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GIRL WINS NON-STOP AVIATION RECORD

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ALLIES TAKE MONASTIR AND PRESS ON; GERMANS ADVANCE FURTHER IN ROUMANIA

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WOMAN AVIATION CHAMPION HERE TO-DAY FROM CHICAGO, AFTER RECORD-MAKING TRIP

Ruth Law in First Leg of Flight Covered 590 Miles Cross Country.

TIME, 337 MINUTES.

New Records Set in Her First Long Flight and in an Old Machine.

Miss Ruth Bancroft Law, who, in wresting from Victor Carlstrom the laurels he won Nov. 2, becomes champion non-stop cross country flier of the United States, is scheduled to complete her Chicago-New York flight by landing at Governor's Island this morning.

This slim young woman of twenty-nine, who has been heretofore an exhibition flier, flew without a stop yesterday from Chicago to Hornell, N. Y., a distance of 590 miles, in five hours and thirty-seven minutes, thus breaking Carlstrom's record by 148 miles. She replenished her gasoline at Hornell, went aloft again at 3.10 P.M. and came down on a stock farm on the outskirts of Binghamton at 4.45, adding ninety more miles to her trip. She decided she could not reach New York 152 miles further, before dark and remained in Binghamton for the night. Her average speed was 105 miles an hour.

Miss Law incidentally broke the world's record for continuous flight for women pilots, and in the opinion of many aviators, becomes champion woman flier of the world. Her achievement is all the more remarkable because it was practically unheralded, was made in a machine three years old and considered obselete, and because previously she had never flown more than twenty-five miles cross country. Her first words at Hornell were: "I'm going to do it next time." Later she said:

"I'm more than satisfied with the flight. Now I'm going after the world record."

"MAGNIFICENT ACHIVEMENT." SAYS FLYER CARLSTROM.

A large assemblage will greet Miss Law when she lands on Governor's Island to-day. There was much enthusiasm about the Aero Club here over her accomplishment. Victor Carlstrom, who was at the headquarters, was unstinted in his praise. His friends say he will try to bring the American non-stop cross country record back into the male ranks, but all he said was:

"Having flown over that route myself with considerable preparations, I am in a position to say that it is a most magnificent achievement, and she deserves a lot of credit, as well as the record which she has fairly won.

"When you think she has never made a cross country flight before, and that her machine was an old Curtiss 'D,' with the seat right out in front of the wings offering no protection, her endurance is nothing short of remarkable. I am genuinely sorry she had to come down at Hornell. It is the greatest performance of the year, in my opinion."

Alan R. Hawley, the President of the Aero Club of America, said: "Miss Law deserves great credit for this flight. I must admit that I felt some misgivings when she wrote to me some weeks ago stating her intention of making the attempt."

Henry Woodhouse, Secretary of the Aero Club, pointed out that this is another evidence that an aeroplane mail service between central points

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BEER 6 CENTS A GLASS AND NO FREE LUNCH IN PHILADELPHIA SOON

Six-cent beer in Philadelphia is to follow the abbreviated stogie in Wheeling, to-day's despatches say.

The "schooner" not only will cost a cent more but will be smaller.

Free lunch will be reduced in quantity and variety—or abolished.

The only thing there will be more of will be the foam.

The reason is, Philadelphia brewers say, that all materials used in making beer cost more.

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PASTOR URGES MEN TO QUIT U.S. ARMY AND ATTACKS FUNSTON

Dr. Goodchild Says American Government Does Not Deserve Defense.

"We have at Washington a Government that feels no responsibility for its citizens. When young men of my congregation, now at the border, return, I shall ask them to get out of the army, because I would not fight for a Government that would not protect me."

This was one of the things Dr. Frank M. Goodchild, pastor of the Central Baptist Church, Amsterdam Avenue and Ninety-second Street, told his congregation last night in his sermon on "The Baptist Church and Gen. Funston."

The minister charged that Gen. Funston had set himself up "in the role of religious dictator" to the men on the border and said Congress would be asked to make a thorough investigation of religion and the chaplaincies in the army.

"Dr. J.B. Gambrell of Dallas, Tex., in behalf of the Baptists of the South, sought an interview with Gen. Funston to arrange religious services for soldiers," said Dr. Goodchild.

"Gen Funston would not see him, but said, through his Chief of Staff, that he had no objection to Baptists preaching, provided they did not tell the soldiers they were lost. He also said he did not want the men's emotions aroused and did not want a religious revival.

"By this ruling, Baptist and all other Evangelical preaching is barred. Jesus Christ would not be allowed to preach under Funston's rule. Roman Catholics and Episcopalians, ritual religions, have free access."

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SCOW ALMOST DROWNS CAPTAIN AND HIS WIFE

Capt. Joseph Fleming and his wife, Mary, were asleep early to-day in the cabin on top of the scow. Helen S. Freston, moored in Newton Creek at Morgan Avenue and Grand Street, Brooklyn. Suddenly the scow began to list and threw the captain and his wife out of bed.

In a moment the craft turned over and went down. The overturning sent the two people into the creek. The screams of Mrs. Fleming aroused Capt. John Redden and three men of the scow Mary Ellen, moored nearby.

They got out a small boat and in twelve minutes fished Fleming and his wife from the creek.

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BRITISH LOSSES OUTWEIGH VALUE OF ANCRE GAINS

Berlin Says Tremendous Effort to Break Through Netted Small Advance.

7,000 ARE CAPTURED.

English Take Captives at Rate of More than 1,000 a Day.

BERLIN, Nov. 20 — Although the War Office yesterday admitted that the British had forced back the German lines at some points on both sides of the Ancre, the official bulletin declares that these gains were small in comparison with the magnitude of the British effort. Viewing the operation as a whole, the British, it says, received a serious and bloody repulse.

The British attack, it is explained in the official bulletin, was another attempt on a large scale to break through the entire German front, and this attempt was defeated with great slaughter. Moreover, a simultaneous French attack further east, at Sailly-Saillisel, also was defeated.

"Artillery fire for some days against our positions on both sides of the Ancre made a continuation of the British attack appear probable," said the official statement. "Cavalry appearing yesterday behind the hostile front, and an enormous increase of fire, beginning early in the morning, announced a new great attempt to break through our lines.

"The attempt ended in a sanguinary British reverse and gave them at only a few paces an insignificant gain of ground. Southwest of Serre (north of the Ancre), in Grandcourt and at some places south of the village we were pushed back and stand in prepared solid positions on the south bank of the Ancre.

"All the other positions in the repeatedly attacked front of twelve kilometres (more than seven miles) were maintained by our brave troops or were recaptured in a counter attack.

"A strong fire of French artillery south of Sailly-Saillisel introduced attacks which broke donw under heavy hostile losses on the northwest edge of St.Pierre Vaast Wood."

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German Artillery Active in Region of Donaumont.

PARIS, Nov. 20.-"Except for a violent bombardment of the fort and the region around Donaumont," said last night's official bulletin on the campaign, "there is nothing to report on the whole front." The earlier official report said the night had passed calmly, the only incident mentioned being Adjutant Dorme's sixteenth aerial victory, his victim falling near Marchelepot, on the Somme.

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7,000 Prisoners Captured by British in Six Days.

LONDON, Nov. 20.-"The situation is unchanged," said last night's official bulletin on the Somme campaign. "In yesterday's operations on the Ancre we tool 20 officers and 752 men prisoner, bringing our total to 6,962 since the 18th of this month."

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HELD AS RECKLESS DRIVER.
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Contractor Accused of Running Into Hospital Ambulance.

John F. Rourke, a contractor of White Plains, was held by Magistrate Krotel in the Men's Night Court last night in $1,000 bail on a charge of reckless driving. He provided bail and was released.

Rourke was arrested at the Woodmanston Inn on the complaint of Patrick Callahan, an ambulance driver for Fordham Hospital. Callahan testified that Rourke smashed into the ambulance at Williamsbridge Road and Pelham Parkway at 7.15 last night and that although the ambulance was badly damaged Rourke went his way without stopping.

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CRUCIAL MOMENT IN RAILROAD FIGHT COMES THIS WEEK

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Railroad Managers Leave for Washington to Face Newlands Committee.

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READY FOR ANYTHING

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Say They Want People to Have More Light on Railroad Situation.

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Judge Robert S. Lovett of the Union Pacific accompanied a group of Eastern railroad managers who went to Washington at midnight last night to attend the hearings of the Newlands commission which begin to-day. Shortly before he left the Hotel Gotham he received a reporter for The Evening World. Asked if he expected any definite results from the investigations to be made by the commission he said:

"I cannot say or foresee what will be the result of this inquiry. All I can say and wish to say is this–the more light we have on railroad matters the better for all concerned. It is not my understanding that the Adamson bill will be discussed at these hearings in any shape or form. I do not understand that the inquiry has any connection with the Adamson bill."

Asked if he had heard the railroad chiefs intended to take advantage of the presence of the road Presidents in Washington to open the way for a resumption of the conferences with the railway managers he replied:

"It is my personal belief that nothing like that will happen. All of the railroad Presidents will not be there, and it is not likely that they would ask for a conference when they know that some are absent."

MAY NOT DISCUSS ADAMSON LAW AT ALL.

It is the opinion of Judge Lovett and other road Presidents that the Newlands commission will not permit any reference to the Adamson bill so long as the matter is in the hands of the courts. None deny, however, that the Washington situation, quite apart from the Newlands hearings, is heavy with possibilities and that, in spite of the court proceedings, the Eight-Hour-Day Bill may suddenly become as important a feature of the present Washington gathering as that of last August. The railroad chiefs expect something to happen after their appearance today before the American Federation of Labor convention in Baltimore.

When informed that a railroad lawyer had given it as his opinion that it would take more than a month to fight out in the Federal courts any of the injunction suits now filed and that there was little probability of the Supreme Court handing down a decision before Jan. 1, Judge Lovett said: "As to that, I cannot say. Our case has been filed and I haven't heard a word about it since the day of filing."

BOTH WOULD LIKE TO REACH A WORKING AGREEMENT.

There are rumors current to-day that instead of applying directly to the road Presdents the brotherhood chiefs will ask a conference some day this week with Elisha Lee and his committee. Both sides admit that there must be some kind of a working agreement reached soon. The road managers are not blind to the fact that the brotherhoods could bring about a suspension of work on Jan. 1 through a collective understanding and that such a suspension would not necessarily mean a strike in the accepted sense.

They do not deny that the road chiefs are more bitter against them to-day than they were last August and are just as determined to get the eight-hour day as they were eight months ago. Just what the brotherhoods intend to do in the event of the Adamson bill being found unconstitutional none of the local officers will say.

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Woman Flyer Who Breaks Record Of U.S. in Cross Country Flight
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Miss RUTH LAW . . .

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CONGRESSMAN WILL GO TO CAPITAL IN AIRPLANE

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Blakely Will Fly From His Home in Pennsylvania to City of Washington.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov 20. - A. J. Macy was called to the telephone in his Chicago office Saturday.

"Hello!" came a voice. "This is Congressman-elect Bleakley of Franklin, Pa. I want you to bring me an airplane. No! no! not a taxi - an airplane. I want to go from my native State to Washington."

In this way the newly elected Congressman from Venango County declared his purpose to fly to Congress.

Mr. Macy, who is chief engineer of the Macy Engineering Company, wired yesterday to Sergt. Ocker, who brought an aircraft from Mineola to Philadelphia on Thursday. Ocker will transport Mr. Bleakley from Philadelphia to Washington by sky route to-day.

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A.S. COCHRAN AT FRISCO.

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New Yorker on Yacht Barred From Pearl Harbor Silent on Matter.

SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 20. - On his yacht Warrior, lately barred by the naval authorities from Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Alexander Smith Cochran of New York has arrived here. Mr. Cochran has so far refused to answer any inquiries about his experiences at Honolulu. The facts that the Warrior is of British registry, that Mr. Cochran has made gifts to the British Admiralty and that an autographed letter from King George hangs in the yacht's cabin are said to have prompted the action of the authorities.

Mr. Cochran is the Warrior's sole passenger. It is understood she will remain here several days to coal and will then proceed to San Diego. She came in flying the pennant of the New York Yacht Club.

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FIRE ROUTS 250 MEN.

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Smoke in Shoe Shop Fills Bowery Hotel and Puts Lodgers Out.

Two hundred and fifty men were driven to the streets at 5 A. M. to-day by a fire in the basement under the Boston Hotel. Nos. 103-105 Bowery. The fire was confined to a shoe shop under No. 105. but smoke filled all five stories of the hotel.

Many of the men carried their clothes to the street and dressed in the dark hallways and in cross streets. When the fire was out they were allowed to return to their beds. The blaze did $1,000 damage.

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Mrs. Boissevain Shows No Change in Condition.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20. - No change was noted to-day in the condition of Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain. She was reported to be "about the same as yesterday" after she has rallied slightly from sinking spells caused by her anaemic condition.

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$125,000 FIRE AT ROSCOE DESTROYS 15 BUILDINGS

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Volunteers From Liberty and Other Up-State Tons Help to Fight Blaze.

(Special to The Evening World.)
LIBERTY, N. Y., Nov. 20. - Fifteen buildings in the business section of the little town of Roscoe, ten miles south of Liberty, were destroyed by fire yesterday. The total loss was estimated to-day at $125,000. It is only partly covered by insurance.

The fire started in a bowling alley, presumably from spontaneous combustion. A brisk wind spread the flames rapidly. The fact that Liberty and other nearby places sent aid saved the town from destruction. The volunteers succeeded in stopping the blaze after the National Bank Building and Sprague Bros.' department store had been partially burned.

The Roscoe House, the Arlington Hotel and other hotels were saved.

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GEORGIA WOMAN BEING SOUGHT IN NEW YORK

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Search Confused by Relative's Statement That She Is in Boston.

Supposed to have come to New York from Green Cove, Fla., on Nov. 6, Miss Mary S. Abrams of Savannah, Ga., thirty-six years old, has disappeared. Dr. and Mrs. Walter Brickner of No. 30 West Ninety-second Street are searching for her, Mrs. Brickner being Miss Abrams's cousin. A brother, Edward S. Abrams, has arrived from Savannah to join in the search.

Mr. Brickner has gone through the hospitals and institutions without result, and has called on the police. The case is somewhat confused by a statement from Joseph M. Solomons, a druggist and an uncle of Miss Abrams, that she was with relatives in Boston. Mr. Brickner says Miss Abrams has no relatives in Boston.

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STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY

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New York, Liverpool........8 A.M.
Minnehaha, London..........9 A.M.
San Giovanni, Fayal........10 A.M.
Coamo, San Juan............11 A.M.
Morro Castle, Havana.......11 A.M.

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SAILING TO-DAY.

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America, Genoa..............11 A.M.
Andania, Liverpool...........4 P.M.

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SERBS ESTABLISH CAPITAL IN RECAPTURED FORTRESS; BULGARS FLEE

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Allies Win Back City on Anniversary of 1912 Victory - Many Prisoners and Much Booty Taken - General Offensive Opens.

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VON FALKENHAYN'S ARMY ON ROUMANIAN PLAIN

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Monastir, largest and richest fortress city in Serbian Macedonia, goal for which Bulgaria entered the present war on the side of the Cen Powers, has been recaptured by the French and Serbians.

The Austro-German-Bulgar force which held Monastir is in flight toward Prilep, pursued by the Allies. The single road upon which are retiring is cut to pieces and it is believed many will be captured.

Unless this advance stops the Teutonic advance into Roumania kingdom is in grave peril. Von Falkenhayn has pushed down the Valley, forced his way out onto the open Roumanian plains and the Orsova-Cralova Railway, an advance of thirty miles. His troops now half-way across western Roumania and in the rear of the Roumanians holding Orsova and the Upper Danube.

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FALKENHAYN REACHES WALLACHIAN PLAINS IN GREAT OFFENSIVE

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BERLIN, Nov. 20.-Unless the allied drive through Serbia can compel the Germans to withdraw large forces from the Roumanian front - and military men here assert it cannot - King Ferdinand's country is in grave peril of being overrun as was Serbia.

German troops, pushing down the Jiul Valley, have inflicted a severe defeat in the Roumanians, have forced their way out of the Plains of Wallachia and have reached the Orsova-Craiova Railway.

"Our operations since the end of October on the Transylvanian southern frontier have taken the course intended," the War Office report says. "The exit from the mountain passes into the Wallachian Plain, despite tenacious Roumanian resistance, was forced by the German and Austro-Hungarian troops.

"Strong Roumanian forces between the Jiul River and Gilert were broken in the battle of Tergu-Jiul. They were defeated with exceptionally severe and sanguinary losses. Attempts by the enemy to outflank us with fresh troops from the east failed. Our troops, pushing behind the enemy, have reached the Orsova-Cralova Railway.

TEUTONS ARE NOW HALF WAY ACROSS WESTERN ROUMANIA.

(The Orsova-Cralova Railroad at its nearest point is more than thirty miles fro Tergu-Jiul, where the Germans were officially reported Saturday and where they defeated the Roumanians. On this railroad the Germans are already halfway across Western Roumania and in the rear of the Roumanians holding Orsova and the Upper Danube.)

"South of the Red Tower Pass we crossed the Callan-Suici Railroad. (This is in the mountains, twenty miles south of the pass.)

"Between Nov. 1 and 18 the Ninth Army has taken prisoner 189 officers, 19,338 men, and has captured twenty-six cannon, seventeen ammunition cars and seventy-two machine guns.

"On the Dobrudja front there are patrol engagements near Silistria, and also more lively infantry and artillery fire." (As Silistria is on the

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SERBIANS AND FRENCH RECAPTURE MONAST AND PURSUE ENEM

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PARIS, Nov. 20.-Gen. Sarr cosmopolitan army, holding Mons firmly in its grasp, is driving ab to-day along the road to Prilep on heels of the flying Austro-Germ Bulgarian army, rounding up h dreds of stragglers, many guns, m war booty and giving their enemy
rest.

The roads, cut to quagmire recent rains, are impeding the treat of the armies of the cen powers and enabling their purs to open on them with artillery. Teutonic losses are great.

The capture of Monastir, com on the fourth anniversary of the c ture of the city by the Serbs from Turks, will be followed by a flank movement on the strong Bulgar- centre in the Vardar Valley, signed to cause a withdrawal of the entire army and open the road fo invasion of Bulgaria.

LOSS OF CITY WILL BE SLOW THE BULGARIANS.

The loss of Monastir will be a rible loss to Bulgaria, which beli the city was rightfully its spoil the first Balkan War, but she compelled in the second Balkan to give it up to the Serbs. It wa retake it that Bulgaria entered war on the side of the central p wers.

"Troops of the army of the east tered Monastir at 8 o'clock this mo ing," says the official Salonica port, under yesterday's date. "It is anniversary of the taking of the t by the Serbian army in 1912."

Great war booty and many p oners were taken in Monastir, tho the Germans and Bulgarians blew all positions of value before they retired.

King Peter Karagerogevitch Serbia will re-establish his ca there.

(Monastir, the centre of the gonian Plain, before the war had 000 inhabitants. It not only is first city of Serbia to be reconquered from the Bulgars and Germans, also was the last city relinquin by the Serbs when their country overrun a year ago. It was evacu on Dec. 2, 1915, a few days after rend. It thus is not quite a year the Serbian Government was dr into exile.)

SERBS FORCE EVACUATION CITY BY BULGARS.

Considerable forces of Serbs,

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Transcription Notes:
Serbs title section incomplete The order in which the transcription was written was weird. 3/27/21- Formatted so the order of articles descended is left to right, rather than the previous. I also inserted some breaks. They're unnecessary, but do make it easy to read. If one were looking for a specific article transcribed, it'd be easy to find.Under the serbs section, I edited so the words are simply cut off rather than assuming or leaving question marks. Better to transcribe it as it is.