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EVENING EDITION   The Evening Telegram   EVENING EDITION 
THE WEATHER-PROBABLY FAIR TO-DAY AND TUESDAY; COLDER TUESDAY

VOL. L. NO. 26,882
NEW YORK, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916.- EIGHTEEN PAGES.
PRICE ONE CENT.

AT 102-MILE SPEED RUTH LAW NEARS CITY 

DISASTER MENACES ROUMANIA

SUBMARINE, MEXICAN AND LABOR ISSUES OCCUPY PRESIDENT

Maze of International and Domestic Problems Await Solution and Mr. Wilson Faces Gravest Tasks, Probably, of His Career.

WASHINGTON, Monday.-When President Wilson sat at his desk in the White House executive offices to-day he plunged into one of the busiest day's work in the history of his administration. Such an array of domestic and international problems, in which he must take the lead in arriving at solutions, has seldom if ever confronted a President of the United States.
Leading in importance is the submarine war issue between this country and the Germanic Alliance. The reports, increasing daily in frequency, that the Kaiser's undersea fighters are violating the agreement made with this country, has caused the President to realize that the matter must be taken up at once.

Little Delay Expected.

Indications that there will be little delay in this matter are seen in the statements issued from authoritative sources that the President, now that the election is past, will feel no embarrassment nor fear of misinterpretation, such as might have been the case before the verdict of the people, as reflected by the vote on November 7, had been delivered on the Democratic administration. 
Another international controversy is the eternal Mexican situation, which is drawing near a crisis, in the opinion of the students of recent events. The President has insisted on ending the deadlock at which the negotiations of the joint commission have arrived, and demands that an agreement of some sort be reached.

Railway Problem Leads.

The railway problem leads in importance among the domestic issues which call for the President's earnest attention. This is divided into two main branches- the fight on the eight-hour day principle and the investigation of the Congressional join committee, opening to-day, in which the question of government ownership, not only of railways but of other public utilities, such as telegraphs, telephones, cable, wireless and the like, are to be discussed.
All this aside from the programme of general legislation which President Wilson is anxious to have enacted by the present Congress before its term expires next March, and which requires study and preparation by him and his advisors.

President Has No Idea of Seeking Peace Now

Rumors Heard in Vienna Declared To Be Baseless, Mr. Wilson Not Being Ready to Act Without Consent of Belligerents.
[BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.]
WASHINGTON, Monday.-It is assumed in official circles here that Austrian discussion of the prospect of a move in behalf of peace by President Wilson is based upon some unfounded rumor reaching Vienna or upon a misinterpretation of one of the President's speeches in the campaign advocating a world league for peace to make another such war as that now raging in Europe impossible. 
The President, it is understood, has not changed his opinion that any action by him at the present stage of the European conflict would be ill-timed and futile unless the belligerent nations indicated that it would be welcome, and it is authoritatively stated that no immediate step is in contemplation.


EXTRA! 
Woman Aviator Races to New York on Last Lap of Record Flight

Expects to Make Faster Time Than Victor Carlstrom in His Recent Trip

THOUSANDS SEE DARING AVIATOR IN THE AIR.

[SPECIAL TO THE EVENING TELEGRAM.]
PORT JERVIS, N.Y., Monday.-On the last stretch of her record breaking flight from Chicago to New York city Miss Ruth Law passed over here at thirty-five minutes past eight o'clock to-day. She had covered the 127 miles from Binghamton, which place she left at twenty minutes past seven, in one hour and fifteen minutes.
If she maintains the same rate of speed for the remaining eight-eight miles between here and New York city she will land at Governor's Island in time to break the Chicago-New York record set by Victor Carlstrom by a good margin. She was flying steadily at a rate of more than 100 miles an hour. 

[SPECIAL TO THE EVENING TELEGRAM.]
SUSQEHANNA, Pa., Monday.-Ruth Law, who left Binghamton at twenty minutes past seven o'clock this morning in her aeroplane on the last lap of her record breaking flight from Chicago to New York, passed over this place flying at the rate of one hundred miles an hour. She was flying at a great height as she passed.


Features of Miss Ruth Law's Record Aviation Exploit 

Flies without stop from Chicago to Hornell, N. Y., a distance of 590 miles, exceeding the highest previous American cross-country record, held by Victor Carlstrom, and which was 452 miles, from Chicago to Erie, Pa.
Incidentally sets a new world's record for continuous flight by a woman pilot, held by Mile. Dutrieux, when she won the Femina Cup in 1913 by flying 200 miles in competition in France.
Speed of first part of the journey averages 103 moles an hour, although using a two-year-old now obsolete type of Curtiss biplane, which experts thought incapable of making the trip.
The aviatrice is only twenty-eight years old, and her longest previous cross-country flight was twenty-five miles. She would not have stopped at Hornell but for the necessity of replenishing her stock of gasolene.


the south and seek the usual landing place on the parade ground at Governor's Island. 

Miss Law retired early Sunday night and was up at five o'clock this morning, had her breakfast at six and was at the field by a quarter of seven ready to make her flight. 

As she left this morning Miss Law said:-"Next time I am going out after a new world's record."

At an early hour Miss Law began making preparations for the last stage of her interrupted flight to New York. Every mechanism was inspected, the cable tested, gasolene stored in the container and all the other preparations for the flight made. 

Ready Before Dawn.


Morrison Hotel in Chicago and had taken a rigorous course of exercise.

Her First Long Flight.
She had made few actual flights, however, before undertaken the trip from Chicago to New York. Those she did make were of comparatively little importance. Twenty-five miles was the maximum distance she had travelled in her biplane. 
Miss Law was modest about her achievement although there was no hiding the fact that she was delighted with the knowledge that she had beaten the nonstop record of Victor Carlstrom.
Miss Law landed in Hornell seven minutes after two o'clock Sunday afternoon, after having been in the air five hours and forty minutes. It was more than an hour before she was able to get a supply of

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Prussian Forces Enter Wallachia, Where They Have Established Themselves Strongly After Fighting Way Through Defiles of Transylvanian Alps.

BUCHAREST NOT DIRECTLY MENACED, BUT ENEMY HAS EXCELLENT BASE FOR ATTACK

Unexpected Coup by Russians and Allied Successes at Monastir and on the Cerna May Relieve Pressure on the Roumanians.

LONDON, Monday.-With the entrance of strong Austro-German forces into Wallachia where they have established themselves strongly after fighting their way through the defies of the Transylvanian Alps, the position of the Roumanians has grown most precarious and is admittedly causing grave concern. Allied success in Macedonia, which have restored Monastir to the Serbians, are of too recent occurrence to influence the situation in Roumania.

German reports of the Kaiser's military success against the Roumanians state that Roumanian resistance, which had been growing stiffer, has been broken and that Roumanian strategy has failed. Of the smaller nations engaged in the great struggle Roumania at the present moment is the hardest pressed. 

How serious this is is revealed in the Berlin and Vienna announcements that the Austrians and the Prussian troops now have reached the Danube-Craiova railway, attaining a point from which they are able to threaten the flank of the Roumanian forces south of the Vulcan pass.

It is considered probable here that the Roumanian army already is in retreat to save itself from the catastrophe. Bucharest, says the Daily Chronicle, is not directly menaced as yet, buy the enemy has gained possession of an excellent base from which to direct operations against the capital.

POSITION IS PRECARIOUS.
"The Germans' success, if true, is very serious," the Chronicle admits. "It means that the German attempt to cut off the southwest projection of Roumania has gone far toward accomplishment.  The position of the Roumanian army at Orsova is precarious, and it will be lucky if it extricates itself without a catastrophe."

The Daily Mail, admitting that the Roumanian line is in great peril, says: - 

"The enemy claims to have attained his first objective, namely an advance to the Roumanian plain.  His new position endangers the Roumanian flank and may cause a rapid retirement.  This news is grave as the presence of the enemy on the railway would compel the retreat of a large part of the Roumanian line."

What seems to spell disaster to Roumaninan arms may yet be