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CHICAGO EXAMINER, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1916.
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REPORT OF ENGINEERS TO ADVOCATE CITY SUBWAY
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To Hold Tube Only Solution of Chicago Traction Problem; Loop Elevated to Remain.
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Bore Would Absorb Portion of Present Overhead Traffic; "Skip-Top" Plan Revived.
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  Chicago is practically assured of a subway which will eliminate downtown congestion.
  That this recommendation will be made by the three engineers comprising the traction and subway commission was stated yesterday by a man intimate with the commission's progress thus far. A subway, he said, is the only solution of the loop problem. 
  In its exhaustive study of Chicago traction conditions the commission has endeavored to learn whether additional street car trackage downtown could be installed. It has found it impossible.
TO RETAIN ELEVATED LOOP.
  Present plans contemplate a subway to include both elevated and surface cars. Chicago cannot hope yet for the eradication of the elevated loop, but a subway could take care of much of this.
  The report of the commission, expected to be delivered to the Council committee on local transportation by December 1, probably will be delayed two weeks, and possibly a month. The commission, it was learned, will report on approximately 2,000 phases of the transportation situation here. For the public's benefit, however, a short report in plain language will be made in pamphlet form. As many as is necessary will be printed.
SUBWAY HELD NECESSARY.
  "A subway," said Alderman Henry D. Capitain yesterday, "is necessary in Chicago. We must have one within the next five years, or we will find ourselves unable to cope with the rush-hour business downtown."
  Alderman Capitain intends to put before the committee as soon as possible the "skip-stop" system of surface car operation. He believes it would increase are service of the surface lines at least 10 per cent. The committee on local transportation, he suggested, should assume a broader view in the future with traction problems. In the first instance with the "skip-stop," Alderman Capitain would submit this to a referendum.
PEOPLE WOULD DECIDE.
  "That is the only way," he said. "Let the people decide their own traction problems insofar as possible. In Cleveland they have referendum votes on street car questions."
  The latter city gave Alderman Capitain his idea for the renewal of the "skip-stop" system in Chicago. The plan was tried here a year ago, but was rejected. Under it, according to Cleveland traction officials, the speed of cars has been increased more than 20 per cent.
  The plan is an express surface line system. Streets, generally between three and four blocks apart, are designated as stopping places. Cars will not take on or discharge passengers at any other points.
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59, She Will Call Broker, 73, Father
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BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
  NEW YORK, Nov. 19 - Miss Catherine Jordan, fifty-nine years old, hereafter will call Edward D. Robinson, aged seventy-three, father. An order signed yesterday by Surrogate Cohalan makes her his adopted child. Mr. Robinson is a wealthy broker. His nearest relatives are third cousins. He has been a fried of Miss Jordan's family for years.
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Row Between Calles and Trevino Feared
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  Nogales, Ariz., Nov. 19. - The candidacy of General P. Elias Calles for governor of Sonora in the coming constitutionalist election was announced to-day. Sonora de facto officials to-night were anxious concerning reports that Calles was about
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666 MILES THROUGH CLOUDS AT 120=MILE CLIP
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RUTH BANCROFT LOW and her Curtiss "baby biplane" - a combination which yesterday broke the American record for non-stop flying, remaining in the air five hours and thirty-eight minutes, and for a day's flight of 783 miles.
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Baker Refuses to Admit Army Staff Powers Repealed
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Reiterates Faith in Officers and Lauds Root as a Great War Secretary.
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  WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. - Secretary of War Baker to-day reiterated his faith in the general staff of the army, Iin the last session of Congress efforts were made to weaken the efficiency of the staff by inserting in the national defense bill restrictions on the "administrative" powers of its officers.
  Secretary Baker termed the legislation a "glancing blow." He expressed strong confidence in the staff and said it was necessary to the Secretary of War as an informative and advisory board. He refused to recognize in the legislation "an implied repeal of the whole fundamental theory of the reorganization act whereby the general staff was created."
  The secretary's opinion excited the admiration of George Hewitt Myers, secretary of the Army League, who issued a commendatory statement lauding Mr. Baker for having followed the ideas of former Secretary Root, whose opinions Mr. Baker cited freely as precedent and to whom the present secretary alluded as "one of the foremost lawyers of the country and one of the great Secretaries of War of modern times."
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Newlands R.R.Inquiry Will Open To-Morrow
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BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
  WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. - The Newlands committee transportation hearings will begin Monday morning in the Senate office building. Senator Francis G. Newlands of Nevada is expected to arrive to-morrow. Other members of the committee, including Representative Adamson of Georgia, vice chairman, already are here. Representatives of the United States Chamber of Commerce, state railroad commissions, interstate commerce commissions, railway executives, the Philadelphia bourse and several manufacturing and industrial organizations are expected to arrange a tentative program Monday.
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Letters Urge T. R. as President in 1920
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  MILWAUKEE, Nov. 19. - Milwaukeeans who were delegates and alternates to the 1916 national Republican convention have received a letter from Butler, Pa., urging Theodore Roosevelt as the Republican presidential candidate in 1920.
  One of the men who received the letter is E. J. Gross. The signature is missing, but the envelope bears
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RAIL MEN TO ASK REPEAL IF GIVEN 8 HOURS
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Head of Trainment Says Brotherhoods Are Willing to Compromise on Rest of Adamson Law.
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BY W. C. ROBERTS.
Staff Correspondent of the Examiner.
  BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 19. - W. G. Lee, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, denied to-day he had threatened a strike January 1 if the Adamson law were not put into effect.
  "Nothing I said could have been so construed," said Lee. "The story was made out of whole cloth."
  Lee and Warren S. Stone of the engineers left to-day for Washington to confer to-morrow with President Wilson. W. S. Carter of the firemen and W. L. Sheperd, acting president of the conductors, also will participate in the conference.
READY TO COMPROMISE.
  President Lee, when told of reports in Chicago that the brotherhoods and railroad officials both were in a mood to compromise the whole controversy, replied:
  "That is true, at least so far as the brotherhoods are concerned. As spokesman for the brotherhoods I made that offer last week in New York to the general managers' conference committee. If the railroads will agree to accept the basic eight-hour day for men in the train and yard service all other matters can be amicably adjusted.
  "The overtime question is out of it. The railroad officials were not ready to give us an answer and we told them we would not seek another conference, but if they wanted to meet us again they could so inform us this week while we are in Washington.
WOULD REPEAL LAW.
  "If we can reach an agreement we are willing to ask for the repeal of the Adamson law, as it would be of
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any attempt to enact a compulsory investigation law like that in force in Canada. An agreement would take the whole controversy out of the courts and Congress.
  "We are ready to compromise on all questions except the basic eight-hour day. And no change can be made in that, as we are under instructions, and would have to call a meeting of the 640 chairmen and obtain their consent. I understand the railroads are willing to increase wages in lieu of the basic work day. But that plan does not work out satisfactorily with the brakemen. They should receive a higher percentage of increase than those receiving much higher wages.
WANTS SUITS DROPPED.
  "We objected to the injunction suits and asked they be withdrawn to clear the way for an understanding. We offered to ask the government that no railroad be penalized for at least thirty days after the law goes into effect, so we would have time to work out the necessary schedules.
  "What we will do will depend on our conference with President Wilson to-morrow. His wishes will be respected."
  The four brotherhood chiefs conferred in Washington to-day with officials of the railroad department of the American Federation of Labor. They discussed an offensive and defensive alliance.
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Boston Author Wins Paris Academy Honor
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  The Academy of Moral and Political Sciences in Paris has just awarded the Drouyn de Lhuys prize of 2,000 francs to Morton Fullerton for his historical work, "Problems of Power."
  Mr. Fullerton is from Boston and was for many years in the Paris office of the London Times. This is the second time that a work of his has been racognized by the academy, a rare honor for a foreign writer.
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Flywheel Wrecks Room and Hurts Two
  A five-foot flywheel flew from its axle in the engine room of a silk  mill in Haverstraw, N. Y. It hit E. W. Johnson, who suffered a fracture of one leg and bruises. Louis Rember also was injured.
  The wheel crashed through the wall of the room and landed in the street. The engine room and two automobiles being repaired there were wrecked.
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Hawaii Enervating, Asserts Official
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  Hawaii, with its crimson dawns and purple twilights, its wondrous Waikiki beach, its azure sea and other delights, apparently doesn't appeal to certain members of the Postoffice Department force in San Francisco. As witness this announcement:
  "Because of the many protests of officials against being obligated to live in the enervating climate of Hawaii, the position of postoffice inspector there has been abolished. Hereafter inspectors will be assigned there for special duty of from thirty to sixty days. No one will be obliged to remain there permanently."
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Man Tries Woman's Purse-Stocking: He Loses $110 Bankroll
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  Because he carried his purse in his sock for safe keeping, George W. Orme, a traveling man stopping at a Los Angeles hotel, is loser to the extent of $110, according to his story to the police.
  Orme told Detectives Haver and Davidson that he met a young woman and took her to a downtown cafe for dinner. He said he paid for the meal and then put his purse in his sock. Later, he said, he felt for the money and found it missing.
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Proves That Hello Girls Are on the Job
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  An excited telephone operator called up police headquarters at 9 o'clock at night in St. Louis and said she had heard a shot fired in the school supply store of Daniel Meinberg. A man was conversing at Meinberg's telephone, she said, and she heard the shot over the wire. Policemen investigated and found that, while Henry Tillewein was telephoning Joseph Niedzielski was examining a toy pistol. The pistol was accidentally discharged.
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ELECTRIFY AT ONCE, DEMAND UPON THE I. C.
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Council Committee Ready to Refuse to Consider Terminal Plan Unless Reform Is Included.
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- BY JAY J. WILLIAMS.
  The Council committee on railway terminals, seven members of which returned to Chicago yesterday after a ten days' inspection trip of electrified terminals in the East, will demand electrification of the Illinois Central Railroad at the committee's first meeting with officials of that road.
  The aldermen are a unit on this proposition. They want electrification, and they want it now. In Philadelphia and New York they saw it, and yesterday, upon their arrival in Chicago, they saw the dire need of it. The sentiment of the committee is now at the point where dickering will not be tolerated; a concrete proposal, however, will be welcomed.
NOW IS BEST TIME.
  In view of what Charles A. Peabody, director of the Illinois Central, and representative of the Astor estate, told the aldermen in New York, they believe the president holds more hope of electrification than ever before. Unless the Illinois Central, in the submission of its terminal plans, maps out a distinct and immediate program for electrification, the committee will refuse even to consider the plans.
  "The Illinois Central must include electrification in its terminal plans," said Alderman William J. Healy yesterday. "If the officials do not, they might as well keep their plans to themselves. I am going to demand electrification, and I believe every other member of the committee will do likwise. The benefits of lectrification, as we saw them in the East, have convinced us this improvement must be installed by the Illinois Central."
DIFFICULTIES IN N. Y.
  Inspection of the electrified terminals in New York gave the aldermen the best argument for electrification of the Illinois Central. In that city tremendous dififculties were faced and overcome, and enormous sums expended to bring about electrification. Comparing the money spent by eastern roads with the amount of money deemed necessary to electrify the Illinois Central is like comparing a giant with a pigmy.
  "I cannot conceive of further delay on the part of the Illinois Central as far as electrification of its tracks is concerned," said Alderman Geiger, chairman of the railway terminals committee, who talked with Mr. Peabody in New York. "The city has the power - on account of the road's terminal plans and its desire that they be recommended to the Council for passage - to insist upon electrification. I for one shall insist upon it, and I am positive every other member of the committee will do likewise."
GEIGER IS CONVINCED.
  "We saw enough in the East to convince us electrification is needed in Chicago, and needed along the lake front more than any other place," said Alderman Henry D. Capitain. "The committee knows this, and intends to work for it. The present is the best opportunity we have."
  Alderman William F. Lipps believes electrification of the Illinois Central is in reality an easy matter. His belief is based on information gained in New York from officials of the New York Central Lines and the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, both of which has electrified terminals.
  "They are familiar with the Illinois Central," said Alderman Lipps, "and told me the Illinois Central had no problem at all. I believe they told the truth. There is only one thing for the City Council to do - that is to demand electrification now, and if our demand is refused, treat the Illinois Central the same as it has treated us."
  Another meeting of the railway terminals commission will be held before the Illinois Central's plans are submitted to the Council committee. Alderman Geiger said yesterday the session might be held this week.
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POLICE FOILED OVER SLAYING IN VENDETTA
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Witnesses Say Mysterious Man Who Killed Catalanetto on Street Car Was Greek or Italian
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  Detectives worked all day yesterday and last night in a vain attempt to penetrate the mystery surrounding the murder of John Catalanetto, 3247 North Halsted street, who was shot by an unidentified man on a Belmont avenue car at Elston avenue late Saturday night.
  Catalanetto was the third member of his family to meet violent death in the last three years. The first victim was his father, "Silver King" Catalanetto, who was slain in "Little Italy" on the North Side. Then his sister's mother-in-law was shot while she sat on the front porch of her home in the same Italian section.
  Young Catalanetto was arrested in connection with the murder of the woman, tried and found not guilty.
BROTHER GIVES NO HELP.
  A brother of the latest victim identified the body in the morgue of St. Elizabeth's Hospital yesterday. He left without giving his name and told the attendants he "didn't know who did it."
  Catalanetto was carrying a loaded revolver when he was clain. He and the slayer together boarded an eastbound Belmont avenue car. As Catalanetto reached the platform the other man drew a revolver and shot him in the head and through the right arm. As the victim sank to the
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