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“THE STEEL SOUL,” BY JACK LAIT
A strange story of an industry in which men work under the shadow of death. Also Arthur James Hayes has an Alaskan tale and Edgar Rice Burroughs tells more about “The Son of Tarzan,” the weird African narrative, in NEXT SUNDAY’S HERALD
CHICAGO HERALD EXTRA FINAL
Fair and Square
THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR-NO. 167.
MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1916. ***PRICE ONE CENT In Chicago and Suburbs, Elsewhere TWO Cents.
GIRL SMASHES AIR RECORD
Ruth Law Braves Death on Long Flight
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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.
RUTH LAW SETS WORLD'S MARK BEFORE STOPPING
Aviatrix Excels Carlstrom's Trip, Halting at Hornell, N.Y., Then Resuming Flight.
STARTS FROM CHICAGO
Remains Over Night at Binghamton and Expects to Reach New York City Today.
In a decrepit Curtiss biplane, of a type long considered obsolete, Miss Ruth Law yesterday captured the long distance sustained airplane flight record of America.
In the presence of only a few casual spectators, Miss Law took to the air in Grant Park at 7:25 a.m. (Central time) and landed at Hornell, N.Y., at 2:10 p.m. (eastern time), a distance of approximately 590 miles, which she traversed at an average speed of 103 miles an hour. The plucky aviatrix was compelled to land to get a new fuel supply.
RESUMES HER FLIGHT.
Arising again at at 3:20 p.m., she continued on her way until again compelled to descend at Hinghamton [[Binghamton]], N.Y., because of darkness. The total distance for the day was about 750 miles. Had it not been for the long delay at Hornell, caused by difficulty in getting gasoline and by defective spark plugs, she would 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 Binghamton..........4:20 p.m.
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| | Time | Miles |
| Chicago to Hornell | 5:45:00 | 590 |
| 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 mechanicians from the Curtiss plant at Hammodsport [[Hammondsport]] had been busy.. The gasoline tank had been replenished and the machine resupplied with oil. Not a bolt nor a screw loose, and at 3:30 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 America, 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 is 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."
RIVAL'S 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 incased 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 Saturday night, stripping of surplus
MONASTIR TAKEN BY ALLIES AFTER 2 GREAT BATTLES
French Occupy Fortress on Anniversary of Its Capture by Serbs in Balkan War.
BERLIN ADMITS LOSS
London Reports the Teutonic Forces Fled in Disorder When Repulsed on Hill East of City.
London, Nov. 19-French troops occupied Monastir at 8 o’clock this forenoon. Macedonia’s greatest stronghold fell after two furious battles south and east of the city. The Bulgarian and German troops, after a crushing defeat, are retreating in disorder in the direction of Prilep, to the north.
All day Saturday a great battle raged. The Serbians on the east of the Cerna River drove forward to the village of Grunishte and captured that position. In the Cerna bend they repulsed a desperate counter-attack on Hill 1212, directly east of Monastir, near the town of Iven. So decisive was the Prussian reverse that the Bulgarians fled in disorder.
The Serbians drove forward along the entire line and when they reached the summit of Hill 1387, the principal Monastir barrier, the 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 insured the following statement:
“Nov. 19.-Troops of the army of the east entered Monastir at 8 o’clock in the 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 for 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 all 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 occupied 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 the 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
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French May Mobilize Civilians to Meet New Demands of War
Paris, Nov. 19.-A mass mobilization of civilians is being seriously considered as a counter measure to that of Germany, according to the Temps.
“A simultaneous effort on the part of the allies must be the answer to Germany,” the Temps says. “Germany must be beaten; there is no other question. The duty of each of us at this tragic hour when the fate of the country and civilization is being decided is to work entirely and without reserve for the national defense and the cause of liberty.”
Journal Des Debats says: “The war is reaching a crisis and to win a rapid increase in production, without hindering every day life, is necessary. At the moment when the Germans are their most dangerous effort the French feel more than any other time the need of being governed, to be set right and guided and, as needed, constrained to order and work.”
KILLS A ROBBER LOOTING STORE
Forest Park Business Man Victim of New Cop’s Bullet.
Angelo Gemmato, alias Tony Ritzlo who is by turns a 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 in 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 night traveling 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 heed and Errgang opened fire.
WAGON LIKE ARSENAL.
Besides the three revolvers on the wagon seat, Errgang found two smoked candles, a three wheel cutter, 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, 226 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 Rock Brothers' store in Forest Park, which was looted of $1500 worth of goods three months ago.
MACHINE GUN AUTOMOBILE STOLEN; IS IT JOY RIDE?
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.
WILSON FACING GRAVE PROBLEMS OF WORLD SCOPE
President Now to Devote Self to Settling Disputes of U.S. and the Warring Nations.
FREED BY RE-ELECTION
Diver Difference With Germany Regarded as the Most Disquieting Question.
[By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.]
Washington, Nov. 19.-A portentous and complicated international situation faces President Wilson and for the next few weeks will engage his attention.
In the last days of the campaign Secretary of State Lansing frequently spoke of the necessity of postponing action on the more delicate international questions, because the uncertainty of the outcome of the political contest had a direct bearing on the success or failure of some of the administration policies.
WILSON COLLECTING DATA.
From now on the President expects to deal with all foreign questions without embarrassment, and he is receiving from his advisors a summary of the outstanding issues so essential to taking stock of the basic situation which must be met.
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 restrictions 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 cases are pending, one involving 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 effects would concern all nations. The United States might find it difficult to avoid complications.
BARS TECHNICALITIES.
The American attitude is flat and final. No technicalities will be admitted. 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-
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Police Search for Two Costly Violins Stolen From Owners
Two valuable violins stolen from their owners are the object of a police search.
When the noise of a button manufacturing plant at 168 West Lake street became too distracting the manager, Charles L. H. Sherman, 6128 Kenwood avenue, moved his office to 136 West Lake street.
He went back Saturday to have his personal belongings taken from a storeroom adjoining his former office and discovered that his Stradivarius violin of a reputed value of $2,500 had disappeared.
Miss Mildred Dobbin, a music student, who lives at the Three Arts Club, 1300 North Dearborn street, left her violin in its case in a cloakroom of a music school in Kimball hall. A short time later she returned and it had vanished.
Miss Dobbin said she bought the instrument of Pietro Paltrone, a Florence manufacturer, while she was studying in Italy. Its original cost was $80, an additional $15 for a bow inlaid with pearl, and $10 for the case.
CLASHES WITH WIFE’S ESCORT
Irate Husband Goes to Hunt Pair and They Get on Same Car.
A fist fight raged through a crowded street car at Sixty-third street and Harvard avenue last night when Herman Schultz, 6500 South Carpenter street, met his wife and Charles Goulding, 7844 South Peoria street, getting on the car. Schultz was tiring of the sport when a 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 told 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 way 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.
RUSSIA PLEDGES ITSELF TO “PUNISH” BULGARIANS
Will Hold Nation Responsible “as Sovereign Unit” for “Treachery,” Says Pronouncement.
Petrograd, via London, Nov. 20, 2:59 a.m.- A firmly worded pronouncement that the Russian government has set for itself the task of punishing Bulgaria for her "ingratitude and treachery" in turning against her mother and protector, Russia, appears today in a semi-official communication.
"Russia is firmly resolved," says the communication, "to punish the personages of the Bulgarian government who treacherously allied their country with enemies of her invariable protector, who gave her political existence and suffered so many sacrifices for her.
"Russia will not deem herself bound to wreak vengeance for her just indignation on the defenseless Bulgarian population. But Bulgaria as a sovereign unit will be held responsible for this unprecedented crime."
GEN. D.J. GLASFURD KILLED
Australian Commander Dies in France From Shell Wound.
London, Nov. 20, 3:14 a.m.-Brigadier General Duncan J. Glasfurd died in France on Nov. 12 as a result of a wound from a shell. He was one of the leading Australian commanders and was director of military training in Australia for four years preceding the war.
WANTS U.S. TO GIVE BILLION FOR RELIEF
Myron T. Herrick Suggests National Committee on War Aid.
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.
The former envoy's audience numbered about 200 men and women, whose combined wealth, it was estimated, ran into hundreds of millions of dollars.
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 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.
CENTRAL BODY NEEDED.
"The situation can be adequately met only by the systemic organization of all the philanthropic forces of the United States.
"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."
Pledges to Insure Suffrage Victory in Congress Claimed
Washington, Nov. 19.-[Special.]- A vote on the federal suffrage amendment in both houses of Congress in the session beginning Dec. 4 and the final submission of the amendment to the states for ratification before adjournment of the Congress just elected is predicted by the National American Woman Suffrage Association on the strength of written pledges it has received from successful congressional candidates.
More than one member in four of the next House will be an actual worker for suffrage. They are confidently predicting a bid surprise for the country when the roll call of the two houses is taken on the suffrage question.
"The presence of Miss Jeannette Rankin, a former member of the congressional committee of the national association, on the floor of the House during the coming fight for the federal suffrage amendment, will be a tower of strength to us," said Mrs. Walter McNab Miller of Missouri, first vice president of the association. Mrs. Miller will remain in Washington to direct the campaign for the federal amendment.
JUDGE LANDIS TO RETIRE JUST 35 YEARS HENCE
Federal Court Jurist Says So on Eve of His Fiftieth Birthday Today.
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?" querled the judge. "Anyway, I'm better than I was when I was 25 years old."
TIDAL WAVE SWEEPS FRENCH COAST LINE
Great Storm Does Heavy Damage in the Gulf of Marseilles.
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 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 the records of sixty years for quick changes. From 721 milimeters, which already was 39 below normal, it dropped 44 milimeters in thirty-six 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.
FRIENDS OF MISSING MAN FEAR HE IS SELF-SLAIN
John Calvin Burnell, Who Tried Suicide Fifteen Months Ago, Has Disappeared.
John Calvin Burnell, the advertising manager for the Brewers' Review who attempted suicide fifteen months ago, has disappeared from his apartment.
An advertisement inserted by the publishing company he worked for revealed yesterday that he is missing. He left his apartment at 4718 North Racine avenue Oct. 1, the janitor said, after presenting his furniture to a washerwoman who took care of the place for him. Burnell's friends fear he has killed himself. When he tried before he shot himself in the head three times and then sat down to read while waiting for death.
