Show WOMEN WOM WAR WORKERS I EAGER TO SERVE GOTO GO GOTO GOTO TO AID ARMENIANS Mary Vail Andrees Only Woman to Receive Distinguished ServIce Service Service ice Medal Heads Party I. I Dissatisfied with with uneventful une civilian Ilian life Ufe after two years' years vivid ld experience as ae workers abroad In the world war al a n party of young wom women woman n led by Miss Mary Vail Vall Andrees of New Ken Y York rk City Cit ha c just gone to the Near Neal His Ens y MISS MARY VAIL AN ANDREES DREES Distinguished Service Heroine Who Now Goes to Near East where nearly a million people ar are arc suffering from disease and Ml MI Miss 6 Andrees Im had returned to this country after serving for for foi the n RedCross Red lied d Cross but when she sue read lead of the sit sail plight of the th Armenians she at once offered her services to Near East Re nc Relief Relief lief the former American Committee on Armenian and Syrian Relief which already has saved thousands of lives lIes In Western A Asia ia Miss Andrees is the thc only American woman war wai worker who was awarded the Distinguished service Medal b bj by Congress Most of or orthe the other members rs of her party part likewise like wise served Mined with honor for fol the Red iced RedCross Cross an and other war service organ organ organ- I- I Amo Among g the other members of the group are the Misses Frances Fiance Rn and Betty netty Anderson of New Canaan Coun who were decorated decorate with the the Croix ue lle Guerre bj by the French Government Miss bliss Margaret Milne of Washington 0 D C C. who vas was a member of the Hoover Relief Commission for itu- itu tu mania an and Miss Alex Sl Sidney an English Eng Eng- lish who served for three woman years vears with the British Relief Commission in Serbia Ml l Miss s Doris NevIn member of the party part is a daughter aughter of the late Ethelbert Nevin the com composer com poser Col Cot William N N. Haskell commissioner commis- commis to the Near East for the Paris Peace Commission and official representative lepre of the Near Neal East n Relief H f has cabled that the relI relief f workers wj rs now now In Inthe the field are ire overwhelmed whelmed f magnitude magnitude mag mag- of their task C Col h Haskell i sa says Armenians ArmenIan wIll starve before the next harvest est unless the they are arc are given aid and orphan children face death leath from hunger hung nn and exposure Thousands of refugees are daily dally b eIng e- e Ing leg brought to the relief centers from the deserts |