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Evening star., 1918-01-27
Debut Of Miss Rayner.

Miss Jean Rayner, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs William B. Rayner. was formally
presented to society yesterday afternoon
at a large tea given at the residence OF
her grandmother, Mrs. Isidor Rayner.
widow of Senator Rayner of Maryland.
American beauties intermingied with
ferns and palms made a lovely setting for
the debutante, who wore a girlish frock
of white satin charmeuse and tulle COM
bined with silver lace. Her mother re-
ceived in a handsome gown Of black chif-
fon velvet and tulle. trimmed with sequin
bands. Mrs. Rayner. ST., wore black satin
with touches of lace.
Mrs. Thomas Marean Chatard and Mrs.
Charles B. Howry presided at the tea
table. Among the young girls assisting
were Miss Mary Duncan Gibson, Miss
Margaret Devereux. Miss Bessie Edwards,
Miss Phoebe Walker. Miss Harriet Har-
man. Miss Agnes Messick. Miss Lucy
Father, Miss Abigail Harvey, Miss Betty
Burnett, Miss Mary Hill, Miss Grace Over
man and Miss Ellen Bruce Lee, and Miss
Charlotte Hambley of Salisbury, N. c.,
and Miss Rebecca Nicolson of Baltimore.
house guests of Miss Rayner.
The tea was followed by a dinner and
dance. to which there were additional
guests.
Mrs. Delos Blodgett gave a large
dinner last evening at the Chevy Chase
Club for her house guest. Miss Marion
Hilliard of Minneapolis. who is here
for the week end. and for Miss Blod-
gett., Lieut.. Curt Kahle of the Amer
ican Field Service stationed at New
York. who is visiting Mr.. Delos Blod-
Eett. ST.. for a few days, was among
the guests.
Mrs. Edmund Pendleton was hostess
at dinner last evening, entertaining at
her apartment at Stoneleigh Court.
Assistant Attorney General and Mrs
Charles Warren have as their guests
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wheelwright, jr
of Boston. who will be with them for
several days.
Mrs. Josiah Kingsley Oil and Miss
Oil received informally yesterday aft
ernoon. Among those assisting them
were Nine. de Jarney. Nine. Falorsi,
Mrs. Charles Whitman Wetmore, Mrs.
Sherman Miles and Miss Amy Ben
nett.
Miss Cannon entertained Informally
at dinner last evening, followed by a
bridge party.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
Jacob Jones Benefit.

Much interese is being shown in the
entertainment to be given Saturday,
February 9. at the residence of Mrs
Joseph Thrppp. 1901 goth street, for the
immediate relief of the families Of the
seamen of the Jacob Jones. This bene-
fit is under the auspices of Mrs. Brin-
ton Stone.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Mrs. r. Lee Suter, formerly o
Louisville, KY, is the guest for seyera
days of her sister. Mrs. Rebecca Bow
man, at the Toronto.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Lieut.. and Mrs. Edward N. Hurley. jr
left Washington last evening for Palm
Beach. where they win stay for severa
weeks.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover were
hosts at informal dinner parties last
week, entertaining on Wednesday and
Friday evenings.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Miss Ruth Hitchcock entertained at
dinner last evening at the Chevy Chase
Club
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Representative Clifford Ireland of
Peoria, ILL.,. has been Joined by Mrs.
ireland and their children. at 2400 18th
street, where they have an apartment
for the season.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Miss Phelan and Miss Gladys Sullivan n,
sister and niece Of Senator Phelan. will
arrive from California the last of the
week.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Mrs. Samuel P. Ficklen and Miss
Dairette Ficklen will be at home inform
ally Tuesday afternoon. from to g.. at
their residence, in Biltmore street
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Mrs. William Corcoran Hill will be a
home informally tomorrow afternoon.
Evening star., 1918-01-27
Mrs. Rogers to Work Here.

Mrs. John Jacob Rogers has returned
to washington after an absence of sew
eral months. Mrs. Rogers accompanied
Representative Rogers to England and
France. and since their return, early in
January. she has been spending several
weeks at their home in Massachusetts,
While abroad Mrs. Rogers made close
study of the various forms of war relief
work undertaken by the women and will
shortly undertake similar work here
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Representative and Mrs. Ira C. Cop
ley will have as their guests this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Johnson of Joliet
ILL.,, who will arrive on Monday and be
here for the dinner which Mr.. and Mrs.
Copley will give on Tuesday evening
in honor of the Vice President and Mrs.
Marshall a
Evening star., 1918-01-27
Q!bilipsbnt!.tt r.!
1.-THE OUTERA GARMENT SHOP
COS TO CID ELEVENTH STREET.

Closed tomorrow i'm accordance with the
rules of the "Fuel Administration" Open Tues
day at AIM.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Mrs. E. Hope Slater will entertain at
dinner on the evening of February s.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Miss Margaret Normoyle of Gov
ernors Island. is spending the week end
with Mrs: T. Q. Donaldson and Miss
Maysue Donaldson. Miss Donaldson,
Evening star., 1918-01-27

An interesting wedding took place
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Miss Cannon entertained informally
at dinner last evening in her apart
ment at 2029 Connecticut avenue.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Assistant Attorney General and Mrs
Charles Warren have as their guests
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wheelwright, jr
of Boston. who will be with them for
several days.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

Mrs. Edmund Pendleton was hostess
at dinner last evening, entertaining at
her apartment at Stoneleigh Court.
Evening star., 1918-01-27

w 7lTH but little than fortnight to the
wv chance for surprises and the of its remaining
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-07-25

the presence Of women relatives
in the war zone wo utd tend to corr,
fuse the men. Its real origin, hove,
ever, dates dack to the experience
Of the British when shortly after
the beginning Of the war many
improper women rushed over from
England and their presence had q
demoraIizing and deoeneEatlna Ct
feet. To check this a sweeping
order was issued barring practic.
ally all women from the war
zone.
A communication has been ad-
dressed ID the secretary Of the
war by Mrs, Una cielow Fisher,
wife Of Naval Constructor G. w.
Fisher, calling the seeretary's at
tention to the need foes some rnodi
fication Of this hard and fast
rule. VIZ
This rule" said Mrs Fisher,
"is today keeping from active war
work thousands Of the most cap
able and willing women OF the
country. It is not fair to assume
that a woman with male reIa-
tive in service has not selt-re-
straint enough to be Yable to 90
on with her war workssithovt N
terferinsywith the duties sot ner
relative" ~
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instrumental in getting the state ad-
minstration and large part OF the
legislature committed to House Bill
A.. exhibited; their activities in oppo-
sition being yelled or open, according
to the time and place and the char
acter of their audiences. That sort
of thing went on for months. Some of
the men engaged in this work have
been indicted. Others have been con-
victed Of disloyal and seditious acts
Yet not in a single instance has there
come into the lips of the governor of
North Dakota or any of those i'm
mediately associated with him in Of
flee one syllable in censure of the open
and conspicuous utterances of dis
loyalty of the men to whom they ap-
pear to have committed their con-
sciences and their political fortunes.
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"In a time like this The Herald
knows no party. 1t opposes and will
oppose with all its might the election
to any public office OF any man who
cannot show a clean bill of health as
a loyal citizen Of the American re-
public. For that reason this paper is
opposed to the reelection of Governor
Frazier, no matter on what political
ticket he runs. For the same reason
it urges the election of S. ]. Doyle,
who was first nominated by the DEM
ocrats, and who has been endorsed by
Republicans wro voice the sentiments
of many thousands of their friends
in the Republican ranks" 4
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-07-25
Women Relatives
OF Soldiers Not
For ''HOme Rule
BY gibson GARDNER.

~ S'S ~ SAo'' correspondents
Washington, July 25.-The war
and navy secretaries are being
asked to change the rule which
oars from France and England all
women with relatives in the SER
vice. This rule has kept thous-
ands Of women qualified to 90 in
war work from doing so.
The rule applies riqidIy even
where the male; relative is still
in the United States and the fe-
male relative is anxious to 90
abroad. In such. cases the wom-
an is barred on the theory that
the man might be ordered abroad
and that the two might meet over
there.
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ACTUAL NONPARTISAN
PARTY FORMED AT MINOT.
Continued From Page Four)

its material interests. They proposed
to cucumber every farm, every home,
every business establishment in the
state with a load of debt in order to
raise funds with which to embark on
career of wildcat financing and
rash experimenting on gigantic
scale. The hope that Governor Fraz-
Ter and his fractional associates could
be relied on to give the people of the
state a square deal was dissipated in
to thin air.
"rhen came the war, and the agi-
tators and organizers who had been
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-07-25
FindIHlsJ Job.

Finds IFS JOB.
One rich and useless bachelor struck
these shores filed with the desire to
do something, but alarmed at his pow
erty of abilities. !.
"Can you preach7" he was asked.
mo" 6.'
"Can you sing7" ~
mo" ..a..., /, ~ q
"Can you run motor carr \
NO" s. .. Mai. ,,.3
"What can you dor"
"Nothing that I know Of. I'm Just
one of the idle rich"
go out and fuss around a few days
and then come back" he was told.
That night he met up with wesb'
ern sergeant who was in Paris! to SEQ
the town. and who had started to view
the sights through the bottom Of
glass. He was half seas over and am
bilious to be submerged. The meme
Der of the Idle Rich inveigled him In.
to conversation, furnished him ciga"
rettes and light. Pretty soon, by
sheer personality, he persuaded the
man to go to bed without finishing or
his evening artlstically. In the morn
ing the sergeant came, around and cor
nered the Idle Rich Man.
"Bo," said be. "you done me 9
favor last night. I was hound for
trip to In Bad. Any time you want
anything of me, just drop around"
The Idle Rich young man made
tracks for headquarters.
'I've found my job" he said. 4
can make friends with men,"
go to it." were his orders, and he
went to it. Now he IS somewhere re-
ruperating because he wore himself
out working for his boys.
This has been about men up to
date. Now there are men in America
who think women should not be sent
to work with the A. e. F. In France;
among those who have seen. what Is
going on, there are few Of them.
Did you ever step into a big, bare.
Ill furnished room-may be an uncom-
Portable room-and suddenly see on
the wall beautiful picture, or on q;
shelf a wonderful piece Of old china!
That little object Immediately made
that cold, embarrassing room a place
where you desired to be- And that's
how It is with the right kind of wom-
nm in a canteen in France. All she
has to do Is to be there, be natural. be
impersonal, at1d} she has made Of
hundred men better fighters for democ.
racy. eg.5....ss ia. HI. .4.ss .it..5 j., q
Best Of chaperons.
One big thing that pust be I'M
pressed on folks back home IS thss
these women are safe-safer than In
their own home town. A woman In a
canteen has "a whole regiment who
make 1t their Job to look after her.
There never was an old maid aunt
who could chaperon yonng woman
the way regiment OF Tanks can do
it. Somehow she represents 80 much
to them. She Is not girl but SYM
Dol. She means TO them oil they left
behind In their homes.
One important point to remember
back ,home,is that the "A. E. F. is the
finest, most outstanding, two-fisted as.
gregation Of regular men that the
world has ever seen in an army. A
few-fortunately very few-have the
idea that our army is surrounded by
depravity. Nothing could be farther
from the truth.
The army is proud Of itself and re-
sents imputations against Its decency.
Officers resent 1t and men resent 1t.
A captain in the regular establishment
said the other day: ''Every mother In
America ought to. know that her son
is safer In our army than he ever was
at home" Which was not more than
bare truth
I. ..-s lr
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Never Quite Satisfied.
II doesn't make any difference what
a woman gets, there IS always some
thing a little more expensive she
wishes she could have had.
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"a "
h h type
G dlopMo maeth thGday btmadh
New-York tribune., 1918-10-11
Beirut, Syria's Chief
Seaport, Falls to Allies
Turks Evacuate After Losing
All but $4,000 Members
of Three Armies

LONDON, Oct. 1O.--French and Brit
ish warships which entered Beirut, the
chief seaport of Syria, on Sunday found
that the town had been evacuated by
the Turks, says an official statement is
sued to-day by the British War Of
fee.
Beirut was occupied by detachments
of British Indian infantry on Tuesday.
The text Of the statement is:
French and British warships en-
tered Beirut on Sunday and found the
town evacuated by the enemy.
"On Monday British armored cars.
preceding our cavalry and infantry
columns. arrived, and on Tuesday ad-
vanced detachments of British Indian
infantry occupied the place. Thew
were received enthusiastically by the
inhabitants"
Prisoners taken by the Egyptian ex-
pedltlonary force, exclusive of those
taken by the Arabs, have risen to more
than 10000. 1t is estimated that of
the entire strength of the Turkish 4th
M a6h and 9th armies not more than IT,
wy nave escaped, this figure including
1000 effective rifles.
Many of the prisoners captured
were in lamentable state Of exhaus.
tlon. They are receiving such treat.
ment and attention as is possible"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-11
| lens Levelled, TUNED Into
City Of the Dead by Germans

ttensified. These odous proceedings
nave transformed hostilities into abom-
Unable brigandage, seeking above all
the ruin of agriculture, industry and
commerce in this country"
Reports show that Roulers and
Thourout have been destroyed by fire.
Premier Clemenceau has written a
stlnging commentary on German prac-
tices in letter to Deputy Margain. of
the Marne Department. He says:
"All international conventions which
maintained in armed conflicts traditions
of loyalty and nobility have been cyni-
cally swept aside by Germany when she
thought herself strongest, and with
hypocritical tears when she felt the
shudder of defeat. German rage at
tacks not only human beings, but
throws its blight on our cities, our fire.
sides, our sacred monuments, our arts
and history and even upon the trees of
our fair land. The drama Of Chalons,
where a German airplane bombarded
the principal hospitals, killing fifty
four persons and wounding forty, mani
tested again the enemy's rage and
savagery.
Taken by the throat and driven
backward, he still seeks to vent his hate
upon the country from which our SOL
diers drive him foot by foot. But the
blood, ruin and incendiarism which he
Is leaving behind will have retribution
of which he will soon feel the weight
New-York tribune., 1918-10-11
americans on Heels
Of Enemy in Russia
Retirement in Szenkusk Re-
gion Continues. With Allies
in Close Pursuit

LONDON, Oct. 1O.-The War Office
tonight issued the following official
communication from the Archangel
front in North Russia:
"On October the enemy made a
strong counter-attack both by river
and BY land on the Allied position at
Seletskaya, 10 miles from Archangel,
on the River Dvina. The attack was
beaten off and the enemy was driven
up the river, leaving behind two ma
shine guns and fifty men killed.
"In the Szenkusk region, which lies
between Archangel. the Vologda Rail
way and the Dvina, the enemy is still
retiring, followed by mixed force Of
Americans and Russians. In that re-
gion the enemy has been trying to
deceive the Allied forces by wearing
white bands, which are the
mark of the White Guards.
"On the Murmansk front the Allied
troops operating from Kandalaska, on
the White Sea, q hundred miles south
OF Murmansk, have driven invading
patrols back across the Finnish from
tier and have cleared northern Karelia
OF the enemy''
New-York tribune., 1918-10-11

Rheims, great congestion will prob
ably ensue and many German divi-
sions will have to be sacrificed in
rear-guard actions.
The American First Army is still
pushing north up the Meuse Valley.
1t has penetrated part Of the German
secondary line there, known as the
Kriemhilde Stellung. The Germans
have set fire to Dun-sur- Meuse,
which Pershing is approaching on
both sides of the river. Ludendorff's s
retirement further west must disor-
ganize the defence here and make it
comparatively easy for the Ameri-
cans to reach Stenay. And from
Stenay it is only eight miles east to
New-York tribune., 1918-10-11
Enemy Must Soon Feel
Weight of Retribution for
Atrocities, Premier Cle-
menceau Promises

PARIS, Oct GA startling picture
Of destruction is drawn by an official
eyewitness who has visited Lens since
the Germans withdrew from that city.
Railways and tramways are torn up
and are converted into huge piles Of
twisted rails.
Mayor Basly Of Lens says the city
has been virtually levelled. The Ger
mans blew up entire sections of the
town to establish their trench systems.
The population of $4,000 people is en-
tirely gone and the city is dead. Water
fills the galleries Of the coal mines,
which used to turn out 100000 tons
of coal year.
The National Committee on War
Damages thus sums up the devastation: I:
Despite the reprobation of the
world. the German war practices are
constantly being accentuated and in
New-York tribune., 1918-10-11
% Listed Missing
After Ships Crash

WASHINGTON. Oct 1o.-Six officers
and seventeen enlisted men Of the crew
Of the cargo steamer Herman Frasch.
sunk In collision with the steamer
George 6. Henry October 4, we're Off
cially reported missing to-day by the
Navy Department.
Officers missing are Lieutenant Com
mander c. B. Stoddard, 624 Carlton
Avenue, Brooklyn: Lieutenants Will
lam G. Stewart, SOUTHAMPTON, England
Francis p. Smith, Mamaroneck, N. Y;
Herbert E. Olsen, 26O6 Heath Avenue.
New York; Ensigns Wheldon Abrogast,
Springfield. Ohio, and Robert z. Deakin,
244 President Street, Brooklyn.
The missing men are Charles w.
Wiley, Norwich. Conn: Louis II.
Achilles, jr., Staten Island, N. y;
Frank Arrowood, Gastonia. N. c.; Erwin
T. Blk, Bagle.y, Mimi; Clifford H.
Craig, Des Moines, Ia: Benjamin F.
Fredenburg, Des Moines, Ia; Frederick
II. Hansen, Weehawken. N. j.; Lyman
Hill, Sutherland, Ia; Earle r. Hunt
New-York tribune., 1918-10-11
Experts Believe Break in
North May Cause Foch to
Alter Plans
May Delay Drive
At Rhine Valley
Many Convinced Great
Stroke Was Planned on
the Lorraine Front

WASHINGTON. Oct. 10.-The victory
of the Anglo-American forQss north of
St. Quentin and the French on their
right may be paving the way for early
invasion of Germany itself. Striking
hints of wholly new enterprise, di-
rected at the Upper Rhine Valley. have
come from unofficial quarters in France
and they follow repeated reports from
Switzerland that the civil populations
OF the Rhine Valley towns were being
removed by the German authorities.
Some officers here regard these re-
ports as highly significant. They give
them particular weight because it now
appears certain that the enemy will be
forced far back all along the front in
Northern France and Belgium within
the next few days. While the constant
hammering is kept up in the north to
pin the German armies there, it might
be possible, it was said, to deliver a
new stroke on the Alsace- Lorraine
front that might swiftly develop into
an invasion of Germany itself by way
Of the Rhine Valley.
Crushing Victory Possible
The wholly unexpected extent of the
German collapse between St. Quentin
and Cambria. however, may upset any
plans for q drive to the Rhine Marshal
Foch may have planned. AS the enemy
stands to-day. with a great gap torn
in the centre of the forces that were
already struggling to extricate them
selves and get back to q shorter front,
there is even the possibility of crush
ing and immediate military victory for
the Allies.
Should the French to the south or
the British to the north also succeed in
breaking through before the Germans
can complete an extensive retirement
the capture or destruction of a whole
enemy army group might be realized.
In the opinion of observers here, the
situation to-day has almo limitless
possibilities, and Marshal Foch 10 Writ
ually certain to concentrate every
ounce of power at his command in an
effort to execute a final coup.
Rhine Valley Shortest Route
For this reason it does not appear
likely that the Rhine drive plans, if
there are such plans. will develop until
the situation clears in the north.
Should the German armies escape the
North Sea, however, and establish a
line on the Meuse front many officers
are confident that the centre of attack
will swing suddenly to drive into Ger
many itself by the shortest route, the
Rhine Valley
New-York tribune., 1918-10-11

r UDENDORFF has reached
Berlin. according to dis
patches coming from Basic,
Switzerland. From the same source
we learn that he is attending mill
tary and political conference there.
From another source we are in
formed that he is going to follow
Hindenburg's example and seek rest
in a sanatorium, where he can for
get all about "salients" and "iron
walls" and will not have to read
the German General Staff's daily re-
ports Of rearward movements con-
Quoted victoriously according to
plan"
Many Of his generals and most of
his men will envy him. They would
also like to be back in Berlin. Moth
lrg would suit them better just now
than to be safely out of Northern
France, where the German positions
everywhere are crumbling, trans
Fort is demoralized and the lines Of
retreat to the frontier are getting
dangerously congested.
Most of the German retreats since
July 18 last have been out of pock-
cts Of limited size, like that between
Scissors and Rheims, that below
Amiens and that in Flanders. But
in the present retreat the whole
front from the North Sea to the
Meuse is involved. Armies totalling
more than 100000 men must be
moved back under tireless pressure
from the enemy. And, since the
front to which they are retiring is