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Even with that precaution, she had difficulty in overcoming the erratic air currents when started. Her average altitude as she disappeared toward Gary was less than 200 feet. TAKES GREAT CHANCES Had an accident occurred to the motor, death would have been certain, as the height was not sufficient to make it possible for her to volplane to earth. In rising from the ground spectators gasped as she tipped the planes upward at an angle of more than thirty degrees. During the later hours of her flight Miss Law was able to achieve a greater altitude and at certain times she flew more than 3,000 feet above the ground. The aviatrix, unheralded and comparatively unknown, made the flight purely as a sporting proposition and to beat Carlstrom, who defeated her in a flying contest in the East last fall. SISTER OF DARE-DEVIL She is a sister of Rodman Law, known as "the professional dare-devil," and for the last five years has been doing exhibition flying. She recently declared her intention to join the aviation corps of the entente allies in Europe, but was prevented from doing so by her husband. Miss Law governed her flight by a compass and a map tied to her knee. As a result it is almost a true "air line." During exhibition flights in Chicago she thrilled the spectators by "looping the loop" and "turning cart wheels" with an illuminated airplane. FEAR PEACE WILL BRING CUT IN ALL TOILERS' PAY Illinois Federation of Labor Wants National Body to Act to Prevent this Baltimore, Nov. 19.-The American Federation of Labor, entering tomorrow the second week of its convention, will begin consideration of a number of matters embodied in recommendations and resolutions. A resolution has been brought to the convention from Illinois Federation of Labor which sets forth that conditions in all warring countries have resulted in filling trades hitherto supplied by men workers only "with enormous numbers of underpaid women, unorganized and voteless." It is foreseen that when the men return to civil life there will be "grave danger that these exploited women will be used to lower the wages of men as well, permanently and everywhere." Indorsements given to the movement to obtain a "governments at the time of the signature of the treaty of peace the establishment of international agreements embodying the following principle: "The wage paid for definite work must be absolutely independent of the sex of the individual performing it." "NOT ENOUGH MUSTARD" TROUBLE IN THIS CASE RUTH LAW TELLS HOW SHE SET NEW RECORD IN FLIGHT By RUTH LAW Binghamton, N.Y., Nov.19. -[Special.]- I have made the longest flight a woman ever made. But I am not boasting about that. The real thing I have done is to show that it is an easy thing to fly from New York to Chicago, if one has the equipment. My little machine, even with its extra tank, could carry only fifty-three gallons of gasoline. That's why I had to stop at Hornell to get more fuel. If I had been able to carry 100 gallons I would have eaten dinner in New York. There was no trouble, absolutely none, with the machine, and the stop at Hornell was as I had planned. There was a man in the race track there with gasoline. That I had to stop here in Binghamton was only because it was dark and I didn't have any lights. You see, I had planned to leave Chicago an hour and a half earlier than I did, but it was so cold and the engine would not start because the gasoline and air wouldn't mix in the carburetor. I dont know just how far I flew and only generally how fast I went. I just started and flew until I had to stop to get more gasoline. I know I flew farther than Carlstrom did. Now this fight of mine is a personal affair. The expenses are paid by me. I have done quite a bit of flying of many sorts, but I never had tried nay distance flying. It was arranged that the affair should be under the auspices of the Aero Club of America, so that whatever I did might be a matter of record. Before I took my little army scout 'plane to Chicago I had tried to get a bigger machine, but Mr. Curtiss was too busy making aeroplanes for the war. My little one is a baby machine, with a wingspread of twenty-eight feet, and has a 100 horse power motor. The propeller is behind the driver, who sits out unprotected. The tank crowded the little 'plane, so that all the clothing I could take along was one skirt--how that skirt proved to be the most convenient I will explain later. I was up this morning before 5 o'clock central time. I ate a light breakfast and then put on my flying suit--or suits, to be exact. First, there was a woolen suit, then another woolen suit, then a leather flying suit and over all a second leather suit. I wore a helmet of leather and wool, with a face mask of wool and goggles. I then went to Grant Park on the shore of Lake Michigan with my manager. We got there about 6 o'clock. The machine was pulled out, water and gasoline put in, and we tried to start the engine,for I had planned to leave at 6:30 o'clock central time. It was half past 7 o'clock before we got the engine running. toward Cleveland, going up to 3,000, 4,000 and then 5,000 feet. I had with me a baragraph, an aneroid, a compass and a clock, as well as my speedometer. I had left the lights behind, because I thought they would be in the way. I didn't keep close track of the time, but noticed that I was making about 100 miles an hour consistently a short time after leaving Chicago. When I started there was a southwest wind of about twenty-six miles an hour, but this soon died out and there was almost no wind. I passed over Cleveland with everything going fine, at a height of about 6,000 feet. A slight shift in the course and I was headed for Erie, which I passed at an elevation of 3,000 feet. Then I thought of Carlstrom and the loosened gasoline pipe that forced him to stop and I remembered that I had equipped my machine with an ordinary gas pipe which couldn't jar loose if it tried. When I steered due east from Erie to Olean, I knew I had beaten Carlstrom's record. It was in landing at Hornell and in leaving that I had the two "close shaves" of the trip. I had calculated the fifty-three gallons of gasoline I had when I left Chicago would just carry me to Hornell, but I had counted some on a wind which wasn't there to help me. Ten miles from Hornell I saw that my gasoline was almost gone. It gave out two miles from Hornell and I glided for the two miles onto the race track just outside the city. It seemed that every one in Hornell was there to welcome me. I got into an automobile and went downtown, where I got a cup of coffee and some eggs. It was in leaving Hornell that I came as near being wrecked as I ever want to be. Blocking the path to the east was a hill 600 feet high, on top of which there are tall trees. I went up as steeply as I could, but it looked as if I was headed straight to a collision with the trees. Just before I got to them the machine responded bravely and I got over those trees. How closely I came to not getting over them being shown by the fact that I flew through their tops with branches striking the bottom of the aeroplane. Soon after I left Hornell I saw that I wasn't going to reach New York today. It was getting dusk. I was almost tempted to go ahead in the dark to Governor's Island, but I hadn't any lights. When I saw that I had to stop I decided it would be at Binghamton. I stowed down before I reached there, and after nosing around saw a race track, and there I alighted about 4:30 o'clock. I let the water out of my machine, ran it alongside a tree, tied it to the tree, got a big, fat Binghamton policeman to watch it all night, put on my skirt over my flying suit, got into AMERICAN SLAIN BY VILLA BANDITS Murdered Man's Body Is Then Tossed on Bonfire, Refugees Report. VICTIM IS UNIDENTIFIED. Four Yankees Held Prisoners by Bandits at Parral; 200 Chinese Massacred. El Paso, Texas. Nov. 19. - An unidentified American was killed when a Villa band took Jimenez, and four Americans were seen under guard of bandits at Parral during Villa's occupation of that town, according to reports, believed by federal agents to be authentic, brought to the border by refugees. The refugees further assert that the district between Parral and Jimenez has been cleared by Villa's followers of more than 200 hinese. AMERICAN FROM TORREON. The American killed was described as about 60 years old. He was known to be from Torreon and was en route to Chihuahua City. He was slain, said the refugees, in the Jimenez hotel and his body lay for some time in front of the building, when after being robbed of clothing and valuables it was placed on a bonfire. The same refugees who claim to have been witnesses of the outrages also say that two Mexican women who had married Chinese and their five half-caste children were found and thrown alive into the fire and cremated in sight of the crowd. The bodies of seven murdered Chinese, according to the same authority, were seen in the streets of the town. FOUR YANKEES PRISONERS. Two Mexicans who escaped from Parral affirm that they saw four Americans there under a Villa guard. They said these men had lived in the town, adding that they heard the Americans working at the Alvarado mines escaped. Another report brought to the border was to the effect that the bodies of thirty-five gypsies were seen on the roadside near Parral, murdered and robbed by Villa bandits. 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New London, Conn., Nov. 19. --[Special.]-- The Deutschland may be free by tomorrow night of the legal entanglements which are detaining her sailing as the result of the collision Friday morning in which she sank the tug T. A. Scott Jr. and drowned five members of the latter's crew. Officers of the Eastern Forwarding Company, American agents of the vessel, asserted today that they will be here tomorrow to furnish bonds in any amount necessary to guarantee the damage claims for which the submarine freighter is being held security. CHICAGO HERALD PEOPLE'S MOVIE STAR CONTEST One Vote Voting Closes December 3 Monday, Nov. 20, 1916. Name ............................ Address .......................... Four stars, ten substars and a company of 75 persons of both sexes are to be chosen. Read the herald each day for particulars of this great contest. This coupon must be in the office of the Contest Editor not later than Monday, Nov. 27. 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