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The Washington times., 1918-06-03

bell, who is stationed AZ Camp Jack
son. Later In the summer she win
go to Newport. !,
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Heekseher
Wetheriil. of Philadelphia, spent the
weekend lin WashinEton as the
guest OF Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins.
Under the auspices Of the United
Daughters OF the Confederacy, eele-
bration OF the birthday Of JEFFERSON
Davis win be held at the Mt. Vernon
Place Church this evening at s
o'clock Hon. Finisl ]. Garrett, OF
Tennessee, Will make the memorial
address. Crosses OF honor viii be
bestowed upon the veterans.
Miss Alice Hotchkiss Drake will
give tonight the hrst Of q series Of
six reviews Of current history. The
group will meet at s o'clock at 26l1
Adam Mills road, apartment No. 30.
The Y. w. A. class, which will meet
with Miss Drake, has changed its nFst
date from Friday. or this week ID
Th1rsday0at 7s5o o'clock.
@ Weds Reserve ORleeF.
The marriage OF Miss Natalie Fer
neyhough, daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs.
G. T. FerneyhouGh. to Lieut.. william
A.. Riley. U. s. r., took place on May
20 at the Ninth Street Christian
Church In the presence Of Immediate
relatives. The Rev. DR.. c. A. Miller
oRiclated
After a trip to New York and At
lantic City, Lieutenant and Mrs. Riley
will spend a few days in Washington
before leaving for their home near
Camp Meade, where he is now sta
tioed.
Miss Ethel Church Returns.
Miss Ethel Church, who has been
living the past few years in Santa Fe,
n. NJ, has returned to this city and
Is the guest Of her sister. Mrs. W. T.
Matson. in Rock Creek road. Miss
Church, who is a well-known student
Of the modern American Indian. will
engage in war work here. remaining
the greater part Of the summer.
Col. Gilbert Stuart, Of the ordnance
corps. U. S. A, who has been stationed
for four years at Springfield Arsenal,
has come to Washington to remain
indefinitely. His family will not join
him here for some time. Colonel
Stuart was stationed in Washington
for several years before he went to
Springfield.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. A. V. Zane
have taken a house in Chevy Chase
for the summer. They have with them
their daughter, Mrs. Earle.
Lieut. and Mrs. Chauncey Hackett
are receiving congratulations on the
birth Of a daughter on Thursday. Mrs.
Hackett is with her parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Hennen Jennings, during the alb
sence OF Lieutenant Hsckett, who IS
overseas.
Mrs. William Hamilton Bayly has
just received word of the safe ar
rival somewhere" on the other side,
Of her son, Lieut.. Louis n. Bayly.
The latter is attached to the head
quarters stafr Of the Eightieth di-
vision, which left Camp Lee, Peters
burg, Va, on May 20.
Lieutenant Bayly received his com
mission as second lieutenant in the
officers training camp at Fort Myer
last August, and in April was pro-
NOTED to grade OF FIRST lieutenant,
after having been in the Eightieth
division quartermaster's corps for
seven months
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n you pay now the Kaiser can't
prey later. How about your Ineome
Taxi
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CIVIL Retirement
BILL INTRODUCED
BYSEN. M'KELLAR

| Senator McKellar OF Tennessee
chairman Of the Senate Committee on
Civil Service, and representatives OF
Government clerks, after many con-
ferenees, have agreed on the pro
visions Of a pension and retirement
bill for employees OF the Govefnment
In the classified service
The bill, which Is based on the con-
tributory plan, supplemented BY
equal appropriations from the Fed
eral Treasury, was introduced In the
! Senate today by Senator Mekellar.
1t was referred to the Civil Service
Committee and will be considered BY
that committee at an early date.
/ Senator Mckeilar hopes 70 get II re-
ported at early date
The bill Is q -nfty-hfty" proposi-
tion, under which the Goyernment
will give to the fund the same
amount the clerks contribute.
Bli Excludes POstHasters.
Senator MeKeilar viii do his utmost
70 have the bin put through the sem
ate this session. The measure applies
to employees In the classified service,
postmasters excluded.
The age OF retirement, as hxed in
the bill. Is sixty-hve for mechanics,
city or rural letter carriers and rail-
way postoffice clerkA II u sixty
eight Tor otherA
Pensions are 70 be paid to clerks IN
accordance with grades established in
the bill, these grades being based on
been IN service thirty years or more
H. /. - En
cent of basic pay, with maximum Of
5000. From this they are graded
down 70 class d, which is made up Of
employees Of from hfteen TO twenty
years service. They viii get Is per
cent OF basic pay, with maximum OF
Sl2o.
One feature Of the bill is that an
Governmeut service counts. Milttary
or naval ssryiee is counted unless the
person concerned e getting . pension
for such military or naval service
Basis of Contribations-
The contributions required from
Government employees to help in max
ing up the fund amount TO "a per
cent Of basic pay. This Is credited
to the account Of the Individual at 4
per cent compound interest
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
charge Of investment Of the funds,
but the administration f,the measure
is under the Director Of War Risk
Insurance. Application for annuity
by an employe desiring II is to be
made to that official at least sixty,
days before retirement.
The bill Is based on the hfty-hfty
plan" said Senator McKellar. "Ex-,
perts calculate that ~ per cent from
the employees. supplsmsnted BY the
same amount from the Government
will raise the needed sums. Il il my
PURPOSE to have the bill considered
soon In COMMITTEES. Hs&ribgs-already
have been held see no reason why
the bill should not be passed this. ses-
sion"
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Mrs. Newbold Noyes. who recently
Joined her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Ewing, in New York, has
gone with Mrs. Ewing an her chill.
dren to Sorrento, Me-. where they
have a summer home. Lieutenant
Noyes Is on overseas duty.
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Mrs. James Mcdonald viii 60 to
Jacksonville. Fla, tbot>the middle uf
the month TO male sshort visit to
her son. Lieut. Arhur Bradley Camp
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HELP WANTED MALE

Ghipplng clerks. Men with experience and
about IS years Of age preferrsd. Also two
good men a. stock cleriCE- Apply 70 either
hr. Tenny8on Or Mr. Nerfyman At r p
ANDREWS PAPER CO.. zl-o Thirteenth St.
n. ".
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Income Tax or war Indemnify
Have yOu your Income Tax Receipt: I:
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Return fron NJ YaElL.

Capt. and Mrs. Perry Belmont have
returned to their Washington home
after a few days, visit in New York.
They stopped at the Belmont Hotel
Mrs. John watson Foster, widow OF
the former Secretary of State, and
her granddaughter, Miss Nataline
Dulles. passed the weekend with Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Hertle at Gunston
Hall, Va. Miss Dulles arrived in
Washington Saturday from Phiiadel-
phia, where she has been in a hospital
taking the course for trained nurses.
She will spend about two weeks with
her uncle and aunt, Secretary OF State
and Mrs. Lansing, before returning to
her home in Watertown, N. Y.
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This adfran three days in The Times and secured
the clerks.
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Mrs Thomas Holcomb, jr., accom-
panied by her baby, has gone to White
Sulphur Springs, w. Va, to spend the
week with her parents. Rear Admiral
and Mrs. Richardson Glover, who have
moved into the cottage in Virginia
Row, which they will occupy for the
summer. They will keep the baby
with them all summer. Miss EUdoTa
Glover will join Admiral and Mrs. Clo-
yer later for a short visit
Mrs. Hunt Slater returned to Wash
ington yesterday from New York and
is the guest of Mrs. Edmund Pendle-
ton.
Mrs. LuTton, widow OF Mr.. Justice
Lurton. Mrs. Horace Lurton, and her
children will spend the summer in
Tennessee. They will leave Washing
ton tomorrow for Knoxville, where
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Mrs. Robert W. Patterson will clos,
her residence in Dupont Circle thii
week and will go TO her home in Chi
.cago to remain until she makes plan
for the summer.
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Mrs. Charles H. Poor viii leave
town tomorrow for a ten days visit
to Atlantic City, after which she will
go to Skaneateles, n. Y, for the re-
mainder OF the summer. She Will be
accompanied by her two small grand
children, Miss Anita Bulmer, daughter
Of Capt. and Mrs. Roscoe c. Bulmer,
and Richard Poor, son OF Capt Charles
Longstreet Poor, U. S. n. ", now sta
toned in New Orleans.
Mrs. Bulmer, who has been with
Mrs. Poor for the greater part OF the
winter, is now in New York with Cap
tain Bulmer. She will Join her mother
In Skaneateles later in the summer.
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I'm summer On Raneh.

Countess Eleanor Gizycka and he
daughter, Miss Felicia Gizyels, vii
spend the summer on a ranch in Wy.
oming, leaving Washington. as soor
as Miss Gizyeka is entirely recovered
from injuries received when she wa
thrown from her horse last week.
The Sentinel=record., 1918-09-18
BRITISH AIRMEN HAVE
 THRILLING EXPERIENCE
ONE MAN GUIDES HIS MACHINE TO EARTH AFTER TURNING
 UPSIDE DOWN

London, Sept IA British airman while flying at height Of 1,60O feet had the tail Of his machine shot off by a direct hit from a shell.
 The machine turned upside down and the pilot was thrown from his seat but he managed to clam Der on the bottom of the fusilage where he re- mained astride, Although tho machine was out of control, he managed by moving forward and back ward, to bal- anco it and glide steadily downward
 Under strong anti aircraft fire he crossed the German lines successfully a few hundred feet from the line. His machine came down with a crash and he received some injuries but he will recover
 Another British airman was shot down out Of control from an altitude of 13000 feet He fell fluttering and fainted on the way down When he revived he found himself under the machine, which was upside down in a and uniujured.
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CHILDREN TRAPPED
 IN BURNING FACTORY
NINE GIRLS, A BOY AND A MAN KILLED WHEN BUTTON FAC.
 TORY BURNS.

Newark. N. J., Sept l7-Trapped in in cloak room on the top floor, eight girls, a boy and q man perished here today in fire which destroyed the plant of the American Button company. Another girl was killed when, seeking to escape from the flames, she leaped from window Nine other girls were injured, sev- cral fatally.
 The girls on the lower floors made their escape, some by Jumping and others by the fire escape.
 Most of the dead and injured were working in the carding room at the top of the building. t is believed that when they found escape by means of fire escapes and stairways cut off, they fled in a panic to the cloak room, where their bodies were later found huddled together All were burned beyond recognition and it was ouly through trinkets and bits of scOrched attore that indentiflca- ton was at all possible.
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BRixISH PRESS ENDORSES
 PRESIDENT WILL SONS REPLY

London. Sept 1.-The promptness as well as the substance of President Wilson's reply to Austria-Hungary as approved by the London morning pa- pers. Even the pacificist Daily News urges the allies to follow the American lead and endorse the points enunciate1 by President Wilson using the situa- ton to drive the wedge into Germany and her allies.
 The Times admires the promptitude of he reply as heartily as it agreed with the line taken by the president.
 The Morning Post says that the an swer is framed in the only terms whicl befit the occasion.
 The Daily Chronicle thinks that tht allies cannot fail to be influenced D, President Wilson's example, whicl makes it certain that they will rejec the Austrian invitation.
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miellt indicate a strong counter move ment.
 Patrols sent out by Americans have been successful not only in recon naisance, hut iG bringing in prisoners. Many of the prisoners were stragglers, but among them were the crews of several lost or isolated machine guns. In some cases. they mad been taken from countering patrols.
 There was much German activity today on the extreme right of the line where the enemy vigorously shelled and gassed the woods north Of Pont- a-Mousson and in the vicinity Of Mar roy Machine gun actions north of BC- noy was spirited while the German ar the Mont Plaisir farm
 To the east of the Moselle there has been some skirmishing but it was of little consequence. The allied out posts are gradually pushing towards that region.
 The comparative ease with which the Germans were driven from the po- sitions they had held for more than three years is believed in some guar ters to have been a result of underes timating the ability of the Americans.
 1t is considered possible they may have expected General PershinS' 5 troops, carried away by enthusiasm. to overstep the limits of prudence by ad- vancing into a region where they might have been forced to sacrifice q large number of men or to retire.
 It has been specifically stated, how ever that the operation was one fer limited objectives only.
 The enemy aerial activity has shown a decided slowing up in the past twen- ty four hours. partly because of the ag - eressiveness Of American flyers and partly because all the aerodromes be- hind the German lines have been greatly damaged in the persistent hombardment they have undergone.
 Allied cooperation in bombing op- erations has been a notable contribu- tion to the success of the offensve.
 French patrols yesterday engaged in eleven combats, bringing down ore plane and four observation ballooas. The American pursuit group had six combats sending down three planes. Reconnaissance machines took photo graphs and directed artillery fire. Bombing planes dropped more than eleven tons Of bombs on Longuy on Dimmery and Barroncourt and tNc tons on C9nflans and Audun Observ- CTS reported the damage at Conflans was especially heavy. All enemy cen ! ters in this section have been seriously damaged n the past few days. One hundred and eight German in ] (cONTTNIfEn ON PAGE TWO)
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SUPPLY KITCHENS UNABLE
 TO KEEP UP WITH ARMY

Paris. Sept 1.-The Americans ad- vanced so fast in their offensive that the supply trains and kithcens were unable to keep up with them. Red Cross workers carried light food and tobacco to central traffic points along the battle line.
 One Red Cross outpost station load- cd supplies into ambulances bound for a field hospital When the ambulance arrived near the hospital 1t found a Red Cross field kitchen in road serv-- ing passing troops and the wounded.
 On the second morning of the offen- siye Red Cross workers went to the batteries and dugouts and served the troops with chocolate and cigarettes. A great many of the soldiers here ap- peared to have lost their pipes and to- bacco. The distribution Of tobacco was greeted with much enthusiasm
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FRENCH WOMANS DARING
 DEED TO HELP FRANCE
PASSED THROUGH 4 RAIN OF SHELL FIRE TO GIVE THE
 AMERICANS INFORMATION

With the American Army in Ior- raine. Sept 1.-The devotion of q French woman to her country was re- corded last week at one of the Amer ican Headquarters to which a woman whose name cannot be mentioned. had made her way through shell fire and over a region filled with gas and traps to bring to the allies information re- sarding the Germans.
 With her mother and younger broth CT, tho young woman, who is not yet twenty, had lived at Soulevre farm since the day it fell into the hands of the Germans tour years ago Four of her brothers are in the French army. The mother, daughter and boy were forced to remain within the German lines and witness the day by day con version of their property into a Ger man club house
 During these four years the two wo- men endeayored to placate rather than to antagonize their captors.
 From German officers who fre-. quented the farm. the young woman learned information which she recos- nized to be of the utmost importance. When she heard the b5rrage Thurs day morning she determined to run the risk of crossing the nearly three miles separating her home from the allied lines.
 Telling her mother and the others she had work to do in the garden the yonng woman left the house. She slipped away toward the American lines and told her story
 In return for the information she brought she asked that every effort be made to rescue her mother and brother The Germans attempted 10 maintain their position at Souleyro |, farm but the Americans oyercame them in desperate fighting Tie mother and brother We're brought to 1 American headquarters today unin- jused and there was q joyful reunion
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peace, even upon the basis Of the pres ident's stipulations.
 Attention was called to the fact that,
 his reply. Secretary Lansing T. fcrrcd tO the terms upon which the United States would consider q peace as having peen stated repeatedly. That meant not only that the folr propositions laid down by President Wilson in his Fourth of July speech at Mt. Vernon must be considered, but that they must be considered in con nection with other declarations from other sources
 It was particularly intended, it was explained that there should be hell ill mind the II propositions stated by the president in his address to cOneress Jan last. Whereas the Fourth of July speech stated simply broad gen eral principles which should govern any peace discussion, the address to congress laid down details of the DO sition and therefore should be the governing utterance.
 Accordingly. before the central pow CTS can have any peace discussions with the entente powers and America. they must accept the principles of. No secret treaties: freedom of the seas except to suppress predatory nations that fail to respect international cove nants; the removal of all trade bar riers; reduction of urmaments, adjust ment of colonial claims with refer ence to the wishes of the governed DO pulation' the evacuation of Russian territory and abandonment of econom- ic control therein; independence of Belgium with indemnification restor- ation of Alsacc-Lorraine, re-adiust- ment of Italy's frontiers: autonomous government for the different nation alities of Austria Hungary; eyacur- tion of Rumania. Serbia and Monte Negro; relinquishment of Turkish con trol of non-TUrkish populations: an independent Polish state and, finally league of nations to guarantee polit ical independence and territorial in- tegrity to great and small nations alike.
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CAMPAIGN ON WHOLESALE
 MURDER IN CONDUCTED
Thousands of Persons Have Been Shot Without Even a Form of Trial--Thc and Executions Occur Every W On the Slightest Prctest.

Washington, Sept. information reaching the state department today from d neutral country threw new lignt on the situation in central Russia, where a reign of terror conducted by the Bolsheylh has made the position of the populaoe tragic in the extremc and endangerlng citizens of the en- tente powers who have been unable U i leave the country. as Declaring that the outside wt65fils cpn aot have true conception of the actual conditions the dispatches said that since May , the Bolsheyiki, extraor-' dinary commission against the coun- ter revolution has conducted cam paign of wholesale murder. Thous- ands of persons have been shot with out even form of trial, it was said, and many of them probably were inno- cent of the political views for which they were put to death.
 The assassination of Moses Uritsky, head of the commission against the counter revolution and the attempt On the life of Premier Lenine wereydirect results of this condition of tyranny,
 
 said the adyices
 Besides the zoo persons who were shot in connection with the death of, Uritsky, a large number of other per- sons are held for execution in the event that further attempts are made on the lives of Bolsheyiki leaders.
 A general search is being made of the homes in Moscow of the well to do. and former officers, in an effort to se- cure any shred of evidence upon which to make arrests said the dispatch The prisons are filled to oyerflowing and executions occur daily. In many cases, it was said sentences are passed upon the slightest grounds that the ac- cused might be dangerous to Bolshe- wiki power
 In addition irresponsible and avenge ful gangs are venting on innocent per- sons their desperation over the daily declining power of the Bolsheviki. while the socialists who are opposing the soviet government. had adopted the same methods that they once used against The tyranny or the impcTiEi government
 All newspapers in Moscow except the Bolsheviki organs have been sup pressed since July I. the dispatch add names of persons to be executed or held in connection with the killing Of Uritsky.
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GERMANS VIGOROUSLY SHELL
 AND GAS THE AMERICANS
Captured Officers Say Germany Is Tired cf War and No Longer Hope to Do More Than Keep What Is Its own-Amerioan Line in Lorraine | Given by Towns.

American Army on the Lorraine Sept 17..-American artillery infantry and ayiatcrs made emphatic replies to- day to the German challenge all along the newly established line. The enemy bombarded certain points with NlSo and threw over quantities Of gas' largely of the mustard variety, Wnlie aeroplanes erdeavored to force thel way through the aerial defenses, hu. evidence was wholly lacking that th Germans contemplated any attempt 10 regain the territory they have lost Their high command apparently in- tends to adhere to the policy which re suited in the relinquishment of large section without bitter struggle.
 Reports brought in by avlators az well as information ohsained from pri+ oners and verified by patrols how the Germans are strengthening theil trenches along the Hindenburg lin' bu: there Is nothing to show they ar' reinforcing their lines to a degree iaa
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 While the Serbs and their Fre1ci allies are wrestling from the Bulgars some of the strongest positions thej have held in Macedonia for the pas: two years, Marshal Fochs forces are nibbling successfully at the Germa" lines on tine western front in the face of more determined resistance.
 The near east furnished the most sensational news Of the day, however. The offensive which has been launched there seems not only the most success fui. but the most preten.ious in many months It appears probable that further advance oy the Franco-Serbian troops will necessitate the recall of the Bulgarian divisions which have been loaned to Emperor William to bolster the Teuton resistance in France and Flanders.
 An official Serbian report declares that the reconstructed army of the battered but not beaten little Kingdom has taken not only 5,000 prisoners. but an important park Of cannon Ire Bulears admit having retired, but de clare the attack has been checked to the north of Gradeshitsa. There is nothing to indicate, however, that the advance of the Serbs and French has been definitely held up.
 The lull in the fighting in the west is regarded by military critics as merely the prelude to further heavy blows at the foe by the Americans British and French armies