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[[cut off]] Prussian [[commands?]] evacuated the city. A French column then entered.
ALLIES SEIZE ROAD.
The entente troops have seized the road leading to Prilep, the great Bulgarian base, and the pursuit of the Teutonic forces continues. While the Monastir battle was being won French and British artillery opened a furious bombardment of the Bulgarian positions around Lake Dolran and on both sides of the Vardar River in the center of the Macedonian lines.
In view of the brilliant victory at Monastir, the entente forces in the center are believed to be preparing for an important movement there.
"Great fires were visible in Monastir, where violent explosions were heard," says a Reuter dispatch from Saloniki, which also declared the Serbs took a "great number of prisoners and trophies" in yesterday's fighting.
Another dispatch from Saloniki says:
"The temporary capital of Serbia will immediately be established at Monastir. Considerable forces of Serbians are with the entente allied troops who have occupied the town."
PARIS REPORTS VICTORY.
The Paris war office today issued the following statement:
"Nov. 19- Troops of the army of the east entered Monastir at 8 o'clock this morning, the date of the anniversary of the taking of the town by the Serbians in 1912."
The German and Bulgar forces in withdrawing before the advancing French-Serb-Russian army have had the advantage of a good railroad. This railroad, however, ends at Monastir, and from now on the Teutonic forces must depend on wagon transports.
News of the occupation of Monastir was received in Paris as one of the most important of the late developments in the war. It came too late or general comment in the French press.
MAY EFFECT JUNCTION.
The Temps points out that the success is not only of immense moral value but is likely to have a great influence on subsequent developments in the Balkan campaign, as the place commands al the practical routes between the Aegean Sea and the Adriatic Sea.
The fall of Monastir, the newspaper says, involves the early fall of Ochrida, twenty-five miles northwest of the occupies town, and the region of the Macedonian lakes, and assures an effective junction of the army at Saloniki and the Italian troops operating in Albania.
CASE OF OPEN WARFARE
The London Daily Chronicle, dealing with the capture of monastir, says:
"The situation today is one of open warfare, with the remnants of General Boyadieff's German-Bulgarian army in headlong retreat across Monastir plain and in a position of great danger.
"No doubt a splendid opportunity is now offered to the allied cavalry, of which recent mention was made in this region, for harrying the retreating enemy. The Plain of Monastir is suitable for cavalry work, more especially as the Bulgars will not find
[[cut off]] zio, [[?]] who is by turns barber and butcher in the day time, was surprised by a Forest Park policeman early yesterday, practicing his night time profession, which, the police say, is that of a burglar.
Gemmato paid with his life for trying to evade capture by Policeman Herman Errgang, who discovered him and two accomplices looting the Forest Park Style Shop, 7337 West Madison street.
His companions escaped through an alley in the rear of the store, where Gemmato's horse and wagon had been halted, and was being loaded with $2,000 worth of women's suits and bolts of cloth. Gemmato jumped on the hub of his wagon and was reaching for one of three loaded revolvers there when Errgang opened fire.
IS INSTANTLY KILLED
The first bullet struck the Italian "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" in the groin and the second tore a hole through both lungs. Death was instantaneous.
The shooting occurred after Errgang "rang in" from the patrol box at Marengo avenue and Madison street and started west. He was keeping a strict watch on alleys; he has been on the force only two years as a motorcycle policeman and it was his first night traveling a beat.
Hearing wagon springs squeak in the alley north of Circle avenue, he went to investigate. Three shadowy forms were piling stolen merchandise into a wagon in the rear of Leo Aaronson's Style Shop. Suits were heaped in piles at the door.
Errgang drew his revolver as two of the men, hearing him approach, darted away. He ordered Gemmato to halt. The latter paid no heeed and Errgang opened fire.
WAGON LIKE ARSENAL
Besides the three revolvers on the wagon seat, Errgang found two smoked candles, a three-wheel cut-ter, several hammers and a master jimmy. The three-wheel cutter, the hammers and the jimmy were identified late yesterday by Mrs. Gemmato as belonging to her husband. She was sent for at her home, 2216 Wentworth avenue, where Gemmato kept a butcher shop, to identify her husband's body. The woman appeared at the police station carrying the youngest of her three children in her arms.
Two strangers called for her husband at midnight Saturday, she said, and Gemmato drove away with them in his wagon. She denied to Chief of Police Fred W. Licht of Forest Park that she knew her husband led a double existence, but Chief Licht believes she knows the identity of Gemmato's companions and more of his dual existence.
Licht believes that Gemmato was implicated in the robbery of Reck Brothers' store in Forest Park, which was looted of $1,500 worth of goods three months ago.
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JEFF DAVIS CAPTOR DIES
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Member of Band That Took Confederate Chief Passes Away.
Columbus, Ohio, Nov. 19.-W. O. Van Houten, one of the Union soldiers of the band that captured Jef-ferson Davis at Irwinville, Ga., at the end of the civil war, died here yesterday.
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While it is not evident that there will be any fundamental change in policy, fear that any move at all would be misinterpreted as inspired by an internal political struggle has been removed.
MATTERS FOR DECISION.
The President must decide how the United States shall meet the German submarine question on the one hand and the entente allied trade restric-tions on the other, whether the retaliatory legislation shall be enforced, whether the traditional theory of isolation shall be abandoned for concerted neutral action, and whether the country shall have an aggressive or passive policy toward the peace conference, the trade war after the war and the permanent league to enforce peace, which the President has accepted in theory.
FIVE DIVER CASES.
Most spectacular and disquieting of the problems is the submarine situation with Germany. Five crtical [[critical]] cases are pending, one involved a loss of six American lives, two others involving American ships.
Increasingly serious is the fast-growing conviction that any kind of general submarine warfare, even if complying with the inadequate rules as to giving warning and affording some measure of safety of passengers, is intolerable.
Germany is known to be building submarines rapidly, and there is the possibility of a starvation campaign against England. Its effect would concern all nations. The Uniled [[United]] States might flend [[find]] it difficult to avoid complications.
BARS TECHNICALITIES.
The American attitude is flat and final. No technicalities will be ad-mitted. Ships must not be sunk without warning or without provision for the safety of the passengers facing high seas or distance from shore.
The armed ship issue undoubtedly will be advanced by Germany, but, will not be accepted. Secretary Lansing foresaw it last March, when he decreed that merchant vessels could carry a small defensive gun. If that endangers submarines, that is part of their weakness.
RESTS WITH GERMANY.
The future of the submarine situation is felt to rest entirely with Germany. With the American attitude known, the next step must come from Berlin.
Two possibilities are feared, either that Germany will decide she can starve England by an undersea campaign or that she may endeavor to involve this country, and thus insure the participation in peace conferences of a generous enemy inclined toward just peace terms.
Beyond this, the Lusitania case remains unsettled. Germany has admitted liability and offered indemnity. But the delicate matter of its amount has not been settled. Attempts made to close the issue have been repeatedly blocked by unexpected new U-boat complications.
CONSTITUTES BLOCKADE.
The ravages of the U-53 off New England were displeasing to the government, but the incident was viewed as isolated. It was said that con-
[[cut-off]] [[?]] met his wife [[?]] Charles Goulding. 7844 South [[?]] street, getting on the car. Schultz was tiring of the sport when [[?]] policeman arrested both combatants.
Schultz, a teaming contractor, went home last evening to find guests and his two daughters, 12 and 13 years old. His wife was missing. He said he was old she had gone to a "movie" show. Schultz didn't say anything, but left the house in search of her.
THEY GET ON SAME CAR.
After visiting several theaters Schultz got on a west-bound Sixty-third street car, intending to get off at the Harvard Theater. But as the car drew to a stop at Harvard avenue his wife and Goulding, a "patent medicine man," stepped aboard.
Schultz wasted few words, but used his fists to good effect. As the men gave blow on blow and backed and pushed their war through the crowded car Mrs. Schultz struck her husband and pulled his hair, say the police.
Women passengers screamed, men viewed the battle mostly in silence and with varying emotions.
POLICEMAN CALLS TIME.
Then Policeman Thomas Dohney boarded the car and stopped the conflict. Schultz was breathing a little heavily, but had marked his adversary. Both men were taken to the Englewood police station, where they were booked on charges of disorderly conduct.
The last thing Schultz told the police was his expectation of obtaining a divorce.
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HENRY E. HUNTINGTON BUYS AMERICANA COLLECTION
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Valuable Copy of Old Massachusetts Laws Is Included in Purchase.
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New York, Nov. 19.—[Special.]—
Henry E. Huntington has just acquired, for a sum said to be $350,000, the famous Americana from Britwell Court, Burnham, England, which George D. Smith of New York bought last August. There are thirty items in the collection which was the property of S. R. Christie-Miller. Perhaps the most precious book in the collection is the volume of Massachusetts laws, printed at Cambridge in 1660. Only two copies are known and Mr. Huntington now has both. The recently acquired volume is valued at $15,000.
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SOUTH PLANS CHAUTAUQUA; PLANT TO COST $2,000,000
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Institution Similar to Parent Organization in New York State Is Contemplated.
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Washington, Nov. 19.—Establishment at some central southern city of a Chautauqua of the South, similar to the institution that has grown up on the shores of Lake Chautauqua, N. Y., had been decided on at a conference here of officials of the southern conference, for educational industry and the Chautauqua institution. An announcement of the project today said a plant to cost $2,000,000 was contemplated "to further the educational progress of the South"
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Dotted line shows Carlstrom's first day's flight and solid line indicates the first day's flight made by Miss Law.
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WANTS U.S. TO GIVE BILLION FOR RELIEF
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Myron T. Herrick Suggests National Committee on War Aid.
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Philadelphia, Nov. 19.—[Special.]— The expenditure of at least $1,000,000,000 by America for war relief was suggested tonight by Myron T. Herrick. Mr. Herrick, who as the United States ambassador at Paris rendered notable service during the early months of the struggle, made an address at the home of E. T. Stotesbury, dealing chiefly with the work of the American ambulance in France and advocating the organization, even at this late date, of a general national committee for the administration of relief.
FOR ACTIVE NEUTRALITY
"There is an impression," Mr. Herrick said, "that to be neutral means that we may profit from blood and tears of nations in agony, and that there is no obligation on us in return to do more than give a little from our surplus.
"But there is an active neutrality which will cause Europe to think of us when this war is over and not as the commercial minded sellers of munitions and supplies alone, but as the large-hearted, free-handed people that has cared for the wounded and dying, clothed and fed the homeless and hungry, and nursed the helpless victims of battle. These are the actions which will gain for us the love of Europe rather than its contempt for our commercialism.
CENTRAL BODY NEEDED.
"The situation can be adequately met only by the systematic organization of all the philanthropic forces of the United States. A strong central authority is needed such as the government alone can give.
"I wish that the President had seen fit (and it is not yet too late_ to appoint a large number of the leading men of the country as a committee to take charge of the whole undertaking.
"Were we to set the mark at $1,000,000,000 that would be little enough to meet the extraordinary demands of this worst calamity that the world has ever known."
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Guard Doctor's Home, Fearing Thread Made By Insane Fugitive}
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Police guarded the residence of Dr. J. H. Reeves, 4801 South Laflin street, last night after William Kuplak escaped from the Chicago State Hospital for the Insane at Dunning.
Kuplak, who formerly lived at 4812 South Marshfield avenue, often told attendants at the asylum he intended to kill the physician.
Kuplak and Stanley Posma, another inmate, escaped while returning from church services.
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JUDE LANDIS TO RETURE JUST 35 YEARS HENCE
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Federal Court Jurist Says So on Eve of His Fiftieth Birthday Today.
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Thirty-five years from today Judge K. M. Landis of the United States District Court will retire. He announced it himself last night on eve of his fiftieth birthday.
Fifty years ago today the judge was born on a farm in Ohio-notwithstanding he is a member of the Indiana Society of Chicago and calls Indiana "home."
The judge has a real home at 5702 Blackstone avenue, made so by Mrs. Landis, Miss Suzanne Landis and Reed Landis.
"Whoever thought of becoming 50 years old?" queried the judge. "Anyway, I'm better than I was when I was 25 years old."
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MACHINE GUN AUTOMOBILE STOLEN; IS IT JOY RIDE?
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El Paso, Tex., Nov. 19.— The officers of the machine gun company of the Thirty-third Michigan Infantry have requested the police to assist in their search for a stolen machine gun automobile belonging to the company. The automobile is the only one of its type in the army. It has a searchlight forward, another on top and two machine guns mounted to the rear. It was taken from in front of a cafe late last night.
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TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS FRENCH COAST LINE
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Great Storm Does Heavy Damage in the Gulf of Marseilles.
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Paris, Nov. 19 — Extraordinary weather conditions prevailing in France in the last forty-eight hours culminated yesterday in a tidal wave in the Gulf of Marseilles on the Mediterranean coast, in which many vessels foundered, and the disastrous gales on the southwest coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
According to M. Angot, director of the weather bureau, the fluctuations of the barometer yesterday beat all of the records of sixty years for quick changes. From 721 millimeters, which was already 39 below normal, it dropped 44 millimeters in thirty-sec hours.
In Marseilles all the cabins on Catalan beach were carried away and the high waves inundated Corinche road, stopping street car traffic.
BELIEVE 17 PERISHED
London, Nov. 19.—A renewal of the heavy gales which have visited the British coast recently caused a heavy loss to shipping Saturday and Sunday. The British steamer Muriston was driven ashore and broken in two south of Blyth. It is believed seventeen members of her crew perished.
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OUSTED IOWA MAYOR HITS REVIVAL SAWDUST TRAIL
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Thomas Phillips and 1,216 Others Accept Invitation of Chicago Evangelist.
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Ottumwa, Iowa, Nov.19—[Special.[—Thomas Phillips, twice mayor of Ottumwa, on a wide-open town platform and then ousted under the Cosson law, responded to a gospel invitation extended by Dr. Charles Scoville in Union Tabernacle here this afternoon. Three thousand men cheered as Phillips waded through the sawdust to clasp hands with the Chicago evangelist. Twelve hundred and seventeen persons have gone forward in the last two days,
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delay at Hornell, caused by difficulty in getting gasoline and by defective spark plugs, she could have succeeded in reaching New York City, her objective.
In her flight yesterday the young woman's schedule was:
Left Chicago (eastern time)..8:25 a.m.
Arrived Hornell, N.Y........2:10 p.m.
Left Hornell, N.Y...........3:24 p.m.
Arrived at Binghamton.........4:20 p.m.
Time Miles
Chicago to Hornell......5:45:00 890
Hornell to Binghamton.. 0:56:00 90
Flight Time............ 6:41:00 ...
Miss Law beat Victor Carlstrom, who attempted a similar feat Nov. 2, by about 138 miles. He landed at Erie, Pa., a distance of 452 miles.
The young woman expects to continue her journey this morning as did Carlstrom, and will attempt to land on Governor's Island.
FLIES PAST THE MARK.
A great black cross had been marked out on the fair grounds at Hornell, but the girl in the airplane did not see the marker and the machine flew six or seven miles beyond the city, then swung back and made a perfect landing. She was so exhausted and benumbed by the cold that men had to help her walk across the field to a waiting automobile.
She was rushed to a downtown hotel, where dinner was waiting. She was refreshed quickly and hurried back to the field.
There half a dozen mechanics from the Curtiss plant at Hammodsport had been busy. The gasoline tank had been replenished and the machine resupplied with oil. Not a bolt nor a screw was loose, and at 8:20 the machine soared toward the East, following the main line of the Erie Railroad.
Miss Law's flight, which was officially observed by James. S. Stevens of the Aero Club of American, under ordinary circumstances, would have been unusual, he said. With the handicaps she had, it is remarkable.
DRIVES OLD MACHINE.
"Her machine, which is of the Curtiss type, was built for exhibition purposes," Mr. Stevens said. "it is a model used several years ago. Its steering device is particularly hard to handle and must be kept under control every second.
"The physical and nervous strain is terrific. The seat of the machine is well out in front of the planes and it exposed to the weather.
"When Miss Law announced she would attempt the Chicago-New York flight in her old-time Curtiss, the feat was considered next to impossible. That she did it, proves that she is one of America's boldest and most skillful aviators."
RIVALS PLANE IS NEW.
Carlstrom's machine is the latest military tractor . type with double propellers driven by two Curtiss 100 horse-power motors. It cost $15,000. The aviator's seat is inclosed in an aluminum cowl, which affords weather protection.
Miss Law's airplane is comparatively small, with a twenty-nine-foot wing spread and a fifty-four-gallon tank. Her husband and manager, William Oliver, with the assistance of two mechanics, worked all of Saturday night, stripping off surplus
