISSES M'ADO0 AND
BaITT0h HOME AGAIN
Pa sfcAdoo Says He Won't Let Her
Go Back, As Nursing Under
mined Health.
AMERICAN PHYSICIAN
ARRIVES FROM BERLIN
Says American Shells Are Proving
Their Efficiency and German Press
Has Carried on Systematic Anti
American Crusade.

New York. June 15.-Miss Mona
McAdoo. daughter OF Secretary Of the
Treasury McAdoo. and Miss Rather
Inc Britton, daughter of Alexander
Britton, OF Washington, returned to-
day on the French liner Rochambeau
after serving as nurses in the Ameri-
can ambulance hospital at Paris for
the past few months
Miss McAdoo emphatically denied
the report that she and Miss Britton
resigned their positions because they
had been forced to scrub floors or do
other unpleasant work.
I'll want it distinctly understood
neither of us are cutters" said Miss
McAdoo. I'VE left because our time
as nurses had expired. and because
my father demanded I should return.
As soon as | am rested / want to
return, for the work was most in
teresting and nurses are needed"
Both VIII Return.
Miss Britton confirmed her chum' s
statement, and declared that she. too,
was determined to return to nursing
duty.
Secretary McAdoo. who went down
to Quarantine on the revenue cut
ter Calumet to meet his daughter, told
reporters Miss McAdoo weighed less
than 100 pounds now, and that her
health had been undermined by her
arduous work In the Paris hospital.
II am mighty glad to have my
daughter beck" sale Mr.. McAdoo, 's-s
she has been a constant worry to me
all the time she has been in Paris.
7 am also glad she has an opportunity
to deny for herself the silly story
about floor scrubbing.
Personally I do not think she will
return. She has had the experience
and shall have something to say in
the future"
Another arrival was Mile. Helene
Dutrieu. only woman aviator in the
French army. For the past Ave
months Mile. Dutrieu has been
member of the aviation corps assigned
to patrol about Paris.
Goes Hunting Zeppelins.
Every other day she has made long
flights in a search for Zeppelins or
Taubes. She is here on a furlough
during which she will study aero
plane improvements and give se-
ries of lectures.
Mile. Dutrieu has been flying since
1909. and in 1918 she received the
decoration of the Legion of Honor
for a daring flight. She has also been
decorated for her work with the trans
port patrol during the Early part OF
the war.
s. D. Thaw and Benjamin Thaw.
brothers of William Thaw. the Amer
lean aviator now in the French aerial
corps also arrived on the liner. They
told for the first time how their broth
err narrowly escaped death when a
German shell exploded directly under
his machine while he was flying over
German trenches in northern France
few weeks ago.
Germans Had His Range.
"A piece OF the shell tore off the
tail OF the lnonoplane." said s. d.
Thaw, but william escaped with
few slight bruises, despite the fact
that his machine fell to the earth
in somersaults He was 3700 feet
in the air when the shell exploded.
The other brother said that William
Thaw is now stationed at Lunevfile,
but expects to go to the Darda nelles
shortly with the French air corps.
DIR. Harold Robertson. of the Uni
versity of Minnesota, was another
passenger. He has been in Berlin
hospital since the opening of the war.
He declared a majority Of the German
press has carried on systematic
antt-American campaign since the
battle of the Marine.
All of this, ne said. is based on the
fact that the United States fun Iishes
a great number OF shells and num-
tions to the allies.
German soldiers claim they can
tell an American shell bv it's report :"
said DR. Robertson. German ofn-
GERS told me the American shells are
most efficient and reareiy fail to ex-